5/18/2022 Board of Education Meeting

001okay good evening this is the chico unified school board meeting for may 18th we will start the meeting with a closed session that will go from 5 to 6. and then the regular meeting will start at six o'clock we have some people who have asked to be speakers and we have them on our speakers list and so i will close the meeting for now and reopen at six o'clock thank you [Music] reality i called the chico unified school board meeting to order and um as you can see we have some talent coming uh to entertain us but we were in closed session we didn't take any action in close section and so let's join for the flag salute i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for

002which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you all right and with that we have student reports well as you can tell we have a student performance right behind me and i'd like to invite hooker out principal emily mullins up to tell us what we're going to hear [Applause] good evening i'm delighted to present to you our fourth grade music program and i'm so excited that we were just able to hold our scoop and serenade for the first time in three years where we had families on campus to enjoy a scoop of ice cream and listen to these fabulous students serenade them so this is just a small sampling each grade level had a different performance this is our fourth grade performing cups and it's led by our

003amazing music teacher mrs brianna cisneros [Applause] um bye [Music] my last [Music] is [Music] so hmm [Applause] now so we certainly wanted to uh thank hooker oak for being here that was wonderful the cups i don't know if you got to see that but that was some coordination going on that was great coordination yes so we invite you to stay for the meeting if you want but if you need to go we understand that too okay i'm just gonna move us right on in sorry thank you thank you parents for getting your kiddos here i'm going to move us right on into the superintendent's report and i do want to announce that today chico unified was honored by state california state employees association for our work with our classified employees california school oh you are

004so right former president here she's going to correct me every single time for our work with classified employees and we did have several administrators shadow classified staff today everything from custodial work to school bus drivers to serving in the cafeteria to working as special education aids in the classroom it was very insightful it was a wonderful day and we really appreciate csea for this opportunity and the recognition so want to thank them for that and then with that i'm going to just jump right on into our recognition portion of the program and i would like to invite chico high school principal doug williams up to the podium thank you kelly uh public and board members and guests and staff members usually when principals are talking to people oftentimes it isn't fun but it's also glorious

005to give awards out and i would like to recognize two employees that i have and i'm not going to embarrass them but i'm actually going to make both of them come up at the same time miss stephanie starmer and miss robin carrier both of these women have held positions in chico unified since 1989 i don't know if you guys realize that i believe stephanie has a student teacher in 1989 and robin has her first position in 1989. i also think they're great examples because stephanie as a certificated teacher and robin is a classified personnel have both worked with each other to on many occasions and and are integral parts of students lives on our campus and off our campus but in varying ways so they really represent the the connection that goes on between our

006certificated and our classified staff i'm kind of going to do this at the same time and i've never done this before but i like to be a little bit risky with these two ladies because i respect them so much so i'm going to recognize both of them and mirror their careers as we go down stephanie starmer started student teaching in 1989 she was hired at the start of 1990 at chico high school she did her student teaching and taught at chico high school for over 30 years she taught drama for 22 years and she produced over 50 productions including a very difficult les miseral thank you very much stephanie while stephanie was navigating the beginnings of her teaching career robin was a parent aide in kindergarten for two years a health assistant at mcmanus for

00710 years and she moved to chico high school as a health assistant for three years and then she moved into the office manager position at oakdale school for two she came back to chico high to work for principal's jim hanlon for nine years where's jim okay do you want to say something okay okay so and after that she worked for mark bieby for three and she's worked with me for four years stephanie served during that time on site councils reading and research committees pearson's awards review boards with kelly staley helped administer a mentor grant program for small luna a small learning communities grant a csuc grant on developing question strategies that actually brought i believe a bayo into the district for the first time and on cuda rep council e-board as secretary while mr sauers

008was the cuda president and both of these ladies have held multiple positions in terms of go-to for my staff all staff have people they go to to talk to some teachers talk to each other some teachers talk to classified but i think what i respect most about both these women is i think that both of them have been go-to individuals for all of our staff i think people will feel that if they want an answer they'll go talk to stephanie whether they're a teacher or not and i know that if they need help in the office everybody comes to talk to robin i know they're not there to see me but they're there to get something done they know who to talk to and so both of those qualities i think are mirrored by both

009of them their professionalism their ability to detach from emotion and to carry on with what's happened when i arrived four years ago each of these women were integral parts to me being able to blend into the chico high family and doing it in a way that was respectful questioning me on things that i needed to be questioned on leading me in ways that i didn't know at the time and whether they know this or not without the two of you i wouldn't have made it through the first year so thank you very much [Applause] uh one little piece i like numbers and this is where i think it impacts everybody um robin of course writes down stephanie says her greatest joy one of her greatest joys is that her daughter ainsley is graduating from chico

010high ainsley give away [Applause] and and that's mirrored with robin though the last thing she wrote down she wants to make sure i say that she has four children that went through the chicago unified school district graduated from pleasant valley two of them work for chico unified karen armstrong teaches third grade at shasta elementary and luke carrier teaches pe at marsh and all four of her kids and ten grandchildren live in chico her oldest granddaughter amy will be a freshman at chico high next year thank you i'm proud to represent you here and i also want to say that just two numbers robin in 33 years and 181 contractual days if he used the contract if you only had 40 contacts a day which i know often you had more you would have navigated 238

011000 contacts with students and staff over your career one more number stephanie in your 32 years at 175 contacts you have helped 5 600 students navigate high school life and move on thank you [Applause] so of course all of those things that doug said and ditto to that but i had the honor of working with stephanie for 14 years and nine years with robin and these are two very remarkable women and i really appreciate and i'm honored that i got an opportunity to work with you as your principal during those years so congratulations in your retirement [Applause] thank you and now i would like to invite up diane olson good evening board thank you i'm glad to be here in a happy place tonight and being able to present to you one of the most

012amazing staff i have ever had work for me in chicago unified school district i'm introducing to you tammy baderis tammy come on up [Applause] tammy is one of those rare people that probably can name every single person in this room she has an uncanny ability to remember everyone she comes across and have a fun story about them or a fun memory about them in fact today john shepard came into our class and told us some wild stories of things that he did with school buses and tammy was able to share school bus stories of her own from her own past and and that's just who tammy is and it's in special education that's really really needed because we have so many parents that are struggling with so many different needs wants and not understanding how

013things work and tammy will always take the time to stop talk to them sometimes to my get to work and let them know that she understands she cares about him and she's going to find an answer she handles about 2000 iep students per year keeping track of timelines and iep dates and all of our graduating students and helping getting that going and so i just wanted to honor her tonight for everything she's done to keep me in line and keep me on course throughout the year so congratulations tammy [Applause] we need to smile and that concludes the superintendent's report back to you madam president all right so now we're at announcements does anybody have an announcement i do okay um i just want to let people know that i will be stepping out uh shortly

014before seven o'clock to see my child who's performing next door pv in a jazz concert and has a solo so my apologies to anyone who i don't get to hear from maybe tonight all right thank you i will be returning when when the performance is over if the meeting's still going on and we have a lot of our schools are doing some form of art music presentation so i think it's wonderful that you can be there to hear your kid play okay so if there are no other announcements nobody all right then we will move to items from the floor and so uh i need to let you know uh if you had submitted for a speaker card then i have your names it is three minutes for a person and mr hanlon will alert

015you to that and then no one may respond to your comments and just a reminder i will give you 30 seconds the first bill is 30 seconds to go and the final bill is time's up all right so with that i have elizabeth stevens [Applause] tell me when oh okay okay okay um i'm speaking this evening as a concerned community member an educator and chico unified parent i feel necessary to speak up not only because i come from a place of privilege as an english-speaking middle class white lady but because this is what i ask my students to do when they see something that isn't right i'm here to walk the walk as an educator i tell my students that as leaders they need to identify values that will serve as their compass when times

016are tough tonight i'm leading into my own compass into what i determined to be my two core values compassion and learning it is from this place of compassion and learning that i am calling in not calling out the leadership of our district school district calling in others requires one party to point out hurtful actions and truths from a place of love the idea is that i'm here to walk learn and work alongside you for the betterment of our community i don't consider myself a leader but i am in awe of those who are we study six characteristics of good leaders in one of my classes and students actually physically sort what they believe to be the most important and least important characteristics the top three highly debatable contenders for the most important characteristics of a

017good leader our integrity concern for others and courage the good news is that we are all here because we are concerned for kids but the issue tonight is that the district district's concern isn't being conveyed for all of its students and families recent events have revealed that our district struggles to meet its goals related to equity those struggles those actions communicate louder than words to our community for whom the district is truly concerned we have the words and documents and plans related to equity but the actions don't match up we are witnessing a crisis of integrity good leadership means moving things forward past the status quo to have a vision and to stick to it even if it isn't popular among others all of our points of pride in our nation's history stem from movements

018that pushed us to be better the movements for independence to free the enslaved rights of women farm workers and lgbt communities were born under the pressure of those who sought to be seen and heard and they weren't always popular mlk is who is now revered as our national symbol for the civil rights movement wasn't loved widely by americans until after his death he was considered too radical too progressive too political it takes not only integrity to lead when ideas are unpopular but courage equity and education the promise that all students and their families are given the opportunities to be seen heard and empowered to be their best selves should not be unpopular equity is no longer negotiable in the 21st century people who are tired of being people are tired of being discounted and unseen

019and this current movement the unseen and discounted have allies and co-conspirators who are ready to get in there and do the work to ensure that underserved students receive an education that empowers them as future change makers it is my hope that my friends colleagues and community members experiences and ideas won't be shared in vain this evening from a place of love we are pushing this district forward beyond the status quo demanding it all do right by students and families it won't be easy and make it ugly but equity will be the reward and what is a reward without the hard work that went into earning it doing what is right by all students not just the ones with parents and families who look and speak like me should be our district's focus we need to

020be able to as a community define what yeah you've exceeded your time [Applause] all right our next speaker is pablo cormierto corncho cornejo hola todos hi everybody my name is dr pablo cornejo i'm from poder parents organized for dignity and equity at rosedale let me be clear a highly qualified latina woman of color and my son's bilingual school was demoted censored in silence for being too focused on equity which was her role her assigned role as equity lead the district now appears to be attempting to disappear her from memory and blacklist her from the school in the district words like sensor silence disappear and blacklist hold different weight and different meaning for many people from south america central america mexico and the caribbean we are the seas of military dictatorships civil wars gang warfare and

021hardships to let our people to migrate north we're hard-working resilient people some of us grow your fruit work in your kitchens are your teachers professors and also administrators our voices deserve to be heard we're demanding more transparency authenticity and accountability from our school district on their policies practices and procedures related to equity i'm here to present signatures of over 1 000 people demanding justice for joanna and equity and education i have it in my bag over there 1 100 signatures 80 percent of them from california 50 percent of them from the city of chico it's time the rosedale administration and cusd answer a critical question how does rosedale and the school district plan to address inequities for historically marginalized groups especially our emergent bilinguals we requested rosedale administrators provide a written response to four demands

022in our petition one we demand that rosedale administrators and cusd bring ms joanna campos back to campus immediately as assistant principal and equity equity lead while clearly defining the role of equity lead was not defined two we demand that rosedale and cusd leaders hold a meeting with a group of concerned parents and caregivers to discuss our petition and the district's commitment to authentic equity three we demand rosedale administrators follow the district's expanding learning opportunities grant plan which states an equity alliance lead will be on site at every school and the equity will be at the center of every decision four we demand that rosedale administrators work with parents caregivers and teachers to create a strategic plan on equity incorporating best practices in dual language immersion was that my bell respect uh okay i i just

023want to say that all due respect to the teachers at rosedale currently we want you all to respect and protect our equity-minded educators that are already doing the work please read the full petition at change.org backslash justice for joanna hasta que la vigna costumbre [Applause] all right our next speaker is uh anisha johnson [Applause] good evening with all respect to the board my name is anisia johnson i'm a lifelong chico resident born in chico in 1961. i am the daughter of dorothy johnson as some of you know for whom the local building recreation center is named and also a.d johnson jr junior college's first athletic trainer my parents migrated from the rural south in the 50s from the cotton fields of texas through the san joaquin valley and to chico chico has been traditionally two

024percent black another staggering statistic is that in my parents household one hundred percent of their four children went preschool through university in our hometown with degrees so we know a little bit about being disenfranchised marginalized and a minority it's been quite a journey for me i established an african inspired non-profit in 2017 to be a resource for educators outreach to youth and families our objective is to instill pride in and respect for the african diaspora which includes africa all of the americas in fact the world and black american history we do that by sharing lesser known facts about the foundational role of africa and black people to all world civilizations including this society i stand here in solidarity with senora joanna and her uh her efforts to assure well-being for all children and learning environments

025and communities that support that also i would like you to know i wrote a story in 2010 that was the cover story for the chico news and review called growing up black and chico i encourage you to read it i have a website amaculture.org and again um it's just it's i'm here with a lot of mixed emotions i feel i feel for these the next generation i do consider myself an elder in the community since i've been here going on a hundred years um but they there's um the struggles did not start now and they won't end now with this but um i have compassion for these young people that are stepping up and um taking a leadership role for equity thank you oh sorry i have to say this so i didn't wear this

026outfit for your entertainment but for your edification this uh the print here is adinkra from west africa the hat is african inspired my auntie made it and it reflects some say some the women of the zulu in southern africa and the cloth is also uh from ghana there are three over 3 000 ethnic groups on the continent of africa most people don't know that 42 americans 42 million americans are classified as african-american and we have not been educated about our great african heritage i'm available for your classrooms [Applause] the next speaker is jocelyn ahern jocelyn ahern a-h-e-r-n all right so no okay we'll move on to the next one dre e4 tray e4 the number four this one just left an email address so if that's your email address now be the time oh great

027[Applause] vidas is [Music] i was only 10 years old when i came to the united states i also attended rosedale at that time roosevelt did not have a double immersion program i carried a dictionary i tried to make sense of whatever words um were being said to me translated in spanish and that was my way of learning not a lot of people were there to translate for me to help me not a lot of people were there that look like me professionals [Applause] that was our last speaker in that category so we move now to the consent calendar does anyone wish to pull an item from the consent calendar so kathy let me just clarify that there's two items from the floor and we had the ones that we heard from had signed up for

028the initial items from the floor the other ones had signed up for the last items for the floor um i think it's at the board's discretion whether you want to hear them all now or separate them out but i would guess that we probably have some of them that are here now what do you want to do did you want to have a discussion make a motion how do you want to handle this i think that if anyone was mistaken when they signed up and would rather speak now i'd be willing to accommodate that the same okay so we have a motion and a second any discussion um i think maybe do we want to just make sure that we're clarifying that we're going to hear all speakers since our time limit is 30 minutes

029and we hear each speaker for three minutes do we want to just take the full number of speakers who signed up i think it's 14 when we're down to looks like 10. okay so 10 more folks that signed up um and also i'd like to add when we do have time at the end that we always see if there's anybody else in the room who would like to speak as long as there's still time in that 30 minute time frame so just clarifying all of our rules for the sake of the audience and board members is what we're deciding on to extend this items from the floor time for anybody who has all signed up signed up who may be signed up for the later one but actually like to speak now and then if

030there's any additional people who would like to speak who have not signed up because we're going to go over our 30 minute time they they're more than welcome to stick around for the other items from the floor at the end of tonight that's my understanding thank you all right uh vote by name roll call robinson aye landau eye zorai dolby a tennis eye okay so the first speaker uh in this second group is dr christina lesner [Applause] again the same rules three minutes no one responds and it starts when i start greetings i'm part of podere a parent group at rosedale elementary dedicated to dignity and equity at our school i have children in kindergarten in fourth grade in all of the years my kids have attended rosedale i can tell you that our equity-based

031socio-cultural education has never been better this is entirely due to the new equity lead miss joanna campos and the focused hard work she has put into this position during her time at rosedale joanna focused on the four pillars of bilingual education attempted to address equity gaps at the school and organize engaging activities for federally recognized holidays such as latin x history month black history month women's history month and cedar chavez day joanna also helped lead a project to revitalize abandoned community garden creating a sense of belonging at our school during the pandemic despite widespread support for this effort by rosedale families joanna did not receive the protection from school administration or upper upper level administration and leadership from chico unified for her role as equity lead in fact ms campos was asked to leave rosedale

032campus in in april after the principal refused to grant her request to have a third party president in a meeting with a parent who has been repeatedly hostile and psychologically aggressive to joanna both in person and on social media since the beginning of the school year this is confusing to me because when i spoke with jay marchand on friday he told me that inviting a third party to hear conversations from with parents was a practice of his own and has been has been since he's been principal at marsh in fact he invited tina keene to our meeting for that reason additionally i received an email from jim hanlon yesterday communicating that for administration and i quote it is district policy to meet with every parent requesting a meeting unless they are physically potentially physically violent

033this is not aligned with the u.s department of labor which includes verbal abuse harassment and intimidation in their definition of workplace violence in a study published in 2021 pachego and colleagues reviewed 30 studies on psychological not physical aggression in that study they found that psychological aggression in the workplace is associated with anxiety anger and depression over time fear emotional exhaustion depersonalization and other physical symptoms such as musculoskeletal injury it is no wonder that our teachers and administrators are emotionally exhausted and sick given that it's a district policy to force administrators to meet with psychologically aggressive and hostile parents so long as they are not physically violent how do you expect anyone to adequately fulfill this role of equity lead that you profess to care so deeply about when these are the working conditions of the

034district no one will be able to truly do a good job as equity lead as long as they're under these conditions it is true a true injustice in our community that has happened and i'm not going to stop until these policies have been changed [Applause] maris thompson um kathy there was another one that was above that um they did not submit a name oh but uh somebody that had submitted one on may 16th at 8 52 p.m am right so i don't know if anybody knows when they um actually submitted it but what's your name yes all right i think we move on raris thompson [Applause] hello um i am i am really um here to talk about i guess a couple of things but first and foremost i am deeply appalled by what has

035happened to joanna campos on many levels and i really feel compelled to share thoughts with you tonight about what's happened i'm a community member i'm an educational academic and in the 14 years that i've lived in chico i have witnessed many leaders of color come and go in chico unified most of them do not stay as they feel compelled or they feel that they can make greater change in more racially diverse communities elsewhere joanna campos's suspension is shameful she is a committed and courageous innovative leader who was tasked with doing equity work that matters to her students and school community equity work is hard work and the cultural change it requires takes a lot of time it takes a lot of conversations it takes navigating a lot of resistance we know that part of this

036work involves continual education of the public and professional development within our profession by suspending her chico unified is giving up this important opportunity to retain the kind of leadership talent that it really desperately needs and the kind of curricular reform deserved by its most marginalized students and parents and community members rosedale is the only or oldest dual immersion school in the district the county and the north state retaining strong and culturally representative leadership at schools serving multilingual children is the district's ethical obligation and is supported by decades of research [Applause] rather than suspend her why not invite her and upset her confused parents to the table and facilitate a conversation about what equity looks like could look like why not promote greater understanding and growth for everyone in our educational community through this experience suspending

037her only does one thing it sees fear and suspicion and cowardice it also sends a very clear message to innovative future teachers who our district desperately needs and administrators who our district desperately needs and that message is that chico unified is not a district that welcomes educational change i stand with joanna and demand her immediate reinstatement thank you [Music] [Applause] i just have a first name for the next one christopher no last name first name all right joanna campos [Applause] before i speak i'd like to hold a moment of silence for the beautiful lives that were taken by peyton gendron in buffalo new york i was raised in the christian church and although i no longer identify as christian jesus's teachings deeply impact my identity and how i view the world jesus used to speak

038in parables parables are a simple story used to teach a moral or spiritual lesson i'm going to attempt to speak using a parable in jesus words if anyone has ears to hear let them hear act one the mistake there once was a dedicated third grade teacher who prepared a special unit for her class she spent hours on it she often stayed till seven o'clock in her classroom on the day she introduced the first lesson she was excited but exhausted her class filed into the room that morning and she noticed that when mario mario went by he did not smile when she started to tell the class about the wonderful new unit mario mumbled boring she attempted to continue to talk but mario continued to interrupt more loudly boring she lost her patience and yelled stop

039it will you just stop do you know how long i've been staying here after school to plan this for you you're so annoying get out get out of my classroom the whole class fell silent none of her students could look her in the eye act two reflection at home she started to sob she shed she she had broken her students trust she disrespected mario and the entire class but why was he being so rude and then it came to her you see mario couldn't read yet he was attempting to express that her lesson wasn't going to work for him and he did it in the only way he knew how he resisted act 3 repentance the next day she started by apologizing to mario in front of the entire class she told him she loved

040him and that what she did was wrong she asked for his forgiveness and then she asked the entire class for forgiveness they all ran up to hug her and they hugged mario too she also fixed the lesson she told mario that she wanted school to be fun for him he told her he wanted more art and so she listened the rest of the year she remembered to make lessons that nathan that mario could get excited about ted sullivan the director of ed once praised me by saying i can see you have the qualities of a strong leader because you're smart and schmoozy he was right about the first one throughout our year-long text stream he also said that i was engaging in some high quality leadership badassery in another text he said that roselle was

041happy very happy to have me but the best compliment he gave to me was that he admired how self-reflective i was he said he was certain that i'd be the leader of a school one day all right i challenge you all to reflect thank you thank you three minutes all right our next speaker [Applause] our next speaker is ambrosia currency krensky [Applause] hi i emailed several of you this morning um happy to be here and i'd like to introduce my daughter ida patino yeah you want to talk about yourself and your experience with joanna um um so i really like joanna and she started the garden program and all of my friends would always tell me like the garden's open and want to go and i would always say yes because like it was super

042fun learning how to do the stuff and she was always very welcoming to the kids that would go there and i and like when people started saying oh joanna's not the vice principal anymore i really thought it was just a rumor and that it would pass but then uh i found out that was actually real that makes me made me feel really sad because i thought it felt really good to have a vice principal that looked like me and would give good activities to like the kids who wanted them and taught them how to do new helpful things to help the community [Applause] um hello hola mi amo ambrosia um i am a mother and i am a teacher in paradise for six years now um i'm also a student and passionate about human and

043indigenous rates um when we found out we were pregnant we had just graduated from college we found out about mias qualitamia and we enrolled her as soon as we could we viewed rosedale as a natural extension of that process and we second grader so year three year three we step on campus and i see johanna i see an administrator that looks like my daughter that can speak spanish to her family and it was just so beautiful and i think i took that for granted i didn't realize what a special gift we'd been given and when people started slamming her on social media i didn't take enough notice i did not defend her as i should have johanna lost my spot um let me talk about me a little bit more first as a new teacher

044i needed a lot of support i'm on year six and i had a lot of support a lot of people helped me grow as an educator and for that i'm very grateful and i made mistakes and that's part of the growth process and i did not get fired i got nurtured and i grew and i'm a very effective educator yeah i think that johanna is also worthy of investing in i know she isn't worthy of investing in from the heart she leads with strength and compassion she facilitated my daughter's iep this year and she did it with grace that's your three minutes thank you our next speaker is andrea lopez andrea lopez all right our next speaker then is benito okay [Applause] hello board my name is berito barca sanchez i'm a parent of two

045in the chicken unified school district i'm here as a consumer parent with the inconsistent implementation of school policy and the lack of ensuring that all students are treated equally in all aspects of education i say this because my daughter has been threatened with suspension over her misuse of words yet other children make actual threats and the response for the administration is boys will be boys children should be able to express their frustration towards others when boundaries are crossed without the fear of repercussion all children should be heard equally after my daughter came home that day i voiced my displeasure i her lack of apathy for others in her choice of words to which she responded in tears papa please don't i already had a really bad day at school i missed all my breaks she

046was punished as if she was making a threat over the misuse of words while others are given a free pass i wrote a concert email to the principal and i couldn't even get a response until i got assistant superintendent involved yet other parents are allowed to have private meetings put together by the principal to allow a specific parent a face-to-face meeting with the assistant principal so that the parent could voice their displeasure at the equity agenda put together by the equity lead of the school in the second she refuses at the equity i mean the second she refuses due to the lack of representation on her part you suspend her you got rid of the administration that is able to relate to 71 of all the students at the school okay since when since when

047is it proper for administration officials to contradict one another we all know that a divided kingdom cannot stand yet the principle found it okay to hold such meeting after the assistant principal voiced her concern maybe you all should go personally and speak to the children okay to see how your decisions is impacting them it is your duty to ensure that all students regardless of race color national origin ethnicity and disabilities are treated equally in all aspects of education you talk about your commitment to serve all children and community with integrity and how you have grown to understand the many perspectives of people yet you seem to fall short to some of us parents here today not only did the principal not respond to my emails i'm yet to hear from any one of you you

048are right about one thing you know that our local representation should reflect the diversity of its constituents yet is not reflected here today because 50 of your students are minority thank you [Applause] our next speaker is kate [Applause] good evening and thank you for having us here um to speak i want to speak specifically about getting some more answers about joanna's position and what happened to her she was hired as equity lead for the school which came with no job description which for me in and of itself is disturbing and disappointing that it says to me that there wasn't care and thought and time put into what this role was meant to be and the person and what the person in that role was supposed to do at the schools for the students for the

049teachers and for the staff joanna came into the role coming from you know a background in bilingual education and successfully starting a dual immersion program in orland so she came from a background in bilingual education where like all of our students graduating from chico state's bilingual education program they're trained to teach from a social justice lens so she came into that role not only wanting to ensure the success and comfort of all the parents and families but to make sure that those who were who are most vulnerable and most marginalized are not forgotten she came into the role um not realizing that she'd need to expose some of this the disparities um for example the fact that rosedale's dual immersion program is currently not in the 50 50 balance that it needs to be in

05050 native spanish speakers 50 percent english speakers for the program to be successful for all families but especially for english language learners which we know that um statistically our english language learners are struggling academically in our district so i'm looking for transparency sincerity and authenticity and in that vein i want to be sincere and telling all of you what i can ascertain up to this point is that joanna was pushed out of her position because of the loud and aggressive opposition of a few while the those of us who were supportive and loved what she was doing at the school were ignored and so what i'd like to hear from the district leadership is if they didn't what did she ex what did they expect her to do in that role since there was no

051job description provided and if they didn't like what was being done or if they have chosen to support this position to suspend her what do they want to see done in that role what was that role supposed to be and what do they think that equity will look like in our schools right that's your three minutes thank you [Applause] the next speaker is jeff blake jeff blake [Applause] i want to say um i need to step out to support my son at a music concert that he's doing with solo in but i want to thank everybody who came tonight i appreciated your comments and i'm sorry that i won't be able to hear the rest of you during this item so thank you go ahead jeff okay hi thanks for taking the time today um

052i'm here i have a three kids at rosedale and i'm standing here because i just can't sit idly by and watch some of my kids friends and fellow classmates struggle when there's a solution somebody that can make a real difference standing in the back of this room somebody that's made a big impact on a lot of the students the majority of the parents have her support and just because a few loud voices decided to make a stir she's gone i recently spoke to a teacher at rosedale who said that they never felt so supported by any administrator as they did with joanna campos they went on to say that joanna had so much on her plate that they didn't know how she was able to do it but she did it's clear to me that

053many of the teachers appreciated what she did the majority of parents appreciated what she did i were i had the privilege of working on the the garden project with the number of people here and a few times i dropped off plants and supplies during school hours and dozens of kids just flocked around joanna just for their opportunity to help out carry a plant or just talk with her it is clear that at a time when uncertainty and fear linger in our in these kids lie you know minds that somebody who is an uplifting presence should be valued by the school and by the administrators not suspended so that's my peace and thank you all right that is the end of our speakers list and we will now move to the consent calendar does anyone wish

054to pull an item from the consent calendar sorry just to clarify this items from the floor we did go overtime by about we started at 6 16 i wrote it down so we are over time by about 11 minutes um if i can do my math right on the fly however we can hear another round of um of speaker comments during the next items from the floor so if there's anybody in the audience who would like to stick around and hear the rest of the meeting which we always welcome as well as take that opportunity to speak at that items from the floor please feel free to stay and it will be open at that point we don't have any other speaker card signups but we will ask for any comments from the audience if

055there is anybody that sticks around and would like to speak on on any on any particular thing we're moving to the consent calendar is there anyone that wishes to pull an item from the consent calendar all right if there is none may i have a motion sure i'll move adoption on the consent calendar okay we have a motion in a second i'll second that motion all right so we have a motion and a second to approve the consent calendar uh we'll do a roll call vote robinson i kaiser eye dolby a all right vote passes four to zero okay we now move to the discussion action calendar and we have midwell junior's engagement strategies with native american communities mr david mckay good evening thank you for this opportunity to share a little bit about the

056story behind the land acknowledgement that the matuto tribal council was kind enough to write for bible junior high school so i was asked to elaborate a little bit on that journey and here tonight my friend and colleague rachel mcbride was not able to make it tonight due to another commitment but we collaborated on this message and she wanted me to again apologize for her not being able to be here and would be happy to answer any questions at a later date that may come up so two years ago bitwell junior high school seized a moment to talk with our linguistically and culturally diverse families about how we can more intentionally and effectively reach out to them to make sure that their students were felt as welcome as possible so that families felt as welcomed and

057included in our school community as possible you can see from year in and year out on educational data not just at bible junior high school but on a bigger scale that linguistically and culturally diverse students experience disproportionately negative educational outcomes and so to me it seemed like there's some barriers to success there for a significant percentage of our students and so in order to try to identify what those barriers were so that we could remove them it made sense to me that we needed to have conversations with folks who were the closest to those lived experiences so with cobin those conversations took place in my backyard and they were great and we quickly identified some early momentum other early objectives that we could accomplish that would immediately send a positive message to to all of

058our families particularly our linguistically and culturally diverse families so when the fall came along and we had that those groups going that group going part of that process involved having some rather candid conversations with families who i suspected had been marginalized in one way shape or form by our school um and and one in particular it was through a disciplinary process that um it was it was somewhat contentious for for one of our processes and i just i felt like there was something unresolved there and so i reached out to the parent and asked her to have a really candid conversation with me about the same topic about the barriers to success for her student and her perspective on that i wanted to listen to that especially as the school year was starting off and

059i really wanted that student to feel like they had a new start here and that we were really doing everything that we could to support that family and so that parent was kind enough to oblige me we had a great conversation and that led me to reach out anew to some partners in our native american community with whom i'd worked for a long time but i realized that i hadn't reached out to recently and really invited them to a candid honest conversation about how bible junior high school could do more for their students from the native american community's perspective and so those conversations started with rachel mcbride with whom i had worked for a long time and we had we started a collaborative native american community bible junior high school collaborative and we met regularly

060to identify again some early points for improvement things that we could do right away and so um a lot of that involved a mosaic not just one thing but like many things that we could do and so um as a way of recognizing the the government-to-government relationship that is unique to the native community a lot of those communications went through the tribal council and then when we got to the land acknowledgement we went and we met with superintendent staley and chairman ramirez and rachel mcbride and i we met and discussed what that would look like and so there's a lot of education involved for all of us and especially with respect to that government-to-government relationship that is so important to recognize the federally federally recognized native american groups that government to government entities we wanted

061to respect that and instill that and cultivate that in our community and so some of the priorities that we identified were creating more intentional time and space and priority for our native american youth group and so that included dedicated time dedicated space more time on campus more of a seamless transition into our regular school day as opposed to a stand-alone program or something that at times could feel disjointed another priority was the walls or our campus how are we representing and honoring the original inhabitants of the land on which the campus resides then the troop the people and so we collaborated uh with local artists including ali meadors knight and christian garcia who went to bidwell himself on a beautiful machuta themed mural in one of our hallways and we opened that with a native

062american family culture night that featured booths from the native american community and just invited parents and students to come and experience and learn about the history of the people who first inhabited the land and are still still enjoy that unique spiritual relationship to the the land on which our school resides including in that process was identifying and planting some native plants and being able to educate students about their original purposes and their names that is an ongoing work in progress we also developed a world cultures class which has since been changed to cultural experiences and that the purpose of that class is to study uh cultural history with respect to some local uh communities as uh in particular in butte county um including the machuta people and inviting community organizations to come in um as

063cultural mentors to educate students and guide them through a fun enlightening experience of food music culture history uh tradition and and just honoring again being intentional about honoring that in our in our curriculum we invited our native american friends to have more of a presence on campus through the cultural mentor just being there so kids were used to seeing their cultural mentors on campus being able to drop in on those cultural mentors being open to talking with them if a student was starting to experience early warning signs of some trouble being able to talk to that cultural mentor about what strategies may help this student may work with the student or what's going on with the student that we may not know about that gives us some insights into how we can connect that student

064more intentionally to our school community and so that was a part of it and later in that process came the land acknowledgement piece so it wasn't just this once and done we want to put something on our stationary it was meant to to represent a part of the mosaic that we're trying to and still are continuously trying to create a bible junior high school that includes everybody that honors everybody that's intentional about everybody and the land acknowledgement is just simply that it's a way of acknowledging on a regular basis an intentional basis that the mature people were the original inhabitants of the land and and they they still continue to this day um enjoy a unique spiritual relationship to the land and we just want to honor that we want to be intentional about that

065in what we do so that's the the story about where we we came to right now and i'm happy to answer any questions anybody might have do you want to just read the land acknowledgement agreement that you have included yes absolutely thank you so again this land announcement was written by and approved by the matchup the tribal council and and we of course accepted it as written we acknowledge and are mindful that bidwell junior high school stands on lands that were originally occupied by the first people of this area the matchup and we recognize their distinctive spiritual relationship with this land the flora the fauna and the waters that run near campus we are humbled that our campus resides upon sacred lands that since time immemorial has sustained the mature people and continues to do

066so today [Applause] we'll turn it over the board if there's any questions questions anyone i don't have a question i i just have a comment to uh to you principal mckay um this has been something that um hasn't happened often enough in our area i know that you know as a native of this area and having visited uh bengal mansion and some other places where some of the history of the machuka and the maidu and some of the other tribes within the area i became aware that there were significant um periods of time when the land was being purged of the native tribes and it was it was a sickening thought to realize the violence in in the background of some of our our cultural experiences with our native peoples so i appreciate that you

067have done this in conjunction with others in our native population and um appreciate and hope that the some of the truths of things that happen in our settlement period and you know in this area are are known and recognized because they they aren't things that we uh we should do anything other than honor the peoples that that were left that are left that are that are still here um i have a candid question um can you remind me the the mascot of bidwell junior high pioneers that's what i thought that's what i thought i remembered um i was curious don't answer this question i'm just curious if that if that came up in those discussions um with the tribe if that's a contentious point um considering pioneers are the people who took over this land

068and purged the land of the original people that were here i really appreciate your work and i think that you're you always have been i've always respected you since i was i think you gave my keynote speech when i graduated from the credential program um and so you're always somebody that i've highly regarded and respected as as the top leader in this community in our educational community and it's always a treat when you come and share what you're doing with us and i have it on my list to come see you and come around campus and just get to see some of the stuff that you're doing in real time for every kid every day um and so thanks for bringing this to us because it was something that i had brought up a while

069ago um that feels like it was kind of like what you said you just you know one and done like let's get this let's get this conversation going and really it was let's get this conversation going and then kelly informed us that some some of that has already been going on and you're always you're always ahead of of the curve so thank you for bringing that to us thank you i'm humbled by your words thank you and and keep your eye on the the gym sign for some some changes to answer your question yes not the main part um by the choice of our native community partners but where we've been working on rebranding what we mean by pioneer and i think the new gym sign that we're working with our community to develop is

070going to reflect that as has some of the imagery that we've already had in our student store has done thanks for sharing that we have an area that has a diverse number of tribes and so that's another aspect that although the machuca had this land there are many tribal members that now live here from other tribes too so it's good that native americans from different tribal groups could have that same welcome you know since i think that's extremely positive so i really thank you for your presentation excellent any other questions all right thank you so much thank you appreciate it all right [Applause] um next i want to call up uh tina is yeah for the annual spring charter school visit report which was quite thorough and large i think that's how we describe all

071of tina's reports i know pretty much pretty much good evening thank you board uh for having me tonight and i want to welcome our friends from the charter schools the leaders that are here behind me with the exception of one she had an event at her school tonight and couldn't make it which is certainly understandable it's a busy time so thank uh thank you all for being here we've gotten to know each other very well over the last uh several years and through covent in particular because of challenges that we've all faced uh we have had a lot of commonalities and similarities and it's it's nice to have these folks in the community so every year i do a a visit and review kind of update sharing what they're doing at their sites and you're

072right it was quite extensive we have nine charters that we authorize uh here and they are here tonight if you have any questions on that this is an informational item only and we welcome any questions you have they're happy to to answer anything well perhaps you want to invite them up uh you know of course charter represent representative um i will say that a very consistent theme that showed up was that each of the charters is attempting to deal with equity in their and inclusion in their own schools so that shows up and that it's an emerging process it it is a common theme that we're all experiencing and learning about together so yes please uh come up i'll have them introduce themselves and tell you which site they're at so you can see their

073faces and names all right and you don't have to fight over who gets a mic first it's like you know okay hi everybody my name is wendy farrow and i'm the director of education at chico country day school all right hello my name is michelle yazbek and i'm the director of sherwood montessori all right good evening i'm kathy dahlgren i'm the principal superintendent of nord country school all right and i am allison ward education director at nord country school all right good evening i'm susan dominiguini executive director of blue oak charter school good evening becky brown inspired school of arts and sciences good evening i'm stephen wright the principal of chief charter school chico good evening travis bennett i'm the site administrator for pivot charter north valley all right so so we're missing forest ranch

074yes yes that i missed she was sorry to miss it so what i saw as a common theme was that in your attempts to pull in some equity uh leadership um the next question of course is well how well do we assess what they were doing and helping with your school because then maybe we'd steal them you know i mean so but that is a question like how do you assess their impact see now nobody wants to run up i love to talk about it um yeah i know you can change the height there you go i might start doing some karaoke though watch out um you know that this is a really long process and i think it starts as internal work creating a place of safety respect and trust where you can enter

075into these conversations and know that it's okay to misstep but it has to start with the internal work you have to keep that north star of who we're working for right the kids and we've found really great thought partners with us we've been working with bcoe and framed all of our work around anti-racist anti-bias education like let's not even we don't even need to talk about equity that's that's watering it down a little bit it's anti-racist work so we started there and we had a lot of brave conversations and then you know it's one thing to attract families to the school but then we need to have structures in place so that they they see themselves reflected and they want to stay there so our pedagogical approach of project-based learning ensures that people see not

076a narrow view of what smart is but a very broad view of what smart is and ways that they see themselves reflected in our daily curriculum so that's that's kind of where we've started we've you know it's been difficult we've had some missteps for sure we've also had just those brave conversations that allow more people to grow and think through things on a really deep level so we don't have the secret sauce but we're trying all right good um i'd like to comment i when i went through all of the reports i made notes as i went through and i can remember chico country day my notes reflected a number of the things that um that i know i've exchanged in the way of comments with you since i've been on the board and i

077went ah they're making progress and i i appreciated that that progress is being made i saw adding diversity to your board members was a good start i saw that that you were reaching out to your lgbtq plus students and supporting them and um that you know that that's a brave thing in a lot of a lot of times but oh my gosh it's one of the things that saves lives not only does it make students lives happier but it saves lives too because that's where a lot of our a lot of our suicide is uh exhibited with with those children who can't find acceptance so the fact that you're openly talking and dealing with that means acceptance is on its way i appreciated that um with uh there there was oh the um the fact

078that you do those presentations on i just i i remember before covid just before covid that that one of those things had happened and thought yay they they still got there and i know all of us are trying to rebuild so many things that we lost during covet so to all of you uh i appreciate the fact that you're you know continuing to turn around and look back at what you're doing and how you're doing it for the best interest of the kids and i applaud you all and am happy that we do have a place for all of our kiddos and families in this district you know the fact that some of our charters are very small doesn't mean they aren't meeting a huge need so i appreciate all of you regardless of the

079size of your school you're doing great work for the kids of chico thank you thank you all righty if there are no further questions for these folks i'm happy to tell them to head home i know it's a busy evening and busy rest of their week so um they can take off until next year when we see them again but i keep in contact with them a lot we have open communication quite often so tina uh is our next um authorization in two years is our first one up in two years so because of covid one of the uh i call it another coveted casualty or maybe a silver lining i'm not sure in this case uh we did have legislation that extended for two more years so it will be in 20 where i'm

080looking for kathy 23 24. okay okay and you'll pass on the comments that we made on the voluminous written material right i will indeed yes thank you thank you all for showing up i really appreciate it [Applause] okay now we're down to the nitty gritty and that's john carver and eric german so we're talking about our summer project updates yeah get that sound up [Laughter] okay before i start tonight i would like to clarify something i think it was last month i had bob on traverse here my transportation supervisor that said that every time he said john carver i gave him 10 bucks yeah yeah and i never got anything you said it once right yeah but i never got anything i emailed it to you okay so i'm going to say bob on traverse

08115 times a night so that i'm even with bob oh i see okay okay actually what we'd like to give you tonight on your lead sheet it states that as a school district we need to spend three percent of our budget on routine restricted maintenance and we do that during the summer mostly for recarpeting classrooms new hvac units parking lot makeovers and on and on some of these a lot of them say to be determined on the payer pay to person we have a lot of contracts that we're waiting to get in and we don't have them all yet but if you'd like as soon as they all come in we will send you a new copy so you know who's doing the work okay okay and um so when we say in-house that means

082it's our guys doing it our folks correct okay so does anybody have any questions okay i remind the audience this is actually a mandate by the state that we spend this money except i want to say that there's nobody better at picking out the things that need to get fixed than these two guys and they they and their crews do a wonderful job thank you really wonderful so may i have a any other questions or issues i was curious how you prioritize projects so how do you determine that this is what we need to do this summer am i saying bob on traverse out there go ahead so a lot of these are determined by need as our maintenance workers are going around to the sites doing our daily work orders we discover things that

083are problematic on the school sites so we prioritize them by safety needs for kids number one so anything that poses a safety concern that's always going to be our top priority and then the structures of the buildings of course are always right up there too so if you look at a lot of these they're roofing projects we've got in-wall tables those are our safety concern as our tables are getting old and for those of you don't know what in-wall tables are if you look over these are in-wall tables where they're built into the walls and in fact we replaced these ones about four or five years ago in the original mpr and our facilities team was able to reuse them when they did the reconstruction here so these were repurposed but i know they've been

084really critical because we had a student injured by one that fell so very critical any other questions you can always get invited to come out and look at a project and process as long as you don't walk on the you know but the wet roofing yeah my favorite thing is hanging out with these guys because it's always usually almost always outside when i get to when i get to it yeah all right may i have a motion you need a motion yeah it says discussion action uh okay did we ask for public comment oh yeah is there any public public comment oh yeah i just have a question so i am i have a student at little chico creek because i'm seeing the projects and everything that are listed on here for a couple of

085years there's been playground equipment there's a structure that's like all taped off on the kindergarten playground and we've been waiting for it to be replaced like the ptso has raised money to put in a new playground structure so like in your prioritizing how do you determine like a kid has gotten injured by it before that's one of the reasons why they had to tape everything up so i'm just curious like how that falls into prioritizing projects that need to be done because we've been waiting for a couple years for that to be replaced so the playgrounds aren't listed on this list that we're replacing we're using esser funds to replace most of our a lot of our playgrounds lcc is one of those schools that will be getting playground replacement under the esser dollars so

086that's already uh being ordered so i i think timing was part of the question so this summer what uh it all depends on when the equipment arrives so right now it's really hard to predict when you're going to receive your materials our hopes is this summer but it all be determined on the shipping of the materials okay so this is not a full list of things that will be happening it's just the restricted dollars three percent that are going to be our summer projects other maintenance and updates and things like that that will be happening absolutely we'll solve our esther dollars we're going to be spending a lot of drinking fountain replacements um like i said playgrounds then we also have our daily jobs that we do all our work orders that we uh we

087do and those aren't included on there so this is just like you said the the three percent that we have to spend so we have very busy summers and just for clarification these are also new items coming forth so when eric was talking about the playground some of the bottom bottle filling stations those had already come to the border are come to the board i'm sorry um with the esser spending plan and so those have already been approved so these are above and beyond as new items all right so i'm i move approval of the submitted list and ask that after the to be determined amounts are known say a couple months from now that it just be provided i'll say it okay so we have a motion and a second any comments all right

088so our last board member is back um so just in time for our vote good for you okay so may i have a you can i well i guess we have to we have to have a voice but i mean not do we want to all right do you want to recap where we're at where are we on the agenda sorry we're there 9.2.1 the uh summer projects okay and we're we have a motion to approve them okay yep i read over this item on the agenda packet so okay i'm ready to vote on all right so are you ready for yes yes robinson i landed kaiserai tennessee all right okay gentlemen we're we'll be thrilled to see your finished work thank you and i want my 10 bucks okay uh we're moving to the

089chico unified school district and innovative preschool update yes good evening board um so here this evening in collaboration with diane olson to let the board know about where our status is with innovative preschool which is a private preschool located here on the marigold campus specifically next door at loma vista jacqueline can you just speak into your microphone a little bit more please yeah thank you pull it closer maybe that's better so i wanted to start this evening with why why did these conversations even start in the beginning so governor newsome signed ab-130 and what that did was that provided legislation um that all school districts had to provide universal transitional kindergarten for all four-year-olds beginning next school year so in 22-23 and the the age eligibility was bumped back two months um to february 1st

090and it will continue to be bumped back until full implementation in 2526 in which all four four-year-olds would be eligible to participate in our universal transitional kindergarten so you know this came out and i immediately when i went to ted and i was like oh my gosh this is basically a whole other grade level that we're having to put on our current facilities that are already pretty constrained and so that's really where the conversation started was wow we're going to have a really tight facilities and so what are our options how do we get these kids placed in our campus and so very broad range of of options there obviously construction but that doesn't help us for the 22-23 school year and so one of the ideas was well maybe we need to look at

091the private preschool that's located at loma vista and incorporate our state-funded preschools at our elementary sites and relocate them into loma to free up space at our elementary school so it's really about creating space or elementaries by moving those preschools over to loma vista so just to clarify our already existing preschools how many are there we currently have four so the the thought is to pull those four from their current cusd elementary sites to loma vista so centralized at loma vista will be all preschool correct you have a preschool complex if you will and then that would free up space or elementaries for our tk students to be able to attend those schools gotcha okay thank you so we started the conversation we've had five meetings with innovative uh we started those conversations back in

092february um just had our fifth one this last monday very productive meetings um trying to understand both sides of the coin for both parties and what that means because we do we do use innovative they are integral to our inclusion program that diane's going to speak to and so they do service chico unified preschool students with ieps okay so inclusion cheek unified has been going on for many years so i want to talk a little bit about innovative inclusionary options and then what we're already doing in chicago unified um the district has implemented inclusion programs for at least since 1998 when i taught in one here at marigold we had a second and two second grade classrooms and a special ed teacher and it was 40 students 45 students all blended together doing the co-teaching

093model very similar to what loma vista and and innovative does so we right now have inclusion programs that have grown from that and innovative was around at that time too and through the district we have it at the high school we have co-teaching inclusion at all the junior highs and then at parkview is another one that has these inclusion type programs so this is something that cheats unified even before me has known how to do very well for a very long time so we now are looking at expanding that through grants that we have a teacher that teaches inclusion within state preschool within head start within innovative and then we can expand that out to the community with those grants so those that is going on right now throughout right now innovative has 24 spots

094that our special education students with moderate to severe needs are included in those 24 spots are three-hour spots during three different times of the day so they can go either there's two classes at 8 45 to 11 45 that go so those are two classes that's 16 of our special needs students and then there's another one that goes from 11 45 to 245 that's another eight so they they have 24 of our special education students included in their programs and in those programs they have seven staff on average in the classroom from innovative our staff is also in those classrooms we have six special education para professionals and two chica unified teachers that go in with students at that same time so this is very much so a program that uses resources staffing from both

095sides from chico unified and from innovative the loma vista program also loma vista and innovative have speech ot services ap services so it is the full gamut and range of services that can be done in that and so that was my part just to kind of describe a little bit of what we do with innovative and loma vista program here at marigold when you when we are using the word inclusion can you just give a definition of what we mean so that and does that mean the same thing for each of these programs does inclusion at cusd have the same definition as inclusion at head start or innovative or the state funded preschools inclusion in the simplest words is that ability to have students with disabilities included in general education classrooms that that's the definition

096however inclusion looks different for every student based on what they need some students through our inclusion specialists are in general ed all day long and these are students with moderate disabilities and we have an inclusion specialist that goes around to all the schools and teaches us the general ed teachers how to accommodate those students in the classroom we have inclusion continuum that includes co-teaching where our co-teaching is paired with the teacher at the elementary level it's for an hour a day it's not all day long it's for an hour and they co-teach maybe a reading or math same time every day in that class parkview is a good example that innovative is a good example that we also have a tk program that does that currently next you're expanding that to two we also have

097just push in where students mild moderate rsp yes the one you're very familiar with where they go into the general classroom they're in there they might only have one pull out classroom but all the rest of the time is in with general education with accommodations modification and with sharing iep information with the general ed teachers so they know how to support them and the case managers manage that um is there is there any particular methodology that's shown to be more effective among what you just shared with us for example is co-teaching possibly the most effective or do they each have their strengths in in application just depending on you know the structure of the the school setting it really depends on the students like you guys met bella our student that was using eye gaze

098just co-teaching alone for her does not work because she needs someone there with her also to interpret to make sure she's able to communicate using the eye gaze and participate so she has more than inclusion some of our students that just need that teaching of our general ed teachers and how to accommodate from our inclusion specialist that's all they need and so this kind of looks at that i'm going to kind of change over to multi-tiered systems of sports we have identified all those supports in special education we look at each and every single child and say what level of support do they need to be successful so there's not one that's any better do you think that there's an adequate amount or are we still in the exploratory phase i mean we had this

099big discussion about cotija in classrooms and i know that we don't do enough of that for example so i mean do we have a general idea of the number of students who have who would thrive in a particular model and and set goals to to move our district towards meeting that ratio for example does that make sense right the amount of amount of need bases what we have right now the need is greater than what we have right now however co-teaching is a very complicated system you have to have people that can want to and can work together the worst thing you can do for co-teaching is put two people together that do not want to work together in that same subject matter so the first thing is continuing to teach and ask people to

100become involved in the co-teaching the other challenges and i hate going to this anytime at all but the cost of co-teaching is more and so we are have limited resources so we have to be very targeted about where and how we do co-teaching that's why we use inclusion specialists because i can have a little bit of co-teaching at every school my question is i noticed that the certificates and the experiential base is ramping up quite a bit for the tk's uh with the state laws so um do we have enough people now who meet those standards or we're going to have to really ramp that part up too so the ctc has given time i think it's a year one more year to be able to access those credentials and chica unified is supporting teachers

101that want to add on that credential by helping pay for those credentials am i saying that right okay for clarification what is that uh certification that is needed for the tk level it's 12 ecue units early childhood education units it is easy okay and they can get those units at butte college and at chico state and it's just a certain number of units in ec they need yeah okay thank you matt all right since i had the floor anyhow can i shift gears for a second here is that okay sorry what did your question get answered can i yeah shift gears okay thanks um because earlier it seemed like and i'm focused just on innovative because that's what's you know on the agenda um inclusion i think is still a bigger topic we need to

102have a discussion about at some point it sounded like your claim was basically we already do what innovative is doing and i hear that um are there substantive differences between the inclusion programs we offer at the tk and k level uh that are differentiated from how innovative does things is to the best of your knowledge so the tk inclusion is taught by this year taught by a special education teacher that has both general ed and special ed students and she's credentialed to do both so this year that was slightly different because there wasn't two teachers going in although she had additional staff that supported it because of special education next year we are going to exact same model in the tk we're already doing it at parkview so that model was already there which is

103k to third third and so there it already existed next year we'll have two tk's with general ed special ed two general ed teachers and one special ed teacher that would be co-teaching with both of them and also co-teaching with the access classroom so it is and then i'll also answer a question you didn't ask is state preschool and head start does that look the same because ultimately that's going to be the question it can look the same right now because it wasn't set up that way our inclusion is more like the inclusion specialist model we have a preschool specialist go around to all the preschools they have students that have what's called specialized academic instruction needs and he meets with each of those owners and or people that run the businesses because it is

104some private preschools also and he gives them lessons he meets with the kids he meets with the staff and makes sure that students are getting that specialized academic instruction they need because early in event intervention is really key to helping these students progress on and possibly exit ieps as you know i have a clarification question this might be my ignorance but it's innovative preschool only or preschool antique because i think that there is some gray area when we say tk and when we say preschool because some people consider tk still preschool right so you have three basic programs that are before school age you have the infant program that is for students with disabilities that are identified at birth those are usually pre-significant students that's age zero to two those students transition to preschool which

105in the special ed world that is simply stage three to five four preschools they can serve students based on the license from three to five two to four they it's very specific licensing of how they serve those students at those different ages and then the numbers and the staff ratios change with the age right now innovative is serving three to five year olds and at our preschools currently the ones that are at those four school sites those those also serve students with ieps yes okay they tend to be more mild moderate but they do have moderate on the moderate side of moderate severe also and is it are there varying degrees of inclusion or or co-teaching they're fully included all day but they don't have co-teaching okay all right uh any other questions now just

106thank you for the work you guys are doing to you know to get this to work it's been a tremendous program and we're learning from uh from innovative and from the work we've already begun so thank you everyone and i just want to add at the end here that um information for the board that we're having these conversations to deal with the tk constraint and then next month at the june board meeting the universal tk implementation plan will be brought forth to the board so an expectation of that next month all right good thank you okay uh with that we move on to 931 tentative agreement with cuta on the loma vista one is there any public comment on that all right you have to come up to the mic just for clarification so innovative

107have they chosen a site to move to or are they being completely removed off of the mirgo loma vista campus because i think that was like a discussion that was like kind of going on as well neither yeah chica unifies let them know that they have full program for 22-23 i think my understanding is their board is having some discussions about what their program looks like for next year so that would be a question for their board chico unified can't speak to that they are their own entity but their own board um so how they want to structure their program for next year would be their decision but they have the agreement to rent the space so it's kind of it is in place for 22 20. combined okay yes okay thank you i already

108knew the answer so okay so uh cuta and a tentative agreement okay so we're in our seventh year of um interest-based bargaining which have been very successful where we're just completing our first year of our second three year agreement on wage and benefits which are not included in this tentative agreement so i sent to the board over a week ago a copy of the tentative agreement with all of the talking points which was fairly complete so unless you have specific questions in addition to those um i'm recommending approval of the tentative agreement with cota they they approved it with their membership last week with over 98 percent voting for in favor of any questions i was gonna have a question just to comment that that's a lot of good work yeah i was gonna see

109if kevin had a comment but i can't because i can't see if he's here [Laughter] he's not here that tells me that everything's fine on their end so yeah he knew it was coming obviously tonight before the board yeah okay um i'm i move approval of the tentative agreement with cuta do we have no public comment we can ask for public comment sure thank you yeah public comment all right not yet no it's only only on this topic all right so i have a motion i'll second that a second any questions or discussions by the board all right with that robinson i landed i kaiser i don't be a all right five to nothing okay all right so with that we're moving to um are we at the first reading of the board policies correct

110oh my god okay so um just as a informational thing these are typically legal changes uh that are brought to us by the state and so and we don't normally we can certainly take questions or discussions about any of them but we don't normally vote on them when we first get them i've read them all and there were some that i thought were very interesting but does anybody have a particular question or discussion item on these dr kaiser i feel the same way you'd i've read them all and and some are obvious responses to things that we've needed to respond to over the last few years that have become critical in the way of updating so that we are compliant i did have a couple of questions and i have submitted them to administration through

111superintendents daily i'll wait for those responses before deciding whether or not i want to suggest changes at the next meeting and one of them that question of what does this mean there must have been a mental block or something but i read and re-read and read that statement again and so when you find that one please forgive me for but that's why we're here we will explain yep anybody else have a particular clarification they would like again we won't vote on them tonight we will be voting on them at our next meeting you'll note that the preschool early childhood education and transitional kindergarten are both yeah included in this it was on those provisions that i had that what does that mean a question yes so as dr kaiser mentioned much of these updates are

112a result of either court cases or changes in legislation so if you have questions by all means reach out and if you have suggestions for changes in wording by all means reach out with that as well and then we'll bring these back forward to the board for any changes to be discussed and approved by the board all right with that um we did have the supposition that since we weren't we thought we did go through all the speakers that were on the list but if someone stayed because they were trying to speak that's what your suggestion was so is there anyone who was waiting to speak i'm waiting okay again same thing three minutes no one can respond to you hi good evening my name is lupita arum law and i didn't plan on speaking

113i came tonight to kind of evaluate and see what was going on at rosedale my kids are i have older kids 27 21 and soon to be 20. and i um we had we went to rosedale we did parkview it was great the immersion on bilingual and it's been a great experience i've been part of the chico community for 22 years so what was my impression tonight my impression was discomfort i was uncomfortable with what happened at rosedale hi kelly and i was what was really important what really impressed me was this group of and i know joanne from from parkview group of of leaders uh from from rosedale and they huddled in that corner and none of them looked like me and none of them looked like my children i don't know joanna very

114well i met her a couple of times she seems like a competent lovely well-spoken woman and the aesthetics here are really not very good for us as a community we need women like joanna because she is young she's beautiful she's articulate she's passionate and she stimulates us that's what education does that's why you're here because you want stimulation you want and change is difficult and it's uncomfortable and it sounds to me like what she's causing over a part of you is rosedale is discomfort and that's a good thing because we grow from it i don't know the way the structure is at schools or who hires whom or or who has power to do what keep joanna for the sake of aesthetics i heard something about bullying and somebody and one per a parent and

115the third person couldn't come in i don't know but it doesn't sound very good so i challenge you all to get to the bottom of it hang on to her hang on to her for aesthetics for our community and then let's see what happens but you need people like me that look like me that speak like me that speak like joanna to stand up and push back none of us are perfect and we all need nurturing we talked a lot about equity diversity inclusion let's do it let's put let's put action behind these words we're not going to like everybody but let's do it thank you all right thank you uh good evening my name is omar pena i am a parent at rosedale and i have a fifth grader there i had an eighth

116i have a soon-to-be freshman who went to rosedale and i don't think this is intentional i think there's there's good intention here by these people that spoke but there's an underlying message here that there isn't dignity respect and celebration of our cultura of our language at rosedale and in the last six years i have not experienced that quite the opposite the reason i sent my kids there and i advocate for rosedale is because the men and women who work there the staff the teachers they want to be there and teach our kids kids that look like me and that matters whether they're brown or white those people care about our kids and there's a big difference when you go to a school like that i'll tell you those teachers are why i'm here speaking on

117their behalf i've talked to many of them admittedly as my kids got older i'm not as much of a volunteer but i have relationships and have connections and just like i in my own organization it's not easy to come out and be public somebody has to speak and they're good people there now this brings me to another point they're not here i'm a middle manager in my organization i don't know what a principle or vice principle specific roles are but i would assume that it's not just pushing equity which is the value of du jour of the day but in my organization we're responsible for budgets scheduling motivating people and the marine corps we had a saying good initiative bad judgment when you want to change a culture as a leader you have to be

118careful you have to motivate people you have to move people to that side you push too hard you can break an organization you can break a school those teachers could go somewhere else and that's not what i want for this community for the other kids that are going to come that look like my children that look like me they need to have those teachers there that staff there i don't know this vice principal i'm not here to speak to that but clearly as a middle manager i see something here there's good intention there's nothing wrong with pushing equity but with any change if you do it incorrectly you can break an organization and lastly i hear what this last speaker said and as as a man of color it's important for me to that i

119see that my kids see people that look like me but i want people who are successful who can do it don't push people in positions just because of our color we fail those kids that come before us and if they don't succeed we break that individual too thank you all right i appreciate that that you waited and you stayed and i helped very good they've already spoke so um with that is there we're at the end of our meeting so is there your your thing was over three minutes um is there a sense of the board i don't have a problem with letting her finish i didn't hear he said i don't have a problem with letting her finish i totally wouldn't mind hearing all right they say you can finish the best compliment he

120gave me was that this ted that he admired how self-reflective i was he said he was certain that i'd be the leader of a school one day like ted said i am a chingona that means badass i've worked hard to be where i am i deserve to be here my community deserves me rosedale is the elementary school that supports the largest latineckis latina latino hispanic student population in the district i am the leader rosedale needs in order to move forward with much needed equity work as a first generation us latina who worked hard to achieve what she did with a master's degree i share similar lived experiences with both the students and the teachers i want to stay i want to learn i want to grow and to positively influence the rosedale community i want

121to challenge you to reflect what went wrong here you can learn from this we can learn from this we can make it right i will forgive you we will forgive you we will support you through the work i'm not afraid of the pain grief anger that this equity journey might bring up i'm excited to grow as a leader and to continue strengthening the only di program in butte county i'm here to join all of you in supporting this imperative journey towards a more equitable schooling system i want to be back at rosedale gracias por su tiempo i also want to say i personally went to school with a lot of the rosedale teachers a lot of the teachers there i've supervised through cll grant they're personal friends of mine they haven't spoken to me and

122the gentleman talked about middle management teachers have privately texted me silently spoken to me they will not stand up because there's been a record of what happens when you stand up and i'm a reflection of that and so not all of the teachers there support me that's every admin knows that you're not going to have all of your teachers support especially when you're pushing them to do something a little bit differently because change is hard we all know that but i would say a majority of the teachers there had they heard what parents said what we've said um would be excited about it to have their di school finally be supported in the way that it needs to be supported they'd be thrilled and that's all i have to say thank you thank you all

123right [Applause] okay that was our last speaker so is there a board member who wants to agendize an item yes okay i would like um to have a information and with possible action on the situation with the third proposed homeless camp by marsh junior high school i'm thinking possibly an amicus brief to the if that might possibly be wise from the standpoint of our council and and us or maybe a message to the city council i believe the city council put that one on hold last night is that correct they yes they did and they also set a a process in place to bring the issue back in june um and they um they have a a plan for continuing discussion on meeting the requirements of the decision as well as recognizing that there has

124to be a way to uh provide community input in the process so i need a clarification here are you anticipating that we would agenda is drafting a memo i mean there's already been communication what what are you sure i mean i'm i'm i think we need to be vigilant in protecting the children who are in our care at marsh junior high maybe to a lesser extent little chico creek and whatever we need to do as a public body to try to be on top of that situation and be providing input to the powers that be whether it be the city council or the judge then i think we should be prepared to do that i drove this distance yesterday and it's about a quarter of a mile one of the things if if one of

125the things that one of the council members reported last night because they're they're feeling the same frustration in trying to meet the the terms of their agreement was that there isn't anywhere within the city limits that there isn't a school within a quarter to a half a mile there are no it doesn't exist because our schools um you know are all in neighborhoods they're they're looking at um many things it's complicated oh my gosh um i think our our um point of order i'm sorry go ahead um there is a motion on the floor without a second until we have a second we shouldn't be discussing this because if no one's going to talk want to bring it up there's no reason to be talking about so i also would just caution that when we

126do discuss we have to be careful about discussing because it's not agendized yet so it's hard to right now this can only be about whether we want to agendize this item and it does not yet have a second i think i'm a little unclear on what what matt's asking i'm sorry mr tennis is asking for also um it would we how how would we get the information from the city you know i think we would need to know what it looks like from there and i just i think that's why we would put it on the agenda and have staff give us that information uh the fact of the matter is you know we're talking about people who didn't fit in at the shelter so we're talking about heavy drug use we're talking about sex

127offenders and they're a quarter mile away from this time you need to stop so we're not discussing that right now so i'm just going to no no i'm just explaining the value of having it you're being inappropriate at this point and you're making me not want to set your item just because you went there so i i was seriously considering at least seconding it so we can have the discussion about what what does school safety look like in terms of the proposed the proposal right point of order i'm sorry there's a motion on the floor is anybody seconded it not yet can we just put motion diet then with that we can give a second can i make a real quick motion okay thanks um i would like to motion that in the event that

128the city of chico decides to move forward within such an encampment then we put it on the next available agenda just a discussion of our proximity and responsibilities in that regard so you would make it that if the city which i didn't realize they had stopped at last night yeah they did moves forward then we would agendize this yeah then it should automatically pop up on our next agenda okay do i have a second for that can i ask a question of clarification is it specifically for the one of the three that they propose that is within a certain proximity to a school which we know is we're talking about the marsh junior high school spot or is it in general within a certain proximity to any school or it's a good question i don't

129know um i guess i will clarify my own motion let's say within a half a mile of one of our campuses okay i'll second that okay so do i have a second on that yeah just like in the day okay wasn't it clear you're it's muffled sorry i'm have a sinus infection so not only do i have a mask but also i'm stuck so the motion now is that if the city council moves to establish a homeless camp within a half mile of one of our schools we will bring this back as an item to a board meeting okay any discussion of that yes yes thank you um i i actually think that's a a good idea for several reasons one it gives us a chance to take a look at mitigation of impacts because

130we don't have there isn't a property that doesn't meet that criteria so there will be a camp designated within a half mile of a school because that's the only anyway um there's also the issue of um there's not going to be my opinion any comfortable acceptance of that by our parent groups and if we can assist in getting them information on why the decision was made by the city council and how to communicate with the city council on um you know there's stuff it's just it's such it's such a complicated thing because of the federal court order and if we can assist our parents in understanding what's happening and put into place any mitigations we can to make to and from school safer for our students then i think that would be a good use

131of our agenda time we're not going to stop it but at least we can act to keep our kids as as okay and as part of that i would i would like to have some kind of reporting from the city about what you know types of security measures they may have in place especially during school hours or during those hours where students will be walking or biking to and from school just for the increased traffic of pedestrians in those areas okay so we cannot flesh out the the whole context of this but i think it's clear that it would be the board would look to the administration to get us as much updated information as we can and that would include whatever motions the city has to make to meet the judge requirement so okay

132so that's what's been a motion to agendize that if the city council clarifies that they are going to put something on there and any other yes dr kaiser my expectation is that during this process that our administration is communicating with the city council [Music] and being a part of the process i think that would be to our advantage and um i think that the city council and and the new city manager are agreeable to involving the district in working through solutions to a problem that doesn't have one all right so if that's a clear clear motion and we have a second um any comments from the public we'll see anything yeah okay all those in favor signify by saying aye robinson and i land away all right guys right all right so five passes five

133to nothing and then president kaiser i will need a clear direction from you as to what we are communicating with the city uh because i don't believe that our board has had a discussion as to where they land on that issue so certainly i will always advocate for the safety of our students and i'm happy to continue to do that i think the context of this is where they're actually going to do it and the issue of what kinds of measures are being taken the what got revealed was pretty scant okay all right so with that are there any other items that somebody wants to agendize yes i shared with the board [Music] the school services overview of what constitutes cola and how that impacts different in different ways on our funding and finances and

134things and i found so much information about cola and its application to our funding that i did not know and had a hard time understanding and i wondered did you all get it yeah and do you have any interest in more detail on how cola impacts our funding just wondered if i was the only one curious okay yes the what what it means cola oh cost of living adjustment it's the state responding to federal government setting the standard of how much things have gone up and how that's applied to different ways that the funding for schools is calculated and it it was interesting and not confusing but it was interesting and i felt as a board member it was important for me to understand that process so i'll do i'll do more reading on my

135own and board members that have any questions or want to understand anything in further depth by all means um make an appointment in this particular case with jacqueline but yeah any of us with that i'm going to adjourn them oh wait a second hold on no what i'm sorry i would like to put something on oh and also i got two things and i hate to do this to you guys i'll try and make it fast first of all uh given everything that transpired today i would move a uh to add a discussion item to a future agenda so we can actually go over exactly what our equity policies are so everyone has a good idea of what we're talking about and making being able to make sure they're being applied equally in all cases

136or evenly in all cases and i would say i would welcome that we've been doing a lot of work in that area and i think it would be a great workshop when the board meets in july to set their schedule and we find a time to do that i appreciate that can i oh good i'll second that motion i too am interested so the motion is to uh have a workshop uh on our equity approaches i don't think that it's a workshop i think what we're asking for is maybe more of a snapshot up like sooner than because we're talking about setting the work because we don't set workshops until july so we don't that's how we do it june is yeah apology what no it's mandatory i didn't say anything about okay when do

137we set our workshops thank you we set our workshops in july for the following year so what i'm what i'm saying is that i feel like maybe we should be asking for a sooner snapshot about our progress so far in equity yeah our next regular meeting is um what's the date of the june meeting anybody 22nd um 22nd is the regular meeting for the month but that's el cap and the next meeting is is the lcap going to take up the entire meeting i mean because that's not a workshop that's a regular meeting right yeah it's uh normally takes up an entire meeting because people can come and participate in the past we've had food and people bring their kids or you know so we can do this one or two ways you know clearly

138equity is a part of the lcap and so we can highlight our efforts within the lcap agenda or if you want a very you know separate item we can do that as well but i think what makes sense is since the board did ask us to include equity and make sure it was defined in our lcap that we address the actions we've taken as a as a direct result of the board direction we can do that through the the lcap discussion well i would um since we're still kind of writing this there's motion on the fly my motion would be that it is a separate item so that we can have clear discussion and feedback from the public on specifically that portion of it so i guess my motion is to have an independent agenda

139item on the june regular meeting agenda to go over our equity policies and how they are being implemented that's the motion so well yeah i'm i'm i'm confused tom because it we have said it shall be part of the all cap and it is it is embedded in there and how in every site yeah at every site at every you know so that's gonna happen if we want to somehow rather advertise that i mean that's been part of the discussion as the lcap meetings have happened that's it has been but i think that um given our current situation and the speakers we've heard we should probably pull just the equity piece out and look at that separately from the lcap as a whole i'm in a second this for one and say that yes our

140lcap meetings are complex and long and tedious but i think this is a very very important the most important topic that we're trying to move forward with it would be a great item to have before we deep dive into the lcap so that we can segue from talking about equity specifically and our progress on our equity program so far and then get into the elk cap after we have the equity discussion and then we can see where it falls into the current el cap process so that aligns with what you're asking for right okay so there's a there's a second on the floor any other discussion i'm concerned that it will drag it out excuse me drag it out so much that we will lose our parent participation i'm i'm not worried about that case

141in point we don't have any parent participation right now and hopefully we will have some more input but we've had great parent participation in the process up until this point anyway um so i'm not concerned about the end product not having so much so much participation but the people who have something to say will be here and it may work the other way as well that people who come because they want to speak specifically on the equity piece and stick around and learn something about the lcap and engage in that process any other comments all right we can take a vote so to vote yes votes to separate the discussion and the suggestion was at the meeting prior to the lcap discussion but all of the same meeting province and i land away kaiser nay

142dolby tennis name okay pass is three to two i do i'm so sorry i'm not really sorry um as we are taking on tk um i made this clarification from staff for do we have any plans regarding an administrative position to oversee ece credentialed staff members i believe we have one we already have a preschool coordinator oh see this kind of thing i just need to know yeah we have a close close we do have a preschool director on staff who oversees our four state preschool c program i didn't even think on the notion i just need to know what heck is going on that's exciting thank you and so if this plan moves forward to pull our pull our preschools to the loma vista site that director would would go along with that program

143right correct and we've actually applied for a fifth expansion site for state preschool as well and we're hoping to know by the end of the month if we get that but that would be operable for next school year well i feel silly but that's not unusual so no no item to agendize all right okay then i motion for adjournment what we needed