001e e e good evening and happy March and welcome to the regularly scheduled monthly meeting of the bonso Unified School District Board of Trustees we'll start with a roll call Nani uswa here iy trusty here Eric AA here BC here Roger Roat here Michael Gad is here and Lissa Anderson here uh we are all here and accounted for and if we can stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and have our student trustees lead it to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for it's nice to see everyone in the audience today uh the board met in closed session prior to uh convening here for our uh Open Session and inclosed session we considered the appointment employment evaluation
002of performance discipline transfer dismissal of employees government code 54957 discussed its position regarding collective bargaining with the bonsel Teachers Association and the California School Employees Association chapter number 703 in order to direct the superintendent as Chief negotiator in the matters of BTA and csca contract uh we we uh talked about conference with legal councel regarding potential litigation as well as real property negotiations uh regarding property location on the east side of Horse Creek Ranch Road and that takes us to the approval of the current agenda I move that we're going to uh exactly we're going to remove item number two from the action items that's 9.2 um and with that do we have a motion to approve the amended agenda motion to approve second all in favor I motion carries bringing us to our second
003bringing us to our approval of the minutes for the regular meeting of February 13 is there a motion motion to approve second all in favor I motion carries unanimously and that brings us to our reports and we'll kick it off with Dr Heather goly our superintendent thank you and good evening Board of Trustees and Miss Macker and uh our student board and representatives and everybody else who's here it is my absolute pleasure to welcome you all to the March board meeting it's shocking that it's already March and I wanted to start with a picture that brought me a lot of Joy it is no secret to most of you that I was an English teacher for 17 years and uh I know and and just have a very immense love for literature and the power
004of reading and this is a picture that brings me a tremendous amount of joy you know that Cicero said a a room without books is like a body without a soul so it brings me incredible happiness to see the students that we have across our district embracing the love of reading and if you think about the power of reading oh if you think about the power of reading and you think about what students gain from Reading I taught Crime and Punishment and Hamlet and Pride and Prejudice and so many that you can possibly imagine and through Reading there is such an incredible opportunity for us to really embrace our theme of belong believe achieve and if you look at that learner profile and if you look at those outcomes and you think about the power
005of being able to read critically and how that can and really help our students live these outcomes I think it's really important to recognize that and I also think it's important to recognize how it helps us to uh really work towards our vision and our mission and as a reminder and I asked board members to to take a look at this I put one right in front of you as a reminder we have a framework for the future that we have been collectively developing and really working to implement and I like to start with the foundation of this framework for the future so that it becomes the lens through which we are really thinking about everything that we're doing as a board and as a district so I'd like Nanie can you read the vision
006for us all students in bonso Unified School District engage in rigorous and relevant learning experiences that Inspire them to be productive community members and Future Ready lifelong Learners thank you I how about the mission we Empower all students to thrive in a positive safe and supportive environment through high quality education focused on the whole learner thank you so much and you know that our values our service Innovation collaboration and integrity we have the pleasure tonight of having quite a few presentations and we're very excited to listen to them and I'm going to ask that as you listen to the presentations please reference this as your lens so be thinking about as you're hearing from our principles and you're hearing from some of the other people who are sharing some of the great work that's happening
007in our district I'd like you to see all of this work through this lens is what you're hearing actually moving us forward as a district in achieving this vision and this Mission what you're hearing is it something that is helping our students to move towards these learner outcomes so I left it there in front of you so that you can be referencing and thinking about that because we need to make sure that that is our North Star that's driving the work that we're doing now I mentioned the power of early literacy you saw that wonderful picture of those ronsel West students uh with their books during read Across America week and I wanted to share with you just to highlight a little bit more because it's very near and dear to my heart how incredibly
008important it is that we understand the power of early literacy if you take a look at some of those facts there 90% of brain development happens before age five that is shocking if you think about it and how important early reading experiences would be then for learning students who are read to regularly have stronger language and comprehension skills I think most of us would recognize that hearing books read aloud helps children develop a love for reading if they have access to books at home it's an incredibly powerful predictor of academic success things like book swaps really help to build home libraries and this one is very very important just 20 minutes of reading per day exposes children to 1.8 million words per year 20 minutes a day and children who aren't reading at grade level
009and this should really be important to us children who are not reading at grade level by third grade are four times more likely to struggle academically it is a huge important marker of their future success and we know the Books open open doors and we know that it builds curiosity creativity and critical thinking skills that last a lifetime and I highlight that because we did just have read Across America it was such a joy to walk through our classrooms to see our students embracing the love of reading to be exercising their mind reading to is to the mind what exercise is to the body we had wonderful events I know we had Community readers I don't know if anyone saw pictures of President Andrew dressed up as thing three I think 13 I should know
010that thing 13 thing 13 yes um there's a picture there of me reading to a Kindergarten class and it was such a joy and so very very different from what I'm used to with my High School classrooms I will tell you they were adorable you would start a sentence and immediately oh oh I've got a story I've got a story there were lots of stories uh in the left there that's a book swap over at bonsel West and to the right this is a picture that Miss poed shared with me and this was just such a beautiful example of community reader day and this was a student who was being read to and Miss poed can collect can correct me if I get the story wrong but she was being read to in her class
011by this community reader and he's a firefighter and he was talking about his job I believe and sharing experiences and she said gives me the chills it was absolutely beautiful so she said that he was actually he he was the one who responded and supported her family so what a beautiful beautiful thing to bring our community into our classrooms and to have them read to our children and and to see that um that connection was really wonderful I also o wanted to share um really proud of the work of our community engagement initiative and thank you to Mr Williams and that entire team that is really putting together some wonderful events this was our first B USD family literacy night also a beautiful opportunity for our families to bring their students in to get books
012to interact with books to have uh books read to them and for uh our team to share the importance of of reading early and the love of reading so that made made me very very happy as as my teacher heart and my um especially English teacher heart so really appreciate that I also want to share and again thinking about our lens of our framework for the future I want to share some I know Mr cost is very very excited about this learning walk I don't know if you can see him back there but we had yes it takes you a minute it's like where's Waldo and then there he is um so as you're looking at this picture I wanted you to see a lot of Joy I wanted you to see a lot of
013collaboration Innovation Integrity our team in action remember I talked about our framework for the future we recently had the opportunity and this is something that we had built into our lcap and was kind of slow in getting started and I'm really excited that we had our first one but this was a learning walk that was conducted by our design team so these were representatives from across the District staff from all over our district and some of our high school students and what was wonderful is that we started the day with a learning walk at Sullivan middle school so we talked about what they have been doing to start to implement our learner profile and our framework for the future and then we got to visit classrooms and walk around and observe what did we see
014then we came back and we got to debrief and here's just a few of the pictures that we snapped as you're walking around I would say it was remarkable to see the learning experiences that are happening every every day here are students in this was a math class and in a science class and I hope you can see students leaning in you see the engagement you see the students who are interacting with one another collaborating with one another there were clear learning targets and success criteria in the classrooms and it was really wonderful for us to observe and then we went back and we debriefed it was a full day experience and as we debriefed we talked about what we saw we talked about opportunities and then we also heard from Principal James as she
015debriefed some of their work then we had the chance for every site to talk about what are they doing to implement learner profile in their you know at their sites so it was a great day I also want to highlight in service of our framework and in service of our learner outcomes how important it is that we see regular recognitions throughout our sites that are honoring students for becoming those Future Ready lifelong learners whether it be leader andme assemblies Roar Awards other types of recognitions that are happening on the daily it's really wonderful to see these kinds of recognitions because they're encouraging our students to achieve those outcomes and we also have opportunities for students when you're thinking about future ready lifelong Learners things like career days this was career day at bonsel West early
016exploration of possibilities seeing themselves as different types of of you know careers in the future really powerful examples of our outcome outcomes I would say in action and I want to highlight also around BD I mentioned at the last board meeting that we were going to have a groundbreaking ceremony for the bonsel community park talk about collaboration look at our bonsel Bears right next to Jim Desmond with their shovels and uh digging right in but it was a wonderful event Community event and we're seeing a lot of that kind of collaboration around uh as we are excited about things like a park coming in all right something else that I wanted to just now highlight a few upcoming events and things I want to thank Dr Veronica Pendleton who has really hit the ground running
017starting we recognized her uh last board meeting and I think and she's right over here so she just got started and she really has been diving in immediately as you know with March we're already at the place where we are analyzing impact of actions that we are taking and looking to see what kinds of changes we might need to make for our local control and accountability plan so we've put together a survey and we'll be sending that out so everybody will need to be looking for that we'll send it to staff and then we'll ask staff to share it with students and we'll send it to our entire community and we're really hoping for a high response rate so that we can hear from our community and our students and our staff what is working
018and what do they want to see uh continue and and what do they want to see change couple other great things our purple Star Award is coming up our celebration we are as you know one of the few districts in San Diego County that have 100% of our schools recognized as purple star schools and we will have a celebration on April 3rd so please mark your calendars for that save the date it will be at bonsel West we're thrilled to recognize our schools for the work they do to support military military connected students and their families and our upcoming art show submissions are due March 21st so make sure we get that word out please and the show is on April 30th at SMS BHS we're very excited and now we're at the point where
019we love to recognize some of the amazing things that are happening and the people that are in our organization I'm going to call up Mr Williams to talk about our employee recognition and thank you Dr goly for the privilege of sharing some employee recognitions and uh good evening uh president Anderson Board of Trustees student Representatives Miss mckenery um I'd like to call up at this time our extended care coordinator Shauna Reed from bonso West Elementary in Celine Willet from bonso elementary also uh Janet Vel before and after school program lead at Sullivan middle and John Norton teacher on special assignment who is facilitating and supporting all of the expanded learning opportunities programs our ELO programs in the district [Applause] hello all right welcome and thank you for being oh you're this is great this is
020balance line you could though but you're good um so students in TK through 8th have access to great a great team of extended care employees at their sites who provide homework support and activities in the Arts Sports and they do this um all of our team with a lot of love and care this is a tall order and these folks have set the structures expectations and routines for both employees and students in order to have a success and thriving program these teams are often times the first people to greet the students at the beginning of the school day and the last to say goodbye uh the level of importance of these first and last Encounters of the day cannot be overstated I think it's really remarkable that the leaders and also the team members they're
021getting kids after they've gone through the entirety of the school day and then the expect expectation is to keep them engaged as they're there for a few more hours hour some of them and um I'm sure it's so comforting for parents to know that we have such a good team that's serving and supporting families at the end of the day I also wanted to remind the governing board that students attending our extended care programs also have access to the enrichment opportunities after school which include musical theater steam coding language falorio Drumlin farming Orchestra chess cheerleading and gymnastics Sports and much much more BD knows how important these programs are in supporting working parents while providing meaningful and engaging activities for our students during their time in our programs buusd currently supports almost 400 students at
022our elementary schools and Middle School our caring and dedicated Extended Care teams are led by these folks who promote respect cooperation personal responsibility within a caring and safe learning environment so that all students will effectively learn our Extended Care staff also supports our 30 intercessional days these are the days when when um many of kids are on break but parents still need that additional support so kids come to our schools in order to have a place to go that's fantastic B USD is very thankful for the heart and passion that drive our extended care teams every day and we just wanted to say thank you we have a special recognition plaque for each of the schools and congratulations to you all done could [Applause] this is amazing [Applause] you work the photo line yeah [Applause]
023and uh at this time we would like to give a Compu a community partner recognition so I'd like to call up um members of the SM SMS parent teacher organization executive director um uh excuse me executive board and the principal of SMS uh Miss James so Denise Dab's Treasurer Megan Lean event coordinator and Tisha to car's vice president and Angie James principle if you would please join me at the [Applause] podium so typically at elementary school there there tends to be more parent involvement in the classrooms and the planning of major events and activities as students advaned to the middle school and high school years parents still remain involved but that becomes more specialized for specific co- and extracurricular activities well these parents in their leadership at SMS is Bucking this trend by not only
024having parents involved in say the volleyball program but also schoolwide through the parent and teacher organization this team and their colleagues have displayed a deep level of dedication and commitment to the SM School Community throughout the year the SMS PTO has been a driving force behind countless initiatives that support our students and enrich our school environment from organizing fundraisers to sponsoring school events they consistently go above and beyond in their efforts to make our school a better place SMS is very grateful for the sponsored activities such as staff lunch staff stiens for supplemental supplies Wildcat luncheons teach Appreciation Week donate yearbook signing party and student scholarships for events to ensure every student can participate to quote principal James this Fearless because I think you have to be somewhat Fearless to go on the middle school
025campus I survived one year as a teacher at middle school so hats off to the to the teachers and parents that are up there supporting um has developed strong connections with our Community Partners to help sponsor and support the Middle School experience this unwavering support not only helps fund educational programs and activities but also Fosters a sense of community and partnership between our family staff and the administration it is because of the dedication of this outstanding group of parents and volunteers that we are able to offer a variety of activities updated classroom resources and so much more on behalf of the district our superintendent the MS SMS teachers and support staff I would like to extend and the district's deepest gratitude to the PTO for their hard work passion and commitment to making solivan Middle
026School a better place for our students thank you so much we appreciate it [Applause] and we have one more recognition and this is for a really outstanding student group I would like to ask if Mrs Margaret or Miho and the entire mock trial team whoever's here come on up [Applause] please and as they're getting something set up I'm going to share a little bit about our moach trial for our BD team recognition I'm so excited to be able to recognize this outstanding group our mock trial has once again represented bonsel with distinction proving that our small school can achieve remarkable success in the courtroom as you can see they're setting up for a little demo so this is very exciting while they do that to give you a bit of background each year the team
027receives oh we got it good each year the team receives a case packet in the early fall with all the details for a criminal case the students are divided into two teams one for prosecution and one for defense they work diligently after school to memorize the facts of the case and to craft their testimony and legal arguments this year our team competed against 39 other schools with approximately 800 students from across San Diego County and despite bonsel High's enrollment of just over about 340 students our team secured notable victories including their defense team winning round three of the competition several team members received distinguished individual honors senior zahaba botnik was one of only two students in the entire competition where's where's sahaba yes uhhuh one of only two students in the entire competition named outstanding
028bayith Jolie Kennedy who is right come on up was recognized as an outstanding witness for the prosecution for her compelling portrayal of an expert forensic witness Jason Martinez was honored as an outstanding defense attorney additionally our students were selected as MVPs for each round by the opposing teams uh I think Jason Martinez for rounds one and three as defense attorney Vivian aroyo Ramirez for round two as prosecution attorney and jayen Zolo for round four as a prosecution witness portraying a law enforcement officer Mrs armo did I get that right okay under the guidance of our wonderful BHS English and government teacher Mrs armo who is herself a former attorney we are so fortunate to have a former attorney guiding this team these students have developed impressive advocacy skills legal knowledge and courtroom confidence the mock
029trial program has become a place where students build friendships and develop highly valued transferable skills for their future careers including public speaking logic reasoning and legal literacy so first please join me in congratulating the bonsel high school mock trial team on their outstanding achievements and for representing our district district with such distinction and now we have a little demo and I don't know if there's an introduction yes okay thank you so much for all the kind words um first of all I thank you for um uh all that you do that enables us to do this um we don't do this by ourselves we have two attorneys who um selflessly donate a lot of hours out of their busy schedules um Jerica Phillips who is with the uh she works for the prosecution for the
030city and um Brianna KY who works as a a public defender for um the county of San Diego and they um it's so awesome because they donate so much time to working with students I also have to say that we get a lot of support from the mock trial committee itself they give us um each year we've uh request a grant and each year they have given us a grant of $400 for the uh registration fee we would otherwise have to pay and $2,000 for the bus that takes us back and forth from downtown um which is an awesome help so um a little bit about what you're about to see a quick demo um we had um the one of the outstanding um expert Witnesses this year um Jolie Kennedy and um we are
031going to repr rprise her role with our prosecution attorney doing direct um uh examination and our defense attorney doing cross-examination and um we'll give you a little taste of the courtroom and um the case itself was a kidnapping case and what you will hear was um some of the issues were about whether um the um person being kidnapped claimed they had been hooded so they couldn't identify their kidnapper they claimed that they had been given two doses of a drug that kn them out and so um we have a toxicologist here to explain um what her take on this is [Music] the good evening Dr Forest what is your occupation how long have you been Chief forensic investigator can you tell me about your medical background on November 11th 2023 at approximately 4:45 p.m. did
032you have contact with Alexander what did you find in their blood sample what is Doc salamine Dr Forest would you show me um people's Exhibit C do you recognize this yes is this a fair and accurate representation of the toxicology report your honor I ask that Exhibit C be moved into evidence is it possible for do soline to alter Alexander's memory okay you can put it down thank you is it possible that Alexander's toxicology reports could indicate two doses of Dux alamine in your opinion how large was Alexander's first dose how long would this have knocked Alexander out how long would the second dose have put Alexander to sleep in your expert opinion is the amount of the drug found in Alexander's system consistent with Alexander's recollection of that day did you physically examine Alexander
033what did you find when you examined them Dr forth would you show us the people's exhibit D do you recognize this and what was the diameter of the Rope is this a fair and accurate representation of the Rope your honor I ask that exhibit DB admitted into evidence you can put it down thank you Dr forest in your expert opinion could these ropes have caused the marks on on Alexander's wrists do you believe that alexand could have gotten themselves out of a slip knot made from these ropes Dr Forest did you inspect the tire tracks found at 1335 Lakeside Drive did you find any similarities between these tire tracks and the wheels of Gold's vehicle is it likely that another vehicle in Emerald B could have caused the impression in your opinion do the tire
034tracks at 1335 Lakeside Drive match those of gold vehicle no further questions your honor is it true that doculam can cause Lo naations and can you be sure that there were two doses of doxylamine at all you found lature marks from the Rope around Alexander's wrists correct and you didn't find any on their legs or ankles correct and is it possible for someone in Alexander's position to untie themselves impossible but it is possible correct and you're aware that many of the fire roads on Emerald Bend are unpaved correct so it's safe to assume that many of the fire sorry that um Pebbles getting caught in people's tires is a common occurrence there yes but not in that perfectly of a position that it would have matched exactly but you believe that the imprint of a
035single Pebble found at 1335 Lakeside Drive is so unique that it only could have been made by Logan Gold's car that and the 5 302s of an inch tread depth that matches both TR our tracks well you read Dr Cody Palmer's analysis of the tire tread depth where he disagreed with your findings correct correct and I disagree with him well as an expert um would you also agree that it's very important to take proper measurements in a case like this yes so would you also agree that if your measurements are incorrect your opinion that it was Gold's car would also be incorrect yes no further questions your honor Dr Forest what kind of forensic analysis do you specialize in um because of the wide demographics of our office our team specializes in multifaceted amount of
036forensic investigation with so many different Specialties how do you Ure your knowledge is as comprehensive as possible we take supplementary training courses to stay to stay up to date no further questions your honor may this witness be excused [Music] all report is now dismissed [Applause] thank you so much I I don't know who convinced me I'm not sure I would love to have all of you up here in the front for a picture and then after this if we can just have a we'll have a quick recess and you can um hopefully have a few words with the board but yes please come over here quick picture an excellent job such a wonderful representation of our students yes come on over here thank you so much we'll have I know a brief recess so you
037might want to um just make sure that the board can congratulate you and we've heard so much about them we finally got to have a little demo of what they do so thank you very much much thank you Dr golly and as mentioned we will uh break for a short recess it's 6:45 right now we'll reconvene in 5 minutes e e e all right we're going to resume our meeting thank you everybody who's still remaining in the audience it was really special to have all those recognitions really appreciate our uh uh extended care providers as well as our uh parent teachers uh or you know our PTO over at Sullivan as well as all of our parent uh that parents that help out throughout the district all year long as well as mock trial that
038was really amazing to see our students in action what a wonderful representation for bonsel high school so that was great way to kick off the first part of the meeting uh that brings us now to our uh group reports I understand that we have uh at least one of our parent uh teacher organizations of us we have bonsel Education Foundation correct M leang your your uh microphone is for you all right thank you so much I'm very happy to be here I have owed the board a report for several months now and I'm finally here uh first we wanted BF wanted to thank you all very much for your continued support and your partnership uh we had our own presentation in December as you'll remember and we're extremely um pleased with your help in creating
039the bef video that we have and we that was previewed here in December and we have put that out on our newly revamped Instagram page as well so the goal of that video is not only to inform the community about what bef does but we're hopefully you know enticing some new people to join us and there are four officers who make bef function and two of us will be leaving in June and so we will not be able to operate as we do without getting some more people on board and officers can be parents community members um students teachers staff we administer the foundation and we only help out at events if we really choose to do so we meet eight times a year and we make the occasional School Board presentation uh the truth
040is if we don't have a treasure and a secretary we won't be able to continue and what's crazy is that we are growing our programs right now and positively impacting more students than we ever have before uh for example Vivian Banks Charter council is running their program now through bef hope for the holidays which ran its first gently used and new toy drive this past um holiday season for our families in need is partnering with bef as well and we're excited to welcome Juliana hesselgesser and Crystal girton as new directors for that program our agenda is a very simple one it's to serve the students and staff of the bonsel Unified School District plain and simple with no other agendas if you know of anyone you think would be a good match for us or
041if anyone here is interested please reach out to me or email info bonsal schools.org we'd love to have you uh anyway for the rest of the report I'm going to just be talking about three upcoming events that we have and the first one is our bonsel high school theater um showcase and it's going to be a Showcase of talents which will be held here at the bonsel community center on Friday March 21st for $15 for general admission $10 for students staff seniors military and First Responders and the price includes a piece of pizza and a drink and this showcase will help raise funds for for the Musical Ride the Cyclone which will be on Thursday Friday Saturday May 15th 16th and 17th um musicals are very expensive to put on the licensing fees cost a
042lot of money so that is why we're we're doing the Showcase and we hope you can attend tickets for that will be on our excuse me tickets for ride the Cyclone will be on our website soon but please come to the Showcase and watch some of our amazing students including some more mock trial kids is from what I've heard correct okay the next event yes is our second annual bonsel Athletics Golf Classic which is going to be Saturday May 10th at 1 pm at the golf club of California to benefit the athletic programs at Sullivan Middle School and bondel High School uh this is set up as a four-person scramble the cost will be 150 per person 600 per team there will be a staff discount and you will be hearing more information about that
043now for any staff members who are interested entries include green fees cart range access and a box lunch post round will include a no host cocktails ice cream bars winter announcements and exciting prizes and we have a trophy that we are going to use this year and we just want to know who will put their names on that trophy I'm excited to say that Jen Ariano has donated a beautiful vintage bronze trophy that her dearly departed father won and we are refashioning it so it can live on so we're very excited about that event it's going to be amazing please come again bonsel schools.org and just below that you'll see there's a register button oh oh yeah can you yeah can you click on the register here thank you if you go down again can
044you click on the sponsor us so we've got register for the event or you can sponsor us we've got tournament sponsor cart and t-box sponsor and the teox sponsor for various amounts of money if you have a friend or business interested in promoting uh what they do tell them about it also thank you so much all right and uh lastly we're already up and running if you go back to the next one for our our fourth annual bonsel High School car show which is going to be on Saturday October 25th we're getting a very early start on this um this is benefiting our College and Career Center we're having another meeting on it tomorrow we're finalizing our sponsorship and donation letter there um we had a 100 cars last year here at bonsel elementary and
045we were so grateful that bonsel Elementary let us partner let us hold the event here it was just it worked out a lot better not to have to pay for toilets and that that took a big junk out of our of our um profits so thank you bees uh last year we had 100 cars and we are hoping to have 125 to 150 this year and more on that to come and I'm done with bef if you want to if I can go to Ping all right okay ping our parent group at the high school typically at our parent meetings we get reports from Mr SMUD about everything happening at BHS from M Ariano who talks about her District role and what's happening there and theater news we hear from Miss Barker about information with
046College and Career program and Mr Robinson talks about ASB and we always you know it's always great and we're always trying to of course get more parents to attend the high school meetings too that is challenging um and at this last meeting we received an informative briefing of the wasque proc process that is beginning at bonsel high school from Miss hoden and uh the parents that are active are interested in playing their part when the time comes we will be hosting a luncheon for teacher appreciation on May 8th which is the day after the wasque process ends so we hope to let our staff know how amazing they are and then our last uh next and last meeting of the year is going to be May 28th that's it thank you thank you Miss Leon
047and of course our staff is amazing but uh you are amazing too you've been an absolute asset to this district for a very long time thank you are there any other parent organizations in the audience that I don't see any of the ptas anybody else okay that'll take us then to our labor reports U Miss Ariano for BTA good evening good evening Miss mackinery uh Dr golly and esteemed trustees I want the mic just right okay um so there's so many great things I really enjoy my day job um being your Communications person and publicity Maven um because there's just so much happening that's positive and we're moving forward and we're growing and um you know I started this as a teacher I'm still a teacher um and I experienced I sent my son here
048I moved here uh because of bonsel schools I particularly picked a house that was in the bonsel school district because I knew how dedicated the Educators were and that remains the case we have a very unique group of teachers who are just in it to win it for the kids and we also have a very collaborative relationship with the admin and with our Board of Trustees and it's you know just happy magical place but it's not as good as it can be or will be okay and I hate to be like the raindrop on this you know wonderful evening of Celebration but I I was really inspired by our mission statement and Innovation and collaboration th that's what we're trying to you know that is what we're trying to instill in everything we do and
049we have a problem it's not uniquely bonso's problem I want to make that really clear especially to miss Adams um and her special ed Team all across I go to these Statewide meetings and Nationwide teacher meetings and it's all all the same there's something happening in our early primary grades right now it's taxing on everyone from TK to secondary primarily maybe it's a result of covid maybe it's a result of sending four-year-olds to school I don't know but it's here and it's everywhere it's not unique here we're not doing anything wrong but I think we are dedicated to being innovators and collaborating and I think we can do more so I have heard from so many of our teachers at all three Elementary sites about how they need so much support and I know from
050our dedicated principles they're giving everything they can so how do we solve this problem we have to look at Innovation we have to think outside the box we have to come up with some ideas together um and one thing I had no idea I was shocked when I was teaching we would have IEP days maybe once a quarter we'd have a whole day you know it was big pain you had to get sub plans it was like a mess at bonso elementary they're having two or three full days a week and that's how it's going to go until the end of the year with everything that's going on we can't have our admin I mean you guys pay them the big bucks for good reason we need them we need them when we need them
051to come when we need their advice when we need their support I mean every admin has been a principal they know how valuable that role is and if you're tied up in meetings and can't be with your staff and your teachers that's a problem so I want us to be Innovative and collaborative and I want to get a list of every single human in our district that has an admin credential I don't care if they're a teacher or a counselor or um anyone else because until the end of the year we need an all Hands-On deck strategy for those meetings because our admin are needed in the classrooms to support those teachers and this needs to happen like immediately um also another idea would be we are now you know in the stage that we
052have to sometimes hire out for things what about some old retired admin we've gone through a few at this District do we still have their numbers maybe they're just sitting on the couch a little bit bored and they could come on down for a day of IEP we'll take them let's go okay but this is something I really want you guys to push for right at the top of the list because it's not going to end and we still have several months of school and we need some relief so thank you for listening and now let's go back to our previously scheduled sunshine and [Applause] joy I'm thinking that uh it would be very interesting to create a uh like we have those retired police folk that do a lot of Duties you know to
053help support the police departments I'm not sure if we can do that in education but it's a great idea uh thank you for that is there anybody here from csca okay um that will bring us to our management reports uh and we're looking at our secondary sites uh today and we're going to be kicking off with Sullivan so Miss Angie James [Applause] okay okay good evening board good evening superintendent Dr golly good evening Mrs Macary uh so I've got this front screen here are the pictures um we're doing some amazing and exciting things at Sullivan middle so I wanted to start out with some of my favorite pictures that I feel capture the Sullivan Middle School experience and what it means to be a wild cat we celebrate our amazing counselor this past couple months
054um actually for one week we celebrated thank you to Dr gy she came up and was partaking in some of our events but we celebrated her all week and um surprised her with some of her favorite Swedish fish but we also had students wrote um little notes on hearts and Scattered them all over her office with glitter that she absolutely loves not really um that she's still cleaning up um so just in celebration of her because she does do so much for our students and our staff and supporting she pushes into classrooms not only is she giving social emotional support but she's giving our College um pushing into do College lessons um I also want to highlight over here on the left we've got currently uh we are hosting six student teachers this semester along
055with some speech and language pathologist interns two college students from the collaborative K12 that are pushing in and I'll talk more about our math intervention classes that are helping out with that and we also have another student who will be completing fieldwork hours so I'm proud to say that Sullivan has become a model School of continued learning and some of the colleges have reached out for us to support those students and everyone benefits in there the upper right hand corner you'll see one of the pictures from our three College field trips uh for all of our wild cats that participated in this year our eighth grade goes to um UC San Diego we have our seventh grade that goes to um San Diego State and then we have our sixth grade that goes to San
056Marcos we invite parents to go with us and when I debrief the parents I don't know if they had more fun or the kids did but they all have a really good time and it just adds to the College and Career that we're we're starting off early and it it complements the lessons that we are providing for in our classrooms um also at the very bottom if you can see we um SMS and bhfs have had the fortunate opportunity to have Dr Eric tipic conic on our campus painting our miral I know that Mr smutz is going to be having a more he's going to talk more about this and explain it um but this was a great opportunity um that I took to have our eighth grade classes to actually talk to Dr tipic
057conic who's a professor at C State St Marcos and he was able to give a mini lesson to all of our eighth grade students about the Native American history and what our mural represents so I was super excited to take that opportunity and I asked him he's like bring them on over so really partnership with him and it was pretty amazing all right so when we talk about belong believe and Achieve um I wanted to start out with this slide and our students as you can look I have some information um from our past state test about all of our students in our um our multilanguage Learners so and we're looking at how we can support them in and outside of our classroom cuz we know that more connections if they make more connections to
058school they're going to do better they feel supported so if you take a look we have 55.6% of our ELD students that are making progress and then we will look at our longterm English Learners and we have 32 students they're 152 points below standard it's still above state which is really not saying much so we know that we need some work and focus so Sullivan really banded together and we had Mr Man who's one of our teachers that did give a professional development to our staff and along with Olivia Haro for the district and really what what interventions can we do inside the classroom and outside so every teacher has picked a student and we are currently mentoring them meeting with them once a week going over grades any social emotional needs that are are
059there but what can we do to actually support and really support these students not just academically but again the social emotional needs of these students working with parents encouraging our students to reach out to teachers because many of the barriers that we found with our longterm is they might have P pasted the oap I mean I'm sorry the elpac um they might have done well in the state test but maybe it's just the current grades so really being an advocate for themselves that we found was one of the biggest barriers they had so having a mentor provided provides that support for them on campus so that's what we're currently doing with that so I'm hoping to give you more of an update when I come back in May and uh we we have some pictures
060and celebrations of them because we are doing um the parents kind of like a potluck celebration and bringing our parents in together just to celebrate all of our students um I gave a parent survey so when we say we belong in parents I sent out a parent need survey for parent University what topics could we do to incorporate and really bring our parents along and what do they see the needs at our school so this is just some of the questions that I had and I have to tell you I sent it out quite a few times I'm actually going to put it I told them um I told all the parents I put in the Wildcat weekly so I will have a summary if you want to take a look at that with more
061like really pretty graphs I'll have in there but I just highlighted a few things here that I I uh reached out to but you can see that um I had one of the highest percentages of parents actually take the survey which I was pretty excited about so what type of support or resources do you need to help your child to be academically successful so if you can see the top three here um tutoring academic planning counseling what are parents wanting more information about Aries College and Career was third um and assistance with homework and then what could Sullivan do to encourage more meaningful parent teacher collaborations they want conferences and discussions with teachers Communications about grades and update on Aries more consistently so we talked about every two weeks just making sure teachers are updating
062um and offering meetings at different times so we currently have some of our meetings during the day um but maybe offering evening ones some of the parents even said hey can we have some webinars so I can get on there we can give some webinars um what type of school activities would you like to be more involved in um volunteer opportunities they love lunch on The Lawns we currently doing it every month and I this Friday we can't do it's going to be too squishy um so I have been asked multiple times if we could reschedule it so we do have it coming up next week um extracurriculars activities and they do love back to school night this year we had 500 parents attending and it was I think 103 degrees so with that it
063was still pretty good um and then what would you like to have more information about so again academic supports resources for managing stress and anxiety so I do have Miss crbr now working on some lessons and some information articles that we can put on our website and have that readily available for parents all the time but also making like a c a corner counseling Corner um to update information to help parents and then parenting workshops that was our top three and then for as we belong you can see here and I'm not going to read all of them but I just highlighted some things I said what can salivan do what are we doing well and what should we continue so they've mentioned a lot of our um efforts keep you know the music program
064we have creating more opportunities for students and parents one put life of short memories need to be made and in the process Learning Happens um but my favorite is at the bottom and I think this parent nailed it I'd like to shout out to the teachers at SMS keeping up the amazing work that you all have done this far this in this year it is not unnoticed thank you all for your time patience and understanding of my daughter as well as the rest of the students student body go wild cats so with that um and and the like I said this is just a few I had four more pages of this um that I'm going to gather I will also put a wildcat weekly and share with our staff but I just everybody reminding
065that yes we're all and not just Sullivan but we're all doing the good work and then I also I wanted to highlight I know last time I was here we talked about the math intervention but truly the reason we're focusing on the math intervention you can see that we're in the orange 45.2% below standard which is still above state but there's a lot of room to improve so what we've done is we've been able to pull students and it's based on their current benchmark you can see the topics I just put those on there so you can see what we've been focusing on so we do common form of Assessments we take a look at how well they have done or have not done and we're able to pull those students in once a week
066and this is where those other tutors come into place so I have two to three adults in that class working with these students sixth seventh and eighth grade once a week we've done first round we are now into the second round of this um this time we'll be getting a giving a post test for this um to get the results and then lastly we had our GPA Awards um to celebrate and we had um as far as overall 68% of students are meeting or exceeding 3.0 and we had 52% of sixth grade sth grade 71% and 63% of our eighth grade and lastly this is just upcoming events that we have again our amazing PTO we couldn't be doing a lot of the things that we have they're really bringing the heart and soul to
067hear at Sullivan and help us celebrate um but just some of the things we have um Friday is Pi Day so I have volunteered along with Mr prctl we're going to get pied by the kids who can tell us all the numbers of p as many as they can remember last year they got up to a 100 so it's a little game we're going to be playing at lunch um and then we also have as far as moving forward I am excited to say that we do have our very own Emma Schaefer she did speak at last year's purple star we've been asked to represent bonso unified um and Sullivan at the San Diego County um event for the purple Star Event that's happening down at SeaWorld so she's going to be speaking and um
068when they told her it was 350 people she got a little nervous he said you got this you can do this so she's going to be a great representative not just for Sullivan for but for bonso Unified School District so very happy I'll have some of those pictures here in in may as well so thank you very much thank you and now we have bonsel high school principal [Music] smuts good evening board members superintendent goly Miss Gina and the community uh it's my honor to present an update on bonsel high school this evening a lot has happened since my last report and I'm excited to highlight the incredible achievements of our students and continued success of our early college prog program and the many ways our students are excelling both inside and outside the classroom
069bonsel High School is always full of activity since my last presentation we've had a number of exciting events that showcase the strength of our school Community I won't go through the entire list but we've been busy one highlight I do want to share is our Native American mural project that Miss James uh mentioned you can see it here in its earlier stages in this image this project has been an incredible experience for our students allowing them to connect with history culture and artistic expression the mural has progressed beautifully and we're looking forward to its official unveiling in April it has been a truly collaborative effort between students staff and artist and it will serve as a lasting symbol of our school's commitment to inclusivity and cultural awareness we've already heard from a amazing mock trial
070team uh I wanted to take a moment and just talk a bit about our debate team and you'll probably recognize some people in the photos there because uh our students had to participate in many of our activities our debate team continues to shine proving that our students can compete with the best in the region Matthew such Advanced to the third round of the Lions Club speech competition at the Oceanside Library not only did he excel in each round but he also earned prize money for every successive win along the way four of our dedicated team members that you see in the photo on the right Amari Jones Kristen Pard Cali Morris and Jolie Kennedy competed against 245 students from 22 schools at a recent tournament Jolie Kennedy made it to the finals in dramatic interpretation
071and will be receiving a medal at this Saturday's uh award ceremony we are ex we are especially excited to find out in Saturday's ceremony if Jolie advances to the state Championship which would make her the first ever legionaire to qualify for state and debate the dedication preparation and confidence our students have shown in these competitions are truly inspiring their success speaks to their critical thinking skills resilience and ability to perform Under Pressure all essential skills that will serve them well in their future careers and education last time I was here I presented uh information on our STAR testing and some of our academic information I wanted to share some of our uh data from early college and I know U Miss Barker has a lot of data when it comes to uh early college and
072she shared but I just wanted to highlight a couple of things uh that I note kind of from my perspective in our program one of the most impactful programs at bonsel high school is our early college program which continues to expand and provide remarkable opportunities for students this program allows our students to earn college credits while still in high school preparing them for academic success and career Readiness over the past three years we've seen tremendous growth and I think if if we continue this trend for the next three years we're going to have more students in Early College than we do actually at the high school uh 81 students enrolled in 118 college courses this past fall a total of 391 college credits were earned our highest yet more students are taking advantage of the
073program every year and we are committed to expanding access even further this program is more than just earning credits it instills a colleg goinging mindset builds confidence and exposes students to college level expectations before they even leave high school it's an invaluable resource for our students allowing them to get ahead and reduce the financial burden of higher education one of the most impressive aspects of our early college program is the wide variety of courses available to our students through this program students have access to both general education courses and career focused Pathways allowing them to to explore their interests and passions while earning valuable credits as you can see that's quite a list and that's just the classes from Spring our current semester uh no I'm not going to read the entire list to you
074uh this diverse set of courses ensures that students are exposed to real world career Pathways while also working toward College transfer credits whether they plan to attend a four-year university community college or enter the workforce this program provides them with a strong Foundation for Success the impact of the program is life-changing and our students are reaching incredible Milestones even before graduating high school over 60% of our graduating seniors this year will walk across the stage with college credit already on their pal Palomar College transcripts 21 students will be participating in Palomar College's commencement ceremony where they will earn certificates of achievement before they even receive their high school diploma and those certificates break down as such uh the associate teacher certificate we have three Juniors and nine seniors that'll be receiving that this spring in
075the graphic design one certificate we have two sophomores three Juniors and four seniors who will be receiving those certificates as well these certificates give our students real world credentials setting them up for immediate employment opportunities while also preparing them for higher education for many of these students this program represents a life-changing opportunity one that opens doors and removes barriers to success moving on as we approach the final quarter of the school year we are excited to celebrate the class of 2025 we have grad bash senior Awards night graduation Week events and of course graduation itself uh coming up in the not so distant future seniors are also working hard to finish wrong academically in my last presentation I talked about our validatory Circle and uh the students who collectively had earned that tonight I'd like
076to share with this group what's already been shared with our school Community our salutatorian is Matthew such with a 4.38 cumulative GPA through high school and our valid dictorian is non USA with a 4.48 uh cumulative GPA impressive very impressive these students have demonstrated except academic achievement and we're thrilled to celebrate them as they move on to the next chapter in their of their Journeys this is a special time for our seniors we are committed to making sure that they finished their High School career strong and celebrated as we move into the final stretch of the school year we have many exciting events ahead I'll skip listing them all but we have a lot to look forward to I look forward to sharing more achievements and celebrating our end of year successes in my next
077report thank you for your time and support thank you Mr smutz and now we have bonsel Virtual Academy Miss Cali thank you all right good evening esteemed board and of course Dr golly superintendant and our wonderful audience I have to say before I get started it makes my heart very warm to know that Matthew such the Val dictorian was a bonso student zahaba Banick who is up here bonso student and then Jolie Kennedy is a BBA student so and then Shauna being up there amazing so my heart's very nice and warm right now but I also have a lot of wonderful things to share about what's been going on at bonsel Virtual Academy we have welcomed nine new students since the end of January so we continue to grow we have currently served now 70
078students this year which is far more than last year we ended at 55 and a lot of um amazing celebration photos that are on this slide right here we got a couple of welcome new photos to um some families we've had a lot of art days with Carissa Carissa is one of our amazing um ATP AIDS who also we like to do a lot of partnering with our students in the ATP program so they get a lot of mainstream opportunities with our gened peers with their gened peers and we get to do a lot of combinations and so some of those photos up there you see um some of our wonderful students as they do some coffee filter art we had a Valentine's Day celebration and you see down in the bottom right hand corner
079it's a Valentine's Day party celebration but in the top right hand corner that was a career day that was just this week and at our career day we had four speakers this year that's the most we've had so far we had a welder who attended Palmer College in the welding program we had a mechanic who works for Escondido in the bus garage we had a photographer who works for Canon cameras my husband um and then knew him just a little bit but I did learn new things about him too I was like what um I had no idea you never shared that with me um and then we also had an indexer but what was really cool about our career day was we also welcomed in our ATP students and I have to say such
080a celebration one of our students who typically can't handle being in new settings remained for two of the presentations and it's so amazing I was so proud of him and it was Ador CU I said oh my gosh I'm so proud of you right and he said so proud right and I said yes um so again my heart was very warm that day and also I learned that my husband met the gentleman who filmed Batman on a Canon camera I'm like what you never said it you never thought that was relevant anyways that was a pretty cool fact for the kids they love that so some highlights we did a survey and um surveys are interesting because it's really hard to get fames sometimes to complete surveys and and so we've had 30 out of
081our 59 students represented in this survey but the overall connectivity that was reported was 89% connectivity so the questions were very simple and short there was only about six questions and a lot of overall parent satisfaction noted parents love the convenience of the program they love the ease and the flexibility they really love flexo thank you Mr gtis for the tip for Florida Virtual School um they love that their children have the opportunity to structure their time and really learn time management and they really love the communication there's a lot of communication because it's a smaller program there's a lot of personalized individualized attention for every single student and so it's been wonderful to see that the parents are also noticing that too so some of the connectivity questions you know that and responses was
082that they felt that we were awesome always nice to hear um but they felt that there is a great way of communicating and so when we're trying to find a way for families to feel like they belong we are that little one room Schoolhouse I know I've mentioned that before and I feel like it's really relevant since we have the little one room Schoolhouse at the top of the hill but that's how this program is operated right families are able to come in and get that support that personalized individualized support I've been an education it's my 36th year I've never seen one-on-one support on The Daily with a teacher whenever parents need that time and that's incredible and what our teachers note is what a blessing it is to be able to really get to
083know their students you know we know exactly what what's connecting them what they're excited about what they want to learn about and we can really personalize their instruction for them and it's showing in the survey data as well they really love the weekly updates I say that I'm kind of like a low-level mag um just because I want to make sure that the kids are successful and we do have a little bit of um success points that I'm going to be sharing in a second um they also enjoy that you know they have that opportunity to socialize with other parents so when we have our field when we have our career days yesterday or the other day we had career day we actually had a grandmother that that stayed and joined her two grandchildren that
084happened to be in the program and it's it's just a really special warm feeling that you get when you walk in the door additional positive comments I know um Miss James mentioned this it's hard to not share the wonderful things because you read these things you're like oh wow that makes me feel so good right um but also I was really hoping they would give me things to improve on because we want to make sure that the program is really meeting the needs of everybody and for some families they really want more opportunities for in-person opportunities with field trips and art days and things like that and then just different ways that we can try to help those Working Families too because not everybody gets an opportunity to come in person and work attendance for
085in-person data so we started tracking this in October we've provided now over a th hours of in-person support 240 hours of small group support and 120 of one-on-one support So in that we're able to really personalize that that data and that time for the kids to make sure that we're working on each individual lesson each individual subject and what we're finding is obviously that's having an impact on their overall progress right so couple of success stories we have a couple of seniors 10 total this year three that are in validatory circle which is exciting but out of those 10 not everybody was credit ready meaning they weren't ready to graduate this year and it was going to be a long road for them one of our students at Christmas wanted to drop out he asked
086he said hey what's what's the GED program can you tell me about that I'm like hey buddy how about we just hang on just a little bit longer what if I extend the window for you a little bit that gentleman's going to be walking across that stage in June because he decided to stick with it we gave him a little bit of extra time on his classes and he's going to do it so it's those types of of flexible opportunities for kids and we're seeing that success for some of our students they've not found a place where they belong and for some they belong at home it's unconventional it's not something that would work for me personally but our kids I'm so impressed with them one of our students is carrying 11 classes right now
087typical lootus six and he's passing all his classes right now so a lot of success that we're finding um in the top right hand corner you see we're making o um this was for Dr sus re Across America week we made green eggs and ham and we made ubble Ock was very popular with the kids um I don't know if they liked making the UB or they really liked the song Ock sensation don't know if you've heard of it it's sung to the tune of Don't Stop Believing and it was sung by Yours Truly yes it's a directions on how to make o and yes I did sing it and record it so if you want to see it along with some of the rap books that I did it's a little bit fun um
088the kids could not get over that that was me they're like I'm a terrible singer too um bottom right hand corner we got some kids going to uh the farm our kids uh in elementary school get to come every Friday they get to go to music dance library and farm and they love it and that middle picture that was a Fleet Science Museum we had so much fun I think one of the most fun that they had with the hundreds of Hands-On science activities that they did was watching Miss Bruner go in the ball pit and just bearing her with balls they thought that was hilarious so overall I shared this already but we've served 70 students this far we have 60 students currently in our program we've generated over $643,000 in Ada in the
089program this year that's just a general estimate based on what the per student ratio is next year we already have 48 students who are planning to return and are reached out to enroll if you recall 33 students started at the beginning of this year previous year was 13 so if you do the math the percentages were going up so what's exciting about that number even though it's a low number for the other Schools starting at that point Christmas time is usually when we start to ramp up so we're hoping that maybe next year we'll get up to 75 or 80 so um estimated profit for the program obviously you have to pay the teachers you have to pay for the program a little over 300,000 next year our plan is for additional uh intervention obviously
090having Flex point at both the high school campus and our campus that way it makes for easier fluidity with the programs that way if students are coming in from high school we have an easier start point for the kids and that's just a current uh ratio as far as full-time teacher and administrator ATP program this is not something that I've talked about before and I just wanted to highlight this Mr Kevin Quinn and his amazing staff Miss A and her Santa incredible the work that they're doing so they're working on obviousy and academic goals but they're also working on some functional and behavioral goals so they're really trying to help those students be ready for um school right or post School excuse me postgraduation they're working on expressive and language goals so they're trying to
091help the students to expresss and advocate for themselves vocational goals we have the grounds program that they're working with Child Nutrition services and we've gotten everybody a Department of Rehabilitation application so we can work in partner with Goodwill and other agencies around the area to help give those kids those resume building skills and different skills so when they graduate and leave us at 22 they have an opportunity daily living skills learning how to clean the social skills pragmatics how they speak um individual student progress one student who last year could not walk without support and when I say support I mean this sweet girl could not walk without somebody right next to her is starting to walk without support another student is interacting with adults could not stand to be around anybody else could not
092stand to look somebody in the eye that's the student that stood and stayed for two of the career days another two of the other students are able to solve multi-digit problems now um outbursts have been reduced with another student um he makes a very distinctive noise upset and those have reduced significantly and then the the last student is interacting with peers so it's all incredibly exciting to see and I do think it's because there's been so much socialization Mr Quinn's done an amazing job with developing a food cart where they go around and they try to sell all around the district and it's those interaction skills I was looking in you know somebody in the eye asking how your day is and it's it's really showing that amazing growth so I just want to give
093a huge shout out to Mr Quinn and his whole team Mr Chris and Mr Eric Mr Jonathan for getting this room ready for us every month um we've got a great team down here Miss Jen as well we don't get to see her as often she's very busy around the district um and then of course my amazing teachers Miss Presswood and Miss bringer so upcoming events that's another field trip that we took to the zoo which was fantastic it was supposed to be a terrible rainy day and we had the best St at the zoo it was amazing so many happy kids um we've got the end of the third quarter coming up so it's a final push to get all my babies across that stage so got 10 we're going to get them all
094across um we got art with Carissa coming up again we got the purple star ceremony got another field trip for a beach cleanup um oh I forgot to mention we did do F brg Animal Sanctuary um pet drive that was very successful too and then of course a lot of testing that we've got coming up along with Tomlinson game so just a lot of really great things happening and thank you so much for letting me share this evening have a good evening thank you and that brings us to our board member reports we'll start with our student board reps so good evening me board members Mrs Miker superintendent Dr golly and community so as has already been mentioned by Mr smutz but I would like to mention it again because we're all very proud so
095about um jelly Kennedy competing in state qus the other weekend and being the first B student to make it to finals and then we're waiting for this weekend to see if she'll make it to state and so we're all very proud of her and she's been working very hard this year so and then so next so just this past week Bondo High School Theater Company held auditions for their spring Musical Ride the Cyclone which is a roaring dark comedy about what it means to have lived life to the fullest and rehearsals are beginning this upcoming Monday and performances will be held from May 15th to May 17th and then additionally next Friday March 21st the theater company will be having their student showcase here in the community center um and it would be fantastic if
096everybody in this room came because it'll be a really fun time and then so for bhs's mock trial team as we have seen today the competition has just recently come to a close and so the team members worked diligently in each of their roles to either prove a violent kidnapper's guilt or defend a a loving mother's innocence and as we hope that you have seen in their previous demonstration each team member has been uh has been working very hard and hopes that next year the imal program can Thrive and reach new heights of success and as we will hear from Miss Aon in the new Pathways program at BHS will allow students to thoroughly explore the the field of their choice and develop the skills needed for a successful career this week during during Symposium
097Miss Aaron our high school counselor Miss Sanchez and Mr hinchliff have been giving presentations to the underclassman about the pathways program our staff members at BHS are committed to providing ways for students to be successful in their academic lives and another way this has been continuing to be accomplished is through tutoring sessions that have recently been started have recently started being offered before and after school in every subject and finally bess's Red Cross Club is hosting a clothing exchange in April where students can donate their lightly used clothes clothing and later in the week they'll be able to shop everything is free but shop for used clothing and potentially find a treasure in another student's trash after president's week break Legionnaire came back to school revitalized and refr refreshed and we hope for the energy
098to continue to the end of the school year we hope we can count on your continued support for our school district [Applause] good evening Mrs Macker superintendent Dr golly esteemed board members and audience bonsel High School is as busy as always this month our school has been extra charitable as we have some projects to give back to our community that are just great in addition to the Red Cross club's clothing drive that Nan mentioned the women's empowerment Club is doing a canned food drive the winning Symposium class with the most donations will receive a pizza party BHS is also providing information for juniors and seniors about the princess project which provides free P dresses and accessories to eligible high schoolers as Mrs Anderson and Dr golly have been mentioning bonso Women's Club is hosting the
099stages of inspiration art contest and show and I'm happy to share that a lot of BHS students have been submitting art for it there is also an upcoming Fall Brook Art Gallery that our students are preparing for as well as the opportunity to be featured in the Delmar Fair's art display in other news our ASB has been working as hard as ever this week our grab night set for Universal Studios in May has nearly sold out completely with I believe only eight tickets left out of 50 students in addition seniors have the option to vote tomorrow for our prom theme between masquerade meet me at the bayout and Midnight in Paris our prom is scheduled for May 10th at the California Center for the Arts in Escondido it's sure to be an exciting one and
100to conclude I'd like to give out a shout out from n and I to none other than Miss Aaron I think we all know just how much work she does every day but as students we are so grateful for the early college program she's also been working to help us get our fastes completed further expressing how everything she does helps us have a better future thank you Miss Ain and happy early birthday and as Miss Ariana said the B USD is so special not only for teachers but for students too I'm always glad to be a part of this community and I hope you all enjoy everything we are doing at BHS every month thank [Applause] you okay all right well that was uh it's been wonderful being here tonight with all the positive things
101that are going on and um yes we do need rain as well to keep everything um you know flowing well flowing great um I don't really have much to add other than just congratulate everybody for everything doing the staff and the and the the students and the the management and everybody that's doing everything to keep this uh program District going great but um I wanted to bring up something that I'm kind of personally doing um I coordinate an event down in San Diego Oldtown and the event is called Antonio G um has to do with a capo Chief I'm Capo from the polyend reservation and one of our cap of chiefs was um uh asked to pay taxes back in 1850 when California first became a state after the first year that they helped San
102Diego by you know giving them items that they needed to help better San Diego um the second year they decided they didn't want to have to pay taxes to them they they didn't fill the had to they weren't citizens of the United States San Diego wasn't doing anything for them so they decided not to do it it became you called the gar Uprising at the end of this uh situation gar was um captured taken down to San Diego to the courthouse down there convicted of murder and treason and executed I know that's a sad story but um the legacy of Antonio gar the fact that they he was fighting for the rights of all our Native Americans in in in this community so at this event what we do is we provide a celebration of
103his life and we also share stories of other Native American groups in san county which stories that are not taught in school um often talked about the fact that um the educational system actually um and with all due respect to my board members I do have respect for our educational system um but I think students actually learn more about Alexander the Great and King Henry the 8 than they do about local Native Americans and so what this event does allows local Native Americans to tell their own stories and their histories this year's event comes up because the reason why I'm bringing up this event here is because um the programs we have at bonsel uh do a lot of this stuff they share a lot of this information and I've been approached by other communities
104asking how are we able to do these things that we're doing here bonsel so one of the one of the things this year is the theme SE AB 1703 which bonsel has been a forerunner and achieving great success and providing that that's um having Local Schools teach local Native American history and since other people in other communities are asking us how we're doing this I invited Dr golly and other people from the ponsel school district come down and speak and tell about how they're able to how they're able to accomplish this I would like to say I want to take credit for it or I'm sure us as board members love to take credit for it but it's the staff and everybody that's doing this and the and the whole District doing this and the
105and of course when it comes to all the work they're the ones that can tell you what how it's actually being done we direct them but they do all the work and so that's uh that's a pretty exciting thing that I'm I'm being involved with this uh this month and uh we're going to have speakers like um just judge Devin lomayesva who is the first Native American female Superior Court judge in Sano County she'll be there as a speaker as well and uh um you know it's it's going to be a great event and so um if you guys are in the area March 22nd um which is why I'm busy on March 22nd um it's going to be down at San Diego Oldtown uh you'll be having some of your local students in the
106district speaking um and Dr golly and uh several other people are going to be involved with sharing the the the things they're doing for our school district and also wanted to let you guys know that um our school district is being recognized by a lot of people on the things that we're doing here and I just can't you know I can't just say enough about the fact that our small school district is actually in a lot of people's minds and eyes on things we're doing so um with that I'd like to say uh again um you know we're in March the end of the school year is coming around the corner congratulations to non and everybody and and um the staff and uh oh I wanted to bring up uh Matthew too with the Lions
107Club you know one of my other hats I wear I'm one of them I'm the president of the pal Valley Lions Club and we sponsored Matt Matthew as he went on the speakers contest the last contest he was in and um it came to a tiebreaker and they had to go to the third tiebreaker to find out who the winner was and uh he didn't he didn't move forward in that contest but uh uh he was going against a gentleman from a very large program um and I hope one day our program is going to be that large and again it's another one of those situations where our small school district is that competing with some very large programs and uh making making its turn so I like to you know relay that information as
108well so uh well thank you very much and that's pretty much all I have right now hello everyone I'm actually gonna do a set of piggybacks on everything I've heard tonight uh first uh I can tell you that uh Native American history is not taught in France the same way it's taught in us uh the vision is well as biased towards uh white people uh so uh I'm glad that there's a reconing across the society in general that things should be taught differently we not there yet but there's progress uh I heard about uh uh a food uh collection process uh food safety is uh very dear cause to to mine and my family so I appreciate that young student recognize that uh participating in a community to help people that might not be as
109lucky as we are is helpful uh Dr goie mentioned how reading is a critical part of Education from young age to 5 years old uh I'm I am multilingual uh the in the inner ear develops uh around the same time and even earlier I really encourage everybody whether you multilingual or not to uh put music with a different language uh sounds that you that young kids hear uh that might not be part of the language uh are being heard and later on you might figure out that because they heard those sounds when they were young they might have abilities that you might not have so for example there are sounds in French language u a that are different than that don't exist in the in the language kids that hear that at their young age
110uh have a mental trigger when they hear those sounds later on so they if they learn French when they in high school or whatever they have some abilities that some other kids don't have uh next piggy back college program there's one aspect that we don't that's not being taught enough um between 30 and 40% of students change major the first year of college uh that means that uh the opportunities that kids have to explore and maybe figure out early on that the path that they had initially uh imagine is not is not what they want it's it's a time saer it's a money saver and it it removes a lot of the burden and the sense of failure that KS my experience in college when they they realize that this is not what they want
111and I know for a fact because I've seen it that a lot of kids just stick with it because they don't want to disappoint their parents they don't want to feel like they they failed at something so the ability to explore different Pathways and realize what you're actually interested in it's a benefit that uh often is not valued enough and so this is really an opportunity for kids to to very early on have a better idea of what they want to do when you are 17 in high schools you know very few have a real idea of what they like they don't know themsel anyway or or very few so this this is really an opportunity and a chance for kids that I wish a lot more kids across the county the country would have
112and uh lastly and maybe the most important uh miss canabra you you mentioned the progress of students that would that that have been made and sadly our society has a tendency to Cast Away those kind of personalities and ignore them and hide them because if we don't see them we pretend they don't exist and the ability to show that with the right care the right attitude the right approach we able to make progress and integrate those people in in a society that would be really tough for them and for that I cannot commend you enough and I cannot commend enough the people who are really investing their time in making that happen and bringing uh a bit of light in in situation that often are pretty Grim so thank you so much I I would
113like to thank all our employees for the their their dedication their commitment and passion and I think when the presentations whether it's Dr golly KYB are um all our principles the passion is so much more it's so important um that these kids feel that you want to help them and that you can get them over these hurdles and once you get over these hurdles it's amazing how fast and that they can improve so I just wanted to thank you because that's really is that passion so thank you I'd like to begin by saying that how fortunate are we that we have a superintendent that throws down Cicero quotes right I mean how often do you hear how often do you hear that you know what I'm saying I mean you got to appreciate that uh
114and he was a very interesting guy I won't get into it because I'll talk to him for like 40 minutes but if you ever never don't know what happened to that guy he's he's a very interesting guy um but she mentioned something else during her speech that I that I thought was very interesting she mentioned that if you listen to 20 minutes a day I think you said it was 1.8 million words so here's the deal I've been trying to learn Spanish right and so I took a I took a class at Palomar and I got an A Spanish one yeah but it's not sticking so I'm having trouble sticking it so I started when I was she was saying that I'm like well wait a minute I don't I have trouble I think the
115key with learning a foreign language is consistency you have to do it all the time but it seems so laborious because I got so many other things to do but then I thought wow what if I just practice 20 minutes a day right this is what I was thinking when you were saying that I could take you know get maybe some children's books or something like that and start reading for 20 minutes a day and I'll be exposed to all these extra words and reinforce them in there and maybe something will stick so I think that's my that's what I learned from from what you said so I'm going to I'm going to try that um the other thing I want to mention is the um I I think it's really neat that we have
116such great parent involvement um and I think recognizing them is is exceptional and I think you know parents tend to be really really involved in elementary but it tends to taper off right between Elementary and and the middle school so to see such you know involvement at Sullivan I think is really something special and I think it's something to be praised and I'm glad that we took the time to recognize him because it is important you know that we we we need that extra help that we get in in elementary to continue on and to and to see that happening because I think when my kids were there there wasn't a PTO I think this came about afterwards so it's it's really nice to see it and I'm just really happy about that um the
117other thing I wanted to talk about was the mock trial because I thought that was exceptionally fun uh for me especially right I watched it and I haven't I haven't done something like that since I was in law school and I was like I wanted to hop up there and join him I was like I'm going to get involved in that it was really really great and they did a great job and and you know it takes a lot of practice and a lot of time to do that kind of stuff and so I just I it's nice and I'm thank you for bringing them in so we as a board can see we can put our eyes on what's actually occurring it's one thing for you guys to get up here and say oh
118mock trial did this it's another for you to bring them in and show us how it works and so I I I want to appreciate I just want to tell you I appreciate that as well um the other thing I wanted to uh mention is um uh the Native America mural I thought that that was really neat because I think it adds a lot of personality and and local are kind of gives uh now our our campus is starting to reflect who we are as a community and I think that that is a a really great start and I think it's it's an exceptional mural um the other thing I want to talk about was uh jool lee uh making the finals for State quals I I just want to tell everybody this is one
119of those things things where like M TR if you just say it you don't truly appreciate it state quals is grueling I mean it's a two-day Affair it's from morning to night and like they get there I think Friday at 3: in the afternoon they don't leave until late then the next day they get there really early in the morning like 7 or 8 in the morning and they don't get done until like you know close to 800 or 9: at night it is grueling and at State quals you have the best of the best competing you have teams that have been well established by the bishop School Francis park or parker you have Canyon Crest Carl's bat Helix these are powerhouses these are people who have been doing this year after year after year
120and for Jolie to go in there and to make finals just to make finals at that is like impossible I know kids who have gone through these schools for four years and never made finals at State calls and they that was their goal so I just want to I just want to really highlight how exceptional it is just to make it there and if she makes it to state that is even more exceptional and so I mean I I just want to celebrate Mr Hench cliff and the whole speech team for for putting in that effort because I don't think anybody truly appreciates how much work and diligence it takes to do that we're talking hours and hours of memorization and changing and and and practicing over and over and over and over again and
121I could say over and over because that's what they do and they do it and then they perform it in front of people people who are judging everything that they do every move they make every little every sound they're making there's somebody up there watching them to do it under that type of pressure and to do it that well is an exceptional exceptional Talent so I just want to say that that it I just want to kind of highlight that particular achievement because it is an it is an exceptional thing um the other thing I wanted to say is um vote for the Masquerade I'm voting for The Masquerade for the prom personally I think that would be a really fun prom by the way so that's C put my vote over there for that
122and uh Mr Miss calab I just want to say that I agree with everybody I think what you're doing over there at bonsel Virtual School to from where it was to where it is now is night and day and it's it's exceptional and it's it's great to see your reports because it's grown so much and I can actually see it so thank you for all the effort you've been putting in there thank you for the effort that you guys put in there as well and um I'm going to end on this note um starting tomorrow and for the almost every day till the end of the month College decisions come out now I will tell you this is a very very stressful time for for all seniors I mean exceptionally stressful and so I think
123it's one of those thing I know I've said in the past you should hug your hug a senior but this is the time to really hug them because it is a time when you know dreams can either be you know lost or they can be gained and it's it's an really emotional emotional time so I you know as I said you know it is it is it is one of those things where when I was going to school it wasn't I don't think I don't remember it being quite like this but it is like a pressure cooker now and so um I'm but you know what you should be proud of no matter what happens no matter where you end up be proud of your accomplishments because you know you deserve it and it is
124it's it's it is tough to get to this point and as I said I know it's hard to sit there and wait for those decisions but uh you know what I'll be uh I'll be hoping for you I'll be in your corner cheering for all of you so anyway thanks a [Applause] lot good evening uh I just wanted to say uh it takes a village and this community really I think embodies that sentiment beautifully uh we've had uh you know we've been now talking for almost 2 hours as a group here and we could talk all night in terms of all the things that are going on in bonsing Andi school district and it's truly remarkable one of the things that we don't really do as a board is Pat ourselves on our own backs
125per se I mean it's it's you know there's a lot of work and a lot of Direction but I do want to acknowledge my my fellow board members because we are doing a heck of a job with the limited resources that we get from the state and um and we do amazing things in this District to provide a stellar education and extracurricular opportunities for our students and their families so I think that's wonderful and I appreciate everything that our Educators do on the daily and I think the board members sitting here for the time and dedication to make sure that we're addressing the student needs in our community and to our student board members for being such an exemplary you know being such exemplary Role Models as as student board members and I'm so glad
126that we chose to this year to have you at the Das each month so thank you for being here and I don't want to be labor things because we have three really exciting informational presentations one of the presentations will be on facilities and uh we know um I just we we had a little presentation about some raindrops I'm going to add a few more to the mix and hopefully we'll have uh some umbrellas you know somewhere down the line uh but there are still 1136 plus new homes coming in to our community and we have facilities constraints uh that will hinder us from providing you know the programs that we'd like to do for everybody in our district so we still have to keep our thinking caps on looking forward to Solutions as they unravel
127um and or not unravel develop um no unraveling to develop as as we move forward with working uh with the uh developers coming into our you know neighborhoods and figuring out how we can uh continue to use the resources that we have um which we've done an amazing job so far and figure out how to plan for the future so thank you to superintendent for the uh bonsel um advisory committee um sessions and you know working through some of those challenges and um with that we're going to turn it over into proceeding on with the rest of our agenda um we're at the consent agenda I'm sorry T out of protocol but uh uh Miss James highlighted in her survey are parents we looking for support on how to provide better help with homework and
128and different opportunities for them to be part of the village uh I think as a as a district we might want to find if we can find Opportunities to provide this kind of support so that way you know we all know how important it is for our students to have home supports to help them guide through our studies and and help them and if if as a district we can try to find a way to provide this type of of help that would be great I believe so I I encourage uh superintendent G to to investigate opportunities for us to to to grow The Village so with that um I'm going to turn it back to the agenda uh we're at number seven the consent agenda is there a motion to approve motion to approve
129second all in favor hi I motion Carri is unanimously bringing us to our information items um looking forward to the reports so we have our first presentation will be theems of bonsel high school empowering students to design a path to College and Career Readiness and I believe we have some special guests today to come share this information with us come on up happy to have you here okay they're just going to hand out a few marketing items so that you can follow along okay so good evening Board of trusty superintendent golly and Miss Gina um tonight we are going to present a very exciting uh labor of efforts with our in Innovation team that we have here at bonsel high school and and two of our student pathway Consultants we we took some of the
130amazing pieces of bonsel high school and we put it put it all together to really address a lot of the needs that we see at our schools so we'll dive more into it as we get started on the presentation so Eddie thank you good evening board um superintendent golly um Miss mackinery uh so we wanted to start by talking about like why why are we doing this work why did we feel the need to make these these changes um and I mean I think we all know here the value of a high school diploma right the the the reality of of the opportunities that you have in that you don't have with or without a high school diploma but what we're realizing is that uh diplomas are not enough for the vast majority of of
131our society right um 70% of all jobs are going to require some sort of secondary education or training um and that a lot of our graduates around the country are not um are not leaving high school with the skills that they need to enter the job market um employers are are reporting that there is a huge gap in the skills that they're looking for and that the skills that um applicants are um are showing up with and there we go uh and so we looked at our vision we looked at the framework for the future and we realized that there's a lot of um a lot of ways that we can bring those two things together um the the fact that our vision is looking at creating rigorous and relevant learning experiences uh so we
132thought how can we um create those experiences that are connecting our students with um with the the workforce right whether that's job Shadows or internships um or even excuse me simple activities in class that connect to to um to things that they're interested in in um today's world right um and then thinking about the skill Gap that I just talked about that all of those skills are things that we're attempting to um to have our our students graduate with that they're resilient that they're problem solvers that they can uh work work on a team uh communicate effectively on that team um that they can engage not just for themselves but for their community and whether that's their work Community their their community in our case their school Community um and thought about okay well we
133can we can do those things right we can bring in work-based learning experiences we can bring in career exploration skills um we can connect with our community so that our students realize that it's not just them doing it or that it's not even just them and their teachers doing it but it like you guys have said that it's a village right that we're all working together to um to help these students be ready for the workforce um earlier than than they would be so with that let me turn it over to Mr hinchliff so I pulled the fun uh good evening board Miss Macer Dr goly um it's a pleasure to be speaking here tonight I pulled the fun uh data slide here so I apologize if I'm using any bud buzzwords but um as
134we heard earlier as we put this plan together we wanted to make sure that it was research-based that it was aligned with our framework framework for the future and that it was something that would really Revitalize our school culture and while we were doing all of that we also wanted to ensure that we were very intentional and purpose-driven um when we looked at the data and outcomes that we were seeking um to find and so here we have our dashboard indicators you've seen a few of those in the earlier presentations and at first glance our dashboard indicators we're in the green we're good right but when you look under the hood a little bit we know that we can do better um we saw this shift uh during that covid sequence and we're rebuilding and
135we're heading in the right trajectory but this new plan we're hoping will really kind of turbocharge that prog progress so that's what we're looking forward to explaining more in detail tonight okay so kind of bringing together the need the why and how this all came together so as you heard earlier the early college program was really showing me success it was showing that when given the chance and the motivation and encouragement students Rose to the occasion and excelled the confidence was enough to not just help them succeed academically but it healed a lot of the social emotional needs that were waiting there to be addressed so i s as a way to address both sides as a counselor I know there there are so many needs right now and sometimes we have to be a
136little creative and Innovative with the ways that we address these needs and I started playing with the early college program as far as how can I do this through the program and weaving in some of the psychology pieces to help heal those those traumas or those um those cognitive distortions along the way to help support our counseling department and so by doing that we've seen growth we've seen students have empowerment and feel like they have more Drive in their own um educ not just education in their life they have more control and the control reduces anxiety it reduces depression so I found a lot of success in many areas so I I took that piece I added leveraging all of the success in grant writing and all of the Fantastic work with RCT path ways
137and our palar College partnership and the opportunities that we're starting to see potentially with Cal State s Marcos as well um a lot of Community Partners waiting to work with us and I saw it as a bigger Vision on how we could make this a schoolwide initiative and really think in a bigger picture instead of just a pocket of students who felt ready for an early college program or students who felt uh or that we could catch why not we this into the entire culture of the school so that every single student gets some piece of empowerment some piece of healing through this program but also ready for College and Career because every single student needs to be able to not just get a job but keep a job and we want them to stay
138in our community many people cannot afford to be here so we want our students to stay in our area and help build the community so while reflecting and all those pieces and then hearing from our students our parents our community members our teachers it all kind of came together so I want to share two quotes that I actually captured in real conversations this week and quickly threw them in um because they capture it beautifully um one from a senior what made me feel connected was having someone believe in me and push me to explore my interests and think about my future this student had never considered College it took me a solid year to beg this student to even take a class and she was like I'll never go to college and now she's considering
139being a school counselor which selfishly I'm excited and she realizes that means graduate school so it's pretty exciting to see over four years a student transform like that just from taking a few classes and then we have a sophomore I didn't even consider programming as a career until I took the computer science course and this is a sophomore so this is just from taking a few courses and as we talk aboutmy the student was probably the most stressed out student I had trying to pick which Academy we probably know which student it is Jen um but no it's amazing it's great to see students stressed out about exciting things like which great opportunity am I going to take advantage of in school that is a good problem to have as a counselor so as we
140move forward so imagine a school where you can form an identity around your interests you can get prepared for Life After High School while you're exploring and you can really learn about those topics that are relevant to your own future not just what people are telling you is your future and where you can explore the many different careers that are available not just the ones that you hear about but all that you can possibly learn about and you can be engaged in work-based learning experiences you can actually be in the work in the career and get a feel for it and I think um Pascal lore you kind of mentioned getting that experience so you don't have to keep switching Majors I switched I think four times so this under the same umbrella but still
141it say saes a lot of time and money if you can explore and figure it out while you're in high school and get that college credit along the way and you gain skills and you can get cert certifications you can get CPR certified maybe get a certificate in welding um and you'll see here we're looking at fourmies in the entire school every single student will get in one of these four uhmy we have law and Leadership medical Sciences is computer science and engineering and arts and media and i' like to challenge any person to try to give me a career that won't fit in one of these four because I will make it fit and you will see we've got everything and so it includes trades when I I like to challenge students because you'll
142think computer science and you think of programming and um with engineering you think of engineer but we go deeper we look at um we look at landscape we look at cyber security but we also look at welder we look at drafter HVAC there's so many skills that are transferable in different areas and what we want is we want students to see that we don't want to just see the surface we want to dig deeper and we'll explain how we'll do that soon but also in that school not only do you learn those work-based skills but you're earning college credit while you're doing that and and you're going to get those certifications so that when you get right out of high school you can get that job or hopefully move on and get more education so
143part of our design is going to be to have industry engagements formerly called field trips where students not just go see industry but we're going to really align it to whether it's Academy based but even uh Co course course aligned as well so for example we may have under the law and Leadership Academy everyone goes see a a college that's associated with it but then we might dive deeper into looking at different careers and going and exploring those Industries but we may take um Miss aro's intro to Law class we take that entire class to the courthouse and we may take them to the morg we may take them all over so it's just based on interest and also just getting exposure to what's all out there in all the careers um one thing that's
144really exciting that uh we are working on is an mou with a law firm that's very ratable so that we can have those Partnerships and as we develop internships for all of our students including most likely Juniors and seniors we want every single student to have an experience before they graduate and add to their digital portfolio so that they have some something tangible to present to the community to present to hopefully our board members and our Community Partners every year we want them presenting what they've learned how they've learned the skills of our framework of the future to everyone because they I believe that will develop Pride that we can't just hand them because they've earned it and along with that is the college credit that they're building along the way toward their specific goals
145okay oops I went to the wrong way um so as our student trustees pointed out this is what we have been uh rolling out to all of our students at bonsel high school we are also currently scheduling to roll this out to Sullivan middle school students and our incoming high schoolers as well and this is a reflection of the brochure that you guys uh have been given by some of our student Representatives here um that really break down our four different acmy um students were presented with this information specifically so they know the opportunities related to these aies and help them identify which of these eies they would like to go go to each of theseis is really a product of a lot of time and investment that misserin and the teams put in working
146with Palomar to ensure that they're um focused on high wage high growth sectors but also hosting uh student focus groups and one-on-one interviews to make sure that we're meeting the needs and interests of our students um so as we presented this we also shared with students the opportunities that would come with each of those aies and how selecting an academy doesn't actually restrict your choices to just what's there but really allows you to uh get a deeper understanding and a more in-depth experience related to those acmis so as students Peru those brochures they were able to look at the uh certificates that they could earn aligned with their Academy aligned with their interests they were able to um look at um career skills that they could work with as well so maybe they're getting a
147certificate from palar college or maybe they're getting CPR certified if they're going into the Medical Science pathway maybe they're reflecting on their interests uh in clubs as they choose an academy so for our awesome mock trial students that we saw earlier law and Leadership is a natural fit right um but if a student was competing in our Legion Bots competition last semester and they're getting excited for our next competition with drone racing then maybe CS engineering is going to be the academy for them um and in addition to that again miss Aaron's been working really hard to make sure that our courses are um not just aligned uh for career but also working on articulating our courses too so for the foundations of law class recently articulated with palar now students can get college credit
148for taking that class with Miss armo on our campus um so as students selected the academy that they wanted to be in we also wanted to share with the students that that this isn't just a one- siiz fits-all approach and that we're really trying to individualize those Pathways for our students so for each of the different eies we presented them with the courses that they would be taking and again they're not limited just to those courses but they might have preferential access to it they're going to be sorted into kind of cohorts where they're going to be developing extra skills in their Symposium classes um and working alongside their peers that they would be attending those industry engagement field trips um with they're also Al going to be able to participate in different job shadows
149and uh begin earning internship hours to help contribute to their community service requirement and ultimately culminating with a portfolio a senior project that they can take with them out the door as they walk across the stage and walk into a job interview or uh onto their college applications with those transferable skills so kind of Big Picture This is what we left them with we're already sorting through um all of those Academy requests there's a ton of excitement about that um you'll also notice um looking at our Pathways and how aligned they are with theseis um with Early College interwoven throughout um we have up there our graphic uh graphic design certificates if students are working with Cutting Edge in design software in order to uh to get that certificate from Palmar uh we have our
150associate teacher certificate uh where students are enrolled in four different uh Child Development classes where they're getting um Service Learning hours shout out to Mr Costa for allowing our uh Child Development students to uh go and get that hands-on experience working with him down at Vivian Banks and the amazing uh teachers and students they have down there um but ultimately we want we want to make sure that we're sending each student on a path of their choice uh to a path of their future so thank you so now we're going to hear from our two pathway cons Consultants come on up good evening my name is Luna um I'm currently a sophomore in bons high right now and the Academy I chose was arts and media my reason being is I love drawing and listening
151to music for example Arc gives me a canvas to draw how I'm feeling or show emotions you can't capture on a as for music you can pour your like you can pour how you're feeling into lyrics and connect with others and the way both these two things can contribute to my future is by writing novels or story books I want to display my emotions with stories that people can relate to and enjoy thank you hi I hope you guys are having a good day so far um my name is Alisia and I'm currently a 10th grader at Bondo High School the Academy I chose was medical Sciences cuz it gives us like more experience to be able to be College ready as well as um it helps my future by having giving me firsthand experience
152so that I can have um sorry so I could have um a higher chance of being able to get uh into jobs or go to universities and like another program program that's similar to this is the early college program that Miss Aaron and some of other people created and this has helped me cuz I'm currently a 10th grader and I'm now going to be able to graduate at College at Palomar College I'm nervous this year yeah anything um with arts and media so anything you want to say no any questions how do you make sure that we're we're stay current and I and I say that from just looking at you know I look all the great stuff this is awesome because this is where you want to get kids towards towards occupations but then
153I see one thing I see AutoCAD drafting okay yeah and when I I worked for company soell building products and at the start things were done by hand then AutoCAD took over and they were everywhere and on my way out AutoCAD was going by and Bim was the big thing okay that's been building information modeling um and so that's so I want to make sure that that that the kids get what's Cutting Edge what's what what's going to be needed I totally agree with you so the programs that you see listed are what palar offers gotcha yes so it's kind of a balance so what we're doing is some of the current things you're speaking of we're really trying to ensure are in our actual courses we offer um if we can't because it's a
154balance I do go to a lot of meetings a lot of them whether it's at palamar um I attend a lot of meetings that involve labor market information industry Partners so that I can ensure that our students have what are going to lead to high wage careers because I don't believe in a student taking a career path to a job that they can't stay here um I've seen it happen my own son isn't living here um I don't want that to be the case for our students and so I do agree with you AutoCAD is definitely kind of an older program that isn't being used as much in the current trending and that's why our teacher right now is working with some industry Partners to find what are we using and then that's where we
155write grants to try to get that current software in our schools because I'd rather have all of our students in the program access we just two or three might try to get that certificate um because some of those certificates are too many courses for them to achieve where some of them we can offer on our campus or we have transportation and they can achieve so that's where we prioritize which ones we put more of our focus on and more of the resources toward M but I will be probably inviting all of you to be part of our industry Partnerships as we move forward great I have a question yes well first a statement so as I look through here I was imagining what would I sign up for that's what I was thinking then then
156I started getting stressed out because I was I was like no I want the law and Leadership but I I want arts and media too oddly I don't know why but I do and so so I was like what so I'm like I'm I'm like you know I'm torn here but my question is what what percentage do you anticipate the school to be per category I mean do you have any idea of what what how this is going to lie out do you want to yeah so so based on our our survey results right now we're actually pretty evenly split 25% I think the smallest one right now is is 18% 19% um with arts and media um but I mean we've got probably done yeah well we haven't done the eighth graders and there
157are a handful of students that that we missed on our initial run of of presentations but um when you look at the graph I was I was actually really surprised cuz I had the same worry um but when you look at the pie pie chart it's it's almost yeah split perfectly uh quarter quarter of the students for each each Academy um we also had them rank them um you know one through four so we might take some of those students that had arts and media as their second choice again the the idea um and I think I forget who spoke to it um but the the idea that even if you know it's their second choice um they might find that this is something that they they want to explore more I mean most of
158the kids have some sort of interest in all four of these right um but it gives them an opportunity to learn more about that one uh and as a second choice maybe they realize oh man this actually is my first choice or they're like man I hate this a lot this is my my fourth choice and like you guys were mentioning it's one less thing they have to worry about um when they leave us so do they do they have opportunities to switch or once they pick they're in so there there will be a process for them to switch we'll we'll accept those applications but we won't review them until the end of the year um to make sure that they've had the full experience in that year they've had opportunities to do a job
159shadow um or field or excuse me industry engagements um before before we we go back and review and and have that conversation with the student but yes there there's a there will be a process for that first comment you probably need to work on the choreography on the movement when you present it was it felt a bit discombobulated uh the uh second comment I think computer science should be in any of those four academies uh you cannot do anything any work anywhere without some computer basic so I'm not saying anybody everybody needs to learn computer programming but computer savviness is uh and ly is critical no matter what work uh you're going to do uh and uh I encourage you to really listen to the uh to the hiring people in the community that tells
160you what you're missing uh and finally there's there's one thing that we didn't mention but in the Symposium uh document says study skills and soft skills uh soft skills is what differentiates from uh AI so it's really important to have those uh and study skills uh you need to be honest with students uh they might through the past now maybe in 10 years they'll do something totally different and so learning how to learn learning how to acquire new skills uh is probably the the best skill that you can get out of of high school if there or School in general even College you should just learn how to learn and you're going to learn something and if you if you're in computer science within 5 years you obsolete if you don't if you cannot recycle
161so so learning how to learn is probably the critical skills that you that you need to to advertise to student and and picking picking a choice now doesn't mean that you stuck with it forever uh there's always opportunities to retrain relearn uh take risk uh you know and so uh uh I'm it's really encouraging to see how the program grows year over year and uh how it develops and the quality of the material and the quality of the programs that we keep adding so uh keep add it thank you um if I may I just want to attest to our Symposium program this year I know last year a lot of students were a little unsure about it some of our symposiums were more of just like a study time but um this year we've
162been working as a school to really enhance Symposium and just personally and as a student in Symposium what we're learning right now to me is incredible it's just such I'm so grateful to have the opportunity we're learning about taxes we're learning about anything that we would need to help us outside of school cars things like that it's just really great and I'm really happy with how that's going and I think that for our underclassman as well it's going to be a really great program for them thank you yeah I just um well one comment I think you guys should talk to Jen about doing choreography there that might help you a little bit there um but uh I was wonder if you guys offered like or thought about concern offer like driver training things like
163that maybe in the Symposium thing I I kind of feel like even a person who doesn't drive should actually take driver training because they should know what drivers have to deal with so they just don't walk in front of a car and say Well they're supposed to stop you know so so even a pedestrian should know what the drivers are doing um but I did have a question about the term associate teacher what what is uh associate teacher so that degree allows students to work in child care facilities after school programs and it's kind of the starting path with some of the Child Development programs and different it it kind of branches into more like associates degree programs and so forth with child development so I believe we had 11 students last year graduate with
164that same program and so so we're they're continuing it on and I do know that Palmer is right now crafting more accelerated certificate programs so that our students can continue this trend and have um certificates within a semester so we're hoping to work together as we develop this further and align them toward skills that are going to be desirable for hiring I think it's my turn fantastic uh I it's f fascinating and fabulous to actually listen to the presentation on this um Academy's model moving forward I've been watching The Evolution directly of bonsel high school since BB was passed in 2012 and you know the school was founded in 2014 and we've been at it for a decade now and you know there's been the evolution of you know different uh teaching mechanisms and and
165and whatnot and I think it's um a testament to the fact that we are small and Nimble uh there's very much an entrepreneurial feel to this which I'm really impressed by so I want to thank you for your leadership within uh bonsel High School to put together such a very comprehensive and uh Innovative plan which I think will really set our students up for Success so thank you thank you I have one last comment um as a hiring manager there's something that I value actually probably more than the degree itself it's whatever people have done outside of the of the standard path that they do so when we talk certificate and you know I would almost say if you graduate with a high school diploma and you have a certificate like that it shows to
166anybody who's going to look at the resume that you were able to commit to something else that what was that you you were force fed into and so that's meaningful in the sense where as a as a hiring person you want to know that someone is able to commit to something and Achieve something and high school I'm not going to say it's a given degrees that we can debate about that but this is a standard path that everybody follows through and and it doesn't show much an employer say okay you graduated high school great uh when you have something like a certificate of the fact that you've taken college credit in high school it's an added piece to your to your portfolio that shows that you were able to to do something else than what
167what you were supposed to do uh and I think that's really what differentiate people between between bonds old people that have college credit and compare to someone that exit another high school with a with an High School degree and say okay well you both have high school what differentiate you from from your peer those are those are things and skills that allow people to to Value themselves more in a very competitive job market and to add to that the uh industry engagement um and I I love the catchphrase by the way be legendary um having those Community Partnerships is going to be critical so with that real real world experience so I think that's fantastic I'm looking forward to seeing the program evolve so thank you very much thank you all right this very exciting
168and our next uh information item uh presentation number two is we have the elementary multi-tiered systems of Support mtss Program update thank you so much for being here long meeting too so thank you for being here so late thank you guys good evening boorn members Dr golly and Miss Gina thank you um thank you for having us here tonight my name is Kelly poed I am the mtss tosa at bonsel elementary school and I am Dana bonwell and I'm the to mtss tosa at Vivian Banks and at bonsol West and I had Alicia and Luna in my class at Vivian six years ago so I know them from way back and they did an awesome job good job ladies so we are excited to talk to you guys about what is happening on the elementary
169levels to get those foundational skills so we can get them into high school and just for the record we are used to talking to little ones so we'll do our best to talk in front of adults this evening um so oh we have to push okay here we go okay so mtss Focus is on the whole child this is our multi-tiered systems of support and it is a framework that's used to give targeted support to struggling students in all of these areas um early intervention is key it uh early intervention early identification of students specific needs academic behavioral and social emotional um we can through this Pro through mcss we are offering um extra support for teachers and students for their SST goals uh we have six week cycles of intervention that are systematic explicit
170and targeted towards each student's uh individual needs um there are three RTI um tiers sorry I didn't splitch the thing I need to can I walk around with this is that allow no go back one more sorry no you're good okay so there's three oh awesome thank you okay there are three tiers to um RTI so tier one is the bottom of the triangle um that is your best practices that's in the gened classroom um by the classroom teacher um it could also involve interventions in small groups um different differentiated curriculum for students meeting students where they are and this should be ideally the research says about 80% of our students should be served only with tier one that might be all they need right um tier two is our next is our supplemental and
171um these are our interventions that occur they can occur inside or outside the classroom um this should be roughly 15% of our students and this looks like small groups in the hallway maybe small groups being pulled out of the room small groups in the classroom sometimes one-on-one support um and this what it's been looking like for us is um small groups with the gened teacher or with the mtss tosa um and then tier three is your intensive intervention supports and this is um typically 5% or less of our students should require this sort of of support the important thing about the tiers is that tier two is in addition to tier one so when I'm pulling students for example I'm never pulling them or my goal is to not be pulling them during their tier
172one like for example their tier one language arts time I'm not going to pull them for a reading intervention so that they miss that time they need to be getting both times so that they can catch up if they are a student who's not benefiting solely from tier one they need the ability to catch up so it needs to be on top of each each other intervention needs to be on top of okay thank you Christian you got me all right so an important thing to notice about the mtss is we're working on the whole child we cannot expect children to sit in a desk or stand in a classroom if they haven't eaten if they're coming to school disregulated if they're upset their anxiety their depression all of that so um we're not just
173looking at the academic of these students we're looking at their social and their emotional well-being as well um and as you guys know it's not just a bonsel thing but students are coming to us with more and more trauma home trauma we've got all kinds of things happening on our campuses um so we need to make sure that they've eaten breakfast that they're happy that they are safe and that their basic needs are met before they can go to a classroom creating safe schools and environment where our students feel safe supported and loved is vital to the well-being of our students our students cannot walk in the door and not feel loved um handshakes hugs high fives that's kind of our motto at the elementary level they've got to feel like we want them there
174um good thank you all right in tier two so tier two like Dana said it is on top of the tier one first best practices that is happening inside our classrooms by our gen Ed teachers so this is um strategic and targeted to meet the needs of each individual ual student and this is 15% or less of our students that would need this in um extra intervention and one program that classroom teachers and toes are using is Orton Gillingham and that is because the district has taken the the funds to get us trained and then over here you have some pictures in the top picture we have one of our TK teachers who is using Orton Gillingham strategies to learn to teach the sounds excuse me down at the bottom those two cute little kiddos
175are doing some tactile with some sand also in Orton Gillingham um strategy then we've got this little guy Patrick who's learning that his name starts with something that is the letter P the letter P has a sound and then down at the bottom we have three boys here who are doing a dictation in a small group and then up at the top we have a one-on-one assessment happening and again you can see that this happens inside the classroom outside the classroom outside again we're meeting the needs of our our students we've got students who can't just sit in the classroom if they need fresh air we'll take them outside and we'll get more from them that way one more thank you so H how are we determining who needs intervention um we are using our
176student study teams um we use District curriculum and assessments and teacher recommendations um we so for example we you know are looking at our I ready scores at the beginning of the year because it's one of the first assessments that comes back and then we can look at you know the the kids who are scoring in the in the um the red area or the yellow area on those I assessments and then we can talk to those teachers and further assess and um um using um these other programs with the bpst um the mclass tibbles and other assessments the esgi which um has the bpst Incorporated um further Assessments in order to um further Target and figure out the specific needs in the specific areas for each student then we are also um progress monitoring
177students with short frequent targeted assessments throughout the six cycles of intervention so when kids are um pulled into a cycle of intervention then we're constantly monitoring that um that progress and then um they're not you know it's not like they're in the their intervention group and they're just in it for the rest of the year they're in they're out we're monitoring their even the kids that have exited we're continuing to monitor their progress to see you know is there another area is something else coming up um so students are entering and exiting intervention groups based on their growth and their needs um the toas are helping teachers to create smart goals for their student SSS um uh and and for their assessments and progress monitoring and so just a frequent collaboration between the classroom teacher
178and the tosa to support students even like when I'm just walking through the hall going in and seeing the teacher um I had a list of like fluency scores on my paper I went in and just and the second grade teacher I was said oh that's interesting let's talk about that later like it's this constant like you know being in and out of the classroom and being able to help support and then let's go look at the data and what what has that kid been scoring and figure out what we should do next um okay all right sorry so um types of interventions that are happening at the elementary campuses we have many interventions that are taking place at all three School sites to support students in not just literacy but writing and math we're
179offering before and after after school interventions in reading and math we're using our tosas and in the fall our TK teachers were used to support our students during the school day and that's because TK was the half day so we were taking those TK teachers and um putting them into kindergarten first and second grade classrooms again using the OG um training we're creating positive relationships with our students students and like I said earlier like this is our number one priority our St students have to feel loved and accepted and wanted in order to give us anything um so behavioral interactions are key to success for our students and supporting teachers is a huge one um when behavior issues arise and constant communication in the classroom teachers if we've got a student that is elevated our
180classroom teacher has you know 24 26 however many students so um we're able to go in and pull that student student out bring them in talk to them see what's happening a lot of times it's giving them a snack I've got a little couch outside of my um office a lot of times it's taking a nap with a timer just so you know so I'm like how many minutes do you need and it's usually about two minutes um but again just like us right we get boiled and it's like I tell my kids give me five I need to go count so the kids need to do that too um I do in do check-ins a couple times a week in roughly 21 of our classrooms on campus and these are the classrooms that have
181multip students with those social and emotional um issues at bees teachers are also signing up for me to come into their classrooms to coach them on classroom management small group differentiated instruction in reading and math and supporting classroom behavior and implementing strategies for positive reinforcement so we're doing a lot of that next slide please thank you so um we're excited that our tier one and tier 2 RTI is in line with the framework's recommend recommended percentages and that's what Dana was talking about at the bottom we want tier one to be the majority of our students about 80% tier two about 15 and um tier three five or less So currently 88% of our students are performing at grade level with first best instruction by their classroom teacher not needing those additional supports from tosas
18212% of our students fall under tier two and are receiving additional supports by tosas and classroom teachers and many of these students are also participating in our before and after school interventions that are provided by our classroom teachers um and this number here reflects all three excuse me all three of the elementary schoolk you all right um so for bonsel elementary school our TK teachers worked in small groups with our Kinder first in second grade tier 2 students for a six- week intervention cycle so six weeks is what we're doing we're giving them six weeks to kind of make the growth and then we're reassessing them 67% of our Kinder students made the expected growth 33 % are still working towards that expected growth in first and second grade we had 69% of those students
183that made the expected growth whereas 31% are continuing to work towards their expected growth and starting March 31st at Bonza Elementary will'll begin another six week intervention cycle and we're hoping to have around 80 to 90 students I counted today and 71 permission slips have gone out so hopefully those will start coming back in they literally went home today um So currently at bones Elementary after school I have 992 students who are enrolled in math intervention again that's being taught by the classroom teachers and we have decided with a school of 960 plus kids you can imagine how hard it is to implement Intervention when we have vast needs so we decided to use we call it GG but it's really called stmath it is an adopted program for curriculum so we are using this
184program so each kid is going in and they are working at their level so Dana and I could be in the same class and I could be working on a first grade strategy and she could be working on a fifth grade strategy that's not really that high but you know what I mean it's just it's all where the child is at so um I'm excited to see our data with what happens with that intervention um this slide is showing the Vivian Banks um upper grades um reading intervention um some of the growth that we have shown through these through this new intervention cycle so um this this is for the oral reading fluency um assessment this shows words per minute um I so the student receives a score on their words per minute so they
185read a grade level passage for um one minute and they get however many words and and then um there are cut off values for the fall for the winter for the spring that the student is trying you know that is considered to be grade level if they reach that value so I um took those um the what the child got and divided by the cut off value to get their um percent of of goal met um so at the beginning of uh at the fall um 47% um of the students were sorry let me say that right um the average intervention student scores in the fall were 47% from meeting their goal they were 47% from meeting their goal in the fall in the winter those same student scores were 67% from meeting their goal
186so you can see um that that growth that they've hopefully received through you know receiving this extra intervention um the 60% of the students at Vivian banks are receiving tier 2 literacy interventions in addition to their intervention and instruction provided by the classroom teacher in the tier one um so for yeah so I think I think that's that slide um the next slide shows the Vivian Banks primary grades no did it I'm sorry you want to do it okay I'll leave it I'm sorry oh now we're going the okay this one yeah okay so um this shows the Dibbles um phon segmentation fluency task um this is a test where the teacher says cat and the child says the sounds that are in the word so there's no um written part I say cat the
187child says C at they say the sounds um phonemic awareness the ability to hear and manipulate manipulate individual sounds in words is a strong predictor of reading success and we were talk Dr goly was talking about that earlier um and that's what I was thinking about during that presentation because I have this in my brain but um students uh it's it's extremely important the research has shown for uh decoding and encoding like spelling writing the words down um the research has shown that phonemic awareness predicts later outcomes in reading and spelling um 80% of all Quote poor readers in third grade and Beyond struggle in this phonic awareness area so this is extremely important that our students are gaining this knowledge at a young age um so this I was super excited by this growth
188this graph shows the average fall score of the Kinder and first grade intervention students um was 54% of their fall grade level goal and in the in the win these same student scores were 87% of their winner goal so they really have made some significant growth in their um of in their phic awareness then the next slide okay sorry thank you the next slide shows the bonsel West um upper I'm also at bonsel West so that shows the bonso West um intervention upper grades um this is a fluency just like the first first graph that I showed you for Vivian Banks this is the same task um the average of intervention student scores in the fall were 54% from meeting their fall goal in the winter the average for these same student scores was 66%
189from meeting their winner goal um these students have been meeting with me um they've been learning OG phonics patterns the Orton Gillingham um the morphology we've done a lot of prefixes suffixes root words um I sorry I was thinking that I also should have said at Vivian Banks I also have been teaching morphology dur um to every uh third fourth and fifth grader and I think that that that skill of being able to break words apart it's it's an Orton Gillingham program but it really shows students how they like some students hadn't even considered words like that they just see a big long word and they're like how am I going to read that but then they're able to see there's a part at the beginning prefix part at the end suffix there's the root
190word right and now look that word's not so scary anymore and you can figure it out and you know a lot more words than you think um so we've been learning that at bonsel West too um syllable patterns to help decode those multisyllabic words and um in each intervention session they're also reading a short text of increasing difficulty to practice their fluency also at bonsel West um before school there's a read naturally which is a fluency comprehension program um that intervention is led by Mrs Miller in the mornings 4 days a week and we co collaborate on how like which students go into that program so I have a few students for example who um are no longer coming to me for intervention because they started they they got up to um grade level but
191I thought it wouldn't hurt if we give them something to make sure that they're where they need to be that they stay there and so they've been going to her in the morning and then there's some students who who are going to both of us and so um we're working together on that okay and then this is the bonsel West um primary grades graph um this and I also use this task at um Vivian Banks and I also use the fun M awareness task at bonsel West but um I just decided to show you two different so you could see all the tasks um so the nonsense word the nonsense word fluency task uh assessment is um there's two scores on it the one I'm trying to just tell you off my head but I
192also wrote all this down which is really great so I probably should just go with that um so it's it's it's it teaches uh sorry it assesses sounds and blending okay so this task is done oneon-one and the student reads the nonsense words and then they that follow the phonics patterns um it assesses the students ability to decode words and their letter sound correspondences so the those part on the right the blending that's can they so they're seeing words that are not uh real words um the point of that is so that they haven't already memorized the words because there's another task that assesses words that you know like that you know um your side words right uh that you know by heart this is we don't want to know if you know these words
193by heart we actually want you to have to use the phonics patterns that's what this task is assessing so for the letter sounds portion it'll be maybe a word like MIT m i t they'll see that word they'll have to go M and they get a point for each letter um that they're able to know the sound of and then can they blend it together and that's you know that's the key right so can they go M and so there's two different parts that so you often see kindergarteners who at the beginning of the year are and first graders who are able to they're they're doing pretty well on the one score on the task right and they haven't started blending yet they're still getting a zero on the blending part and then all of
194a sudden it starts coming together today in my kindergarten group at bonso West all of a sudden all of a sudden a couple of these kids just started blending and we the teacher said it too she said I don't know what it is the rain today I don't know what it was but kids were starting to some of these kids we have in seen doing it all of a sudden and it's so exciting that's what's fun about kindergarten in first grade um so the students Reed two scores one for the number of sounds they know correctly and a separate score for the number of words they blend correctly so this graph shows the average intervention student scores on the fall the letter sound part were 54% from meeting their fall goal in the winter those
195same students scores were 74% from meeting their winner goal and then for the blending portion um they were 45% from meeting the fall goal and in the winner they were 80% of their winner goal so I don't know I thought that was super exciting and you know fun to um see that growth um okay so this is for our overall presentation our mtss wins um many younger students um who started the year struggling after one to two targeted intervention sessions are no longer needing additional supports and one other thing I think I forgot to mention on my bonsel West slides is we exited 17 students from Intervention in the first you know when I started the new session up in January we had 17 students no longer needed intervention because they scored in the green
196on their I ready winner assessment and so that was super cool to see um we have as toas we're having a better understanding of specific student needs and I think hopefully teachers are having that better understanding as well through the sharing of data and conversations between uh the tosas the teachers the parents students and we are sharing on um SST forms I've you know and Vivian Banks have been able to attend some ssts at um bonso West I the teacher sh because I'm only there two days the teachers share some the forms with me and I'm able to contribute to the ssts that way um and provide information and um you know goals I I was working on that today for somebody um data demonstrating student strengths and struggles on multiple measures and small group
197instruction allows for a better understanding of specific needs and then the tosas have been able to support classroom teachers with social emotional and behavioral needs of students who benefit one-on-one and uh you know that from that small group support and then one more thing just to piggy back you're fine you can keep it there one thing to piggy back on the SST that's our student studies or Student Success team is now what it's called so teachers come up with a goal that is based on that child's needs so their goal might be in kindergarten that they know five letter names and in six weeks we're hoping and that goal is going to be attainable right I'm not hoping that I am hoping but it's not attainable to go from 5 to 26 if they've taken
198a long time for the five so a lot of times I'm helping and Dana's helping write the SST goals especially for our upper elementary teachers who in past years have not seen kids coming in that are struggling to read so I've got fourth grade teachers that are like come help me what where do I even start with this this child has no basic skills in their foundational skills so what would a goal be so that's been really successful to um be able to partner with the teachers on that all right so future of mtss in bonsel the need for mtss in our schools is not going away unfortunately the emotional and behavioral needs of our students seems to get greater each year and I'm actually going to say not even just each year but as
199our as our year continues we're seeing more and more trauma coming um it is vital that we continue to provide our students with the necessary emotional behavior and academic supports that focus on the whole child we would love to see more professional developments to help teachers understand how to properly support students who have experienced trauma and there's there's triggers for kids I'm listening to um a book on tape right now called the boy who was raised by dog a dog and I don't know if any of you have heard that but I was listening to it today and all of a sudden I had like this light bulb going on because they were saying a lot of times students who at a young age in the younger grades have trauma and we're seeing it as
200ADD ADHD and OD but that's not what it is it's their trauma response but we haven't been trained and we haven't seen a lot of this trauma coming through so just kind of again knowing the whole child and asking those questions what happened over the weekend what's happening at home and if they're in my office and we're just kind of eating goldfish together a lot comes out and you know just having those moments to be able to go back to the classroom teacher and go did you know that this is what's happening and it's like oh my gosh I had no idea and with 25 other kids I wouldn't have been able to ask that question so um if we as your District mtss toast says had a genie grant us three wishes we would
201wish for a reading and math intervention teacher at all sites in addition to the toasta so if any of you brought a genie we would love to rub it um and I think especially like you can see the difference like our three Elementary School sites are vastly different and being able to like for instance I can't pull reading groups I have 960 students and we tried that when my position four years ago when I first left the classroom and it's just not possible like intervention should be a small group of kids and our School site is so big at bonso elementary as you guys know so um I would love to have a reading intervention teacher or a math intervention teacher that if we had somebody else we could have it done but um it
202has been amazing being able to get into the classrooms and to continue with that coaching piece that I was able to do the last two years um on the uplift literacy Grant so all of the mtss stuff has just kind of wrapped it all together so thank thank you guys for finding the funds and realizing that not just the academics of our children is important but the social and emotional well-being of them is number one so thank you thank you guys so much thank you for an exceptionally informative presentation um I just have one question as it relates to uh seeing even an uptick of trauma response even throughout the year is there any sort of trend analysis that you can speak to around that no I think um part of it's our economy and
203we've got a lot of families who are living with grandparents and aunts and uncles um without giving two specifics we have um students who have changed placements home placements who have had siblings that are no longer living in the home for one reason or another um and I think again that's what's really nice is I I sit at the gate every morning and I give my handshake my hugs and high fives and I can tell you exactly who I need to meet with and there's half the time where uh Mrs Harrow and Mrs Fortney and I are out there and I'm like I need to go and I'll just take that child and we'll go grab lunch or grab breakfast and we'll just sit down and talk and we'll start walking and so it's just
204kind of having those and finding out what's happening you know Dad's not living at home anymore mom's working crazy hours you know a little boy that was in my office yesterday was like yeah my dad has to work after school so I come home and I watch my little sister you know so it's those things and it's like what are you doing he's like well I'm trying to feed her I'm trying to help her read you know so it's a lot of those things that are just I don't know what it is but interesting yeah thank you for sharing thank you guys any other questions for our toas thank you so much thank you all right and the uh presentations keep Ong goinging um if we can do our facilities planning update Miss Caroline Brown
205thank you good evening board uh superintendent and Gina um I have a very short presentation on facilities today and the goal is to give you a little bit of new information as well as ask for any additional uh direction that you would like us to cover at the advisory committee meeting next week so uh oh I got right here there we go okay um so the action since last February February uh 13th board meeting we have um taken a look at your capacity and utilization done site walks counted classrooms counted square footage and then we've been waiting for the Davis demographics enrollment report which actually came into the email for us this afternoon at around 4 so we're going to slice and dice that and um be able to report U what they say in
206those projections and then um there's been quite a bit of development activity there's some developments that have been approved and they're tentatively mapped and they are ready to um build if not already building and so the district has had quite a few Communications with developers around their units coming in and that expected growth that we're probably going to see over the next um uh probably three to seven years and then we have your planning meetings coming up we've got the back meeting on March 19th I'm going to go over the agenda and what we're going to cover there and what activity we're going to do there and then our next board study session is on March 27th so this is a complicated chart has a lot of information on it so I want to kind
207of just walk you through how we came up with the numbers so the leftand column is your schools so we have the five schools listed the next column is your grade level configurations as they currently are and then um you've seen the site acreage before uh but I've repeated it here so we can see all of our all of our assets and then um the number of portable classrooms and the N I'm sorry the number of permanent classrooms then the number of portable classrooms and then the number of classrooms in use so when I presented to you um a year or so ago we talked about the capacities as a number and we said that well you know bonsel West can hold 1,24 well when you really take a look at their programs and the
208operational capacity of a school you need to take a look at like what truly is it is there a number is it a mathematical exercise or it is a programming exercise so what we had done was taken the class sizes that were in the negotiated uh teacher contract and multiplied them out well your class sizes that are negotiated are much higher than you're actually operating so when Heather and I met we talked about well what is that operational capacity so that's what I did in the the the three stars where um I'm sorry the two Stars based on a tkk it's 22:1 based on a 1 through three it's about 24:1 27 to1 in the in the grades going 4 through 12 yes you might have classes of 32 yes you might have classes of
20922 but an operational mathematical calculation seemed to be the better way to handle the loading calculation so that's where we came up with the um enrollment and the and the operational capacity there on the right so uh right now we have 93 permanent classrooms we have 41 portable classrooms with 134 total classroom inventory and that classroom is defined as anything that's 960 Square ft or thereabouts um so we're not counting classrooms that are 400 square fet or or less than that um so then we um also wanted to recognize the fact that students don't show up to us in nice little neat packages of 20 24 27 and 32 so there's going to be some variation in how many students are in each classroom so that gives us a classrooms in use of 128 that
210gives us ostensibly six open classrooms right now to accommodate growth there are some assumptions that we would have to make about maybe doubling up some uses uh maybe we've done a little bit of expansion out into the classrooms that maybe we could consolidate a little bit and make more room if students come but if the students come at the level that we're expecting them to through these developments will be a need to increase the number of classrooms that we have districtwide and so the next column after the enrollment of 2025 is sort of our projected enrollment and that's going to get filled in after Laura and I and Heather take a look at that um demographics report and determine if there's any changes that need to be made or if it is good to publish
211and then so that gives our operational capacity about 2600 kids so if you take a look at some of the students coming in some of the Gen rates that are coming in and we're anti anticipating that we're going to be sitting around 24 2500 kids by the year 2027 28 so we're really close to um our capacity we don't have a lot of Headroom so we're going to really have to take a look at the at our facilities and figure out where we need to add some classrooms any questions on this table before I move on the the global number might be missing leading because we might be more overloaded with a certain category of student like maybe uh K k26 which means that the the disparity of loading across the school and the the
212overloading of Bonzo Elementary becomes even more problematic than this right know so the seeing the seeing just the global count you know 2661 might be misleading uh as a as a overall value and the the the the devil is in the detail you're saying the overall 2661 being no I think I think it might be misleading in the sense where you know uh that reflects the entirety of the district when we might not have a capacity issue at the high school when we might have a capacity issue already at the at the b h so he cannot drawn he cannot he cannot obfuscate the the reality of the situation by saying hey you have 300 seats you know unoccupied so maybe what we need to do is do a tk5 capacity or usage classroom usage
213and availability and then it's really the middle in the high school that don't have any capacity uh for uh and and they have quite a few shared shared rooms so that's a little bit of a um a tough mathematical one thank you so then the next slide is the agenda for the bonds all advisory committee it will be expected that we'll share that table with them to provide some context around the facts about the district so DLR group is going to lead this study session we're going to have um debrief of the number one study session we're going to share what we collected and what the trends are and the information we collected um we are going to do a little bit of a primer on how facilities are funded in the state of California
214and then we'll go into some District facts we'll talk about how many acres do we have number of classrooms grade level configurations enrollment capacity utilization and then this the tabletop activity is going to be what's called a spot activity which is an activity that um is like the SWAT that we do but they've changed the W to a p and the p is problems and it's no longer uh weaknesses so that is uh what DLR is going to lead the uh group in they're going to look at different School configurations they're going to look and do a spot uh analysis on our current conditions they're going to do we're got two other scenarios that we're going to have them do a spot activity on and that is 2 tk8 and 1 912 and two TK
2156s and 1 712 and then we're going to have them assess whether they're um they're in the right locations across the district and we're servicing the right grade levels at the right place that makes sense for them and then I I just needed to ask if there was any other agenda items you'd like us to share at this point um and then if you have any other direction of any other scenarios we need to consider at this time or if those are the scenarios that um that will give us some information going forward um I think we there there is always another scenario um so I think that might be something that we would take to the smaller committee to discuss and go over some different options um but that seems like a great place
216to start yeah and then we can go from there as far as maybe having another I don't know committee meeting or something and then discuss some other options another one might organically come from the group too so um we'll hopefully we'll be able to gather that information we're we're going to set it up where we're going to have a I don't know if I'm spilling the beans but a principal and and a Cabinet member at sort of stay at one table while the group and manage the conversations at that group so that things don't get lost as people move from table to table so we'll just have facilitators at each table to help dive those discussions I think one of the things that would be of interest um to maybe consider um depending on the
217construct of the you know the meeting and if it applies um with time constraints Etc and if it's not too convoluted is we have to work with what we have now and we have to plan for what we may be able to create in the future and there should be um you know when you look at development um of any sort of plan you know there then should be a transition of so from a phasing approach what can we do with what we have where should we be going say 10 years from now and how do we get from where we're at to the intermediate step to a potential 10-year plan so to speak and I think it would be interesting um to be able to identify what our community members think that ultimately if
218you know we talked about a genie for if we can you know have the three wishes so to speak but what do what do our community members think that that you know long range plan that if money were to drop out of the sky you know would be ideal to satisfy the educational fa facilities needs for our community um and then um you know and I don't know whether that would be after we do a spot analysis before the spot analysis but I do think ultimately we should be looking at kind of a short-term and longterm you know kind of facilities perspective yeah so I think we're going to be um constrained to get into something at that level but that might be a really good session three agenda item because we'll gather this information
219be able to slice it dice it analyze it and then bring it back to the group and then we can talk about how long it's going to take to get there and what could be the transition good thank you any other comments from Caroline thank you for your continued guidance and I appreciate so there's just on a closing note we have um enrollment projections demographics coming and then we're going to have um continue to explore uh future funding opportunities as well as these meetings coming up in March so more to come um in a couple weeks thank [Applause] you and that takes us to our action items but wait there's still a presentation because action item 9.1 is the presentation of the bons Unified School District's second interim budget report for fiscal year 2425 thank
220you Miss Castro good night it's not evening is yes it's 9 20 about 920 can I bard of Trustees superintendent and executive assistant and a student board members there's a time for the first inter room report and I haven't cleared the audience today oh they're leaving I I spoke to soon Miss po you can go oh my [Laughter] God for you laughter is good medicine thank you for for that dose okay we're going to start so we're going to be talking about the second interum report for the fiscal year 2425 and we're going to start with uh some information about enrollment Ada and and duplicated pupil counts history and some projections we have here a a trend chart where the blue bars represent the enrollment then the black line the actual Ada and the Gray
221Line the founded founded Ada and the pink one then duplicated people count so the first year the first six years represent actuals and for the last three are projections related to Ada the current year 23 2425 for enrollment numbers are set because uh the data has been certified as October uh census day during this when we see the this range from 1819 all the way to 2627 the highest enrollment in 8 that we have for the district is 2,46 enrollment and students enrolled and 23336 Ada for the same year I just want to clarify that these numbers do not include BBM Banks numbers as it's a separate entity and the calculations are done separate but for your for your information the highest number for BBM Banks and enrollment it was 102 in the same year
222and the lowest enrollment is 71 for the current year 2425 the lowest enrollment for uh bones so for BD it was uh hit on the fiscal year 2223 with 2071 students enroll and 1,939 95 for adaa please note as I mentioned before the enrollment uh is counted it's a Snapchat and time is counted as on sensus day that's why the numbers May differ a little bit from um current enrollment like I was looking at one of the slides that U Caroline was presenting and for the current enrollment for uh this year she had like 2,300 something as February 2025 however these numbers is a sensus day which is in October so for the current year um I have data that is certified for funding purposes 20206 it's important uh to mention also that uh the
223numbers for projections have to be utilized with this census day we do receive a supplementary concentration grants based on the enrollment numbers the major part of the district's revenue or state aid uh is based on second apartment um reports or P2 which is the Ada that encapsulates the first eight months of attendance and um and a cal a calendar attendance not the regular um calendars that we have for the the year if you see something over here like it looks like out of walk like you say how come the enrollment for 2021 is lower than the actual Ada which is not a logical thing I would like to explain that uh if you remember we were on Co um during that year we're we were allowed to utilize past year Ada and we were funded
224based on that ADA so that's what you see uh the actual and the found Ada on the same point um and higher than the the actual enrollment and then you will see for the following three years we were on the whole haral harmless provision and we were funded uh in a threeyear average even though the Ada was lower as you can see we were higher uh we were funded higher than that for the current year we are going back to normal in 2024 25 you are funded based on current idea or prior year Ada whichever is higher and we are projecting a slightly increase for the last three uh for the next two years an increase of of 1% over the years in Ada and in Roman as well I know that the projections you
225know they're a little bit higher than that just this is for funding purposes we are conservative in our numbers and for on the duplicate people counts we are projecting flat um for the current year in the next two years so looking at the assumptions these are the uh numbers that we need to take in consideration in order to prepare the uh current projection for the year and the following two years so for Cola we we uh didn't have any change for the current year compared to First intern report however it did change for 25 26 um it went um down from 2.93 to two 2.43% however for 26 27 we see an increase from 3.08% to 3.52% basically it was like a defer defer the increase that was projected in first inter report for 2526
226it was referred to the following year and then here is the Ada uh compared to First inter report we have an increase of 10 10.9 I'm sorry 10.83 based on uh the numbers presented on P1 which is the first principal principle appr pment this can change um once the P2 is filed which is next month but these numbers that are over here represent that increase and consequently the following two years has that have that increase as well the Ada for BBM Banks um we are projecting a flat uh for the following two years there's no uh changes or um there are no changes from first and turn report for enrollment and duplicate pupils and aers That Remains the Same as we reported uh last uh December then we do see a change on purse uh
227on for the year 25 26 we actually decreased from 2760 that we had on on First and report to 27 uh 4 and for 26 27 we have a 28% the pur and it went down to 2750 uh percent here we have the local overview funding formula um the components so the total cff that is allocated or is projected to be received according to the numbers that we previous uh saw on the on the slide is 25.6 million and the components are as follow the state aid which is um represented by state taxes corporate taxes and sales taxes is 9.9 million then we had a prop 30 which is the education protection account that is represented by the state income taxes on high income earners the amount is $419,000 and then we have the property
228taxes so the allocation according to the um report that we received from the county um the last update I wanted was 15.7 Million however when need to subtract there the allocation that it goes for BBM Banks because they don't receive the property taxes we have to do the transfer in the appropriate taxes for them so it's $489,000 the net appropriate taxes for the district 15 will be 15.2 million and that we add them up and that's the total allocation for um the district projected to be for uh uh estate um Revenue then here we have a comparison with the numbers that were presented on first inter report and then now the numbers that how we are doing revisions and these are the numbers that are projected for second interum report the beginning balance there's no
229changes um the total revenues we do see an increase in in revenues and is due to the following we have an lcff increase um um as you as I already mentioned we have an increase on on P1 and that repres an ada8 for P1 and and represents $112,000 then we have an adjustment to title one for 7 close to $8,000 we also have an estate um funding increase for $589,000 for the Golden State Pathways Grant and some adjustments to the lot funding and then also for the local funding we have a 60,000 uh increase in revenues for the medical program $30,000 also for a s agreement that we have with a student uh that's going to be served out of our district boundaries and uh an adjustment that we did for Council warrants for $10,000
230then um the next um line is the total expenditures we have an increase of $171,000 we have some adjustments to certificate salaries the net increase of 28,000 um some increase on classified for $9,000 some changes on um um The Librarian salary then we have a net decrease of $62,000 in benefits and this represents a net of the Health and Welfare uh increase in participation and the reduction of the the opv contributions the other post-employment benefits that's the net of those two and then we have also uh the next one is the contractor Services we have an increase of $128,000 and that's due to the new programs also and some adjustments to other programs that are not new for for example elop and then we have also an increase in capital laay for 68,000 and due
231to the um contract that we signed with Roofing um to fix the office on the roof of the office of the high school the transfers out we have um an increase of 26,00 $26,000 this is to cover negatives on the fund n which is a chared school and then we have a contribution um if you see the contributions went down actually we have in first reports six6 millions 83,000 and went down to $6 million to $332,000 uh the reason why we have that is because we have an increase in medical um program uh Revenue that was that we actually received that was not estimated for some adjustment that they're doing to Prior year audits for prior years and we receive that funding the total contributions the 6.32 million that is compounded by the special AED
232contribution of 4.9 million and the restricted maintenance account 1.13 million that we need to do from the unrestricted funding to the restricted funding and then we have a total uh net decrease for the second inter report projected at 3.8 million as you can see the the decrease in fund balance is reduced by$ 630,000 so the ending fund balance now is actually increased by that amount so the ending FAL projected for second interm report is 8.6 million so the components of the ending fund balance for the current year we already mentioned 8.6 million that's the the projected ending fund balance we have a $20,000 for revolving cash 2.3 million for restricted all the programs that we have um they have their strings attached for a specific purpose then we have the 3% Reserve 1.2 million and
233then thean assign 5.1 million the total equals to 8.6 million on the component and the fund balance that is projected for the ending of this fiscal year then we have a multi-year projection general fund this is um a requirement to prepare the multi-year projection so you can see we already discussed all dissect on 2425 fiscal year where we are ending with 8.6 uh million that becomes to uh be the beginning balance for next fiscal year and then we have right there a decrease on revenues and I want to explain why is that uh decrease we have some onetime funding um um money that we received several years ago or through our years then we have come out to the usage so we now receive that no more so for this um particular year 5 26
234we are seeing a 1.7 million decrease and some of the grants that are part of that reduction in revenues educator Effectiveness iswp or strong strong Workforce at round five and round six uh ctech or car technical education incentive incentive Grant uh k6 k16 collaborative uh learning recovery emergency B Grant also is um projected to be spended completely this fiscal year um there's some comments about getting back the portion that it was CAU um last year from the governor um we still not have anything um formal but they said that it's going to come back but for now what we have in books is going to be spent this year and then on the expenditure side we have a reduction of 2. 2 million so is the same we have the revenue but also we have
235the expenditures so those are the reductions but including besides uh those programs that already mentioned we have also an additional local program that is scal shape uh we're we're projected to have that project done and completed do for air quality assessments so they're going to do maintenance and change filters and and assessments for the needs of stageb back units that we have uh we already have published the RFP is uh right now in the in the website and we're just going to wait for the right time and answer the questions to be able to select the vendor to provide those Services okay for fiscal year 2627 we do see an increase in Revenue as you can see from 35.3 million to 36.6 million the reason of this increase is the projected uh increase in enrollment
236in Ada in combination with increas Cola because uh for the second year is 2 uh 4 uh3 and now 2.43 and for the third years is growing to 3.52 so that's the the reason of the projected increase in revenues and the projected increase in expens is equals $735,000 that's related to the Consumer Price Index that we need to use the inflation and we need to do to incorporate this in the projections for services supplies and salaries and also take in consideration any potential increase on health benefits okay so we do have um the transfers out with have projected at the this a reduction right there because there's going to be some adjustments on on BBM Banks um on some of the expenses so we're projecting $120,000 less than the prior year for 2526 and 2627
237the contributions were projecting a flat the we can see have you see the before the ending balance line do we have a net decrease in fund that is uh being mitigated as you can see we start on 2425 with 3.8 million it's projected to be reduced to 3.1 million and then for 26 27 it's projected to be to 2.5 million which is great we are trying to balance the budget um so due to that we have the ending balance for the three years right there uh 8.6 for the current year 5.5 million for 252 6 and 2.9 Million for 2627 when we substract out of this um ending balance the restricted funding and the um revolving catch fund we get our reserve and this is what is uh a reserve for each year so 6.3
238million for the current year which represents 50 15.51% then next year is 3.6 million that represents . 45% and 1.5 million which is 3.84% on reserve for the um three years and then we are meeting the minimum Reserve which is the 3% for the uh current year and the following two years so we are putting a budget uh Solutions plan and obviously this is a joke right even though even though every P every penny counts um we're not expecting to go to to that route right to uh charge stuff parking just let's just keep it in mind just in case I'm just kidding it's just a joke it's just a joke right this is just a joke but um we do are looking at the budget Solutions um and on the multi projection is a
239already reflect the following uh projected reductions three certificated positions that equals a $343,000 at the related benefits $75,000 so nutrition Sav savings um $60,000 curriculum $100,000 and capella $166,000 the total is about7 and I tell you right now $44,000 that is already re Incorporated in our multi-year projection then we have a potential redu reduction these are not in the budget not in the multi projection either so potentially two additional certificated positions that will represent $24,000 the benefits and some addtion savings for retirements about $80,000 so since we uh the district is um projecting to have to be able to meet its obligations for the current year and the following two fiscal years Administration is seeking approval of the second interum Report with a positive certification any questions motion to approve thank you motion to approve
240second all in favor I I thank you very much Mr excellent presentation [Applause] and as uh we started the meeting when we approved the agenda we're skipping over action item two to number three which is the approval of the bonsel Unified School District 2025 2026 school and staff calendars motion to approve second all in favor I I motion carries unanimously bringing us to our action item four approval of the Sullivan Middle School plan for student achievement SPS say Amendment motion to approve second all in favor I motion carries unanimously bringing us to action item five the service agreement between bonsel Unified School District and the San Diego County Office of Education for implementing The Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative motion to approve second all in favor I motion carries unanimously bringing us to action
241item number six theou between bons if school district and the University of San Diego for practicum field experience in learning and teaching counseling and educational Administration motion do approve second all in favor I motion carries unanimously bringing us to action item number seven the master contract between bonsel Unified School District and youth care of Utah LLC for the 2425 school year motion to approve second I all in favor I motion carries unanimously bringing us to action item number eight the transportation agreement for Parental reimbursement for transportation to and from school motion to approve second all in favor I I motion carries unanimously bringing us to action item number nine the renewal of service agreement with lunch assist for child nutritional Services Department motion to approve second all in favor I motion carries unanimously bringing us
242to our last action item of today number 10 the agreement between pwlc 1 and BD for tree trimming at the uh bonsel Elementary School bonsel West Elementary School uh CC oh the community center and the district office and you I forget you got competitive bids on this yeah all right great motion to you approve second all in favor hi motion carries unanimously bringing us to our favorite part of the meeting the public comment and we have our consistent public commenter he's a trooper can I can I move that we wave uh some of the the uh intro given when everyone knows tell me what to weigh just saying come on up Joe all right Commander Joe come on up ibid from last meeting so come on up if you want us to read it we
243can thanks very much it's always scary about the budget but then when the two years go by hopefully it doesn't keep going down and down with a percentage boy okay I've got uh three main bullets number one all the students back on up looking good looking good and the reason that that's very very important because a lot of different people use this and they and they see that right there behind there I don't know if it's still there but black history month when came in for a meeting it was up there for the black history but all all of the all of the black Patriots that that have done so much for this country a along with the Indians doing things for this country that we we don't really seem to appreciate so that's wonderful
244when you come in here you see this you see that that stuff on up there and then this right here around that's BR new it's always but this kind of thing is pointing out here so wonderful things on there so so keep that going this is all about Community involvement community outreach that's number number one bullet number two bullet the core values uh on the podium well I already ended up covering that just to see that the vision the mission the belong the believe the achieve keep that keep that sort of thing going number three The Village newspaper I've got uh I've got all the additions since the last meeting and uh I don't know who wrote this article about the bons Community Park breaks the ground I thought it was very there she sits
245absolutely fantastic the other thing in this article that yeah absolutely thank you very very much is right boom deserve the other thing super over here I see supervis I see a lot of I see two students people see those things keep up that kind of work because that's absolutely fantastic that you that you end up end up doing that and it and it and it really really shows out that uh uh the bonsel Community Park front page Story the 27 February Edition uh supervisor Jim Desmond was there he spoke the superintendent superintendent Jolly she spoke very very good comments and then the important thing about the superintendent having the two young students up in front of her it shows the shovels and the and the uh uh was just behind the students and supporting them
246the uh superintendent golly and superintendent Jim Desmond the other thing that was very very noticeable they arrived early and they stayed late and what were they doing they were talking the people talking well thees need to be in the park we need to do this and all and he got off over the side just come come late leave early end up doing that he stayed there a long time and so did our superintendent very very noticeable the board uh president was also there I don't know who she is I think it's Isa Anderson she was there too so that kind of stuff is fantastic just quickly these articles in here the uh the the bonsel boys soccer right up it was it was a a tough season but that was WR I I swear 15
247more seconds uh the the the 6th of March the bonsel high school trial team with photos uh in the same addition the bonsel uh first baseball game with a big photo with Coach Brandon Rogers they were having a tough season but that was that was in there the the last one here is the students uh at the bons of Elementary dance this is the the February 20th Edition uh the students shine in the first dance performance so again a lot of people that don't come to the meanss they they read the paper and and and your Outreach is very very good because because it's just fantastic keep it on up go goons and the core values right here thank than again take care and keep up the good work and keep working on that budget
248thank you as always Commander Joe love the booming voice and the positivity uh brings us to our planning section of the meeting our next uh regularly scheduled meeting of the bons Unified School District governing Board of Trustees will be scheduled for a little different than typical it's going to be Tuesday April 8th uh so mark that little change on your calendar there might be a birthday or something that we're avoiding on that Thursday uh close session will be at 4:30 and open session at 6:00 as usual and with that we shall adjourn at 9:52 a lot of good business done thank you everyone for everything that's being accomplished and lots more to do I