001[Music] [Applause] [Music] hello [Music] can you hear me okay [Music] one two three test one two three tests [Music] one more time one two three tests [Music] perfect [Music] right [Music] you've been solid that comes to my mind [Music] sparkles uh thank you so much my thank you good okay please stand for the pledge of allegiance place your right hand over your heart ready begin i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all you may be seated thank you very very much and i've done moments of silence moments of inspiration but i want to take this time to do a moment of gratitude speaking for myself in this position i want to say
002thank you to the board my doctors and my fellow ambassadors this position has truly let me grow as a person and the opportunities i was converted with was more than i could have ever asked for thank you for letting me have a seat at the table and in terms of this entire year what we've all lost is irreplaceable and i understand that but it truly shows to be grateful for all we have and also for what we can give and the kindness that we show to others extends beyond what we could ever imagine and what we can do for others and the kindness that aohsd is all about in our five c's it's something that we needed most this year and it's something that i think we need to push on throughout the rest of
003our years so please take this moment to reflect on what you have and what you can do for others thank you thank you elizabeth moving on we will have our closed session report the clerk of the board of trustees will report actions taken during our closed session 4.1 no reportable action taken regarding public employee performance evaluation superintendent 4.2 no reportable action taken regarding anticipated litigation 4.3 the board of trustees took formal action with a 5-0 vote to accept settlement in claim auhs 19-02 tort number 407 4.4 no reportable action taken regarding personnel 4.5 this item was pulled prior to the adoption of the agenda 4.6 the board of trustees unanimously voted to make the following transfers jana kovar from magnolia high school to western high school mary ellen park from south junior high school to
004orangeview junior high school jennifer sassai from walker junior high school to ball junior high school the board of trustees unanimously voted to make the following appointments ashley mcadams assistant principal anaheim high school christine mcguire assistant principal brookhurst junior high school ryan rue ellis assistant principal cambridge virtual academy david brutus assistant principal catella high school ann marie bernhard assistant principal lexington junior high school brian covey assistant principal magnolia high school brittany nichols assistant principal savannah high school 4.7 no reportable action taken regarding negotiations and 4.8 the board of trustees unanimously voted to make the following appointment jose lara coordinator alternative education okay thank you now shall we give him a hand now on board now is their opportunity to come forward and have a word okay i'll start with anne-marie bernard i must say you have
005a great name bernard i completely agree legend is here hilarious i want to start by thanking the board trustees and superintendent matsuda thank you so much and the executive cabinet thank you all for this opportunity and i am so excited to continue this transition starting here 15 years ago in the district i'm so happy to continue to be a part of this family so thank you and thank you to my family as well my husband and my kids thank you guys okay david brutus [Applause] hey good evening everybody again i want to say thank you to the board and trustees thank you to the superintendent and his entire executive cabinet team thank you to all those who were in the panel who sought my potential and had to give him an opportunity to come and
006co-labor with the staff at cotello high school and i look forward to the opportunity to i think the biggest part is to meet the students and then be able to hit the ground running and then i look forward to serving you guys with all that i have again thank you thank you [Applause] hey let's see christina mcguire hi everyone um just wanted to thank the board and the cabinet and everybody who had a part in this um i want to thank you for lead that was amazing and greatly appreciated i really look forward to working with brookhurst i've enjoyed my time at all of my other schools and i really appreciate this opportunity so thank you thank you superintendent matsuda and the entire cabinet thank you very much all right okay let's see ashley mcadams
007hi there good evening i would like to take this moment to thank the board and also to thank superintendent and the cabinet i'm really excited to be joining back to the school district i am a former student and graduate of western high school so i'm really looking forward to this opportunity to be able to come back and serve those who have served me thank you very good all right we love it when our alumni become our part of our faculties and what have you it's great okay brittany nichols [Applause] as another proud auhsd alumni um i'm just absolutely humbled by the ability to serve my district and the students of anaheim in a greater capacity and i really want to thank the board superintendent matt souda and all of cabinet for this amazing opportunity i
008adore this community and i'd also like to thank my parents my husband and my two daughters for putting up with me during this process it's bittersweet i've had 14 years at anaheim high school you're gonna love it i'm going to miss all the staff and the students there but i'm so grateful to be part of the family at savannah and build upon all the amazing things they're already doing thank you so much all right [Applause] okay ryan ruiz [Applause] [Laughter] i was trying my best to be calm there so i don't get all sweaty and start you know but now you know it's me now that my glasses are fogging up and i'm um but really um president piercy and board of trustees and superintendent matsuda and cabinet um i love this district i'm a
009proud product of the anaheim union high school district i'm super excited um that other alumni are coming back and returning because this is a fantastic district to work for and a fantastic district to be educated in and i just want to thank you all for giving me this opportunity uh to continue something that we started in the anaheim union high school district in response to the whole pandemic that took place which has really taken off and is truly proving to be one of the most innovative and exciting educational opportunities for the students that we serve here in the anaheim union high school district thank you and of course you all know i'm super close with my family who's watching on youtube right now so thank you mom and thank you to my sisters and everybody
010i love you all and a special shout out to a woman named renee sitlao who basically many years ago had the vision to start the e-learning program and this innovative experience for our students thank you and jose lara our [Applause] principal board of trustees thank you very much for this opportunity i look forward to working as hard as i can to make you and our community proud i am a graduate of western high school my whole family has graduated basically from savannah high school i told you it was a great place my mom came here from mexico when she was 10 years old attended brookhurst junior high went over to savannah peter marshall to begin with my family has long roots here i want to thank my wife my wonderful children who allow me and
011give me grace to be here with all of you every single night working late nights i also want to thank the staff over at dale junior high the new dale junior high and if you go to dale junior high today it is a completely transformed place thanks to the leadership of lorena moreno my school principal and also the partnership of my co-pilot's assistant principal papi hill and former assistant principal israel rubio who's now at savannah high school and lastly i just want to thank the cabinet for always picking up my phone calls whenever we need help and support it's truly a family atmosphere here in anaheim union high school district and i'm glad to continue here with all of you thank you all right [Applause] okay that i think did i miss anybody okay thank
012you all and welcome aboard all of you that are new to us and those of you who have been with us and are in new positions i hope you enjoy it and you're gonna do a good job i know so thank you all okay our next item is introduction of guests and um let's see here i see grant schuster our astra president is here all right um i don't see is brian bannon here no they may be in the lounge okay so hilt here's hilda okay and let me see here well i then brian okay hilda and brian are here all right we have hilda alta president and brian bannon the apga co-president and grant is our aster president so i there are there any others that are going to be present today i don't
013think so okay thank you okay now we're going to go back to elizabeth ochae and she's going to give her student representative a report thank you tonight i will be appreciating four schools at oxford their oa gamut has been producing a virtual newspaper they were entered into a student media contest and third place in all of southern california one of their highlight articles is on student joshua lim who did the 24 miles and 24 hours challenge lim donated ten dollars for every mile he ran and donated it to the aapi organization at gilbert they had an entrepreneurial week and opened up students to various career pathways that they can take oc pathways collaborated with them and facilitated live workshops and efforts in building leadership skills at kennedy the new organization humanitarian research association has branched
014out in expanding their club throughout the district they were recently able to facilitate an aapi informational summit to discuss the recent hate that has been spewing and create a safe space for all students and at western just like many other schools have been appreciating their teachers and staff this week although they were such small acts it created a positive joyous environment all students were participating in such a spirit days like a day to unmute and turn on your camera and these small ads really just made it for the teachers because in this virtual environment it's really hard to connect and i feel like that's what they love about their job so this was an opportunity for us to all connect with our teachers and this concludes my school report thank you elizabeth and the board
015of trustees would like to honor you for how you have spoken for others and your service as a student representative to the board of trustees during this 2021 school year you've done an outstanding job and we really appreciate all your work now we'd also like to honor the district's student ambassadors for their service and important contribution to the district during the 2021 school year the ambassadors served as official spokespersons for all district students at special ceremonies events and functions along with elizabeth of course who is the kind of the head ambassador and the student leaders are also deeply embedded in the district's governance structure and actively provide the student voice whenever possible now our ambassadors during the school year were do you want me to read them elizabeth or do you have their list no
016you don't hear okay i'll read them dulce martinez from anaheim high school nathaniel labara from cambridge virtual academy samuel bingham cypress high school aaron and gotti from gilbert high school denise martinez cattella high school kang liu kennedy high school russell santana loera high school ivan ayala magnolia high school castillo from oxford academy natalie moreno from savannah high school and chris patel at western high school trustees we need to actively thank all of these students for a super year considering the disadvantages that we have faced on this school year but i want to thank them all for taking part and doing the best that they could [Applause] they will all remember this year as unique and different so anything else you would like to say elizabeth right now i would like to say that you guys
017have been so encouraging through this entire year i don't want to get emotional but you've opened up so many doors and let me truly have a seat at the table and it's meant so much to me because i know that it'll continue on with the next year's student ambassadors the student every student's leadership because they want to talk to you guys they want to let you know that what what the students feel and these decisions are being made on their behalf but they can have a voice too and i really just want to thank you for letting me letting me amplify my own and a which is you will always have a dear spot in my heart so thank you thank you thank you for this opportunity okay elizabeth just just before we let you
018go you know but you'll stick around to vote where are you going next year i'll be attending usc next year [Applause] a shout out to mr ron hoshi and um principal houston over at oxford and principal brown over at walker they've been really important to the success of ensuring the voice of all of our ambassadors as well but what i didn't know oh elizabeth where are you going again we'll see i'm going to usb usc usc usc fight online all right congratulations yes and i and i would also like to chime in and say that ron hoshi is a retired teacher administrator from the district and he still is working for us and helping us out tremendously he does a great job with these ambassadors i have been involved with the ambassadors since i got
019on the board because i love working with kids and i still enjoy doing it you know in a kind of extended sense of a way but ron really gets in there and works with the kids and does a great job so we're lucky we still have him working with us thanks ron best wishes elizabeth yes can i say something real quick of course i i just want to congratulate elizabeth um your your point at the beginning of the meeting was well taken and i think it's it's so resounding that you would actually say that about kindness and what the district is all about i also want to tell you that you have been one of i mean i say this to all ambassadors but i think you have been very very poised in in terms
020of presenting your ideas and presenting your site and advocating for the students so thank you for doing that and knowing that you're going to usc i know that there is a big and bright future ahead of you so congratulations and i want to take this opportunity to congratulate all the ambassadors they did a phenomenal job especially during the covet so thank you all for your services and i'm sure all of you guys are going to do great i i wish i we would we could hear each one of them where they're where they're going to school but you know i'm sure that they're going to really good schools especially cal state fullerton right which is go titans so um thank you again appreciate it very good thank you so much elizabeth i spoke to you
021privately before because i didn't want to cry but she has been an amazing amazing ambassador and yes we tell our ambassadors that but you've been exceptional because you've always been uh out there and poised and we see you in almost every committee that you know you join and you and and we treat you like like a an adult because you are so poised and you speak your mind and that's exactly what we want so thank you so much for all that you've done all that you will do because we know that um you know you're gonna you're gonna do bright great things in the future and we know you're gonna give back in some way because you have such a big heart and we appreciate you so much thank you thank you so much i
022wanted also extend my mind congratulations on your uh going to usc we know that's a great school for uh any student going there but uh i think you're going to be exceptional having shown your leadership abilities here working with the other ambassadors and the way you presented yourself excuse me to the board here and to the audience uh you've under the difficult situation we've had this past year you've done exceptionally well so thank you so much for that and i hope that the scholarship that you that you earned at least one of the scholarships will help you along the way so congratulations thank you so much all of you thank you elizabeth i'd like to ask you do you know what pathway you plan to pursue in your education what pathway what area of is
023your interest i will be pursuing political science and then hopefully one day become a lawyer they are so lucky to have you bless your heart we wish you well thank you okay yeah on another note i just want to say since we're already uh recognizing ambassadors one of our former ambassadors ibrahimov i don't know if you guys remember he was from kennedy high school he just got accepted to harvard he was going from i think from uc berkeley to got accepted to harvard to pursue his masters so that's a good news again one of our favorite ambassadors very good it's always good to hear about our students succeeding tremendously it's great okay our next item and i kind of concluded i mean i added one of the next ones anyway i made a mistake here
024but that's okay 7.3 we're going to talk about our mikvah soapbox challenge national speech winner in 2020 kenny lee was a mikvah soapbox challenge national speech winner he was selected to represent california as one of 10 national winners based on his passionate advocacy for increased support for student anxiety and mental health services kenny was recognized at the soapbox nation main stage event held on june 23 2020 where he presented his speech to an audience of educators and community leaders from throughout the nation as oxford's key club vice president kenny received the key club 2021 district distinguished vice president award kenny will be attending claremont's pitzer college in the fall and looks forward to continuing his work in support of student mental health and social justice okay hello everybody does this work all right thank you
025to our board president district trustees distinguished guest district cabinet for this opportunity for me to share this very important topic let me start mental breakdowns are common someone tells me about how asb their final and sports are all happening on the same day normal people frantically staying up to study for a test that they procrastinated for a week because of anxiety most people have done that but now the news is all of a sudden clamoring about the rise of anxiety due to covert 19 however let me say that this has been an issue for far longer than covert 19. it seems that the only time the media really paid attention to this issue are when deaths started happening rapid change has needed to happen for a very long time the anxiety and depression association of
026america says that 80 percent of kids with a diagnosable anxiety disorder have never gotten treatment and from to 2012 reported anxiety disorders rose by over 20 percent we are living in an age of anxiety where these rates will only continue to increase if we don't act we are in desperate need of a system where there are affordable care centers specifically for teenage mental health there's already headspace programs in countries like australia you can absolutely use some of our 4.4 trillion dollar budget into both an online and in-person support system specifically for teenagers because i'm envisioning a society where kids feel that they are good enough where the kid who sits alone isn't just ignored or ostracized but gets help where conversations are not fueled by anxiety written thoughts but unfortunately at this rate i know
027this dream cannot happen because we have been talking about mental health nonchalantly for decades now yet judging by the fact that in the past democratic debates teenage mental health was discussed zero times i know that we need to be our own advocates we need to use our democratic power to advocate for teenage mental health solutions because the platforms that controlled our elections did not care about us thank you [Applause] okay i have a second item here and that i hadn't read yet but this is the rapid response team student representatives now you didn't tell me which one you are are you brandon i'm kenny lee or you're kenny okay i i was hoping you were kenny but i wasn't sure i i thought i had uh i'd seen you before but i i thought isn't
028your father in kiwanis uh no i'm in i'm in key club you're in key club okay all right and you've done really well in key club too much okay brandon and mai and kenny lee were student representatives selected for participation in the mikvah challenge california rapid response team and brandon and kenny worked with a group of 12 student civic leaders from throughout the strait the state to address the impact of the pandemic on the california youth as he's been telling you the team met twice a week throughout the summer and fall of 2020 to collect data develop policy proposals and to meet with community leaders throughout california to address the impact of the pandemic on the california students and the team's efforts culminated in a rapid response team town hall meeting on november 11th of
0292020 where these dynamic and thoughtful students led a series of impactful discussions with leaders in education and public policy from around the state now brandon and kenny are seniors at oxford academy and they look forward to continuing to serve their university communities and use their voices for positive change and i have to say boys that's outstanding that you went to all this work i mean you really felt you know the need for this and the drive and you acted on it and i think that is phenomenal and you know you you're going to go far obviously i mean and this is great now what where are you going next year i'm going to the claremont college's pitcher college specifically what i didn't sur college claremont okay fantastic of course they are but this is an
030oxford student come on senior thank you very much and and congratulations on your achievement can i ask a question of course thanks you've explained to us or told us about the the um the effects of what's going on but uh you went back to 2007 through 2012 and said anxiety was still or was at that point it was was climbing uh you i didn't hear you say what was causing the exile anxiety or the the underlying factors can you enlighten us some well um i'm not going to speak here as an expert on this of course obviously but there are various causes one would be that the stigma of mental health decreasing could contribute to more people reporting anxiety as an issue rather than just some normal part of their routine that's number one another
031possible possible underlying cause of this would just be the increased of competitiveness over time that we all experience i think in this room we all know that over time things have just gotten more competitive number three social media is something that i want to be very clear about is not necessarily one of the main contributing causes to a decline in mental health i think we need to be very careful um looking at things in a causation versus correlation of viewpoint which is why i wanted to emphasize that there are many reasons why anxiety or mental health generally could be increasing right now for teenagers but i think the most important fact is we know it's increasing we know it has been increasing and we need to act on that okay thank you and i tell
032you that you are not an expert but you sure sounded like that and it's it's research it's really important that what you're saying that this is not new this isn't a new phenomenon but it's but at least now we can say that people are talking about it and but your clarification was spot on spot on a lot of it is we haven't learned to cope and so people are calling it anxiety and they're calling it mental health when it's just you have to learn to cope and learning coping mechanisms so but a boy i would love to hear more are you gonna is there anything planned in the future that we could we could listen in and and hear you speak or maybe you should just go ahead and do something because do something very
033phenomenal i'll try it you've got our ears now so we want to hear more thank you yeah okay we'll have to do something all right any other comments your speech was phenomenal thank you thank you very much [Applause] okay another stellar example of our products here in anaheim union okay we're moving on to reports now we've already had elizabeth's report so we'll move to reports of our associations starting with a asta grant shuster in i should break the person is that you break the desk [Laughter] no she already did it well it is good to see all of you uh back in person uh for the first time in quite a while um good evening trustees district cabinet and everyone joining us through you the youtube channel feed it's good to see you all in
034person and our protocol with our protocols in place as it outlines the promise just ahead with our graduations at handle stadium our in-person summer school programs and a full return in august that will bring our community back together in celebration of our public schools in the spirit of referencing celebration i want to bring attention to national educators week currently taking place each year at sites asta delivers gifts ptas serve lunches administration organizes a week-long recognition of what teachers do and this is always appreciated this year was obviously going to be different it's also important that we take this opportunity to understand what authentic teacher appreciation what form authentic teacher appreciation comes in it comes in the form of consistent respect and support fully funded schools healthy and safe working conditions decision making power a professional
035wage and benefits academic freedom an end to standardized testing a culture where principles and collaborating are collaborative and intentionally strive for a universally welcoming work environment on campuses and a campus environment where students have what they need this is the appreciation our teachers and their students deserve i'm happy to say that in a time of upheaval and uncertainty that our association and our district have spent thousands of hours this year doing this sort of work to recognize our teachers and these goals our teacher input group has brought teachers slps and nurses together across every site in the district we have discussed everything from bell schedules to our safety protocols and from learning models to spending priorities our members continue to step up to advocate for themselves and their colleagues and the district has done more
036than just listen they have implemented policy and programs based on our input at the bargaining table asta and the auhsd came to a quick agreement during an unsettling time that recognized our work with a substantial pay increase along with our exemplary health benefits plans the security provided this provided by this to our members and all district employees exemplifies the appreciation that is felt by you for all of us the district stands in line with asta to promote teacher driven authentic assessments over mandated standardized testing is yet another sign of appreciation for teachers and what they are able to do as professionals we will continue to reach out and collaborate at every turn and have no doubt that the district will respond in kind it will be nice to receive kudos lunches and other recognition again
037next year but it is far more important to continue the dynamic of respect and support that has been illustrated between asta and the district particularly during the time of the pandemic i would also like to announce to the board that asta has been awarded a safe and just schools grant by the national education association for seventy five thousand dollars we will be focusing our grant around the organizing of teachers parents and community groups around the creation and implementation of community schools and accompanying service programs we're looking forward to building a structure of advocacy that will strengthen our public schools within our community and further highlight the importance and still often unrealized potential of public education in our society i would also like to comment on a couple of items before the board tonight first the
038lgbtq resolution recognizing what we do in support of students from that community six years ago a handful of teachers including myself took 20 students to walk in the long beach pride parade in march and in may aside from the pandemic cancellation we have attended every year since i can't describe the joy and welcome that our students felt as folks who came out to watch up and down ocean boulevard shouted out the schools and graduating classes that they were part of in the auhsd some alums ran into the route to take pictures with our district banner since then our gay straight alliance clubs have sprouted up on campuses across the district and as of last year our students felt strength and support enough to stand in front of this board in advocacy for their program we
039stand with our students in support of this resolution as well as the supports and resources it provides the other item is the resolution for an ethnic studies requirement since this topic and question have come up the district has involved asta members in every meeting throughout the process district administration parents students and teachers along with site admin have all had their voices heard and been part of the consensus building that led to tonight's recommendation that 70 teachers have already stepped forward to be trained in any new curriculum and teach the courses is testament to the process and the community's desires to see these courses in our schools we look forward to continuing our work with the district on the creation of these courses and curriculum usually i don't speak from the cuff but at the end
040here i just also wanted to say that we have these programs and we build this vision for the district but on an everyday basis the things that go on and the support and the the effort that is put out by people working together uh today for an example we've been working with this teacher input group trustee pierce you've gone a few times and i had some concern with some members that we weren't getting enough of the student the voices of special education teachers and students in those meetings and asked for a meeting with jaren and manuel in ed division they immediately agreed we met this morning i had a further call with manuel this afternoon and we've already begun to set up a subcommittee where our special education students and teachers can have the same
041sort of forum and get the same supports and build the same uh structures that we've done so well in the teacher input group for the overall district later in the morning i was on the phone with hr we've had so many teachers that have been on temporary contracts because of contract language the last few years and now because of one-time money we're going to be hiring you know more than a hundred more and the process of making sure the teachers that have been on temporary contracts get the security of a probationary contract and feel that future in the district before we go out and hire others has been just a real load on the hr department and i was on the phone with scott jensen and i believe it was 31 contracts today were already
042offered changed from temporary to probationary so teachers know before the end of the year that they are going to be back next year and this is it's such a big deal especially for teachers who have been dedicated the district for multiple years on temporary contracts and then finally um i was on the phone with laura jacobs and yvette robinson from the insurance committee just talking for for close to an hour just about a specific issue with a specific member and an issue with the health insurance and you know it does it may not seem like a lot but to the person it's happening to happening to it is a big deal and for us to sit down and find the time and be able to hash it out those kind of things on a daily
043basis are what enable us to build the relationships to then implement these visions that we all talk about because of the trust we can have and because of the working relationships we've built together and then i'm just gonna make a personal shout out you would uh mention trustee piercy ivan ayala from magnolia and ivan was one of the last students i had at dale before i took this position and he was in my history class on a volleyball team and it's just so phenomenal to be able to see our students grow from where they started and what they've become and for me in this position to see him speak in board meetings or go to pride marches or you know be involved with the gsa be involved with the student ambassador program it's just another
044illustration of why we all do what we do so on that personal note i will conclude my report thank you thank you grant any you know i have to go back in history a little bit but now i i see a lot of our teachers involved in committees and they're getting their voices heard and i really love it and it reminds me back when i was teaching and we tried site-based decision-making you remember that we tried it but now we're really doing it a lot better but on a district level with getting our teachers involved and they're giving up of their time i go i go to this meeting with manuel with the you know opening of schools task force and we meet in every week they're meeting and discussing stuff and the teachers have
045the opportunity to put in their opinions and it's great okay thank you very much our next speaker i'll have brian bannon from the apga sylvia just sent me a text she said i feel sorry because you have to go after grant so thanks man i'm sorry i'm just going down the list this will be the last time i go after grant so that being said um thank you everyone madame piercy and board members trustees and obviously the brain trust that's right here it's been a long time being a apg leader for way too long unlike grant i will speak off the cuff but i do have some notes here i i just wanted to to share my my gratitude to all the students for showing a lot of grit this year they've done an exceptional
046job and i'd also like to thank the hard work during the pandemic of csea members ask me middle managers principals administrators teachers social workers and counselors and anyone else i forgot i know you're working hard and that includes everyone in this room i want to start a little bit to talk a little bit about where we where we've been and where we are right now with apga we're getting more people which i'm so thankful for we're getting temporary counselors for next year but they're they're permanent in the eyes of the students so i i've long said this the job of counselors is about relationships it's not about your grad rate it's not about people completing pathways it's about the relationships that you have with students so i applaud everyone for supporting more people speaking of
047people i'd like to just make a personal comment about over 50 years 150 years of experience for past presidents and 20 years of alternative ed experience are the retirees that have happened during the pandemic my good friend steve gonzalez sandy allen sharon hughes lisa rockwell christina gray thank you all thank you guys thank you brian [Music] [Applause] okay hilda alta president seriously well good afternoon everybody i'm adam preston percy board of trustees executive cabinet superintendent matsuda it's hard to follow all of that um it's a little crazy um i i have something written but i was really just taken back by all of our students right and just thinking about the time that we are in and also just being so blessed and honored to be here and to see their growth and the opportunities
048that we provide in our campuses and outside of our campuses for them to continue growing as citizens and i do want to start by thanking also the work of our teachers right in our sites during this week of teacher appreciation as you heard from grant today their resiliency and their work their care and heart for our students and for their colleagues right uh has been incredible and has really just been phenomenal this year despite what this school year has thrown at us teachers and our sites have persevered and grown stronger together and we are looking forward to all the summer opportunities are going to be happening in person and for the upcoming school year school sites have also been busy with sporting events and with on-site student cohorts ranging from academic supports to enrichment opportunities
049for skill development and engagement we're also currently finalizing our summer programs and we're starting recruitment for a variety of programs at the junior high and the high school levels at at the end of the year draws near students have also had the opportunity to participate in events that showcase their developed talents such as district ban performances soapbox speeches competitions and virtual performances additionally we are celebrating our students through our variety award ceremony and also through the capstone interview happening at very different sites they encapsulate and demonstrate a student's growth prior to them graduating and heading off lastly i would like to share that we're continuing our commitment to wellness and to student preparedness and have been working digitally and we'll continue to do this work during the summer to prepare and welcome students parents and
050staff for the upcoming school year and i want to give one last shout out to all of our students right for their unwavering commitment to themselves for their resiliency we are incredibly proud of them and most importantly where we know that they have an avenue to express their needs and if we don't have them at the school sites i know our district ambassadors have been advocating and more and more we are including the student voice and the shared decision process just like we talked about our counselors and all of our staff members so i'm really proud to work in district and it's an honor to be here to give you the end of the year report thank you thank you hilda [Applause] okay i don't see any other [Music] association so we'll move on that's
051the do we have a parent teacher report at all okay moving on to presentations our first presentation will be school dismissal and distance learning and i'll defer to dr freed on this great thank you board president piercy and good evening everyone good evening uh members of the board executive cabinet and to all our friends families and colleagues watching on our youtube channel as promised at our last board meeting for tonight's presentation we're going to talk a little bit more in depth about our summer programs as you know we're just a few weeks away hard to believe with school being over so we wanted to to upload and up update you on the work that's being done to support our students throughout the summer we'll also talk a little bit about graduation just to give you
052a quick update on graduation to make sure all of you are aware of some of the changes that have been made and why make sure our community is also aware of those changes and then finally we'll transition in preparation for the resolution that is before you tonight looking at the opening for next school year and what that's going to look like i want to front load a couple aspects of that before you actually take your vote so with without further ado i'm actually excited to have uh some teammates colleagues from our ed division family here with me tonight we're going to talk more in depth about the great work that we're doing to plan for this summer so i'm going to go ahead and turn it over first to mr joe carmona who's going to
053talk a little about summer programs good evening board guests and uh those joining us virtually thank you for having me here tonight uh so i'm excited to share a little bit about what we're planning for the summer along with some of my colleagues so there's really two sides of what we're going to be doing during this summer so the first part of that is uh very similar to what we've offered in the past in terms of providing our students with an opportunity to remediate courses that they've earned a deer in effin um during the school year so uh we have a few options for for what that looks like our focus is on uh english math and science uh during the summer for those credit recovery courses uh we do have those options will be
054in person at all of our sites so thanks to our our teachers who are going to be a part of those programs during the summer an additional piece this summer is we will be providing instructional aids in those classes we want to make sure that not only the students have a very smooth transition back to in person but that since this is an opportunity to make up those classes on the path to graduation that they are successful right that they complete the course successfully so providing that additional support this summer our curriculum specialists our teacher leaders have designed special curriculum for our summer courses and that curriculum is really meant to engage and help the students be really active during the summer right it is a long time you're in class for three hours at
055a time and so the curriculum is designed to have a number of different activities change of pace and so they're not just sitting there doing one thing for three hours right so a great work of our teacher leaders in training all of our summer school teachers who will provide that we will have virtual options that's in person right through our apex credit recovery if a student is not going to attend in person and obviously working with our county partners at pacific coast high school and access to also provide virtual options for those students who do not want to attend in person our other in uh in-person offering is opportunities for students to accelerate and those are offered to rising 9th graders and rising 10th graders the ninth and tenth grade years are typically the most
056impacted for students because of the number of requirements that they need to complete and so we will be offering health for our rising ninth graders uh and world history for our rising 10th graders so that allows them to access cte pathways vapa pathways avid other programs that they're involved in without having potentially to take a zero period or seven classes during the school year so uh that that is an intentional uh move on our part to allow them to get that done during the summer so they can focus on those six classes during the school year so that's our uh sort of our credit recovery our academic um course component the other side of that uh this summer is uh knowing um that obviously the pandemic has has been very challenging for for all of
057our students to provide some enrichment opportunities and here we really wanted to tap into the creativity of our teachers so we gave our teachers the chance to design some two-week course proposals right where they could uh tap into their experience their expertise and come up with um these short courses that are not what you might typically see during the school year so there we have uh we have just about 65 different enrichment courses that will be happening across our sites during the summer just a few examples we have courses that are focusing on civic engagement where students will be designing a project and a call to action over the course of the two weeks we have students who will be working in their campus gardens focusing on not only the the science part of that
058but then also some of the um the sort of sociology behind that around food deserts access to fresh foods how that impacts certain communities so they're really going in depth with those pieces we have many visual and performing arts opportunities right [Music] one example is uh you know for those of you who are familiar with uh a singing competition right it's sort of like a the voice light a two-week version of the voice where students will practice a piece perform it and sort of have a a fun uh you know cooperative but competition uh sort of piece and then several courses that are focused on on health and wellness right how to manage your own stress um physical activity type of uh programs and so uh it it varies across all of our sites because
059it really was left to the teachers to come up with ideas and propose it for their uh for their school in addition one of the really exciting things is we are offering for our junior highs sports and fitness programs and so this is really intended to to help get those students out of the house um off the couch away from the screen and to engage in some physical activity at their sites you know we we know uh that that activity is not only good for their physical health but right the science around your improvement to your mental health is strong right when when you are engaged in those activities and the endorphins are released right it improves your mental state uh and so uh we're very excited to to be offering that for our junior
060high students um including our incoming seventh graders so you know many of our elementary districts are uh their school year ends a little bit after us uh but the great thing about this program is it's not uh you know you have to show up for a certain amount of time right as soon as their district calendar ends they can join our programs right there there's no like show up by a certain date right it's an open entry uh because we know that our elementaries do end a slightly different calendars than we are on and then the last thing is uh the return of our summer musical two years ago this was a fantastic collaborative project of vapa teachers from several sites who put together a full musical it won't be quite um as luxurious as
061uh two years ago but we will be uh performing in an outdoor venue in one of the city parks and it'll be a series of sort of one-act pieces because it's a little less intense to get those uh prepared and ready to go uh considering the uh the conditions with the pandemic and and bringing our students together so those are um the credit recovery pieces and the enrichment pieces and i know my colleagues will be addressing a few um others so i don't know if there are any questions at this time or we'll wait till the end and can answer some questions joe question on the enrichment side you mentioned there are 65 enrichment opportunities how many hours per day are they so the they're they run um in three hour segments so there's an
062am and a pm session and so some of the teachers are doing both am and pm some are only doing am some are only doing pm um and uh that depended partly on the teacher but then also knowing that they would be working with certain students perhaps right they kind of communicate with their students around what worked best uh for them and so uh but there are the the possibilities of two sessions within the day the am and the pm and the limitation of 20 students per per session like it is on the credit recovery if they're using an indoor space yes the 20 many are potentially using outdoor spaces and so then they can accommodate a larger numbers of students thank you all right awesome thank you so much okay one other question um
063joe the credit recovery for how long is that um all our programs are running for four weeks four weeks uh it starts uh june 7th is the day the students begin and that will run until july first okay we will have two weeks of enrichment in july so i believe that's july 6th to july 18th the first two weeks of july we will be offering enrichment only the credit recovery portion of summer school will have completed okay thank you joe how how are we reaching our kids how how are we getting this message out to our kids that we're doing this so uh that's really there there's two pieces there um our our counselors uh have done a really impressive job right so they obviously knew some of the students were going to need credit
064recovery right so they were kind of working towards getting them signed up already but with the enrichment pieces they are are promoting that as well as our teachers right so that was kind of part of it like let us know what kind of students you're thinking about um you know serving with your project and so the teachers are also reaching out to some of their own students some of their incoming students to be a part of those programs and opportunities and all obviously all of that happens with the support of our administrators you know helping facilitate the use of our our mass communication systems to uh to all of our folks right it because um each site has different offerings right so they have to kind of tailor those message messages to the students that
065um that they're going to serve during the summer so i have some good news it's reaching the elementary school district already so they're already the teachers are they're telling the incoming 7th graders are pretty excited uh from the feedback so far that they uh there's a lot of interest um for those rising seventh graders to come and be a part of the programming so um so that's very exciting uh in terms of you know welcome welcoming them to our district into our campuses uh and i mean if that's really going to be the first time we're doing something to this scale i mean i've been here 20 years so probably in 20 years uh so you know it's a pretty uh exciting opportunity for for our students and thank you for clarifying um you know
066to the public that everybody knows because uh they were concerned about the time frame and that we were still gonna be i work for elementary school we were still going to be on and that that the secondary was starting so thank you for clarifying the time that they can just jump in absolutely thank you all right exciting stuff and turn it over to my colleague talk about extended school year yeah so now it gives me great pleasure to introduce our coordinator of special youth services amy maya and she will talk about the work that's being done with our extended school year thank you good evening board of trustees superintendent matsuda and executive cabinet and all of our family and friends at home thank you so much for this opportunity to share with you what we'll
067be doing through extended school year so during the school year all of our special program students will have the opportunity to work on iep skill maintenance and have opportunities for structured social interaction as well as support in small groups we're very fortunate this year to have three sites to offer extended school year so hope will host all of our current and incoming hope school students grade seven through adult transition we also have lawera which will host seven through twelve and then savannah which will have our adult transition programs one of the exciting things about extended school year this year is that all three of our sites were offered both in-person and virtual instruction so the in-person classrooms will have no more than 14 students and those 14 those students those class sizes will depend very
068depending on how much adult support is needed so it could go up or down no more than 14 and they will also have excuse me i'm sorry they will also have a variety of the adult support so hope will have a lesser amount of students and that just depends on how much the need is in their class so just to give you kind of a picture of what how many students will have at each site um the current projections for hopes attendance is about 171 they have about 70 percent that have committed to in person and 30 percent committing to virtual lawyers at 236 with 62 percent committing to in person and 38 percent competing committing to virtual and then for savannah it's 150 students with 64 in person and 36 percent virtual so we
069are very excited we have a great team of teachers who are ready to go want to see their students very happy to be back on campus we have a great uh set of classified people who are also ready to go and excited to see kids my amazing school psychologist and program specialist will all be on deck to support our site admin so celeste and i are really excited about the opportunities for the summer for special programs i don't know if you guys have any questions regarding questions uh just clarification the students that are coming to lower and savannah they're from across the district correct correct okay from all the special programs but yes from all all of the sites and so we've got busing correct oh and i would be remiss if i didn't give
070a shout out to matt thomas and his team who are currently working on transportation as we speak or yes why very good the students that were that said they want to do virtual decided that they wanted to do in person is that an issue no no no we have the staffing that's needed for both all staff will be on campus to provide that instruction whether they are conducting a virtual classroom or in person so we were very happy to make that happen for our families who requested that all right thank you any other questions no thank you amen amy thank you all right last but certainly not least it gives me great pleasure to bring up our director of english learners and multilingual services dr renee bryant who will talk about the great work being
071done to support our summer language academy yes [Laughter] i'm so excited to talk to you i forgot about the cleaning all right so board president piercy board of trustees superintendent masuda executive cabinet thank you for this opportunity to speak to you about our summer expanded learning opportunities for english learners also known as emerging bilingual and multilingual scholars this summer we are excited to welcome close to 85 emerging bilingual newcomers to our virtual summer language academy for the second consecutive year during this four week academy for emerging scholars they will engage in an innovative asset-based multi-literacy enrichment program affirm one another's linguistic and cultural identities explore multiple perspectives and diverse experiences while increasing their language acquisition we are also excited to announce that our virtual summer academy curriculum will in integrate civic and project-based learning so
072our emerging bilingual scholars can earn the seal of civic engagement and beyond that we're also excited to announce that if our scholars need recovery credits that they will be able to earn them as elective credits and also english language development so we'll have three classes that will offer for summer language academy from june 1st to june 24th from 9am to 12pm so please mark your calendars in advance and save the date because we will be hosting our virtual summer language academy celebration on thursday june 24th from 10 to 11 a.m so just a reminder that our summer language academy is a california school board association go golden bell award winning program because it empowers our students to explore the intersectionality of their identities as well as our voice values beliefs and now civic engagement so
073as if summer language academy was not enough we also have thanks to a partnership with cal state fullerton dr allison dover dr faram abrigasvez and a generous grant from the spencer foundation we're hosting one class of project learn which stands for language equity action research with newcomer students project learn is specifically designed for scholars who already attended summer language academy in previous years these 10 scholars will participate in action research which will also help them to earn the seal of civic engagement here you see the youth participatory action research ypar cycle our 10 learned scholars will attend classes virtually during the same dates as virtual summer language academy and these scholars will present their research at a culminating celebration and if you are available we hope you will attend on wednesday june 23rd from 10
074to 11 a.m this concludes my portion of the presentation and are there any questions okay thank you very good fantastic sounds great so as you can see dr bryant miss maya mr kimono are there to be commended for the great work they're doing to plan for our summer but it also goes beyond the three of them and their great leadership to our curriculum specialists and a lot of members of our sf team and the site leaders who are making this happen for our students this summer so we're really really excited for what's to come this summer what i want to do now is i want to just give you a brief update with graduation and we've been keeping you updated i think this is also for our community who's watching you may have seen as
075you know our transit our graduations thank you have transitioned to where they're all at handel stadium and i just wanted to share um you know when when we were working with glover stadium which is city owned there's there was a capacity limit which made it difficult for us to honor the plus two commitment we had talked about remember we had agreed that we want our graduates plus two people who the student chooses to be in attendance to support them as they graduate well having the ceremony at glover would not have allowed that to happen so as a result of our commitment to have that plus two we needed to move all of our ceremonies to handle stadium which had the capacity to be able to support that so that's why we needed to make that
076shift before you and i know for those watching online you can see the the schedule that's been set up where we have our smaller schools cva and hope on the friday may 21st but then the remaining schools will take place at handle stadium what's important note if people are wondering why there's a separation between the different graduations it's because we were required to create at a minimum a two-hour space between ceremonies so our maintenance and operation team who has been doing also a masterful job working with our our team of joe saldana and vidal valdez to build these graduations to make sure they have time to disinfect it also gives time for the fir the beginning ceremony and the parents to leave the facility and make time for the new ceremony coming in to be
077able to park their cars and be a part of the next ceremony so i want to make sure you're aware of those changes and why we needed to do that obviously in a perfect world we'd be able to do the way we would normally do it but that's not the circumstances we've been dealt so we're making lemonade out of the lemons and this will be a phenomenal experience for our seniors as we move forward so we i've been meeting just so you know with mr saldana other districts who are very interested in the work that we're doing with graduation because we're one of the first in the county to go through this so a lot of eyes are on us and a lot of other districts are wanting to know how we're handling this because
078this is something all districts are beginning to wrestle with so i'm excited for what uh may 25th 26th 27th 28th will look like for our seniors and again this is an in-person ceremony at those venues uh questions on graduation i know we've been updating but i want to make sure i just want to commend the team on how fast you know you pivoted and you made these arrangements because this wasn't something that was expected and you know we always have the anaheim graduations at glover and so we thank you for pivoting and making this arrangement to make it work for our families and unfortunately it wasn't anything that you could you had control over we had control over absolutely i just want to make sure that we emphasize that this is not what we wanted
079because you know it's tradition to be at glover and we know um you know that's that's the place where a lot of our our alum have graduated but um i i commend the team for for creating this uh very very quickly on the dime and um you know you guys are fantastic so thank you thank you and the feedback we've gotten from families have been really appreciative put that of appreciation they of course you know the plus two whoever that is with its mom dad mom grandma they're excited to be a part of the ceremony so the fact that we were able to make that transition still support uh family friends the who are the two are to be a part of the day was was appreciated so uh so yeah thankfully we have not
080received a lot of resistance we've been getting more praise and are you gonna talk about the video and yeah so just as a reminder uh on that day we will have a filming crew there to live stream it so for any uh because obviously only two members of each student's family can be able to be there uh for those who are not it'll be live stream so they'll be able to watch it uh just like they are this board meeting on our youtube channel they'll it'll be recorded where they can see it long after the day has happened we also are embedding for those students who for a variety of reasons may not want to be after graduation maybe they have a medical condition don't feel safe being there maybe um they have things going
081on where it's just it's just too difficult they will be integrated into the ceremony so we're getting those students uh who we know that are not planning to show up for graduation for whatever again those variety of reasons and we will have their photo and their name will still be announced and be on the live stream so as you may recall last year with the virtual graduation for those students even though it'll be up in person ceremony when their it is their turn to be called their their picture and name will be announced so it'll feel like they are part of the ceremony even though they're not physically there oh that's great so yeah so we're really trying to be really inclusive in this process so that way all students regardless of their circumstance get
082the experience this process and can i just make you know a statement again you know we're sorry but we can only accommodate two people per graduate and that's because we are limited in the number that we can have in the stadium and i know that i've already spoken to some in my district who were saying can't we just get one more and i had to explain we just can't do it and we are live streaming it so you you know if you are having somebody fly in from back east for this graduation one of you is going to have to stay home and watch it and so it's it's tough but at least we're having it live so please remember there's only two tickets that's it per student graduating and it doesn't do any good
083to call and ask for another one because they're just not there so at least we're having a live graduation and we're like dr fred said we're leading leading the field here because we're graduating before many of the other districts so work with us and we will all have a good graduation and one of the questions that i got asked is well can we can we gather afterwards to take pictures and stuff and i said not really because we you know we have to worry about gathering correct so we're asking you to leave after the graduation and take your pictures at home you know or if you want go back to the school site at a different time and take a picture there but there's no time or place really for you to try to take
084pictures when everyone will be trying to leave so please help us by not loitering afterwards i know get your congratulations and hugs and whatever and and then move on to the car and take it home to continue so that we can get you know the the cars out so that the next flood of cars can come in because even with two hours in between it it makes it tough it does or yeah and i appreciate bringing that up so what we're what we're instructing our graduates is when the graduation ceremony is actually over uh those in the stands will remain seated uh and and we have a whole process for for which they're coming in and entering the stadium but the graduates leave first we're telling the graduates to go to their car so that
085way when the parents leave they meet their graduates at the car and then they can leave and like you just said they can take their photos in other locations we do have to clear the premise pretty quickly because we have to disinfect and prepare for the next ceremony so as you know from experience our ceremonies typically about an hour to an hour and 20 minutes in length depending on the size of the school right so we should have more than enough time but because of this new dynamic we have to make sure our graduates get to their car our families join them at the car and then they leave so that's that's been part of the process and the sites are communicating that to our graduates and their families along the way and then they're
086also going to be a rehearsal for our seniors at their site so that's going to be reinforced with them when they do the rehearsal and they pick up their cap and gown uh and whatnot so okay good that's a lot of work i i hope we make sure that they get the message out to the families you know what that that's what happens there'll be reminders in this in the speech that the principals or the mcs give as well okay very good thank you okay and the last last update that i have for you is as you as you know tonight uh i think in fact after this presentation you have a resolution before you which really talks about the um the method in which we're going to open our schools in the fall and
087just so you know in the in the in the resolution it does call for and i want to stress this so for those watching they know the intent of what you're voting on it is for a full full five days of live in-person instruction in the classrooms it's going to appear as normal as normal can be right so so that is what is what you are voting on before you tonight um that is going to be the model that we are pursuing right now as i think you heard from grant about the teacher input group well we also have an opening of schools task force that we started last march that is still in place and they are regularly reviewing guidance and still prepping for the opening of schools next fall right now that is
088the plan that is the model that we are pursuing so unless there's a catastrophe and something changes that is where we are headed and that's what you're being asked to vote on tonight the other thing i want to share is after you take action tonight a survey is going to go up to our families tomorrow and that survey is going to be asking for families to confirm one of really two options and i'll explain what those are in just a second the first option as i just mentioned is the in-person model it's asking them to confirm and we really do believe the vast majority of our families are going to want that in-person model there's a lot of excitement our schools are doing a lot of great work and planning for the reopening we call
089it the care opening is perfect to rios to really celebrate their return you heard about what mr carmona shared in terms of summer programs and miss maya and dr bryant there's a lot of work being done to really engage and generate that excitement to come back to school all of the work that diana guyeta has mentioned previously in terms of the safety and the protocols are still in place we monitor that guidance regularly and then again as things may change mr clone this guy after they meet with our admin regularly i think it's every friday they meet to go over any changes if there are any and what the implications might be for any adjustments we need to make to our procedures and protocols so so we are looking for that in person return however
090for those families with unique needs and they may need an independent study option and right now i want to i want to stress that the state is only pushing ada the attendance daily rate that we get the average daily attendance there's only two options right now that are on the table that we know of in-person or independent studies the hybrid is not an option moving into next year at currently as it stands so to get ada students have to either be in person or be in an independent studies program so for us if they're not going to be in person and there's a unique need the option is going to be independent studies we have a couple of options within that umbrella one is cva cambridge virtual academy if students want to apply to go
091to cva they can go through that process and that is one of those options i have a video that's going to be going maybe already went out but it's going to be going out that explains those options in the survey so parents know exactly what they're going to be selecting when they do that it also gives them access to the links or the websites so they can do additional homework if they're considering one of those independent study options the other independent study option under that umbrella is our more traditional polaris catella high school and kennedy high school's independent city programs as you know cva is a course-based program whereas the polaris catella and kennedy are a seat-based program so it's a little bit different in the way that they approach their work all three are
092outstanding independent study programs and offer tremendous opportunities for students all three the high schools aspect have a through g courses that are approved so students can still go to a four-year university if they want to be in that that program so those options will be detailed in that video and also in the survey they get there will be descriptors of those three programs so before they make their selection they know what what it is they're confirming but again we believe the vast majority are going to come back in person questions limitations on on cva well right now and we're gonna have to wait and see what the what the numbers look like uh we have we have more capacity but again it's an application based because it's it's connected to e-learning or what i said
093course-based learning so it is it is a different model than than what polaris kennedy and high school offer and i want parents to understand that when we say independent studies please do not confuse it with distance learning what we did this year it is not the same schedule it is not the same method of learning where they're seeing their teachers synchronously or ac it's a very different process you know in cva they see their teachers typically once a week they typically have discussion boards chat rooms help forums office hours so it's a very different format connected to our e-learning process and there is teacher-line curriculum that they've generated they've created that are connected to the standards obviously and to also the five c's polaris has done similar work but again it's through a seat-based approach
094not a course-based approach they get credit along the way whereas at cva you get credit after you've completed the course so it's a little different process in terms of the independent studies and what might meet the needs of our students is it possible to send the board a survey yeah absolutely i was just going to say i would hope you'd send us absolutely as well and i believe you'll get access also to the video so you can see what is being described right now absolutely is currently on our youtube channel oh it is the message will be sent down tomorrow yeah yeah okay we didn't want to send it out until after you take action okay even though we think we don't want to jump the gun that's good yeah yeah we wanted to wait
095and not put the cart before the horse yeah okay any other questions or comments here so real quickly the survey will go out may 7 through may 21st so it's a short window two weeks but the reason why it's going out and it will go out in multiple languages the reason why it's a short window is because there are implications based on the data we receive knowing that we believe most families are going to want in person and that's going to meet the vast majority of our kids needs it's not going to impact staffing in a significant way but if there are more requests let's say for the polaris katella or kennedy is we may have to do some adjustment of staff so that's why we need to know that information so then we can
096work closely with brad and his team to look at the staffing aspect and if we need to make any adjustments based on the request to be able to meet their needs so that's why it's the short window so we can make those adjustments in the master calendar master schedule aspect all right okay and then the last thing i want to just kind of reiterate is the site planning that's being done right now for the care opening as you heard eloquently our student kenny speak about mental health that care opening is just that that we know that many of our students even i would argue many of our staff are going to be out of school shape right i mean we we've been at home we've been even though we've been working incredibly hard it is
097different i know when i came back to the office five days a week i went home more exhausted than i was when i was working at home just because i was out of shape and we're gonna see the same thing from our students and from our staff so this care opening is really taking that to heart and really easing that transition where we're gonna it's really a celebratory return you know we don't want lots of homework in the beginning we want our students to gradually get back into school shape get back into the excitement and love of learning being excited to be on campus we have to revisit building school culture the expectations in terms of how we conduct ourselves in a locker room versus how we conduct ourselves in the library versus how we
098conduct ourselves entering and leaving a classroom those are all going to be really critical and elements that we need to build in and as you know for our junior highs our seventh and eighth graders have yet to be on that campus it is gonna be a completely new school for our kids because they've never been there and the eighth graders exactly and then 7th and 8th and then when you think about high schools the senior class were last on the campus when they were sophomores the freshman and sophomore class have never been on the campus unless they've been an athlete or a vapa student who maybe came back and part of athletics or these small pods small cohorts so it's a tremendous opportunity to reset rebuild school culture for those schools who've been through capturing
099kids hearts as example i know there's two more schools on the agenda tonight um that's a chance to make that just the dna and this is how we do things at ball this is how we do things at luera so there's a lot of excitement in this this this care opening that we're talking about and again we don't train for a marathon running 26 miles on the first day we got to gradually get our students back into that shape where they can be really promising rigorous students uh engaging the way we would normally uh engage with our students good okay very good so that is the update in terms of the the the opening of our schools and you brought up a different point i wasn't aware of that the state will not give us
100ada for hybrid well right now there's nothing on the table that allows right now if they're pushing in person or an independent study that's right so based on that guidance this is these are the options that we have got you because as you may recall this year and last year we were held harmless with ada right but not next year we're not so it's and there is no true method to account for ada in a hybrid because we did the second period check-in but that was under a different model where we had to do the remember the learning continuity and attendance plan so it's a different aspect so right now based on the guidance we've been given could change but right now that's not on the table it's in person or independent studies okay very
101good all right exciting well i appreciate presenting you tonight thank you i know we have two more presentations i'm not going to go too far but um okay i appreciate that anybody have any questions of dr fred about this before he moves on to the next item okay then having completed that presentation let us move on to 9.3 um 5.2 9.2 i'm sorry not well we this is 9.2 is the resolution number 2020 21 dash bot-14 reopening of schools for the 20-21-22 year do i have a second second okay with some amendments right pardon me okay um this is the resolution that will determine what the 2021 year will look like including following all public health guidelines to ensure the safety of our students staff and families the anaheim union high school district intends to
102return to a live in classroom instructional model five days a week when the 2021-22 year begins in august along with providing options for those families who prefer alternates as permitted by state law um so on the resolution we have some amendments to make yes i was bringing to bring that up here um would you like to make a motion for some amendment here i like to make an amendment to a couple of uh whereases the one two three four five the fifth whereas or we could say uh the feedback from the community favor return of students to a live in classroom instructional model five full days a week when the 2021 school year begins and then go down to now therefore be it resolved to state the student trustees the board of board of trustees
103of anaheim union high school district of uh the the superintendent administration to provide for a live in classroom instructional model for students five full school days a week beginning on the first day of school and then be it for the resolve that in recognition that these are difficult and uncertain time insert the word including with the emergence of coven 19 variants and that plans may change subject to local state federal guidelines that's all my amendments are uh with those amendments i will second amendment okay you have a second all right any comments questions we're going back to full in live school in the fall okay if if we all agree okay any other comments or questions all right roll call vote mrs randall trejo i vote i mr o'neill aye mr jabbar aye mrs smith
104aye and i vote i we have full agreement here on how we're doing next year okay fantastic moving on 9.3 studies task force i will defer on this to dr freed to go from there the division is busy tonight so again it is it gives me a great pleasure to introduce the team that that we're gonna bring before you tonight as the board knows uh and i know they're going to talk about this in great depth but but um we were we were charged with developing an ethnic studies task force we're based on feedback we were receiving from the community we also had that same interest but as a result of some direction that you had given us we put a task force together to really look deeply at ethnic studies to find what we
105believe it to be and then make some recommendations to whether or not it should be a graduation requirement and what that might look like i am really proud to bring up first carlos hernandez our director of curriculum instruction and just the great work he has done to lead this task force uh he'll introduce the team that is with us here tonight but i'm just really really uh super humbled and proud of the work that he and the team have done we have a a pretty very very bright a powerful group of stakeholders that represent a variety of different groups on our on our campuses in our community and they've done just great mind work and i know trustee randall trejo and we're present pearson you've had opportunities to be at the meetings occasionally so you've
106seen firsthand the great mind work that they've been engaged in to get us to this place so with further ado i'm going to turn over to mr hernandez who's going to lead us through this presentation yeah i didn't touch it thank you very much dr frieden good evening board uh good evening uh superintendent masuda and cabinet members thank you very much for this opportunity to take you through a journey of our ethnic studies task force that we began in august when given the directions uh back in august of 2020. i'm going to introduce the presenters this quickly so we can get to the meet in the heart of this presentation with us is on ha she's a senior at oxford academy she will be joined by cristela cristela avandano she's also she's a sophomore at
107oxford with us also is jacqueline dolarte one of our teachers activities director us history teacher at south junior high and uh one of our curriculum specialists a leader a teacher leader uh with social studies and many things civic engagement reuben pitino is also here with us so i'm going to turn it over to on to start us off on why ethnic studies good afternoon board of trustees my name is van gaan hao or you can call me anne and my pronouns are she her her and hers mr hernandez actually asked me to share something personal so before i begin talking about ethnic studies i wanted to mention that i am a first generation american and a child of vietnamese immigrants i'd like to share a story that my mother told me not too long ago
108prior to immigrating to the united states my mother lived in a village in vietnam after the vietnam war the country was in shambles and the government was offering compensation for citizens who could find pieces of scrap and other useful materials with ambition my mother and her friends traveled all the way to another village where they stumbled upon a large block of scrap left from the ruins of the war out of excitement she and her friends each gathered around it and carried it all the way back all the way back home what they didn't know is that that piece of scrap they had found was weighing down on a mine of explosives left by troops during the peak years of the war not until they got home did they find out that the mine had exploded
109killing and destroying half the village when my mother told me this story i nearly cried seeing that she had to carry all that weight on her shoulders for decades i share this story not because i seek empathy but because the extent of cultural representation i've had living in the western world is limited by what is pleasing to the eyes the classroom in the classroom conversations about cultural awareness only cover lunar new year cultural dances and eating pho and while i love and cherish these parts of my culture there is no mention of the generational trauma and disparities that come with racism war and assimilation according to the 2010 census bureau the southeast asian american students had the lowest high school graduation rate of any other group in the united states i've been a student of
110auhsd for six years and i will be graduating this month however as i reflect on my educational experiences from kindergarten until high school it is evident that i did not feel represented in the classroom during the summer of 2019 i had the privilege of taking an ethnic studies course at cypress college through the dual enrollment program i can say with confidence that the principles of ethnic studies goes beyond just an academic check mark but offers historical truth to the students who have faced adversity and underrepresentation under the confines of the public education system last year after leading a group of students to advocate to make ethnic studies a graduation requirement i was asked to join the auhsd board of trustees task force through this experience i've learned about the power of student organizing and the
111importance of educational equity a majority of students at auhsd don't have the cultural representation that they deserve i've spoken to dozens if not more students who have experienced microaggressions blatant racism and marginalization throughout their academic academic career many were called racial slurs mocked and isolated due to their appearance in race the ethnic studies movement has been around since the civil rights movement where educational equity has been landmarked through black liberation leaders desegregating schools the work of chicano activists who fought for ethnic studies and indigenous people fighting for land sovereignty and educational rights the resurgence of the black lives matter movement has brought justice to the forefront and ethnic studies at auhsd will pioneer generations of critical consciousness community engagement and educational liberation as a leader of a student group called diversify our narrative my peers
112and i have committed ourselves to the ethnic studies movement with the mission to commit to anti-racism mobilize student power to reclaim education and and uplift auhsd's black latino asian and pacific islander middle eastern north african and indigenous communities with that being said i would also like to acknowledge that i hold immense educational and socioeconomic privilege that allows me to be here today these privileges that others do not have were necessary for me to come here and represent students at auhsd and although i am the voice of students at auhsd here at this meeting today there are thousands more students with unimaginable unimaginable struggles who need and deserve empowerment empathy and amplification thank you next slide please and i just wanted to present some of the names that you can see on the presentation of these
113students and admin that worked with us on the ethnic studies task force some of them were from the same organization that i was a part of and some were student ambassadors and working with everyone on the task force was really an interesting and learning experience because i was able to work with adults and just people who i never thought would be at the same level of respect and value our opinions in the same space but yeah next slide please and then thank you so much anne all right well that is why on is here representing others um so as you see on this slide who we are that this is who we represent and this is who we are so as you see we are sons we are fathers we are products of the district
114we are teachers we are coaches we are proud sisters and students and as we started the task force that's where we started with who we are who we represent who we are advocating for those that can and cannot and could not uh be with us um you know we're building a community and that's what we've built a community that trusts that has a relationship that can push each other to say we we can do better we've done great in certain areas but we need to improve and so we need to be reflective we need to be assumed positive intentions we need to be real and we need to be able to listen so as we built that community we designed first and foremost through the ethics studies task force these guiding principles that empower students
115that's what we believe ethnic studies can do that create awareness that connects to students student identities that addresses history that are not really discussed in history classes that fosters the five c's that's what who we live how we live by here in anaheim union that improves student engagement right and civic engagement included provides a framework uh to allow for that deconstruction of those systems that that on reference and others will talk about and then adheres to certain structures to make sure that we uh work through an interdisciplinary multiple department opportunity for for all staff and students and families to be a part of so first we want to highlight the importance ethnic study has on students when looking at the data we see that there are many benefits for any student enrolled in a ethnic
116studies course benefits include higher attendance an increase in their gpa and more credits are completed throughout their academic career in addition to that additional studies that are referenced in the ethnic studies model curriculum also highlighted that students feel empowered in an ethnic studies course so this slide just highlights what we were able to accomplish throughout this academic year so the board of trustees directed superintendent mitsuda to create the task force and when we first met in september we wanted to make sure that we didn't rush into this process we wanted to do our due diligence and our biggest goals i would say is to analyze the different models that exist assess whether or not they work for our district and most importantly create a definition for ethnic studies so in our task force we looked
117at different definitions what the ethnic studies model curriculum suggests we've also looked at higher in higher education institutions other local school districts in what they've developed and through a process of consensus our definition is as follows ethnic studies is the interdisciplinary analysis of race ethnicity class gender sexuality and language through the sharing of ideas information opinions and emotions this course provides a framework to allow for the deconstruction of established systems and their effects on people of color and marginalized and disenfranchised groups students will be empowered to address injustices that negatively affect them and their community i do want to quickly add that when we were developing the definition we wanted to highlight the five c's as well as opportunities for civic engagement hi so thank you for having me here today again my name is
118cristela and you uh speak more into the life and kick that clue this okay oh sorry okay um hi again everybody my name is cristela i my pronouns are she her hers and i am a member of the teacher collaboration group within the ethnic studies task force as a work group we decided to develop a survey in order to understand teacher interests throughout ahsd which we have done so and we have sent it out to teachers within the school district so the purpose of the survey was not only to understand teacher interest but also to understand staffing implications as well as the potential that ethnic studies has so you can see the information that we've received through that pie chart over there on the very bottom the largest wedge which is what you can see
119in green represents the number of teachers who were interested in the teaching options that were available to them stand-alone and integrated course and the other two the orange represents the number of teachers who are interested in center one course which is 22 and the number of teachers who are interested in the integrated course which is 25. however i'd also like to um address the tiny little slide pie pieces so these are teachers who although they did write that they were interested in standalone integrated or both they also added additional subjects they were interested such as anthropology and aive cultural relevance asian studies and online course right so these um are this is going to be a more of a breakdown about the numbers i just presented earlier so here we have 67 high school teachers
120who express interested and interest in implementing ethnic studies into the course work so again you can see the numbers on the right hand side we have cypress high school with 12 teachers who express interest oxford with eight anaheim laura and savannah high school at seven magnolia catella and western well magnolia with six catalan western with five cambridge virtual academy with four john kennedy with three cattell independent studies gilbert and hope school with one and finally we have 24 hd junior high school teachers who express interest in implementing ethical studies into their coursework so again a south junior high school with six dale with five but chris with four orange orangeview and sycamore with two walker junior high school and lexington with two as well and finally ball junior high school but also fine i'd also
121like to address that while there were 91 teachers who were interested there's still going to be a process in order to determine whether the teacher is the right candidate for teaching ethnic studies with the delicacy and the respect that it serves so taking into consideration the conversations we had in the task force as well as the teacher interest survey in march we determined that the best model that would work for our district is a multiple options model so this includes obviously making it a graduation requirement but giving students options of what would work for them they could take it as a standalone course it can be implemented within a required course or they have the option of taking it as a dual enrollment course even though teachers a majority that did participate in the survey
122preferred a standalone course based off of students extra extracurricular commitments as well as any other responsibilities they have outside of school we think that this model works best also for teachers depending on what courses they are going to work and develop the curriculum we just thought it would be best to have a variety of options all right and these uh next couple examples just gives you and one of the concerns is well how will students take that well will there be a conflict right so here's a student that is an a through g student completing uh all recommended subjects uh what's highlighted is where this ethnic studies elect of course that um again it currently is an elective course would would be able to fit and that again is if they need to take that
123elective course in the future as we are thinking about how how things will be embedded into content areas across uh the spectrum but in this case this is a student needed to take an elective course this is a student that is a through g also an avid student also a vapa pathway student so as you can see there is a spot there where a standalone elective could be placed if that is the choosing of the student and then this one is very complicated yet opportunities still exist a through g student cte pathway vapa pathway an athlete right we threw everything in there and yet there is an opportunity for the student to take the standalone elective course ethnic studies good evening later on this evening the board will be looking at this ethnic studies resolution
124and taking action we wanted to highlight the three items on the slide because we had received feedback in the task force that these are three areas where that were of particular concern to teachers but we believe through the work of the task force this year that we have currently met some of those concerns and will be meeting them going on into the future so what you see there are our current implementation plans first of course is that ethnic studies the task force recommends be a requirement for graduation beginning for the class of 2026 that means our current seventh graders at the same time as we move forward there will be a great deal of professional learning that will have to occur for teachers and administrators in the district additionally curriculum will need to be developed
125or revised as ms rodarte shared with you the multiple option model currently we have an ethnic studies course in our course catalog we need to again that's about seven years old at the same time in march so the california department of education approved an ethnic studies model curriculum so again we'll need to look at the new model curriculum and see how we can mesh that with our current standalone course at the same time the integrated model again what courses will be integrated with ethnic studies have yet to be determined but of course for that to happen we'll have to have teachers who again want to be trained want to be part of that curriculum development we will also be reaching out as ms rodarte touched on as well to our neighboring districts who are going
126through the same process we are going through or who have already started such as santa ana unified which had made ethnic studies a requirement a year ago higher education institutions as well we'll reach out to them again i'm reminded of a lot of our partners we already currently have and then at the same time local county boards of education to help us as we move forward okay [Applause] all right well that concludes our presentation i again want to thank our ethnic task force members here presenting on behalf of the rest of the ethnic studies task force members and i want to thank you all for uh very much for the support and the guidance and the direction that we have uh moving forward lots of work to do but we are open for questions well
127and yeah very good let's give them a round of applause especially for our students and and being involved being a part of this task force i wasn't ever there each day but i know there was a lot of work put into this a lot of homework put into it as well it was not just the meetings but they were asked to go home from the meeting and do some stuff and think of things and you know it was really well done and i i remained in the background i was there but i didn't want to i didn't want to put my two cents worth into you know i don't want to sway anybody any different way so sometimes quite you know silence is the better solution but i listened and i really thought there was
128a lot of good work going on and i'm really happy that they have come up with this suggestion to make it a requirement that is met with variety of ways because there are so many graduation requirements already and so adding more the state keeps telling us we have to do this and we have to do that but we want to do this but we want to make it so that every student will do it but at their pace or at their weight so i'm really happy that you put this forward like that and my only question it'd be like it'll be sort of like civic engagement it'll be something that'll have to be checked off for their graduation so but it will be recorded so and i and i know that there's a lot of
129work to be done so your idea of having it requirement for this year's seventh graders is good because it gives us four years to get everything ship shaped and the curriculum all you know gone over and whatever so that if we do get a standalone we'll have teachers ready to teach it and students who may want to take that standalone then we'll maybe have to do a zero period or whatever but it gives us time to get totally organized so pardon questions yes questions yeah i was just making my comments and then i will answer ask for questions i don't have any questions i'm just complimenting them you know because i was involved okay mr o'neill yeah um i'm all for ethnic studies i think it's very important because i think we've been lacking or
130the educational system has been lacking uh not just us uh if you quit and obviously i think the the easiest way to uh fulfill the possible requirements if we vote for it would be a standalone okay but i also see that taking away from the students ability to take electives and we keep chipping away at the uh elective ability where uh soon down the road as miss piercy was just saying there may not be any luckily available because of all the requirements that are that are put up on our students backs so at what grade level will this ethnic study begin or be available does it start in 7th grade 8th grade 9th grade at what what level that's my first question yeah currently the the plan is for the class of 2026 which our
131seventh graders to begin to um open up expand we currently have ethnic studies happening right now but for those seventh graders once they become ninth graders they'll have a chance to take it in ninth or if it fits better in the tenth or in the summer or an eleventh or in twelfth but it's a high school okay level okay so the answer is it's high school level correct okay and then you just maybe answered another question was is it going to be available during the summer months so it doesn't impact their normal education throughout the year it could yes it could we currently have other options that they can take in the summers to make room for uh it to take be taken in in the fall or the spring okay correct so we have
132world history we have um health and as options to take over the summer currently and we and we certainly um can expand those that's if it's a standalone correct now if it's embedded in other courses how would that work in and how it work how do you monitor it how do you make sure that this the student gets those courses to fulfill the requirement correct so so you can take a a course like an english literature course that you know doesn't necessarily exist or or doesn't exist that could count as an english three class in english for the juniors you can embed the ethnic studies content along with the you know literature standards and count that as the english three course uh not in it not in addition uh to the current english three course
133so it would it would have a new course number so the english three is a regular english three course number it would have a new course number that gives the english three credit and it gives the ethnic studies requirement okay compliance credit so so point is is a great example of course that uh you know at that point the english course that looking at the curriculum to see what what is included already maybe adding a few layers could become a requirement that meets the english and the ethnic studies requirements so the requirement is that the course is is it a one semester is it one year or what what does what what are they going right now we're not giving it a a a credit maximum of 10 or or we're simply saying it it
134meets the requirement it could be five credits currently the elective credit that exists is a five credit course that would give the ethnic studies credit um and it went the english class that it's all year it could it could also as well so it's not necessarily tied to number of credits it's that they took the experience uh you know in the anaheim union whether it's elective or embedded content okay right so so what you're saying is that this could be embedded in in any one of our courses uh band yeah vapa course uh i mean it just seems like we could there's like i think map too right today that's the right to see today we missed our presentation today to be the rub yeah to ensure that let's say if it's embedded in dance
135okay i can see it mike i cannot hear you well in many of our bachelor classes i think that it can be embedded because we have a lot of teachers already teaching a lot of multicultural performances but you add a reflective piece of writing and reading into that then i think it would map it up a little bit we could qualify that right but possibly even okay here's my other question though can it be done like over two years let's say if it's a dance teacher that wants to invent this can it be done over that's one of the concerns uh let's say evapo teachers uh that we don't want to lose sight of that it's of apple course as we embed additional pieces it'll take some time perhaps time away from the the content
136so if it if it can be done in two years then you know it makes sense then yeah absolutely keep in mind this is the work of the task force once we get your approval then the task force will start to work on the process to integrate into into current courses or to develop these standalone courses so that's that's the work right the curriculum development and it's not just oh let's just do this one unit called ethnic studies no it is integrating this into the course so they're getting it throughout the the semester or throughout the year depending on the length of the course so that's the work ahead with the task force so i wanted to first of all thank you um trustee o'neill you actually asked many of my questions that i had
137here my one of my questions is related to that in terms of building the content right that's up to obviously we're not standardizing it but that's up to the teacher it'll be filtered through the the ethnic studies task force the subcommittee of teacher leads that that know the content that have been teaching it that have experience in ethnic studies that know what it needs in order to be able to meet the ethnic studies requirement so we can't right we're not leaving it up to one teacher while we value them we need to filter through that so which leads me to ask a couple of questions that um well before i do that let me just go ahead and say what a powerful story on i just wanted to thank you for sharing that story number
138one number two if you are the caliber of students that we're going to produce at auhsd our future is bright so thank you for taking that lead i know we met with you i think i met the backyard uh on zoom uh talking to you and the group so thank you for taking the lead and being involved and seeing through all the way through from last year to this year being part of the process and advocacy and actually now you feel probably satisfied that you came up with something tangible that you could see before you graduate right so thank you very much for that um my question that i was going to ask is in terms of i i think you're probably familiar with the uh controversy that occurred at the state level when they
139were actually trying to prepare the whole ethnic studies bill i want to make sure that we address arab-american studies and arab american issues within the ethnic studies context right because i think that's one of the things that came out of it is that they didn't want to touch it at the state level but they wanted to give the option for the district which is actually doing it to address it and i think given the fact that we have a number of middle eastern students in our district and we need to address that we need to make sure that we are thoughtful in the process of addressing that when we are developing curriculum so that's something that i wanted to mention and hopefully you guys will highlight yeah and now to that or trustee javart to
140that point um one of the things that task force has wrestled with is is one of the elements when we're defining ethnic studies is that when we're looking to develop the content and the curriculum that it's loca that part of it is localized so we're we're bringing in the stories the narratives the the um artifacts right that are a part of that course that that represent the different students that we serve so it's not just uh one group in particular it's going to be a variety of different ethnic and racial groups that you will see in embedding these courses so it's localized and and just as on talked about when i'm in that course i can see myself represented in this content right that's what we want so it's a power empowering aspect for our
141students so that's something our task force will wrestle with when we begin developing the curriculum and we'll likely have to get teachers our teacher leaders to be a part of writing that curriculum so we have a curriculum that we can say this is what we're teaching when we do ela 1 or ela 2. so that way there is continuity across the district and then as we talked about with the professional development or professional learning we can bring the teachers together who are going to be teaching those courses whether the standalone or integrated so we have a shared experience in the way that we deliver that that implementation that's also why the timeline is important so it gives us time to do that work because it's not done overnight right it takes time i'm glad that
142you're bringing that timeline aspect of it because i think somebody who's looking from outside in they might probably say like you guys took a year to discuss this and then now you're saying that the graduation requirement is not until 2026. but there is a reason for it right we are deliberately making sure that we develop something which is tangible which is good meaningful thoughtful so that students will have the experience by the time they graduation it's just not a requirement but they come out of it stating that they learned something and they are their stories have been addressed right and their issues are being addressed so right thank you number two we already have the the course is a part of our work so it's not like 2026 is when you're going to start to
143see ethnic study courses as soon as we are ready we can start bringing these courses to the mix so if we have the curriculum that's already been developed and we have teachers that have gone through the training and willing to start teaching it we can start doing that sooner rather than later but in terms of it being a requirement where all seniors get that out or by the time they graduate all seniors have gotten that access that's why we need that time but we can start rolling this out as we develop the process of training our teachers i wanted to ask about this one slide here it says from chapman university if you could explain to me why this is here what the heck it means ethnic studies as parax praxis stories from classrooms and
144communities dehumanizing math classrooms through ethnic studies pedagogy and the fists down bonds now explain that to me yes so this is a chapman university's ethnic studies summit well two of our teachers from anaheim union are actually presenting in fact it just took place today this afternoon the the flyer represented simply that we have teachers already working on embedding ethnic studies content into their current classroom so two math teachers one from oxford one from anaheim um shared their experiences of how they reflected on their own um work experience to uh bring in those ethnic studies the content that the flyer simply is them sharing that at the the ethnic studies fl uh task force excuse me ethics studies summit at chapman carlos earlier you had mentioned um dual credit how how would that work so dual
145enrollment credit is college college credit that already is um taking place so classes schools excuse me students are taking dual enrollment classes that give them both high school credit and college credit um for a course like the ethnic studies in fact um i know i was waiting for that question is that project who took it with okay share your experience yeah um so i took chicano studies 150 at cypress college in the summer and it's also offered um during the like regular fall semester and um spring semester of high school and when you take it for like during the school year it'll be a semester long or shorter so for me it was five weeks because it was a summer course but it'll all depend on like what class you take and what your school
146offers but since we're implementing it um in different ways like a lot of campuses at oxford already have dual enrollment classes like at on campus in their classrooms and so that'll always be an option if we're going to implement it that way but yeah dual enrollment is always an option and it also gives you credit if you're going to go to a community college or i believe a cal state and some ucs and you'll get transfer credit for after you graduate you just mentioned the word chicano studies right but but that's a very narrow study when you talk about ethnic studies yeah so cyprus college offers cyprus and fullerton college offers various forms of ethnic studies the one that i took was chicano studies but it also offered american ethnic studies which my friend took
147in the same period of time and that one is more general and it's more inclusive of like every ethnic group in the us okay so to fill our graduation requirement the chicano study would not be appropriate it would not fulfill our requirement because it's not studying a broad brush of ethnicity is that a correct statement it does if today was the ethnic studies graduation requirement and the way it's currently stated it would meet the ethnic studies requirement for graduation it's one of the uh has you know one of the options for ethnic studies for our stupar students but that's such a narrow window of life um can i i took the class and actually taking it when you take like a single ethnic studies course like no matter how narrow it is like i took
148chicano studies but if i were to take african-american studies or arab studies asian studies etc it talks about intersections and like the impact of different movements so for chicano studies i was able to learn about the civil rights movement and the black liberation movement the involvement of arab americans and also the asian american civil rights movement at the time because it's all like historically intertwined so that's why taking one course will give you sort of access to another lens and a lot of other perspectives well said uh that's great i think it's something we need to keep in mind when we develop our criteria of what does the district really want to have our students learn and why are we doing this but but i think the key is to understand that even chicano studies
149like ann said it it actually incorporates everything so that's why it is a requirement i mean it could be a requirement so it's kind of i'm trying to grapple with i'm fasting today so i can't come up with a faster um example here but maybe you could help but at the end of the day it does fulfill the requirement of ethnic studies because it encompasses every aspect of it and it's actually um identifying and going through the process of it right it's i guess that's what you say go through the process of it it's a great question mr o'neill because like when you take asian-american studies they generally start with the immigrant experiences of other groups italian like irish other groups that have been that have come to america and have been discriminated against even
150though they're white right because then you learn that it's kind of this sort of a pattern right because you come here and you come here to work and then oftentimes you become the other sort of minority right and we've seen it with the irish and the italian and catholics and other groups and then you go deeper you know it gives you that context and and then you end up focusing on the waves of asian american immigration starting with chinese and chinese railroads and mining and all of that so i think it generally and it's a great question and i think that's something to look at because we do not want our kids to come out of our district uh with without an understanding that we're all interconnected right i know exactly we're headed with this
151we don't want to tap into because that's that's really where it takes training of our teachers of the college teachers to really have students understand the history but also appreciate their own identity as you know part of the american salad law i have a question just for instance if you just i'm trying to clarify in my mind how much depth you are going to go into because if you're going to talk about asia you're talking about many different cultures within the asian world community you go to africa and you go from egypt down to south africa are you planning to envelop all of that those cultures i mean yes but this is about the american experience so i'm sorry but another great question the question has to do with do we like in asia if
152we're studying asian american history it's really the american experience of people who are asian here it's not about studying history of japan or history of china it's it's here and i think that's the big difference and that's one of the challenges because so many uh and of course you guys know my history too you know um you know my parents my mom was a citizen here yet she was in put into internment camps because of the bigotry right um and and thinking that and even now i have people come especially during this anti-asian hate that we're going through um attempt to scapegoat me as being non-american right and that's what oh yes and had to deal with that so i know um it's a very sensitive matter but this is an opportunity to heal this
153is what i i think all of us understand i'm really proud of the board because you have been supporting this more inclusive education that we're trying to build with ethnic studies and i think it's really a pivotal juncture for the in the history of this district to have this and and to listen to the students and their parents and families shared histories and mr jabbar your point about ensuring that there is you know local context you know because we do have a lot of refugees from um the middle east here and they're starting they're they're they're starting their journeys as future you know americans trying to find their way in this very complex society that we live in so um you know that's my two cents here so i'm really proud to hear the questions
154the inquiry here and i assure you though that this task force here here's your concerns and we you know we have a few years to work this out and there will be other updates to the board in terms of where we're at but i i think with this young ladies and all of the students um who have spent so much of their energy right ensuring because she's graduating this is about future anaheim union high school district students so we thank you and the other students who have spent so much time and energy on this emotional issue so thank you thank you thank you mike for clearing that up i think it's really important to really talk about ethnic studies and what it is not just as much as what it is because i think people
155have this narrow view of what they think it is and so um i just want to commend you on and cristela for coming here tonight i know you have other things going on in your in your world but i think that you you can hear um how important this is and how important it was to take the time to um to and do you have something to say you could you can go ahead and adjust you look like you need to say something but it it it's really important like i said to hear from you because you took you took you took a chicano studies um you're clearly not chicana but uh that experience that you had empowered you to to want this and want more of our students to get the exposure more so
156than than a summer course and i remember you saying that very loudly and very clear that you would like all of our students to feel the emotions and to understand and what it did for you it brought you closer to your classmates it brought you closer to the to the world it didn't divide and i think that's i think that's what a lot of folks think that the studies are and it clearly took to divide us and it's really not right um and i wanted to add on to what superintendent matsuda said about um like the various cultures being all monolithic in terms of the american experience because i know that with the rise in anti-asian sentiment um anti-blackness in the u.s and like hate crimes that we're seeing emerge when you look at me
157and you look at christella you're not going to see like a person who sees us on the street is going to see the same race or the same image of like an asian person right and that can vary from south asian people who are indian nepalese etc but the point of ethnic studies is to understand race and race revolves a lot around phenotype and how you're perceived in the world and so your experiences are kind of include both your culture and how you're viewed in the world and that's why ethnic studies sort of gives a universal learning experience i guess to students of all cultural backgrounds whether or not they have like a distinct cultural background i know for some students who i've taken ethnic studies with they didn't really have like a distinct culture
158or like anything at home but what they took away from that class and what the conversations we had in class were just so valuable and it's sort of a learning experience and an exchange between both the teacher the professor and all of the students saying yeah so this is why you take ethnic studies you are the prime example of it bravo thank you yes thank you excellent you are amazing all right any other questions or comments thank you all very much for a great presentation and thank you for months of work too because you've been involved for several months all right okay 9.4 that was 9.3 and now we're moving on to 9.4 this is resolution number 2020 slash 21-e-22 ethnic studies oh i've got a lot of emotions that's great does that show enthusiasm
159or what yeah that's great okay um any questions or comments i i just want to make a couple of quick comments first of all officially i want to thank the students who advocated for ethnic studies in auhsd it was great to see former students actually coming in and taking the time to advocate for ethnic studies for their future uh you know for their brothers and sisters i also want to take the opportunity to thank all the task force members i know you put a lot of time uh to come up with the best way to implement this in a thoughtful manner rather than just implementing for the sake of implementing i want to remind that auhsd is a very diverse district racially ethnically and culturally we have students who speak 49 or more different languages
160and 90 percent identify as students of color auhsd is in the forefront of our democracy schools and introducing ethnic studies as a grad requirement only empowers our students to address injustice that negatively impacts them and their communities it really speaks to our mission and vision as a district it's preparing our students to be great citizens out there according to experts it also is going to close the achievement gap reduce torrency reduce dropout rates and increase graduation rates and they're more likely to be more engaged as well so mostly i'm interested that it's empowering our students and actually talking about student identity that's very important for our district especially with what we have gone through in anaheim this is great that we are doing this so with that enthusiasm i support this so okay anyone else
161have a comment um very good uh i invite anyone to read the resolution are all our resolutions are online and please take the time if you're interested and read it so that you are fully aware of what all our aims are because the task force spent a lot of time putting it together and putting a lot of information into this resolution so please do so okay any other questions or comments all right seeing none this is a roll call vote mrs trejo because this gives us an opportunity to practice our mantra which is to know our name of our students and to know their stories my vote is i mr o'neill i mr javar aye mrs smith aye and i vote i we have a unanimous acceptance of all their hard work thank you very
162much [Applause] and we will be kept up with what you continue this is great you guys have done a great job so far okay nine point five our math tasks give me sorry sorry um madam chair can we get a copy of this resolution to our two students that came tonight please thank you sorry all right while we are transitioning uh mr hernandez is bringing in our math task force okay presenters is it gonna take a couple of minutes i would like to yeah yes we yeah we can we can certainly wait if it's okay this has been a year too yeah uh where did paulina go it's getting warm in here isn't it we're gonna take just like a minute break because um connie and if okay so i think ah haven't tried these
163what's that bronze we're still also on but we're waiting have you tried the brownies oh i'm like sitting there going like what am i doing mad all right we just miss him well they took one we're falling apart here where'd cathy go now we lost out i'm thinking of school you have our viewers watching i can sing a song but i don't wanna [Music] i'm afraid if i start entertaining they may leave right so we're just missing mrs smith what are you waiting for yeah that's fine do you want us to start do you want us to wait yeah let's let's go ahead okay should be back shortly okay well similar to the great work we did with our ethnic studies tasks you just saw we have equally done just as great work with our
164math task force as the board knows not too long ago we were given the charge to put a math task force together because of some of the challenges that were brought forward regarding the current math textbook we were using at both our junior and senior high schools so again i'd like to acknowledge mr carlos fernandez our director of curriculum instruction and the great work he did leading our math task force and i have to also acknowledge all of the great work our math teachers across the district have done those who served and will continue to serve our math task force have done just a really outstanding job leading and really collecting the the voice of our teachers across the district so they're going to share a little bit about the journey they went through and
165then obviously leading up to the the textbooks that our teachers came up with as a recommendation to you in terms of what they'd like to use for the next several years while we wait for the frameworks to be revised so without further ado i'm going to turn it over to mr hernandez who will then introduce our team uh to present to you tonight all right thank you dr freed and again board good evening thank you for allowing us to to be here again superintendent cabinet and uh we are talking about our math task force uh we i want to introduce our presenters as they come up you'll see from them but uh quickly i have two math teachers that represent our math task force uh one being um sue carlson a teacher junior high teacher
166at uh sycamore junior high and we have jairo aguayo a math teacher at lower high school i have a third teacher a math teacher that also was teaching a long time taught me math at anaheim high school she currently serves as a curriculum specialist for math teacher lead julie speicherman and she's also going to be sharing with uh spending some time with us today all right so we um back in july our board gave us direction to direct us to create and establish a math task force the math task force included one of the requirements was to ensure that we had well representation from every school and that is across junior highs and high schools and we did just that as you can see from our math task force members we have our junior high
167school teachers listed there that represents all junior highs we have high school high school teachers and we had administrators also many of them with math experience which is wonderful also to help us ensure that our students with disabilities our english learners were represented as we initiated and established the math task force um you know initiatives the objectives of this group um as you can see from the next slide these were the recommendations given to us to establish a math task force these were specific objectives and one of them was to review and adjust the the execution the implementation uh plan of math to ensure professional learning uh and monitoring progress was taking place in the teaching and learning of math the second was to address concerns about the teaching and learning of math via the
168adopted textbook and this again was july of 2020s excuse me not 2021 it hasn't taken place yet uh 2020 so back in the summer the third objective was to build capacity around our math framework mathematical practices across both from the teacher side the administrator side and of course that impact students and our fourth was to review resources many wonderful resources that our teachers have curated that they've put together they've prepared and to share that wealth of knowledge and learning to others and i'm gonna turn it over to julie who's gonna continue the work good evening um in august 2020 we had our first math task force meeting where we reviewed our objectives and were introduced to the anaheim union map implementation plan as you see in the bottom right and the teachers selected their work
169group preference in september consensus was built around the priorities for the work ahead we reviewed the work group selections and the general instructional materials adoption timeline with key california department of ed dates by october the math task force determined that all anaheim union high school math teachers should be part of the decision of keeping the current instructional materials or beginning a new math materials adoption process for 2021 22. this was the first pivot from the original plan in november we used jam boards to share observations and inferences from the october math teacher survey all teachers in the district math teachers were given the opportunity for option one to wait until next school year to begin reviewing curriculum or option two immediately begin to review curriculum this jam board exercise gave voice to the math task
170force members they discussed the broader trends in the observations and inferences from the data in a large group setting and they made together the recommendation that anaheim union high school district should begin the process to adopt new math materials immediately so 12 junior high and seven high school math material publishers were contacted in december these publishers were the only ones with instructional materials that claim that were set to meet expectation from ed reports nine junior high and three high school publishers responded to our request and were scheduled to present on one of three dates january 25th february 26 or march 8th all math task force members signed up for three publisher presentations for either junior high or high school materials depending on the level at which they work hello i'm hiro and i want to
171begin by uh giving my thanks to the administration for their guidance and time throughout this process and i also think my fellow colleague uh teacher colleagues who dedicated much of their efforts and their time to complete this comprehensive review of instructional materials as you can see it was a very long list and i also want to share my purse i personally felt like a valuable member of the team because the administra the administration team uh really facilitated a textbook uh adoption process that was a bottom-up and inclusive uh approach um so thank you um and what you see here is uh in december 2020 and january 2021 the mass math task force uh developed and came to consensus to 63 uh criteria uh uh within the five categories of mathematic mathematic content alignment with standards
172program organization assessment access and equity an instructional plan and support we evaluate the instructional material materials prior to the publisher's presentations and after the presentations we independently completed a criteria based evaluation form we're cultivating in our individual recommendations and then we met with our colleagues that evaluate the same publishers so that we can discuss our findings and came to contest consensus about moving our program forward or not as you can see in this list we three of them were not recommended good evening so after all of our group recommendations were made we met as small two teams so the junior high school teams met and the high school teams met separately on march 18th to make our final recommendation but we had invested so much time that one meeting wasn't enough for any either of
173those groups so we both asked for more time the junior high group actually asked for time all the way through spring break and the high school group asked for one more day that was really just a testament of the effort that we had put in and we wanted to make the right decision and so after um so before spring break the junior high school group came down to those three that you see highlighted there and the high school group asked for more time for the two that are on the screen next yeah that's okay but good news we were able to come to consensus after that extra time which was awesome and the junior high school team decided and chose on the hmh into math material and the high school team decided on mcgraw-hill reveal
174math integrated we are super excited about both of these choices both at the junior high and the high school level and i know for me personally that this was an amazing experience for me to have a voice in looking at curriculum and discussing it with my colleagues and taking it back to my site and i think the buy-in from teachers is going to be huge because we were part of the process and we had a voice and we got to see a lot of different materials which was so great to compare and they were all amazing you know and um but i'm just excited about i'm excited about the new curriculum looking forward to it and i was very appreciative of the opportunity to be on this journey and to have a voice in the
175curriculum so thank you all right thank you team and so we are at the point we're talking talking now about next steps and again our math task force met every month and and a lot of time as you heard lots of next steps happening what i what i'm excited about as you see the recommendation to you uh today to uh instructional materials we're already planned for and scheduled for training for overview training for our teachers over 177 junior high teachers and 140 high school math math teachers that includes gen ed special ed specialists co-teachers sdc teachers are all signed up ready to be trained right so they're bought in they're ready to go they're excited to get trained up before before they leave so they can look at and understand the material and we're also
176going to be specifically targeting specific math practices i'll talk a little bit of exciting news about our teacher leads in both junior high and high schools about them helping us with embedding the five c's across trainings alongside the publishers to ensure that our mathematical practices and our skills are embedded um through the lens of anaheim union and and of course we it's critical that our math framework knowing that it's it is what it is right now it's going to be adopted we're looking to the future to ensure that we're ready for that when when that day comes you will see two board items um two math instructional material items um one for the junior high which is as described hmh into math and junior high which is mcgraw-hill and that um you will find as
177you read through the agreements uh i've done a few times and i've highlighted a few times to understand really what it does it include and i want to again a huge shout out to julie for spending on seven days a week understanding what you know is included in the agreements having brad minami look at through look through it and ensure that what our teachers need what they're advocating for what our students need what our families need is included in those instructional materials i'll talk about that in actually now so you see to the right what does this agreement include it includes student materials it includes professional learning it includes teacher support materials and digital tools now to go deeper specifically for for the junior high knowing uh that our junior high uh it is going
178to include textbooks right for students and we'll it will include also spanish language textbooks i know that that's important for our friends in the dla program our students and our families it will include online and digital tools available to them you know knowing that we have computers and we've done a lot of work there that will be available to us if we need that support looking at the high school we will have for mcgraw hill we will have student online supports in uh and that's a platform that will be available translated into spanish and again i'm saying it intentionally because i know our friends and our students and our families and our community our teachers obviously need those area and those pieces our teacher online platform also will be available to them our teachers again
179online and then assessments that can that will be and can be translated into spanish to to assist the teachers in that workload teacher materials will be uh available for them and translated and then the digital tool alex that's connected to the mcgraw hill alex will also be available for translation into spanish so a lot of work a lot of work into the agreement and and then if there's gaps as we move forward in the training our teacher leads and our teachers will ensure that we can mind those gaps and and address those so a lot of professional learning happening starting next week starting next week with our with our training we're ready to go queued up um to ensure that we start with professional learning for as we prepare for next year we have i
180know i wrote that down a whole bunch of them trainings nine not over nine days in may we have instructional materials that our excuse me our professional learning teams will be helping and assisting and i mentioned that we have our lead teachers you know teachers or leaders specifically there's some teachers that are math learning lab teachers at the junior high that are helping that are coaching that are helping deliver professional learning that are opening their classrooms as labs to help assist our junior highs and so they're going to continue what is new what is exciting about this coming year we will have high school math leads also being able to help with with coaching and to open up their classrooms as well we know that it's critical to protect some time for professional learning if
181you ask the math task force members they would say that came up multiple times last week if i'm not mistaken so yes we need time and to have teachers say we need more time to collaborate and to build our capacity it's awesome to hear right so we need we want to figure out a way to honor that and to protect that time and as we mentioned the focus of the five season mathematical practices will continue throughout the professional learning so as we close here we we are going to continue with those math task force objectives they may need to be tweaked we do have some that we will continue that we didn't necessarily hit this year one of them was to address the adopted textbook we did that complete we want to continue with the
182others as needed along the journey for next year and um and beyond and so you know we mean as we talked about we may need to address it or adjust those objectives we may need to enhance them we may need to um update them but we will certainly have our uh math teachers represented uh across the school and across um the community and with that we want to thank you for your time and and uh and we are open for any questions if there are any thank you okay we'll start with mrs trejo well first of all uh kudos to the entire task force bravo i just want to highlight the fact that you know we were going to adopt a textbook and a lot of the math teachers said no that they didn't want
183it they didn't like it and you know we listened to them and we said okay you know what do you want and we we kind of put it in their hands and this is just incredible work but we have to highlight the fact that our teachers were felt safe enough to do that they felt safe that they could come to the board they could come to cabinet and say you know we want something different and um in that spirit um thank you for ex for saying that you felt that you were heard and you know bravo this is i don't think anyone else is doing this and and it's not i say this because i want to brag i just i wish people would hear this is the way to do this this is the
184way to go you know put it in the hands of the teachers that are teaching the material you know this is the way to adopt textbooks you'll love it you'll be excited about it you'll excite the kids about it um i wanted to ask the two teachers um i didn't really hear what where some of the i heard some of the highlights but what did you personally like about these about these uh math programs first thing i like about the the structural materials yes oh the availability for our students to have access to the uh the online online platform with the able to translate to their language because because uh i think a lot of our students need that and for me for for math uh it's an awesome tool because you know i do
185know how to speak spanish and but it's very difficult to translate all the time uh so by letting them do that and i still accept their work in spanish right because because i can read it but also it helps students that i don't know how to speak they don't know how to speak spanish or english or they prefer another language so they can use that language as well uh because i think i think that i i can understand their work and also when when they do things uh with the online platform i can myself also translate it back to english you know if they turn it in in a different language which is really cool um also uh the book the textbook is really well laid out and clearly states the standards that the students
186will be addressing and the objectives and i think that really help our students especially at home when when our parents really want to help out and that's one thing that came in and they came up in the past that the parents would really like helping out and and and this is this textbook really supports that um so i really i really appreciate this textbook being able to allow parents and students to work together in in this in this new text that's absolutely very thoughtful to think about the parents at home that are struggling trying to help their their children and and especially the translation part that's amazing how many different languages anybody know i can tell you that when i first went on came on the board there were 72. you know how many languages
187will they translate for i know how many we have that they're they've re-evaluated it how does that all because there's only two languages you're teaching in right me carlos no uh the platform how many languages will it convert so we have unlimited languages almost then between okay yeah the publishers uh demonstrated that they could use google translate uh to to translate all their content online that's great good can i answer a question for okay one of the textbooks is a usable textbook right it's like a workbook is yours like that in high school was it the junior high one in the high school we we we have that option i think every member it'll be a printable option uh from the from their online resources uh but it's not an actual book that needs to
188be purchased from what i remember it's not a con not a consumable no high school it's not a consumable high school is not a consumable is junior high yes okay well i read the junior high i thought was a consumable i wasn't sure about high school right thank you so are these two for junior high in high school are these textbooks ready to go for august we will have them in the classrooms uh deliver there's a delivery meeting in fact was that today or tomorrow julie yes we're like we're as soon as it is signed they're shipping out well soon soon after uh first for sure i mean that's why we work so extremely hard that's why the teachers work extremely hard because we wanted to get the teacher additions here you know to have
189in front of the teachers before their training and of course like like i mentioned julian brand manami and jaren helping out getting everything ready so that our students have them for sure ready to go there's a lot of work to be done to stamp them to get them ready to you know to get them into the will have theirs imrc they leave and that's part of the training so that way they have this summer if they choose to interact with the techs and start planning yeah i'm just going to ask it i was going to ask about the training is there any formal training or is it sort of is it it's okay now do you want to tell us about the junior high book i want to hear about the junior high book so
190i actually enjoyed that we were able to pick two different publishers for junior high and high school because we definitely know that their needs are different and the junior high curriculum some of the highlights is that we really focused on how it was laid out visually it needed to be attainable for our junior high kids right not too many pop-ups you know they get distracted things like that i also really liked all of the options to differentiate my instruction from what i saw i can reach my kids that are struggling and i can enrich my kids that need that challenge um the third thing that i really liked about the junior high curriculum is the digital piece that comes with that it's a program called waggle sorry it starts with a w you know and
191um currently with our carnegie curriculum we have mafia i don't know if you heard that go by so it's a sim not similar but it's an accompanying program that will support our students and i really feel like it's going to do a good job in helping us enrich and intervene for kids that need both of those along with extra practice for the middle of that so those were the highlights for me but i mean there were just so many things that were great about it and um yeah that those were the three that stood out to me very good you're excited about using it and teaching with it yes that's good and i and i and i haven't really gotten into it but already excited about it good that's great that is really good tonight
192that you're able to teach in english and spanish what about asian languages when i hear so many other languages i remember asking dr billings that question years ago what we do we do have dla um anaheim high school that represents spanish sycamore and if and not specific to math and magnolia we have vietnamese the vietnamese dual language right that they don't include the math content that was going to be my question right they don't um they've decided not to take the math strand um you know if it were at some point in the future where we have an additional language being taught through math then that's something that we would ask our publishers to ensure that you know that would be one of the criterias to assess as we're going through the math i'm adoption
193so the spanish is for our dual language academies and right now that's the only language that our dla accompanies with our math comp with our math books right so yeah the children the youth that do not speak english but are in these programs do not get mad in their language uh i think i think kathy's probably talking about before so we'll need to talk about really clearly that it's for the dla program and not right right so for our students that are in the dual language academy uh program at sycamore they are taking math they're taking all classes math in particular is taught in spanish so instead so other students take that same math class taught in english they're learning uh to be proficient in the language of spanish so they're they're using math to
194learn not only the math content but the spanish content and becoming proficient with that language at sycamore and it continues into anaheim and when i refer to vietnamese there's a dual language academy being taught at in in magnolia with vietnamese and i'm not familiar with what content specific they're learning the content and learning the language of vietnamese i have a couple of questions okay wait a minute mr o'neill i think i've seen his um what levels math are we talking about with this math book adoption okay but you and when you get into high school you have calculus you have trigonometry it's a where is this what level math are we talking about you want to respond great yeah so so so it's an integrated program uh for that we have for ninth and tenth
195and eleventh grade and then after that uh uh if you're in the honors program you you go to a new a new textbook which would be like precalculus or calculus or statistics uh or um so for this new textbook it would specifically cover for the integrated program that we have in the high school level so it'll be the honors courses for like 9th and 10th graders and also the uh the other courses that are not honors for ninth tenth and eleventh grade as well okay yeah thank you okay mr javari all right so i know carlos you presented this in your uh presentation but i want to kind of reiterate in terms of representation at your math task force you had wide-ranging representation from throughout the district absolutely you had and you said absolutely that
196was your answer that is yes absolutely yes and then and i know the answers but i'm asking so that i could make sure that the audience knows you had representation from dla we had yes we had juan alvarez from sycamore junior high dla correct what about high school dla at anaheim we had jessica alvarado the department chair for math uh we had ryan kyle another another teacher from anaheim high school uh not from dla but jessica represents her math department so i would say she's representing her dla program as well so she's representing the dla program and they have the opportunity dla teachers would have the opportunity to give input on the curriculum and the and then the the selection of it yeah yes first question from the beginning from their site absolutely right yes
197my other question is does i know that so the question junior high gives resources for dla program in terms of for students and teachers and you know parents want to use it right yes high school level math same thing for dla they're getting resources they're getting resources they're getting online they're getting the digital digital support through alex the digital tool and all this is basically addressed in our contract it is okay so we don't have to worry about coming back in another three months or four months and saying like hey it's not being addressed and we got to go back and amend the contract correct that's that's that's correct okay so having said that now i want to go back to the the issue of why didn't we have dla math books in the past
198well to be clear we used carnegie uh and carnegie included spanish language uh textbooks um so and they did have it that's correct okay so we wanted to address those questions for you just so that i could put it now i like to bring uh dr jared freed this is not related to math but i think you know the question that i'm going to ask i do what about science why don't we have science textbooks again so science is transitioning to the next generation science standards and ngss and right now we have an integrated approach just like we've heard in math which means the biology chemistry earth sciences and integration physics and a lot of the textbooks that were developed previously are not integrated they're biology or they're chemistry so we do still have some
199of those older textbooks that teachers can use as a resource but in terms of getting a new textbook and spending the money on these textbooks there's not a lot out there right now that has that integrated that is fully aligned to ngss and what a lot of um parents myself included if i wasn't connected to education i was used to using textbooks and classrooms but now there's this concept called open resources and with ngss or the next generation science standards it is really more about the skill based learning the inquiry and the discovery of learning so a book can sometimes box you in where it's very rigid whereas the open resources give teachers a lot more autonomy to really expand their learning so that's really how we've been shifting as a district with with the
200ngss while we're waiting for these textbook materials to really be developed and aligned and in speaking with jessica our curriculum specialist who is connected with other curriculum specialists in other districts they're also kind of in a holding pattern as well because they're seeing the same thing that if they want to be integrated which is what ngss recommends um the the books that we've had are not integrated they're more siloed based on their content not only auhsd but all districts around they're the same i can't speak for all districts but many of the districts that we've reached out that are nearby are in the same holding pattern surrounding this yeah okay all right well thank you very much and with that i want to thank the math task force i know that you know this all
201came about a year ago but you guys really put your time into it i've got a lot of communication back from task force members who thanked the board for doing this i think you know this is what auhsc does right so having said that callers i want you to take a extra step in communicating to our dla program and making sure that the misconceptions are you know clarified and right information is given because there is a little bit of rumor out there that this does not address certain things so i want to make sure that that goes out to all dla parents at least the dla booster group thank you okay and i'd like to say one thing i want to thank the teachers and thank all of your teachers that were involved that's phenomenal
202and i'd love to see it because you're teaching it you should be involved in deciding what you're using and i think that's great that you gave all of your time to do this and are still giving so thank you and all the teachers that were involved i mike would like to say something yes thank you and again thank you sue and jairo for that work this is really you know the purchasing of our textbooks is also creating what we all know is an unfunded mandate we have i'm talking about the technology and the access to the internet at home right because you talked about the digital support right this is a really important piece because we know that this is going and we you know we're going to be challenged in the coming years to
203ensure the digital support both at home and in the classroom so um it's it's just sort of a point of information for the board and for the public to realize and we call it an unfunded mandate because the state of california does not fund the digital support on an ongoing basis so that's something i think we're all aware of and it's going to be a challenge going forward thank you okay one thing i am elated for this group that they have the input and the ability to find something that they will be able to enjoy teaching math is a very difficult subject to teach and to have something that you're comfortable with and enjoy it'll make it better for everyone and i'm grateful for you and your work all right very good thank you any
204other comments or questions from the board thank you all for this presentation and we will be considering the uh textbooks later but it's a chewing okay okay okay moving on we're to item 10. thank you for coming in thank you okay public comments open session items okay as indicated on our agenda written public comments were shared with the trustees before today's meeting and they are being posted for public review on the agenda page of the district's website once again we had quite a number of written public comments so we are going to just ask you to read them on our website thank you i think what do we have in excess of 50 comments yes but thank you all for writing your comments we all will we've read them and we hear you okay item
20511 is items of business is elizabeth going to join us again we're going to be taking up our school sponsored student organizations there she is very good okay item school sponsored student organizations do i have a motion so moved second okay i have a motion in a second any questions or comments are we going to take them all as one take them all one through twelve and it's great to see so many are coming through right and i love this adult transition i just think this is so great we're going to have these adult transition cam clubs on our campus and the teachers are going to get the benefit of this because they're going to be pushing a card around selling coffee and stuff i thought fantastic well i i just think it's a great
206program so okay this is a roll call vote mrs trejo i would i mr o'neill aye mr jabbar aye mr smith aye ms o'cea all right and i vote i it's unanimous six eyes okay moving on to resolutions again we have eleven point two this is the resolution number twenty twenty two slash twenty one dash b dash eighteen school lunch hero day second i have a motion and a second any questions or comments okay our i've got to say this our school lunch hero day is a national celebration in honor of our hard-working individuals who prepare the healthy meals for our students every single day and between preparing meals for our students at auhsd they've also done it for anaheim elementary students and they have navigated student food allergies and they've offered service with a
207smile and our school nutrition professionals are true heroes thank you okay anybody else have a comment yeah i just wanted to say that you know during the pandemic these were the folks who are actually out there really getting the food out to our community and i was fortunate enough to be at the sycamore site and anaheim site to serve food with them but man the the time and effort and the energy that they put into it i just want to say that they're truly heroes and thank you thank you thank you and not every day was the neat day to be out there and you know under those you know pop-up ten uh awnings and they didn't really care because i don't think they didn't they didn't care about the fact that they might get
208exposed they just really called they just did it they were bundled up sometimes and wearing gloves and yeah because it wasn't always pleasant right we really appreciate that okay any other comments questions all right mrs trejo i vote aye for this resolution they're all heroes yes mr o'neal aye mr jabbar aye mrs smith aye and i vote i very good okay 11.3 this is resolution number 2020 slash 21 dash fz this is the approval of notice of exemption for the magnolia high school locker room building modernization project second i have a motion in a second the scope of the work here in you know consists of modernizing and reconfiguring the shower locker room building and modernizing the wrestling room and installing of surveillance cameras and other security enhancements and the district evaluated this project and
209has determined it is categorically and statutorily exempt from sql so we're seeing improvements at good old magnolia any other questions or comments seeing none mrs trejo aye mr o'neal all right mr javar aye mrs smith aye and i vote eye okay 11.4 resolution 2020 slash 21-e-23 enhancing supports and resources for our lgbtq plus students so move second i have a motion in a second our current consideration here is for students and advisors from a variety of school site gay straight alliance clubs took time to share the importance of gsa visibility and district support to them and all students during public comments at board of trustees meetings throughout the 2019-20 year adoption of this resolution will provide the opportunity to support our lgbtq students by celebrating the achievements and contributions of the lgbtq community through recognition
210of pride month lgbt history month national coming out day and transgender day of remembrance and once again comments questions seeing none roll call vote mrs trejo i vote eye mr o'neill all right mr jabbar and mrs smith and i vote i 11.5 resolution number 2020 slash 21-hr-06 classified school employee week some moment all right i have a motion and a second for the employee week starting may 16th to 22nd for our classified school employees do i have any questions or comments all right we're going to recognize that classified school employees play very crucial roles in education from transporting and feeding students to teaching them vital skills and ensuing that schools are operating smoothly classified employees are very integral to the district and public education and as a previous teacher i will tell you they are
211extremely important the school will not run well without them uh you know and i just i can't express that enough that they are the backbone you know the teachers depend upon them so it's right that we should really recognize them may 16th to the 22nd okay any other comments questions seeing none mrs trejo aye mr o'neal aye mr jabbar all right mrs smith and i vote i okay next 11.6 rejection of liability claim the move second i have a motion in a second any questions comments all right mrs trejo aye mr o'neal aye mr jabbar mr smith aye and i vote i 11.7 revised board policy 5408 in in parentheses 3555 nutrition program compliance second reading hello second i have a motion in a second any questions or comments seeing none mrs trejo aye mr
212o'neill aye mr jabbar aye mr smith aye and i vote i 11.8 agreement tayo rossini a professional corporation so moved second any questions or comments okay seeing none mrs trejo aye mr o'neill aye mr javar aye mrs smith aye and i vote eye okay 11.9 under educational services new board policy 7607 esports first reading this is an informational item where we're going to recognize the district's support for esports as a way to engage students in school develop career readiness and social skills as well as provide practice of the five c's in addition the policy will support using funding if available for equipment and a coordinator to support esports programs and the development of a committee of representative stakeholders to support the program this policy also will establish support for higher education for professional development to
213support esports as well as collaboration with institutions of higher learning businesses and community esports agency and finally the policy will provide guidelines for game selection a student code of conduct and parent approval for the use of communication websites associate associated with esports okay this is just an information item so moving on to 11 10. this is adoption expanded learning opportunity grant plan second i have a motion in a second this expanded learning opportunity grant plan will must be completed by school districts and it an lea receiving elo grant funds is required to implement a learning recovery program that at a minimum provide supplemental instruction support for social as well as emotional well-being being and to the maximum extent possible under the guidelines of the u s department of agriculture okay [Applause] questions comments seeing none
214mrs trejo aye mr o'neill all right mr javar mrs smith aye and ibodei 1111 educational consulting agreement tgr foundation so moved drive a second second okay this is the tiger woods foundation any questions or comments okay mrs trejo hi vaude mr o'neal aye mrs mr javar aye mr smith aye aye bowdai 11.12 emotion emotion educational consulting agreement real inspiration in ink second okay another consulting agreement any questions mrs trejo aye mr o'neill aye mr jabbar aye mr smith aye aye vote eye 1113 educational consulting agreement with gallagher and associates second motion in a second any questions comments i've got a comment on this because after 30 years of teaching english language arts at magnolia high school kelly gallagher retired in june 2020 and while teaching he mr gallagher opened his classroom for teachers to observe
215best practices with the opportunity to discuss how to develop implement and then find refined instruction his work as an author and consultant with educators around the world have earned him the reputation of one of the leading experts in literacy education and he's coming back to work with us now that he's retired he's a consultant and i think that's phenomenal so we are now going to have a consultant consultation agreement with kelly gallagher who worked for us for 30 years so any other comments or questions okay seeing none mrs trejo so we only work with the best right oh you betcha i vote mr o'neal aye mr jabbar aye mrs smith aye and i bowed eye 11.14 educational consulting agreement character strong second i have a motion in a second okay character strong just a little
216comment here is a character education and social emotional learning curriculum as well as a professional development company that creates positive habits through ideas based practice there are three components of their curriculum gym leadership and advisory sounds interesting any comments okay mrs trejo uh aye mr o'neal aye mr javar aye mr smith 11 15 service agreement strong workforce program k-12 pathway improvement grant rancho santiago community college district second i have a motion in a second any questions comments mrs trejo aye mr o'neal aye mr jabbar aye mrs smith aye and ibodei another educational consulting agreement uh 11.16 educational with devon favela okay our agreement with devin favello is to create marketing materials to promote biotechnology career pathway at anaheim high school another career pathway okay any questions comments mrs trejo aye mr o'neal aye mr javar
217aye mrs smith aye and i vote i and 11.17 is a grant agreement orange county community foundation second i have a motion in a second this is a digital career exploration hub for students families in partnership with road trip nation mrs trejo i vote aye mr o'neill aye mr jabbar aye mrs smith aye and i vote eye 1118 agreement book systems inc hold on we'll pull that right this roll call no no this is a roll call vote okay all right all i had to challenge that you know but we because we're still somewhat restricted from full public attendance every item has to be roll call vote so um okay this is an electronic system for management of textbook inventory so moved second all right i have a motion in a second mrs trejo i
218vote i mr o'neill aye mr javar aye mrs smith aye and i vote eye 1119 agreement howton mifflin harcourt junior high school math instructional materials second i have a motion in a second and we know all about it we have a presentation pardon me comments no okay i i thought we had a really good presentation we got a good idea we got them to talk about the books so excellent okay so i have a motion in a second yup and we will vote mrs trejo aye mr o'neal aye mr jabbar aye mrs smith and i vote eye 1120 agreement hill high school math instructional material moved second i have a motion in a second any questions or comments all right mrs trejo aye mr o'neal aye mr jabbar aye mrs smith aye and i vote
219eye 1121 agreement multilingual california project grant we got more money second i have a motion in a second any questions or comments this is trejo aye mr o'neal aye mr jabbar aye mr smith aye and i vote i 1122 and memorandum of understanding new york life foundation second i have a motion in a second okay this is a childhood and bereavement support grief sensitive schools initiative to equip school personnel to understand and support students dealing with loss and grief okay mrs trejo aye mr o'neal aye mr jabbar aye mr smith aye and i vote i 1123 memorandum of understanding stop school violence program orange county department of education second i have a motion and a second the purpose of this project is to build a school's capacity to work with students presenting with violent thoughts
220or behaviors toward others and we have funds for stop school violence program okay mrs trejo i have reservations about reservations so um questions understanding uh the name of this and i you know you don't you don't stop something that's not happening and i don't i just don't like the i don't like the the name of this um i i feel like we're doing things that are that are positive and i'm not quite sure what this is all about so i'm just going to say no okay mr o'neill aye mr javar aye mrs smith aye and i voted okay 11 24 memorandum of understanding waymakers so move second second motion in a second okay uh okay waymakers is a delivery of a evidence-based curriculum to a minimum of 1500 youths the curriculum is designed to prevent
221youth substance use and increase media literacy and safety using evidence-informed practices second all right i have a motion in a second mrs trejo aye mr o'neal mr jabbar mrs smith aye and i vote i 1125 memorandum of understanding connected nation inc so moved second i have a motion and a second any questions or comments no this just this is a consideration that the district has been selected to receive free wireless internet access hot spots devices and content filtering from a t and t to serve 500 students for one calendar year the students will receive this free of charge they will have 50 gigabytes of monthly high speed speed wireless data i think this is phenomenal okay the following schools have been awarded devices uh anaheim high school catella high school lower high school magnolia and
222savannah high school services will be provided july 1st through june 3 25 of 2021 through june 30th of 2022. how could we not say no how could we not say yes what am i saying okay you know what you mean yeah i hope so okay mrs trump aye mr o'neal sir aye mr jabbar aye mrs smith aye and i vote i okay uh 11 26 this is a public hearing disclosure of collective bargaining agreement with apga open the public hearing no comments okay close the public hearing 1127 adoption of the 2021 collective bargaining agreement with apga so moved second i have a motion in a second any questions or comments seeing none mrs trejo aye mr o'neal all right mr jabbar mrs smith and i vote i 1128 certificated administrators classified management and classified confidential
223salary schedules so moved second all right this is an increase of 3.2 percent as we have given the teachers and all so this is a including everybody okay any questions or comments mrs trejo glad to do it hi uh-huh mr o'neill absolutely hi all right mr javar and mrs smith and i vote i 1129 the declaration of need for fully qualified educators so moved second we have a motion in a second all right we this is to allow teachers to teach in a variety of areas okay any questions or comments mrs trejo aye mr o'neill aye mr durbar aye mr smith aye and i vote eye 11 30 revised board policy 6602 catastrophic leave program second reading second motion in a second any questions mrs trejo aye mr o'neal all right mr javar right mrs
224smith and i vote i 11 31 board of trustees monthly compensation so moved second i have a motion and a second all right this is basically giving the board 3.26 do i have any questions or comments okay saying none mrs trejo aye mr o'neal aye mr jabbar aye mr smith aye and all 1132 employment agreements and compensation for assistant superintendents chief academic officer and district council salute second all right i have a motion in a second any questions comments same salary increases the rest of the district okay mrs trejo aye mr o'neal aye mr jabbar aye mr smith aye and i vote eye 1133 employment agreement with superintendent compensation don't move second all right motion and a second any questions or comments this is extending the employment agreement with our superintendent and in addition increasing
225the tax sheltered annuity in line with the improved and pending increases for employee groups in the in the district seeing no questions or comments mrs trejo aye mr o'neill aye mr javar aye mr smith aye and i vote i okay we are at the consent calendar anyone wish to pull any items yes 12 11 z z and 12 12. 12 11 c z z z okay uh move for the balance second i have motion for the balance okay mrs trejo aye mr o'neal aye mr jabbar aye mrs smith aye and i vote i okay 12 11 zzz and 12 12. so moved i have a motion in a second miss trejo aye mr o'neill christine mr jabbar aye mr smith aye and i bowed eye oh let me see her item 13 superintendent and staff
226report no report no report no report okay board of trustees report mrs trejo we'll start with you okay i'll make this really quick i attended my gastelpa monthly gaspa meeting my monthly no crop meeting i was able to get on the very last moments of the lcap and heard it all coming to the culmination uh it was great and they just it's just really amazing how even virtual they were able to get together and have all those discussions and and um challenges and so i'm just really proud of the work that you all do and i you're just amazed it's amazing to get everybody together i don't know how you do it every year but it's just amazing um i attended the orange county uh delegate meeting i attended um just out of curiosity the
227el road map from kern county and as as i expected um you know anaheim union is far and above kind of what everyone else is doing and i hate to say that because you want all children in the state of california to be where we are i attended the students vsa meeting it was their last meeting on saturday um and uh it's really sad to think about now now this is all going to be the last of the last for the year uh yesterday i attended the um the savannah capstone um still managing to get those kids um uh in their in the interviews uh it's just amazing i attended the rop student of the year interviews and all of our students were amazing it was very very challenging to choose the the three that
228we did and i just want to thank all of the students that are advocating and sending the board letters we're reading them we're getting them and keep advocating i love it i love the fact that they're just sending us these um these uh items and issues that they they they want to talk about um you know careful what you wish for and we're getting it because we've educated our students we've given them the voice and i love it and that is my report oh i saw the virtual color in light which was just absolutely amazing that they were able to culminate all of that art together and that's my report for real this time sure yes mr o'neill it's your turn i uh logged into the coloring light and saw the fantastic artwork too bad
229we couldn't have seen it in person but look forward to next year i attended a football game it was interesting to see the the lack of attendance in the stands but also glad to see attendance was in the stands minor but still it was good to see and the players obviously were having a great time on the field even though one loses one wins still there having a good time i attended a principal's meeting online enjoyed listening in and and seeing what's going on hearing what's going on i want to thank the presenters tonight it was very informative very professional and i'm so pleased to be a part of the district and seeing uh what we are doing for the students for our kids and it's going to make a huge difference in their lives
230in the future so thank you so much that's it okay mr jabbar yeah well i want to go mr o'neil sentiment thank you very much it was very good uh presentations all around so thank you to staff and i know you guys have been propped up by other staff who are putting the legwork so please thank them as well i attended a uh oh core uh a presentation which anne-marie did too she also attended it was a community group which actually anaheim intersection which put together a group of folks and they've been working on recommendations for anaheim union high school district and anaheim elementary they have some really good recommendations which uh we were fortunate and marie and i were to sit there and say that we've implemented most of the recommendations that they've given
231us so there are a couple of things that i think i've had conversations with mike which i will further continue with those discussions with him i attended a rop meeting again lastly i want to mention about our support our district's support to vaccinate our community is greatly appreciated not only in the community but all around even including healthcare agency and my boss doug chafee i know we had a 800 vaccine event which was one of the biggest clinics outside of the main pods uh the main superpods so it was great to have that clinic at magnolia high school we managed to do 758 our targets was 800. so far we've done 36 clinics in fourth district with fourteen thousand five hundred and forty five shots in arm including first and second dose and many of
232those clinics were at savannah magnolia and uh and lower high schools so i'm very proud to be a part of that effort so thank you hell i heard today that the super pods are closing down as of today june 6th was it june 6th as of june 6 they will close down but then they're going to expand they're going to start expanding the mobile pods yeah yeah the community yeah okay thank you for all the work you've done with this journey and it's been wonderful and i'm personally very grateful i have a few things to share that are a little bit different i did join in on the insurance committee and we have a chap that graduated in the first graduating class from oxford his name is alexi robicha and he lives up in the
233silicon valley san francisco area and he started a company called better up has anybody heard about it what is it on all the national news and it's called it is a proactive custom coaching tech company and he hired prince harry to be employed in this journey and alexi is just one of these extraordinary people along with john nguyen many of us know john and his accomplishments and those two started yla anaheim leader and now it's yla i guess so i wanted to share about that and his picture was on the news and kind of a sad thing i was at postal express the other day and the gentleman had taken a piece of paper about the size of this and he wrote up your stamp return address and address and i said why do you
234have that there and he said well they're not teaching in schools anymore how to address a letter and i said what ages do you have that up there for and he said 20s 30s 40s and i said how old are you and he said 25 and he said they stopped teaching it when i was in the third grade so here we are trying to do what we're trying to do to help young people grow into successful human beings and it was just such a shock for me that i just had to share that with you and then um my husband has i have a deep concern for all the plastics that are going out into the landfills and the oceans and the harm my husband came up with an idea about two or three years
235ago they ought to consider grinding plastic up and using it with macadam and to build roads and by golly by g two days ago he got some information on the internet that there is a company in scotland did you see that and the company's name is mcadam and that's the name of the man that started the company and i to me that was just joy because we've got a problem with all this stuff that's used one time so that that was heartening and then i wanted to share something i received the quarterly news from the national farm worker ministry news and reviews and this week is national farm worker address week and every time i go to the grocery store and i walk into the produce area with all the vegetables and the fruits i
236say to the fellows working there somebody bent over to pick this up and put this here for us and i held these people so close to my heart and my niece is a nurse in the monterey peninsula and the community hospital in monterey and she has been telling me through last year that they have been inundated with farmworkers coming in with covid and you think of these people that produce for this country under terrible conditions and i just want to share that because i think we've all been through so much just a level of appreciation of what so many people do like math teachers people that are developing programs and interviewing and figuring out how much money we get and how much we spend i just want to thank you all i feel so grateful
237to be with a great group of people very caring people and so anyway that's my report thank you kathy okay so my past month i have attended um the opening of school task force meetings in the morning i've just about made most of them this month so far it was really good it's very interesting i'm really i'm enjoying those meetings and then i'm attended the principal's meetings for the most part i miss part of the last one but that's a learning experience too and it just keeps me kind of like in the know a little bit better i really like that i went to the insurance committee meeting and you know we did our normal business at the insurance committee and things are moving along fine and we are making some changes and looking into
238some possible other changes um i went to the ethnic studies uh i joined in on that committee and then the student discipline committee it was really fun because we worked on a dress code to present to the principals and it was kind of just a basic outline of trying to make it a standard across the district you know even with our our uniforms and what have you and trying to get a little bit more less strict i guess or less you know too much discussion about it just you know and so one of the things that i had to laugh about is we had to come up with like shorts no shorter than and we were you know one of the you know suggestions was you know the tip of your fingers you know your
239hand down there i said wait a minute i said come on you know if it had to be that you know or you know you're not taking into consideration differences in height and so we came up with mid thigh instead of into the into the fingers i said because for somebody like me that means it's pretty long you know this type of thing or short or whatever so that was interesting though but we you know and the principals had an opportunity to you know make suggestions and corrections or the committee did and then well you know they'll go to the principals next week yeah oh it was already sent okay okay good and then um that was then the sister city commission meeting i attended that i was a little late getting in there but
240evidently there had been some issues in the sister city commission meeting to the point where one of the members was kind of out of line and he was uh summarily removed from the commission before making inappropriate comments i but you know put it to say so also now the sister city commission which has not been changed since the new uh council grew to six areas so they are going to be looking at it now they haven't changed it because there was some you know we were working on exchange programs with mito japan and a lot of work goes into that and so they just kind of left it alone but they're going to be looking into making changes so that's coming down the pipe but according to the charter we are still as a district
241we have two people on that commission because they work so much with us with our students not always just our students but because we are school district and then um okay i attended the lexington ace interviews okay they had this program where they have achieving creative excellence where it's like a capstone program for the junior high and they had 68 kids this year that participated and these kids pick their own project and they do it they come up with their own ideas you know and they you know work on it and then they present it and they have a mentor teacher that will help them you know guide them answer questions but it was amazing what some of these junior high school kids did it was just so interesting i wish i could have seen
242more than just two or three you know but they didn't it was on zoom so but really great idea that we've got junior high school kids willing to do projects like this on their own and come up with creative ideas then i spent a number of days or hours watching broadband i mean uh webinars webinars i know orange county uh ocb you know orange county school board ocba ocba there you go they put out some webinars one on broadband and the in the web and you know what different communities are doing and you know there was a thing one a few years ago where anaheim was talking about having uh wi-fi city-wide and what happened it kind of fizzled out i mean so but the there are communities and school districts that have partnered with
243their community and they have established city-wide um broadband that i can't think of the one the name of this one community but they had one like on the west side of a tower and one on the east side and it covered the entire area into a small town but they got it done so it's something we're looking forward to maybe trying to work with the city to start you know helping out and getting broadband you know so that our students will have it and i call you know i did look in at the color and light and looked at some of the artwork and uh then i did oc forum i would looked on the law enforcement and today's law and there was a couple other i've signed up for a number of them so
244it's interesting i i some of them are very interesting to find out what some of these other cities are doing and some of the things that you get different ideas it's good old networking okay advanced planning future meeting dates our next board meeting will be held on thursday june 17th at six p.m okay and any let's see suggested agenda items okay then do i have a move so move for adjournment and i have a second