001all right six pm um it looks like we're all here nancy steve delray dr lee um and myself flag salute so if we could have mrs anderson would you mind leading us at the pledge sure [Music] stan salute pledge i pledge allegiance to the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty united states of america and under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all just noting to the public um that you do not need to say or participate in the pledge of allegiance to be a member of this board all are welcome here did we lose kelly i guess we did let's hang on one one quick pause then i know she was having computer issues there she is sorry about that guys
002it dropped me on the other computer so i'm back okay all right and i don't know why but it's not letting me use the camera [Music] i don't know it won't oh there we go it worked okay apologies everybody for that little pickup and okay so adoption of the agenda do we have a motion to adopt so moved thank you in a second [Music] thank you mrs pope can you close my door sweetie you have another present i'm on a board meeting [Music] [Laughter] um sorry guys my husband's mad because apparently the puppy just left me a present in the living room so we can all appreciate that humor um okay uh sorry derailed uh comments uh we do we need to vote to adopt the agent other or just a first and the second
003i think we've always adopted yes yeah so mrs anderson aye mrs pope aye dr lee aye and mr roberto hi and the two votes aye thank you okay so um we have one item tonight business item a adjusting center high school hybrid plan mo two model the board will consider merging the blue and gold tracks to one group at center high school this would allow students to attend center high school five days a week do we have a motion to approve or a motion to bring it to the floor for discussion uh a motion to bring it to the floor thank you dr lee mrs pope in that first quarter okay um and so we're open for discussion so um what i would say is i wanted to first acknowledge mr ferguson for being with
004us tonight and mr jordan for being with us tonight um i know when we first established our our plan for the hybrid hybrid model plan two for uh center high school uh extensive planning and preparation for the model um and we actually likely over planned because we provided more space while adhering to all the safety uh accommodations and considerations so tonight we're coming to you with the idea that we could collapse the blue and gold tracks to align and allow for students to attend five days a week without exceeding those um safety considerations that were were put in place um so with that i would go ahead and and have mr ferguson kind of share his his rationale and thinking and then if if it meets with the board we could uh have discussion i
005see if there's any public comment and then um go from there sounds good we lost chavia somehow dr lee's here i think she just has her screen off i think yeah something's going on with that not quite sure okay we see her we see her background not just not you yet and before yeah so strange so strange with these technology issues i got a lot of reports about folks not being able to hear me or understand me for the last couple of board meetings so tech issues happen all right sorry that's the good news all that matters thanks thank you mr lair um so one of the things i did want to also clarify is we we do see the potential and the possibility that we would be able to have all students who are
006on blue and gold track able to attend all five days but what it would still also remain as a caveat is if a student wanted to be able to attend on only like the track the original track that they would have been scheduled students could still be able to come in on only a few days of the week so as to minimize the number of students on campus as well if their families so choose looking at the numbers um mr larroy if i share at this time yes yeah please i'm sorry i don't do i have oh i can do it i was just wondering if this was a good time so one of the things we had done is in the process of looking at all of our information we did actual student body
007counts because it's easy to look at and am i sharing the screen that shows the combined tracks yes you are okay um one of the things we can do is we could have looked at the students and what they were signed into and which tracks they were designated to in our system and then we can also look at which which days are students showing up it took us two weeks to be able to conduct this because what we wanted to look at is when one track was attending a days we had to wait a week until the other track attended on a days and we would then be able to look at what would those numbers look like combined in this i want to clarify for example row 3 is not one single teacher i
008tried to make this a little easier to see because if i scroll down the numbers and class sizes are all going to get smaller where we want to look at the the numbers is just where we may be on the verge of class sizes that might be over the six feet capacity and we'll we can talk about that if you look at this the number of class sizes that are getting near the capacity of the room and some of them are a little different but the yellow is going to be class sizes that are near the capacity for what that class is so whether it's an elective that the room would be able to have more students or if it's a science classroom for example these 15s that's just nearing the class limit of 16
009we would want in a science room the other class sizes that are larger are going to usually be a pe classroom it's they're going to be able to accommodate the number of students we only have really three classes that could potentially have students not within the six feet out of all and i want to say we have approximately 372 classes i think it is when we look at all the teachers and sections there are only three classes that we look at numbers could go beyond what the capacity of the room as we can best estimate or measure out the other challenge we have is with some of those numbers until we analyze the data a little bit more and look at the student numbers they may be students already attending five days a week so
010some of those numbers may be students who are counted more than once but what we would look at is when we have those three classes trying to find accommodating rooms that would the teacher would be able to move to as opposed to disrupting the students schedules or switching their classes we're only looking at potentially two or three of these classes either needing to accommodate to another room to maintain the six feet but every other class is within the limits for being able to maintain six feet or if we're outdoors with a pe class even the alternative facilities they could go to still accommodate all of those classes if i were to scroll down you can see the number of classes that are well below anything that is at risk of combining and being at capacity
011the bottom numbers here sizes for each period so you can see that the average class sizes are between four which also that's going to be when you have early dismissal so a lot of students are gone at the end of the day to the average being about 10. so in addition to being able to maintain our six feet in the classroom some of the things that we're looking at is as i mentioned students would be able to still maintain choice if they wanted to be able to just attend on a days for two weeks and then b days for two weeks and remotely log in [Music] but the idea here is also when we are able to get students on campus for increased instruction that's what we're hearing from a lot of students they're struggling
012when they've rotated from being at home for b days or at home for a days and then it switches their engagement their ability their productivity i have a lot of students coming and just begging to be back i'm getting requests from counselors that students want to be here five days a week not only is it going to improve their instruction we also look at the other activities resources athletics that we have students who maybe take the bus to school if they play in a sport on a day that they're not intended to attend school they're trying to arrange transportation after school to get here which may be a challenge after school i understand you know getting home from practice there's usually a little more ease for parents to be able to pick students up later
013after work hours but as far as being able to get to teachers for tutoring access to counselors and other counseling services on campus the more we can have students here they're just going to have more access and ability to participate in those mr ferguson might you clarify so like we have those three rooms there are three periods that have potentially over the um the the capacity what would like let's take one of those what would your option be for uh period six on line three that 25 what what would you do to like a concrete example so if we were to move forward we would first look and make sure that i actually have 25 students they're they're not duplicated numbers but then we have a classroom on the campus next door that has been
014set up as a classroom of the future it's supposed to be a lot more interactive and that would be an avenue that a teacher would be able to teach from and not try to go to say the cafeteria we would have another room that does have the class size to fit the number of students and the resources for the teacher to still be able to deliver instructions so we would look to the other resources on campus in other rooms for them to be able to still deliver instruction and not change the student's schedules to then meet the classroom okay and i don't know gerald if you had mr ferguson if you had anything else or if you want to see if the board has any questions kelly i'm not sure uh gerald if any mr
015jordan was there anything you kind of wanted to add as we talked about this or i think mr ferguson did a great job i i think it's just a reminder that this is for kids who want to no one else has to change if they don't want to it's just if you want to come five days here's an option for you to come five days you want to stick on your two or three day a week come every other day fantastic you can do that too you want to stick on your distance learning you've got that option too but i see it as a win-win-win and and part of that with the choice i will say is i've had a number of students and what we've looked at with the accommodations in classes whether student
016is needing of services or in an at-risk population that would need to get to school five days a week we've been able to accommodate i've had probably 30 requests above and beyond those of students who want to be here five days a week so it is getting around and teachers i've talked to students they're they're asking what do we have to do to be able to get here five days a week and there are a number that want to and we understand that there's still going to be some who can elect to stay full distance learning or on the tracks of every other day um one thing i'd like to mention though is um we've received some emails from teachers that want to combine the tracks and we've received emails from teachers that don't and
017while this is an option for students it is not optional for teachers so um that is a consideration that i have on this yeah i i was going to bring that to um how many of the teachers were actually spoken to or had input into this this has been a topic topic of discussion and i always have an open door i've had a number of staff come in and i haven't had any that i can think of that have expressed me with a concern except for one who just wanted to make sure when they had a larger class size accommodations could be made it wasn't a desire not to do it the only concern that i've had expressed to me and that's i'm not saying that it doesn't mean there aren't any the only concern
018i had was somebody who's and i believe would be something here in like the the 25 i think was one of them that was concerned about being able to have them in a class size that wouldn't fit 25 but that's where we would find an accommodation or another room they would be in that could hold 25 students and again that is if everybody on the blue and gold track elected to come back okay i do have a comment that i i'd like to share just um about this business item i don't know if it's time for board members to be able to do that or not yes absolutely and we're open discussion at this point okay thank you i just wanted to make sure i don't want to you know not follow the protocol um
019so for today as i as i thought about this um you know plan and the and the plan to model the tracks and things um and you know our quick turnaround time we just met on wednesday we're here on friday um yeah not that i don't love seeing everybody here on the zoom grid uh but but uh it's really intense and if you can't recall during our you know discussions around reopening for in-person instruction i did request and call on our board and the superintendent multiple times to launch a new survey a new survey of students and families to inform the schedule development for our return to in-person instruction and my suggestions were rejected at every turn and the superintendent and my colleagues here on the board felt that the surveys we had conducted months
020ago in 2020 were sufficient and that folks could just call in if they wanted to do a new learning modality and i offered multiple suggestions for why that was flawed i shared examples of reopening surveys i had seen and reviewed in other local districts large and small um i shared the re that i had reviewed reopening plans for multiple districts and saw that every school district i looked at launched a survey to inform their schedule and so i you know i feel really that we rushed to reopen with schedules that were informed by outdated uh student preference data and i really think that's unfortunate i think that right now we're working harder and needing to double back and backtrack instead of working smarter and informed by the data and so because 50 of the students
021at center high school um have opted to remain in in distance learning now we have a special meeting here a little over two weeks after reopening and communicating the new schedule to teachers students and families and now we need to combine the blue and gold chats because as we heard at our last meeting and from community feedback that i've also received directly um you know it's not the the thing that you want to you know hear when you're walking through walmart but it just happens right as board members so but you know i it seems that some of our classrooms at center high just from what i'm hearing and you never really know right have one student in them some have like five students in them some have you know a few more and so
022it feels lonely in there for the students and i've actually heard from students as well um and they want to be there for five days and they and you know they want to at least have a few people to look around with you know six feet apart so i i really think that you know these kinds of things could have been revealed in a reopening survey if it was administered and the suggestions from some of our board members were kind of taken to heart i think it's this really is a miserable way to return our high schoolers to in-person learning after they've been through shelter in place for almost a year instead of having stability and measured action we're introducing confusion in disorganization in my opinion and to me that feels like a really bad
023position as a board member to be in and this is something that we could have avoided i feel with data informed planning so um i just think that you know if we're gonna make these changes to the schedules um and we're gonna now need to make new changes and and new communications i really think it's messy we need to work cleaner we need to work in a data informed manner i really think the students deserve no less than that and i truly want to thank mr ferguson um i appreciate his presentation of the analysis of the data that he's using to support and drive this suggestion to the mind the tracks um his plan that he mentioned uh to further explore the data he presented to us with the comparison of those actual attendance rates
024i think is very wise and critical i encourage him to go on a forward with that because what we know right now this whole pandemic situation it keeps shifting really rapidly i mean even from week to week it's just hard to know what's happening and how it's going to go down so um i think it's really unfortunate that mr ferguson needs to do this at this time on top of everything while also doing the day-to-day of being a principal um and that you know that's continuing in these uncertain times as well so i think conducting a survey and an analysis of the numbers before we reopened and designing a schedule informed by current data was the responsibility of this board and i feel we we failed at that responsibility and i just want to thank
025the administrators and the teachers and the students and the families for your grace for your loving acceptance of us uh it's been tough for everybody and i think that you know i'm just really thankful for the willingness of all the staff and the teachers and the students and the families to adapt and be responsive and i just want to thank mr ferguson and his staff for modeling for us data informed uh decision making being adaptive and responsive listening to what folks say and literally pivoting i'd just like to say that i feel that that misrepresents at least my viewpoint i wasn't saying that doing a survey was unnecessary or that um oh you know we've already done a survey that's good enough it was at the point that we were at with the amount of
026time that it would take to do a survey um i think the public had run out of patience and i don't think that that the delay would have been in the students best interest and so it's not that i didn't see any value in it i just thought that the timing of it was wrong i agree steve i was going to ask miss kelly if i could oh you're muted commenting she was muted can i say something real quick mr ferguson oh i was just trying to comment please don't let me in um so you know i understand what dr lee is saying we did hear from teachers um for both sides to open and reopen um but i've never seen a response from our students like we have in regards to this topic and
027it's it's we're in a little pickle here because it's a good argument on all sides but when a student comes to us or plural students and there are multiple that say i want to go back to school that that pulls at my my heart because they want to be educated they want to continue to learn and a lot of the students did express that distance learning wasn't ideal for them and since they have this option you know i i think we really should listen to the students that want to come back so i was just going to say now that i have volume you can hear me i was just going to say my understanding when prior to opening wasn't that we did not do a survey but that we didn't do a formal survey
028where we required everyone to respond but that each school sent out notices to their families asking them to either respond or update their information on whether or not they wanted to return so we did have data and we used that data um and and and i understand maybe we were a little overly cautious in our approach by you know having the split schedule and then now having to change however um i think it was probably the safer route to make sure that we had enough space and we knew exactly how many students were coming back and i was you know i i also spoke out wednesday night about you know this is crazy to be changing it two weeks in with five weeks left but the way that this this is structured this is not
029inconveniencing anyone who doesn't want to return to full-time they are continuing with their existing schedule so there's not going to be a change in that regard it's just going to make it easier for students to come in in person if they so choose and um my understanding and i correct me if i'm wrong but my understanding is they can change their mind on a daily basis as long as they're attending either by in person or by zoom their attendance is counted and they're and they're they're good to go is that correct so if if i may just kind of clarify that one of the things that would be a caveat to that is if a student has elected to be full-time distance learning then the expectation would be is that they are distance learning the
030whole time that way our numbers can be able to make sure that those who are attending it's not to capacity and those who are attending yes they have the ability and one of the things we're looking at this is being advantageous out of all of it is students who do need to stay home for any reason they're not going to be learning the or losing the learning that is happening that day right and so yes any student who is on hybrids any whether they're supposed to attend that day or not are able to go on remotely as any day that they choose yeah i i just also wanted to say i'm really glad that we're able to do this and maintain the six foot distance we've already had several cases in the first two weeks
031and uh not had to quarantine very many students and not had any transfers in school transfer transmissions so i think that that's something we definitely want to maintain and i want to be sure that that is still going to be the case that we'll be able to maintain that six foot distance and of course that all the other protocols are in place the hand sanitizers the distance from the teacher plexiglas if they want it masks et cetera et cetera et cetera still remains a fluid situation from week to week we still don't know what's going to happen two weeks down the road and we have to be able to turn back at a moment's notice heaven forbid and go back into quarantine if we have to so you can't set things in stone you have
032to be ready to do both um kelly you just brought up something that kind of touches on another one of my concerns with this idea we've already had a few cases of community transmission that have resulted in some students being quarantined i am concerned that if we increase the number of students in each classroom we're going to increase the chance of needing to quarantine students and increase the chance of someone actually catching it at school so that that is one of my concerns with the idea i agreed all right i know mr uh i'm sorry ms kelly no go ahead um i mean i can't give off too many of the details but i can say as it has been the public has been notified we did have cases that were from the community but
033because of the protocol in place that we are able to maintain the six feet of distance even in class sizes that might be below 16 to 18 which is what the classes are set at and they're set at that with six feet of distance when we have that in class that is why we have not had any further spread or any quarantine based on our classrooms or the policies in there like the masks the six feet of distance we're still able to maintain that and it reaffirms i know mr ferguson and i spoke this morning i know there's another local district that did not abide by the six foot rule and they have a significant number of students that are being quarantined uh because that they could not they were not achieving the six foot
034rule in there because that that is how that that is occurring and it's it's in some cases it's tens to maybe hundreds of kids had to be disrupted so to us that the game changer that we've spoken about is we really need to adhere that six foot all the other protocols with that six foot and keeping that distance is critical and i think having a few cases arrive at school has just reaffirmed that it's it's still out there this is nothing to joke about you know we're where we have to continue to take it as serious as possible for the safety of everyone um i do want to acknowledge that um i tend to be somewhat pessimistic so i was anticipating that we'd see a lot more infections than we have and i have to
035to say that the fact that we've avoided up to this point any uh transmission in school and that we have the rapid testing available and everything i think these are all good signs so although i have concerns about it i have to say so far you guys have exceeded my expectations and i have a question for mr ferguson as well um because to me it's all risky business even being open right now so i'm just thankful like some of our other board members have stated that it you know it just it's been okay i'm really thankful for that my question for mr ferguson is um what are the caps at the end of the day you know once this goes live and so forth what will be the caps in each classroom once those you
036know are combined what's the like highest actual number of kids that we could have sorry student high school students we could have there i know kids is a no-no with high school students um so first of all i also wanted to go back miss lee you and dr lee you made some comments earlier i just want to say i appreciate the uh your sentiments about the hard work and i will say that the staff here the reason why we are in this position and we have these protocol in place and students are following them is the teachers setting the role model for the students and also helping to reiterate the expectations in the class sizes it also does depend on the building and the nature of the class so for example our science classrooms which
037we do have outlined in the handbook they have counters around the outside that as far as desks we aim for 16 and that maintains six feet between the desks we do still have the capacity in those rooms because there's lab stations a student could sit at a lab station but that's not the same as a desk and we would want to maintain every student in the same circumstances so our science classrooms are able to accommodate 16. the majority of our classrooms are all able to accommodate 18 there might be an exception or two when the shape of this the class is like longer and narrower and for the teacher's desk to maintain distance with the teachers desks as well the classrooms outside of science don't get below 16 and we do have some electives that
038the size of the room accommodates higher numbers and then pe that's another one where we would be outdoors and those numbers could be a little bit higher the quick answer is is our the majority of our classes are capped at about 18. otherwise it's 16 in some buildings and then accommodations in others that's one of those things that we wish we could move forward with from the pandemic but you know in a regular operating that's just hard to maintain but what an amazing opportunity there yeah mr ferguson what would lunch look like without having to change i'm sure we still have the two lunches and when we built the original model the original model with looking at the numbers of students on campus and access to lunch one track alone was estimated to be about
039450 students if we had the two tracks at their full capacity when we merge and if every student actually you know were to be here we're looking at no more than 500 on campus but half of them are at lunch at a time so there's only roughly 250 students that would be at either lunch but then we have multiple places for the students to be all the open space we would have either the theater the library for inclement weather as well as the cafeteria and any other covered seating so it would be compared to a normal school year it would be about little under a third of the students who would otherwise be at lunch actually at lunch during this right mr ferguson isn't it true that the area at which lunch was pretty confined
040when you'd have half of them there with 1300 kids you'd have 600 and 700 kids out at one time but it was a more condensed area now we have the new quad area you have the big quad area plus you're allowing kids to be down further so i miss pope you might have been there with me when there was a lunch with 120 kids and we were we were like looking around trying to count the kids because it's pretty sparse because i'm used to seeing all of them jammed into that main quad area on a regular year um and so it that was another consideration that we were talking through as well is what would the spacing be when those lunch times do change um correct and so basically the numbers and i apologize oops
041i think i started talking when you started killing me sorry you're fine okay i was just saying i so the numbers in the playbook uh mr ferguson you would say we can rely on those uh even with the merging um that's those are reliable numbers that part won't be shifting in the near future before the next five weeks you think and i would just want to ask to clarify you mean the numbers because the numbers that were i believe in the playbook were from the original survey and then the follow-up we got from families i don't know oh okay for the science class um okay no those correct those numbers i didn't know if you're talking about the student population numbers in the class i i was just getting clarification those numbers we still maintain
042because that was established with six foot distancing and we don't look to go below six feet because if we did have to do a contact tracing as uh mr lair was mentioning if we're under six feet even with masks we would have to quarantine out a caution and we might look to maintain that six feet even though there's you know some groups say you could go three feet we'd rather take the stricter guidance to maintain safety so it is still those same numbers i'm just a little curious how the lunch hours are going at this point are you having difficulties keeping students apart um or are they following the rules are they staying six feet apart or no mr can i answer that one yeah uh so kelly as mr lehrer said he and i
043did walk through center high school during first lunch it was and there was several students sitting by themselves or most of them i think i saw maybe a group of two that had two people together and i think they were they may have been i think they were siblings um and then we had a group of three that i saw that were not six feet apart but let's say three to four feet apart but they were sitting together but other than that everybody was was sitting by themselves that's nice and and even with all of the multiple areas that you're allowing them to sit you're able to cover it with plenty of adult supervision yes we have uh three full-time campus monitors there's two assistant principals as well as myself and i'm just going to
044go and you know say we have a student population that is like beyond expectations of being accommodating and respectful and we have very few concerns with them abiding by the as mrs bo kind of mentioned there's some students that do sit a little close that's that's going to happen but at lunch time our campus monitors have great relationships with the students and the students are very well behaved do we have any more comments from the board or questions from the board um i have a question that i mean this is an issue whether we combine the tracks or not but um i notice even with the combined numbers some classes show like one student and i know that we received some comments from students saying that they're the only student in a class what are
045we doing to make sure that you know p staff and students aren't going to be alone one-on-one so i'm going to say that's a very good question that is something that we are trying to figure out too because it is a challenge and like i'm looking at this the i scrolled down fourth period i'm just looking at there's two classes that even combined still have only one student and that's also the challenge of at the end of the day if a student doesn't have a class they elect to have early dismissal um we have other students who they commute with somebody so we have tried to place tas in those classes and with everybody coming back we would have like more more bodies on campus to have that ability to have a ta in a
046class or to look at increasing the some students have a hole in their schedule and we can use that to our advantage where a student can be a ta in a room and increase the numbers so that's that's a challenge that we're coming up with very creative solutions for could we do something like if you have a class with only one student that teacher and student go into a different classroom or something without being too disruptive so i know i think mr laird is looking to unmute one of the concerns we would have and i think he may agree is when we when we cross over we want to maintain those concerns of contact tracing and when we have a class i understand that our cohorts are still who's here on campus but as many
047other precautions that we can put in place and when that teacher and that student go to another room they bring all their contacts with them so to say and yeah the other piece i was going to add mr ferguson is also with though if there's one there there's usually 25 others that are distance so you're emerging um trying to teach virtually with the one student in someone else's room it does because i actually thought the same thing i'm like great we'll just put them but i forgot you have the other other side the other thing is i was thinking is you know there's always standard precautions you work to but we do have to be creative you know maybe you know partner teachers who are around could you know sit in the inner rooms you
048know just it's it's for the protection of everyone um you know being an elementary teacher myself you know my door was always open whether i had one or two kids because i i don't want the perception and i didn't want to ever be accused of any sort of perception so i want to protect everyone in this situation and um real quick also mr bruno to let you know i looked at some of those classes they also happen to be classes that either might be one that provides services such as an el class or for support services that do have another staff member in the room now there's still going to be some gen ed classes that may not have another staff member in the room but some of them i'm looking at for those the
049classes of one there is another staff member in there okay and this is why i asked because you guys know things about it that i might not anticipate so thank you and as usual there are 12 steps ahead of us mr ferguson i would like to thank you for the time that you and your staff took to put this together as dr lee had said um it's very important information for us to review and all the hard work you put into just getting the concept of merging the two tracks so thank you very much [Music] any other questions from the board can we move to public comment carol good evening i have several for you the first one is from david dear members of the board i would like to thank you all i'd like
050to thank you for for all you have done to make us safe while returning to school on a hybrid schedule however i believe you need the student perspective so you can make a fully informed decision my biggest class has five students in it every day it is not unrealistic and unreasonable to cancel the hybrid schedule and combine both tracks so those who wish to can return to school full time it is completely possible to do this and still remain six feet apart almost all of the classrooms have five or less students there are also a lot of cases that only have one student in class such as my first period class which only has two other students on gold track so for 90 minutes at a time all day makes it extremely difficult because it
051burns students out and makes it hard to concentrate with this in mind and the reasonable expectation that center can logistically handle such a policy i urge you to listen to the students and do what is right for us i urge you to open the school for in-person attendance five days a week from heather jones good evening i am a teacher at chs and i wanted to let the board know that i am very much in favor of combining tracks in my experience in the past three weeks students who are in person are getting much more attention from teachers they are asking questions and they are turning their work in on time i have also talked to many of my students about their mental health since returning to school and they all have said they are
052happier on campus than when off campus more focused on campus than at home and they would want to come every day due to these factors i am also one of the many teachers on campus who frequently has one student in person during a class period this goes against every policy we have to allow teachers be alone in their classroom with a student if we combined tracks i would no longer spend an entire day with one or fewer students in person i am confident in our school's ability to keep students and staff safe i know the safety measures we have put in place are working and i know that they will continue to work even if more students are on campus at one time i'm asking the board to continue to support those students who have
053chosen in-person instruction by allowing them to come to school five days a week from reece hein good evening board members i would like the tracks to be combined i know there's only a couple weeks left of school before students are let out although i want to put my personal thoughts first before anything i strive for combining tracks i believe it will cause things to go much smoother towards the end of the school year for students it's really upsetting knowing that me myself as a high school student didn't get that much of a high school feeling like other students in the past did because of cobid i think if i can speak for the freshmen of 2021 they didn't get a feel either even though i can't speak for all students but myself i didn't get
054the chance to ever start my sophomore year officially nor did i ever get the chance to end my freshman year i wanna in this school year right and proud with the experience of joining my enjoying my high school years before i can't no more and from nicole as a parent i feel that as long as the school can accommodate the students safely the high school students slash parents should be given an option of attending classes on campus five days a week since this change won't cause disruption i feel that it is a win-win i appreciate this school district and the consideration of this board [Music] and that is all i have at this time [Music] great thank you mrs hunt do we have any more discussion on this item um i have another question um
055have we heard any feedback from the unions about this [Music] i know i spoke with our cota president i know she was in favor of it she also has two students there i think she spoke at our meeting on wednesday night i believe it was or submitted a comment um i i for full disclosure i've not uh spoken with our cse president directly about it but i have not heard i haven't heard either way from from that association well and the impact to the classified students is her staff is not as direct as increasing the class sizes so i think it's probably not a concern for them that that would be my guess other than the just full disclosure i'm sorry i cut someone off but other than the exposure to like our instructional specialists
056things like that who were in the ranks that they they would see more so that that would be the the uh categories i could see so sorry i cut someone off i'm not sure no you didn't yeah you did that's okay mr laird that's okay it's no big deal um miss jones did uh touch on something that i've been meaning to bring up as well is that we've heard a lot from the students that they did say their mental has improved being on campus so um i appreciate her saying that and is it i just i'm sorry dr lee go ahead i'm sorry because we're all like um i i just kind of feel like you know really we've we've opened pandora's box it's open now um i feel like this what we're hearing over
057and over is the students who wanted in-person learning wanted in-person learning um and we could have surveyed them to know that instead of relying on a survey that didn't even pose those questions so i really think you learn what you ask i think this is a lesson for us um and i think we could keep talking about this a long time um but it's pretty i mean i i don't know i just think that the students have spoken the community has spoken we've all said our different perspectives on it i don't know if i don't know what's the next step there so i think the next step would be if you would like to call the vote i am all for that okay i make a motion then that week that we approve merging the
058blue and gold tracks to one group at center high school i will second that oh mr bruno we'll second that thank you dr lee and mr bruno and we'll have a roll call vote mrs anderson aye mrs pope hi mr bruno aye dr lee aye and the chair votes eye it is passed can i also just state one more time thank you to the board but also one more thank you to center high school for their uh willingness to really work through this and mr ferguson dr lee did point out you are doing all the regular administrative jobs of the high school um at center high school and so i just want to publicly acknowledge your efforts as well as the staff both classified certificated for for really working through so thank thank you all
059uh for that okay so the next item on the agenda is advanced planning um and i guess this would be an appropriate time to tell you that oh i'm sorry mr jordan did you have a question all right yeah i think it might be helpful for those that are watching just to reiterate what date this officially starts oh good idea so uh thank you mr jordan i that we didn't even get to that so mr ferguson and i had spoke as we've been rolling in with um uh students from our our identified populations one of the things we were looking at is not starting until next not not the coming my name may fourth is it mr ferguson may one wait one more week and then make the adjustment yeah may third gives us the
060time to make sure that we can double check the numbers on those classrooms to make accommodations notify families and make all those changes [Music] so now we have this last day of school the 27th and if we do it on the third gives us four full weeks and that would have been the next time that the the tracks would have transitioned on their days so we did two weeks on one track two weeks on the other and then this gives us the last month of school four weeks on full learning okay okay okay so moving on to advanced planning we are scheduled to have a board workshop on saturday may 15th um unfortunately i just recently received notice that i will be expected to attend delegate orientation on the same day so i've reached out
061to them to ask if that delegate uh training is going to be available at any other time and uh i believe mr lear was going to reach out to monica to see if there are any other options for the date of our training but i kind of feel like both are extremely important i can't be a delegate without going through the orientation well i could but i wouldn't be doing a very good job if i did and i definitely do not want to miss our um great beginnings team team building slash workshop so um it's up in the air at this point um we had originally talked about the potential of putting it on may 22nd or may 29th i believe so if those dates are still an option and they become available for monica
062with csba would that be an option for you guys i just want to note um uh president kelly that when i did my initial training i actually had to miss an entire day um with csba for the board the training that i signed up for is a new board member orientation and it was on zoom um and they it took a moment but they were able to get me the recording of the full six hours which was very fun uh to to be a part of an experience uh via recording for that one at the time but they were able to get it to me and i still got the same amount of credit for um that's good news because yeah that's really good news um and like i said i've reached out to ask
063them if there's any other option or other opportunity to take the training so we'll see what they come back with and my last resort would be to reschedule our training so um kelly this is the first i heard that you actually became a delegate so congratulations oh i think i think it's one of those things where it's either congratulations or condolences so kelly the the what i'm hearing then is are we going to wait to hear what csba says and options and then we would propose some dates uh are you wanting that or you want to hear from csba i can reach out to i did not get a chance to reach monica today would you like to wait and hear what csba says then i could pull pull the board on other dates or
064do you want to get some tentative dates i will selfishly tell you the weekend of the um may 24th i think it is is my my son is a senior and is graduating so unfortunately i do have a lot of uh family obligations that weekend so hopefully you know i don't think i've ever asked this but hopefully we could skip that weekend because my wife might she might get a little mad at me if i went to work yeah so it would either be the 22nd or the 29th so i'm thinking that you're referring to the 22nd um and so yeah i guess it would it's a little premature to talk about dates but if anyone is not available on the 29th and that is the three-day weekend i believe just to throw that out
065there if if anyone did have any sort of vacation plans but so why don't we why don't i can survey around we can always do even like try to get like a doodle pool if if we have to cross that road i i think it's critical obviously that all five members uh uh are present for the idea too so absolutely i think that given what um dr lee just said about being able to get the recording that's definitely a viable option for me so i i think this is all a little premature and hopefully we won't even have to cross this bridge so um hopefully that it all works out and then the next uh regular meeting will be may 19th at 6 00 pm riles middle school in person um and by virtual and
066live streams so um we have any suggested agenda items anything that anyone wants to see in the near future then do we have a motion motion to adjourn no in a second second thank you dr lee and general consent since we're all by by a virtual i think that'll be just fine good night have a great weekend everyone thank you