001okay it is 5 00 p.m and um today is November 2nd right yep and it's um November 3rd yeah agenda here so we'll open this meeting uh today and uh with that um we'll do a roll call vote I mean a roll call attendance Dennis Bender Christopher Nunez here Maria opara yes Wilson so and Rick I'm here Dennis if you could lead us in the pledge I sure will okay thank you ready begins one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you yeah all right moving right along item four do we have any public comments Kylie for closed session only okay so we got no cards for public comment discussion so with that uh we'll move on to the items in closed session so first item up will be pupil Personnel
002explosion cases exp number five 2223 exp number 7 22 23 revoke exp number 24 item two conference litigation government code section 549-56.9 subsection a current litigation seven cases civds 1906 1907172 -201-1183-2022956-202-3366b211303-2208019-2207-300 government code section 5-4 954.5 subsection C and five four nine five six D subsection d I mean excuse me 0.9 subsection D number two and E one anticipated litigation four cases 2021 2105 2021 2208 2021 22 13 20 22 2303 government code section five four nine five four point five subsection D anticipated litigation one case Geiger ditchy LLC item three Public Employee discipline dismissal release reassignment transfer leave title certificated and classified employees item four Public Employee appointment resignation retirement reduction title certificated classified employees five Conference of Labor negotiator agency negotiator Dustin Conrad B employee organization Apple Valley Unified Teachers Association item six
003conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator Justin Conrad the employee organization California School Employees Association item seven Conference of real property negotiator government code 549-56.8 negotiating parties Matthew Schulenburg Apple Valley Unified School District with that we'll call for a motion to go into closed session so 50 4 pm we have a motion vendor a second Wilson so all in favor all right any opposed during then that'll be the order so we'll be back at 7 00 pm thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign
004thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign there's something I would do it good evening school board members District leaders and parents I'm suleika Jimenez I'm the president of Rancho Verde Elementary student council and I'm Rebecca Morton vice president of Rancho Verde Elementary's student council we have we are have here to tell you about the wonderful things that we are doing at Rancho Verde this year a school theme is Harry Potter if you come visit our office you will see golden snitches floating around magic writing quills and other reminders of the Beloved book the students of Rancho Verde are respectful responsible and safe but we are also fun-loving hard-working and talented we love to have events like Grandparents Day where our grandparents
005or special friends come to join in a continental breakfast with us they're adorable grandchildren the family is not only eat together but they also play games and the students have a chance to show off our beautiful School other other fun family activities we have already hosted are back to school and math night during the day students got to play many fun and challenging math-based activities that were Harry Potter themed in the evening students returned to the school with their parents to person to participate in the activity together today was our steam Fair where students displayed their learning activities around the areas of science technology engineering arts and math we will be inviting students and families to join us for the recognition ceremony on evening later this month and we have language arts night whereas you
006may have guessed we play games and do activities that are language art based also just last week we had a blast at our fall festival and in the next few months we will have winter performance band concerts and school plays an exciting change this year is a change from Aces to our extending learning opportunities program through elop students have been able to join clubs like clay Club painting clip homework clip steam steam clip Harry Potter Club our school's theme leadership club and spelling movie we're just getting started we also have a fabulous field trip already in Place several grades go to ABCI where students participate in science activities with the gillettes our fourth grade goes to the Mitsubishi cement factory and we and the most exciting our sixth graders will be returned route okay returning
007to the science camp up in Big Bear that addition to this field trip the retroverted fourth graders also got to receive a visit from the board member Mariah okopara she spent some time talking about how board members serve their Community how they are voted in and answering student questions as you can see there are a lot of activities and learning happy neither School this year thanks for letting us brag about the amazing things that happened at Rancho Verde Elementary School thank you good job young ladies very good up next High Desert premieres excuse me good we look forward to seeing you again Angelique Daniel [Applause] thank you [Music] all right good evening president Raleigh board members and cabinet I'm honored to stand before you all once again to inform you of the accomplishments and upcoming
008events of high desert Premier Academy there are several awareness acts celebrated in November though the two that often get the most attention include Native American Heritage and National homeless youth Awareness Month America has not always kept its promise of equal dignity and respect for Native Americans at the turn of the century an effort was made to gain a day of recognition for the significant contributions the first Americans made to establish and develop the United States today we have an entire month dedicated to this person in recognition of the Native American heritage month we honor the original inhabitants of this area which include the Serrano chimeueva and vanium tribes we thank you for being the first stewards of these treasured lands and acknowledge the profound impact Native Americans continue to have in shaping our nation and
009bringing us closer to being a more perfect union an estimated 4.2 million young people experience homelessness of some kind in a given year housing instability can have a detrimental and long-term effects on youth including limited access to education poor physical and mental health and a higher risk of becoming a victim of violence or human trafficking homelessness has also disproportionately impacts already at-risk populations including lgbtq plus Youth and youth of color High Desert Premier Academy is doing its best to identify and help these populations succeed this month we opened our Wellness Center on our campus listen to provide students the opportunity to socialize amongst themselves and counselors with many activities like giant Connect 4 Jenga and dominoes Mr Smith's trashy dominoes the center provides resources for career exploration and illness to students while also providing a
010personal connections with our school counselors our academic counselor is currently working with seniors individually to help them fill out their FAFSA and our goal is to have a 100 application completion rate this month we also started two incentive programs to motivate students to do well in class teachers will be giving out all books to students and Owl cars that can be exchanged for a variety of items in our new Owl store hdpa students have been given the opportunity to experience learning and alternative settings this month our biology students were able to visit the San Diego Safari Park and they had a blast they were able to see and learn about animals in their natural living habitats this month our English 1 and English 2 students will have the opportunity to watch literature come to life
011in a Broadway musical these students will go to the Los Angeles Pantages Theater and watch the Broadway show To Kill a Mockingbird not only will they be able to see literature come to life but they will be able to experience a Broadway theatrical show another learning experience for some of our students will be in our very own Apple Valley Town Hall 10 of our students will be attending the mayor's youth Leadership Summit and to learn about leadership at the government level this month is full of new experiences for our community thank you all for your time and support and I can't wait to see all of you at our next meeting good night and have a nice Thanksgiving as always you've gotten a lot better you know I think she started out pretty good you
012started out good but you've really improved all right Granite Hills Ashley Guzman [Applause] good evening board members superintendent Nelson and attendees my name is Ashley Guzman and Garnet Hills governing council president and student representative I'm meeting with you today on this cold Thursday evening to update and inform you all about our life on campus sadly I will be alone as usually I have my vice president but she was unable to attend um to start off I will ironically be discussing how we ended the quarter students experience great success in their classes reducing failing grades by 35 over the same period as last year we hope to continue these successes as we reach the end of the semester fall Sports have also come to an end just recently with football having a 6-4 record and going
013into the first round of playoffs tomorrow cross-country boys one league title and the girls got second so they both head into CIF next weekend volleyball made it to their first round of the playoffs and lastly girls tennis won league and finished with a 14-1 record as well as having their first playoff match today um two of our players Samantha Grantham and Victoria Vega even got doubles team of the Desert Sky League to keep things on a positive note we are starting our winter sports which creates a busy transition yet we are excited to see what they have to offer we've recently had some Halloween fun on campus students from our scada Academy put their Robotics and electronic skills to 3D print a skeleton and engineered components to turn it into an animatronic scare reactor complete
014with a moving head eyes and jaw ASB has also put on two Halloween related events October 28th we held a Fright Fest where many of our clubs on campus set up booths with activities and some handed out candy during both lunches our band even got gave two performances one being thriller so dance gave a coordinated performance to that as well Monday the 31st we held a staff costume contest in the morning and a student Contour costume contest during both lunches which was a lot of fun moving on to next week Avid will be hosting their annual college fair on the 10th and our career center will be hosting their annual career fair the following week with over 20 different career Pathways represented this will be a great opportunity for our students to network and learn
015of various options for their future as the holidays quickly approach Granite Hills High School is getting in the spirit of the season from donating food items for the Harvest of giving to our adult transition program volunteering at the abusd food pantry to hosting our first annual holiday career classic cougar pride is showing the commitment to serving our community our holiday career classic will be December 3rd and will be a community event with shopping music food a classic car show toy drive and pictures with Santa we hope everyone can stop by for a good time with that being said please keep safe keep warm and I'll see you all next month thank you so much for your time and lastly always remember maroon and gray lead the way [Applause] thank you Ashley Apple Valley High is
016Cheyenne at Valentine's [Applause] but cold outside members of the board and attendees my name is Cheyenne Valentine and I'm the ASB line president for avhs to start off I would like to discuss some of the events that have taken place since the last time we've met in the last month avhs ASB has worked with some of the other clubs around campus like Key Club and Sun Devils for Christ we brought something new to campus this year called talktober throughout the month we had donation boxes around campus and we we received plenty of brand new socks not used socks this time that we are now able to donate to local homeless shelters and families in need this was a good fundraising event for ASB class as well because we had the opportunity to sell fun socks
017to any students or parents in our community we also put on one of the biggest events of the Year our annual homecoming dance throughout the month we worked hard to make sure that as many people felt as included and involved as possible we have the biggest homecoming year selling over 960 tickets total overall the hard work paid off and we hope to keep the school spirit just as high throughout the rest of the school year this November we have so many exciting things planned for our community our varsity football and tennis teams are on their way to CIF this year or this week sorry this is such an amazing accomplishment we're so excited to see the increase in community support this year speaking of community we want to give back to it by com sorry
018uh we want to give back to the community this month by doing a hygiene Drive some of the ASB representatives are also having a field trip with the May with the mayor's youth leadership where they will learn about government at the local level our senior class also had their assembly today where students with a GPA of 3.5 or above received an academic letter I would also like to give a huge shout out to our CTE construction program for making some our key letters that we can use for so many different events right now we're in the process of planning our annual talent show where some of our student Sun Devils are able to show off their special talents to their peers and community we're continuing to plan every 15 minutes as well and with both
019of these events we hope to get lots of community support from our students families and businesses as a school year is already a court of the way then we're excited to see how eager the students and Community are to get involved in so many events we saw so much to look forward to in the yes in the rest of the year and we're grateful for your continued support thank you for your time and I look forward to the continued growth of the school spirit on and off campus for the rest of the year thank you Cheyenne good job all right moving right along item three California School Employees Association CSEA do we have a speaker tonight no Buddha Karen good evening board members superintendent Nelson assistant superintendents and audience members I hope everyone had a
020great day and is doing well and staying warm I can't believe we are headed into parent conference week and the holiday season already a Buddha has been very busy this past month with several community events our community outreach committee had a blood drive on September 24th thank you Sandia for hosting it a Buddhist blood drive was very successful with many donations being made we also participated in the town of Apple Valley Trunk or Treat it was so much fun seeing all the students and their parents dressed up for Halloween abuta was able to hand out over 1500 books five thousand pieces of candy 2500 coin purses pins and 500 tote bags everyone expressed their appreciation to the to a Buddha in avusd for all they do for our students we were even told that we
021needed to move our line a little faster because choosing books was taking a little longer than anticipated I'd like to thank our community outreach committee Kristen Wallace our committee chair Karen post Randy Evans Jessica Kuiper Amanda Wright the exec board and rep council members who participated as well as Amanda Buchanan and Gary RC for their help in making this event very successful we all know that elections are coming up on November 8th a Buddha would like to wish everyone the best of luck we appreciate all that our current board members do for our students and would like to say thank you we would also like to thank Wilson so Chris Nunez Amanda Buchanan and Gary RC for the respect and dignity they demonstrated at the family assistant program candidate forum it was nice to hear
022all the positive comments about avusd and the great things that are occurring within our district a Buddha would be proud to have any one of you representing our district on the school board again we wish you all the luck have a great evening and in solidarity Karen [Applause] thank you Karen okay item four closed session reports Dennis you will read out any action taken during closed session please in closed session the Board of Trustees took action in support of the following recommendation from the superintendent conference with labor negotiator on a motion by Wilson so a second by Chris Hernandez the approved the memorandum of understanding with the California School Employees number 828 dated October 27 2022 regarding the amended job description for Safety and Security job family it was a build on 5-0 in favor
023Conference of litigation on a motion of by Wilson so seconded by Chris Nunes the board voted unanimously to approve the claim of ditchy Geiger LLC that's it thank you yeah thank you Dennis uh before we move on I know it's a school night so you know a few ladies you want to leave Domino's we won't hold you hostage okay out of respect like you guys didn't want to watch the World Series go watch the World Series there you go let Mr Bender know the score it's two to one Houston's winning see you next month all right I'm just going to request that in the future before we let the students go that we should have an opportunity to thank them for coming because just talking and going is really hard they want to know how
024we feel about them so that's a good idea to do that next time how about if we add that to the um yes the script so that it's in there and you have the opportunity to do that I just I knew we were getting into the meat of things and before Pat presents they don't really need to be sitting through a presentation yes thank you okay adoption of the agenda the board May approve the agenda as is or add or pull items from the consent agenda for discussion or action so with that we're going to entertain a motion to adopt the agenda moved by Maria second by Wilson all in favor aye any opposed hearing then that'll be the order discussion items so what we have a discussion item e presentation on assessment data Patrick's
025loss or assess assistant superintendent Educational Services that you're up [Music] okay thank you I'm nervous and humbled by this presentation for a couple of reasons um I've I've been in this same position to present data that I refer to as the cabinet was referring to this as Baseline data once before in my career and that was in 2009. when I was first principal at Apple Valley high school and we were in the process of reconfiguring and refocusing our efforts and took a look at our data in comparison to local districts and decided to really make a concerted effort and you know kind of from that moment um things really took off and it really was a Baseline and this feels like that and it feels as difficult as that day and I've been struggling with
026this for the last couple of weeks but it's the right thing to do and it's important that we realize where we are and so we're going to go through this together carefully I'm also humbled by all the things the students said that positive things are involved in the work they're doing and the the evidence of what we are working towards showing fruit shows up here at this podium so to speak after them is appropriate the context is in nationally and at the state level and of course locally we have to deal with the history 2019 was a three-quarter year and testing was canceled right at the moment when we felt like we had students prepared there were three weeks from testing they we really had a clear sense of the test trajectory we had a
027clear sense of the target students were ready and we didn't let them test we were closed we were conducting School remotely for most of that year State Testing was made optional that year we did test but we tested using a different format we used a local measure last year we were back in person State tests did resume last spring but we had an incredibly High absenteeism rate staff and students and just interruptions constantly last year foreign students were becoming reacquainted with classroom instruction what we also know is that the dashboard is coming back in December of this year so that dashboard that's public facing that kind of says what our school district how its measures in several different key areas and will only show status for this current year when it shows up again it
028will no longer show status and change like it had like I said it's a baseline year again this is the old dashboard if you remember dials engages it really tried to look like a dashboard and with that dial moving toward the blue is the positive direction there's actually our 2019 dashboard where we felt like wow we were about to really push things over into the next level in English language arts and Mathematics we knew chronic absenteeism was a difficulty and suspension rate was on the decline the new dashboard will look like this for one year it will be cell phone signal strength bars it's the best I can label it so what the state has come up with for status they're only one color it's all purple but it will be a simply very low
029to very high and reported as such in those areas listed on the left academic performance is going to be measured by the smarter balance excuse me assessment chronic absenteeism remember is students who Miss 10 percent or more of the school year at any given point at the end of the year that would be 18 days or more College and Career Readiness as you can as you see there will not be reported on 2022 it will start in 2023 English learner progress graduation rate and suspension rate that's all we'll get nationally you've been hearing about this like I have the national assessment of educational progress kind of the nation's report card has shown Nationwide a decline in fourth and eighth grade scores um you can see here we saw a decline of about three points nationally
030in those grade levels in language arts fourth and eighth moved us back down to comparable levels you know kind of where we were in some cases as long as 30 years ago where there hadn't been a lot of change in language arts mathematics we also saw a decline more of a decline but we did not erase as many years worth of gains in mathematics nationally again fourth and eighth grade only let me give you some context for our absenteeism rate this was our rate for the four years the last four years that we reported 2022 data as I mentioned before is not yet out it will be out in December but for 2021 which is the year we were remote this was our absenteeism rate 33.1 percent of our students fully one-third of our students
031missed at least 10 percent of the instruction now remember we were remote so that means they either didn't log in we couldn't we couldn't verify their um participation or if they were on independent study of some other method when we did return we didn't receive work back from them we do not anticipate last year's absenteeism rate to be much better than this you see also Statewide it did not raise as high we were rigorously honest in our reporting of attendance that's all I can say I'll say nothing about the other bars I'll only speak to ours California wide across the state you can see several years of Smarter Balance scores for third through eighth and 11th grade students on the left language arts on the right mathematics and you can see a couple of things
032I'll note here notice there's no score for 2020 that's the year we were ready to test and then did not so we received no scores there's an asterisk for 2021 because some of the state did use Smarter Balance we did not we had again a remote learning year and so we did not feel comfortable giving that assessment while students were home the assessment we did give although useful was not incredibly reliable because again the sum of the data was not we couldn't tie it directly back to a student there was incredible variability you see also that there is a decline in the number of students who exceeded standard particularly in math that darker green bar at the top math had a significant decline which is also a resulting increase in that orange at the bottom
033standard not met as you can imagine this color scheme was throwing me off so I switched it up for local data um yeah Green can't be yeah anyway and so for Apple Valley for our test scores over time again there are two missing years because of 2020 not testing 21 we used I ready and so you see a decrease in the number of students who exceeded standard about about five percent fewer and a large increase in those who did not meet standard this is again this is um the data from this is from 2021. and 2022 sorry the 22 spring comparing that same data across the area and the state you can see we're very similar to Hesperia our neighboring District I did not include Victor Union or Victor Elementary they are not comparable because
034we don't have K-12 data that would make a good comparison we'd have to pull out grade level by grade level I included snowline in Fontana just because we wanted to have some other local targets at our K-12 districts and also the state and the state data is better the pandemic impact hit Apple Valley heart mathematics similar we had a about a five point decrease in the number of students who are exceeding standard and uh a decrease in those meeting standard again third through eighth and 11th grade and a large increase in those not meeting standard this data is taught hard to look at regionally similar data similar to Hesperia and just not quite at the same level as Fontana and snowline and again the state did did better looking at our current second third fourth
035and fifth just kind of a snapshot on data we have as of the very first couple weeks of school in August about 850 students per grade level we are seeing this improve already with students back to a normal attendance pattern participating with their same teachers who are not having to send home on quarantine or isolation we're already seeing growth and Improvement and so we are focused in on that next step and showing this Baseline data and the Gap we're going to create now again this isn't the same exact measure this is another composite measure of reading lpac I mentioned English learner performance indicator will be measured on the dashboard and so this is a a look at our English language proficiency assessment data for our students similar comparisons we've added Lucerne Valley here we see
036for Apple Valley Unified we've got well developed on the very top moderately and so on and so it's very comparable to the comparison this may be very low we don't know but we want to see change over time remember that the students who are redesignated and are no longer consider English Learners they're not in this data so the very best of the students as far as the movement come out by Design by Design graduation rate as you know is a little bit different story we don't have again the class of 22 22 data is not yet official and approved but you can see over time that the grad rate although declining slightly we still remain better than the state and County just barely the county finally nudged us out for their class of 2021 but
037a preliminary look at the class of 22 shows about at 90. we we're we're estimating about a 92 percent grad rate so we'll be back um at the top of the area top of and beating the county and District again so we're working hard to get you know these students past that graduation Mark and and that includes Readiness for University our a through G completion rate during this same time period while students have been having such struggles in their testing have continued to show the ability to to complete those courses and that 44.4 percent is you know from 20 to 21 is a market increase and we're narrowing in the Gap to the rest of the county and State college going rate is always a couple of years old so look at that most recent
038data we have is 2020. that was embargoed until yesterday so I was thankful the board meeting happened to be today and so our our college going rate took a major dip during the pandemic that's not a surprise anyone at the college level will tell you that enrollment at the college that year was low all colleges although the state didn't dip as much we certainly saw it here again lots of children chose to stay home that year and so that was reported back one now that they've um answered those surveys for us our training and focus is we are still working on that mission right we do have very strong structured literacy programs when you look in that reading data and breakdown where students are most successful it's at the level of phonics phonemic awareness and
039and decoding which is the foundation to the rest that they're going to do we you have given us the authority to carefully rebuild students who are ready to be learners in schools that are safe civil and productive and build the strong foundation for them their future success all students and so also with the lcap we've built multi-tiered systems of support there's more reading interventionists more counselors therapists and other Professionals in school than ever before and so I'll just highlight what's coming next right now the youth truth survey is open and people are filling that out it's wonderful to see those numbers coming in we anticipate that that qualitative data coming in through those surveys will help us to build the lcap and report back to you at what those outcomes are in December as I
040mentioned the dashboard will open and that's going to be just what you saw with some updated data about chronic absenteeism and suspension rate now remember the 20 2021 suspension rate zero because we did not suspend students at home while they were on Zoom we had a couple requests from parents but we did not do it but last year we did have student discipline again so we'll have that dashboard public but you will have good awareness of that and as soon as it becomes available we'll send it to you and make sure you have that link in January we will do with all of that data and this data a state of the district presentation which will also include all of the positive student programs and things that are helping that's grad rate stay so positive
041helping that a through G continue to grow and then March through May we'll do state assessments again and the lcap and that's just around the corner and we anticipating a really strong growth in this next round of testing so I'll pause there for questions questions for Pat Uh Pat the is not much a question but more of a comment in that this year with many parents they're looking at my own four children that depend on how much parents for my support to them as well I post my three girls to study hard all four kids kind of UC system my three daughters all got their doctorate degree so it's it's a support from parents how much you're going to support the kids thank you thank you I have a question for uh Pat and a
042comment um it is it is clear that we have exceptional teachers uh in the district and uh they are very well aware of what is expected of the students but the question that I have for you is if you did mention that there's a assessment that the state had and the district chose not to participate was that a choice that the state had given us that we could make a decision not to participate for that test it was during the pandemic thank you for asking that I was supposed to be more clear yes the state did give all districts the opportunity to choose either to participate in the smarter balance assessment or select a local assessment from a list we selected from that list because we had already had it um contract with and familiarity
043with iready and so we used that assessment instead mostly to be quite honest because it was so much less stress for students and we knew the data we were going to get back from a test taken at home would not be incredibly useful thank you for asking that it was a choice thank you Chris go ahead Pat on one of on one of the screens for the college going rate does that include is that just our students who have graduated who are going on to school or does does this number include in our articulated students a bridge students yeah good question the way this is reported is it's any student um that enrolls in and participates in any college in or out of state that participates in this system so all California colleges are included
044however from what I can understand it does try to tie it to grad rates So currently dual enrollment Junior will not show here but one more question on on absenteeism as you're well aware I did the homeless and uh SARP for the district um the are your teachers are the teachers well aware of that guideline in terms of the number of absent absences a student will be allowed to get to get a passing grade good question I can't say to here's how I handled that as a high school administrator is that we had a if a student has more than 15 unexcused absences we actually tracked that and sent a note to teachers saying if you plan to give a grade that is not a failing grade we have to know why correct and so
045that was the practice at that time I can't say I've seen that letter since I've come here but I can check into that and verify thank you very much what this report shows that we really messed up our kids during the pandemic all the stuff we did is Criminal they're going to write books about it in three years and we have a long way to go I know Pat just real quick you might have covered it for the 2022 absentee are we doing better for this the school year then in in the past yeah good question for 22.23 the current school year we've already had a look in at month one which is not a calendar month but an attendance month of certain number of days it looks much better it looks much more like
046attendance reports used to look within a percent or two so yes they're back they're back and we're sending attendance letters and we're doing the SAR process which was just so hard to do when we were sending them home last year right right so yes attendance is looking so much better but what's going to come out on the dashboard for 22 21 22 will look very similar to 2021 it's going to be a large number of chronically absent students and staff I mean and for what it was worth I mean I had a third grader at home during the pandemic and I ready is the system that they use to do most of their math and English homework and practice work so I mean it only made sense that the self-guided students were using that continued
047process for their actual assessments rather than following the state assessment I mean that's what we thought too less stress more familiarity yeah great great presentation thank you yes thank you foreign [Applause] we have any public comments thank you wow that's up first we're doing good superintendent comment today I know that the data was a difficult presentation we all feel responsible for the information that's presented and we look forward to positive outcomes just from kids being in school with the people that are sitting out in this audience right so I appreciate that we don't shy away from things like that we get up and we share the information and we don't wait until we're required to so and the the next thing I want to point out is how impressed I always am with the students
048but the student reports this time um reminds me of how often our kids are paying attention to our core values of dignity Community authenticity and service it was repeated over and over again um and just I'll use the Angelique from High Desert Premiere talking about um Native American heritage month and the fact that she gave us a little bit of a lesson while she did that um shows just the pride in what she is doing as a student speaker and understanding providing dignity to a group that we should be understanding of and so I it was over and over again the service they're doing the socks collection the food collection and this this is what these kids do in their off time and I just really am humbled by the work they do um Halloween
049on this property is a big deal um Tom started years ago a thing called a Halloween graze and during the pandemic it went away but it was back in full swing this year um I have to tell you that I'm amazed at what people do in their departments they decorate the night before they have food the day of and it's gone the next day like you have no evidence maybe a little bit but um I I was sad that we we always let the kids go we don't want them to be here too late but the Rancho Verde kids would have loved to go to HR this year and seen the Harry Potter themed um office but we had it all we had it all we also did the great ShakeOut here on District property
050across the district as well emergency preparation is probably one of the most important things that we do it was coordinated even though we didn't do it on the great ShakeOut day that was National Statewide and we did do it on last week and it was coordinated with the town and with um the fire department the fire district the new Chief was here he came in and worked with us a little bit reminding us that if there is a major disaster Like An Earthquake we will be fully responsible for the majority of what we deal with um there will probably not be a lot of services that come our way and so I feel very fortunate that we have RNs in our in our midst that we can send out if we have to for medical
051services and the schools always throw us a little bit of a loop because even though we have a script of what they their incidents are out of risk management we don't all know them they always add things that we have to be prepared and figure out how to solve um we did I did attend the steam fair today at Rancho Verde I came back with some amazing pictures of what our what our kids are doing but especially the TK and kindergartners who did some Recycling and used some boxes to create Vehicles they'll be showing up on our website fairly soon and in our newsletters especially on social media Zoe has all of that getting ready to go um in the same thread two schools in our district received a 9 200 Grant under the stem
052estate stem um application and so Sycamore Rocks and Vanguard will both be adding um ninety two hundred dollars worth of stem type items for their students to use in their stem rooms parent conferences begin next week on November 7th some minimum days across the district in elementary those go four days with Friday being an observation of Veterans Day so we want to thank our veterans in advance of that day the mayor's youth Leadership Summit was mentioned it is next week all of our high school students participate they send teams to that in coordination with the Lewis Center and they get a wonderful day of experiencing what it's like to be part of local government they actually become the local government for a day and then last night I got to attend mock trial over the
053courthouse um if you ever want to know that we are going to be in good hands in the future in our legal system just go watch a mock trial um these kids spend hours and hours preparing and it's not just a one and done they continue to compete and they have to understand how the courtroom functions it's a great system across San Bernardino County and if you ever have the opportunity make the time to go see it offices will be closed the week of November 21st for the Thanksgiving break this seems like a marathon right now because we take October break we come back and then it's like we're on break again and we're on break again it feels like we're on more breaks than we are here and I'd like to congratulate both Granite
054Hills High School and Apple Valley High School in their CIF runs tomorrow night both out of town um Granite Hills will be in La Quinta and Apple Valley will be traveling I believe there in Torrance at one of the colleges but they're playing Englewood [Music] um I have attended a lot of our athletic events in all of the home games for either granite or Apple Valley high school and I want to take the time with the board because we've talked about this to recognize our students our parents our coaches our athletic directors and the administrators for their continued example of sportsmanship we got to see that very um in our face a few weeks ago and I realized that um it doesn't really matter what anybody else does the Apple Valley Unified students in in
055athletic events they know the expectation and they trust their coaches and they do what they're asked to do and sportsmanship is just a wonderful thing that that we should have pride in so very good thank you thank you board member comments we'll start with Wilson you have anything well I'll have a brief comment uh I thank Karen for seeing me when I came back and I just shared with her the even the rotary cup will begin to fundraising again hopefully coming new year we have uh scholarship uh books funds for the students but key thing is also the mini grants to our teachers that's what we hope to do and I'm very positive but but there's a room about me moving to uh in the ass it's not true you know I wear my baby
056daughter's jacket but I'm not moving there so anyway thank you very much for your positive comment that's all I have thank you Wilson Maria well um I'm going to start because I just you know each time the students come and speak my heart is all about what what the students do so I just wanted to take the time um to thank the students even though they are gone their principals are here to let them know that we did notice their poise these students were really poised even the elementary students who had to speak I I just love it when they when they they hit that word they don't know and they go and it is just is so original and I love that so much I just wanted them to know that we did notice
057or I noticed their Poise I noticed the pride they have when they come here to speak they wear their school colors proudly or they where their ears be labeled very proudly and I just I just want them to know that that we appreciate what they what they do it's not easy to um to speak to adults especially when the adults are not talking back they don't know if they're making the impact or not and thank you to the young lady from High Desert Premiere because she gave us a lesson and sometimes we talk about the things we do and not the things we also do to for others and to be able to recognize somebody is such a beautiful thing to see for me as a foreigner I've always wondered if people will know me
058if they're really If people really do see me and so when these children talk about Native Americans they are telling me yes we do see them and it is important for us to celebrate them even though they're not here well known to abut for your community outreach um I have always gone to those community outreach events but this time I was out of town and I thought ah my Halloween shirt that I paid good money for I did not get to get did not get used this year so it still talked to well use it next year um donations and I need to thank those who gave donations to our food pantry I'm always amazed at how much people put in towards our food pantry and and and the people who are benefiting from these
059donations um I thank you so much and and on top of that there was a special donation that I was so proud to see but the school district even actually posted the copy of the money and I thought thank you so much for whoever I was that gave us at 200. uh that was I really appreciate that um thank you to the anonymous donor to Vanguard school that they blotted out their name but that was a huge donation and I really want you to know that we do notice um those things when I read the board packet I read those things and I go wow somebody actually thought about us and gave us something that would benefit the children um and then to thank the members of this team the board members and the cabinet
060for being able to work together even when we disagree we're able to work together make our disagreements known but we keep moving on and we treat each other with dignity and respect big thank you to still to a classified Personnel because those people get up every day and they do the work to hold us up to make us look good and we'd hardly see them to say thank you so I wanted to take this opportunity to thank even those people that we don't see the people who cook our meals for our children the people who pick them up every day and take them home the people who clean the classrooms and make sure that the rooms are clean sometimes we don't remember to thank them and I wanted to take this time to say thank
061you to all of you thank you Maria Christopher gosh there's a lot but I'll cut it short I guess uh first off um I had a great time on Monday night uh for Halloween out at Sycamore Rocks those kids can put away some candy uh 1600 on a couple of trips to Walmart but it was a great turnout so thank you to all the families who came out and celebrate into all the school sites who celebrate with parades and having family and friends uh come and see that that's super important that we have that I'm looking forward to a morning at Phoenix Academy tomorrow and welcoming um everyone to campus um you know very quickly on on the school data report you know it's disappointing but it's not a surprise these are all things unfortunately
062that we knew were going to be results of what we were seeing through the pandemic um what Apple Valley Unified School District has done has made sure that they've come back and focused on engagement in that intervention finding out where the gaps are and how we can get our students into the interventions that they need to make sure they Bridge those gaps you know my student needed reading intervention in second grade thank goodness that was before the pandemic otherwise I have no idea what his experience at home would have been like so I'm incredibly grateful for that and I encourage any parent who's being contacted by their by their uh students teacher particularly this week as we get into student teacher conferences um if if you are suggested that your student needs intervention for reading
063or math or anything else that is not a negative thing that is very much a positive thing that is extra help that is the calvary on the way so please make sure that you take that to heart that you realize that that is an investment for your child and for you to make in their success particularly those in Reading under the age under um third grade it is incredibly important that they get that help as soon as possible and in the in the meantime we're going to make sure that we continue to engage our students make sure that they are wanting and ready to be at school and have their needs met so they can really focus on getting down to the Brass tax of some rigorous academic achievements and then last thing I'll say
064is of course we are coming up on some important days that remind us you know that the the best attitude is for gratitude so I do want to say of course thank you to all of our staff and students and parents and Community but in particularly to our former students staff members parents and community members who have served this nation in Armed Forces happy Veterans Day to all of you and thank you very much thank you Chris Dennis I'd like to commend all the staff and teachers you took these kids and you put back on the grind because really this this is a hard thing to do we had no continuity here for a while nobody did and um we got through this first quarter and things are going good it's the first time we've
065ever had granite and Apple Valley going to the CIF together this is really really good dude I just like to commend all you teachers you've done a great job thank you Dennis I'll just briefly hear I I agree with you Maria on the students who get up and speak and I think what we'll do is kind of add in the agenda for the next meeting we'll officially dismiss them and then allow the board to comment because like you said they're getting better and better and you know we go through this minutia of these board meetings and you know it's good to see it's kind of something to look forward to so we'll have it on the uh yeah just on the agenda all right so I got a lot to go through here to read
066so we're going to move on to item I which is discussion items so before we discuss anything or vote on it I'm going to read off each item so first up is pursuant to state law this oral statement of the revised salary at section 2 of the employment contract for attorney Nelson superintendent is as follows effective July 1st 2022 the superintendent's annual salary shall be 189.24 effective January 1st 2023 superintendent's annual salary shall increase to 20 correction 253 501 point 12. effective July 1st 2023 the superintendent's annual salary shall increase to 255.80 03.44 superintendent shall be entitled to receive any longevity pay for which she qualifies per the adopted certificated management guidelines as stipulated in section 3. is there any discussion or questions or anything before we go for a I entertain a motion I
067make a motion we approve okay motion Bender a second second Maria all in favor aye aye any opposed hearing them that will be the order pursuant to state law this oral statement of the revised salary at section 2 of the employment contract for Matthew schulenberg assistant superintendent of administrative Services is as follows effective July 1 2022 the assistant superintendent annual salary shall be 193 585.68 effective January 1st 2023 the assistant superintendent's annual salary shall be increased to to 200 897.56 effective July 1st 2023 the assistant superintendent annual salary shall be increased to 203 199.88 assistant superintendent administrative Services shall be entitled to receive any longevity pay for which he qualifies per adopted certificated management guidelines as stipulated in section three any questions or comments do I have a motion to approve so move moved by
068so second by is there a second I'll Raleigh I'll second the motion all in favor any opposed hearing them that will be the order persistent correction pursuant to state law the oral statement of the receive revised correction revised salary at section two of the employment contract for Patrick slosser assistant superintendent of Educational Services is as follows effective July 1 2022 the assistant superintendent's annual salary shall be 585.68 effective January 1 2023 the assistant superintendent's annual salary shall be increased to 200 897.56 effective July 1 2023 the assistant superintendent's annual salary shall be increased to 203 199.88 assistant superintendent administrative Services shall be entitled to receive any longevity pay for which he qualifies for adopted certificated management guidelines as stipulated in section 3. do I have a motion to approve moved by Maria do we have
069a second second the second by so all in favor any opposed hearing that that will be the order pursuant to state law this oral statement of the revised salary of section 2 of the employment contract for Dustin Conrad assistant superintendent of Human Resources is as follows the assistant superintendents Allen annual salary shall be 173 0 29.82 effective January 1 2022. effective July 1 2022 assistant superintendents excuse me annual salary shall be increased to 190 33.60 effective January 1 2023 assistant superintendents annual salary should be increased to 200 897.56 effective July 1 2023 assistant superintendent's annual salary shall be increased to 203 199.88 assistant superintendent Human Resources shall be entitled to receive any longevity pay for which he qualifies for the adopted certificated management guidelines as stipulated in section 3. so I have a motion to
070approve motion motion vendor second second so all in favor uh any opposed hearing then that'll be the order item five approve the certificated and classified Personnel actions as listed do I have a motion to approve so move check it motion Nunez second Bender all in favor aye any opposed hearing them that'll be the order item six approved the recommendations for requested leaves as noted have a motion to approve second Nunez second vendor all in favor aye any opposed hearing then that'll be in the order item seven approve the recommendation of the administrative hearing chairperson effective immediately on expulsion case exp5 which has a I got a 2022-23 so we did an amendment to this an explosion case exp number 5 2023 to amend the hearing panel recommendations to read placed on suspended enforcement of expulsion
071to a school other than Granite Hills High School for the remainder of the 2022-23 fall semester and the 2022-23 spring semester student is to complete their Rehabilitation plan prior to the end of 2022 23 spring semester do I have motion to approve a second motion Maria second Dennis all in favor all right any opposed hearing then it'll be the order okay expulsion case exp number six move 2022-23 motion to approve still move Maria I'll check on it second Wilson all in favor any opposed hearing then they'll do the order expulsion case exp number 7 2022-23 somehow motion Maria second Chris all in favor aye aye any opposed hearing then that'll be the order explosion case exp number 24 20 21 22 motion so Dennis and Maria okay all in favor aye any opposed during them
072will be the order item eight approve the Consulting agreement with Burnham benefits Insurance Services is there any discussion anybody any questions yes I do go ahead Maria I have a question regarding that um I do know that the district is looking at a possibility of a benefit insurance company um I'm just curious about who are the parties that are all interested in this are they all the association the classified the management are they all part of this Arrangement yeah thank you can you explain what that means yeah thank you Miss Oak Park yeah um in fact at a the school district and the units within the school district meaning are avuda csca and management currently obtain benefits through the high desert trust and have for quite some time had a previous trust meeting the vooda
073representative uh voiced to the group that there was interest in uh looking outside seeing what else was out there and over the last couple of months I've been able to secure a proposal from Burnham benefits and spoke further with Miss Sabers representing the Buddha and Miss Calvin representing CSEA so the district will be going out as a single entity all three organizations will be working with Burnham benefits to see what other Health and Welfare benefit options are out there and available to us for a July 1 23 effective date that does not necessarily mean we're going to leave the trust we're going to Market ourselves see what kind of other potential Avenues there are and then Burnham will provide us with that information so we can make an informed decision so that means you know
074you're looking at strength in numbers you're all going to go in and speaking with that one voice and perhaps the height as a trust who will begin to have a different conversation with the team is that that well the the height is our trust isn't necessarily aware that we're looking just yet but um I'll be there all day tomorrow so I'm going to let them know um but there are other districts in the trust that are are marketing and looking elsewhere so it's it's something that does happen on a regular basis thank you so much thank you okay any other discussions for Entertainer motion so move motion by Wilson I'll second it second by Maria all in favor aye any opposed hearing then that'll be the order item nine approved the Consulting agreement with public
075economics Inc any discussion you have a motion to approve second motion Chris yes all in favor aye aye any opposed hearing then that'll be the order all right moving down to item J consent calendar approved consent list is recommended the Board of Trustees consider approving a number of agenda items on as a consent list consent items are routine in nature and can be enacted in one motion without further discussion this procedure can serve meeting time for full discussion of significant issues so we have 29 issues consent items um do I motion to approve 1 through 29. okay great all in favor aye any opposed hearing them it'll be the order okay so we had no uh further closed session um so we'll go to stay closing items the training do you have anything else you
076want to add no just thank you for um okay great any other comments from the board members I think by the next time we meet here we may be the same board or we'll have a separate board so whatever happens I just I'm wishing everybody the very best coming in thank you all right so with that we need to hang around to sign some things but we will adjust motion by Bender to adjourn at 807. thank you second by Raleigh second let's get a boat