001Uh, we'll call the open session to order at 5:32 p.m. Um, can everyone rise for a moment of silence and pledge of allegiance, please? >> Right hand over your heart. Ready? Begin. >> Ice to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Report of action taken for student personnel item 2425001 to extend the expulsion um for one semester >> for one semester with a revised rehabilitation plan. Item B, student personnel item 23 24007. Uh the action is to readmit the student. Um item eight, public uh public hearing section. Do you have any comment? >> I do not. >> Next item nine, consent calendar. I get a motion to approve. >> So move. >> Second. All
002in favor? I >> oppose. No items removed from the consent calendar. Item 11, employee announcements, Mr. Marquez. >> Okay, perfect. Thank you. We have classified staff starting. Um, so we have our first one is at Big Bear High School. We have Eli uh Bill, it's all one name here. Villa Toro Chavez. Uh, Eli, not in the audience, right? Nope. Okay. Eli is a military veteran and is a passionate about student and safety. He'll be a incredible addition to Big Bear High School. So, military back coming out for you. Amazing. Um, next one. Districtwide custodian. Um, Mark Scott. Uh, Mark graduated from Big Bear High School, has a background in hospitality and technology, and is a parent of two, uh, BBUSD students. He is excited to grow within our district and work with students and staff.
003Uh, ELL aid at Northshore Elementary. Uh, Samantha Ouise Leano, I say that right. Right. Labano, I think. Um Samantha has worked in child care for numerous years and is doing will be doing a great I'm sorry will be a great addition to Northshore Elementary. Newivity aids at Northshore. Jessica Jaffy and Brenda Pedrosa. Jessica is a parent and loves volunteering in the classroom. We are happy to have her supporting our students. And Bren Brenda Pedrosa is a Big Bear High School alumni and enjoys working with students. We are happy to get her on board at Northshore. Our last one is a special education aid at Big Bear Middle School, Adam Guzman. Adam has specialized training in behavioral health and we are pleased to welcome him at Big Bear Middle School. >> Thank you. And you still
004got it for your superintendent. >> Okay. So, you know, great start everything. We're our all the back to school nights. We just finished our last back to school night this week with the high school. Was able to get to all of them. Uh had a great time in every single one of them. I got trapped into Mike Benson's class where he roasted me through half of it, but had a great time in there. It was fun to be in there with him and the parents and his interaction was great. But every school we had a great experience. Baldwin uh Northshore and then I even got down to Falls for their back to school night. So >> it was great. We got to see all of them. Now our big kind of highlight of this week
005is they took the whole um cabinet and all of our ILT team which is our instructional leadership team. So all of our principles went down to Falls this week. Uh we've never done that before. We always have meetings on all the sites but we've never had a meeting at Falls. Especially with new staff coming on. we wanted everyone to experience at C Falls. The reason being is truth is is Fallsville is one of our highest achieving areas in the district. We need to be able to look at that and analyze that and see what is it that makes them successful, what is it that makes them tick. So, it was a great visit. We had a great time. We went down and had lunch with them a little bit um and got an opportunity to
006go through the classrooms. We had a small meeting there. Then we went through the classrooms. Of course, we can only meet outside on the benches. Not a lot of meeting space there. Um, but we were able to meet inside the classroom with the teachers and kind of pick their brains, look at their scores over the past 10 years and have them talk through it a little bit and it was a great discussion and it was just fun to be down there and for everyone to be able to experience that and I think more than anything Falls really appreciated us going down. They appreciate the attention. They appreciate that all of us making the trip to honor all the hard work they've done because they've accomplished some great things down in Falls. Um, otherwise uh parent
007advisories coming up pretty soon. We have parents names signing up for that for the superintendent's advisory. We're going to start the student advisory uh process of getting the student advisory and the principal's advisory. So, uh principal at the high school starting that as well. Two different advisory groups to making sure we have all student input from every aspect. So, Tina and I are putting that together now. Um otherwise, football had their first scrimmage. I know that was exciting. We I had a Baldin site visit, but everything has been going great. You know, the we talked at the leadership meeting yesterday and I'm genuinely proud of the of all the principles of the way they've moved into their new positions, the way they're settling in. It's one of those things where I've been around so long
008that I tend to get if something's wrong, somebody's going to contact me from somewhere along the line. And for me, when I'm getting contacted by very few, that's a good sign. That's a good sign that things are going well and people are settling in well. Getting some good comments on all of them, on Cynthia, on on um I'm sorry, Dr. Brit, Miss Cox, and uh Dr. Francisco at the high school. Brand new people coming in uh getting some really good feedback on how they're handling things and how they're approaching things and making their way through. So, great start. >> Thank you. Governing board member reports, do you have anything to say? >> Yes. [Applause] >> Yeah. I went to the back to school nights at the Northshore Middle School, high school, and CT. Um, and
009I agree with Markeel. I mean, they went well. I mean, I thought all the principles did a good job. The sound system at Northshore is fair to poor. Um, the I think there's a new sound system at the middle school because it was fabulous. I mean, easy to hear. Um, and it's just small thing. Actually, if I can answer on that real system at Nora is actually new. I think they're still struggling adapting to it and using it appropriately. Making sure we had some because it's actually a good system cuz we just put that system in. Um and and we put money into that. Putting that system in. >> Steve, you offended Jake. >> I can tell cuz Jake's going to tackle me on the way out if I can fix this. So, it's just
010a matter of they're still adjusting to working with it. Especially when there's people in the room, they realize that starts to drown out sound. And when you're testing sound and no one's in the room compared to somebody being in the room, I think that might have been the issue there. >> Okay. I just noticed, okay, that Cynthia had it right up against her mouth. Okay. So, and at the middle school, Dr. Francisco was kind of waving it around and I could always hear what she said, but I couldn't hear periodically something. So, it needs adjustment. Jake, >> are the mics new? >> Huh? >> Are the mics? >> Everything was new with that system. With that system, it's just a matter of they're still getting used. It's a It's a a pretty advanced system, actually.
011So, it's a matter of them getting used to using it properly. They're still adjusting to it. Okay. Um I went to to CT, okay, and the classroom just had a much nicer vibe. Okay. I mean, it did. Unfortunately, there are only two parents there, but it it did it felt better. It felt different. And so, I was I was encouraged by that. Um I did I walked down the the science what I call the science hall in the um high school and you know we spent a lot of money on the science labs and so I wanted to go in and see and I got to be honest I was disappointed with the rooms. Okay the teachers were going through the usual thing. They were doing a fine job but you look in the room
012and it was sterile white walls with nothing on them in a couple cases and it's like geez you know science is exciting. Science is visual. science is hands on. Um, and there's nothing on two of the walls hardly at all. Um, so I was kind of supported by that. Um, I found myself in AP Calculus for the next next session. >> You're the only person that would go to AP. I didn't actually intend to go to AP counties, but I wound up there and there were only like three parents and so I felt obligated to stay if I left 25% of the and I'm really glad that I did. Okay, because you know the teacher was fine. She was going through, you know, all the usual stuff about them and she said and our this
013is our our textbook but we don't use it. Okay. And I immediately flashed that our last meeting, we approved the AP calculus textbook because we had to by law approve approve the test. And she said, I don't use it. I use calculus.flippedmath.com. And so I was like, really? Sounds like an online class. And so I put it in my phone so I can go look it up. And then she went, "Your students going to need a a graphing calculator." And we've got some in the back of the room and there's a whole bunch of brand new ones. Look like brand new, but you don't really need those because if you've got an iPhone, there's an app that emulates that graphing calculator and it's free. But I really recommend Desmos. Okay? I don't know if you've
014used Desmos. I use Desmos all the time. It's a fabulous quick and dirty uh easy to understand graphing. If I'm going to graph something quick, I use Desmos. So, I don't know. I sort of I sat there going like we bought the textbook that she's not using. Okay, we bought the graphing calculators, but they really don't need them. Um that kind of bothered me. So when at the end of the session, I started to go to the classrooms and went I'm sorry. And so I apologize to all the other teachers because I didn't go to any of the classrooms. I went home and I logged on to calculus.flippedmath.com. Um, and it's a full AP calculus um, curriculum. Okay, 111 lessons and it takes you from start to differential equations. So, it's like, wow. So, I
015did the first lesson >> know it gets better. >> I did the first lesson and then did the rest. And um it was on limits. Okay, I don't know if there's a lot of calculus people in here, but probably not. But limits, limits are kind of a critical concept that you really need to get at the beginning. Okay, the concept of, you know, a function at a point or a function as it moves to a point but doesn't get there. Anyway, it's it did a fabulous job. Okay, I thought the It was contrived a bit, but the the the functions that they were using were perfect for what they were trying to convey. Okay, so I did the second lesson. Um, I didn't feel I needed to do the exercises because they're pretty easy. Um,
016and it was another it was still on limits with other I did the third lesson um because I'm me and I just wanted to see and then I realized, wait a minute, I'm these are beginning. I should jump to the middle and I want to see some harder stuff how they do that. Calculus is very much you have to go step by step by step by step by step. It builds on itself. But that's not a problem. So I went to the chain rule. It's a if you're not familiar with calculus, it's a a significant procedure in differential calculus that you have to master. Just have to. It was fabulous. Okay. The presentation was was just great. And quite honestly, this program that she's using is the best I've ever seen. Okay, it beats any
017textbook that we could possibly have approved. Um, so I started off with a wait a minute and this is great. Okay, if you want to learn calculus, this is the best way to do it. Way better than Khan Academy. It's intuitive. The graphics were great. I mean, I just can't rave about it enough. And so I would expect I don't know if we've used this in the past or not, but I would expect the kids that follow that program and go through will do well on the AP even. Okay. So I started off with a wait a minute. Um and wound up with I I believe I would classify the teacher as a a cany bandit. No, from the practical wisdom book. Okay. A cany outlaw. I'm sorry. Because, you know, she had to adopt
018the book to comply with the law, but she's given the kids the tools they really need to learn calculus. Um, and so anyway, kudos to her. >> I appreciate that. That's really good. Um, >> sorry about the >> Yes, it was. It was killing him. >> Killing him. >> My kids loved her. >> Yeah. >> Good. I'm really glad to hear that. Okay, that's it. Cool. >> You know, a lot of kids, well, not a lot. There's a good chunk of kids that weren't at and the parents not at back to school night because we had auditions for Red Juice Symphony. >> I'm sorry, Mr. Roberts. I did have one more thing just to make sure with the board knew this that tomorrow afternoon for our on our short day. Um the elementary schools are
019going to start there what would be the active shooter preparedness training uh that we do that we're doing through the high school I mean through the college sorry the county now um Raven went through a vetting process and trying to find the best possible one. There's always new research and everything. Raven did a great job. probably even sent her down to watch a presentation of this man who's given in who has some background um based off research and everything else. So the elementary schools are getting their presentation tomorrow. The middle the middle and high school will get theirs on September 15th. We just need to revamp. We haven't really touched this ever since the whole Alice training thing, but some of the Alice training theme is not exactly effective or current research. Okay. So this
020is really bas >> for staff. for staff >> because the the 15th is a day off for kids. >> Yeah, that's just your staff. Um this is awareness. It's just it's awareness. It's response. It's how to prepare for these things. It's it's not scenario based. >> Kids aren't going to be >> No, this is just staff. Uh this is staff that so communication. It's a little bit different approach what we're looking at now because some of the other information that before was coming out was just too a little too much and overwhelming where this is just this is the information you need. This is what research shows. Unfortunately, there's research on these things because of the how many incidents we've had. So, just want to make sure the staff uh the board knew that if
021for some reason you wanted to watch the presentation, you know, we're doing that at uh Baldwin, right? >> Baldwin tomorrow. So, just want to make sure you're aware that we're doing those presentations. >> Based on the reporting newspaper, the high school one was very successful. >> That was different. That was >> that was the train. >> No, that was a training for first responders. It was and it was before the school before school started. >> Just to clarify, tomorrow is the elementary for the elementary schools. The morning of the 15th that we're out of school. Secondary is doing theirs first in. So they're doing two separate trainings, one for elementary, one for secondary. >> All right. Item 13, administrative reports, first reading and adoption of governing board policy updates. I get a motion to approve
022some >> second. >> All in favor? >> Suggestions for future meeting agendas? Anyone want to know? >> All right, we're we can adjourn. We're going to go back into close session to finish up one of the student personnel items.