001this meeting to order at 6:14. And we're all here. And All right, we're going to go ahead and stand for the flag salute. There was no ready to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. You're a great I love the home of the rain. Every heart speaks to the red, white, and blue. for the Lord. Keep your eye on red, white, and blue. Cheers for red, white, and blue forever. Cheers for a This is your land of California forest to wers for you and me. As I was walking the highway, I saw above me that endless sky. I saw below me. That golden valley was made for you and me. This is your land. This
002land is my land. From California to the island, forest water. This land was made for you and me. Let's hear. for country that is free from sea to shining sea WITH EVERY RIGHT to hold up our flag. was here for America. It's here for America. Thank you, Mrs. and the kindergarten class for performing for us tonight. We really appreciate it. Thank you, parents and anyone else in the audience coming to see them and bringing them tonight. We really appreciate bringing the children. Thank you. >> They all have. You are so good on so many levels. There's a lot to remember. Good. >> Yeah, they remember. >> Thank you again for coming. And we're going to move on to item number four, the consent agenda. Do I have a motion? >> I move approval. >> I
003second. >> Right. Any discussion? >> Yes. When I was I page, this was the first time I heard about the service agreement with the leader. I looked up the Madera induction. Wonder if you could tell us a little. >> Yeah. So, Madera induction is what we use, you might formally formerly known as BITSA. So, it's a program for our new teachers where they um receive a mentor teacher and then there's different criteria that the state um has Mick like put our teachers through our new teachers like a portfolio and they have >> we are we working with them right now. >> Yeah. So, we contract with um Adera because they they basically um support the program. So they put on all of they they send everything to the state and they make sure that we're
004in compliance and they have meetings with the candidates and their coaches and and those types of things. >> So we've used them for lots of years. >> Yeah. Yeah. I think it's I think it's a good program to have a new teacher have a mentor. The mentors are from our district. Okay. >> Right. So yeah. Do they have a seasoned teacher that mentors them and helps them get through the program? >> Yeah. >> Is this program part of their credentiing process? >> Yes, it's to clear their credential. >> Oh, so they have >> Yeah. So they get a preliminary credential and then they have five years to clear it >> and they get to clear it by participating in this program. >> Correct. >> So it's pretty much required if we hire somebody that just
005graduates. Yeah. Anybody who just who just got their preliminary credential. Yes. >> Often times the district has waited because a lot of times we have teachers that come in like on an internship so they're still doing school work. So we'll wait a year or two um before we have them start this program because it's a lot of extra work. Um so they don't always start it as a first year teacher but they have to start it and complete it by the time 5 years rolls around. Yeah. Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Any other comments, questions? >> Um I just wanted to um acknowledge Tamara Dent leaving the district. Um she brought so much joy to her students and staff. Uh she had an infectious energy that's contagious. Watching the performances that she produced always made
006me smile and I'm going to miss her and I wish her well in her future endeavors. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Um roll call vote. >> I moving on number five monthly items and financial reports. A the approval of warrants. Do I have a motion? a motion to approve. >> Second. >> All right. Uh any questions on the warrants? >> I I guess I have the questions tonight. Anyway, on page two, we had a lot of non-energy work done by PG& and I wondered if that was had any connection to our sewer issues that we've been having. You mean at the bottom where it said non-energy for $4.49? >> Is that the on page two at the bottom? >> That's just a regular charge that's on our bill every month that we pay for being
007being hooked up to solar. So you'll see that charge always on the Lawrence month. >> That had nothing to do with We're not seeing any bills yet on the uh >> for the sewer. >> Yeah, we had a sewer biggest sewer bag out there. Yeah, we have a temporary pumping system in place and they have um ordered the parts and nothing's um nothing's been installed yet. They're probably going to have to wait till school is out to repair that. >> We'll be seeing that. >> Yeah, you'll be seeing that later. But this is just a um it's part of the uh being hooked up to solar, you get a non-energy charge and we've had that for um ever since we got the solar in 2018. It's usually a monthly charge. It fluctuates from around 2
008to 400. >> Okay. Thank you. >> I had a few questions. Um, my computer is acting up and so I had to restart my computer. Um, let's see here. I asked on I mean, okay, I asked on page six, the special education Q interactive overage tests. I was wondering what those were. >> So, we're those are another item you regularly see on the warrants. there um the assessment uh booklets and tests that the psychologists use when they're doing various different assessments for IEPs or students who are not on IEPs. They're trying to determine if they're going to be but that Q Interactive is the company um and Pearson where we buy all the assessment materials. So they're they're the protocols that are um you know approved by the state that they use to assess the
009students. >> Okay. Thank you. Um it's now much too for me. Um, the other question I had was on page 9, and I know we talked about AB218, uh, the $3,600 for the school year. Um, and I know we talked about that new law that came into effect. I was just curious, do we I know we've talked about it many times, but do we know how long this is going to last? Is it forever or is it We don't know. Um, and the assessment each year they give us a different amount. of this year, the assessment was 88,000 and we asked to have it broken into monthly payments through December in order to afford that. Um, usually at the end of this fiscal year, they'll give us the next year's assessment and um, you know,
010claims were still coming in um, and being settled. So, there's really no end in sight. They have said that there could be no assessment next year. Um, but we haven't had them every year. Sometimes it's been every other year all the way back to 2020. So, >> so is it is do they have a date in order to find them? >> Well, no, they already closed the window of filing, but they're still settling cases. There were so many that came in. Nothing with our district, but >> it was still, >> but yeah, so there there was a couple years ago where we didn't get an assessment and I thought, "Oh, it's done." And then two more years we did. So, there's really no no way of knowing. They just recommended budgeting for it even um
011even though >> you have no clue. And like I said, the first year we paid the assessment was $9,000. This year it's $88,000. So they can't really guess the amount that we're going to put in the budget. >> I know we've talked about it and I'm sorry. >> No, it's okay question. >> But that's a monthly amount that you'll see. And then after June 30th, we the payment will be doubled because we couldn't afford to make the payment this year. So we asked them to make it a quarter of the bill and then we'll pay the rest of the bill July through December. So the amount will be more per month uh in the new fiscal year and then that'll be paying for this year's assessments um into the next fiscal year. >> Okay. Thank
012you. Um was that something I just comment on that? >> Yeah. Yeah, please. >> So this was part of legislative action week too that we were involved in. There is legislation to put a cap on these uh settlement cases. So that's in the works um and going through the legislative process right now to try to put a cap on these especially because it's mostly attorneys that are getting the money and a lot of people are dead. You know some of these cases are going back 40 years and you know the the person who's accused is is deceased. People that worked at the school are no longer there deceased. And so what's ending up is that these cases are just getting settled because the school district has no leg to stand on and then the attorneys
013are just the ones that are getting all the money. And so so now it's it was supposed to be again so many well-intentioned ideas that well we don't want to dismiss cases from you know people who are sexually assaulted over the years and and so they got rid of the statute of limitations on that. It was supposed to be well-intentioned, but then what the result of that has just been for school districts just an incredible financial burden that that they can't fight because there's no legal leg to stand on with people being deceased and there's no records. And so we're just school districts are laid to bear and we're very fortunate that we haven't received a lawsuit like this. However, uh for the ones that are some of them are are I mean they're tens
014of millions of dollars that that they're just bleeding. And so that's why this $88,000 because we went into this pool. That's our share of it. And and so there there is legislation coming through. So hopefully the relief comes and then these payments, you know, will significantly decrease or go away with time. All right. >> Thank you for explaining that. >> Sure. Rhonda, you had any more question? >> Not s on. Thank you. On the warrants. On the warrants. >> Okay. All right. Let's move on. Okay. I don't have any hearing of persons wishing to address the board. So, >> President, we need to vote on that last motion. >> Oh, I'm sorry. Uh, can I get a roll call vote on the boards, please? >> Thank you. >> I Yes. I >> I. Thank you.
015Number seven, action items. A, resolution 26:15, legal holidays. Do I have a motion? >> I'll move approval of resolution 2615. >> I'll second. >> Any discussion? I just had a question. Um I just I had a question about the March 29th non-duty day. Yeah. So, I uh checked with Lydia and she said that for like for employees that are 260 days, depending on how the calendar falls on like Mondays through Fridays, sometimes there has to be a day in there that becomes a non-duty day because sometimes there's 261 days and so we just they choose one of those to to be on duty day. So that that just means like those people don't come in to work on that day. >> Okay. Thank you. It was just I was just >> I I do have
016a question. Do we have um builtin snow days? >> There should be on the calendar. >> I think I missed it. >> Yeah. April 12th to May 28th. The blue makeup days. >> Yeah. In the like underneath the calendar in the middle column above. >> Oh. Uh oh. That's >> Yeah. Thank you. You're welcome. And >> I asked Michelle because I didn't see Columbus Day on there and so doing some research and Michelle's answer. I guess California doesn't think that's important enough to recognize. So a lot of us wouldn't be here without uh Christopher Columbus marking the beginning of European exploration and colonization of the Americas. So at least quite some time we haven't had that. >> Yeah, that's recognized as a federal holiday in our states. I think it was like back in 2009.
017So >> we're state police, not federal. So yeah. >> So thank you. >> Of course. >> Great. >> Any other discussion or questions? >> Roll call vote. >> I. >> 7B. Approve final resolution 2616 to terminate classified employees due to lack of work slash lack of funds. Do I have a motion? >> I'll move approval of resolution 2616. >> I'll second. >> All right. Any discussion on this questions? Okay. Roll call vote. I >> I >> 7C resolution 2617 request to open parent square pay account. >> I move to approve. >> I'll second. Any questions? Any comments? You guys understand what that is? Yeah, >> it's so that we can set up like credit card payments for >> Chromebooks that are damaged or that don't get returned when students leave the district or chargers or
018um stylus, um library books, those types of things. So, um it streamlines that and it's going to make it easier to communicate with people and then easier for them to um render payment. >> And we already have an account at the bank. Um, I checked with the auditor in the county and they said to just set up the resolution. So, it's clear that we're changing the use of the account, but it was back from when students would pay for lunch and we haven't used that account. Um, it just has um a $200 minimum balance. It's been sitting there for the last four or five years since all students eat free. Um, so we can just change the use of the account and then dep uh write a check to the district, deposit the $200 into
019the cafeteria fund, and then going forward it'll just be used for the student fees that go to the general fund. So, we think it'll really make it a lot easier um for people to pay and we can kind of try it out, see how it goes, and then we could always add more things like developer fees or other things where the district is taking cash or checks and it could be safer or easier to have it paid that way. So, I think it'll be really good and I appreciate Stephan getting that set up. We had a meeting with Parent Square and just going over um how that was all going to work. >> So, thank you Stephan. >> All right, roll call. >> I 7D. Approve annual declaration of need for 2627. >> I move
020approval. I'll second. >> So, this is an annual um form that we submit to the Commission on Teacher Credentiing, CTC. Um and it notifies them on an estimated number of emergency permits or limited assignments for teachers for the upcoming school year. So, it's just sort of our best guess of of um whether or not we're going to um need to have any teachers that fill that category. So that's what that is. >> I just had a point of I'm sure you read my um it says original declaration for me. It says 2627. >> I it just there wasn't a hyphen there. And at first I was like what? This is for like a long time from now. Anyway, I don't know if you need a hyphen there or not, but it just felt it just
021felt well had a really long argument with that document and it only allows for so many characters. >> Okay. So we tried all of the things >> and that's what it allowed. >> It was >> okay. >> One of those things. I was like, "Wait, what?" And then I got it. But okay, thank you. >> All right. Roll call. >> I I >> I 7E. approved the 2627 after school and the 2026 summer pool contracts with my club. >> I'll make a motion to approve >> a second. >> Who was the first? >> All right. Any discussion questions? So I wanted to know uh what is the board's responsibility with respect to my club like if if an incident happens uh on their watch are we responsible we be uh interviewed by law enforcement or
022anything like that what is our responsibility they carry their own insurance right so they would be responsible would we be interviewed I mean potentially right depending on the investigation they might they might ask questions. Um, but they're their own entity and they have their own insurance. And so if something happens under their program and their care, then it would be handled directly with them. >> And there's some requirements in the contract for the ELO funding to be used where they have to do the background checks and TV tests and screenings just like any other um company that's hiring hiring any other employee. So is the lawyer >> curious when the children are released for example at this location who's responsible for making sure they get from here to the my club that's located there's um
023workers that come at the gate and walk the kids over after school every day >> they have a supervised walk over there >> and they're an independent contractor right if we have someone come work on something the independent contractor like it's the same kind of process, right? >> Yeah. We have a contract with the >> We have a reassur that has insurance, but yet we're not responsible for what they do at the site. I mean, >> yeah. >> Well, the auditor does review because it's supposed to be an enrichment program. So, there is a lot of checks and balances since we're using the ELOP funding to, you know, to make sure that they have their daily schedule. The auditors also review the attendance. They also look at all the enrollment forms and student data um
024to make sure that everything was um collected that's required. >> Yeah, there's a lot of it's pretty strict with ELAP funding um the requirements when they're auditing that program. >> And the reason they audit it is because it's a grant. The money is given to the schools, right? And then we contract with my club to provide the service. So, we're obligated to make sure that it's like a 9-hour day, like T was saying, like all of these things under the guise of the grant >> so that we can use that money for that program. >> Got it. >> So, that's where we're responsible to make sure that we're meeting the guidelines of the grant. But, as far as if there was an incident or something happened, that would fall under their jurisdiction of they have
025a board, right? They have to give us proper insurance, all of those things. Um, so does that answer your question? >> As far as u uh their standard operating proceed procedures, do we have anything to do with that? Do they have their own policies for security and things like that? >> Yeah, I'm sure they have their own like handbook and they have things signed and all this. >> We don't have any involvement with that. >> Not typically. No. >> Curious. They're our children like the program. So I didn't know if we had any oversight over them. We have oversight as it falls under the guise of like the what we have to meet under the grant like programmatically the the guidelines and they probably have guidelines on them as to what they have to do
026to hire employees and what background checks to TV tests fingerprinting. They have all the standard things employed. >> Two two people with kids at a time. Probably not. And let them unless they're back. I guess you can have >> I mean they have their own board and they have meetings. So I'm sure you could go to one of those if you wanted. >> Yeah, >> that would be nice. >> And um so you know as it relates to the contract um I don't know if you noticed but I'll point out that it's the same cost as last year. Um there was originally an ask for that to be more the original contract that was submitted and the district went back and said no, we need to we need to keep it the same. Um because
027we use our EOL funding for some other things as well and so we wanted to make sure that we still were able to do those things. Um and then they came back affected at the same the same amount. >> And just to be clear, the ELO funding covers the cost of the My Club program and other things we do. We're not making a contribution or taking money from other areas >> for this program. That's what I understand. >> So, I had a question and maybe you don't know the or I mean anyway, the swim contract that's like almost, you know, $43,000. Um, I was just curious, is is my club taking care of the swim program at the high school? they take it over for the summer. So they have to handle all the supplies,
028the staffing, the um the liability, insurance, everything. So they run the pool for the for the high school for the summer. And so that's what that cost entails. And you know, they hire like the lifeguards and the snack chefers and all that's included in that cost. >> So really, my club is running the >> they run the pool because they offer it to all um community members that people can come. There's open swim. >> Okay. Okay. Cuz I was like, "Yeah, $43,000." We're like, "Our students is a lot of money." >> Well, they aren't It's also They're in program during the day, too. They're not at the pool the whole time. So, they they do have their what are they called? They're teachers. I'll just say they're teachers. Um still at their sites running program,
029child care, and you know, other other programs during the summer also. And then just and then they also said we'll take kids to the pool during the designated pool time. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. >> And I know we get the funds for it, but I was still just curious like cuz that was a lot of money for the pool. >> It's not just the pool. >> Oh, okay. Got it. It's for the other programming as well. >> It's like the summer programs. Got it. >> I was just curious who oversees the the program the teen center that's across from the high school. Who's who pays for that? >> Not us. >> Yeah. Um, I mean that's at my club own facility, but >> I don't anything about that because I think it's
030ninth grade. >> Any other questions, comments? >> I think that we're good. We're good. Keeping the price the same as last year. >> Looks good to me. >> Yeah. Thank you for negotiating that. Uh, could I have a roll call vote, please? >> I >> 7F approved the single plan for student achievement reports, also known as Simpsons. Right. Do I have a motion? >> I have a motion to approve. >> I'll second. >> I just want to point out before you start that these are for the 25 26 school year. So, it's kind of retro back to the beginning of this year because some questions have been brought to me thinking it was for next year, but it's not. It's for what's currently going on this school year. So, anything you read in there and
031you're thinking, "Oh, I didn't know if that's going to happen or not." Like, it's about what's currently going on. >> Okay. Thank you. Thank you. And sorry about all those questions. No, that's why I wanted to point it out now because there could be other people who are wondering, wait, it says this and >> yeah, it says 25 and I see that now, but I asked questions thinking it was for the upcoming >> confusing. We usually have it on the agenda sooner in the year, but >> anyway, thank you and I apologize for all those questions. >> No, it's okay. >> I retract them. >> No, they're good questions. >> Does anyone have any questions? I just wanted to say that uh I read through the Wasuma one real real real thoroughly and I was
032really impressed how how much data was in there and how easy it was to to forget it and everything flowed free and it made sense and uh I think anybody could read that and see what what was going on what the problems are what the strengths are and I think I just want to commend our team for putting Well, that's >> that's Taran. >> That's strong. >> And as a new principal, you >> very very good. Very good job. >> It was very thorough and it was very self-explanatory. Thank you. It was good. >> Um, I had a question. Why does it say on the 2526 OES system that it was approved on April 8th? They have to approve it by the site council before it can come to the board. >> Oh, site council.
033>> And that's something the auditor checks every year too to make sure it happened in the right order. >> Okay. >> Yeah. So, the site council approves it and then it comes to the board for your approval. So, that's part of um why it's a little later on the agenda this year because I think they were trying to pull together some of the site council meetings to get it approved. >> Got it. And I guess one of my comments or questions that I had that I'm not going to retract or I it might be and and this is I guess for for Tim but um it um it was talking about how um you have a hard time getting you know parent involvement and and then Taran talked about the elections your your people are
034elected. Do you do the same? Do people like nominate people? Because I was thinking well maybe if you don't do that maybe people should nominate parents and maybe they would feel more like participating. just a thought. >> No, >> we don't do the same. And I believe that the nomination process happens at the meetings, but I could be wrong. Um, we don't have people come to meetings. >> Okay. >> Um, they don't come to meetings. We ask them to. I've reached out individually to people. I I've emailed individual people who I thought would maybe come and also would would do a good job. We have right now two parents that I can count on to to show up to different things if they're >> they were really good when they came to the meeting. >>
035Uh they're super they're very strong. >> That was very good. >> Um but just uh the number of people is is very small. tried to >> tried what I could I mean the best I could figure was to reach out to individuals and I haven't been super successful that way >> but I asked Taran if maybe she would help me out for it next she can do it for me okay uh I wanted to thank I know the principles you put so much hard work into those documents it's 60 some odd pages of of reporting and But I wanted to commend uh OES principal Cat Williams because to me her um she wrote really thoughtful and targeted responses to the conclusions that she drew from the academic data. Um when she spoke about academic challenges,
036the problems were clearly identified. But so often what I hear when I'm reading those types of things, it says we need to improve on this or we need to focus on this whatever the problems are. that there's no clear or concrete plan or action steps on how to achieve the goal. But if you look at that SIPA throughout the document, she does exactly that. So just an example on pages 18 and 19, she lays out not only the problems but clear concrete steps for improvement. And my hope is that her recommendations can become a reality to improve student outcomes because I was really impressed with just she really drilled down on here's the problem but here's what we need to do to to solve it. So I appreciated that very much from her. >> So
037there is an attendance task force then this year in place at OES because that was one of the things on there and I was or or is it recommended for next year? It's the we've talked about the um >> why can I think of the um attendance plus for parent square where we have the we have that added on and it's on the dashboard and we can go on and see kids and what tier they're in. So like tier one is they have good attendance. Tier two is like they're getting close to chronic. Tier three is chronic absenteeism. Tier four is significantly chronic absenteeism. So, we have um folks in the office that are sending out messages to families, whether it be uh hey, good job. Your kids come to school. Thank you so much.
038We love seeing them. To hey, we noticed that you, you know, Michelle was kind of having an attendance issue, but it's getting better. Like, great job. We'd love to see her every day. Or, oh, you know, like Michelle hasn't been to school in a while. Like, is there anything we can do to help? You know, we'd like to be supportive. And so those messages are going getting sent out based on the data that they can see on the on the dashboard. And then um when it's pretty significant then principles are calling families in and having um attendance meetings with them to see what we can do to improve that. So that's what the like that's what we're doing as like the task force. >> Yeah. She even includes the school psychologist administration and family liaison.
039>> Yeah. So that happens uh like I think sometimes when it's when it's um a big issue it's also addressed in like a preass meeting and those people are you typically have those meetings and so they'll talk about that and um maybe some interventions or things that they can do with the family or the student to help um improve attendance. >> Cool. Thank you. >> Any other comments and questions on these? I too appreciate how thoughtfully that these were put together and of course we have a lot of work to do still. I know there's improvement. Uh but one thing that has been on my mind is uh Congress has been working with these social media people and there's a reason I'm bringing this forward is that these social media companies actually put algorithms into
040their into the programs that are addictive to children. And my concern I is that a lot of the inattention behavior problems social emotional they're not getting enough sleep is the average child spends about six hours day on social media on their devices gaming and that has to have a direct effect on their learning and so I wanted to see if there's a way we could do some messaging on that to parents um you know giving them some information. At one time the surgeons general had a a report online. This was uh before the current administration. Uh even then they were warning about the dangers of you know social media devices and things cuz literally 6 hours a day. So imagine what if you're using 6 hours a day after the school when do you have
041time to study, interact, sleep and be healthy. So I believe it's part of our responsibility. Maybe you can get involved in messaging in your spare time. Maybe each school site could take turns helping with messaging. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Roll call. >> I 7G approve work policy 9135. the expanded role of the vice president. So, do I have a motion? >> I move approval. >> A second. >> Okay. Do we have to have any discussion? We've been working on this for a while and workshops. >> Workshops. >> I thought it was my idea. >> It was, but we worked on it as a team. >> Sorry. Should we name it? I think just to agenda. >> That's fine. >> I have no comments. >> Well, if we're really
042going to say whose idea it was, it was it was my idea to actually have the person do this. You decided it should be the vice president. So, >> there we go. Okay. We both get some credit. All right. So, um can I get a full public, please? I >> I eight uh information items a academic achievement report. Superintendent Thompson. Okay. So Stephan's going to help me out and throw that up on the screen. So tonight I put um for tonight's report I put together some I I ready data since we're at the end of the the school year. So the first slide, well the second slide, the first dash slide shows um I ready reading progress from like so the results from our fall diagnostic to our winter diagnostic to our spring diagnostic. And
043you'll see that the green line are students performing the percentage of students performing on or above grade level. And then the yellow is one grade level behind and red is two it says two plus so two or more grade levels behind. So you can see the trend there from fall is the first diagnostic, winter is the second and spring is the third. So that's that's encouraging, right? Some good growth there. And so on the next slide, it's the same information just in a different type of graph because I know sometimes reading it in a different format can be helpful. Um, so that's the same information in in those bar graphs for each um diagnostic. So you can see from fall to spring um a pretty good increase on students um on or above. still lower
044than we would like it as far as percentages go. Um but good but growth. So then the next slide is basically just a summary, right? Putting it in words. So um data is positive with good growth and proficiency. Proficiency is you're proficient if you're on or above grade level, right? So, honor above grade level, the number of students performing hon or above increased by 13 percentage points over the year from 27 to 40. One grade level behind, this group saw the largest overall decrease, dropping from 41 to 33, indicating that many students are catching up to grade level standards. And then the two or more grade levels behind, students in the most at risk category ended the year at 27%. improvement from their mid-year peak at 33. The most substantial progress occurred between winter and
045spring where the prof proficiency jumped by 9%. Any questions on the math? So guess what? I did the same exact thing for math. So that's what that next slide is. um over the three diagnostics and then showed it again with the bar graph. Um we've talked about this a lot. We should continue to talk about it. Our percentage of proficient students in math is significantly lower than I think all of us would want to see it. Again, there was growth. Um but we clearly have a lot of work to do there. Um we are in the works of a new math curriculum. We had our third math curriculum committee meeting today where we saw a demo of a um envision. It's the name of the curriculum. They also sent samples and so those were distributed
046and um they also gave us access for students to go on for students for teachers to go on and look at the site and print out some sample lessons and such. And then we're working on um starting a pilot at the beginning of the year. We all were very hopeful that we could adopt something before the first before the school year starts, but it's proving to go a little slower than we anticipated, which honestly I'm not too upset about because I'd rather really look at all the curriculum that people are interested in, make sure our whole district has the chance to pilot and do sample lessons, and then do the survey at the end to let us know if they liked it or didn't like it. um because we want to make sure that what
047we get people are excited about and that we think is the best program for our students. So if that has to get pushed off a little bit, I mean not really excited about that, but I'd rather do that than just rush and then maybe have something that not everybody is is excited about and feels good about. So that's the math data and then of here's the summary. um on or above grade level nearly doubled by spring. One level behind stayed relatively stable at 40% to 47%. This indicates that while students were moving up from two or more grade levels behind, pardon me, which drops from 38% to 25%, they're still landing in the one grade level behind category and not yet crossing the threshold to proficiency, which clearly we see with a percentage. Um and
048then the most significant movement was uh 13 point drop in students who were two or more um levels behind. So that's math. And then on this next one, I thought typically when I give you guys the data, it kind of stops there, right? Um so I thought, well, it might be interesting to look at the the domains that are tested in both reading and math and where students are scoring there. um to kind of drill down a little deeper and go like, okay, maybe we need to be spending more time focusing on an area that maybe um the kids are are struggling more in. Or maybe we have a whole bunch of kids in yellow in an area and if we just really do some more work there, maybe we can get a bunch of
049those kids in yellow up to proficient um if we spend a little more um dedicated time on on those domains. So that's what this graph is um for reading and it's only for the spring diagnostic so the end of the year. So that shows you um the percentage of kids green is on or above. Yellow is one grade level below and red is two or more for each of the domains. So under at the bottom you have phonics, high frequency words, vocabulary, comprehension as a whole and then they split it out to comprehension of literature and comprehension offormational text. So that kind of drills down a little closer. And then I did the same um for math. So math is number and operations, algebra and algebraic thinking, measurement, data, and geometry. >> Yeah. So that's
050where we're looking going into state testing which a lot of state sites have already started state testing. So um encouraging growth um more in reading um hopefully we see that again on our CAST like we did last year um but again we'd like to see the percentage in green higher in both reading and math. So, those are things that we're going to be paying close attention to and probably making not probably making some changes in um what's expected instructionally during the day for the upcoming year and um kind of doing some things different to see if see if that'll be helpful um with our scores. >> Questions? I have a question. All grades, right? Everybody uses I Ready? Um yeah, it's that um kinderland doesn't take the first diagnostic. >> I was looking at the
051like we scored really well in the high frequency words and phonics and it made me think of like the lower grades and I thought well maybe middle school doesn't do this but there's middle school phonics and high frequency words and yeah they started out at that and then like typically the older kids like test out right like they do well on that but we do have some older kids that are still struggling in that area. Um, so I could even I could I thought about drilling down even more like with this per grade level. Um, I didn't get to it, but I certainly will do that. Um, and the principles will be looking at that and of course the teachers. Um, but yeah, since it's all the way up to 8th grade, um, that's probably
052why that green bar is significantly higher than some of the other school. Got it. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. Thank you for bringing this together because it's just great for us to be able to see it all in one one spot of how the kids are doing. It's a great snapshot. So hopefully this all translates into our task scores. So questions. >> Okay, moving on. EB enrollment and ADA reports. Just a change of one since the previous month and I um because this meeting was a little earlier I had completed this at the end of April. So it says May update but this was uh before last Friday when I had to submit it. Any other comments, questions on that? 8C interistent transfer reports. So, it looks like um since April 8th, we've had two
053leave the district and one come into the district. >> All right. 8 D first reading of proposed board policy and administrative regulations. >> I just want to say wow. >> Oh my goodness. 417 pages. >> Yeah, it's >> wow. Did you want to write you a copy? >> No, I I was surprised because No, no, I'm not surprised. I wasn't surprised because when I've looked at when policies have been adopted and we're in like the early 2000s or, you know, 2010, I'm like, uh, yeah, I would anticipate that some things need to be updated. Also glad we didn't have to update them if nothing had changed, but also it looks like we're um moving through them. So, >> can you can you what this CSBA mandated and conditional mandate sheet that came out? That's new
054or I I don't remember seeing that. Do >> you know anything about I don't >> Well, there's codes on the bottom. >> It's a required changes I think. >> Right. I just Okay. >> Otherwise, their status quo. >> Yeah. I think it was just a helpful way to look at >> which ones it had to >> summarize the state better laws that mandate districts adopt policies regulations. kind of goes through it. >> This is a Is this a new format, Lisa, that they >> Yeah, I just um it was recommended. It gives you guys more information like it gives you a template. If you have a question, it kind of gives you what? >> I loved it. >> I couldn't some of it didn't overlap. I don't know. But anyway, it's fine. It's great. I
055just I didn't know if you knew anything about it. So, >> there's a lot to read. Gamma Gamma is constantly updating and changing and then as you know like you can imagine this takes a lot of time, right? And so Lesa and I are trying to fine-tune like how to do this more effectively and efficiently, how to make sure that we're comparing a new draft to something old so that we're not accidentally like putting new information and forgetting what was on the old. Because when they give us this, they don't like side by side it. So like the current one and the new one. So then we have to like figure out how to put those side by side and make sure we're not changing things that we don't want to change, but updating things
056that we in some cases have to change or consider changing. So it's it's a work in progress, >> but sometimes there's language in there that um it's exclusive to us, you know, like there it might not apply to us. So we might have rewritten it a certain way in the past, you know, to match our practices. So that's kind of what she's saying, but if we do the update, it could it could erase that. So, um, Marica was spending a lot of time on this and showing me how you can look at them side by side and comparing and we were talking about doing like a monthly meeting before the board meeting to kind of look through the policies because there might be some that we don't even need to have on here if they're
057not mandated. >> Right. Right. Which one we'll talk about that we actually figured that out earlier today, but we didn't want to like pull it off because if you guys had questions about it, then that would like look weird. Right. So yeah, we're trying to streamline that. An example for for what um Tara just mentioned is like um like a fee schedule for facilities use, right? So like when that new update comes up, if we forget to look back at the old one, we might put something new in there and not include or carry over what we would want to keep from the old one because it doesn't automatically pop up side by side. So we're trying to figure out an efficient workflow for that. um because they don't really give that to us. So,
058we're we're figuring that out. So, I will say though when you see all this because there was a time when um they we were so bare boned, you know, that we they didn't have a membership with CSBA. And I'm like, how do you stay legally compliant with all these changes that come to us like every single month? I'm like it's worth I think its weight and gold that we are part of that. >> Yeah. For sure. >> I just have a question because some of these seem redundant. So like the policy with maintaining appropriate adult student interactions. There's three different policies but they all say the same thing. >> I know. So why do we have three policies that say the same thing? I noticed that also for the there was one about um like
059the compensation for board members. I noticed that that popped up a couple times. I I don't know the answer to that question. We're going to have to go back and look cuz I noticed that when I was reviewing them. I think it was today, Wednesday, like late Monday night. >> And I and I thought the same thing. I thought, "Oh, maybe it got attached more than once." But then there's different numbers. >> Yeah, I know. I thought I'm missing something. So, I had to literally open all three and I'm toggling back. I'm like, it's exactly the same. The three different numbers. >> That's a different decimal number than No, it's one of our different numbers. >> They're literally different policy numbers and it's the same exact verbage. So, I do have that written down as
060something that we need to >> we need to ask Tammy about that because that standard >> kind of messes with you. I mean, it even says in the in the, you know, the second paragraph, it says it lists all three of those policy numbers. >> Mhm. >> It doesn't make any sense why. Yeah. >> So, we'll we'll have the answer for that before >> you guys vote to adopt them because that I noticed that, too. Okay. Good. And I always have to sometimes I think I I'm just missing something and I don't want to say it out loud because I don't want to don't know what I'm talking about. So, okay. Um, does anybody want to ask any questions at this time or do we want to take some time to review these? >> I
061would like more time. Yeah, but there was one about uh Oh, well, I guess like the um 4156.3 employee property reimbursement. This is the uh it has option one no reimbursement and then option two reimbursement of personal property stolen or intentionally destroyed or damaged while being used at work related purposes and I wasn't sure like you said like was there something in the past have we been doing something about like cuz it gives us two options right and I'm like have if people's work property or something was destroyed at work are we reimbursing them now or is this a new policy I think it's I think it's just an update probably for the language. So we do not re So if somebody uses their personal property at work and it gets damaged then that's not
062district, >> right? So I was thinking that maybe this came up for districts that maybe want like don't have resources or something and maybe I don't know. Anyway, um so that would be option one that we would probably choose to adopt then which means there's no reimbursement. I've >> chosen Yeah. Yeah. >> But I I'm not going to lie. I did not get through the 400 pages. I only had about So I have to do more homework. >> Me too. >> So well we can talk about that on when we do future agenda items. Okay. But um >> us meeting all the three of us to streamline it will help because we might have redundancy and that way it'll be a little cleaner for the >> Okay. Yeah. >> Yeah. And there was a there
063was a bylaw on here. I can't think of the number right now. You might remember off the top of your head, but it had to do with um like monthly compensation for board members, which this district doesn't do. Um and so and there were like exhibits and I'm like, well, that doesn't apply to us and we shouldn't need that. And we already have a bylaw that says that um the board of trustees views board service as voluntary contribution to the community and aside from the health and welfare that part of a law change this year, right? >> They increase the amount that board members can get um monthly, >> right? >> But we don't do that. So we need to look at that and see. I don't think we are going to even need to
064have that as an option to adopt because we already have this other bylaw that says it's voluntary. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Any other questions or things that you want me to look into and get answers to before next time? >> Okay. >> Did you guys read through the whole 400 pages? >> I I'm not going to put anybody on the spot. I admitted I didn't I only got to two. >> I didn't time. But we have a month we can ask questions. Right. We can ask these. >> Of course, >> that's reading. So, >> yeah, this is just a this is just information first. >> We actually have more time because this is an earlier meeting than we would normally have. So, we have extra. >> Yeah. >> Right. Oh, between now and June
065or June meeting, right? As we move this meeting. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Moving on. Uh number nine, accomplishments and other reasons to celebrate throughout the district. Uh we have Oak Elementary School, but um Cat Williams is out today. So we will wish her well and a speedy recovery and we'll move on to number 10. Super cute. Tim's going to do it again. You're not going to count. >> I'm ready. >> Anyway, thank you. Um, I just have a couple things u written down here. I want to make sure that I um say thank you to the teachers for teacher appreciation week. Um, thank you for everything that they do and their hard work. Um, I know that PTC and I think principles and I'm sure families and students have been showering them with um, thank
066yous and gifts. So, um, thank you very much and I hope you guys are having a good week and um, feeling appreciated. Um we're working on the fourth annual recognition dinner for our um years of service employees and our excellence in education winners as well as um our retirees. And so that will be at the pines on the 26th and those invitations went out to those who will be honored. So we're looking forward to that. Um there's been a lot of work with community partners in the last month, four to five weeks on um our different committees. Um so DAC and ELAC, our pack um schoolside councils and we've been going over our LCAP goals and actions and the draft of the LCAP will be presented to some of those entities here in the next
067couple weeks. um gotten some good feedback and some good conversations. So, that's been great. And then we're working on I'm working with Sheriff Blum. I think that's how you pronounce his um his last name. Um he is going to do an internet safety presentation. We've nailed down a date that works for facilities and leadership and that has been emailed um to the sheriff to see if that works for him and we need to hear back from him. Um, so hopefully we um that date works. If not, we'll find another date. But once we have that solidified, we'll create a flyer and some communications and information that'll go out to invite parents to come and see his presentation. It'll be here um at OS in this room. Um so we're looking forward to that. And I
068think that's all I have for tonight. number 11 board member comments. Stephen, >> I don't really have any. Thank you very much. >> Then I'll take your time. >> I think you need Oh, yeah. I just wanted to um give my appreciation uh during the open house that was a couple of weeks ago. All the went to the Booker Elementary School and each of the classrooms I visited. The classrooms were so beautifully decorated, so welcoming. It's it shows all the care that you put into teaching and uh just to see the children's artwork and projects. It shows that you really make um teaching something that the children enjoy. You can see the passion and I enjoyed Mrs. Burton's screening she gave me. She pulled up her screen and showed one of the projects was a
069missions project on Minecraft and I thought that was really fascinating. Everything too much to list. So, um, and then the other thing I wanted to bring up was just appreciation for the kindergarten class, Mrs. Gwyn. Uh, I appreciate so much your passion to promote patriotism and a love for country with our students. And this land is your land. I remember that singing that many, many, many years ago. So, thank you for doing that for the kids. I think that's so important. And speaking of which, uh, May 17th will be a rededication to, uh, to God for the United States of America. and recognizing our uh our founding of Judeo-Christian values in the United States of America. And so our president will be doing that on May 17th. And um lots of ways we can celebrate
070these upcoming months for our 250th dedication or excuse me for celebration. Uh so I just wanted to um acknowledge that and that's it. really no comments for me today. >> Okay. First of all, I I wanted to also appreciate the teachers. I hope that you understand. I know it's like teacher appreciation week. We we appreciate you every day of the year, not just this week, but you know, thank you so much for all you do. We know, you know, we it takes a team to educate children. We know that. But usually, you know, the kids are remembering their teacher from 40 years ago. they're not remembering the school board or the you know anyway you guys have the most the closest impact on the children and we do appreciate you and see what you guys
071do. Thank you so much. Um also thank you for inviting us to the spelling bee. Um you guys did such a great do job last night. It was really fun. Denise and I got to be little pretend, you know, like it was fun. It was so cute. I just love seeing them. You guys did a great job decorating. It was fun. Everybody had a great time. Couple tears, but you guys handled it so well. best middle school, not so much. >> Oh, okay. Well, I I didn't come Monday, but Tuesday night was great. Um, and Kirsten was a very great proctor. It was it was wonderful evening and I appreciate your work that went into that. Um, I also attended Earth at Wasuma and um I know Leslie's been in Joseph Peterson's been in charge
072of that and it was a great, you know, she's like, "Oh, it's not as big this year." It was still great. I thought the it was a wonderful opportunity. It was fun to get out there and decorate the kids. It was actually kind of cold and shade, but her birthday, you never know. Last year, I think it was hot. Anyway, that was wonderful. And um I do want to thank Lesie for all the work and hard um dedic she's put a lot of dedicated time into the um the garden at Wasula and I know it's been her passion for years and um it it was just great to be there. And um what else? Oh, I went to the Central Valley Education Coalition meeting at the Madera County uh superintendent of schools back at the
073beginning of April. I it was after the last meeting anyway, a couple weeks ago. And um it was interesting. It was great to get together with other school board and superintendent and board members from Madera County and hear that, you know, other people are having similar problems as what we are and we're not alone in it and it's not just our district. And so, um, and then the speaker of course was kind of talking promising about the May reise, but I'm like, we've been hearing that, but let's let's let's get the mayor revised before we celebrate, right? And it wasn't even a celebration, but it was just like they're still talking positively about it. So, like encouraged. Um, and let's see what else. Uh, I think that was it. Oh, I think that was it,
074right? Oh, um, next month I am going to try and get back. I'm on vacation that day from work and I know we agreed on this um date and I will do my best to get back on time. Um, but I was already off on Monday, Tuesday, and then I didn't have Wednesday cuz it wasn't approved, but then they approved it >> for what? >> For my work, for the next meeting, for the next school board meeting. >> I'm just saying that I had vacation. I was originally going to be here and now I had vacation. I only work Monday through Wednesday and I had Monday, Tuesday off and my my Wednesday was weight listed and I just found out that it was possibly approved and so I have to go revisit and see what
075I'm going to do because I will be out of town so I don't know if I'm going to come back for the meeting but I will let you know. So if I anyway I'm ify about next meeting. >> We have two meetings in June. Well, I know the the the ending of the month or like not the next week, but two weeks after. I will be here for that one. But >> the first meeting in June, you're not sure if you'll be here. >> The 17th is the first meeting. Yeah. >> The second one's the 20th. >> The second one I'm here for, but um I will let you know as I know. I just found out that this was approved. So, okay. Thank you. >> I have no comments tonight. Thank you. Uh moving
076on. Number 12, future agenda items. So, I wanted to ask if you if the board would like for the policies on the next agenda to be an information item again or to have it be an action item since there's so many. Do we feel like there's enough time for you guys to review them and take action or do you want it to be information again? I would love for it to be information again, but that's my agreement. What about you? But I think we could be ready to take action. >> I think we could be too. >> Where are we at? >> Okay, that's fine. Oh, asking if we want to have normally we have first reading and then we take action on our board member policy. And um so she was asking if we
077want to make next month or the beginning first meeting June 17th an action item or an information item. But I will say if we made it an information item and then we acted on it at the end of June, correct? cuz the next meeting would be the end of June. It would be like two weeks later. I think it's like a week and a half. >> It's a week and Wednesday >> because it's a public hearing for the budget in the ELCAP >> On the 17th and then the next meeting is to adopt >> seven days. >> Okay. So it's it's 7 days later. Yeah. >> I can go either way. So >> yeah, let's make them an action. Okay. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Anything else for future agenda items? >> Okay. All right. All
078right. The next meeting date, June 17th, Wednesday, at 5:30 p.m. for close session 6:00 open session right here. OBS. Can I just add just a quick announcement that the May Reise Capital Advisors is doing a free Zoom on May 28th, so there's no need to actually attend it in person. >> May 28th. >> Well, they pushed that out to the very last minute in May. >> We're all hanging on like, you know, >> we used to do our board meeting earlier in June. That's why we pushed it back because it kept getting later and later that we got the information. Got it. Okay, I'm going to join this meeting at 7:24.