001The club society will be hosting a launch party things open my client next Friday starting at 6:30 and week five. As we get towards the end of this month, ASP off pass officers applications for next year will be opening on the 15th of this month. And then for sports, the fair track and field sign up Irvine, girls girls were fifth, boys were ninth and Zaira Kamara won the 200 meter, 100 meter with a record, long jumps and long jumps, Joshua Holdeman won 300 hurdles, top CIF time. Hannah Coleman won girls 300 hurdles. Over spring break, Aliyah Morales won 400 hurdles at Irvine. Kevin Corner had a 1600 personal best at Huntington Beach. For girls varsity softball, the team is currently nine and one, three to zero in league. The JV team The JV team is
002five and two. There are 49 girls in the program. Baseball has finished their pre-season games and will be starting league this week. Wednesday is a walk against here and then their first home game of the season is Friday at 3:15. They would like for you to come out and support. Um and the boys team is off to a great start finishing second in both league matches. So just the varsity's playing Friday or varsity and JV? Uh I think just varsity. Just varsity and That's reason. 3:15. 3:15. So Joshua has CT ever gone to Big Valley before? On a field trip? That's the first time down there? We the last college we went to was the one in Palm Desert. Okay. Yeah, that's the last one we went to. Yeah. And we're supposed to go to
003Crafton I think after this one. That'll I'll good. I know a lot of kids will continue on and go to those those Did you go to both the college visits? Uh I only went to one. I only went to the one in Palmdale. Okay. I remember looking up the classes that are offered at Victor Valley and I was shocked at how the variety that they have, like aircraft welding and all kinds of good stuff. Do you know what you want to do when you graduate from high school? Uh the US Forest Service. Oh, cool. Do you have a relative or something that's in the fire Uh my dad is a firefighter. Oh, cool. Yeah, they said come in anytime. So, I I got a place there. What part of it makes you interested in it?
004Honestly, Do you want to be in the field fighting fires? Do you want to be out there >> That's what I I think that's really cool. Hard. I think it's >> It's hard work. >> It's hard. It's exciting, though. Well-respected guys do Yes. And that's what I want to do. Yeah. The hotshots come out and and play with us a lot. And they're cool guys and they have crazy stories. So, I'm excited. I'm excited to learn. Yeah. So, Nija, you're going to run I see that the elections are coming for ASB. You're a junior, right? >> Yes. So, you're going to run? I'm going to run for president Wow. Can I get a t-shirt? Yeah. I want to be president. Yes. We'll buy a sign. I'll sign it. That's cool. Do you know if you
005have people running against you? There's probably a lot of people running for president. Um no, there's only three juniors in our class. That are are going to run? So, do you have anybody running >> running There's only three of us and so I know one of those is running for publicity and then my friend wants to run for VP. So, You might be unopposed. Yeah. Well, how do you get past waiting to do Cool. I'm excited for you guys. Yeah, I appreciate it. Thank you guys for being with us I appreciate it. Okay. Um I already did item eight. I took it out of order. So, we're going to put No no reporter watching. Um recognition section. We have a donation to Ms. Marquez. Or whoever. We have a $3,000 donation to student services from
006EDP Renew Renewable Generation Assets North America Operations Area 10. The donation will be uh used to support low-income students or families experiencing financial hardship with basic needs, items required for school, field trips, etc. There's no requirement. There's no vote here. So, there's no requirement for us to accept a donation. >> an acknowledgement. >> Just to acknowledge. >> Yes. So, thank you. We send them a donation letter. Yes, we do. Yes, we do. Okay, public comment. Item 10, I do not have any cards. Okay, we're present. Item 11, the consent calendar. So moved. Second. All in favor? I. I. I. All those opposed? It's unanimous. Nothing was removed. We have no employee announcements. So, we move on to 14, the superintendent's calendar. Okay. Uh wanted to take a minute to recognize um Rita. Uh Rita recently
007had what would be equivalent to an FPM audit. She had a huge audit that comes every few years. And it's an administrative review that the Department of Public Health does. And it She came out with flying colors. I got to sit through it. And Jess and I walked in and went and sat and talked to the reviewer and got to hear basically hear them brag about how amazing our Child Nutrition Services is. And how I'm just going to read a couple things off of this. Um Just that a team culture that the reviewer says impressive and well-informed staff. You can tell they love and have fun uh with the meals they prepare. Uh visual excellence, beautiful share bins, and the best signage I have ever seen. Um operational innovation, I will bring about uh the
008Jot label maker to my colleagues. Um it just kind of she kind of goes on and on about how wonderful this It was interesting talk to her how this is basically Rita runs a model program. A model CNS program. And you know, we sometimes you know, we we don't realize what you have sometimes. We're just so used to being wonderful, right? We're used to her doing a good job. And when you get to hear it from a perspective of somebody that goes out and sees a lot of schools, does this all the time, she was extremely impressed with the process. I mean, she had big binders that Rita had to do. I mean, Rita had to put months of work into this report. You know, she's someone that doesn't complain, doesn't say anything about it,
009doesn't speak about it, but sitting through it, I it was a learning experience for me that I genuinely enjoyed uh the process of what they had to go through. It was much like everything we had to experience within with a federal audit. What she had to go through with her audit and her inspections. Uh just hats off to them. Hats off to that entire team. The way they came through that audit. Flying colors. Not one finding. Not one finding. We should congratulate her for that. She was It was It was very impressive. Uh it was exciting. Um Also, real quick, there's a few things coming up. Just want to make sure the community knows and the board knows. Um coming up is a our our family engagement night on April 9th. We have My Kids
010Didn't Listen, Now What? Strategies for behaviors that occur in the home. Um trying to support our families at home. We have uh Samantha McLean, who's a BCBA BCBA from Sulphur that's coming up to help out a little bit. We're really excited about that. I think it's going to be a great night. From Sulphur? Sorry, she's not from Sulphur. She's um out of Marietta. Yeah. Um she's a uh a BCBA with a private company that um contracts with other schools. What do those letters mean? I'm sorry. Oh, B A B A uh certified behavior analyst. Oh. So, she comes in and she we contract with her. She comes in and when we're having struggles with behaviors, she'll come in, she'll do some classroom strategies with teachers, give some feedback on how to work with that, and
011now she's she's been coming up a few times a year to help our schools. Um but this time she's going to stay she's going to be in the schools during the day and is going to stay to do the evening presentation. She's a really good speaker. She does She's done professional development for our staff, and she's well received. How she's Samantha well received. BCBAs have become a hot commodity. Think of all the behaviors specialists that are out there as well as all districts districts trying to figure out how to pay and hire BCBAs. They don't exist though. They don't exist. There's not enough people going in just like just like when you try to look for a speech teacher. BCBAs are now the big thing that districts are trying to hire, but hard to find.
012Now we're lucky that we have that at least connection with Samantha at the plane. Wish we could get her here more, but she's pretty busy. As this as behavior people are really tough. Is it Is it targeted for a certain age group, or is it all ages? >> parenting in general. Yeah, it's going to be general >> They'll have They'll have child care available it's at the middle school. Um Hopefully all the right parents will come. That's always the hope. That's always the hope. Is it being streamed, or is it being recorded? Yeah, I know it's not being done. Um I want to say she won't She asked us not to record it cuz it's her own private business, but she said she will allow us to live stream it. So we're setting that up.
013Okay. And the next thing that's coming up after that I just came up quick all of a sudden is on I believe the 15th and 16th is Opal Singleton, and Opal Singleton is from the Million Kids, and she speaks to students and family and parents about trafficking. And how to get caught up and how you can get caught up in that in online conversations, all those pieces which are trafficking, how do you avoid it, basically what you're looking for if you're online, the dangers of it basically the dangers of it online. She the one that came up years ago? And spoke at the pack? I think so. Very graphic. Yeah, she's she's got to tone it down again. Uh she's She's good and she does it. She's going to speak to She's going to make
014I remember thinking the audience should have been warned when they went. And I'm pretty easy going about >> She does it quite a bit. She's very well received. Hard to get It's not even us paying >> Yeah, she was good. >> This is Soroptimist a gift from Soroptimist. Uh this was a gift from Soroptimist. Soroptimist came to us and said we'd like to do this and uh we looked at her and said D, he said I didn't see her speak before, but you know, I looked at some of the stuff online. Saying D said she had a mind. Yeah. But she does get very blunt. As far as the dangers of it. And again, she's going to do one presentation for parents the night before. >> Yeah. And then the following uh presentation for students.
015So they're going to do students in two groups. Uh it'll be freshmen and sophomore and then and then the seniors the juniors and seniors. Okay, and it's all going to be at the high school? Yes. And this is this is mainly for the students. >> What are the dates again? Uh 14th, 15th, I believe. 15th. Yeah, 14th is the parents and the students. >> 14th is the parents and the students. Do you know if that's recorded and or streamed? I >> We haven't discussed that one yet. We'll let you know. We'll find out. We'll let the board know if that one's going to be streamed. We're still getting more details on it. Right. It was a It was a It was a joint collaboration with them with um with Soroptimist. So we're trying to see
016who's advertising more on it. So we're trying to see Otherwise, I have no idea. I was thinking about it. I don't know. Anyways, last thing is I want to mention Brian last night. Had the ALC meeting um and it was really nice. One of the One of the teachers there or one of the principals I should say there said that's probably one of the best ALC meeting we've ever seen. Um because he had a different a few different things and he was able to throw in and some AI in there and he used that a notebook where they they basically explained it notebook element. Not like it took Brian million hours. He was able to use the AI and generate a conversation with it and a video and it came off really well. and one
017of the pieces with me there >> ALC? ON OKAY YOU'RE RIGHT THANK YOU DR. TO MAKE AL CAP SOUND EXCITING. THAT WAS A FEAT to make Al Cap interesting but it was it was good. There wasn't a ton of people there you know principals and some parents there and some staff members there but it was a really still with the group we had there because you had them engaging through the through a QR code where they their comments were coming up on screen everything. It was just really well received and people are making their comments instead of usually writing on paper. >> or some of them were remote? >> They're all in person. We had our central representative room. Yes. Remote. Remote. So it was really you could see cuz I've been through a lot
018of these things. Um and it was well received and it caused it there was some good engaging conversation. That's what you're trying to get out of these things is at least get a conversation going having to understand what the directive where the district needs to go. Where we believe in kind of the same thing we do with the board but do are we on the same page and the same understanding of what our challenges are and what we need to do please and I thought that was very well received last time. It was it was a good it was good conversation. Everybody enjoyed the conversation so thank you for having me. That's it. Okay, anybody more board member reports? Nothing. Uh my report the exciting news for me this week were two lawsuits which to
019get it right let me make sure I got it right. A New Mexico jury ordered Meta to pay 275 million for enabling child exploitation and misleading users on safety. Separately a California jury a jury found Meta and Google liable for addictive harmful design features awarding damages in a landmark case. So I've mentioned a few times during board reports about phones in schools and I just keep going back to the smokers path in high school. Uh in high school they had smokers' path. Oh, you know, this is bad for you, but it's okay. You just do it over there. First, you did it in school, then you did it on the smokers' path, and now we look back and go, "Why the heck did we ever let kids keep these cancer sticks?" And the cigarette companies
020knew about it. You have Meta in court admitting in their PowerPoints that they gave to their own employees, "This is really bad, especially for teenage girls." Then the next one is, "Let's figure out how we can get them to click on click on it more." So, if we know this is bad, we know that it's not helping that kids, you know, have more screen time. You know, you go back and read Digital Delusion, and it's the same thing saying over and over and over. And I personally feel like I've been sitting on my hands, and I always wanted to be agreeable and be effective in implementing something, but I'm starting to feel a sense of guilt that we haven't pushed harder to in our schools to take the cell phone rules that we have in
021the middle school and apply them to the high school. So, I hope we have a chance to discuss this either as a future agenda meeting or as part of our planning period moving forward. But the fact that you have juries now who are ruling ruling in the hundreds of millions, that you have juries that are seeing it and saying, "No, they intentionally are exploiting children. They intentionally It's something that our kids need to know about." And something that I think in good conscience I feel that we have to do what we can do to to limit what they do in our schools while they're here. What they do outside our schools out of out of our control, but during the time that we are responsible for them, I'm not feeling great with all the findings
022that are going on and finally it becoming, you know, apparent what's going on. It's hard to deny anymore. Yeah. I swear that this year was a test year, right? We set different rules at the high school, but if the if the students were not following them, then we were going to go to a full They had to go to a new system, and that's what we started discussing as we get in the last quarter of the year. Discussing when I started really discussing with the students that inside meetings this is going away. We need we did the same thing at the middle school with the one year where we did where we did that they could have it during lunches. I had to go on the news all the time and tell them, "You're blowing
023it. You're blowing it. You're blowing it. We're going to take it away." And that's what we did. We followed through and we took it away the next year. Now it's just culture there. They don't get their phones. Period. Right. They don't get their phones sitting in the back now. Um So what's happening at the high school level? Uh we probably need to go to that policy. We haven't had that before the discussion with the staff and making sure everyone's on the same page because it's the enforcement of it. It's the Because it's you're dealing with kids that are 17 almost 18 years old. So telling them they can't have their phones is a little different than at the middle school. It is a little bit more challenging than at the middle school because you usually
024say to these kids, "Some of them are 18 there there." You're telling them you can't have your phone. Yes, it's our rules and yes, we make those rules. It's just not as simple as doing it at the middle school. It is a little bit more challenging. You have kids supposed to be 18. You don't put that. Proceed to don't put. Well, good news is there's thousands of schools that have done it and done it successfully. And you know, Digital Delusion, the author makes a great point. I don't know of one that has gone back. Yeah. Yeah, everyone has done it has been able to do it and they like it enough where they I mean, it didn't hit me I mean, it's only said you have to see it in person. When we were going
025through the high school a couple of weeks ago, there was one class at the end of class. There's an assembly coming in. So you know, the 5 minutes where you know, kids get to talk before they leave for the assembly. And we're poking our heads in classrooms. Every single kid is silent. No one's talking to each other. You know, this is the age where the president's wife walked out a robot and says that robots are going to teach children now, you know, and it's like and kids are heads in phones and you know, if we don't start making that human connection again, I don't think there's a a bright future for us. So if we can get them to put them away during school and interact with each other, and you know, I think it'll
026go a long way. And well, and and there I had something to write a few teachers. That's a lot of teachers that would say that are making an effort that it's just that because of the culture they've created in their own class, they don't have like the shoe rack. And they go and the kids just don't even question it. They go and they put their own issue thing. And if they need to use something on their phone, they can go and they'll ask the teacher, and they can get their phone to this. It's respectful. It's a respectful relationship. That's just better than the fight. You know, they see their own right there. It's right over there. It's almost better that way. The teachers that do that is just but that was a great classroom control.
027All those things still in place. We do respectful relationship between the teacher and student. That's respectful. There's some teachers that hold firm on that, and that's wonderful. It's it's not universal. Yeah, I think the point then, well, again, it's not a gender issue. And no, I I think it should be on the future agenda. What part of our What's our next workshop that we're doing planning? That that would be two, unless you guys wanted to do another one sooner, and do maybe shorter ones for specific topics. We can always do that. We can always adjust how we want to do things together. Because sometimes our conversations get so in depth that they they go on a long time because it's important discussions. Um if we would like to, we can look at it still cuz
028I split it up into two. You know, that way in the next one it's not all of the basic data. We we would try to give up the review what we discussed, and now what our genuine steps now that we uh the cabinet and I have been had an opportunity to look at everything now. This is what we discussed as the board. This is ensuring this is showing for sure what we're doing next year. We get more concrete in our next one as far as definitely. We identified the issues. We identified the problems in our previous one. Now we go to problem solving. Well, this is how we're going to solve the problem. This is what we believe. These are challenges. These are all the genuine steps. This is what cuz we showed you what
029we believe we're going to do. Now we have to put it into action in June. You can't be saying well maybe we're going to do this in June. No, you better know by then. We have to know by May. And this issue is going to be part of that. >> Yes, sir. And we'll have those discussions at that point in June is when we would have our That's when the like history that's when the board normally had a board planning session. The only board planning session was But again, the reason to have it sooner than later is to make sure that we're prepared for so I want to make sure if we're there in June that everyone's done their homework and looked at districts and seeing what they've done and what's successful and what the
030best practices are for implementing it instead of getting there and saying you know, okay, let's look into this. >> And I and I think that's a good way to do it. That way we do it in open format and and tell lies and everything else that we're looking at or that it's online. That it's to have maybe those of those specific items. Maybe if we look at okay, one of them is just just the cell phone conversation. One of them could just be the computer uses conversations. You know, what we're looking at with that. All those pieces that way and Andy and Brian even have an opportunity to look at what they're looking at with their responsibilities. I think if maybe one item at a time to be able to tackle that as a discussion
031point on the agendas might be more effective that way. And if you're in need for the teacher uh uh meetings next year that they're going to have that those can be agendaized items for that, too. So, I don't did The thing I like thing I like about digital delusion is that in the appendixes he has the letter to parents and explains all the counter arguments to all the arguments you get on, you know, having schools zipped up in backpacks and not in a building school. They have the worksheet for going through all the computer programs you can class doing audit to find out how much how an they are and how much time kids are spending on it. So, like I mentioned when I introduced the book, he's not just talking to proving there's a
032problem, and talking about why it's happening by giving you materials and suggestions for how to then implement a safer school. Not everyone has to believe in it, but you know, if you want to get someone's point of view as to, you know, and some practical things that you can use to implement some of these things, it's all there. Yes. I think we should have it on our agendas Okay. Um The The foundation is moving forward with the sports complex, but slowly. Okay. We're going to likely going to be We've had some hiccups, and we'll likely be coming back to the board with a somewhat of a change of direction, um but we haven't settled on everything yet. Um attorneys are looking at it, uh but hopefully sometime in the next month or so, we'll be
033on the agenda. Okay, suggestions for future meetings, which was what we just did, I think. Okay.