001I Well, I'm gonna start by apologizing to Tracy. I'm so sorry, Tracy. >> No problem. It's okay. No problem. >> Thank you for being here. >> Thank you. >> I got caught up visiting, so I I'm incredibly sorry. Um, so we'll call the meeting to order very late, 3:24. Um, public comments. Nothing. Okay. Um, okay. Opening comments. I don't have any opening comments other than I sincerely apologize. So, we'll just move right along. Instructional continuity plan update. >> Yeah, there's no new information. We're in progress still creating kind of creating a what then scenarios for each of the notes. >> Beautiful. >> And I'd love to have a little more on that. We've been working on a lot of other things, but a little more on that at our next meeting. Cool. So, that would
002be nice to pull that together. >> Yeah. Even a rough a rough draft of what if and then, you know, fine tune. But even if you have something something rough, it's okay if it's not perfect. >> Okay. >> Um, attendance, recovery, and Saturday school. That's an update as well from last meeting. >> Yeah. The main update we really don't I should have changed this. The main update that we really have has to do more with the um short-term independent study. I met with the clerks. So, I'm going to put a little note here. Um and so the growing pains on on this is just the volume of absences per day and getting the homework and stuff. So, we're looking at like some different things. Can you have kind of um to go kind of homework
003that matches? I mean, usually if you're planning for a whole week, you have stuff planned. For the teachers at the high school, it's mostly Google Classroom, but it's just kind of the three. I had Dana, Lana, and um Mon'nique here. Um Heather wasn't able to come. We had um Shiloh here, too. And just really sharing how are they helping each other? And really just sharing kind of notes about things that we need to do. So, one of the things that we need to do with metal art that they weren't aware is you have to change the students program from independent study from the regular school day program. And the reason why is because independent study when you do the monthly reports, which I can bring one next time because we just finished an attendance month,
004it has a list by column of each kind of program that a student's in. So, you want to see how much um percentage of ADA that you're getting from your independent study as opposed to your regular program. Does that make sense? So you have to go into >> for the long-term independent study. It's for short-term is also >> Yeah. And for and we want to track it. So we really want to track we want to track. So one of the conversations that we've been talking about is do the attendance clerks they're really office clerks and a records clerk. Um so I miss call them the clerk. So was just the added loaded of work. will do we need another person to really centralize and be work with all three sites to help them make the
005phone calls make sure the work's getting back go back in and change areas and so we're like we're not really sure we really want to track the ADA to see like how many how many students are we really um capturing which I think is going to be a lot and I think it'll more than pay for that position I mean they would like that but we're just not we're just not there yet so that's the way plus we need to track it like we need to be able to track like I'll bring one of those reports next month. >> Can you just track it track it by the attendance code like when you put in >> if you don't change the program it doesn't change on your attendance monthly your monthly attendance report. So that's
006what came up at the meeting. I didn't know that either. So I mean you could run a report. >> So doing STI So STIS has been 5 to 15 days for a 100red years. Y >> not a 100 years but you know what I Yeah. >> 5 to 15 days for that long. Why all of a sudden now do we have to put him in a different program? Because now we're doing >> to 15. >> We always have. It's always been It's always been a separate program. Um I know because at Vasquez when I first came I'm like you know that you guys are losing a lot of ABA because your independent study students are becoming unexcused absences. and it shows on that report. I I'll bring the report next time. >> So, we could
007talk about that in a different >> you want to pull you want to be able to know where your attendance and AD is coming from. So, I mean, we were able to fix that, right? Because we could see on that report that our students were independent study, which again, that was the 5 to 10 days then because we didn't have this. This was like four years ago. the kids they go out on independent study and it's one attendance code and if they don't turn the work back in then it becomes unexcused and I think if they turn it in it becomes an M that gets reported on your your monthly like the monthly attendance calendar it's every 20 days >> and this is how it gets reported for your aortionment of ADA which is your
008P1 P2 >> P3 but it gets reported on P2 so these are our so our attendance clerks run attendance reports at the end of these areas once they clear all the absences. >> And so on that report, it shows you if they're like special education units, if they're in special day classes, if they're in regular program, if they're on long-term, and if they're on independent studies. So you can see like where's we have a high incidence of unexcused absences on our independent study. I'm like, oh, that's only because we're not getting the homework back. That's the only requirement. So if we didn't have that, we wouldn't have caught that. Um, it's an easy thing. It's seriously takes less than 30 seconds. You just go in and click and when they come back, you might click
009it. So, it really helps us track it. But the other two schools have been doing it. It's just metal hasn't or they haven't been doing it consistently. >> Metal Arc has. >> So, well, the girls want to work together. >> So, they're going to help each other. So, that's one of the things. like, "Oh, we we need to at the next meeting they're going to cross trainin each other on just their practice and just the system, right? Like when we're doing it this way, it was a really good um and like it was it was a good conversation. They shared a lot." >> I mostly listen. >> And that's what those group meetings are essentially for is so that they can discuss best practice and what are you doing and what are you doing and
010how's the best way to do this and what are we doing across the board. That's awesome. >> Right. And then Kai said too that the attendance contract for the short term only needs to be signed once a year by the parent. So we didn't have to get it signed every time, which was taking them a long time, too. So that was another thing that was shared at that meeting. >> So I would like to get further confirmation from our auditors on that. So it's on my list to to do that because that's taking them a lot of time. It's just getting, you know, having to chase down signatures. Even if we have the online way of doing it, it still is a lot because there's a lot of absences. So, >> but just their effort
011in doing that is really really awesome. >> Yeah, they're working super hard and I I don't want to put more on their plate, you know? So, I want to make sure that we if we're if we are if we're creating more work and more ADA, we should have staff that supports that, >> especially when we have laid off staff or move staff to and taken away hours in the offices at the school sites. That's not conducive. Like here, do more, but I'm going to take away this. I'm going to lay off that and we're going to move this and that's not fair to the people that are actually at the school sites and we're taking hours away and then giving more work >> and well and this is more work like this is an additional
012you like. >> So that's my thought is so we're kind of we're and we discussed that too. So, we're looking at that. I've already discussed it with cabinet. We haven't made a decision yet. But what I would like to do is use the attendance report to see how much ADA it is because I think that even when again, if this is a new position, I'm not sure if this is a position we would take to board because it might still be position we currently have and just would be another person. But if it was a position I was bringing the board, I would want to be able to like justify by like this is that how much money we generate or will generate based on on ADA >> and our staff is working this much
013harder, >> right? I I wouldn't want to come and say, well, just because I think so. So, >> well, we thought so in the ED subcommittee. >> Yeah, >> We think so. So that's what I have for um attendance recovery as far as Saturday school. Um so our CTE programs Michelle's going to come and do her slides. I'm going to go ahead and share the slides and start. Alexa letu was going to come and do her slides. So I'm actually going to move her up because her baby got a fever today. So she was she needed to go home take care of her baby. So >> we actually just because of time and I would like to spend more time on each presentation discussion. Can we just table the aselis for next time? >> Sure.
014>> Or table one or the other. Whichever one you want. Table one of them. >> It doesn't matter. I mean it's all one it's one presentation. It's kind of long but we can easily do a sal next time. >> Yeah. Just so we can chitchat about CT. I second. >> Yeah, I can I I mean, yeah, I can I can skip those slides. Um, okay. Let me We didn't get an art. Well, Michelle might have done an art program. Metal Art didn't do slides for us, but I know what's going on with Maker Space and the art program because I oversee those in that committee as well. So, let me go to >> share. >> Alex, help with this. Let's see. >> Oh, this right here. And then I'm going to go to the slide.
015>> I'm going to start from the beginning. >> Yep. >> Yeah. And I'm surprised Michelle I know wanted to do her slides and I'm surprised she's not. Someone's calling about SST. We'll have to have one of our school psychologists. [Music] I'll just see. >> Okay. Sorry. >> That's okay. There's little last got little last minute that we're trying to change and the school psychologist has texted me and said, "Hey, I know there's a meeting she needs to do because of the timeline >> for a request for an assessment." So, I'm like, "Do that one." I hope that makes sense. >> And I don't even know which one it is, so I'll ask her. So, thank you for the little distraction. Um, so I'm going to just go ahead and share what our team put together.
016Um, I know Nicole Salada worked on this. Tiffany Casada, Alexa, Michelle Van Hornum. Um, and I'm not sure who else, but I know those three people worked on this. Oh, yeah. So, Michelle and so if you want me to skip. >> Okay. So, we're skippelis and project lead the way. And these slides are pretty um I had the team make them and you know they're overachievers. So, I'm going to kind of scan the slides. But what's really cool about project lead the way is it's a STEM program. It's a hands-on program. Um, Vasquez now offers three um, pathways for project lead the way. B, uh, biomedical science and engineering were the two programs we started with. Computer science started last year and there it's in the second year. So this year both classes are being
017um, being offered and the computer science um, meets the requirement also for AP. The others fall into the category of honors. Any questions on project lead the way? Do do those have a capstone or not yet? >> I'm not sure we have a capstone. I I did put that on here um as I I don't when I was reading through the slides that I thought they were presenting I didn't see that but I might have missed it. So it so I I don't know like when I when we go through the slides if it's there that would be a yes but if it's not I'll follow up with them on like I don't think that that's been created yet. if it has been you know sometimes they create things but I don't think so yet
018but it is I did put capstones on here um I know syllabi literacy is new um of course asalis has grown the art program has ext has extended the law I I don't know on that so let me just highlight I do have it on the agenda let me go to the next slide so project lead the way at high desert um oh this is really cool because again it's this it's the same program but for our middle school kids which is really cool because it kind of sets them up either for a CTA pathway, CTE pathway or project lead the way because kids can choose and um we have biomedical sciences engineering and computer science there as well. I know Michelle I think that she started the computer science there not last year but
019the year before. So I think she had it one year before Basquez did. It was through you had to apply for a grant and she's now I haven't seen her robotics when I've been there. So this may be something she's just getting up and running. It's new for fifth grade. I know she has a lot of new um electives for fifth grade and sixth grade this year. And I think there's a slide on those questions on this. And so I do apologize for all the text on here. I know if it was Michelle, she would just be reading it and oh wait, I think I went the wrong way. Um, so the Paxton Patterson is the CTE lab over there and that is in my way. Um, but again, it's a it's hands-on. Um, it's
020career focused. It's career technology focused. Um, and it's next step for it's the next steps in the learning journey for the students. Again, it's also hands-on. Um it's skills building and the units offered at um High Desert are biomed sciences which include biomedical engineering, dentistry, nursing, veterinary medicine and alternative energy, computer science again, CAD which is super cool. I've seen some of those classes, design and marketing, digital audio production, engineering including robotics, flight and drone technology, home maintenance, emergency fight and fire, and then culinary arts. So this year she is getting the culinary arts room up and running. She's working on we're seeing if we can actually get ovens in there due to the venting, but they've already been doing some work in there with just like I think microwaves or hot plates. But she's
021pretty excited about that. Like I'm whenever she doesn't show up and I think she's coming, I'm worried. So I'll have to text her cuz I she just talked to me at the board meeting. She goes, "Oh, I gave you slides." Like I know I saw she goes, "I'll be there." I said, "Okay." She goes on a present and you know she likes to present. >> So a lot of and I wanted to hear too because a lot of her um a lot of her electives are new this year for fifth and sixth grade. Like she created a rotation so the kids are rotating through classes which I thought was pretty cool. So these are some of the new um um electives for fifth grade is the cast prep which I I without her I don't
022know what that means but hands-on science. I don't know what CAS actually stands for or maybe California science standards um cursive writing and newsletter um and project lead the ways infection detection and robotics. I know that when we the state um put back into the curriculum the requirement for cursive writing for K for K really K3 um and we adopted um learning without tears. It does go through 56 and she wanted to kind of continue that so she started that as an elective over there. So that was pretty cool. Um her sixth grade or exploratory rotation includes project lead the way medical detectives, art history and theater arts. A lot of that is being done through our art teacher who who moves between Miss McWellson. She moves between metallark and um and High Desert and
023then >> So will every fifth grader get all three of those or do they choose? >> I I believe because there's three they're they're rotating through. I I I'm sure that they are cuz it's a wheel. I'm pretty sure she told me it's a wheel. She was going to and that's why I'm super stretched on here. She was going to present so I didn't really ask her but from just from I'm sure it's a wheel. >> Would it be better if we table because it seems like a lot of this is >> Do you want to hear High Desert again next time too? >> Why don't I mean we don't need to Is there anything on here that isn't Michelle that you were like prepared to present? I don't I feel like we're putting you
024on the spot. >> I'm sorry. Yeah. No, no, not that you're not prepared. I thought >> Well, I wanted to get prepared to do the slides, >> but I feel like if if prepared and she's she wants to >> I can ask her to present at the next one, too, with Alexa. >> Is that okay? >> So, you got a preview? Of course. Yeah. >> Yeah. So, that was a preview. >> I don't want to >> Well, she's going to have a lot more to share because this is her program. >> Yeah. And I don't want to take that away from her. I don't want like I want her to be able to share the things that she's excited about. >> I'm happy to put it on next time. Okay. >> So, that was a
025preview and I'll let her know we just because she like I said, you know her. I'm like I worry when she doesn't show up. So I'll be calling >> she's detailed in >> Yeah. >> all that. >> And yes. So um so for the VHS um career technology pathways they have construction one and two. So that started I want to say three or four years ago. That program has so grown. It's if you're ever there it's a great class. They're it's just the kids are always engaged. It's an amazing it's amazing class. Um for engineering there's physics and AP physics. Um there's project lead the way principles of engineering and project lead the way introduction to engineering. I know the AP physics is a new addition. Um for biomed um we have biology project lead
026the way chemistry project lead the way principles of biomedical science and um human body systems. And then for culinary we that program has been longstanding culinary arts and advanced culinary arts. U project leadway has been there like for four years now too. So that program is getting well established. The video production class and the broadcast journalism have both been there for a really long time. Um digital media arts as well. Digital design and yearbook or journalism. Journalism is new. Uh this I want to say is the third year. Mr. Mangala is doing that class and the kids love it and he really enjoys doing it. And then computer science is um that's the that was new two years ago. So now we're in the one in both classes are offered this year. computer science essentials,
027computer science principles, and then visual and performing arts. We do have two VAPA classes now. So, there's VAPA 1 and VA 2, and Miss Owens is teaching those. So, that's through the arts. That's some of the things that are kind that are have that are just growing districtwide. And then so this is this is through Aselis but CTE there the CTE programs through Aselis as well that kids can be involved in and enrolled in is accounting, agriculture, electrical technology, information systems and HVAC which is air conditioning. And I will have when uh Alexa when Alexa um presents I'll have her go into a little bit more detail. She would kind of know how many kids are actually taking advantage of this on our virtual. So that would be interesting information you heard from her. >>
028Um and then I can ask Tiffany just to share on the syllabi literacy. Okay. But um the syllabi literacy is something I have been asking about ever since I've been here just because I had had past history with it. And so last year was the first year that it kind of got to that point. And now we also offer AP Spanish which we weren't offering. This is the first year that we've offered it. Um, and AP Spanish is very um like reachable for students. It's a very doable class and it's one students can often get a four in. Um, so it's it's I'm really I'm excited that we offer it to our students. And so to get to get the cello literacy, there's two parts. There's part one and part two. Students have to demonstrate
029English proficiency through one of the following methods. It's either through coursework. they can take the AP CLA the class or through assessment and then again demonstrating proficiency in one or more language other than lang other than English and again through coursework or assessments. Uh this year Miss Taus is offering the AP Spanish class opening the door for eight VHS students um to get to obtain the SEO literacy. Our little pictures are a little bit in the way. And the syllabi literacy recognizes a student's hard work and achievement in mastering languages. For us, it'll be Spanish, but it doesn't necessarily have to be. So, if we had a student that spoke another language and met these qualifications, um I know we have worked with students who were interested in this even to take courses like um
030in analopee valley say it was a language that we didn't offer and I know through a celis that there's French and other languages >> that students sometimes take. Um, so they the the BHS team also wanted to share some data with you. So A throughG completion rates last year were 66% of the class of 2025 met A throughG requirements. That's also one of our LCAP metrics. Um, college college credit courses, 13 students successfully completed analopee valley college dual enrollment. And we had 70 students who were awarded stoalls during the night of stars for their successful completion of a CTE pathway. This includes students who completed the pathways prior to 2425. Um they were they were uh given retroactive awards. And for this year moving forward, we have 22 students currently enrolled at Analopee Valley for
031dual enrollment courses. Um and 80 students that have the potential to complete CTE pathways and eight students with the potential to earn the seal of biiteracy. So, they're in the process, >> dual enrollment, meaning they're taking classes here that count that are ABC courses, not concurrent enrollment where they're taking classes at ABC. >> They take ABC courses at ABC and they count for classes here. Like, they get they get high school credit, too, when they're in dual enrollment. >> So, it's not usually like their English class, right? Because they need their English class. part of their graduation, but they do it sometimes for elective classes or or classes that they are interested in like art class, art history. >> Um, they want to start getting some college units, so they do some general ed classes
032that we don't offer. Um, and some I think most of the classes they get the dual enrollment part is that they get credit, they can get credit on their high school transcript for those courses. >> So, yeah. And if they if they spend a certain amount of time, I want to say it's 180 minutes in dual enrollment, um we we can actually gain some ADA on that as well, which that I just found that out today from I went to a PD today on um attendance and stuff ADA. So I think that's the last slide. That would be the last slide. So I'll ask I'll ask Michelle to come back and present for her slides and I'll have Alexa come back. Um, and I I kind of do. I mean, I I know I covered
033the stuff for Vasquez, but I really would like to have somebody from Vasquez if they could come only because they're there. They're there, you know, like I'm not there. So, I feel like I I I'm probably missing some cool stuff for them to present. So, they asked me to present, but I'm going to ask just if Miss um if if Dr. Smith could come and present for the school, they sometimes the principles come to our meetings, so I'm going to ask >> I'll ask her to come and present. So based on our agenda, that's kind of all I have. I will move forward um Aselis and I will ask the question on capstone. I don't believe they have that actually like up and running yet. I think that it's one of the things that they're
034working on. >> Okay. >> Um that concludes our presentation. Awesome. >> Um Tracy, do you have any questions? Okay. All right. Well, I don't have any questions. Thank you very much. And then yeah, if we could get the presenters next time, that would be great. >> We'll get them and then we'll then help. >> I I >> But I want to see their faces. >> Yeah, I know. And Alexa can help her baby. You know, she has >> Yeah, that's important. I was sick. >> I was seeing my baby, too. That's why I was late. >> I understand. That's fair. >> All right. Cool. Well, then we'll go ahead and adjourn at I have no idea what time it is. 350. >> 350. >> Great. Thank you. >> Awesome. Thank you. Bye, Tracy. Thank you
035for being here.