001All right. Uh, can I get a motion to adopt the agenda? So move. All in favor? Opposed? Can everyone please rise for the for a moment of silence and hold. Right hand over your heart. Ready? Begin. I aliance 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. [Music] Sliding in here. That was smooth, man. Well done. Well done. Usually Mr. slides it that way, right? I'm learning training here today. Dang it. I told you he get confused. I think we know. Nisha, you're up first. Hi everyone. My name is Asa and I'm the ASB board rep for high school. Uh this month ASB and class officer elections turned last week. For ASP offices, we have Kennedy
002Meadows as president, Jordan Aosta as vice president, Laran as secretary, Damian as treasur, Madison Walkner as publicity chair, Kubi as social chair, Luca as commissioner, Mamos as sport representative, and Nisha as represent. Our Vaware spirit week was last week to bring awareness of mental health. Art Club hosted an open studio night art show last night from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. to show off their artwork and pottery pieces. These pieces were were first sale to help raise money for the art for the art club. Powder pup preparation is in full swing with with practices taking place this week both for our players and cheerleaders. The power powder puff game is next Wednesday starting at 7 at the stadium and we hope you can join us. Ticket sales for prom end midweek next week and prom will
003be Saturday down at the Ka performing arts center. We will also be having our prom assembly next Friday to honor our prom. On May 16th, we have schol ceremony at the pack. To end this month off, our school is working hard to prep for all all of our end of the year festivities and air rock, which will be taking place on June 5th at 6 p.m. in the gym. So far, we have 15 student groups participating as well as several staff groups from other schools in the district. Congratulations to track teams for winning the cross valley league championships. The boys team claimed their ninth straight title and the girls team their 12th. Individual champions include Elijah, Kale, Sam, Mateo, and Aiden. For the boys, Abby, Telina, Maddie, Hannah, Chloe, and Azyra. For the girls, the
004girls 4x 400 relay team of Hannah, Alandra, London, and Ayra broke the school records by over six seconds. Great job. The teams complete at CIF next Saturday. The boys season has ended. The team ended up in second place. We have two players move on to league finals. Jonathan Hope, who finished fifth, and Jackson Joe who finished eighth. Um, varsity baseball finished second in league and will head to CIF playoffs for the first time in several years. First playoff game will be Thursday or Friday of next week. Softball is currently having a great season, having a chance to make it to the playoffs by last night's game on a wild card. They currently have a 10 to 11 record to make it to making it an 111 record. All right, Jason, you ready? Yeah. I'm Jason
005Mos. I'm class representative. This past month, our students continue to work on their coursework and they completed 51 classes as a whole. We have completed our reading of polls and are in the process of voting our final book for the school year. Also, we are continuing on our financial literacy lessons through Ramsey classroom Michael from top securities completing his five week financial literacy discussions. We learned how much the stock market affects the job market. I think that's yeah the job market and how much political can influence the stock market like what was seen with the tariffs that were set. Next week 22 is coming to facilitate a wellness project where we complete vision boards for goal setting. Some of us are feeling pressure to complete our coursework as the semester comes to an end but
006we looking forward to what the future holds. Thanks guys. I have a question for you. You have to help me out. They didn't have a complete program for the play. What was the do you know who played the had the main part in Foot Loose? The actor who played does anyone here know Luke Andrews? Okay, thank you. I need to know that they didn't have that program. I want to report that report. Do you guys have any of your fever yet? No. Let the principal or assistant principal speak on that. said that. I said, "Yes, they do." Usually, it's not until Mother's Day weekend where they get amped up after the snow and the end of the year. I guess it's early this year. Oh, well. Well, be be nice to your uh your teachers
007and people at school down the stretch. And thanks for coming reporting. You got one more time with us. Is this it? One more time. I have one more. Do you meeting? Good. Yeah, I think we have one more. Good. Good. Cuz I know Manny's going to get you a real nice present. Yeah, exactly. All right. Uh, do you want to do the student? No, no, no. We'll try a student recognition. Okay. So, just hold off just Okay. All right. Marquez. Perfect. Student recognition. So, if I could please um miss have Miss Tinki Kent, please stand up, please. Hi. Okay. So, so you can all see from there. So, I'm going to say some things first before I bring her to the front because we have it on. So, when students have we we recognize a
008lot of things and we need to recognize absolute academic excellence so much more and in what we do. This is why we're here and we have something impressive right now. Okay. So, I'm going to read a little bit about Tiki and why she's being honored this evening. Okay. Tiki has earned recognition through the National Merit Honor uh Scholarship Program, one of the most esteemed academic competitions for high school students in the United States. The program conducted by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation identifies and honors the highest achieving students nationwide. Tiki's journey uh began with an outstanding performance on the PSAT, which qualified her as a national merit semi- finalist, an honor reserved for approximately the top 1% of students in the nation. She then successfully advanced through a rigorous application pro process and was named
009the national merit finalist placing her among the less than 1% of high school students across the country based on the combination of both those scores. On top of that um Tiki has also been recently been admitted to Brown University in Rhode Island, one of the most prestigious institutions in the nation with an acceptance rate of just 5%. Brown ranks among the most selected universities in the country. T's admission uh to Brown is a testament to her academic excellence and work ethic and perseverance. So we are honored to have you here this evening with now and we're going to have your parents come up with you if you have your parents with you. If you guys don't know Tikki, she's a pretty awesome. She's a great violinist as well, and she's done a ton of uh
010volunteer uh work with um teaching or conducting an orchestra younger kids. Okay. So, I'm going to read what it says on her plaque. Award gave her. Okay. Uh certificate of recognition. This certifi certificate is awarded to Tiki Ken Tuang presented on this day 7th day of May 2025 by the BDUSD governing board in honor of her exceptional academic achievement and dedication to excellent scoring in the top 1% of students nationwide on PSAT and SAT. She has earned this prestigious distinction of national merit finalist. Her performance reflects not only an outstanding intellectual ability but also a commitment to hard work and academic excellence. We commend her with this remarkable accomplishment and look forward to her continued success. [Music] [Applause] I know you guys can get away with that. Our board president is joining us. We are
011so [Music] proud. When I talked to mom and called her, she was so proud, but she wanted to make sure she conveyed it. She couldn't have done this without Bev USD and to help thank all the teachers, administrators, and everyone that has gotten her to this point. Um, truth is is we probably could have put this child in a barrel with a book and she might have ended up being the same exact point that she is right now. But I appreciate the parents support of BBUSD and everything you have done with your daughter. Your example for every single one of us, not just students, every single one of us. Congratulations and thank you. So now you guys, you guys can I want to ask a few questions. So Miss Fulmer might be able to help
012me with this. I can only think we've had one other one. I have only had one other one in the 17 years I've been administrator, but she didn't make it to the finals. Right. That was Brian Adams daughter. Yes. Yeah. That's amazing. That's It's interesting when she went through that process when Brian Adam's daughter went through it. She went to the finalist but didn't make it. Yeah. I looked into it. She made it to the end. It is exclude. I don't even think those percentages are right. I think it's I mean I talk to people from other districts about having National Merit because I brag about this district. I talk about how we've had Olympians, we've had cast members on Saturday Night Live, we've had uh you know engineers at Lockheed, all kinds of different
013things and national scholar. That's the one that gets a national a person who's too. I know that's good. Finalist, which sent you so accomplished and so intelligent, smart. Why Brown? Um, why not? Sano states right at the bottom. She couldn't get any further away from us. That's the furthest you can absolutely go. That's right. Just to note, I looked it up and I was looking it up today. So, I try to figure in perspective, uh, there are three rough between 3.8 and 3.9 million 12th grade students in the nation. Only 1.9 actually take the SAT test. So, that's where she's ranking even above all that. So, above 3.8 and then the 1% of that is absolutely less than 1%. I'd like to know the exact figure because I agree with you because who actually made
014it is the less than 1%. Yes. Yeah. So, who actually make it this far. So, you're right. It's the 1% is who gets to qualify. Correct. She'll do the math. She'll do the math. So, so why Brown for real? I'm curious because you probably had a lot of choices. And what schools did you tour and why did you choose Brown? Um, I think at the end like my decision Brown was like it's a small school like much like bigger and I think that's just perfect for me. And it has an open curriculum for undergrads. So I get to choose my own classes. I don't have to take general ed and I really can go in whichever direction. Good call. That's great. Wonderful. Well, congratulations. That's amazing. Thank you. Great accomplishment. What What's your major going
015to be? Um um English and maybe apply math. She's still debating. She's going to come back and teach for us. Yes. When you're ready to write your autobiography, you already had your title. A book in a barrel. My story starting. That's great. Congratulations. Congratulations. You have much to be proud of. Wow. Thank you foring. All right, Nisha, Jason, anyone else wants to head out. There's more excitement going on. But yeah, for students, you gota get somewhere. Oh, you have to say, Miss Roberts, your father's still here. Oh, cool. Michael wore his shiny dance. Yes, he did. Serious. All right. Uh, next it is comments from Jim Gardner, Fair Valley Education Association. You can sit at this. Yes, please do. Okay, start the three minute timer. Mr. Roberts that way. Okay, you guys, if you don't
016know me, I'm Chana Gardner. I'm the union president for Bear Valley Education Association. Honored board members, thank you so much for considering the approval of our tenative agreement. While the 0.5% on schedule raise and $300 on health and welfare is below COLA, our membership understands the state of the state as well as the consequence of our low ADA of 91%. Teachers would like to see a concerted effort between our union and management to encourage attendance with incentives as well as continued efforts on the part of administration to repair the issues with ADA at CT and independent study which have resulted in fines and loss of funds needed to meet the state's goal. Again, BBA thanks the governing board and the BBUSD negotiations team for continuing to be committed to improving working conditions for teachers and
017learning conditions for students. Continued improvements to certificated contract language shows dedication of all interested parties. I thank you for approving the hard work that is evident in this document from both sides of the table. In the near future, we will be continuing conversations with administration by creating a task force on dual enrollment and passing anou with a focus on retaining the jobs of BBUSD certificated employees, ensuring the safety of our students while on campus by making sure they are adequately supervised while enrolled in college classes taught by teachers off campus and working with the best colleges around to fairly compensate our teachers in these new roles. I'd like to finish my statement with a personal invitation to all to attend the BBSD steam night and BBMS open house on Tuesday, May 27th from 5:00 to
0187:00 p.m. There will be community and district partners present as well as projects on display, plus hands-on activities for all BBMS students and their families. We are looking forward to showing off our learning and steam fields to you in three short weeks. My team looks forward to working with you all in the future to continually improve work and learning conditions as well as retain competitive salaries and benefits packages for our members. Thank you very much. [Music] We have the hearing section for public comments. There's no comment cards. Is that correct? Two kids. So, I've got to read a script before public. Good idea. Uh, we will now open uh the public comment period of our meeting. President invites anyone wishing to address the governing board on any item that is within the subject matter jurisdiction
019of the governing board to do so at this time. We value your input and welcome your comments. Please keep the following guidelines in mind during this portion of the meeting. Uh first, each speaker will be allotted three minutes to speak for a total of 20 minutes allocated for each item. Uh, two, please note that under the Brown Act, the board cannot take action on items not on the agenda unless specific conditions are met, such as urgent matters or the need for immediate action. Three, public comments are an opportunity to share your views with the board, not to engage in a debate or question in answer session. Board members will not respond directly to individual comments during this period, but but will carefully consider all input. To maintain a respectful uh environment, please refrain from using
020offensive or discriminatory language. Personal attacks against individuals including board members, staff, or members of the public are prohibited. Finally, these procedures are not designed to restrict public criticism of policies, procedures, programs, or services of the district or acts or omissions of the code board. Legal reference is ED code 35145 and 721. All right. I can't read your last name that well. So, could you tell me what your last name is, sir? Gold Branson. G. Okay. Branson, Missouri. Yeah. Gold Branson. So, Daniel Goldston. It's your turn. Can I stand up now? You can stand or you can sit at the table. Whichever. I used to come here a year ago. Well, when we have the student um forum or the students reporting, we put the table, not the podium. You ready? Yes. I came here to
021talk about your hate motivated behavior. It's the biggest diaper load of nothing I've ever seen. Just like the state of California and we got a lot of pin hits in Sacramento passing these mandates that are just pathetic throughout my school. Uh there were a lot of things that even back in the 60s they started and then we started having kids in the 70s and some of the head whackadoodle teachers and administrators we had through the 70s and 80s was ridiculous. And this is just part of it. You're way overstepping. It's just typical of California and why people are leaving. This thing does nothing but discriminate against Catholics, Christians, and other people and it's very arbitrary when you say automatic suspension and uh or expulsion. Where where are the rights here? Can you hear a few
022words? I'd like to know what your words and terms are that you're not happy with because what you think and what other people think are two different things. That's why there's a lot of lowincome people voting for Trump because they're sick of it, too. And this policy is nothing but DEI and it's full and throughout you include inclusion. That's in some people's opinion. We just had a student here that did extremely well because she worked extremely hard just to give people equity is racist. This whole policy is racist. Does this hat trigger you? Because it does to some. That's why I wear it. Because what your judgment is is different than what your judgment might be. So, just like our city council that I spent spending a lot of time there, they have to be
023called out. They have to be called on because that's what happens in Sacramento when you get such a lopsided whackadoodle group that makes all these stupid mandates. It's unbelievable. And it's unfair to the even the uh Mexicans. That's why Trump got a lot of voting. So, thank you for letting me speak. I could go on. I've got six items. So, can I go 20 minutes? No. All right. The item eight, the consent calendar. We get a motion to approve. Second. All in favor? I. None oppose. No items removed. Right. Mr. Marquez. Employee announcements. Absolutely. Um, we have qu we have four different ones here. A couple classified. First, we have a BBMS cafeteria worker for Gary Bishop. Is Gary in the audience? Excellent. Gary's here. Gary is, of course, we're going to start off first
024with the fact that Gary is a BBHS alumni. He brings with him six years of food prep experience. He's passionate about providing nutritious meals for students and supporting our child nutrition at the EBS. We are so lucky to have you. Always excited to hire a Big Bear graduate. Thank you and welcome. Welcome. Did you go to Sea Sun? Um, I'm still going to sees. Are you? Cool. That's great. Okay. Well, we're excited to have you. Thank you very much. Okay. And Baldwin Lane Elementary lead cook, Katherine Molina. Is Kathy here? Okay. Exciting. Uh Kathy began her career with child nutrition department in October last year. Katherine has at least 15 years experience with child nutrition beyond Bear Valley. She will make a great addition to the Baldwin Lane Elementary School team. We are very lucky
025and excited to have her. So, congratulations Okay. Uh, noon duty aid at Baldwin Lane. I'm going to make sure I don't destroy his last name. Robert Lucino. Is Robert here? That's okay. Uh, Robert is currently pursuing his teaching credential and is eager to begin working with students at BBSC during the process. We are very lucky and excited to have him welcome him to the Baldwin Lane Elementary School today. Um, another new duty aid for Northshore, Heather Heather Pritzy. Uh Heather is a dedicated parent in Bear Valley who has volunteered in her children's classrooms and enjoys working with students. Her experience will be valuable in her role as a new duty aid. Welcome Heather Fritzy. Excited. Heather. Okay. Now we have a couple certificated here. We have some new teachers starting for the for the next
026school year for the 2526 school year. At BBHS we have a Spanish teacher starting. She's not here because she's moving back to Big Bear. We have Miss Audrey Pike. We're very excited to have you here. Um, and Audrey, we're thrilled to announce that Audrey will be returning to Big Bear High School as our Spanish teacher for the 2526 school year. Audrey is a seasoned school Spanish educator with over two decades of experience, having taught in since 2003. She previously served BBSE from 16 2016 to 2022. We are so excited to have her back on our team. Miss Fe brings a strong background in classroom management and critical thinking along with a remarkable ability to adapt to continuously enhance both student and experiences. Her return is a wonderful game for our students and community. Welcome back,
027Audrey. I think she's watching online. And a BBHS English teacher, Megan Mikum Cantu is Megan. She's right there. You're going to make me stand up. Yeah. Okay. Uh, we are thrilled to welcome Megan back to Bear Valley as she joins BBSD for the upcoming school year as our English teacher at Big Bear High School. Megan is a proud graduate for Big Bear High School and has been a part of our Bear Valley community since the fourth grade. In addition to her academic achievements, she is a talented singer and performer, frequently sharing her gifts at many local events. This will be Megan's fifth year teaching. She holds a bachelor's degree in English from the University of San Diego along with a master's degree in education. Her strong roots in our community, passion for education, and dedication
028to students make her a wonderful addition to our team. Please join us in giving Megan a warm welcome. Very lucky to have her. We're excited. We have a few more, but I think there's some steps we got to do a few. Yeah. All right. So, it's still back with superintendent. superintendent's comments to that. Okay, so staff appreciation week and you guys have some cups there in your bags. Um, thank you very much for want you're still part of our staff. Want to first thank the board um for everything you do every day. When I walked in here and I didn't see Kathy here, I forgot Kathy was missing. It's I was kind of complaining about it cuz it's never quite the same unless everybody is here. everything you guys bring to this district as a
029board and all the personalities and perspectives of this district is extremely lucky to have that with everything you bring. Everybody's differentiating opinions. We love that. Um, but we've been able to get out to the sites this week. We've been out to each site taking breakfast burritos and giving them their gifts. They're all getting the gifts with individual logos on their bags from Be Valley and thanking them for everything they do. We've been a we I think tomorrow's our biggest day because we have two large schools in the day. We got to Baker High School and Balden Lane in one day and then go and then go down to Falls to recognize them as well. We uh Miss Drake and I will be going down to Falls. It's been wonderful to shake all the teachers hands.
030We wanted to make sure we thank all the teachers staff uh classified staff who is classified staff steps up every single moment and we could not do this without them as well. So we want to thank everybody for all their efforts they put into Bear Valley. Bear Valley. I put out an email, you know, and as far as Bear Valley, we love our sites and we love everything. Uh Bear Valley is a spirit of individuals. It's the people that work here, the people that love it. Um and no matter what they're doing, you know, just Judith who's in our audience, um in nutrition services, she loves what she does. For example, it's student services, nutrition services. It's those people that love what they do. And I always try to explain to everybody, if you don't
031love it like I love it, it's probably not the place for you. and because you have to love it to truly be for us all to be successful. Um, so it's been exciting and I want to thank all the staff because they are absolutely impressive what they give. This is sometimes not for the faint of heart in the education and we appreciate everyone who does who works so hard. Thank you everybody. Okay. Um, but I would like to uh acknowledge real quick that Becky Murphy, our um in the back here in the our fishbowl back here, Becky Murphy was recently honored at the Quakes game uh as a CSA regional member of the year. Something Bon has received in the past. So, that's our district getting recognized twice. There's a lot of people to be
032recognized and the fact that Becky Murphy was recognized is pretty impressive and we're very excited for Becky and all that she's done. I have Becky listed off all the different classified positions she's held and it's pretty impressive. They couldn't be here tonight cuz they had a meeting tonight. But it was pretty impressive all the different classified positions Becky held. She's also on union negotiations and she's been Becky is just amazing. So congratulations to Becky Murphy. Um and then Bonnie South Alli Orchard and Becky Murphy and Danny Arch recently. They take pride in their union and they are recent to become union stewards for there and that's a class they have to go through and it's a lot of work. So, it's a dedication to the classified staff that they're being recognized as well. So, I
033want to congratulate them. Had parent advisory um the other night with I love this parent advisory team and one of the things that were discussed is discussing is the growing sped numbers and how we're adapting to growing sped numbers, growing e population. and we had a new sped parent here that was part of our superintendent's advisory committee and it was a wonderful experience to hear her talk and I just want to acknowledge the fact that sometimes until we hear people's true experiences do we have that full impact and to hear her talk about her experiences with her children who she has um multiple special education students in our district. She's so supportive and at the same time still recognizing when she knows her student is successful and how she recognizes the success in her student
034when he gets excited about class or when it's a challenge for him in the classes that maybe he doesn't get excited about and what that means to him. It was wonderful to hear her speak and I really Miss Connelly was the one that was there with us and it was really we really appreciated her being there because she joined us uh just recently on it. But hearing everyone's perspective and their experiences is important. And that's why we have that group to hear the different parent experiences and to hear her experience as a sped parent was to me very powerful in that room last last night. So it was wonderful. Wanted to thank that group again. Northshore Playground went in. You saw pictures of that. That was pretty exciting. We did that little opening. I just
035took two minutes. But we wanted to That's been a long time coming for that. A long time. A long time. A long time coming. I know. I texted Andy uh Mrs. Mcllin and Mrs. Shudder because they were there when it was taken out. And the fact that this board was able to we were able to make that happen again uh was really exciting when the kids when we they weren't supposed to charge it because there's a lot of kids out there. But when you do a countdown to kindergarteners, they will naturally charge. Uh so they charged it and it was it was adorable. Nobody got hurt. We were all good. Nobody got trampled. It was nice. It was fun still. Um but it scares me for a minute. And if I watch I'm still looking
036for this little guy in a blue jacket that I got on film. He led the charge. I'm still trying to find his name. Was that you? It wasn't me. I was in the swings. There's pictures out there swings. I want to thank Craig and Jess and everyone that made this happen on the board because it was wonderful. Uh that was I drove by today and I saw that they're redoing getting rid of the mulch. Yes, we're getting rid of the mulch. That's our next step for all the other playground. Making sure it's the safe padding on the ground for the students on all the sites. U making sure on all the elementary sites. Making sure it's safe and it's going to look really nice. but have had a chance to go out there and look
037at that the new the new playground and they did put in the ADA accessible seats for the students for at the the county as well for our special education students. So, it really was a just a great addition. It was a great moment to be able to see that happen again. Uh parent night, we had parent night for the anxious generation um discussing what media does for students and what it doesn't do for students, I should say, and the impact on students. It was a great presentation that we had. It's helpful from down the hill come up and present to our parents. We had a good showing. What was nice is we did have a good showing of Spanish speaking parents as well. And we had translators there and everyone and everybody the parents were
038really good about having input and what the impact is, what our responsibility is as a school, what their responsibility is as parents to protect kids from media, from the media that's out there. And sometimes that how it impacts their learning, how it impacts the brain. The research right now is so interesting. I I encourage everyone out there if you haven't read Anxious Generation to take the time to read it to truly understand what media phones everything has done, you know, for students and children. It was a powerful presentation. I was really excited. We're going to start the year with the with the speaker coming into the and talk to our teachers at the beginning of the 2526 school year as well. Otherwise, that's it for me. How about that roundabout? How's that going? Solved as
039far as I see. I keep they're doing like they moved Michael might know they moved uh some some of the power poles recently and so they're it's slowly but truly yeah I think that's a little bit of the slope right now is utilities there's utilities and not just that but there's gas lines there's different power gas lines you're done power company's done power company's done make that clear it's all pushed out make that clear all All right. Uh, governing board member reports. Um, yeah, since I haven't been here in a while. Um, yeah, I went to a a varsity girls softball game, a boys baseball game, a JV softball game, the track the CIF qualifying track meet. Um, and I also went to the social media presentation. Um, they were all great. I mean, it's
040it's really nice to watch our high school kids out there competing and and I mean, both games didn't turn out quite the way they wanted, but it was still good to watch. And the track meet um it was just spectacular to watch it on our our new state. Did you get to see the Zyra? She's amazing. She keeps breaking school records. Yeah, she does. I didn't watch the whole thing. Yeah. But uh anyway, it was it was fun. Do you have anything to see? No, I got around a little this week. Mr. Marquez invited me to uh when they were celebrating staff here, the office staff. I got to stop by and see everyone. And it kind of hit me when I was here that, you know, the turnover that we had in the district
041office this year. I wonder if there's any district that's ever had their superintendent, uh, curriculum director, business officer, their top four people in the district disappear overnight. Well, I I will give a lot of credit to them. It's the opposite. They the previous staff in those positions went through great lengths to make the transition as easy as possible. That being said, for it to run as smooth as it has has taken a wonderful job by the people who were there before you and especially the district office staff because they're the only constant in this and they're the ones who probably really helped this be successful. So, it seems like there's a great team here. Then I got to go over to transportation. Same thing. I sat for an hour after you guys left and they
042were telling me stories and I understand in a much greater capacity the challenges they have over here and uh you know uh the difficulty in finding employees and the good things and bad things about the job and it just seemed like a great team over there as well. So that was really neat. My favorite thing this week was going to the school play. And I'll tell you, I have been to oh, at least a few dozen school plays. Actually, way more than that when I was teaching between putting them on. And I've seen a lot of talented people come through this district. And I'm telling you, this Luke Andrews guy, I'm telling you, you just saw him and you knew. I heard that he wants to be an animator and maybe not pursue acting, but
043I'm telling you, I you just he has it. I watched him the whole time. The kid has it. I've never seen anything like it. I actually went up and talked to Patrick afterwards and the guy in the box, they looked at me and said, "Yeah, oh yeah, he's something different. He is something different. He is an amazing talent and even if he doesn't follow, I want to talk to him." If he doesn't follow that, uh, I hope he keeps it in his life because he is good. I've never seen stage every time. He's like a Broadway like I was like I've seen Broadway shows. He was on every single second. You know how like during a song someone will stop for a second or get bored? I mean he was on He was great. He
044was fantastic. Madison Walker was right behind there too. Oh yeah. Great. A she was right there with super impressed and I was so glad that uh it wasn't only Patrick, but it was also uh Ryan. It was Ryan was a big part of that show, too. So, it's great to see that the person that we helped uh helped come to our district to help in the arts was able to put on uh a show like that. So that was fantastic. Blew blew me away. Luke was Lumiere like in the third grade as a kid speak with a French accent. There's something since he was little within the first 30 seconds. You just see that sometimes but if you haven't seen with you guys if you haven't seen his art he won at Northshore since third
045grade. He won the yearbook cover contest. He won I think third, fourth and fifth the whole time. He kept winning every year because his art is it matches his stage ability. Yeah. Yeah. He's he's he's very special. It's it's rare to see someone like that. Um last thing I want to mention is I talked to a parent or a parent talked to me called me after seeing the presentation about the anxious generation and their question was when are we going to have the phone policy that we have in the middle school at the high school? We do kind of No. Well, no, it's not quite the same. It's it's a little different because they still they're still allowed during passing periods and during lunches. So that with the middle school is gone completely where they
046don't it's bell to bell right not allowed to have them out. No. Yeah. They still middle school still fights that bell every single day you know but they fight the good fight every day. Um that's a continuing conversation with administration at the high school and but I think what has to happen is the same thing we did at the middle school. We're giving trying to give them a little bit more time. I believe that now is the time that we say start saying, "Okay, now we've we've done this and we shoot the warning shot over the B say either you guys get control of it, meaning not sneaking during class, not having it out during class and follow the rules, or do we have to go to the next level?" Because we did that at
047the middle school. The middle school year one, we allowed passing periods and lunches and we realized, no, you're still taking it out, you're still pulling it out, still issue in the classrooms, not following the policy. So that's when we kept warning him, okay, we're going to take it. We're going to take it. We're going to take it. And that's when he said, okay, we try it next year. We're taking it. And it and it made a difference. A lot of schools I've talked to a few different districts that have gone to the pouches. They seem to think believe that a good system to use. I don't know yet. I I I think we have to do some more research as a cabinet to understand and as a as the high school and middle school administrations
048look at this and go the time it takes get in pouches out of pouches the staffing it takes to do that at the beginning of the end of the day but a lot of districts have moved to that to those putting the kids locking them in the pouches all day long I there's pros and cons to it that I'm not sold yet personally I know that in ancient Generation I heard that person in a podcast they talked about the company that's going to schools now with the pouches and there's a whole program of imp implementation that's not just overnight here's pouches here's their phones there's parent education there's kid education because if you believe what's in that anxious generation it's all peer-reviewed science it's we're going to look back generations from now like we're crazy
049what why do we ever why do we ever kids do that they they compare to the same way we look at the way we look at smoking now if we allow oh 100% worse if you look at that data exactly and you see it you see it But um and again I'm not telling you and I'm only one board member so it's not direction. I'm just saying that from this one parents perspective and I know if you're going to implement something it has to happen at the right pace in the right way. So I'm not saying it overnight and it's not my job to tell you. It's as one board member. I would love to see if we can move in that direction because I had uh a school counselor tell me uh who walked
050through the middle school and all the kids are saying hi and stopping to talk to him. And then over the high school where he had all his former students too who used to high-five him and stop and talk to him and they're all walking by like this on their phones in between periods. I heard that. I got that conversation as well. And I got to tell it he's not wrong. It's not wrong. Yeah. Because I can walk through the middle school and give high fives and excited. The kids see me and then you know the and sometimes through the high school I'm having to you know nudge a kid say hey what's going on to say hi because they're heads are down. Yeah. Different. Good. There was a recent change though, right? It was just
051a recent change from teacher discretion to administration discretion. And my staff always go by what the board policy states. And so, and unfortunately, our board policy still says during passing periods and lunch, they could have it. So, that is something we as a whole district would love to have a communication on. But, but from a parents perspective, my kids have told me it's changed. Yes. Where it's No, you don't have them out during class. That's correct. It's a non-negotiable. It's a non-negotiable during class. Yeah. If if a parent if a student is using it, they're supposed to have one of our permission to use it. If a classroom uses it, for example, they have a classroom project and they need the cell phone, they actually will call me and let me know. But it was
052interesting and I even had a chance to talk to Mrs. Bulmer about this. The kids are talking about what do you need? Why do you need a cell phones in class? And one of them said, "Well, we're short." one of the classes were short on these certain uh remind me the calculator name the calculus calculator yes I'm like okay that's a no-brainer we need to get you the calculators that should not be an issue because it's an expensive calculator um but that's why they would pull them out okay that's a no-brainer we need to make sure another is our dual enrollment some of them we can't have access to testing some of the testing and some of the things that they have to have access so what gives Jake what gives Jake [Applause] for my
053report that um I uh just this last weekend it was about 30 of our local kids part of the mountain top streams program um went to a uh it's an annual competition called form festival um and uh a few of the kids were um recognized there for outstanding musicianship. One was Tiki that was here earlier and Grace Chung and then her little brother who's a chist, Ryan Chung was uh also recognized. They did a great job and that's very professionally um the week before was the the end of the ski season for uh the local ski team. Two of our students took um the top spot for the South and Central for California, beating out about 500 ski racing kids. That's impressive. Yeah. So, that's all I have. But it's our local local kids doing
054a good job. That's impressive. All right. Item sorry, item 12. This is you for first you have to session. Okay. So, we need we're looking to um employ we need to employ one at uh due to a uh resation retirement I should say Miss Smith um which we appreciate all her help and everything she's done. Baldin Lane, we need to employ a full-time employee full-time principal for Bane Elementary School. Um do you want to approve first or or talk about that? Yeah, let's approve it. All right. Can I get a motion to approve? So move. All in favor? I none oppose. So So do you want me to announce now and do one at a time then? Yeah. Okay, let's do it. Let's do it. Okay. So this is exciting. Um we're gift Bear Valley
055is very lucky to have talent from within. So, um, before going to stand up, please, please congratulate Miss Chrissy Cox. Give her [Music] um, here we go. We are excited to share that Miss Cox, Miss Chrissy Cox, will be transitioning to the role of principal at Baldwin Elementary. Miss Cox has been an invaluable part of Bear Valley since 2016 as an educator, but has been with BBUSD since 1989 when she started as a kindergarten student. As a valued team member, Mrs. Cox has been dedicated teacher of several grade levels and currently as the amazing principal of Bigger Middle School. She brings her a wealth of knowledge, experience, and a deep passion for student success for be all BBUSD students. So, while it's never easy to say goodbye to her B to her BBMS community, we
056are confident that Miss Cox will bring her exceptional leadership, commitment, and heart to Baldin Lane Elementary. Um, her positive impact on students, staff, and families were sure to continue in her new role. Please join me in congratulating Miss Cox on this exciting next step. Uh, Miss Cox is one of those administrators and people that we could probably place her anywhere in this district and she is going to be successful. Um, she has been amazing since day one. And poor Miss Cox has been with me on this journey that even as a as a teacher when I hired her, I said she she put her in first grade and said, "Great, go to second grade. I like first grade. Go to second grade." And she did it. And then she went to second grade. And then
057I said, "I think you're never good. Just go to fourth grade." I like second grade. I know. go to fourth grade. Um, and she just she keeps impressing us every time. Everything we've given her, everything she stepped up to. And I appreciate the fact that she knows what good this district needs and is willing to do whatever this district needs and to and her heart going over it to know that the Baldin Lane staff need someone like her right now. And that's and she knew that and she stepped up. So, I appreciate that. Thank you. Congratulations. You guys know your mom's pretty rad. So, go ahead, Miss Scott. Go ahead. Since just in enough that everyone doesn't know, could you introduce who's with you this evening? Oh, yes. I'm going to put them on the
058spot. This is my amazing husband, Mike. Um, and then my oldest is Kaylee. Um, and then Josh and Jacob. And so Kaylee is a sophomore, Josh is in eighth grade, and Jacob is in sixth grade. So, so she will be at the one school her children are. Exactly. I think they're all a little excited. You guys are looking I think there was panic in Kayie for just a minute about her mom if she's going to go to the high school for a minute. You'll be okay for a minute. Okay, cool. All right. Next is for Northshore Elementary. Can you get a motion? Second. All in favor? I none opposed. All right, Manny, let's hear. Excellent. from once again we find our our wealth and our gifts from within. Um this is an exciting night because
059once again both of these teacher both of these these principles and amazing leaders I'm talking about right now in this moment um I've been able to be with on this journey. So to be a part of the new principal at Northshore Elementary will be Miss Dr. Cynthia Brit. Give her a hand. [Applause] Okay. We are excited to announce Dr. Dr. Cynthia Britt has been appointed as a new principal of Northshore Elementary. Dr. Britt began her journey at BBSD in 2015, serving as our district-wide psychologist in two in district psychologist. In 2022, she transitioned to the role of assistant principal at Big Bear High School, where she has demonstrated exceptional leadership and dedication to our students and staff. Dr. Britt's unique experience and expertise makes her an ideal leader for the needs of Northshore. We are
060confident Dr. Dr. Brit will continue to thrive in her new role and bring the same passion, insight, and commitment to the Northshore community. We look forward to continued positive impact she will make in this new chapter of her career. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Brit as well deserved. Once again, introduce who's with you, please. I have my husband and I have my beautiful daughter. She is a nth grader at high school moment. And then I have everybody saw me pregnant. Now she's five and TK she will be joining me. Excellent. Y so Dr. Bre, you know, I was able to be there when Dr. Brick got her doctorate and she presented for her doctorate to be with her on this journey. And when she came to me and as a school psych and said
061I think I want to be an administrator, I thought all right, I've never seen this happen, but let's see how this goes. Um, and it has been she has been done nothing but impress us every turn, every moment. Um, she is just she's like Chrissy in the fact that I could probably do the same thing with Dr. Brit and put her just about anywhere in this district and she's going to be successful. She's going to find her way and she's going to staff will love her and I think right now in this moment she is exactly what Northshore needed. So, we are excited. I think that's a great move um between both these people coming to our elementary schools and not just that but their gifts between each other and what I mean by that
062is they have unique gifts between each other. They're have such a respect for mad respect for each other. It's going to be a great it's it's going to be a very powerful um principal team in the elementary level. So we're excited for that. Congratulations. All right. Item C. Um, let's middle school. I get a motion. So, move second. All in favor? I. None opposed. All right. Let's hear about Dr. Francisco. Dr. Francisco. Congratulations, Dr. Francisco as a new principal for [Applause] Okay. First, I'll introduce We'll let you introduce with you first. This is my husband, Michael. Okay. Okay. We are proud to announce that Dr. uh San Francisco will be stepping into the role of principal at Big Bear Middle School for the 2526 school year. Dr. Francisco currently serves as the assistant principal at
063Big Bear Middle School where she has quickly earned the administration with with it respective staff, students, and families alike. Dr. Francisco brings with her 21 years of experience 21 years of experience in teaching at middle school level with her doctoral thesis being on the academic achievement across middle school transition more specifically the pre-adolescent boys perspective who does that is absolutely impressive to want to get in the mind of adolescent boys and how they look at education I think is impressive I was just I think that's awesome Her unwavering dedication, passion, and commitment to student success has made a tremendous impact on BBMS. We truly feel fortunate to have Dr. Francisco as part of the BBUSD family, and we look forward to the continued excellence she will bring to her new leadership role. Please join us
064in congratulating Dr. Francisco on this welldeserved. And once again, even when this she was willing to do just about anything for this district and willing to serve in any way she could. Um I like to blame her for all the shifting because if we didn't have her, we may not have made the shift we need to make for the success of the district and knowing that all all three of these ladies this evening, if I switch them right now, they would go, "All right, that's fine." They will do whatever it takes to help make a sister. They'll huff for a minute and then um but they just want to see success of the entire district and the schools understanding what the schools need. Uh we're in a lucky lucky place right now as a district
065and I believe that. All right. Item D, public hear. Yes, sir. Thank you. That's absolutely that's worth mentioning. Thanks for bringing us down, Dr. Yes. Uh we will immediately fly tomorrow morning. We will fly the assistant principal positions for both schools. We're going to apply uh both positions and hope for magic. Hope for magic. Hope for magic. I think we'll get there. And there's always, you know, Dr. Folks, there's we always have plan B and C. So, we go out there and just like we did with this, we go out there, we put it out there. Um, and I was talking to Dr. Suzuki about this and even, you know, when when I came into this position, sometimes we know what we have and what we have in here is greatness. And I have still
066a few things that if I go to plan B and C, but I think we're going to be in great shape either way. Okay. All right. Item D, public hearing uh AB1200 disclosure on of collective bargaining agreement. So move. Oh, it's just a public hearing. Next is to Nobody approve the collective bargaining agreements with Bear Valley Education Association. Now I'll move. Second. All in favor? I I none opposed. All right. Item F, first reading and adoption of board policy and administrative regulation 3516 emergencies and disaster preparedness. So second. All in favor? I. All right. Uh curriculum and instruction report, high school science curriculum adoption. Uh I know Dr. Folk swept through it fairly thoroughly. Uh, does anyone have any questions? Pretty cool. I don't have a question. It's Well, yes, I spent a couple hours
067primarily looking at the physics text, but I also went through the chemistry text and it's all there. I mean the the phys we adopted it. We considered um a science program several years ago um where I looked at the books and went what? Okay. So we rejected it. Physics is all right. I mean everything's good but it's not exciting. I mean I I told Mr. Marquez that I'm excited about physics. I mean, I love it. And I read the book and I kind of go, really? Yeah, that's right. But can't can't you present it in a more exciting way? It's time for you to Well said. You just need to have a really good teacher who can bring life to it. That's the real key. And like we talked about, that's with most curriculums. It
068is the teacher, you know, it is the teacher that has to bring this to life. Sometimes the curriculum does become mundane and not exciting and factual and not presenting it in the best manner. But that's why that's where the art of teaching comes in. The science of teaching and that's the art of teaching. And a lot of teachers when you you know when you walk in and see that's where you see the art of making curriculum especially with math and science things like that. Sometimes that may not be exciting to all students. There's certainly a way to make it excit exciting and when you watch it it's wonderful. Do we know if any of these companies give regular updates because the science now changes there's new discoveries all the time? I remember even when I
069was teaching in '05, you know, they're mapping the human genome and there's no discussion of that in the textbook. And now we're like 2005 was like 300 years ago where new physics discoveries every week. And that's the stuff to me that's exciting because it's happening now. It's more relevant to what they're doing. But I just wonder if they push that stuff out. They push out the NGSS curriculum. Now, if you're going to pilot any curriculum, you're going to have to go through the NGSS. They don't offer anything else. Okay. So, that that would be the thing that's most up to date. Correct. Right. The standard. But I agree with you, Dr. Folks. We need that exciting, enthusiastic teacher that brings in the art of it. We agree. And you know, when Luke Andrews was in
070the play, I'm like, he's the next Bill Nye. Yeah. That's all he looks like. He's amazing. That's for sure. All right. Get a motion. I'll second it. Wow. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. That energetic bringing endorsement. [Music] All in favor? I oppose. Uh item 14, business financial report. It's another day 13A waiver. This is for the snow days that we have recently not lose. We have a bunch of things to sign on that. So don't don't That's why Raven's still hanging out. She's going to tackle everybody at the door. I thought she was just a groupy. Oh, dang. I'll make the motion. All right. Second. All in favor? I opposed. Item 15, personnel reports, uh, public hearing, public comment, salary inquiries for cert uh, certificated management. We don't have to. Oh, we vote on the
071next one. All right. Uh, move to B approve the salary increase for certificated classified management management confidential. So, second. All in favor? Before you do that, we should note that it's the same package basically that we that we Yes, the exact same as for the teachers. All in favor? I oppose. All right. Um public school comment on memorandum of understanding between uh Valley Unified and Superintendent of Schools. Um there's no comment card on that. So item D, the MLOU between Bear Valley Unified and Superintendent of the Schools. Can I get a motion to approve? Second. All in favor? I oppose. I was going to say the same thing there. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. All right. Uh personnel report certificated public hearing on tenative agreement between Bear Valley Unified School District and the certificated guardian unit. Any
072questions or comments? All right. Approve the tenative agreement between BBUSD and Bear Valley Education Association. Can I get a motion? Second. All in favor? I oppose. All right. Any suggestions for future board meetings? Can I mention one thing I forgot to do on something? Okay. Um, we had a wonderful board member, I mean a community member that donated these to all of our new principles and made these for our new principles. For Dr. Francisco for her new title and I have to give them, she's still here, but I consider Dr. Brit for her new title and then Mrs. Cox for hers. So, we really appreciate he just happens to be in the audience and he just happens to be related to one of our new principles. So my and know as well we also commissioned
073uh that same that major cups that are sitting on your desk right now. He also those is a very talented individual and if you can see these are pretty amazing. I'm actually glad they're here today. So look at them on the way out cuz they're really the the work he did is he donated these for the new principles and of course he's still here to support his amazing wife. Um so just wanted to make sure you know. So she gets hers, but I get to deliver the principles in the morning. But wanted to show these and thank the community member for for donating those. Right.