001e hi good evening everyone we're going to call the meeting to order at 5:02 um welcome to everyone this evening um I think we'll call the meeting to order and then we'll go to public comment from audience the board for items on the closed session seeing that we don't have anyone in the audience um members of the audience can address the board regarding closed session agenda items comments from visitors shall not exceed 3 minutes unless weighed by a majority of all members of the board but seeing that we don't have any guests tonight do we have any other guests any other portals no okay great we'll adjourn to close oh sorry roll call thank you go ahead Dina board member van Lingham present board member Reed cluth present vice president clerk Barrow present president Cole
002present for present great thank you and I'll we'll adjourn to close session now thanks e e e I had one yesterday that um um welcome everyone this evening in Clos session uh the board took action to release two sorry five temporary teachers and approve resolution 11 colon 2425 the roll call vote was as follows um board member van lanningham yes board member cluth yes board member B La Monica yes board member bar Barrow yes and board member Cole yes thank you Dino we take the role please board member van landingham pres board member Reed clu present board member b l Monica present vice president clerk Barrow present president Cole present all present thank you Dina and please join me for the flag salute all right moving on to approval of the agenda can I get
003an approval of the agenda for tonight please I still move thank you Rachel I second thank you Carol um all in favor I agenda has been approved oh thank you Maggie sorry I forgot you over there um we'll move on to announcements welcome the Valley student council hi my name is Maria and I'm the student council Vice President we are to update on what's happening at Valley eth grade science camp has been rescheduled next month and will be held on March 7th March 9th the students are very excited to participate in their out science trip at a we hope they have a great time six and seventh grade science camps are just around the corner as we get yesterday Valley had their February FL students recognized for representing Excell and integrity valy we would like
004to congratulate those students once again hello I'm Griffin Pitt the fundraising commissioner for student Valley next Wednesday will have their second Spirit games of the year students will be able to work together on teams to compete in different events like Jeopardy volleyball in even an inflatable obstacle course everyone is looking forward to a fun day of competition and teamwork there are also some exciting things going on in several classrooms around campus and we would like to share some of those activities with you fifth grade is heading to the California Science Center on Friday March 14th they will take what they learned in the classroom and put it in in handson and focus fifth grade has just started their third unit in science which focuses on Earth and the Sun they're excited for their field trip
005in art 8 students are preparing for the empty Bulls fundraiser on February 27th they're in the process of glazing the bowls so they can serve sou the students hope that you were able to make their event hello I'm elenni and I'm a student counc B students have received some new instruments including a tuba a bass Claret and a D drum drum set the valley bands will be playing Star strangled Banner at the little leak opening day the empty BS fundraiser and St Patrick's Day Parade we hope you are able to stop by and see them play now for some other updates winter the winter sports season is over and our student athletes have had some great games against our Southway Friends next up Spring Sports Valley will have boys volleyball girls SP football track and
006field and students should check in with about important information for Trad Regional competition is coming up on March 1 the team is working hard to prepare their competition by studying for their events and building model we wish them Luck buers Club is hosting a bottle cap drive home will be competing to collect the most bottle caps the woman with the most bottle caps in a nothing bu last in bottle home and good luck hi I'm Prest Lancy Simon student council representative um we invite you to join HB PTO for their silent Disco Night on Thursday March 6th from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. this is a family event uh for our awesome community of parents and students dress in your brightest wildest neon outfits and there will be a taco plates ice cream pry boys along
007with many options of snacks and drinks available for purchase resale tickets are are available to purchase online don't miss out on the coolest party of the year and finally eighth grade has had a lot of events going up today they went to the Museum of Tolerance and next up on March 12th eighth graders will attend their Disneyland trip uh we will keep you posted posted on more important dates as they come up thank you for letting us share what is going on in middle school at Valley we look forward to updating you again next month well thank you guys for coming it's always a highlight for us so we really appreciate your time and your family's time giving you guys giving us all the updates oh all done no oh they bye okay oh yeah
008that would yeah yeah they're just still waving thank you Miss Gonzalez for always bringing them and they're just amazing so we appreciate you guys Presley thank you for always being here I feel like you should be you know just you're just you know a part of the board come on up got a space here Maggie's Maggie's Maggie's on the line anyway so we'll move on to public comment and communication members of the audience May address the board on any topic regardless of whether it is listed on the agenda however the board may not discuss issues Rel raised that are not listed on the agenda topics not on the agenda that are brought to the board's attention may be investigated by the administration and a report made to the board either publicly or privately at a
009future meeting comments from visitors shall not exceed 3 minutes per individual speaker unless waved by a majority of all members of the board is there anyone here that wants to address the board anyone online okay great moving on to board reports just look down the list here Carol any board reports you want to share not for me great Kathy I have a couple great so this week was busy um we had a board view uh tour of Valley and I attended the hbf and hpto meeting so I'm reporting on that first and I first I want to stress how valuable these organizations are for all you millions of people who are listening to this this board meeting um and so check out their websites for volunteer opportunities because there's tons of them but I wanted
010to say that hpto um they had a great job with their scol Scholastic Book Fairs and chipotle yum raisers they're very successful um upcoming is the maintenance and operation worker appreciation te March 3rd um Sonic disco which um one of the students presented about is March 6th dolphin Dash April 2nd through the 4th yearbooks are on sale continues to be on sale so check out the website and sign up for the newsletter that's for the PTO Ed foundation in case you don't know what Ed Ed Foundation does they they help sponsor lots of um opportunities at the school including steam counselors libraries music art a ton of stuff and at the at the meeting they announced that their update year to date the annual giving update is like at $718,000 up 6.5% over last year
011with 41.3% participation they had a mom's day night out tonight which is sold out at St Rock um they're getting a few new Community Partners some flash parties and the big hearts of Hermosa is on Saturday May 10th so that's boots on the beach so check out the websites for both of them because there're I I have no regrets over my volunteerism as a parent when my kids were here I met some of my current best friends so volunteer then we had our second Retreat day but I call it more like a seminar on for the E Ela which is English language arts adoption committee and this is new near and dear to my heart but um it's led by our very own Dr Wilds who is extremely um smart and experienced and her guidance
012in teaching us about the science of of reading and that's what we're trying to bring our district into is learning how to actually teach reading rather than just assume some things so I'm not good at committing things to memory so I'm going to read some of this um so the ELA curriculum adoption committee has met for two full days to study the research on effective literacy instruction and reading development articulate best practices through a vision statement that's something that we've been working on for the last two meetings for all stakeholders use the knowledge to evaluate K8 curriculum options and then design a plan for implementation for the 25 26 School year so I'm excited about this this is something that's near and dear to my heart so our goal is to bring forward a curriculum
013rooted in four essential practices explicit systematic practice and foundational skills regular practice with complex text building knowledge and vocabulary through text and Reading Writing and speaking grounded in evidence from the text so this the our committee is designing an evaluation checklist rooted in these practices and will'll begin evaluating materials in like two weeks so we're going to go through this with the fine too comb and find the best thing for our district so that we can erase some of the learning loss or not the we have too many kids who are not um reading where they should be so we want to reach each and every student so that's my de deal on the ELA I'm excited to be on the committee I feel really very fortunate to be on it have an update from
014South big Coalition okay go ahead go ahead Maggie go ahead uh so the South Bay Community Coalition against hate had its uh first meeting of the year in January it will meet again in March there are updates from Black History Month obviously lots of things happening all around the county all around the beach cities there's still a few more events that are happening one is uh Mar Costa has a gospel choir event tomorrow night and the second is with uh supervisor Holly Mitchell um next week there is a um unpacking the the 105 Freeway and how it has impacted communities so looking at how communities have been separated by transportation and urban planning and then I'm I know Dr Wilds was at the Jewish Federation um education Summit last week so I can leave that
015to her to update um but there are a wide variety of events that are that are ongoing and I can send the board and the community um upcoming events in honor of women's History Month uh next week one of the neighbors not sure Maggie if that's your feedback orun I'm all done okay thank you we're just trying we're hearing some um feedback we just didn't know if it was from your your end but Rachel do you want to talk Wellness at all sure um so we had a wellness council meeting a monthly meeting uh actually today uh we did not have one in January because of I believe the fires that was cancelled and our last one before that was in December um so today we went over the Tri Cities uh survey the data
016results um Dr Wilds uh reviewed the results of the Tri City survey uh that our students took in the fall and it replaced Panorama um focused on inclusion and belonging um and uh then we broke up into small groups and and worked on disaggregating the data looking for Trends um anything that's surprising um we also were given our homework and that is uh to continue something that we've been working on in December which is working on the district um the the vision uh that that folds into the the district's Wellness Plan with an overarching goal of updating both those documents great thank you and Susan do you want to talk about the Jewish Federation meeting you went to absolutely so um there were six local superintendents and I um attended uh downtown last week and
017we heard from a number of keynote speakers um in including leaders in uh jfed um and then we we broke out into small groups which um I'll be honest was the keynote speakers were all amazing but we got to break out into small groups based on need um so one of the activities um they had scenarios that might be facing schools um School leaders um and it um back up just a minute the whole Summit was education Summit so it was geared toward teachers leaders um there were some Schoolboard um but mainly School principles um and kind of lead teachers around the Greater Los Angeles area unfortunately it was raining sideways so um I it traffic was was not easy getting downtown but um we were then able to kind of break out into groups
018um and they had um experts kind of leading kind of situational panels to help leaders talk through um different issues they may face in terms of anti-Semitism um there were then breakout groups um allowing us to study um when does criticism of um Israel become blend into anti-Semitism and so we really got kind of an in-depth kind of look and it kind of education around how you balance that um in a school district so it was really valuable great thank you for sharing all of you um we're going to move on to reports to the board in discussion um r- 21-24 2425 the midye local control accountability plan Miss cluck and Miss mono tonight we are here to share the midar lcap for the 2425 school year no action is required by the board tonight
019and no engagement of educational Partners was required this presentation is only an update the 2420 the 2427 lcap aligns with the district strategic plan ensuring our goals support long-term Student Success in year one we are focusing on implementing monitoring and evaluating key actions while engaging stakeholders for ongoing Improvement as we move forward we will use data and feedback to refine and strengthen our efforts Senate bill4 requires the school districts to present a midyear lcap report to the board the report report must include data for the lcap metrics midar expenditures and implementation data for all identified goals as you can see in this slide um there are some key steps to review the progress um we need to review make adjustments and ensure accountability how we do that is through the use of data and um
020analyzing and collecting it and assessing progress toward the goals um and collaborating with our educational Partners din a slide please the three um lcap goals are listed above um goals one and two prioritize School climate people engagement achievement and implementation of State Standards where goal three prioritize are increased of enrollment um with the full day of transitional kindergarten and kindergarten programs before and after school daycare school safety and maintaining um our state-of-the-art facilities this is our um glance of what our LC cap was based on um you can see um the three schools that we have the number of employees we have and with the breakup of our school body is and at the bottom of the chart you can see the unduplicated student count and the total budget um at first interim was 20
021million 243,000 um dollars next slide and this is just the impact to the budget overview this is as it was stated in the Bop um when the budget was the ELC cap was adopted in June nothing has changed there those numbers um are still the same but the overall impact back to the budget overview for parents from budget to First interim has changed about $2,900 we're we will be getting $2,900 less for the Intervention Program based on enrollment and the unduplicated account 2900 is that yes 2900 that's not much at this point in the school years at this point the school year some Metric outcomes are known and goals have been fully implemented some are in progress and have been partially implemented and some are unknown some goal actions were never started or were not
022no longer prioritized the metrics for each lcap goal will be shared um in the following slides so here you can go ahead and look at goal one um some of the items that are on the not implemented are soon to be implemented um the California healthy kids survey and the um calfor Cal schools um staff survey will be implemented in March so that will move over to being um fully implemented Panorama was discontinued and the tri city data was um adopted by the district and the tri city data was just completed um in January at the end of January so that data will be coming soon and then you can also see um many of the items that we have um for goal one have been fully implemented with the district so we're on our
023way to completing almost all of these um action items under goal two um under not implemented um second trimester we have um I we're currently in the process of um completing that that will be completed by tomorrow so that will be moving over um to fully implemented and um C Administration does not happen till May the end of May May 5th through 30th so that data will not be available um to the board until um Summer and the professional development survey um we've elected to provide professional development surveys to staff after each and every professional development so it's fresh in their mind as opposed to doing one survey at the end of the year um under partially implemented um we um don't have our participation rate um I ready but we're um almost completely done
024and we'll have to check what our rate was and um where it was our goal was for that and then um also in regards to our 3% increase of unduplicated students um and special education groups we're waiting on that data it was pretty close um like we're only like one 100th of a point off so I want to say that it's fully implemented but mathematically I'm going to say it's partially implemented um and then um the annual 3% um increase of cast we're getting really close over there as well in regards to our community metrics um I feel like this um goal and the action items that we have um we're doing an excellent job um with the increase of um permits our full day um daycare full day I mean daycare and then our
025full day TK andk program have helped us um have steady enrollment in the district um we're very close to having most of our teachers credentials and assigned to um teach in their content area and we're doing a fantastic job with our new facilities and we're looking forward to Valley um being updated as well but we have um been met um in regards to our standards of good or exemplary reading of our school sites and we do have standards align instructional materials so actions and expenditures on goal one inclusion um budgeted for the these goals 6570001 so far um in the red boxes culturally 1.4 culturally responsive manager and Resource Bank and 1.10 Reading Coach those um items will not be completed and funds will be reallocated to other um resources and we're looking forward to
026reallocating some of those funds to our new English language arts adoption want to do do go two okay goal two um Excellence um budgeted 15 million there and we're at about 7.86 million um as you can see these this goal is one of the largest goals it's our highly qualified staff our professional development our stems and robotic foreign language um and most things are um have and fully implemented um goal three Community budgeted for this um goal is 1.8 million and we've almost expended all of it 1.1 million um with almost everything fully implemented we're still working on the digital literacy and Chromebook and network infrastructure so as you can see in this last slide um many of these action items are in the process of happening in the near future and we will be
027able to move them to being completed we look forward to sharing the data in regards to I ready the California healthy kids survey the lcap survey um the beach cities Tri um survey um our elpac and all of our rec classifications with you um throughout the school year as that data becomes available um the data will also be shared when we do our updated lcap and um where we are at toward our goals do you have any questions for us thank you I'll I'll just go down the line here uh Carol I don't think so I really like how it's laid out though thank you very clear I have a question that maybe everybody knows what's an unduplicated student a good question so um in the state of California unduplicated students is a category of
028students that the state under lcfs funding gives additional supplemental money for and so they will take account of how many to be considered unduplicated um low income as measured by the free and reduced lunch um forms um English language learner homeless or Foster yeah H districts across the state because of the free Universal meals program unduplicated counts have dropped because there's no reason to fill out a free and reduced lunch form if you're getting free um lunch so and her staff have really done a nice job of promoting what else you can get if you fill out the form but it is still challenging Maggie no questions thank you Rachel yeah thank you Sylvia and Paula for it actually was very helpful to do that together do you do we have you guys done that
029together before you did it together last year I just don't recall that but it is very helpful to see it as like a the LC cap and the money and how they float together so thank you for for doing that um let's move on to superintendent report the 100 Day presentation Dr Wilds Hey listen there's enough gray hair here I feel like I qualify right pull it up all right so thank you so we've kind of combined two things in one room report tonight one is we're going going to go over this 100 Day summary right what really we've been focused on and kind of what we've learned um over the last 100 days and then I want to share a little few a few more items for the superintendent report as well so just
030a reminder um the purpose of a 100 day entry plan um was really to kind of be able to clearly think through a road map of kind of smooth transition right and that smooth transition starts with building relationships right you want to be able to get in a room and have people tell you the truth right The Good the Bad the Ugly um and we've heard we heard so much good but we also heard areas of concern so we're going to go over that um and kind of let everybody know what I learned um like I said we wanted um as we went through areas of strengths and areas for improvement there were things we saw kind of immediately we could take care of we didn't need to wait a 100 days to start acting
031on it so we'll talk about those as well so we had a lot of coffee a lot of snacks um so we had several coffees with the superintendent we had treats with the superintendent so we had Day events we had night events um we wanted to give folks who work and folks that um had young children at home plenty of opportunities to um come and hang out we met um monthly with the Chamber of Commerce I went and talked with the Women's Club um the Hermosa city leaders um both Council and our city manager um our Rotary Club um PTO and hbf um having one-on-one meetings um with them um and then getting in a room with our tri city folks our beach cities um our city our police um and really kind of talk
032about what they're seeing from their perspective um we also then had a lot of snacks with um with our teachers and so we met with the Valley staff The View staff the Vista staff um and we're going to see a photo later on um I we started the last one was at the vista staff we started around 3:30 and I think we were there to like 530 and so we just got to hang out in the NPR and kind of talk um we also establishing weekly one-on-one meetings with hbf leadership um ongoing one-on-one meetings with our administrators um you learn a lot in carpool um I don't know if you've done valet lately you learn a all kinds of things um including entry and exit Point entrance points um and just basic uh traffic concerns
033um lunch and being out at recess as well um and with our kids being out at lunch in recess and visiting classrooms and sitting in classrooms with kids um we've looked at a significant number of student interest surveys down to cell phones the their Tri CI survey data to learn a little bit more about them um going and visiting city coun city student council and again our Tri Cities data disaggregation so every time we met no matter who the group was the very first thing I had four questions that I always asked and it always started with Community people adore this community they adore each other they adore their schools um every part of it from whether they're walking to school whether they're riding their bikes to school whether in carpool and when you work
034carpool you won't see just one student rolling out of the car you will see a neighborhood cluster of kids rolling out of the car and I think that's probably one of the most um um unique parts of Hermosa um you also have dedicated staff right we have staff who have been here forever um they've started their career they've continued their career they have no interest in going anywhere else um and you can see in this photo uh Leon Navas our hbea uh president um one night she stopped by my office she's like what are you doing and I'm like I'm putting on my shoes to go Bond walk and she's like I'm coming you can't walk in the dark by yourself and so she and I walked up and down the the streets of Valley
035which is a little more inclined that I was hoping for that that evening um our we also have really high performing kids our kids do really well um you know you talk with superintendents and you know when I meet with other districts they would kill for our data um you know we have we have areas that we want to clean up and fix but people would literally kill for our data and and um our kids um are so impressive um especially like these little Smiles on their on their Band F on the our band kids and really Solutions oriented so you can see on the right hand side that's a photo of Vista and you can see the the you know if you can tell the sun was starting to set and so we hung
036out for two hours and people don't come with problems they come with Solutions right they had you know we wanted to tell you this one thing but here's seven ways we think it could possibly be fixed which I I thought was really um really great so some of the themes that emerged we talked about the themes that have emerged on the positive strengths but there were some themes that kind of emerged um and kind of rose to the top um one of the number one concerns that I heard going out was the need for increased administrator support um the staff at Vue and Vista felt very strongly that they wanted somebody who just belonged in their school and owned their school um and we thought I thought that was fair um um somebody who um
037and you know Miss overbeck has been so dedicated to those School two sites but it's like anything else if you're running between two jobs right there someone's always going to be the person who's not being a watched right now um and so we want to thank you to the board for letting us bring in Sandy score and interim principal and that has been made the world of difference um for families and for um um staff because they they really feel like someone who's just solely focused on them Miss overbeck can be solely focused on Vista um additionally he kind of student behavior and discipline and we have a little bit uh ways to go with with student behavior and discipline um but that was something we needed to recalibrate and re and reset um we
038saw a rise nationally around Behavior postco particularly for our little ones um who may have missed out on preschool our kids who missed out on interacting um the the speaking and listening the rules for how we um productively engage in Lunchtime with something we needed that's kind of the nicest way I can say that um how do we sit and um engage with each other face to face versus on um uh Snapchat um special education support um making sure that um all of our folks feel that they have um um somebody to kind of talk to making sure that that we have so impressed with the school psychologists that we've hired this past year they really are um really amazing dedicated folks um but thinking about how we um can go after working with the
039Southwest Salpa Hermosa Beach has um been at the short end of receiving money for special education and I want to really kind of um applaud Dr uh Jason Johnson because he decided to put him make himself the head of the superintendent southw Salpa committee and that's what he took on and so because of that we're going to be on the receiving end some of some additional um funding for special education next year he's a pitbull um number four social emotional support we've seen uh rises in anxiety um particularly at our Middle School um level so really kind of trying to determine kind of where is that coming from um I want to applaud you know the Valley staff for um taking on a new bell schedule and really thinking about is it a structural problem
040that we might be able to fix for students um being willing to look at whether a block versus a stacked might be better for kids social emotional what are we doing in terms of homework they established a uh calendar in the lounge of when tests so that all across um departments they can tell when that we're not all assigning tests on the same day um and so even just today they said well maybe we should put projects on there as well so we know we're not um overwhelming our kids um number five is a is an interesting one and one of the things we saw um in all three schools is what we call um trying to fix a tier one issue with tier 2 Pro Solutions right that oftentimes we want to we see
041students who are struggling we want to um immediately kind of offer additional interventions but really what we needed to do kind of kathle to your point is we needed to pull back and is what's happening in the classroom every day the highest quality that we can give our kids because what the research says is strong tier one instruction will support 95% of our students right so if that's true we needed to kind of see well what's happening in the classroom are we giving our kids access to high quality rigorous text or have we started bringing the text down to what level we think they are right the research in says you bring the text up and then you help everybody get there as opposed to Bringing text down um and that has kind of con
042contributed a little bit to what we call the Matthew effect where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and we see that kind of in some reading levels particularly in our boys when we start hitting the Middle School level so we're going to correct that right quick um and then number six this idea of so many arrows um we have a small staff we have three really great small schools and we have really dedicated staff and oftentimes we have to decide what we can do anything but we can't do everything right so really kind of pulling back and saying well maybe we need to focus on this first and get this right um and so again thank you for being part of the the committee it's a lot of sitting so sorry Kathy
043um so some immediate actions we took um the implementation of an interim principal at Hermos of view to provide the necessary administrative support um that we wanted them to have moving to a full-time assistant principal at Hermosa Valley that allows Allison to focus on um and being out and about she was able very quickly to Rally additional staff to be out at recess in lunches and so you see lots of adults um out there and resetting Norms um my favorite Norm is that we sit down to eat didn't know if you knew that lots of kids like to stand stand and eat stand and stand and eat stand on the table stand so just really quickly establishing we sit while we eat that's what we do um uh identifying and ceasing instructional practices so one
044of the things that I don't know if you noticed in the lcap survey was something called a Reading Coach and that is still in the red and the reason we pulled that is because the Reading Coach was focused on um some reading practices that are not research based um and this idea and I didn't want to spend more money throwing money at practices we know that don't work for kids and so we were able to pull that um it was also taking our teachers out of the classroom a significant amount um and I believe the one of the most important things we can do is um honor and really protect time teachers time in the classroom so before we pull people out of the classroom we need to make sure it's high quality um and
045so we we wanted to protect their time um stop and stop contracted professional development that takes teachers out of the the classroom un excessively um and um fortunately I don't cost anything additional so we've been able to do the the professional development um moving forward um coming out of the ELA adoption what we would like to do is hopefully these people fall so in love with working um together that we turn into an instructional leadership team we'd like to have um so that we can continue to gain traction and coherence Ross K8 right we also want to make sure that we're strengthening our tier one practices we need to recommit to the research um and kind of looking spending some time looking a little bit of Staffing ratios making sure that um we have uh
046a clear ratio for how we assign noon supervisors office staff um counseling staff and really kind of stepping back in making sure that we're uh staffed appropriately and then identifying areas for greater efficiency so for example at the March board meeting you will no longer be working on a PDF doc you will be working in diligent which is in board doc so that's an example of something that's going to save um District staff a tremendous amount of time um because time is money so my recommendations kind of moving forward particularly this spring is that we engage with our stakeholders thank you Sylvia and um I are going to be working on the lcaps uh we'd like a strategic plan survey so really can get some information from our parents our students and our staff um
047and I'd like to develop a three-year strategic plan so that some of these actions um don't seem so overwhelming um to get done in one year that we really have some year-by-year steps that they are focused and they are measurable and then they are time bound um meaning that we think we can get this done in six months 9 months 12 months two years three years and so forth we'll be bringing to the board in May uh a K8 Ela adoption and the reason K8 is so important is that we want kids to um there is a kind of an analogy we used in um the ELA adoption is if you imagine your children are learning how to play soccer and every year at every team they learned how to kick the ball differently they
048would not turn into division one soccer players right and so we want to make sure that our students are getting those same um uh the same language right we don't want them to have to code switch every year because ultimately everyone's ending up at the high school right all roads are going to lead to AP Lang so with that in mind we want to make sure that they're they're um all in alignment um we also want to re-engage our parents we have out of covid Co forced um our schools to close to outside um and we are a small district and we have really amazing um dedicated families and we need to get them back um we want to see I want to see them back in classrooms back on campuses back on helping us
049run programs um that I really think will benefit a lot of our kids and then I'd like to um work on conducting an audit of our technology practices how are we using our Chromebooks what is that looking like um are how are we using them as tools and how can we possibly use them a little bit differently so that we can increase face-to-face Fellowship for lack of a better word than than everybody working online so additional superintendence reports you can see this is a picture here from one of our um our everyone is reading teacher we pulled everyone all 75 certificated and 55 classified into a room and we learned together um so we had finished up our our last um uh study we did a book study of the knowledge Gap by Natalie Wexler
050and we did a podcast listening study of sold a story um one of our learnings um is that we wanted to make sure everyone certificated classified had a working knowledge and we dangerous in the science of reading before we bring out something that is was going to um be transformational we also did our first two days of our Ela adoption day one and day two um you can see these folks and that picture look how serious they look uh they're so focused um and so we have a really great group we want to thank um our administrators thank our teachers and then we have parents on this committee one of the things that will be important for us to do before we end we're we're to thank the the student councils but we're going to
051use student council as student focus groups because it's important if the materials are in front of them they need to give us their input we also want to thank the Valley staff for the first time we did a perspective Hermosa Valley preview day we wanted to help our we've done such a great job um increasing enrollment at View and Vista which is great but now we're out of classrooms so but we do have classrooms at Valley and we wanted to make sure the families in the South Bay knew that they have Middle School choices um and um it was a packed house and so it was our first time out we've got some we got a lot of good notes that we'll revise for next year um but it was great to see so many
052so many families and the band was amazing um I do want to update the community our website now looks different instead of a learn about measure H we have a measure HV Bond um uh facilities update so we have a brand new web page um there's two ways to get to it I'll show you in just a minute through hbcsd.org under departments and Facilities you will find on those we already have architectural services um proposals um out as well as topographical and land survey Services we don't need the topographical immediately but we'd like it to be done and um in the can for The Architects um when they're ready for it um we also meet weekly with our bond team and our district advocate advocacy group and we are already in the queue for any
053state funding that might come our way um so just for a little bit of a timeline the rfqs are due by March 5th we will review them and we will hold interviews on March 14th our goal is to actually have two architects that we settle on a primary and a secondary um for whatever reason if something happens we don't want to have to have to slow down a process and and go back um and then we will hold a board workshop on March 26 that we can talk about Bond processes and project prioritization that's a lot of P's in One D bullet clearly I didn't practice that um and dag will be here with us and we will um kind of work on starting to set some of our priorities so go on our website
054two places you can go into departments or you can click on facilities Bond program at the top if we wanted any outside people um folks to be able to get to the rfqs very quickly within two clicks um this enhanced web page has all of our bids holds our facility's master plan all of our information around the citizens oversight committee any presentations and Communications and then coming soon we're going to start as soon as we have a better idea of timelines that will live here as well Community Communications um project um Flyers will go on here we'll List information around awarded projects and um contractor documents so Eileen has been very busy any questions great job Susan that was that was a lot and we really appreciate I mean it's really excellent but I'm going
055to let um Rachel if you have any comments we'll start on this end or questions oh really just more of a comment that was incredibly comprehensive and just uh I mean it really makes me even more excited to be here and to be part of all this energy and this forward momentum so thank you so much pleasure Maggie uh yeah I just wanted to Echo my kudos to Susan for the work you're doing hopping in these 100 days have felt uh like many more days than there were 100 but especially your attentiveness to the bond passage and walking the streets um really am grateful that you're in the seat and we have you uh looking with fresh eyes um on the state of the district great thank you the house that talking okay oh gotcha
056okay uh Kathy so I yeah yeah I just wanted to reiterate how lucky we are to have Susan Dr Wilds as our language English language arts adoption committee head because her expertise is is I've taught language arts for 20 years and I'm learning a ton so I really really really appreciate your knowledge pleasure I have another thank you uh I you know look I I wasn't part of the board yet but I know all the miles you put in to help you know get this Bond talk to talk to the community and get that out there so I appreciate that because uh we all know how hard volunteers are and you volunteered all of your personal time so thank you for that um and yeah thank you for the comprehensive notes and plan I mean
057I don't think anyone's in doubt of where you want to take this ship so I appreciate that I have one question sure under themes that emerged number four yeah that we you had an increase in anxiety my question was is that do you feel like people is the feedback you're getting that that's over the last year or is that since covid or is that just in general it's since Co um there's lots of there's lots of factor it's kind of hard to tease out the one yeah the one thing what we're hearing from our counselors is we have record numbers of kids coming to the wellness centers um not necessarily for um just checking hanging out necessarily but for coming because they need I think you know Rachel we heard uh Cassie talk about today
058they're coming because they're in crisis right um and I think there's a lot of things contributing to it I think there is I'll be honest I do think there is um we have too many kids on social media we we are running into a lot of you know inappropriate text messaging um you know so really the team and I sitting together and thinking about like how how do we help support families in helping to monitor a uh diet right of what's coming in because that's for every um risk assessment we're taking in it's coming in with pages and pages of text messaging right um things like Snapchat is nobody's friend it's it you know it's it's then that's really tough um and then we also have you know but we do think and this is
059um we had a a student from a student council um with two today at wellness and we had two alumni and then we had to the debate with these four kids talking about the difference between block and stack schedule was fascinating they just just them talking we had and two alumni one at Costa and one at Rondo right and the two of them um talking about it um and you know Lucy said it very clearly have a lot of homework every day and our administrators were able to do something called a day in the life where they shadowed a kid and um Miss bledo said I didn't make it through the day without not only my homework but I didn't finish assignments who that that then became my homework um and I think that's probably
060contributing it to as well and you know kids have a lot of activities after school so I mean it's it's really hard to tease out um but I think we can do some things that okay can address that sounds like you have a pretty good handle on it so thank you you yeah it was really interesting just to hear them talk about the day in the life um both administrators at Valley because uh you know basically we were taking a test in first period and she's like I couldn't stop thinking about the test all day and I didn't do great on the test she got a see she passed but I just I I you know you you see the the compounding of what's happening it is a different experience coming from a block schedule
061going to a stack schedule at high school just with my own child I a real difference between the two two systems that we have that our kids are going to yeah um I agree with everyone's uh thank yous Susan I just I feel like we're really lucky that we had Jason to begin with and now we've got um and where where he took the district from where and now where you're taking it um even further and like kind of tightening the ship and and and pointing Us in you know a direction and I think we're all excited to kind of support you with and I think my biggest one is on the arrows part making sure that you feel like you've got board support for for those arrows and that we're not overwhelming the group
062because we're all excited and you know when you're new you're excited so um you know I'm taking notes on the on the goals and things that we had talked about earlier and just like thinking about um all the directions that we are interested in going and making sure that we've got those all accounted for in our updates because some of those I mean there was probably like 10 things that you were like oh and we're doing this and we're doing that and in our LC cap we've got this goal and that's not even listed on here so just making sure that we all you know take a deep breath if we acknowledge all the work that everybody's doing and you're doing and you know the team is doing um we really apprciate we have a
063very good team we do have excellent team of people but just you know again I think what Jason did a good job too of doing for us was saying like hold on a second everybody we we've got a lot of priorities here we only have so many people and just kind of breaking us every now and then so I'm just encouraging to you know put on the braks if you need to or just remind us to be like you know over time or over three years sometimes yeah and I think that's also you know re-engaging our parents you know there are things like robotics I want robotics do I have staff delet it no but I know we might have some North Road Grumman parents sitting in this you know you know audience right and
064um those kinds of things I think we just need to re-engage you know often times volunteers just need to be invited yeah you know and there's a lot of great programs that were happening that are happening in these two other districts that were surrounding us that we just haven't been had the ability yet to implement or or things maybe we're interested in doing but um just we aren't there yet or we have other signature programs that they don't have so right you know we're I think as a board I'll just you know speak on behalf we're just very grateful you're here grateful that you've integrated into the team so greatly and um thank you for the comprehensive plan pleasure yes go ahead Rachel did have one question I know you've told us this before and
065but I forgotten um the three-year strategic plan which I think is an incredibly brilliant idea to make it three years when do you envision that plan starting so in March we're going to meet around the we'll have a workshop on the bond in April I've got a date um set for us that will give us time to get a survey out um to both parent staff and then in that April meeting what I'd like us to do is we will disaggregate that data there are going to be some things that that rise um you know I've just sat in room with parents so I have a fairly good idea that some of the things that are that are going to pull they um people were very um concerned about kind of ela and those those
066kinds of things so I think kind of straightening that ship is going to take care of a little bit um but April I think we're going to disaggregate the data then the team and I will put the the plan um together based on your input so hopefully we our goal is to bring it to um the board for approval probably in Jun or July so we'll have it for the next year thank you all right great moving on consent do I have a motion to approve consent still moved thank you Maggie do I have a second second thank you Kathy all in favor I moving on um to the superintendent uh approval oh that sorry those were under the consent sorry business uh NOP that's under consent also sorry I'm moving on board action um
067um get to skip quite a few things there um s under superintendent s-32 d2425 the adoption of the 2025 2026 school calendar Dr Wilds yeah the proposed 2526 school year calendar for the Hermosa Beach city school district has been developed with consideration for aligning with the Manhattan Beach Unified School District although you will see also see a lot of alignment with the Redondo Beach Unified School District calendar as well we want to really thank hbea you know January February is not normally negotiating season so we really want to thank them for um working with us and um working so quickly um to kind of identify and um um do this in a timely manner we want to be able to communicate to our families um staff recommend you approve this calendar thank you anyone have
068any questions or concerns Rachel okay we'll just keep going to hold hold your motion Maggie any questions none Carol Kathy all right let's make a motion a motion to approve the calendar thank you Rachel I second thank you Carol all in favor motion passes especially in Maggie or Maggie is um and Dr WS when when will we be able to get that out to families tomorrow morning at 8 AM oh perfect look at that um all right moving on to s-33 uh SL 2425 2023 2024 School accountability report cards for hermosa view Vista and Hermosa Valley Schools miscl the school accountability report card is an annual report that's required by California Ed code it is recommended that the board approve the 2324 School accountability report cards for all um schools within the district as presented
069in the packets thank you I always find it interesting that you have to do it from the year it's like not the year you're in but anyway anyone have any questions or concerns Rachel Maggie none okay moving on let's take a can I have a motion to approve so moved thank you Kathy can I have a second I'm second thank you Carol all in favor I I hi thank you Maggie moving on to s-34 d2425 resolution 10 colon 2425 certifying to the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles all proceedings in the November 5th 2024 General obligation bond election it's very big deal Dr W Y so this is resolution 10 colon 2425 of the Board of Education of the Hermosa Beach City School District certifying to the Board of Supervisors of the
070County of Los Angeles all proceedings in the November 5th 2024 General obligation bond election staff recommend you adopt this resolution but we want to also let you know we do also have Lauren Shan here if you have any questions around any either this resolution or the the next one as well can I just get clarification in the in the title it says 10 colon 2425 and in the resolution it says 11 11 it's 10 okay just for the minutes let's just make sure we note that um anyone have any questions I don't even know where to start I'm gonna hold my questions till I have more information I won't make a comment ra no Maggie okay thank you for being here tonight but yeah we have unless you'd like to give us any more information
071but no no questions but we're just excited we pass this Bond yeah and at this point the resolution goes to the Board of Supervisors and the Board of Supervisors just stamps it and says great job and let's go spend some money pretty much yeah okay so yeah then they send us a bill yeah exactly pay for this election right interesting how much does an election cost like that is it 35 or 65 60 okay well well worth it Heros of beach all right so um if no further questions can I get a motion if we already do that I motion to approve the resolution thank you Rachel second thank you Kathy all in favor I right motion passes I just question okay got it all right moving on to business um resolution 12 colon 24
072sorry b-74 d2425 resolution 12 colon 2425 establishing a bond oversight committee Miss montau thank you as part of the measure AHB we are required to have a a Citizens oversight committee and approval is recommended for the adoption of resolution 122 2425 of the board of Education designing its citizens oversight committee for measure S and H and approving to amend the restated bylaws therefore so some of the members will be carrying over from measure s onto measure HV and some will be retiring like we have a parent leaving the district in June so we'll we'll get a replacement so this resolution allows all that to happen and the replacement will come like we'll put it out to the public in terms of what their designation is like their apparent through they a Community member okay anybody
073have any questions Maggie NOP Carol no Rachel Rachel has a question well I just had a comment and that's just thanking everyone in advance for those who sat on the measure s and we're continuing on to measure HV because it's um really kind of unseen work but it's really important to ensure that we're good fiscal stewards so thank you in advance great miss the committee has has been very um committed so we appreciate them I think they meet four times a year right yeah committed committee a committed committee um all right so I'll take um a motion so moved thank you Kathy can I had a second thank you Rachel all in favor iov on d-75 d2425 the consultant agreement for owners representative for district measure s um State matching dollars project Miss montavo thank
074you ratification and approval is recommended for the consultant agreement with Nancy Baro doing business as public education Consultants to collaborate with various Consultants Architects construction companies public agencies and the Hermosa Beach Community on measure s and state matching dollar projects great thank you thank you Nancy in the back we always appreciate you um ra Rachel questions Maggie nope Carol NOP Kathy no all right can I get a a a motion please thank you uh second second thank you Carol it was RA uh Rachel and Carol all in favor I I all right great moving on to b-h 76- 2425 the contract for Clear induction Administration Services credential program curriculum and instruction Services Dr WS yes so approval is recommended for this um contract with Leo so that our assistant principal Allison Montoya can clear her
075administrative credential oh great perfect anyone have any questions yep that's great I'm glad she's doing that I'm glad we're helping to to make that happen for her so um without any further questions negative motion Some Mo thank you second a second thank you Carol Kathy Carol and all in favor I hi meure passes I um be Maggie we didn't hear you on that one but hi thank you uh b-77 d2425 consultant agreement for Occupational Therapy Services Miss clck approval is recommended for the consultant agreement with Gwen oler to provide an occupational therapy assessment for a student for the 2425 school year great anyone have any questions right uh can I get a motion so moved thank you Carol can I get a second second thank you Kathy all in favor I I moving on to
076b-78 d2425 the 2025 California Schoolboard associate delegate Assembly Election Dr W yes so the most exciting part of the evening this is an action item that allows the board to consider and select candidates to serve on the 2025 California School Board Association delegate assembly for region 24 delegates serve a 2-year term and the board can select up to five of the candidates so just for clarification for everyone there are are only five candidates yes and Maggie sometimes you have an opinion on these folks but if there's anyone that we feel like we you know no opinions just very sorry we don't have anybody from the South Bay on there yeah it is usually that we don't have anyone from the South Bay I hear you yeah I've heard talk about that but um all right
077well there's uh five names here and if everyone's comfortable we can move forward with the five names that are on here and I can put an X in each box or anyone has a concern or comment or I have no idea I have no concerns I have no concerns that's what I answer yeah mean neither okay well then uh I guess that is a we need to make a motion to say that we will to approve the five names listed thank you Maggie can I get a second second thank you Rachel all in favor hi okay moving on to board member Round Table oh right anyone have any last minute please or conversations or questions or not me last minute they can be current time I I don't I mean actually I'm really excited to
078have um a five woman school board and a a woman's superintendent and the I mean we're we're power we're a power team there you go totally thanel um it seems like a long time ago but it and it only seems like yesterday that um our La Community was devastated by the fires and I um I'm not sure what I can say about our school district stepping up um that can be shared in public but I thank everyone that has stepped up and I look forward to um to supporting in any way we can uh anyone that needs District support awesome thank I agree with that there's going to actually be a call on Friday with Ben Allen and um a couple other legislators talking about any other support that they can do for the community
079and I do know that Manhattan Beach took in quite a few um students I want to say could be somewhere between 150 to 200 families or kids students um America students American Martyrs took in quite a few students I want to say some between 40 and 60 maybe quite a I don't have the I don't have the final account was quite a few um I don't think we took Mar is that 73 73 thank you Maggie and we've taken four we've taken in four so you know we are available happy to support um we've let Manhattan Beach know that we'd be happy to support them in any sort of counseling or trauma support as well um so that's we're I'm going to sit on the call tomorrow with Ben Allen's group just to listen to
080see if there's any other information we can share but yeah and I think the the big question I hear from Palisades and Altadena families are like what schools are what what's going to be open what how how can we get Pali High School back and that's that's my understanding or what what can they do or where where they can newly locate so I don't think they have an answer to that yet doesn't seem like it I think there's there's some several pieces of legislation to make um rebuilding um you know DSA approve those kinds of things move faster um for for those schools in my community but we'll keep you posted yeah other than that buy your Disco tickets for the silent disco all right uh can I get a motion to adjourn some move
081thank you Carol second thank you Maggie and Rachel we'll take everybody on that no we'll do a Carol and and Maggie and all in favor I iting is adjourned at 7:15