001right now we're not 25.0 recognitions and awards and we are here at paramount elementary it looks beautiful in here thank you everyone for being here tonight round of applause anymore president had me on vice president kruseman Silas mr. McKeon is Bible ovals mr. de espana dr. Kaminsky cabinet members members of the community members of unions I Suz a Unified School District welcome to Paramount Elementary my name is Antonio Flores and I am the proud principal of paramount okay you would like to spotlight paramount Elementary's performing arts program this program has been a part of paramount Elementary's extracurricular activity for over ten years then by our amazing teachers Regina booze former paramount featuring songs in this year's 2017 2018 you know suicide Unified School District's Teacher of the Year Rosie Herrera [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so please
002sit back relax and enjoy two scenes from the most epic birthday party ever diversity please turn your chairs and enjoy [Music] to [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Thank You Kurt very great cookies are strong offense everybody guided so garnished the protected village of Technion shots of Callie fabulous you [Music] I [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] we can into overtime for our caste [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Wow absolutely incredible [Music] one more round of applause [Applause] now we're moving on to okay we're now moving on to 5.2 recognition of letters of gratitude from Mexico students who received our student letters us a little background like New Mexico City and students from almost every single school in this district created cards from letters from little TK kids
003all the way through high school kids and we sent about 2,000 cards to some students in Mexico City Brady's schools well just last week we got some letters back and you can see of what over there on the display on the board's their diesel boards are some seat from the students they came from a school called Woodward fool their goal is to spend 50% of the day in English just like ours is to spend 50% of the day in Spanish and the letters don't wander over and one of the things they asked though is for penpals specifically Hodge school that has a dual immersion program up to the microphone and if you can just tell us a little bit about how your school is helping them well I approached the teachers with the request because
004the letter was so compelling from the student and he he had a great hook at the beginning of the letter basically like so what are you gonna do about it inviting us to respond and ultimately he ended with would love to have a pen pal so I asked our immersion teachers if they'd be interested the majority were really eager from and are going up and we have fourth and fifth grade extended days so we have a variety of students who are eager to respond and get to know them and enhance their writing skills burn a real audience real people who are interested in hearing from them and it was interesting to hear how well written the English letter lives from the students I said you guys didn't have to really step up the gamin they
005might be correcting your grammar so really which is building that opportunity for an exchange of an authentic audience with the meaningful I'm also getting to know people around the world so hopefully we can actually once they're up and running an electronic describing as well a pen pals first are from one of our first international pen pals we'll see where it goes thank you very much now we're moving on to 6.0 paddles from the floor of the comment on the agenda or non-agenda items 6.1 this is an opportunity for the public to address the board dungeon items no actually can be taken on on agenda items individual speakers may be allowed up to three minutes to address the board on any agenda or a non-agenda items prior to addressing the board please fill out the request
006to speak public comment blue card and submit it to the board's secretary and we do have several cards today first up we have Rudy Carell roughen and Michael Kim additional stretch stressors in conjunction with multiple school transition transitions connect negative to the affected children loved acting to a new school environment the national academic of science engineering medicine research by Lee and Bergkamp and the National Center for Education Statistics that changing schools has a greater impact on shift for children receiving special education times also Guardian research from the RSA think-tank children who changed schools during their primary or secondary education do worsen exams and peers who do not and dissipate Lea feck children from this Vanek backgrounds Julie Matt wrote an article on the findings of the Journal of American Medical Association which published his study
007on the issue the study which found that children who moved are more likely to more likely you have behavior problems and still stronger evidence suggests that changing schools can put a child at risk or dropping out of continuing behavioral problems it even goes to that in a timed Health magazine report findings by Swanson a psychiatrist and head of mental health division at Warwick suggest that changing schools can be renting social and emotional experience for students and the legacy of the struggle to may lead to psychosis symptoms like hallucinations and delusions so knowing that several studies and we see the effects that can happen to children I wonder them why is your first options from your committee's presenting that to be closures and you're just in the district when they can have such a negative impact
008and we and no farm of the educators the district is local forming in the common core standards testing in California and yet you put out the ideas of closing your flagship school that's one Savior middle school from being close and closing I like to add that the parents and as a proud parent as a student in center school we stand in solidarity with the educators in negotiating the contract for fair treatment and wages [Applause] be an educator it's getting the proper wages that they deserve is also detrimental [Applause] be one years and have attended more than 60 school board meetings in my career I attended the last school board meeting which was held on March 6 a mountain view school I am speaking tonight because I was very disappointed at the last board meeting when
009mrs. Williams asked board members to explain why they vote yes or no each board member was given an opportunity to explain their reasoning for how they vote and it became very personal I decided to look up what characteristics makes a good school board there were eight listed in the on the Center for public education I do not have enough time to state each one however I'm going to steep it to you that I felt were lacking first effective school board members are data savvy they embrace and monitor data even when the information is negative and use it to drive continuous improvement second effective school boards have a collaborative relationship with staff and the community and establish strong and enraged both internal and external stakeholders in setting and achieving district goals when I began teaching in
010the district more than thirty years ago the school board staff and community were a khabees or a cohesive team decisions were always made in the best interest of students many times big decisions were weighed heavily and often were not decided right away because more information needed to be addressed there are B the school board that I find disconcerting such as school board members rotated each position and therefore each school board member had an opportunity to be every position every school board member of greater understanding for being a member of a group as a teacher I work for all of my constituents and weigh every decision I made carefully I try to take my time when making a big decision I think you should remember that you are the voice of your constituents and understandable to
011wait for more data and more qualified candidates when the need arises thank you [Applause] my name is Kristy Carnes I'm a teacher in Azusa I've been teaching for 33 years 20 I've taught in two other districts but Azusa has always been my home I have always been proud to say that I teach in Azusa I was mentored as a young teacher by some fantastic role models I received excellent training and mentoring which shaped me into the teacher I am I feel so blessed to have grown up as a teacher and so why am i up here tonight or of what Azusa needs to me I fear this room we have the heart and soul of what as oosa education is we have dedicated parents that are here because they want the best for their kids
012they're here to stay informed at what but has they want to do what's right for students in this room we have dedicated teachers to put in a full day's work yet are here tonight because they're about what's right for students we're teachers let's show because it's the right thing to do for students combo classes that have gracious colleagues that take our students to teach math because we know what's right for students we need we know they need that core curriculum time [Applause] the teachers that work before school after school at lunchtime helping those struggling students because that's the right thing to do for students in this room we have district personnel and board members who were also part of the heart and soul of Azusa I also attended the March 6 board meeting and was
013hopeful for positive information I saw an enthusiastic students perform concerned parents and community members speak unfortunately I saw our board members attacking each other in that public forum this is not the Zeus of spirit that has brought us to where we are and that's not the heart and soul of Azusa for teaching our students to be collaborative workers to listen and respond respectively our board members should be setting that example as well [Music] so I'm asking our school board district personnel to support our teachers make thoughtful decisions which in turn benefit all stakeholders which is the right thing for students [Applause] yes good evening I was a teacher I appreciated the play and the costumes and I'm here to help my students my understanding is that the cut to the fashion program was due to
014numbers to low counts and I understand that you also were looking at counts from 2000 from last year 2016 and 17 what I've done is I've given you a spreadsheet and I've given you a list of every single student that has been enrolled in my student during the past five years this year last year's counts if you look at 2016 2017 they were severely affected by the taking away of a program my applied econ and adding interior during registration and anybody that is part of the master schedule knows that that will severely affect your numbers that spreads about unequally and excused them so my numbers are low there but not as low as some other programs I had 118 kids my program my understanding is that you were told possibly there were four kids in
015a class 14 in another class but while you might not have known is that those four kids might have been in for advanced kids and those 14 or 24 or whatever would have been beginning and they would have been in the same class so that would made up the difference if you look at my other numbers you see that they're solid especially this year they're back up 267 because we promoted the program the program is a solid program these are the kids that wanted it another list of kids that are enrolled and now that are still trying to enroll in the program because the district requested or directed the counselors have taken off they are not allowed to enroll in it which skew the numbers next year if we're able to get it fact is
016you can see that numbers are there if it's about numbers that's not the reason the numbers are there if it's another reason I'd like to know what it is because I don't understand if you're using numbers that's that's not true they're not loading I'm told board can resend this vote I hope you will it is not invited all of them after the last board meeting to come all the board members to come and visit my classroom to see the kids to see what they do one person came and I appreciate that he came in the ring he came and he talked to my students to take their taking away scholarships because they are not in that design program mine why does an IT program it has 25 to 33 kids in it get cut I
017don't understand that and gets eliminated why is it that academic classes are more valuable than ct8 CTE and Vulcan classes because of the title they go together [Music] lastly you are whipping my students career support why can't you hold off and let these kids know what they have no warning they had no way to prepare for this why can't you wait and give them a chance to complete their career path they want to go to wait [Applause] [Music] [Applause] like miss 20 but I heard we had low numbers and hold it I was stunned I transferred from Azusa ha Gladstone about seven years ago so I went to fill it my numbers have grown every year there are 30 seats in my classroom that's all I will hold with a small classroom my three foods
018classes are stable at 33 period our numbers are on target they're driving you have writing you have rift three teachers about 25 with about 25 years experience each mark from our a to moment and one computer you are closing viable programs I also brought my roll sheets the last five years to show my counts why are you destroying these careers after we have dedicated our teaching careers at Azusa forcing us into early retirement [Music] that doesn't allow us to provide for ourselves are forcing us into a workforce that we have been out of for 25 years the leather district that we've talked to in Orange County Noren Stanberry so disrespectfully this district has not even tried to find a placement for us or negotiate an alternative for us when we share with others they're shocked
019when and why it is lucid distance employees [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] the four of us are speaking together that's why we're all up here my name is Meg Sabella and I am the president of the educators association [Applause] deliver the results of the superintendent Kaminsky assistant superintendent of Aqaba and assistant superintendent Barbarino this both is conducted at the request of our members over 91% or 426 out of 467 participated in this election going tenure as the leader of our district assistant superintendent Wakaba received a 94% vote of no confidence in his leadership teachers do not want him to serve as the head of the department that requires their trust in a manager who must be competent in dealing with issues regarding their employment work environment and morale we feel that his ongoing employment will
020ensure continued downward spiral of the management employer relationship causing further strife in the district everyone received a 97% vote of no-confidence appointed in this position poses a risk dr. Mendel with detrimental consequences to the security of our students facilities and employs a high point of no confidence means that at least 94 percent of your certificated staff do not believe in the efficacy of their leadership 94 percent have no respect for those leaders who they are expected to follow in the formal administration today that often by qualified administrators however hard decisions still need to be good decisions that's why it's crucial to have the district leadership that you can trust how will we ever move forward if we don't have confidence in our leadership it's impossible to follow senior leaders currently in place a new school
021board members need to do the hard job as you often say to make a decision we respect and follow as district employees azuz educators association challenges you our school board to do the right thing the act independently to make decisions that will improve the leadership in our district at this time I have 10 seconds left it is unfair to include these low fare for a child to write their own report of us we're asking you we're pleading with you to care and to act we can't make you listen but we shouldn't have to and we can't make you care but then again we shouldn't have to you are elected for that we can't make you active but you know you said that we would like entered into the formal record for beta good evening my
022name is Ron Russell I'm a teacher of glass from high school for jobs more difficult and our students experience in the classroom more stressful as soon as the teachers classified dr. Kaminsky's leadership is ineffective for the following reasons she lacks oversight of all departments in administrators as evidenced by the continual lack of response to multiple programs throughout the district such as the Figment audit and end of year reports issued by the district itself inference of misappropriation of funds was indicated in the report if our district knew why didn't she address the problems then why did she wait until a police report was fired dr. Kaminsky advocates for budget choices that preference programs over people even when we can't afford them now we have too many programs to teach effectively and overwhelmed employees she continues to
023advise the school board against compensation increases even though our district is non-competitive in the current job market why doesn't she seek for a compensation for a USB step when it was strained in our district why aren't district employees important to her she does not seek inclusion of teachers classified staff views and interest in decision making her recent visit to school sites which coincided with the VNC vote was too little too late and those meetings employees were baffled as he continues he stated that she didn't know why or how those into our of certain departments and committees made their decisions how can she not know either she isn't paying attention or she's avoiding responsibility since dr. Kaminsky joined our stuff there has been a huge turnover of district administrators and district employees why unconvinced leadership the
024scope of site administrators has been reduced to the point where they can't function in a way that represents the staff needs and poor student behavior how has this made things better are our students safer recent district recent district office administrators hired under leadership are dangerously under-qualified why do so many of our new administrators lack experience how did she convince our school board that our district would grow under their leadership a separatist attitude toward district employees has driven a wedge between the teachers administrators and the school board are we better off when we don't communicate why district school board feel they can't top teachers ultimately I need a few more seconds ultimately the buck stops here has Lenny Kaminsky improved a USP is the work our students our students better off know because who the school
025board must recognize that dr. Kaminsky never has and never will be regards back for her leadership she had numerous opportunities [Music] replaced our superintendent so that we leave it get to he'll grow and serve our community the board needs to step up and ask her to step down [Applause] [Music] good evening my name is Jenny I'll stick I'm a teacher at Gladstone Street school and a member of the AEA bargaining team I'm here tonight to expand on the vote of no-confidence against human resources assistant superintendent Romero Rubalcaba Azusa teachers recognize that even experienced HR directors struggle to make hard decisions regarding employees however a note indicates that dr. kovac Ava's decisions are often inappropriate and counterproductive even for an inexperienced district administrator at a time when we are facing a teacher shortage little is being
026done to retain new teachers in our district can't build a highly skilled workforce in Azusa when poor salary benefits and staff support provide no incentives to stay good managers consider long term personal goals and advocate for policies that encourage good teachers to join us and experience teachers to Paree positions that result in layoffs years ago before they became permanent years go by before they become permanent and often they're laid off before they can zhuzh of teachers are treated like they are disposable and our district is suffering because of it [Applause] 89c has pulled nine teachers out of the classroom for up to six weeks with no prior investigation all but one teacher have returned to the classroom meanwhile learning was compromised and student confidence and their teachers destroyed those teachers suffered extreme stress and loss
027of morale other teachers were also affected by rubas Rubalcaba unfair decisions they got a message that's why teachers don't trust for me Robocop as a member of the 88 bargaining team I must express my concerns about your HR superintendent that deducted the conduct at the bargaining table while disagreements between stakeholders are inevitable this is the first administrator at the helm of your team that has conducted themselves with such obstinance and egotism that Trust is completely broken down his inability to work with others and bargain effectively led to our team our teams to impasse for the first time in the history of our district he often arrives at bargaining sessions without counter proposals prepared and without complete without even a complete team he speaks we're actually about shins regardless of the fact that they are typically
028notably sparks anger and resentment from our team derails progress and wastes our time most importantly it is clear that mr. Ruvalcaba isn't even given authority to bargain our proposals without demon back for approval from your cabinet if you don't trust em at the our district has come to a place where over 90% of our teachers are demanding a resignation of our top three administrators let that sink in that's right it doesn't give me joy to say this we aren't proud of the statistic president Harvey oversell father says that hard decisions have to be made and we should work together Azusa teachers are saying that we cannot work with this administration and we are unwilling to try any more campus we call them the school board to work together and make the right decision for our
029organization and our community our district is broken it is your responsibility to give a Susa families the school district they deserve [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] good evening my name is Diane B's I am a teacher at Dalton Elementary I've been teaching there for 28 years I'm very proud to be a teacher at that school and I'm also an a member assistant she's the assistant superintendent mark burrito came in to his position unqualified from the start with a counselor an assistant principal and a principal but never a chief business officer in charge of 120 million dollar budget the business services department at MOT department and the fiscal solvency of a district in charge of 8,000 kids and 1,200 employees since being awarded his position while Moreno has had to have had three consultants come into the
030district at the cost of over $70,000 to teach him how to do his job this investment has resulted in miss projections of students and staff costing the district millions of dollars how does this instill confidence it doesn't since his arrival in the business department there has been a mass exodus of employees who have overwhelmingly condemned and cited lack of leadership and competence Services has to hire temporary employees to get work done how it is this is still it doesn't $3,000 was completely washed yes feel confidence we are not confident in mark he is not qualified to do this job and has demonstrated incompetence on a multitude of levels how many mistakes must be made before you school boarding to make a change how bad does the air you need to be before you make a
031change how many kids have to suffer the lost dollars close schools or choices before you do your job and find a CDO of a CDO who can do this thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] we name is forever somber Sonoma a resident of the city of Azusa forty almost thirty forty years I've been involved in city I mean that city and her school matters for many many years and you know it's very hard for me to follow which is transpired a lot of the issues that I've been saying from this podium for many years taking the time to write down seven questions on eleven items on the agenda and the reason I did that is because you know you can't do justice in three minutes to ask the questions expect you know get an answer
032which I never do most of the time anyway so what I did is taking the time to write down to quit it strange that I had to lead some of the edges I expect to get a response not at this meeting you know after the meeting but you know informally with comments that were just made by all the previous speakers I'm gonna focus on item three with just I understand point three and ten point four at the young the agenda it's regarding disturbing was done by parents students and staff and what I've done is I basically taking the in the school grade ABCD and if we take all the percentages on the parent overall satisfaction score is that no see see as in Charles students overall satisfaction is a d2l staff overall satisfaction is a
033deep and if you take the El Cap LCAP goals all number one it's a d-plus all number two it's a deed all number three and D - OH number four see the goal number five a d a failing grade that's like it basically as many others [Applause] [Music] [Applause] No thank you very much for your comments we're now moving on to self-made Gerald Thomas reports a request by the board welcome everybody glad to see you here I over the Easter holiday along with going to legislative action day in Sacramento and that is when we have school board members go to our assembly members our senators and discuss how little money our school districts are getting compared to other things we used to be a number in the top ten I remember when I was in
034school we were just right there at the top and now we've dropped down to three four percent we are 44th in the nation as far as funding our schools that affect advancement affects a lot I would appreciate it along with them contacting our with our representatives all of you contact they're doing in Oklahoma where they're putting up a big fuss about how badly our schools are funding how badly our state representatives treat you when they cut and cut and cut but they increase prison it costs you pay a hundred thousand dollars for a student who is put into the cya at California Youth Authority a hundred thousand dollars a year to take care of a child who has gotten into trouble because he dropped down in school because he was school was not emphasized enough
035our own State we've had eight thousand dollars a year for our students a hundred thousand dollars a year eight thousand dollars a year that's what needs to change you guys want change go up go up higher because [Applause] [Music] the one country that our teachers arguing with our English language orders I actually learned about the selects together and what it would be like to learn English it dyslexia and the balance between learning a Romance language such as French Italian or Spanish and being dyslexic and how that helps a dyslexic child learning English or an english-speaking child it actually adjusts the brain in a certain way it was really really interesting and I brought a lot of that back and the NSBA apparently with problems that we're having with when opiates defeat the DEA is now
036offering a school districts free to come out and help let our students to know what's going on trainers are our staff of the whole of that along with that the watchdog's would just me specifically for dads trying to get dads involved in school and other than that by which of the 7/11 committee meetings I mean I really appreciate all the work I pass it on to Paul thank you this is going to by 2050 or here it's it is troubling to see what I see tonight it's it is something that tells me that some collectively visits this whole issue but why do we have so many individuals who work for the district all right I'm happy I'm a basic step point of what is it gonna take to have a better collaboration better communication and
037better understanding it's hopeful I just hope that we truly revisit this whole subject matters and once the portal and decide that's - what are some of the shortfalls that we larkin that's why I just say to that as far as the NSP I was also in attendance to that it was my first visit to look at it from a national standpoint as to what are some of the trends are really happening a nation I was pretty impressed with a lot of the discussions that dealt with community schooling's which is again a model that really connects a lot of the members in partnerships in the whole district itself so I would like us to discuss that we do have two pieces in place to an outcome and how does that translate into your having a strategic
038plan and that being one element that many items that we can talk about in the future so there's a lot of work that needs to happen and I do value one of you that contribute to that and thank you I appreciate you coming to us reminding us that it's our job to set an example and so I appreciate that you call that and call that what happens at the March meeting and I need to take ownership for my part of that but I do think and I think over 16 years they're going to be the only time that's ever happened with me at this bias so I want to put a thought I apologize but I do think I actually I mean I agree with Paul I think clearly something is wrong clearly something is
039broken and we need to figure out how we can work together and I think there's a lot of great working in our classrooms a lot of it work a lot of hard work happening these intersections right work to align with I know the hard work that's happening in the classrooms and the work that's happening between those classrooms and their their interactions with our staff on a professional level and so again I think I don't have responses but I am just processing the police department Afton's the Senior Center in the morning then he had a luncheon I like to thank God it Castro in the chamber and the staff to put it all together the this is a yearly event I also want to thank all the sponsors making it possible to allow our students to
040go and see how it is in the workplace because then they get to know you know do I really want to do this job and I think that it's great degree we have our kids do this we also went to the graduation I live to hear that my kids do so I seen this young man named Oscar is a second little boy and now he's he's a math word voice and I'm like oh my god with that I also want to graduate the students from glass Stonestreet Mountain View and how they didn't accent the students an excellent job on their speech and the reception was very nice between Azusa you know Susan Pacific University and azouz Unified School District and this is what's all about I reject it you know we're on the chain you
041should be a chain in you know it's my partnership it's partnership between these the employees between the the the board members between the cabinet and also our surrounding city like a tea you like citrus and I think that we need to you know I really felt that really about some of the statements that were made today and I think I'm not sure you know what we need to even fix it why do you think we need to fix it that's the bottom line we need to work together and um see how we can fix it and you know I I heard 40 years in the barbecue stick and I so I totally understand wrap one around it's low in your district you know you're not a good worker you know you're not happy going to
042work every day and I don't like to see that I as a board member you know set an example and see my voice feeling the same way you know I I don't I don't do it's good so I also went to money even got to high school they had the you know the same as the sonic booms they present the Broadway past and present yeah because you want to cook the competition for course we're winning second place in the no voice and first division at the most Alamitos big extravaganza and I want to thank Jane colosseo and a glass of my school I went to the National Day a walk out the demonstrations against gun violence 17 minutes for 17 lives at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school I want to thank principal Sigma and
043the staff and all the students were sweeping up and it's important it's great you come up and use your voice if you're not happy with something you know we need to know about you need to a lot of our students do the same thing I was very touched by some with their stories and you know they were talking about you know no bullying be nice to each other you know work together that's it safely enough as a doctor - same thing that they should be doing them also they have a large they put on a large I want to say on like a bulletin board where kids can write with Mooji paper you know how you feel what your thoughts are and I think it should be that all the time they should just put
044it just for that day and and the students came up and they were able to just we put there on the same you know one the bell ring they went into class I myself who was the ninth and 16th walk with the Chicano Movement and they did not treat us at all the way these kids are treating so I was it was very nice to see that they came out you know they don't want to hear us what these kids are allowed and I think that it makes them made them feel you know weirdest thing we want to know and and I think that it was very nice and I heard the Sierra high school in its high school also the same thing and the students were very well received in the students stay what
045they have to say but I didn't want it to keep on going and not just today happened just for one day this one day is not affected for me they keep listening to the kids and then butcher paper and then you're allowed to come up with after saying if they have concerns earth something someone's wallet looks like you know we need to see something say something us as adults and students should all do the same I went to citrus ecology of the day and watch the movie it's taking a stand and deliver they were searching on the students their seventh and tenth graders and they were very well behaved there was a lot of kids leave or not the fire alarm went off and I like oh man you know hope even worse than this
046in doing that right that's of course tonight they're gonna say you know our kids are bad and whatever but anyways big long story short it came up that the workers were working out there and they I don't know hit the alarm or whatever number thank God they came back in order and they had a student there that's cool and she was very inspirational you should tell the students to you know stay school work hard don't be afraid to speak up launder your time she was speaking and I think that you know I really hope that you set the message for them and I don't want to stay too long but I really you know I don't know how to say this but I can still really feel bad at what's going on because I don't
047like a district that's not happy I feel that dr. Kaminsky you know because I think in 2011 when we had it as a print and what she did a great job too but thought the community brought many programs to our school district she was she prepares our students to be college and career-ready and in the mission statement she has an open-door policy for parents students staff and more members dr. Kaminsky was honored by the Los Angeles superintendent's of the Year award by the Office of Education there was 21 nominations the superintendent selection committee included a member of that post Association and president of the nonprofit California Credit Union she was awarded the printed in 2018 of the year for the following reasons dr. Kaminsky has demonstrated incredible ability to lead the district towards improving student
048achievement her expertise in English language learners development her accomplishments included establishing college and career pathways at the secondary in-house science engineering early medical pathways International Baccalaureate dr. Clemente has developed an annual initiative and go to expand implementation of the common core standards the graduation rates are higher student achievement hire more staff development more parent involvement because I go to all the parent meetings and I never seen so many parents in because we have we create the new era edge Center Moody's been accepted to the colleges dr. clean well you know she's talking about the elk at the budget any question that answered that they have regarding possible school closures and I've had parents staff administrators come and tell me that they were very appreciative of her going there so for me dr. Queens had 100%
049100 did confident for myself that's what I feel about it and I really what we can work together and you can you know be happy they're here I just just because I know that we will have work better together thank you so if there's one person that embodies teamwork that's I was a law enforcement officer with LAPD for seven years prior to having my twin daughters and one thing that I learned being out on patrol in South LA and some of the roughest parts of the city of La is that you depended on the person next to you whether you like them or not that was the person that was going to potentially save your life in a very difficult situation so I live my life to this day with those qualities in that characteristic
050because I think that we don't see enough of that day in and day out you see it when there is a traumatic event or there is a natural disaster where people come out and they help you so this last board meeting and I heard their comments about their come to the table with different experiences with values morals ideas information is vital for us to forward my frustration stems from that and it's unfortunate I apologize publicly for for for not necessarily not necessarily the statements some of the statements that I made but I think that I allowed myself to to definitely go to a place that I would normally go to normally go through public me I may do that at home but but not but not in this field but I definitely I definitely still
051hold by by some of the things that I felt I have I have been in this position for five years I have learned a lot I have seen a lot internally especially internally and I too that this this human being came into an administration that had been that had been stained for decades and there were a lot of changes that needed to be made and while a lot of people didn't see that I was privy to a lot of that information and it's difficult and I know it's been difficult and we've had to leave we've had to endure this the same same things what we went through the key measure came past we got death threats my tyrant car was stolen my Camaro Asajj - those are the things that happened those things happen but
052that's okay just like you said you were elected to be in this position - and some of the things that happen and sitting here I'm human but we do have to work together especially the five of us the five of us do need to come together and we need to talk we need to communicate and we need to trust one another in order to share the information that we have individually to push our work doesn't know it does us no good not one of us no good to work alone does no it does none of us any good because together we are a body a governing body and we have to be able to to come together to make things happen so going back to my initial statements as a police officer there were times
053but I got into patrol car with somebody that didn't like me somebody that I didn't like maybe the Saints allow it or maybe they talk too much or maybe I talk too much or whatever but at the end of the day we have to we have to get the job done and we have to get the job done for the students for our kids as a parent you I can't tell you enough each other who's that what you're doing every day is working and I take a lot of value in that and I appreciate each and every one of you so we have work to do we absolutely do and I looking Paul so yeah thank you very much for being here tonight now moving on to a point 0 comments reports student board member
054cabinet and superintendent families in school meeting room April 19 to 9 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. report card in various classrooms April 16 to 5:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. to act on my form C 10 April 18 2:45 p.m. dead spring showcase April 20th 3:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. choir ABC Azusa Pacific University April 20th 7 p.m. winter guard @w a WC ASC Championships TBA and at SCS BOA Jazz Festival Hacienda Heights April 21st TV 8 SAT prep April 21st and April 28th at 9 a.m. Azusa High School football boosters Chipotle fundraiser night April 17 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Cafe Azteca April 19th 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. audition concert April 19th 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. life skills field trip bridges auditorium April 20th 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Azusa and good or day of
055service April 21st 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. we took our competition Huntington Beach 21st April 21st April 22nd to be a Azteca Cafe has deca April 26 8:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. and workability filters do what is caffeine Stephanie what do you do so kapa haka is an opportunity for the principal to meet with parents on basis and parents bring concerns share the principal shares information during the school the community not only parents but community at large let them know what's going on to the school and celebrate success it's 8:30 a.m. and in Thursday's I believe the in the parent and community center no comments for tonight no comments this evening thank you first I'd like to thank the teachers who prepared the students from paramount for their show is fantastic as he just came
056out to complain about me I appreciate hearing I mean Freddy Adu drop in time you can stop by and have to work anyway home if you want to come to me about something or feel free to give me a call and I'd be happy to to meet with you so we can continue dialogue thank you very much thank you now moving on tonight brings our report on closed session matter is 9.1 approve settlement of four cases sgdq zero one nine three eight eight HGVs zero 1 1 8 1 1 x g vs 0 1 2 5 1 9 s gb s 0 1 3 6 6 4 what are the wishes of the board I'll make a motion tempura first by Jerry by Mo's mobile second so I can treasure the new goosebumps on us
057please place your votes what surpasses 5-0 now moving on to 10.0 general functions 10.1 we do believe oppression presentation correct on things going thing together successful status and appeal board members cabinet and community my name is a repo padilla and i'm the general manager for the innocent giver valley region nice to see everybody again and with me I have notice she's our deputy chief of tournament operations and she's here to support with any questions that you may have regarding the presentation so today's presentation is really about giving everybody an overview of where we're at with our mid-year outcomes we want to kind of give you a glimpse of where we are this year at the lab presentation our vision is very similar to most of our district partners we want a communion where all kids
058get a great education that prepares them for college and career and our mission is for us to strictly partner with districts to change the odds for kids and so if you don't already know we're a non popularisation and we serve over 330 thousand students at over 300 sites and that is all the way up to the Bay Area Allie County Riverside San Diego County and San Bernardino County and so what that means is hearing a Sousa Weiser elementary all the elementary study and I know their last at the last twenty-eight twenty-nine percent of our students population is what we serve so they're attending our thing together program and if you don't already know this is basically our staffing structure we have a dedicated full-time site coordinator that is assigned to every school site and they
059are based out of the school site to be able to really integrate with the instructional day and really meet with the principal to be able to align in some of the pieces that I had president in the previous presentation we have our paraprofessionals our program leaders and those are the individuals that oversee twenty to twenty-five students and they're the ones that are delivering the lessons of facilitating most of the activities and then we have our quality assurance coaches and trainers which are here they're both here to spend that money on and coordinators and do site visits they mean with the and a assure that we are trying to strategically plan with our administrator probably supported circles in the instructional day and then we have a Director of Programming operations that supports the region as well
060so just a quick overview of our curriculum design we strictly make sure that our the ASIS grant that the district has we are meeting all the requirements but with that the way that we what we bring has think together is this framework and we focus on these five spotlights is what we call them so it's ela math stem youth arts and enrichment and in some of those areas we focus on making sure that students are able to practice of close reading strategies they are able to have better they're throwing towards fluency and grade level proficiency towards that when it comes to stem they are learning or they're reinforcing the learning around the scientific method and the engineering design process when it comes to youth development we focus on student leadership some of you may be
061familiar with how that looks like at sites we have character education healthy living we do focus on social-emotional learning throughout our program as well and some of the fun things that the students always enjoy with the arts and enrichment are things like Performing Arts any visual arts programs and especially our sports the reason why I feel that they enjoy the sports with us is because we are able to give me the opportunity to go beyond the districts that they wouldn't normally play a guess to the healthy living component we always want to make sure that we do some physical component with them so that's basically embedded throughout all those five spots that aren't up there any what you see up there is the elementary and then the next life has the middle school it has
062similar spotlights but the focus is our different slope to make sure that we're addressing the middle school the student needs things are around social-emotional learning how are they feeling out there belonging are they feeling that they can talk to their peers do they feel like scores to make your scores so the first slide covers our TK's and our tenders of their letter and stem recognition so just to kind of explain a little bit what the bars mean is the first bar is the baseline scores these are the scores that we collected at the beginning of the year and so and the three different colors or numbers at the beginning of the year so they need the practice and they're learning and when they're in school and and we reinforced some of that learning in our
063programs as well and so this is why it by mid-year we noticed some growth there so in the T part when it comes to the Kinder's for summer letter and some recognition there's been a set of per second row so that's four letters and some recognition the next slide covers number recognition so similar process in this case every tear every level covers around 33 to 34 numbers per letter and we have them count up until 100 and so what we notice here is that for the TK's there's been 17% growth from baseline to mid year or Kinder's there's been a third by 30% growth so if you notice all ready for the Kinder's they already reached their goal to be at grade level so after they recognize the letters and numbers they move on to
064sight word recognition and there are math automaticity so for sight words for first graders through sixth grade what you're gonna see or notice the same thing there's big growth so that's great news for them to be either at grade level or above grade level so when you notice at the bar both bars from baseline and the mid here is the dotted bar that indicates how many of those students are now above grade level in comparison from baseline to mid-year so the great news is that the girls the percentage of students of above grade or above grade level has grown and so that's pretty high one thing that I want to note is that sixth graders they once they already reach above grade level there's no way but we don't assess beyond that so once they
065are ready meeting grade level or I'm sorry above grade level which is seventh grade level then we stop assessing at that point but we still do interactive activities to keep their learning going that's why they're ready either you're going to notice that the other slides as well sober fluency and this is where they do repeated guided reading which allows students to develop or limiting comprehension skills and here again overall growth of percentage of students or at grade level and above grade level from baseline to mid-year and again I'm just note that you don't see you that much roughly there when you reach the for math as I mentioned earlier similar to the Kinder's automaticity this on both graphs from comparison from baseline to mid-year that there's been growth percentage of students that that are agreeable
066friend there are a greater or above grade level and again 6 p.m. that is severity captain they were all the longer be assessed beyond their sixth grade level I mean how do we support this growth these are some examples of to make sure that we are aligned all of our curriculum that we use is great it's aligned with our common core standards but of course we work with their schools to make sure that if there are specific goals or measures that we want or strategies everyone incorporate in our program we do that which is why they have monthly meetings to make sure or more frequently means to be able to address those needs we also do positive behavior support systems within our programs again I mentioned this at our last presentation but just to reinforce
067again if there are specific strategies in addition to the one that we already have we want to make sure we incorporate assigned sub sites there are the same reward systems that are happening during the instructional day that we also do in the after-school program we also give them more time to be in the lab so if for them to practice their the reading and they may be able to take their in our tests or if there are other programs that the school wants us to incorporate and given more lap time during after-school we allow that time and we also provide our staff with some strategies for them to practice their English language skills which is some examples of those is that they write sentence breaks on the board or they always have the students be
068able to complete let me answer a question or when they want to speak to we ask them to speak in complete sentences we strike to continuously improve and so we assess we plan and improve this really the cycle that the state has implemented for us to follow which I think that mention Mustang as well so to come for senators districts have to follow the common core standards the expected learning program division has also implemented quality standards that we could follow in order to make sure that we have high quality programs we're not just providing in an open space of safe and supportive environment well that's our primary goal we want to make sure that the students are we're taking them out to that time and they we have the academic needs that they need or
069this all has some of the programs I mentioned we partner with these organizations or have grants with them and we have le 84 Foundation grant where we bring sports and have we must our students to other schools intervention and way la we have an opportunity to have the students go out and learn about homelessness and they also are part of a 5k once a year we have the Kaiser Permanente grant where we bring healthy living curriculum and the students learn more about either vegetable or fruit on a monthly basis and so we have that at these middle school sites this year and and then we also partner with the Dodger foundation where we bring more college awareness for our kiddos as well and so the next slide pursuit of support services so this is how
070we these are some examples of how we partner with the district to ensure that we are meeting the community's needs so currently this year we are having our kinder program and we collect in their gap program where we serve or the first Raiders get released so my understanding is now because there is a need for or there might not be funding for that next year a potential option that we're proposing and that I'm working with our our partners here have been to offer a before school services for around 2 hours a day where families at in this case would be paying for this service and so it would be roughly 2 hours what we would offer for K 5 K through 5 knowing that there may be an Eevee on kender or before school care
071so this is potentially something that we're proposing that we could do and offer for next year so I'll just leave that there and if you have any questions as we move forward we have questions now I can address them really good to that the second bullet on there is what we supported on the district on writing a 21st century grant this is a federal grant that provides the schools with funding for summer school or equitable access funding which as this equitable access grant and we offer intervention we offer three sessions three ten week sessions a year and so we work closely with mr. Flores and we offer summer programming and we will this year for horses school sites Dalton which will be housed at a Haj it will be paramount Gladstone and that we do
072now I just feel like to know that thing together is it's like that's one of my all my blankets of opinion and I'm like my last grandson it's an eighth grader at Sarah and he's kind of set this you kept in heaven high school she does enjoy the sports and he does enjoy the afternoon when he else you know they just started hottie and whatnot me that I also see the students I'm studying doing their homework and it's really good it's a great program so this next slide is a is just our philanthropy efforts what the organization brings so it just shows all the different partnerships that we have another money we bring through their corporate efforts so this is where this is a physical status of where we're at with the Aces finding so
073as you all know there is a state initiative to increase minimum wage so that by 2022 their minimum wage will increase to $15 an hour and so what does that mean for us so for the Aces funding if you notice in the red line since we receive the funding after prop 49 was passed it has been pretty flat and stagnant and that hasn't allowed us to really continue the same model and structure that we have because of this increase in minimum wage and so the Green Line really indicates the impact or what its impact that we're having and the yellow line is really kind of where we're at as an organization to be able to support a program like this so the gap is if you notice the gap between the yellow line and the
074Green Line it becomes bigger as the increase comes in the years so the next slide is a video that we partner with other organizations statewide one in particular seeing create an advocacy organization that supports our efforts and asked to our state senators and Assembly members to be able to pass these [Music] so we won't be able to see it today but that's pretty much the gist of that statewide issue that it's not just here in Azusa it's really happening Stage one has been flat for so many years so what does that mean for us here and we think together now specifically here in Azusa so the solutions to address this issue have been with you so the the legislature fortunately last year we were in the same situation with the first minimum wage increase and
075because of everybody lobbying I mean I think there were after-school program students that went to Sacramento and we're just talking about the need for afterschool programming and for it to be funded even more than it fun needs to be increased and so last year fortunately we had a big win we have been fifty million dollars that was granted towards the support or offset some of the costs however there are now more efforts with a certain bill that's going to the assembly that I'm sorry $300,000 which is approximately 6% per year so in the next life that's it we'll break it down a little bit more to what does it mean here to here so what does that mean is that in this next fiscal year it would be fifty two thousand five hundred and if
076you notice the following years up until 2022 when we cap at $15 per hour it could it almost doubles every year after that so I'm gonna break it down even more this next slide talks about the proposed wave of the contingency plan so if the state doesn't act this is what we're saying that potential solution could be for this district so if we're serving 1169 students per day in our aces programs that could be two again offset those costs $45 per yield application processing fee for parents and was like every year because of the increase the impact would be again doubled so it would be 50 cents of next year I'm sorry 50 cent yeah per day the next year and then a dollar per day the following year and then up to a dollar
077fifty per day I had 2022 this is strictly related to wage increase yes that's correct so just the last bullet just for comparison you may be familiar with this but the market rate child care in LA County is around $500 per month and that's just strictly funded by fees well the 15,000 that we're saying the shortfall is really the the short while after after we ready have a eases crime so fortunately it's not that much for us because we're able to use most of the grant menus to be able to sustain the program but this forty five a year wouldn't be able to keep us so that were even a function that's the same way that we have the great thing is it's not just a daycare you know they do sports but they also
078need to get their homework and you know they have a career but then you can follow in you know a time frame so many minutes for this right somebody makes your back so it's not just today just babysitting them so I like that so within the [Music] Paige with the fees so what are other districts around is feeling right now the same wearing the same situation so we already as of so last year was a second year in that Asuza I'm sorry Baldock park and Doherty had application fees as well and they're actually a little higher every year is different but this year the plan is we have like an intent to apply for parents they attend a meeting and because we want to wait on the budget to see if that passes sentence included
079we want to hold off on collecting any fees until the fall closer to to school starting and have a parent meeting where we quote and inform parents that's why we're doing it on complete their registration form and collect the fee as well for low-income people I mean I know raising four kids we handle bit different at every district it really depends we call them a waiver or it could be like a scholarship we can scholarship students or families that can't afford that or there's accommodations depending on some districts we say they're two payments so we also have done as well and I choose to go back really quick to the question that you mentioned we collect it but I believe we credited how we depends on how we set up the contract with the district
080so we may credit the district and then depending on how much of the collect how much we worry but I feel like in order to deposit some of the cost [Music] yes oh that's that's a little correct so the gap hours for our early birds and late birds will continue to be funded under the young cap the the before school as she was mentioning for tk5 would be for before school hours and I think like 6:30 a.m. or something like that for parents that need to go to work early you could drop off their kids that would be an option that we can think about for parents to have a safe place to drop off their kids in the morning on the way to work like I do at my kids school and that would
081be a fee based program that think together would would run independently of the district all the kpop so you did it all right so we would start off in currently right now we have one class per site for Kinder's so I'm going to submit it may be more than one class per site depending on the need so if there are more and we serve twenty to twenty-five potential in one class so it could I could see it being more than that because of you mentioned I think was balding partner party that have this application fee do you recall what their fee is and how does does it is it built up to allow for students who are on a waiver scholarship yes so if both districts have $75 a year per student and then the
082other $100 per student per year so it's a little bit higher and sometimes they have to also support with other services that we may want to give back to the students during the after-school hours so it I think it was a way to kind of make sure that we covered the cost the gap and then at the same time to be able to support any other needs or service and given how quickly the costs may rise is there any plan to decipher they you know the the Faison could expensive her family's been doubling we're going up by fifty dollars each year there's a way or other districts thinking about a way to to put some money to save these each year to kind of slow down that path and as far as long-term goals or
083long-term solutions I know that there's other propositions that we're trying to go after to try to assess some of the costs but that's our number one solution is for the state budget to include this in the 75 million and that would potentially support those long-term costs so and that this we were in the same situation last year but those two districts decided to keep the fee either way so that I could support other services so one other district they we it was I think what we did we were gonna do the fee and then when we got the 50 million for this current year we ended up not having to go through the me so what's what's been the experience as far as retention when we entered what would have the support recognized have been
084done to make sure that people had nothing territory yeah the the parents at the end of the day actually ended up saying you know I always wanted to give and I appreciate all the time that we provide so it hasn't been a huge issue I would say if anything maybe at first with middle school students and could be parents may see it as well they can do they really need the program but you know what after this last year it was two districts it wasn't actually a problem their attendance I think definitely it was a change and it was a little bit difficult to for parents to understand even how we function with the funding but at the end of the day they they're there and they're attending Emmett hasn't impacted our numbers that's a
085clarifying question you mentioned with the with the fee and maybe you can tell us about the other districts you said you know it's an upfront fee or you said sometimes it's like two payments you don't have any distance at do monthly payments are you doing that [Music] so it was for targeted students that [Music] the information so how soon do you advertise it or how do you ever try to get the community to the families so usually around the spring at the end of the year we start communicating to parents the enrollment process and so what we would do is send out this is the thinking is sending out the cup of letters to parents informing them of the enrollment process and what that consists of so this is why we would probably roll out
086a intent to apply online for parents to be able to express interest and that we were still honoring the first come first serve especially at some sites where we have long wait lists and from there they would be invited to a parent meeting in the fall before the school year would start so that they would be they would know that they would have a spot and they don't have to worry about those payments until closer to the beginning of the school year so is any way to communicate that back to us and we work closely with our district partners regarding what something from our CEO regarding us so we could definitely spread that information so that we can we are fortunate to have it's up there in state that are supporting these efforts on partying
087also our senator Portantino was a big advocate for after-school so I know that we have already people in our community ordered that so be happy to prepared letter for on behalf of the board the other question that I have is in terms of in case the money doesn't get appropriated what is your recommendation for us in terms of school district coming up with the plan physical things and you know kind of the backup thing here in terms of timeline in so you can communicate with the parents and developing a sense of the scope of what their fees might cover what would be helpful for you guys in and to help them support understanding them yeah so I think there would be a this letter that would go out during this process to inform the community
088and parents of of what that means and when it would be expected to pay the fees and we would provide an update on what happened if we receive the funding we would communicate that out and we would say here's where we're at do we want to go forward with the with this via in the fall or Dubi Dubi non and that we we've looked at more on the long-term impact at that point so I guess in the meantime could you be working with with Gary grill to look at some models think about what might work here with what we've seen in other districts - thank you so that other sites that you indicated to you someone who needs based on those things remember the place that used to how many participating that kind of a
089celebrity and for administration essentially know what so rather than just really realizing no I think a presentation you were indicating the fact that some of the sites that you serve its you work closely with the administrators to see what are some other needs of the students I'm asking is out of the number of the sites that use their company and that's an ongoing collaboration to all of them should be having monthly meetings with with the administrator on campus or maybe a teacher bleeds it depends so every site should be working collaboratively with them to incorporate some of the strategies but you may see it be the collaboration efforts may be stronger in some than others but by all means every site should be having those meetings regularly to be would incorporate some of those strategies
090that our dates already incorporate and then if we can add I think once a year site ministers come with everything together leads to district office and think together leadership and the distribution and they also do a collaborative exercise at that point time the district office and we do that year it's already presented to the principal so that they can work with the site coordinator on potential next steps or action plans so they can collaborate better around a specific areas that they notice based on either the data or just the goals that the instructional date has happened usually August September [Music] okay so now we're moving on to 10.2 of the on statements excellent eligibility Lydia will be crossbone vice president everyone my name is Corinne lost Godwin lost got consulting and joining me here is
091Laurie rubies and she's the vice president and to be brief I want to remind everybody been presented here before at least twice and work for you since 2014 as your state funding consultant and the service that we provide to district is a specific service relating to school facilities funding from the state of California or school facilities for your building program types of map any supports and so we do is we buy all the eligibility documents we basically do a lot of analysis to determine what you're eligible for or modernization there was a little bit of a new construction funding there's a lot of analysis that goes into determining what you're eligible for on school by school basis you determine what projects are qualify for the program and then there's a lot of paperwork to be
092found with various agencies to pursue the State Department of Education and an agency closely with the consultants that you have dealing with prop 39 energy efficiency the consultant Elena Romero and her team and your two architectural systems and so all of that together is a multi-year effort and even once we file the application with the office of public school construction it will take a number of years before you have the cash in hand we are involved with the process from the moment we identify the eligibility through the application finally through the eventual audit process so there's a lot of work involved I came from Irvine Unified and worked there for over 13 years since 1987 as their facilities director Lori followed in my footsteps and was it the facilities director at Irvine Unified until September
093and I'm pleased to say that we have for our team now with that I'm going to have Lori take over and then I'll come and talk to you about your specific money thank you so much good evening I wanted to give you different update on the state funding program there I'm not going to go over in detail but at least it's there for you as a reference and also if you ever have specific questions always feel free to reach out to us the state's facili program which we call an SSP is the program that we're working within and the bond that was passed in November of 2016 was proposition 51 which funded nine million from K through 14 schools a k-12 portion was made up of new construction funding there was three billion allocated for
094that program as of the end of February there was 580 million remaining modernization funding was allocated at 3 billion think about 1.4 billion billion would mean at the end of February as well and there's an additional program career tech education which other programs this is an entitlement program which means that there are rules that are applied across the state for many districts there are many requirements for their own and a lot of the programs are made up of different formulas to establish your eligibility so every district is entitled to this if they were to pursue it and that's where we come in and assist your districts like yourself because it is a very complex program if you're not working with it daily just to provide you a brief status update on composition 51 vocations are
095currently on a workload list and they're submitted in since 2013 there was no funding for a very long time and it wasn't until the bond was approved by voters in November 2016 did funding get replenished to help fund school construction within the state recently in spring 2018 or the bond sale at the state level for 157 million which funded a small portion of those applications that were received in the summer of 2013 so the state is slowly reviewing and processing applications and slowly selling bonds with this huge workload there has also have not been an effort at the state level to fund the agency that receives and processes applications so it's contributing to the slow process of review new construction funding Authority it's expected to be committed all the way through fall 2018 and then
096for modernization through early 2019 what that means is that if we submit our applications before that time we have a pretty good chance of getting funded it may be hard it does not get funded at that point it will be maintained on a workload list and we are already hearing news that there's already gonna be pushed for 2020 state facilities bond so that's good news for state funding is top chef Pete requirements and they are subject to change in that they are aware of what those are because we want to make sure that you are able to see eligibility or seek funding for any projects that you're eligible for a lot of the items are self certification but may be audited later so we want to inform you and intention to eat your staff to
097make sure that not only when you receive the money as well the planning for state grant us Korean mentioned the starting point is when your state eligibility is making that determination and they're reviewing it on an annual basis to ensure that there's opportunity to capture a high watermark of your eligibility because it is based on age and enrollment in your schools so that's something we also want to ensure that you can find all your modernization support potential of future state funds so those are those compliance requirements that will be educating your team that they're not already aware we can make sure that they aren't fully aware but those are so that we don't have any projects that are ineligible we will assist with filing application with the California Department of Education division the state architect
098and the office of public school construction and as I mentioned the application new and funded on the first come first serve basis we have here the eligibility and funding an application process we're not going to go over it in detail but it just demonstrates the steps that are involved and why it takes time start to finish to determine your eligibility various agency approvals and then submit and then receive funds the eligibility adjustment analysis what we're looking for on that annual basis is your seedbeds enrollment weight as I mentioned we want to make sure that we are capturing that high-water mark for any of your schools in order to increase eligibility at your particular sites and then you have also the opportunity or new construction eligibility which is based on district-wide enrollment using a Roma projection
099similar to a cohort survival method we is something that we do for all of our clients as well so so all the sites that are eligible then the enrollment has increased if it's increased any time yes not to mention if you may have already utilized some of your eligibility so it doesn't disqualify the eligibility if you meet all the other factors you say it's one of the many countries that's considered your modernization eligibility is looking at your site specific eligibility and is based off the facility's data square footage of your buildings here's your them they're built here's a table at that's at Pete grant amount you may just you know if you needed to reference this but this is one of the formulas that are used when we're determining their eligibility and we're providing you
100grant estimates they're based off of these formulas which include different unknown grade level classroom loading our new construction amounts and our modernization amounts per student so these are current rent amounts per student promoter each in there for 25 years and 50 years [Music] there are more funds to modernize a project the modernization project is any improvement to building or grounds the only caveat here is that you cannot expand square footage or increase your capacity so modernization isn't adding a relocatable which is going to increase your capacity but it is modernizing and existing relocated and oftentimes we are looking at opportunities to fund projects that actually have been already constructed so we could go far as far back as mighty tiny and look for projects that are modernization eligible and we could seek reimbursement for those
101projects which is why we always encourage you on all your prospective projects that you comply with yes equity regulations so in case you don't have eligibility today you made five seven years and we can utilize in the project construction work that you're constructing now at a future date and the match is typically a sixty percent state contribution and a forty percent local contribution which would be your local Teavana in those cases now I'm going to hand it over to Corinth is going to give you a snapshot of your eligibility for it some of your schools there's a lot of detail in here but here's the good numbers so back in August back in August of 2017 I was here reviewing with you the ropes eligibility that we had established which was about twenty-three point eight
102million dollars and that remains the high-water mark of eligibility that we have today it's not in your pocket but about twenty three point eight million dollars is the amount that we had when we totaled up the eligibility for all of your schools Daniel beginning to draw down on a school by school basis so what I wanted to show you here was the amount on the schools where we've actually planned or we've actually filed some applications so even back in August these were already filed so this isn't really new information it's a recap of what's been filed since we established the twenty three point seven million dollars and so those applications are waiting in line at Sacramento to get funded out of prop 51 and I think their meaningful to you some of them have been
103denied some of them have been completed and the amount in the far right column is the amount that you can expect that amount that you expect on the right that says about eight point six million is actually going to show up every year they have a construction was about construction cost increase every January construction costs go up this last year went up about 5% so let's say you don't get funded until January February 2020 the well please get the benefit of the instructional cost adjustments give a current timeline for whether we're going to be funded I wish I did but for each one is different it goes by when it was done and if you can tell me who's going to be governor in their perspective on letting the cash fly out of their coffers
104for debt service maybe give you a projection so then you have a projection oh do you know where we are in terms of the line yeah I do I don't have that at my fingertips but every project is in a different position in the line and so they were filed in largely in 2017 to get even were filed in 2018 so most of those are looking and I really would say that they're likely to get funded in 2020 2020 2014 because even if they can move as quickly as I were to charge it takes so much time to move the people so that's my projection right now so you identify 23 million correct 23 million is how much is in your accounts we have to draw from those accounts in actual projects [Music] so we
105met eight point seven million on that slide as the applications have been filed today thank you have questions on that slide that's what's in Sacramento today and to answer your question they're all in different positions and I can provide that information to dr. Kaminsky so that she has that you can see the position we've been holding off on doing much with that information until January until we have some sense of when there might be different momentum the momentum has been so ridiculously slow that if I were to base it on the current rate of releases you would end up being 2026 you don't want to hear that so I'm waiting for details so are you saying the other sites are also eligible but at the so we [Music] go to next slide here and does
106the amount that we still have left and this is the you so if you are on that slide in your packet will see that we have projects that are in the planning stage at these schools and there are some schools that don't appear on a list at all doesn't mean that we don't have money means that I don't have a qualified project with which to draw on that money so as an example I've got Charles Lee Elementary I have a project worth 1.5 million I think it's bidding tomorrow HVAC and roof and there's still 1.8 million left in the account after that 1.5 million so I'm not interested in filing that 1.5 I'm interested in figuring out what else from that package with that because I want to use more of what's in that account
107oh there was another 1.8 million I would like to add more to it fortunately Braylon had told me there's a fire alarm it just got added to it so I'm going to add that to it and I think you added portable roof work I'm gonna try to add to it so constantly try to figure out where else so that answers your question sir but I'm trying to throw out more of your account the sooner we access it the better so our project the modernization projects that the schools have been going in in the order of the rudest underground in classrooms booths under your classrooms so for this example II that's a roof project with HVAC and summer probably be there under gonna be Chili's is that eligible it's absolutely and you know if you told
108me was coming out of DSA by August 2019 I'd be pretty comfortable leaking at 1.8 in there because you're probably going to spend 1.8 and I don't think I could spend 1.8 on the portable roofs of the fire alarm anyway so there's going to be money left for the underground utilities in conversation you know the underground utilities always good at ESA or not or do they go for this purpose they're expensive and they'll lead up the rest and there will be enough occur so we will so basically what you're saying is every every schools got money associated with it well the ones that were using they were drawing down all I have so far on the school for that offense he needs it almost a little over in half with applications in line already we've
109got this six million dollars worth of projects planned we're not going to file an application until it's really ready until we've exhausted options of adding anything else to it and we're pretty close to finding Li it sounds like probably the next couple of months and I'm happy to hear that there's the other ticket items for lis around the corner regarding Marquis and I have got some high school was also going to have a martini - table sits on this other looks like information but I've got the Azusa Markey but the way this works is the state says that I have to file a grant application of six hundred thousand dollars or all of your observers less so the Marquis I want to say is probably [Music] so now moving out to 10.3 the 2017-2018 Azusa
110Unified School District the Ulster Bank presentation good evening president how-to video board members on the committee and cabinet this evening we are very excited to have different team members of the education services department helping to present the next two presentations this first one concentrating on the annual on the district annual survey the overall objective of the survey the reason we administer it and give it is to provide I don't need a district the community with information about our progress or the goals that we have outlined in our outcome and to capture sentiment and to capture how different stakeholders perceptions are about how we are doing so this is school year we administered four different surveys we administer an English parent survey a Spanish parent survey a staff survey and a student survey that was given
111to six through twelve raiders and we do have the honor today of having not only the actual survey but also influenced the decision on on who to administer the survey to and so I'd like them to just come up briefly just to present themselves and just share a couple of words about their experience with the high school student I'll cap process [Applause] yes my name is Victor Duong I am a senior attending kazusa high and I'm gonna wanted to share my experiences of being into this student and I want to thank Robert Franco for introducing and providing me the opportunity to attend and what I want to speak about is probably opportunities attending these multiple meetings allowed me to receive different opportunities I got the opportunity to meet up with some old friends who departed
112from my life ever since we graduated from middle school I had the opportunity to learn about basically how money works how the district's calculates and distributes money based on population of students and such but personally I think the value and our meetings aren't just in what we learn or or what I have personally experienced that's just the face value I feel like I'm graduating from oh we had our last D I believe February and well right now is just just providing my reflection and as I follow the opportunity and I was shown the ropes and what this program has a lot of house show me wasn't how money was distributed in such but rather the bigger teacher a community that make up those numbers and I these numbers they're affecting the people [Applause] [Music] to
113do and it just really helped me I was going to a scene how we just learned about the community and learn about what we do here but I think that I really appreciated that I was picked was because here were you guys topic of my first meeting I do [Music] like the duplicates as a quick reminder the way the student teams are put together we got a little preview here is that each of these student board members from each high school we give them an opportunity to to actually apply their leadership skills work with the administration worked with Jennifer and give them an opportunity to really think about how to formulate that team that's going to come to the to the district office at D in the high school so so thank you gentlemen that
114was that was great we do want to let you know that all of our surveys were electronic so we thank the communication departments and the MIS for the light links and the QR codes I went to arm our stakeholders posted on the web sites and sending through social media whatnot we did have paper copies available for those who desired them and we are happy to announce that this year we exceeded that this year we exceeded the numbers from previous years and so our numbers keep going up I think I haven't checked locally recently but definitely previous years and we were definitely getting more survey results than the districts who are twice as large as our so which about that and then lastly I do want you to know that the presentation today is a summary
115of this document that you were that you were given right now so this document is all of the details to the bone this will be posted on our website this week in English and in Spanish for the community to the middle school then you have a further breakdown there if you want to see by a grade level we have to be percent from the preschool as well so these are our 1101 parents broken up by by their levels in regards to students you'll see that it was pretty evenly distributed so we served in our sixth of 12th graders and again there's a pretty pretty even distribution there that you see from our from our kids total 1654 students participate in the survey on the next slide you see our staff staff survey here the overwhelming
116majority of respondents prepared to the other groups about half of them or our teachers which comprise a 48% then then came our classified staff our instructional support staff and that's some of our teachers of special assignment district a minute I diabetic counselors we had a total of 638 respondents for the survey this point of time I like to call it Jennifer who walk you through the next couple of slides good evening the next three slides I want to share with you will give you kind of an overall big picture I asked some questions on the survey about satisfaction of the three groups and so we'll look at that as well as their perceptions of opportunities to provide input and decision-making in the district so this first slide you can see is our current results and
11770% of our parents really are satisfied with the experiences their students are having in in our schools and down below you can see that 60% agree in June ADIZ and 34 neither green nor disagree and then about a quarter of them feeling that when our staff were asked we see that two-thirds almost two over two thirds 69 percent of our staff said that they are satisfied with their experiences in their school or work location over half of those surveyed also agree that they have opportunities for input into school and district issues about a quarter of those surveys feel that they would not offer those opportunities and close to a similar amount are kind of in between and again all three of these sites are just kind of some overall big picture results some of the
118things that are in announced of course as you get into the bigger report many of the responses are grouped by our ell cap goals and so we will will kind of proceed from this point forward transitioning to looking at a few more of the results in the big picture still but do it by El Cap goal and to do this I'm going to kind of turn the presentation over to some of our El Cap leads data miss was going to be reviewing four goals one and two gary entire goal or every action service within it they've just kind of agreed to be the spokespeople tonight for this presentation as well as the one to follow so without further ado I will ask dr. Dana mentioned to join us and talk about pulse one - good
119evening the questions aligned to loops the questions are the one to go one sought to gain input and perceptions about improving academic achievement and closing achievement gaps between student groups some of the survey results aligned ago 1 are displayed in the slide one of the four the points that I think is is very exciting is the student response regarding the opportunities for discourse in collaboration 78% of students agree or strongly agree that discourse and collaboration is part of coursework this strongly aligns to the professional learning that we have been doing with respect to our new ela LD curriculum our year two of mathematics especially the work that we have been doing with Callie around student academic discourse and our second language learners the data shared on the slide or gold - focuses on some of
120the questions that online - our second goal some of the results that we see around goal to include parent and student satisfaction within word English Learner and instruction parents of English learners and students who are English learners we're both asked to read their satisfaction with instruction for English Learner 80% of both groups expressed satisfaction Maxon English learners agreed that parents of English learners are provided with support and resources to help their children learn and when it comes to satisfaction with real services parent satisfaction 75% students at 76 and staff results showed a 77 just to summarize so does fine exactly adding the degree in astronomy combined right let you estimating okay so wouldn't agree why is it if everyone does it yeah it's there I agree but knowing something that exists is that a challenge
121is that something that I think the other piece too is that on some of the questions that strongly agree agree then you also have in some of the questions neither agree nor disagree so some level of in both ambivalence and then whether they you know did not agree so I'm not quite sure the nuances between the strongly agree and agreeing them perhaps the level of enthusiasm and a lot of the especially with the professional learning opportunities this would encompass many areas of professional learning whether that's obstruction whether it's PBIS and they used a multi-faceted so it's a fair question Susan oh good evening all right I'm over three I presented this information to Ministry Thursday and the counselors as well at both the middle school and high school they got some perceptions from them as
122well on some of these results area of college going culture and you'll see that about seventy percent or about two-thirds of parents students and staff feel that there's generally a college-going control culture when you look at the two under college preparation and career preparation and about 50% of those three groups feel that students are college prepared or prepared one of the things that the counselors administrators maybe ponder some of your own practices so one of the things that they routinely do every year so they do an exit survey with eighth graders moving to ninth grade from 12th graders that are graduating and they'd like to incorporate a little bit of detail regarding those two questions because same thing with the college career counseling we're seeing that 60% the students are saying that they were being
123advised with regard to course word that would lead to college of career and of course that's going to be really different between middle schoolers and high schoolers so both of the administrators and the counselors asked for a little bit more detail so they get dig in and identify specifically areas that can again help inform their practice one of the powers of a perception survey like this couple would process the raise that you're already doing an outcome data is to help you inform your practice indeed you know and help to find goals and activities going forward they prepare to take that on along with their administrators they meet collaboratively before the year ends and then establish some goals objectives dig in a little bit on this to see those results improve and do that I will
124now bring Gary for this slide speech to leadership next bullet students are safe at school 60% and I felt they're safe at school again this was the strongly agree agree so so why are students so as our they know what's going on students feel connected to school in the slides that support this you can see that you know my teacher that's the thing you know when they say students feel connected you know I think of what I'm thinking as a student I'm like you know connected like you know with the clarification what does that mean connected and what my teachers and my grade is mine weeping understand static with some of those questions I think the students would be able to fight for us and this gives us something to go talk to students the
125last bullet in satisfaction are satisfied and I feel strongly about the involvement because I do see it and you go to space but because of the internet centers and the readings and I do see from elementary school a little bit higher we have part where parents and even in high school you even have fathers there you know so I I myself see the difference on on them parents feeling comfortable to come to the school to the school site and get involved I have gold 5 just clean maintain our facilities when there's a huge discrepancy but I just recorded by the different groups here so you can see that our parents of staff made 70% of the dark facilities are clean but our students have a completely different perspective so that's something that I'm looking forward
126to reaching out to find out where my he had such a large gap folks that are the same site may be experienced in figuring out where that gap but I also know anecdotally that we have room to grow what we do the studies mean especially on the maintain site there's several projects that were trying to get through the pipeline so that where our schools can look their best and represent what's happening instituted many new measures to get that corrected we're exploring new systems that way we can make sure that no no orders were orders getting dropped we're working hard to make sure that we're reporting back to the staff to let them know that it was closed and with our current system is not that friendly to be able to report back with the statuses
127directly to the end-user so that's one of the things we're hoping to correct I'm gonna report back or believe we're staff in those items have been not just fixing them and so why are you saying that you're going to that we're going because we adopted an online system when two years ago so you are you saying you're going to be looking for a new vendor is that what you're saying for next year grants and then what about the access issues in terms of the Figment report talked about connectivity for us bro for me it's tough to be able to belt the forms of how we go through that issue so by the end of this school year my ass welcome outdoor wireless access points installed and so in any general area our guy should have
128access to those work orders or update those work orders and not have to wait to get back to the district office and then maybe a physical paid forget to update just happen so being able to update live on the site when they finish and a report goes back to the user that that again has been closed so who checks that the job they're being done because that was part of the grant important you know they were being signed up if they were not being done have a feedback mechanism in the work item that'll be part of that process to verify that it was I'm sorry like feedback around understanding it's gonna go see that the job is done or that's good what does that mean the differential when they work where is completed a notice
129will go back to the person who put in the order that says this work order that's been completed this thing and this time there's an option to take pictures and put in there in one of the systems or we're looking at and there's an issue still remaining and they can keep that ticket and say no you know you know the light still doesn't work so we have a large backlog that we Darrin I'm going to put you on the spot the backlog of work orders what would you say we're down to so I'm actually I appreciate that and so but I'm not referring to the practice of when you complete a project actually completing the form right to get backs has been an issue so my question is how are we gonna put in how
130what what are we gonna put in place to ensure that that happens so there's multiple parts which is one giving the gentlemen around that field access to put that in so that is almost complete and you know and pretty much everything right now they should have full access to do that the next part is holding us accountable or including those and now that the backlog has come you know pretty much complete when items go beyond the certain number of days it's much easier all of it saying what's going on with this item that's been in the cube or two weeks so that the accountability becomes much easier to both go on and you don't have items like we did last school year that were in their firm so I feel like this isn't so I
131appreciate that with the backlog is now being kind of but I do feel like this has been an ongoing issue that has been trying to be a tackled by different so I I will defer to you as the best way to do it but I feel like the board needs to have online updates about like the number of work orders and those competitions and I know we've talked about that before so I think that needs to be built into we're doing reporting on other issues that needs to be built as well it isn't which we can run and we'll show how many work orders have repeated on your outstanding and a length of time of you know the longest orders that are in the system is what our schools offer as far as food and
132so this has been a huge issue with the board that we want to make sure that our kids have fresh healthy options we do everything possible to stretch our dollars make sure that our kids don't just have those Madhavi meals stella does an amazing job at working to stretch those dollars so I want to commend you on be able to do that and I think it's reflected in in the surveys when you look at the details actual application where people are recognizing that fresh options are available maybe the kids don't like all the fresh options okay they definitely are seeing it have made a difference and we have those fresher options so just to clarify for me so this I know we only give the healthy conserving to students is there an initial assuming that
133we get to stop and this does have a component where parents and staff members 2d tells us that everybody or only 50 so oh so we are so my question that this so this is I appreciate this data but I also know this is an annual process right so what I really want understand is especially if there is the same questions how things have changed from year to year so we're going to be using this as input and using it for continuous improvement to change I want to understand where this is put us a compared to last year and why and so I don't see that in there and so I guess I could turn to you and say however we house it we can get to support my time in creating the surveys was
134fix it or you know make it better me first some of the some of the leads have alluded to the fact that they were counselors at our last principal meeting to look at their data and give them an opportunity to kind of reflect on some of the things that they are excited about and why and then some of the things that they are challenged with and and why and to kind of start thinking about those things and start reacting to those to those items I think called listening circles where they get together they get the high school students there in a circle they get to say whatever they want and they don't have to sit there and listen to them so I really want to think about if we're going to do engagement right and
135we're going to make sure that we're getting the student having that student input and I would be authentic I mean I want to make sure that we design a system where it really can be often it doesn't feel guided by a goal yep another thing we're kind of giving previous but one thing that we've already talked about again it's continuous cycle of improvement is that right now for this school year as you heard gentlemen here they've graduated from the high school to make that better for next year we need to bring them back after this survey and and engage them in protocols and activities to dig in deeper like okay I think this is 45% in circle as a Socratic seminar whether that's whatever that may be that's already something that has been decided for
136next year that we would have this high school student now cap team not be done but actually these results so I notice I there's a contest three kids cuz I know this you know you're not going to just different parts place in the middle school and high school so the mom has to go through every single one in back in back right so part of the reason of that and that is that it's time I had three times night I know part of the reason behind that though is that when we we want and we did share the results with schools we want parents responding for a particular student at a particular student at school so you know if I have an illiterate student at Dalton I want to respond my Dalton experience and then
137if I have a student you know its loss of middle school then I want to respond separately and and we have a survey monkey that does do what you just described that branching and I'm trying to do that more and more and hopefully mixture I'll be able to find a way to make that even easier for this time it was to a child they get discouraged they don't all my nan are through the middle school and I get to the high school you know it happened so I just want to know how to make it easier for them this to definitely be looking at ways to improve the process question number two students staff parents so there's my numbers of answers that that would be like to don't know what does that mean I'm sorry
138are you on the slide you're in actual page 12 for example class materials such as books and computer programs are provided specifically learners perhaps you know a staff member or even a parent might not be aware of it there are those things some amazing communication being Sundays it's something that's not be related to me that's there's a lot of work and that's where the quantitative data gives us a really great place to start so it's like what staff there's a lot of don't know was in that aspect of it the communication with parents from vacation and stuff if there's a higher percentage of the staff and that and that was because I did this exact question make sure it's not just branching yeah this was a question asked of all staff and all work locations
139and so providing that in a or don't know was is for people who really don't know if I've never been on the district YouTube account I really can't say whether I'm satisfied and so that is interesting communication there because this is a new a new thing for us and we got to get some people figure out ways it's a good typography that provides certain over picture I say from just look forward I think it would be much more diving in to really understand what this means motivations for actually in real time is what people are thinking all right be ready for our next presentation you still want to say matter yes so we are moving to the next item I'm moving up happy so we're on 10.4 2017-2018 okay April update correct yes [Music] surveyed
140presentation we have a PowerPoint presentation that provides you kind of a high-level view of the update and and then we have a very lengthy document that outlines every single El Cap goal and these these are available will be available online in English and Spanish [Music] just update we did an update in January so now we're coming back to you with this local update on our milk app and a few weeks ago our overnight presented kind of what we call the prototypes if you're on that journey and I wanted to show you some of the improvements we were going to make to the update and and then also increase that updates for you and so I first of all let me thank you for your feedback at that meeting and we've taken that input apply those
141ideas and you'll see that in this report so this presentation along with that Associated written report contains you know those enhancements and now what you have is you have the entire five out cap goals updated and similar to the presentation on the survey we're going to tap are no path leads to share some of the results and some of the things from this report and they're not but they share some responsibility for some of the actions and services so little responding increases okay so just a quick roadmap as we walk through the the PowerPoint slides we're going to walk through do a reminder of what the goal is and first start talking about how how we're doing bergen's am going to examine the metrics and look at how we're progressing towards meeting the goal second
142the El Cap lead will come and we'll share what we are doing and this will give you just a few highlights from the big written report of the actions and services that have been accomplished since the January update and some of the steps were taking to meet our goals and then finally we'll end by looking at what we are spending at each goal and you'll see an update on the supplemental and concentration funding that was budgeted in the El Cap right now I'm going to have our troll come up and start with one all right so blue one as we know is centered around student achievement and like Jennifer spoke about based on the feedback from the prototype session we did make some changes so thank you to this presentation so I'd like to turn
143your attention to page five really quickly so when we ask how we are doing this is the talked about the space view in the ALP cap to measure goal one so here from the January update there is no update with the exception of the last metric which is the number of students enrolled in the orchestra program that left from 38 to 47 all the other metrics are static because their metrics that have been just once a unit at this point time date is gonna come and kind of talk a little bit about what we are doing a gold one I think you can give me some highlights from our goal and key progress we continue to have a robust professional learning plan for our ela ela and mathematics curriculum we've had six days this is
144year one of our wonders and our collections curricular program we've had six days or elementary and six days for our secondary teachers for professional learning we've also continued on with mathematics this is year two and when I say here one in year two we plan with each option of curriculum we plan for it eighth year professional learning plan and each year after the after the user documentation we really do evaluate what those needs are going to be for the next year to determine the direction that will go so this year has been a year two for mathematics and one of the things that we're excited about what the professional learning has really been opportunities for lesson study in inquiry models with our teachers and this is where we have been gathering some evidence from classrooms
145we analyze the data in our professional learning communities will reflect plan and clarify our teaching and learning which that look like and then create and readjust a practice as well so we're excited about that we've also we're continuing again with special education workshops training coaching course offerings we continue to offer arts and performing arts we continue to offer Spanish one at the middle schools I think Studies at the high schools and intervention courses in ela and ELT as well we have acquired some grants 110 over one hundred and ten thousand dollars this year has been acquired by our grant writer we have one for Foothill middle school from the opportunities for water Leadership Program we also received a grant Dodgers Kaminsky's Lake Oh superintendent of the Year award and we were recently awarded a multi-tiered
146system of support grant we have two grants that are pending what is symphonies for schools grant to the LA Philharmonic and also a 20,000 Project Lead the Way gateway grant we continue we have just supplemental English language arts and eld material also purchased instruments for Orchestra and for our mariachi as well all schools have received funding to enhance their school libraries and we're also very excited about the technology equipment that we were able to purchase this year every single la eme teacher in grades 6 through 12 received a Chromebook cart with a class set of Chromebooks and I can tell you from any classrooms that the teachers or the students are super excited it's been it's been awesome and Jennifer so if you go to the next slide in our presentation we are showing you
147here then what we are spending here's the budget for goal 1 and you can see the total amount budgeted and at the top then you can see what we spent in January which is a little over five million and this is dollars and then a balance then remaining that it was spend between now and July 1 continuing to work towards our goal our actions this is within the normal range and as we come to the close of the Year movie not equal to which focuses on our our achievement for English learners their academic achievement as well as their language development and and we seek to increase our reclassification rates as well as decrease the number of English learners and if you recall those are students who have been identified as English learners for more than
148six years and so this school is around that that area so when we look at the metrics we see on page 17 of the big written report is where you have kind of that that high-level view of all of the metrics that are aligned to go to similarly we have some that remain the same we have our spec results for our English learners reclassification rates and one of the things I want to know the reclassification notice there is a rain in there of 5.9% and one of the things that's impacting that right now is because we're in a transition here with a new language assessment called the l pack and the L pack is not only in a new and different test different from the salt the previous language assessment test but it is also
149has a different timing so we are I think we're almost done or just a big tail end of finalizing all of the OPAC testing for our students we only sort of self tested the final so test takers were in the fall now it's a very select few students so the vast majority of our English learners taking this new L pack test now and so we will see some reader classifications occur after we get those scores back but that won't be tolerance this is all part of the the shift that the state has made in this test and so we're in a little bit of flux and as the years progress as soon as the next year you'll begin to see self disappear from L caps and you'll see that ll pack which is that English
150language performance assessments for California that's the full name of that assessment so those are just some of the metrics you can see there the actions and services in the progress so goal to actions and services have provided improvement the one of the actions has been in collaboration with our etk and preschool teachers as they have been receiving professional learning in preschool foundations in the framework and we have been very excited we've been working with the California preschool instructional network through Glencoe and they have provided professional learning for teachers and classroom coaching as well matter of fact this Friday and next Friday our TK and preschool teachers are participating in two lesson studies cycles with the DC Penn network as well so their first we have continued training and coaching for the implementation of our new
151curriculum in eld we also have a monthly Dual Immersion PLC and curriculum implementation opportunities for our dual teachers we continue with our course offerings we're offering 13 sections at all three high schools we have 12 Dual Immersion classes in preschool grades 1 preschool kindergarten and first grade and also grades 4 and 5 we also in terms of program implementation and supports we have supplementary services for second language learners with our consultant Christina robots who has been doing some professional learning with teachers and coaching demonstrations as well in the classrooms she has helped us to align our new curriculum with the eld framework in both language arts and mathematics as well so Dana are all teachers videos are the ELL coaching from Christina but all teachers did receive online MoU with our curriculum with the eld
152standards now with secondary language arts and elevated language arts teaching as well so all of them did receive that piece this is the second year for that as well we we did that last year with her we are really excited about the training for the elpac implementation as Jennifer mentioned earlier at the secondary level 100% of ministers are teachers which we do believe will really benefit our test takers 168 classified and certificated employees have been trained in the implementation of and administration of the L pack and 147 of those are our teachers purchases we continue to purchase loss link do they monitor and tool that's very language assessment that's similar to to what was used before the salt I do so I'd like to know I don't eat it right now but I want to
153know the percentage of our tasters winners that are in the di programs so it can be the percentage in that Mel's grade level because we don't we're only up to watch their email first da program and then in terms of a terms of the responsibility to strip the needs of English learners of our we need to make sure that across all of our teachers and all of our instructors especially at the secondary level that they see their responsibility to help with their language development of English learners I appreciate the question because this is the work that we've been doing with Kali for the last two years and so we've started as you know we started with a prototype group of 28 teachers last year they had six days of professional learning this year we have
154a pilot group as well thirty-one teachers whereby we delivered and improved professional learning opportunity one of the things that we've been doing with this this project with Kali and partnership with Stanford University is really looking at the academic discourse of especially our second language learners right through collaborative conversations and we have collected data from 18 of our pilot or prototype teachers really looking at student conversations and try ankling that data with writing samples as well we have seen a positive increase in student writing when students are engaged in collective conversations with one another so this is some work in terms of trying to figure out what is the impact of this work and we're definitely finding that it's been very positive next year is our launch district-wide for Cali and so this is where all
155we'll be getting days one two and three of those six professional learning day so matter of fact next week when we attend our Kali convenient which is which is very excited so we're excited about it we know it's making an impact we know it's working and we can't wait to go district white just enough forward to the next slide you can see the budget update and cumulative and move on to go free just doing a college readiness 5:11 I'm sorry my own it's really just a quick reflection on page 25 28 of the big report you see the lists of many many metrics for row 3 and again many of them are things that we get only in an earlier were waiting on a particular a3g actually I just got an email the state has
156released that data I think was today or yesterday so we'll be getting those updates in your next November actuals and here is Susan to share a little bit about what's going on all right to ensure post high school success in the college and career basically get them in and get them through and and the universities are looking at that as well and we do that with relevant and rigorous instruction and various other programs so with that said and we have a number of areas we're going to cover in I I could make a huge list and I won't go there because a lot of that is available to you but I will profile a few things with regard to current professional learning opportunities for the teachers who have to deliver that instruction we look at
157he Beckham instruction new programs that have been recognized to meet this objective Abaddon's we have 38 teachers last year that were trained specifically in avid strategies and that did not just include an elective instructors it also included some core academic instructors and the administrators that will be supervising the program with the primary goal in the long term to look at avid school-wide strategies to incorporate it across the board because it's research-based instruction that actually demonstrates success AP and IB we've had 21 instructors that have received instruction in delivering that curriculum particularly in the areas of where that curriculum is vies and reviewed afghan annually CTE teachers have received specific instruction not just in how to deliver a CT instruction but specifically in their area of expertise to improve their practice and to keep their work
158experience current which is one of the requirements with CTE teachers and then the counselors received any training in strategic planning with some hope and expectation we have a lot of online instruction that we now do we've done integrative math and accelerated programs in integrative math and it's important to note that not only we've written those but we've delivered every one of those to you see for approval so that their college prep eligible we have CTE courses new ones in information technology computer science engineering and we are currently writing two courses in hybrid electric vehicle technology and all that is being funded through grants the students that will actually receive an opportunity to take their certification exam this summer and then a new ROTC course and community emergency response intended to be a capstone for ROTC
159so that those students can actually be a part of a cert team and actually participate in that and then revising the ROP CTE pathway and public service in the area of law enforcement the ROTC is that both of the high schools currently it's certain sir it is through ROTC is the capstone for that and that would be at the two primary high schools not at Sierra but the public service path is at Gladstone in Sierra we have hired a new teacher for that don't currently we just it is now in place this semester there are two courses both both offered at Stone in in Sierra and then its new digit semester program support a program implementation I'm gonna combine those two together collectively we have received more than a million dollars in grants to support
160the activities in this area in the areas of career-tech and some course development as well as college readiness so a large portion of the programs that are being funded in goal three now are being supported the next couple of years through grants so advise to CTE teachers and it provides some opportunities for those CTE students to get some work based learning and to improve the curriculum is being written we've done counselor led workshops in both financial aid and college application and I want to point out that we didn't go through a lot of the metrics point out that in the area of college and career readiness we have improved their metrics there are more students that are achieved college eligible there are more students actually enrolling and applying to college we do have more students
161completing financial aid in some areas significant growth in other areas steady growth but we are making progress in that area and it is because of these programs to have a gender breakdown on this I can get that and I don't have it specifically with me right here but I can certainly get the reason reason I asked that because you mentioned something about training counselors and last when I noticed the recipients that's what I mean why that was the case because what I got back from them was the fact that there was lack of motivation on behalf of the male counterpart so what are we doing to the engaging them in that capacity because they might think differently about college so in that training I'll be looking at it from a gender standpoint as well so
162that we could promote that efficiencies that are available as well for them the statistics do bear out that more women workers are entering college and in fact more girls are actually persisting than males and there that is that is a concern and so it needs to be addressed you do need to look at earlier we talked about looking at some of the data there is a perception dating that's the surveys we talked about but then there's some of that outcome data that you really need to dig in and ask yourself it was like what you're just describing and then put something actively and intentionally in place to address that so they answer your question yes it should be looked at and it should be addressed not just in college admissions but financial aid we do
163have the issue with the last couple of years that there are communities that are concerned because generally in the state financially applications of drug and there's some concern that it's directly related to some of the discussion around an abrasion and that they're afraid to tell them some of the paperwork I reworked really actively as a result I can tell you that ours have done it does tend to drop it first okay so I across the state they aren't we didn't for us so I think that's a tribute that we are addressing some of that issue if you'd like to see some of that data more specific with me happy to provide that and they definitely need to look at we continue to have the MoU with ulv and APU for guarantee admittance as well as
164financial aid and we're working really hard with them to increase the number of students that are aware that that's available so that they take advantage of it and we have offered the PSAT 100% to all in fact we've just had some students taking it today all eighth graders ninth graders tenth graders and 11th graders take the PSAT more important link there we SAT results to Khan Academy which is has a collaboration with College Board and then Khan Academy develops tutorials to students to assist them both academically in their regular studies as well as to improve their performance on future of college board exams so we have and that is a free process and working very actively to make sure the students do that and do we are the way to track we we do yes
165we do because we have and because you have agreed to participate in the college board suite of assessments we now have much more rigorous data available to us from College Board previously and without that contract basically College Board tests belonged to the students that are not available to us unless they listened to us through that contract we now have access to at and we're using it as benchmark data at the schools so it's nationally recognized and may be able that there was some assembly bill in proposed Assembly Building it's too in presuming it's past allowing districts individually to provide an alternative to the s back or testing many people are considering using these ETS 18 instead thus encouraging students to take by the way next year yes do and we also have some other practices
166in place we are using Elbert IO we have 450 438 students I think AP students that are using Albert I out for their upcoming APA had significantly higher scores in the Kanpur - it didn't who did not so we know that that is successful we are also using Princeton Review that prepped essence all and we have two going on right now and then we will offer one again in the summer they have on average 100 point game we had one student at Gladstone about three hundred and seventy point game following taking the test for taking the course so it's definitely effective update on the budget for goal three and then move on to goal for now this is the prototype we've showed you before so nothing has changed on the metrics the same information in
167the report is what we shared with you at the last meeting with all of the progress and so is the budget some a 105 is our last and final one and the metrics is just around our Williams very small in number but they represent and just kind of makes their contributions to supplement what we do with our facility dollars to make improvements that like you see here today improve our school look like experiences and give them a chance to have a garden and a couple of our school sites things new nutrition services I don't say you see in the back and kind of run load of money so we can get new lighting we get later reimbursed and like Susan explained to other programs so it allows us that flexibility to kind of friendly the
168money and get reimbursed those same dollars and keep those same dollars working hard for us and lastly it is thing for the case system those same dollars we're looking at and reinvesting into me what kind of tests on some of these batches and that's we'll see that summary there before we wrap up I do want to just personally thank obviously all the leads and everything but Jennifer put a lot of time and the powerpoints again these documents are going to be on our website in English and in spending to to see and to to get then I thank her for that and just if you have any other spending questions and thank all of you great teamwork thank you okay so just know that you need to do that [Music] you know back-to-back-to-back-to-back presentations tonight
169and I think in the future meaning just a few yeah this thank you okay [Music] okay a real two point two point seven were onto a plate I mean if want for a template by a presentation skillet multi-tiered system or Stuart's TSS I promise I will go efficiently I have the opportunity to share a quick snapshot of a process that we are beginning here in the district around scale-up multi-tiered system of supports there's getting to this title so somes MTS s affectionately known as MTS s as I go through this I'm sure you're familiar with tiered pictures that look like this a tiered model is represented in this snapshot to represent a lot of programs that we into place at schools for example behavior tiered supports for all students some students and then a very
170small number of students who need more intensive measures whether it be behavior reading intervention mental health supports there are many types of initiatives and practices that fall into a tiered support system the California frameworks for the California Standards for English language arts and English language development call out multi-tiered systems of supports and I put a pour on there it's one system of all supports and the idea is to align our initiatives our protocols our practices into a data based problem-solving approach that were really using good information quality data to problem-solve in order to best meet meet the needs of all of our students with our interventions and our programs the framework calls for again that systematic view in cal state of California has put some funding behind us and so while we spent a good
171bit of time on El Cap we have a small little pot of money that comes from the state of California that's distributed by for a competitive grant and we were funded for the full amount of $25,000 the applications require that we put into the application what we can spend that money on and that we are calling out an area that we want to focus our time and efforts with that funding we as a district identify student study team practices student study team practices are our attempts to meet the needs of individual students who may be showing need whether it be academics mental health behaviors and a team gets together that includes parents teachers administrators and students as appropriate to talk about what kind of interventions are going to best meet their needs our goal with
172this is to align own programs district white so that we ensure that all teams have access and equitable opportunity to provide what students need and so we're starting this process as a three year process under the ground it's a three year grant and we started this year we were awarded in December so we're just getting a few months in and we started with our planning process and we will be talking with principals tomorrow and subsequently with leads from the schools teachers and then on all of the triple AAA meetings with parents the secondary issue give them some ideas about what we're way to prototype next year so that we're taking all our wonderful resources from the district that we have practices at all of our sites have SST processes and we wouldn't want to take
173the opportunity to align those processes because we have great things going on in all their schools and we want to make sure that we're capitalizing on the effective work that's happening across the board and principals have already brought in data and ideas and shared some practices that we're going to work on synthesizing so that everyone has access to similar robust interventions and practices along the SST line using the mt SS modeled after we were informed that we were awarded the grant we got some coincidence while we were informed of some coincidental benefits that we weren't expecting as you may know all districts are continually monitored the special education extend a good portion of my time working on compliance and making sure that we're following federal and state mandates for our students at special education and
174while the Mt SS grant is not a special education grants for all students when I was going through some of these compliance processes one of them being the performance indicator review which is a statewide shift that California has taken to monitor all districts I'm in terms of their progress though speciality Asian we are getting assistance under PIR performance indicator room and we're working on three main areas of performance on statewide Tyron for students with disabilities and also graduation rates for our students with disabilities when we submitted our action plan for the PIR it worked out that our actions are really aligned to an EMT SS concept and the PIR reviewers at the state were pleased that we did that secondly as you may know I'm sure you know as ISO was identified as receiving differentiated
175assistance due to our indicators on the dashboard specifically with students with disabilities again in graduation rates and performance on the statewide assessment we have met as a district team with Los Angeles County twice now and our reviewers from LA County were very very pleased that we have submitted for this competitive grant and received it so that has been a plus because they really thought that our PIR efforts and RN t SS MTS s efforts are aligned to what they're looking for in the differentiate assistance piece and so it feels good to have all of our efforts going in the same direction and then because we are getting those supports for PIR and differentiated assistance LA County reached out to us and offered said that there are matching grants or matching funds for the MTS s
176so because we had applied for that and received that ground they helped us submit an application for matching funds and we are very confident that we will receive those funds the funds are budgeted through the application process abundant for bringing in assistance such as presenter and then internally we have a lot of good expertise internally that we can use to capitalize on that and then to extend that professional learning so we're encouraged by this opportunity to focus on all of our students through these efforts so thank you that is the perfect question and the reason it's a perfect question is because it calls out in the state framework to align the RTI as one of those tiers the response to intervention model is one of those tiered models and so we would want to capitalize
177if you have a student who is showing some difficulty helping them and I know we have some really strong RTI practices that many many of our schools and that will be one of the academic supports that we you learn and then into the MTS s person and MTS s itself through their research nationally says that one of the things that we need to acknowledge is that MTS is actually not RTI it it's an umbrella over RTI as it is with PBIS tears or adult help tears whether it's like a general counseling or more intensive education related mental health services piece so there's a lot of tears that you can put into ESS model and so because that is that is one of my concerns too we don't you know want one more thing just have
178one happening the idea is to take the initiatives that we currently have in place and help to align them to be a little more efficient and and not as maybe not as time consuming and we're starting small really really small it's not a large amount of money even though fifty thousand dollars feels like a lot it's only going to go so far so the idea with SST is the SST touches so many of our tiered programs because students have needs in different areas so the idea is not to have another initiative because everyone's doing SST already it's to make it as efficient as some teachers just don't bother to show up at this all the secondary so how are we how are we working teachers understand understood and I feel the same way our teachers
179work with our students frontline and I know it's difficult with a lot of the demands that teachers have and administrators have didn't have another meeting as it might seem and so the idea behind looking into an MTS s system is to acknowledge the really good work with that first core instruction so that we are capitalizing on what's happening in the classroom for all students and help help all of our school teams know when it's time to bring a student forward for our SSTs so we don't have too many and I don't mean that we don't want to focus on every single student of course we do though the time is effective and utilized again equitably because you might have some schools that SS to you lots and lots and lots of students and other schools
180who shy away from it because they can't get things together so we're gonna look at ways to encourage all staff to feel valued in and that they are a part of this team that they need to show up including parents you know how treat change so that they feel comfortable because that's really scary as a parent digit off with a big emote school folk you know to talk about your student specific needs so building capacity and all of our people to make it an effective use of their and I think if people feel that their time is valued and it's affected effective and making a difference for the students in their classroom that we will get more buy-in so you you at the planning stage there's a prototyping the actual pilot what happens after that
181great question after that we go district white so that the idea being a floor so that all of our schools have a base practice and I hear this from work with quite frequently because while SST is EP however the majority of students on an IEP went through an SST at one point so was being served with a point in time where so tomorrow abolition absolutely what-o in terms of the data in terms of how many students currently work and that's something we don't particularly have data on and that would be a great question to bring up through this process so that we can start tracking the effectiveness of our SST process as I would potentially be able to get that information from each individual but one of the things I see is especially director because
182it's concerning to me make sure that we are servicing the students we need to be servicing and that we're intervening early enough for our students who will respond to basic interventions and so I don't have that data that I'm hopeful through this process that will collect some baseline data and monitor that over time so the framework does include all it's a really it's a really interesting process it's not a program you know it is a concept so that districts work on their strengths and their needs to align their practices and and again that data piece is so important and so the idea being that's a starting point is collecting that data and monitoring it over time so when we go this to quiet so we fast forward then what are some of the resources for
183some day we worry about when we get there I think one of the benefits of this process and the prototyping especially is really getting those excellent questions I certainly have some as a single person but imagining that our teachers and our administrators and our parents will have questions that I haven't even thought of along the road so that we can really hone our practices I will share that we had a really excellent conversation with all of our principals recently and they brought information from their site and the wealth of resources that we have already is really wonderful and wanting to make sure that were as he accessible but the the emptiest process that has a lot of partners throughout the nation does focus on data you sound very excited I'm very excited I am ten
184point six through resolution 17-18 61 declaring a night 2018 of the day or the teacher what are the wishes of the board I think wanting to grow especially goodness get some rest please place your votes motion passes by zero we're not to 10.7 approve resolution 17 1962 declare may 28 26 2008 ns+ prague school employee week when I wish you to the board make them welcome to improve 10.7 first but you're on the biggest minion second second one on the caution motion passes five-0 we are ten point eight approve resolution 17 1969 resolution calling upon the federal government to pass Gun Violence Prevention whatever the wishes of [Music] certainly so after the Florida shooting at the high school there that you know the continued concern about the impact of gun violence particularly on students there
185were number of districts have thought about what do we do and you've probably seen in person news about different options people to try to support and advocate for laws to prevent easy access to guns and this is a resolution is to support the [Music] reduction of violence through both measures both those that prevent access to the guns and ammunition and those that support greater measures to support student health and well-being and at the very end of this we have a Safe Schools task force that carrying Korea will will head up to make sure that we as a district are responding as much as we can and thinking ahead so what we need to do and how we need to look at our policies and all the things that we need to change our but not
186just and make sure your garden is survey that you just took right and hopefully that change next year and I'd like to welcome Norman Camacho to the podium just to say a few words to us she's just been selected seven had a meal for hers and cabinet I'm very excited to embark on this new opportunity to serve to continue serving our staff and students and community and the capacity of Director of English Learner services and categorical programs I came in and yeah as a teacher by the whole teacher in 1997 with the desire to serve English learners and our diverse learners and that has continued to be a passion for me and I have had several opportunities to work on state committees and advocate on behalf of English learners so I am excited and to
187take this opportunity and continue to serve but most of all being having been a student and as you see unifying and being part of this community my whole life I am very excited to you're completely to serve [Applause] - 13.0 curriculum and instruction I'm gonna recommend that we table the information items just to save us some time so if they're 2.1 in table that to the next for me moving on to thirteen point two the summer school extended school year 2018 is a quick question in the board members so thirteen point one was the first reading for the new board policy we're challenging courses and I'm wondering if you you know my team you do want me to bring it back as an info item or if anybody has any questions about it to let
188me know you know sometime before the next board meeting because if we can move it forward okay okay someone 13.3 that's on high school volleyball team books the 13.4 Charles the elementary field trip to battleship high or museum resolution 17 - 1866 where the wishes of the Borden weak emotion you can prove thirteen point form that can persuade law that was the biggest pinion sitting at home watching any discussion seeing it up please please hear your votes and then like locations for the teams which is for the groups going which is why we did not put it on consent but we could put it on consent if you're okay just we automatically put the field trips there if you want to put one on we have two questions we can do it that way just
189to speed up but if you're comfortable moving them out to consider if you do them going forward okay 14-point run or Human Resources approve the tens of every opportunity [Music] your votes motion passes 5-0 we went out to 14-point to approve the tentative agreement between the Azusa Unified School District in California School Employees Association Azusa chapter 299 medically determined extended business finance 15.1 reject all bids for Marquis in the in the process there is a provision in our bidding process that allows us if we are not satisfied simply receive it we can reject the moment then we go out and read it we've done both action back in London sometimes we didn't sometimes we didn't and I was advice it's better not to and so that's why it's not close here you want the information
190I was advised by my name I never Maronite no check with our legal counsel to verify that there when you reject all bids the approach is to be there just across the board you rejected my bids and not get into any discussion or public indication of any particular reasons or indications so in that case it's better to keep all that other information off of the public agenda the other question you see no man first you have a second please place your votes Russian pets displays room we had up to fifteen point two approved rate powers authority experiment with Alliance and schools for cooperative insurance programs resolution seven property liability and workers compensation mark can you briefly explain this please a second measure an inkless what service they have questions and discussion [Music] we needed to
191table this we could depending on timing it just if we do that it's not a lot of questions on this side so in terms of us joining and for next year render any tight timeline to our claims over a new provider as to the complication of switching we can make this presentation but I think we have a lot of questions out that well it won't be brief they don't want to rush it you just create one when is the Jaypee development it is gonna dump dissolve at the end of the fiscal year so we have a very timeline we need to have a selection definitely months in advance so that way simply may have made for some reading on May 1st yes York would be trans but they were hoping with me with April 24th
192word 25th is on Wednesday in Boston [Music] it's 11 o'clock at night in 2010 and I know by this point everybody's just feeding and I think that this deserves I really think we need to table that I don't want to rush stuff like this okay let me just see if it can people do a meeting during the day at all we do when tomorrow well they know we don't have enough time to notice in sorry [Music] yes I want to pick my dress and take it one and then I'll go can you do 145 that's fine that you can go what's that for Friday 215 okay we appreciate you being here tonight but we really do want to give it the attention that it deserves and I know at this point all of us are
193kind of fading and we're you know we don't want to we don't want to we will take care of this on Friday thank you so this brings us we're now adjourned you have an 11:00 you want to have a safe drive home rest good night you