HBCSD School Board Meeting 12/8/2021

001good evening everyone it's uh 50:09 apologies for the late start uh like to call to order the close session for the December 6 uh 2021 hbcsd December 8th sorry uh hbcsd Board of Education regular meeting Christine if you could please take the prot call board member Cole present board member Gardner pres board member cluth present president McCall pres vice president clerk is uh bo L Monica is absent tonight right we have a quorum thanks Christine uh moving on to Public Communication um seeing no one in the chambers Christine do we have anyone online for close session we do not have anybody online to make public comment for a Clos session all right well with no comments I'd like to agend to close session and we'll return for Open Session around 6 PM thanks for good

002evening everyone it is 606 um welcome to the December 8th 2021 regular meeting of the hbcsd board meeting um we do have a couple one item to report out from tonight's close session uh the matter of student versus hbcsd oah case number 2011 305 0651 was approved um by the board um the motion was brought by Quenton and the second was by Doug and it was approved four to zero with one board member absent Christine um I'd like to call to order the Open session for this evening if you could take the roll call please board member Cole present board member Gardner present board member CL present president McCall pres and vice president clerk Bo L Monica is absent tonight thank you uh if everyone would please rise and join us for the flag [Music]

003SE I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice problem all right I'd like to move on to approval of this evening's agenda do I have a motion to approve so moved thank you Jen do I have a second second thank you T uh all in favor CHR if you could say the roll call please board member Cole hi board member Garder hi board member clth hi president McCall I all in favor thank you um all right uh yeah we'll move on to announcements uh we have two items and then I'll uh also tag on with a few brief words um but let's get our HOSA Valley student council report going please good evening welcome

004hi everyone I'm Kennedy Hasty Valley student council representative hi I'm Chloe and I'm also a student council Valley representative hi I'm Alise Ern and I'm a the Valley student council fundraising commissioner we are excited again to be here tonight and update you on what has been happening at that trimester 2 began this week and some students started new elective classes students are excited to begin some fun projects such as creating apps making commercial lip dubs music and music videos and learning about digital photography we look forward to seeing the final products this week is also parent teacher conference week students are following a different schedule and middle school is dismissed each day at 12:25 students will resume the normal school schedule next week winter sports season is here information can be found at our athletic

005websites and all schools involved in the winter sports programs will'll be following the LA County Department of Health guidelines boys and girls basketball and soccer tryouts will be begin next week starting with the boys basketball on Tuesday December 14th after school in the HBS gym all winter sports team will hold their first practice on Tuesday January 4th with their first official game planned for Tuesday January 18th we look forward to an exciting winner Sports season over the last few weeks Science Olympiad members have been working hard at work trying out for their competition events last week the final round of event tryouts was conducted and the competition team will be selected in the coming of days our SoCal Regional competition takes place on Saturday February 26 and we will be spending the next few months

006designing and testing structures for the build events as well as studying for the test events we are we hoping to bring home another trophy for HS this year wish us luck Builders Club is volunteering at the Hermosa Beach Christmas tree lot at Pier and PCH for more than 30 years the Hermosa Beach Kanan Club has operated this lot and raised funds to donate to to local charities we hope that you stop by to support the Builder Club the Catalina trips for seventh and 8th grade students are coming up in the New Year 8th grade will be attending in January and seventh grade will be attending in February students are looking forward to the trip especially the night dive the annual student for staff volleyball game will be happening on Wednesday December 15th during lunch in

007the HS gym the 8th grade students are looking forward to competing against their teachers congratulations to all the students who have been selected to play and good luck against the staff winter break will begins soon and we are excited to spend time with our friends and family there will be a half day next Friday December 17th and school resume on Monday January 3rd we hope everyone has a wonderful break and thank you again for allowing our student council to share what's happening this month at Valley we look forward to share more information with you thank you so much for that brilliant update um moving on to HOSA Valley uh stem update Stephen misso is taking care of a an urgent matter right now and she'll be joining us uh shortly in the meeting if we

008could table that item and then when she arrives and um return she's she's right outside she has to take care of a matter for sure okay um all good and we'll table that and come back to thank you Jason um I mentioned uh I'd like to take a moment um I'll be brief I've got a couple of items by way of announcements um the first of all is that do we keep going all right the first of all is I'd just like to welcome everyone uh who's joining us particularly here uh and those following uh online and just say thank you very much it's a sort of it's year end uh as you can see we we took as a team uh the decision to share our holiday spirit with our sweaters and and other

009things and um I'm really glad we were able to do that uh it's it's going to be a wonderful time for all those who celebrate wishing you uh absolutely sort of all the best for you and yours with your families at this time of year with the winter break especially but I think it's it's been um a heck of a year and um you know it would go a mess if it didn't acknowledge sort of sincere thanks I think sincere thanks from the board especially to our entire Community I goes for uh particularly our staff our Administration our students and their families um nothing about this year was easy and uh I think we we we all acknowledge that um everyone's been absolutely brilliant I think in the way that we've handled ourselves and performed

010you know under the most difficult of circumstances so I wanted to open that with thanks and and happy holidays and and and sort of you know obviously we've still got a week or two left of school but uh I wanted to open with that um that moment the next item I wanted to mention was um our deepest condolences for the passing of uh Lance Whitman who was a um former uh HOSA Beach city council member as well as a school board member as well um I I wasn't fortunate enough to have have have met Lance um I from sort of reading the the Articles he was a an professor of political science at El Camino College for many years he had two terms on the city council and a term on the school board I

011think it was uh noted this week um in Memorial that he helped preserve the smalltown HOSA Beach uh experience that we we benefit from today and for the school districts he studied the district when it faced a new school year without a superintendent and two of the school administrators so you know we we've we've all been in challenging times and it takes um you know strong leaders I picked up on a quote that he would tell his students and um it touched me it said uh if you care about your community do something and uh anyway that that just uh I thought if we take a moment for Lance Woodman that'd be great um and last but maybe not least but um I just wanted to say a few words um it has been a

012heck of a year and um it's been an honor to lead in the what was the center square is now the the center chair um and you know I I just want to say thank you um I want to say thank you I think first and foremost actually to my wife Erica and our kids uh um there's been times uh where I know for sure I've been speaking more with superintendent Johnson than I have with them and uh at times it was it's been quite demanding and consuming so uh first of all thank you to my family um I next want to say thank you to the board uh you've and and Maggie I know you'll be watching this um thank you to all of you uh because um you know the support that we've

013shown each other other I think in navigating the really difficult challenges has been immense uh the staff um can't say enough about our staff uh and you know I'm I'm obviously you know hugely thrilled that we as a board were able to sort of recognize that uh this year with with increases and and and so forth but they've they they continue to go above and beyond and um obviously um you know huge thanks there uh and and Jason I'll just say thank you uh you know for your leadership in particular um and you know we couldn't have done this without you so uh thank you all right with that um thank you for allowing me the moment and we'll move on to public well no we'll we we tabled an item but misso you is

014now a good time great okay if we'll move on we'll take the HOSA Valley uh stem up to thank you I don't know if you know how um much that meant to me tonight so thank you for that um my name is Jessica bledo thank you so much for allowing me to be here and I am updating the community and school board on our steam programs so go ahead thanks Christine so sorry um so these are all of our steam classes I actually included science classes as well um and I'll get to that in just a minute um but miss Bell Mr kathlyn Miss Gil and then our science department has been absolutely killing it this year it's been really fun to venture into their classroom so I'm going to take you through some of

015the things that are going on in there go ahead thanks so steam 8 what you're looking at is a robotic hands designed by students um and the cool part about this is students are a part part of the entire conception design and then practicing piece of this so in Steam 8 they have designed and built VEX IQ robot um they're learning how to color code and also move things from place to place and they also work through coding projects using scratch um what's not listed here is they're working a bit on Java as well coding thank you steam eight in the news what you're looking at is an incomplete complete Newsroom we fully acknowledge um but that doesn't mean that we're not getting amazing work done in here in addition to um learning about the

016process that's involved in telling the news and the ethics surrounding it and how to write a good story and what's an what's an in credible Source um students are also be they also began building a website for their steam portfolio they um began developing their first news clip and partnering with people um we're working with IP pads and iMovie editing video production and we're Gathering all of that information so Simon can come and hook us up get us going thank you steam seven again some of the things are not double listed but um they're coding with Vex they're coding from scratch they designed a race car that's really fun um one of the cool things if you ever come to campus and take a look in these steam classes they're very self-driven so what I

017love is it's not a sit and get class students are up but they they're up with a purpose they know exactly what they're doing um portrait photography project they're looking at this from a creative standpoint um and then also miss Bell created a Post-It note graphic design we had them all displayed together um the idea that you can create fantastic wonderful art in super small spaces in six excuse me they explored the Lego Mindstorm robot robotics so we're using lots of different programs that have been we've been able to purchase from curriculum and instruction budget largely from um cia's efforts so um they are create they created straw rocket project they're using a a program called Tinker card to design 3D printing um and um they're also doing some digital photography photo editing um pretty

018pretty fantastic stuff going on in here again very self-driven students thank you um I'm going to kind of power through some of these this is a um steam seven so we're we're um into Mr kaplan's classes but some of this is a bit redundant because the classes are collaborating um but this is just an example of some of the things that they're doing for their right now they're working on the digital photography slideshow and these are the teaching points that they're working through thank you next in Steam six what you're looking at is a marshmallow Tower so the goal was for students to use straws and marshmallows but their Tower had to stand with one big fat marshmallow on the top um so it's about the construction from the ground up um and looking at

019it we actually have a wall of fame for sixth and seventh grade students who are the top um contenders or the winners of each of their projects thank you next um if you can see the student on the left is really getting into this um pretty fantastic stuff going on but basically um the this is idea lab so we're looking at F fourth and fifth grade students are being pulled from their Elementary class obviously an exciting time for elementary students to get um this really unique specials but they're designing tracks they're working in groups they built a roller coaster um they also had to use a um create a ramp for a marble but the idea was that it traveled slow as possible so you always think like how do we get there faster but

020the idea is using force and friction and against one another to try to get them there as slow as possible thank you um here's our fourth and fifth grade students just absolutely killing it with science recording their data getting involved with one another the SEC the pictures on the left the two pictures on the right uh on the left excuse me are students working with the robots that they designed and built they're all connected to coding so they can make their arms move up and down they can make them walk um eventually I'm assuming coding is going to be a language that we have to that's going to be required in school but our students are going to be ahead of the game thank you Sparks lab Linda Gil um so the reason I'm including

021Sparks lab is because Valley houses third grade students and so they get an opportunity to really look at um science through the eye of coding they are participating in building challeng es Miss Gil is out there looking for opportunities for them to build internship experience we also participated in an hour of code which was all schools committing to let's all let's have every student work on code during this one hour so it's like a uniting over that language which is really cool um and they're using scratch Jr which I thought was really neat um it's an opportunity for them to learn the same language but at their level thank you so here some of the things that they're working on we have the carrot project in the center again a build um and students are

022designing planning executing again using scientific progress and meth and Method the idea is do things wrong and learn from it so I just absolutely love Miss skills lessons thank you Christine okay so what's happening in science 6 through 8th you ask um there's I I've kind of delineated it it by um grade level so our sixth grade right now is focusing on metabolism engine and they're working on an engineering internship they just completed microbiomes and metabolism by the way all of this is very much my jam so um and I'll tell you what we're doing tomorrow which is also exciting seventh grade is working also on an engineering internship um and they're building little incubators um and they're looking at phase change in these incubators pretty cool and then eighth graders um is um eighth

023graders are working on a a device that could power equipment for a rescue team so they're looking at what causes power how to create circuit what's how to turn potential energy into kinetic energy things like this in eth grade thank you and go ahead tomorrow we can you go back tomorrow we are going to the nsta conference so um nsta is our national science teachers ass Association conference and it's been N9 years since I've been there so I'm actually lucky enough to go with them and totally geek out on science tomorrow um but the district is supporting us going both Thursday and Friday we're taking Miss ien lob um Mr Hecker and Miss Lo in addition to Jennifer sharp who's interested in bringing some higher concept science into the fifth grade classrooms and really sharing

024that wealth of knowledge with her team go ahead so we created some goals for nsta it's also a really great opportunity for us to team build in science um so we are going our plan is to gather a ton of resources collaborate with other educators of what they're doing in ngss in the Middle School classrooms look at materials that are going to supplement amplify and like really give that boost that Making Science exciting um and then also find some time to connect as a plan I mean excuse me plan and connect as a team and then generate next meetings so what are we going to do from now to then what's our goal um really focus the team on some collaboration while also weaving in fifth grade into that since we will eventually be a

0255678 campus so creating that K8 perspective is really important to us fifth grade is a huge component of that so um it's just going to be a a fantastic opportunity to learn what's out there there's also some really great um uh sessions that are talking about literacy postco and how writing for writing and reading um informational text in science is so important as we know that's where our students struggle the most so integrating that into their experience is also going to be really um beneficial thank you so steam student impact I thought this was um interesting I'm like I want to show the board what is the actual student impact so we have 147 middle school students that took steam in trimester 1 we have 27 78 elementary students benefiting from idea lab um and

026that doesn't that doesn't include um third grade students we have 111 third grade students that are benefiting from Sparks and then overall we had 448 middle school students that are we are impacting in the area of science so we have lots of amazing great work to do uh we know that we can't do it without one another so really creating that articulation plan is super important in addition to supporting these fantastic stem electives that are helping to grow our students breath of knowledge so thank you so much for your support the next slide and really we can't do it without Partnerships hbf has been huge HB hpto Our Community Partners our board that supports our initiatives and growing um young scientists in the world so we are incredibly grateful for these wonderful experiences for our

027students which they always indicate is their favorite time in the day so not only are we um affording them the opportunity to learn and think differently and problem solve and make them aware that it's okay to be wrong that's a part of the learning process we're also um exciting them about science so that's that's the goal in education so thank you so much for your partnership thank you so much Jessica Jessica do you mind come back up just if there's any questions yes well yeah any queries thank you very much okay great thanks Jason yeah no oh sorry oh we're going down the line okay no I just thank you thank you for your enthusiasm for um I know it's been a board priority to really look at science and look at what we're doing

028in science as a district and paying closer attention to it and so it's just your enthusiasm for it is is is great and it's GNA be infectious I know it's gonna be a really great thank experience I just was my only curiosity was what does an engineering internship look like so engineering internships are often done through small Community Partnerships sometimes it's companies that are giving our students like $200 and they have to create a plan design execute so it's taking them through that whole process um and then the idea is that they can partner with them potentially creating opportunities for them to go to the companies and things like this that's great and I I just had one suggestion is it um just in Redondo I I just know about Rondo but they have a

029lot of engineering classes and things like that project lead the way over there I'm sure they have that at Mara Costa and it'd be really interesting to not only go fifth through eighth grade but see what eth grade into the high school is looking like and I'm sure you're thinking about that already but well you know what's really interesting is Jason actually brought this up the other day of how do our how are our students doing in in high school so tracking that is important it's sometimes hard to get your Hands-On data when they're not in your own School District but I think it's an incredibly valid point um where are they end ending in science you know are they ending at year two are they taking out of the way um where are they

030ending in math so we're looking into Gathering that data from both Mira Costa and Rodondo who are very open to sharing that with us but I think that's going to help us to create a trajectory of what what do we want to do with our students and that K12 articulation um additionally we're partnering with freshman biology teachers just to make sure that our eighth graders are ready to roll up um not just with their knowledge base but with lab skills that they've missed out on in a huge way due to co so that's the other thing that I would love to kind of Infuse into the valley science classrooms is start with a bang and you know make science sexy because it can be right start with that lab right up at the front and

031sometimes it's challenging as a teacher because you want to deliver the concepts first so the kids understand but really it's the exploration that gets them hooked so that's what we're focusing on but I think that's a great Point Jennifer K12 yeah no questions for me but thank you um I second everybody thing that everybody said um my kids have always been most excited about science and the steam and Sparks lab and idea lab and the different things that they're doing and um you know it sparked my my daughter's interest in Science Olympia and her desire to do that so all the opportunities that we're giving them are really really fantastic which is amazing and Hannah Lo has taken that on um as well we had at the beginning of the school year more students than

032ever come to the introductory meeting of science olympiads so um kids are kids are interested in doing that extra science which is cool yeah super cool um I would just sort of build on those points I mean the the reason why we have Thrive K through life this has been a Cornerstone of our programming for the district for years and so to see it this and to be spotlit in particular is fantastic I mean we we always sort of refer back to the quote of we're currently preparing students for jobs that don't yet exist technologies that not been invented blah blah blah and it's you you know it's so true and so you know it's inspiring to to see this so thank you for that um and also appreciation for the shout out of Partnerships

033because we couldn't make some of those programs so would be it would be very challenging and a particular shout out to families and community members that give hbf in particular that give towards the programming that makes this possible so I know thank you for putting it in your presentation I just want to say it's a year end annual giving we'll touch more on it later but uh good plug just just ringing the hbf thank you and I also think we have fantastic Partners in our teachers they're incredibly committed they're ready to go all in for kids um and it just is an exciting time right now in education to um push push learning push no that's awesome and and thrilled that they're getting out there as well to conference and things like that so thank

034you thank you so much for the update any other questions no no further questions just lots of love thank you for steam good all right moving on to public comments and communic Communications um am seeing folks uh in the chambers so I'll just read the um section here and public comments from the audience to the board in person and also online 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 raised that are not listed on the agenda topics on the agenda that are brought to to the board's attention may be investigated by the administration and a report made to the board either publicly or privately at a future meeting complaints regarding District employees must be dealt with

035in closed session and not in public comments from visitors shall not exceed three minutes unless waved by a majority of all members of the board and with that uh thank you to um to our public uh who have filled in the comment cards if you if you're here to make a comment and you haven't filled in a comment card please do Christina I think this they're at the back correct great and um also just checking for um do we have folks online as well I just want to make sure that we do Stephen we have two people waiting online to make public comment great to know okay so with that I'm going to take um first of all the folks that are in the uh Chambers here uh I'm going to go in the order

036that uh the cards were received so I'd first like to call up Victoria count um and if just for the record when you get to the podium if you would't mind stating your name uh also your affiliation with the district and then after you've done that uh I think we'll have our three minute counter just so um just so you have it so we'll get that up in a sec all right Victoria when you're ready if you just state your name and your affiliation with the district thank you my name is Victoria Kenan I'm a parent um of two kids one still in the school and I'm advocating for him I understand that Mr Johnson said during last meeting that we don't have mandates I also understand that they're coming and what I see from

037school administration didn't take any responsibility for any of their decisions from teachers to principales to superintendent to the board one excuse we hear is We are following orders and guidance by lcph I want to remind you all that your primary responsibility is to advocate for every child in the district you you do not work for laph you don't work for Beach City Health Department you do work for parents and in the districts and the children also guidance is not a law judge ruling from November 12 says School District remain free to implement those protocols or not therefore we hold you all accountable we reached out to the board few weeks ago out of five only two replied and acknowledge our email back to the kids no Society ever used healthy children to protect vulnerable adults

038no Society ever borrowed the health from a children to maybe stop the spread of this virus which we don't we know does nothing to stop it when in the history of humanity it was a ke to ignore a walk around the pediatricians and set up clinics for convenience adults responsible to protect the children not the other way around what a shame if parents want to play Russ roulette with the children it's absolutely their choice and their right but there is no place for a mandate for something that keeps us safe from even without evidence of harm which is not the case with this vaccine these kids have a long life ahead of them majority of them already had the virus the idea that we'll expose them to any risk at all from the vaccine that

039is so new is preposterous the Ser Surgeon General who declared mental health emergency yesterday mentioned that suicide attempts are up 50 5 1% especially for the girls we don't need more Wellness cils we need to take The Masks of our children faces take fear mongering of the campuses remove vaccine clinics we need to return to normal school years because this virus is here to stay also there was no one case proven in the US when teachers got sick from each child in the last two years without any vaccine available it will also never be possible to prove that in the court we also have at least 70% of children in the US who already had Co this is a note from FDA that is supposed to be given to every parent who come to the

040cleanic benefits and the risks there there's one benefit that we all know is not true by now and especially with new variants and the big list of risks two pages of risks right there this is the form from FDA other parents seen this this vaccine is not safe for children not effective there therefore we asking for your accountability we asking for Parental choice and for you to be brave and stand up for the children in this District hoping that the your conscience will not allow this mandates to happen we also do not want if you could finish up next your your point when you're ready thank you thank you like to call up next Rebecca baros please Rebecca if you could just state your name and affiliation to the district pleas and your time will

041begin hi I'm Rebecca baros I can only see when I'm up close sorry um my son is Sebastian he's in fifth grade at Valley so our group is diverse We Stand vaccinated and unvaccinated getting emotional sorry these mandates we stand for choice we are parents that just like you want the best for our children every parent is capable of making these very important medical decisions on their own we are not antiac we are pro-choice that being said where there is risk there needs to be Choice our group of over a hundred parents in counting are just not comfortable at this point in time with vaccinating our children with this very new vaccine we want to see long-term studies which there simply are not many of the vaccines in the US have taken 10 15 20

042years to come to Market under said mandate if we do not vaccine our children we will be forced to leave our lovely little Beach toown School in homeschool seek private or move these options are unacceptable for a virus that has the least impact on our children yet are the most vulnerable to the side effects of the vaccine some of these side effects include death if there is that big of a side effect it should be up to the parents to decide which they deem worse covid or the vaccine I certainly believe that there are many parents that think it's better to vaccinate their child and this is in no way attack on them for their decision as every family has their own risk to weigh out I want to stay hopeful that we can all

043get through this together and our kids will be doing what they do best learning and playing together at the school I know we can all agree that not having iners learning was very impactful to our children's education but more importantly to their emotional uh mental well-being kids should not be forced to segregate or be disheveled elsewhere I am standing here in front of you all a loving parent asking the board of loving parents to stand with us and push back on any mandate that would involve these actions and to come from a place of understanding that even though we may or may not agree our kids can still all harmoniously go to school together and that our choice will not affect yours thank you thank you next I'd like to call up uh Brian Olinger

044please ran if you could just say your name and then affiliation to the district thank you Brian Binger been a resident Hermosa Beach past three years everyone's got great sweaters love them and um oh am I waiting for the um yeah I I just want to be really brief I in in consideration with mandates future mandates and also just inclusivity of um the big picture as I totally agree with what she said of just um we're not necessarily anti the V um but more want a common sense following the science um the steam program um looking at um the trailing this this these numbers are trailing October 27 20 uh 21 and um obviously it's s 486 deaths over the last 12 months for the flu um for children under the age of 17 0

045to 17 and 304 deaths um trailing 12 months for covid so significantly OB obviously no there's no celebration any of that that's still that's still awful but in consideration 2019 there was never um a a mass mandate for 0 to 17 um 2019 for the flu yet it was a greater risk to Children within that age group per CDC numbers and I am happy to hand this out if it's needed um and so nor was there a nor was there a um a flu vaccine mandated during that time so the question is if it's if it's about the risk of those who are at greater risk and the and stopping the spread um as for my family we we have natural immunity that's that's a factor that with these mandates how come that is a

046very uh that is science historical that if you have natural immunity that should be heavily considered um we we've gotten the natural antibody test from one of my sons nine months later he still has it um is that being considered and hopefully as a love Hermosa Beach we want to we I grew up in theant Beach came to the good side Hermosa Beach um and want want there to be some really good common sense and some sense of unity where there's not just um one side against the other side but really looking at the numbers um being inclusive including those who don't see um the way that a lot of you know it's like half and half you know but is there is there some choice that we can come to when the mandates do

047come down and so that that would be my concern of just really looking at the data and making decisions based on that that will help the families that are really concerned I have five kids um um it's it's obviously something that's concerned for me so um that is the those are my main points so but thank you for taking time and I don't know submitting anything is of any relevance but thank you thank you for your time next I'd like to call Tracy bar please Tracy if you could just state your name and also your affiliation with the district and then your three minutes will begin thanks I'm hard sorry um my name is Tracy bar and my son goes to Hermosa Valley um in a time work in California we are teaching and preaching

048equality and exclus and inclusivity for all children regardless of their skin color sexual orentation and sexual identity how can we discriminate against children based on their covid-19 vaccination status and not call ourselves Hypocrites I know that as school district uh board members you take our children's education seriously and part of your job is to make sure that our children get the best education possible while being in an environment where they feel and are emotionally and physically safe therefore I appreciate your concern during this pandemic to keep our children safe that said I want to remind you that unvaccinated and vaccinated children can and will spread covid-19 as all experts have confirmed I'm also asking you to please consider the emotional and intellectual negative impacts inclusion exclusion will on these children that will be denied an

049in-person education implementing a mandate that refus in-person schooling to unvaccinated Children is pure unfounded and unnecessary segregation what all the children what about all the children who have had covid-19 and recovered the Mandate will not give them access to imperson learning either unless they are vaccinated for disease they have had and are immune for is that Justice is that Equity because I know the school is promoting equity and the definition for Equity is the quality of being fair and impartial I know that your board members in intention is to protect not just the majority but the minority groups in our school as well that there is hundreds or of children that will be impacted by these mandates or hundreds of thousand that should not matter I'm asking you to stand for all minority group groups

050stand for all children we cannot pick and choose who deserves freedom justice equity and inclusivity either you believe in freedom justice equity and inclusivity for everyone or you don't if you segregate and exclude children because of their vaccine status how is that different than segregating and excluding them for the color of their skin or sexual orientation no child should be discriminated against period I could send you all the laws civil rights and even the Constitution that backs up when I'm saying to you today yet I won't because I trust you know in your heart that mandates for our children to attend school and are not right this is not in line with the values we have as a country I hope you can stand with us so we do not lose our children's right to

051in education stand with all the other school districts in California that send a resolution to government Governor n against the co9 vaccine School mandates to assure equity and inclusivity for all our children thank you thank you next I'd like to call Philip Schwarz please all the sweaters especially that one that pretty cool um father husband uh taxpayer um Bill Schwarz uh so uh good evening I'm here to talk about mandates um take a look around everyone here is in compliance with our first mandate The Mask cotton blue decorative the Silver Bullet to Corona virus right wear this and it will all disappear covid-19 is still here lock down mask up repeat it's a clear definition of insanity doing something over and over again expecting a different result it's been two years now and we don't

052know even know who told us to wear this and I know what you're thinking science told us to do it right the science the science no room for debate just do it while other scien is telling us Max masth don't work work now they they have proven scientific evidence that masks are harmful to kids and affects their cognitive abilities so let me ask a question everyone here is G out to dinner during the pandemic everyone likely everyone in this room and what do we do we go down we go to dinner sit down take off our masks not while we're eating we take them off and poof covid disappears how is this any different than the classroom it's not different but I'm not here not to argue about science and common I'm here for a

053freedom of choice if you want to wear a mask wear a mask but don't manate mandate it for me or my child this mandate needs to end now while we're discussing freedom from Choice let's discuss our second potential mandate the vaccine first comment before I continue we all can agree that covid-19 vaccine does not stop you from Catching it or transmitting covid that is crystal clear now we don't want to see a single child die but the risk of death from drowning driving in a car or the flu are greater than the risk of dying from covid but children have not stopped swimming or riding in a car the flu vaccine is not mandatory and children have a greater chance of dying from the flu than covid so then why the vaccine where are the

054benefits do the risk outweigh the benefit risk per the FDA and listed on the beach City's health district website like difficulty breathing swelling of the face a fast heartbeat bad rash all over your body dizziness weakness chest pain shortness of breath myocarditis paric carditis and feeling having a fast beating or fluttering heart and not to mention the long-term side effects that we don't even know about yet so it's our choice to decide whether to get the vaccine not the uh and not not to vaccine your child not the government not the school the parents we we want choice we want freedom it's what this country was founded on I leave you with a quote from Ronald Reagan freedom is never more than one generation away from Extinction we didn't pass it on to our children

055the bloodstream must be fought for protected and handed on them to do the same or one day we will spend our Sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free thank you next Betty please Betty mower thank you good evening Bessie if you could just state your name and your affiliation to the district and your time will begin thanks I'm Betty Mau Grammy of couple kids at Valley uh with regard to the upcoming Panorama survey that is to be administered I believe on December 15 none of the information asked for on that survey is needed for teachers to deliver lessons in Reading Writing math science electives whatever the subjects are this survey and others like it are part of the sew guiding

056principle that has been adopted by Heros Beach School District but these issues belong in the domain of parents not the schools I submitted a letter to you that was written by an organization called parents defending education the letter was written to a committee on Capitol Hill in Washington DC and they asked them to investigate the use of these intrusive surveys the letter is a lot more detailed and has a lot of stuff in there that I'd like you to read I don't have time to do it all here but here are the four main objections to these surveys number one the surveys are disdainful of parent rights there are deeply personal and private questions that have no connection to academics and they belong not in the school but in the home number two collecting the

057survey data creates serious privacy concerns number three many of these survey questions are designed to create a pretext for introducing devices political and social issues into every aspect of Education Panorama itself touts the seal sew as social justice and as a vehicle to promote critical race Theory Panorama says that about themselves number four the vendors promoting the Panorama survey have conflicts of interest follow the money do some research into attorney general Garland's con connection to the founder of Panorama so I think as it currently stands in Hermosa Beach this survey will be administered to all students unless parents have submitted an opt out form I submit to you that this should be done only on an optin basis the other thing I'd like to talk to you about is um I I submitted a resolution

058that I'd like to have placed on the agenda for a vote male and here's the background the national school boards Association s a letter I'm sure you've all heard about it a letter to the White House asking for help in curtailing outbursts by angry parents at local school board meetings the White House referred it to the attorney general Garland who wrote a memo in which he directed the Department of Justice and the FBI to intervene in and investigate these parents labeled them domestic terrorists who were speaking out at local Schoolboard meetings the memo was a total overreach by the feds and a misuse of federal power in an area traditionally handled by by state and local authorities EDD if you could just finish your left point please thank You' I'd just like you to look

059at that resolution put it on the agenda for a vote thank you thank you Chris checking any further comment cards from the chambers I do not have any other comment cards Steve all right uh and so any are folks still waiting online yes we have two people waiting in the waiting room online excellent all right um same rules apply um if the first person could be admitted and if I know sometimes there's a time delay so we could all just be a bit patient but if the person could State their name and affiliation to the district and then the 3 minutes will begin thank you I've admitted Carolyn from the waiting room Stephen good evening Carolyn can you hear me right now we can Carolyn you just thank you trivic Caroline if you could just

060state your name and your affiliation to the district please thank you uh Carolyn P Carolyn Petty uh both of my daughters attended Hermosa Beach Schools from kindergarten all right thank you um as Betty said on December 15th every child at Hermosa schools from third grade and up will be forced to log into Panorama using their credentials and answer personal questions about who their friends are if every parent has not opted out they should do so immediately U okay I think there's a delay uh so Carolyn if there if you are getting this delayed apologies um we'll reset the clock for three minutes and um if you could just um when you see the clock starts just go and and I wouldn't interrupt you until your three minutes are up thank you okay um okay so

061sorry it kind of re-recorded so can I start over again now please do okay I'm gonna start sorry okay um on December 15th every child in Hermosa schools from third grade and up will be forced to log into Panorama using their credentials and answer personal questions about who their friends are can you hear me okay yes can okay I'm not sure if this is Caroline we can hear you perfectly um I'm sorry to interrupt you uh but just because it seems as though you're stopping so if you do get this on delay I'm we'll give you another go at it just you'll see the clock reset and when you want to begin you you begin and you'll have the three minutes we can absolutely hear you so um thank you for your time okay this

062is last time sorry about that I keep hearing it re-recording so I'm just gonna go through the whole thing and just go through it all right on December 15th every child in Hermosa schools from third grade and up will be forced to log in Panorama using their credentials and answer personal questions about who their friends are if every parent has not opted out they should do so immediately instead the school district caring about education they care about who your child has as friend since when is that the business of the school every parent should bear in mind that when children log in their answers will be tracked not only by the school but by Panorama this will happen over a number of years with Panorama owning this data on your child this is dangerous for

063your child's future and an invasion of private this is most likely a violation of fura the federal law that governs student privacy but the school probably assumes most people will not want to sue their own school so they violate FPA anyway people should not trust a school districts when they invade the private thoughts these are not innocent questions asking a child over and over again they spend time with Children of other races and is a leading question and designed to subtly begin the process espoused by critical RAC of viewing everything everyone through the lens of race parents that what happens could answer the questions and ways in which the school or Panorama dis this is critical race Theory and action however subtle it may appear at the same time the district for focuses on who

064your child has friend they know that based upon the I ready scores presented at the last board meeting 43 % of the kids her most age are testing below their grade level in math and 32% are testing below their grade level in English why is the school not focused 100% on remediating these shameful sers Not only was this met with casual commentary from the board but there was no action plan brought forward no reflection upon School priorities and zero discussion about to Remy those which are most likely impact of school Shut instead the school under the leadership of Jason Johnson is planning to embark on anti-rac training for all the teachers happily by the CRT group UCLA Center no wonder attendance is dropping in her thank you Stephen thank you Christine if we could admit

065the next person please St and I'm admitting Jessica great thank you Jessica welcome um please make your uh if you just state your name and affiliation to the district and then um you'll see the three minutes start when you start uh if there is a time delay apologies in advance but we'll just let you go for it thank you hi line it's a little bit I'm so sorry now not clearly Jessica sorry sorry um sorry guys just give me a second thank you Christine do we have a telephone number that people can access the meeting on also I believe we do correct we do to access Us by telephone the phone number is 669 Jessica we're struggling to hear you um there is an option to use a telephone dial in if you have a

066better cell connection than data connection um Jessica we're having the lines a little bit broken um we do want to hear your comment so uh if you're able to get to a better data connection or if you're able to dial in we can provide it's in the agenda there is a dial in number as well in the same document that you received uh for the zoom link Jason it looks like Jessica has disconnected dropped okay I'm just gon to give her 30 seconds to see if she's able to log back in um Taylor anything from ourn technology wi is it okay thank you everyone for your patience um obviously want to try to get everyone's comments Stephen it looks like Jessica's trying to connect by phone now I'll admit her great thank you can you

067hear me yes we can thank you Jessica for daring in sorry thank you for joining us if you could state your name and affiliation to the district and then as soon as you've done that the there will be a three minute counter that will go down but I'm gonna not interrupt you I'm just going to let you say your comment straight afterwards okay thank you um okay my name is Jessica Craig and and I am a sorry I have a kid oh my God I have too many things open I'm sorry hold onik see I just want my notes up anyway I have a child in um Fifth and in eth ATA Valley thank you and um can you still hear me we can thank you the line is clear so thank you for dialing

068in um your three minutes when you're ready okay so I just wanted to you guys haven't talked about this yet but um just about the in the in the in terms of like the school psychologists and counselors um I noticed that you guys have had a lot of um people long-term um staff leave recently and I saw on the agenda that you're going to be using an agency um for your assessments and um just I I am actually a school psychology intern and I'm in my second year um at a different school and I've just been you know I my kids have been um in the system at your school and um I'm just from what I've noticed at my other work um I wondering why you guys don't use interns um for counseling in

069school pyes um the reasons I think it would be a good idea is because you could have um on campus people who know the know the students know the teachers they could build rapport with the students um they could kind of be an extra ear an extra body to um you know if a kid needs to talk or if they're having a crisis or something like that they can support the staff that you do have so that they don't get overwhelmed or burned out and and um I just think it it'll reduce the need for independent um uh other ones that cost money obviously for the district um because they can do assessments you know you just need a you just need someone who can supervise but I I feel like you'll attract a lot

070of young Talent who's eager and um and I just think it's kind of limiting yourself to not have interns in general because you know having an outside agency come in do assessments it's like a one-time thing then they leave but school pyes um interns or you know obviously hired ones they can do a lot more than just assessments they do counseling they do schoolwide interventions um they're there to support other staff they're there to talk with teachers when teachers aren't sure what's going on they can like Monitor and track the students who have IEPs um I just think you know I only know you guys don't have them because two years ago when I did my practicum I asked and they said they don't do it but I I think you guys should reconsider that

071just given the huge increased need in um mental health you know support but also in just like how far behind so many students are falling and um I do think there's a lot of undiagnosed learning disabilities amongst the students um at the school and yeah so so that was just something I wanted to throw out there because I I feel like you guys are going to spend a lot of money and I don't know that you know agencies who send someone just for an assessment is really going to best meet the needs of of all the kids who need help right now and that's it thank you thank you Jessica thank you just checking if there's anyone else I don't have anybody else waiting to make public comments Stephen okay great um thank you with

072that um I will close public comment and move to written communication um I'll just go on behalf of the board and say that uh I received uh from Betty Mau um written communication regarding uh the P Panorama survey as well as um affiliations uh with nsba um I'll also mention other correspondence and communication in case that was also received by the board so um I received uh notes from Rebecca barus regarding vaccines Tracy bar regarding vaccines Victoria Canon regarding vaccines also testing I had communication with the South Bay Representatives uh as well as csba on various topics Suzanne Evans regarding the restoration projects city council uh and City compact uh Emily venning uh regarding a matter complaint Caroline Petty regarding [Music] Panorama with that I'll just go down the line Quenton check if you received

073anything further or additional nothing great nothing further um I received correspondence from Aaron Smith uh Jennifer cedarest Mike mcnight and Britney I don't know if it's Britney Glenn or Glenn Britney great I don't have anything that hasn't been mentioned yet thank you great all right um we'll move on to superintendent update thank you Stephen um first off I want to give a big shout out to HV PTO um our Marquee was installed um over Thanksgiving break Christine's going to pull up a picture um just in case anyone hasn't had a chance to see this beauty I'll um anxiously await the unveiling here on our screen look at that big and bold nice yeah so um just a bit big thanks to the PTO um and uh it's really nice to see you know kind of

074these final um items going on to the Hermosa Vista project and I I look forward to our collaboration with PTO for the next projects as well to to continue to unify our three schools um thank you Christine much appreciated uh next the staff holiday party first annual staff holiday party is going to be on Thursday December 16th uh I want to give a big shout out to a lot of uh local businesses um a lot of our vendors uh who've made uh great donations um we've raised quite a bit uh we're be doing cash prizes we're going to feed our staff sta make them feel good and send them off to winter break to rest and relax big kudos to um Paula in the cabinet for we had a little competition of who could raise

075the most money I think we all owe Paulo lunch next week all right um next is parent conferences is ongoing um uh this week uh big shout out to our staff I mean like for uh their preparation and preparedness for um the conferences I I also I sent a letter uh in December and I I just want to make a point you know thank a teacher thank a teacher thank a staff member um I know there's a lot going on and you know this is a busy time of the year but um appreciation goes a long way and their job is very hard so I um I know many of our parents know this they get it um but um just you know a friendly reminder you know thank a teacher next uh enrollment enrollment

076is up so enrollment has has been steadily increasing uh during the fall we're up to 1235 students um we have actually a few requests uh still uh of uh permits trying to get into our district um so we uh continue actually in the winter here our enrollments um um you know climbing um so big kudos to the team and for our teachers and staff doing great things in the classroom the words getting around on that note the enrollment push is about to begin we're moving up our enrollment and registration process by a whole two months um we'll be doing our orientation um in late January we're going to send out a save the date very very soon and I want to um also just uh you heard it here hot off the presses that uh

077full day TK Kender again that's you know new facilities at Hermosa View and then we are also um uh TK uh if your child turns five right am I getting this right child turns 5 uh by February 2nd now used to be December 2nd now it's February 2nd then you are eligible to attend our TK so big things happening sign up now call Sylvia and I we'll tell you all the great things about the program we're well versed um but we're looking forward to a lot of rolling out events and uh more information to come and then Sylvia is frantically writing me a note right now o good yeah and before and after stay uh before after school daycare as well too so that's that's a huge piece we learned that from our families before

078and after school daycare star is also bumping up their registration period and they're going to start registering on February 1 right yeah so big things happening we're moving everything forward uh so our parents can plan accordingly and make sure they got their seat reserved for Hermosa Beach City School District next big shout out to the Hermosa band Hermosa band played at the tree lighting ceremony they were phenomenal um I just cannot thank Ken Harris enough the stuff that he does with those kids is amazing the talent is just phenomenal um and then if you want to see more they're going to be playing also after the holiday party at 700 PM in the Hermosa Valley Bowl so it's going be a full evening for all of us and we're really excited about it so uh

079Hermosa Valley Bowl it's gonna be a lot of fun be there and then finally um a very important announcement here Cal did beat Stanford on November 20th it was 41 to1 and it was at Stanford um so just want to make sure everyone's aware of that important announcement thank you that's all I have Stephen do you want to come back on that one or is that that okay yeah the year before was in Berkeley it was 2423 Stanford um Stanford also won nine of the previous 10 big games before that so um I don't think you want to start this fight good ban I'm glad to see we're a data uh organization as well um board any queries on superintendent update uh comments um Jason I just going to ask um about uh the the

080mandates and whatever else in terms of what is the communication coming from the governor timing when is information sort of uh you know be coming from from the state and stuff like that on the vaccine mandate on the vaccine mandate as of as of right now there is not a vaccine mandate that's in place for children to attend school ages five to 18 I um you know there's been talk and then Governor Nome has has discussed it but as far as timeline it's indefinite um so you know we're we're aware of it but there is not been an update to school districts about a pending mandate um so it's hard for me to comment on it because there is no mandate right now y thank you um all right with that um no further queries

081I will move on to public hearing we have uh item h03 2122 hearing on educator Effectiveness Grant um syia um the Heros Beach City School District is in receipt of an effective Educators Grant um and the funds will be UTI for professional learning um public comment is requested at this [Music] time great um board first of all just there's any queries from the board on this item um if we get to this later is this currently right now it's just a public hearing so it's an opportunity for the public to give comment and then we will have a presentation and a board action later in the meeting all right so Christine anyone um well first of all anyone in the chambers who submitted a card or request to make a comment nobody in Chambers has

082submitted a card for comment on public hearing and I do not have anybody online waiting to make public comment on the public hearing either all right well thank you for that um with that we'll move on to even we need a sorry I apologize yeah a motion to close the public hearing all right motion M dou move to close the public hearing thank you Jan do I have a second thank you D all right um with that we'll close oh mo board member Cole hi board member Gardner hi board member cluth hi and president Mcall hi all in favor all right thank you with that we we'll move on to uh our first set of forward action items uh this is our annual organizational meeting section um we discussed a lot of this last week

083so um I think it we'll just go down the line as it were um if the board is open to this for efficiency time sake um you know if there's first items Jason would you suggest we take them individually or are we able to group um a significant portion of this just help without taking individual motions Stephen I would recommend taking items a b and c individually and then the rest can be grouped all right let's take the first uh three individually um the first item is the affirmation of review roles uh of board and members Governor standards and conflict of interests anything from your and Jason No I um have nothing to add that the board's not already aware of great do I have a motion to um a motion to approve the affirmation

084of review roles of board members governance standards and conflict of interests so moved qu do I have a second second thank you Jen Christin board member Cole I board member Gardner hi board member cluth hi and president McCall hi all in favor thank you uh next we'll have selection of officers um there is uh President and Vice President uh clerk uh that's the um new title we assumed and so yes this is very exciting can I do we need to make a motion I'd like to move to app Point Maggie B mon as president and I'd like to move to make Doug Gardner the vice president clerk for the 2022 year thank you Jan do I have a second second thank you quinon uh Christine if you could do the roll call please board member

085Cole I board member Gardner I board member CL hi president McCall I Bitter Sweet all in favor that is all good thank you um I I would actually like to just in the interest that um Maggie wasn't able to make it this evening I know she send her apologies um um and if vice president clerk is open to this um I'm happy to just continue chairing the meeting and and and go with the flow if that's okay if the board is okay with me just continuing the Doug show can wait a year sometimes it's hard to let go but uh I promise I'll let go after this evening all right so with that um you know I'd just like to say uh thank you we're gonna do it at the end we'll do little things

086congratulations Maggie okay we'll get to that in a second um all right next one uh establishing date and time of regular meeting uh we have our regular board meeting on the second Wednesday of the month um the close session typically starts at 5:00 p.m. and our Open session at 6 um do I have a motion to approve I'll take Jen as the first and I'll take Quenton as the second thank you Christine board member Cole hi board member cluth hi board member McCall hi vice president clerk Garder I abstain everybody knows how I feel on this one all in favor except one thank you um all right so we will group the uh remainder of the organizational items uh these were all discussed also at the the last board meeting um the first is formality

087authorization of super sorry just I apologize just for the record it's it's three votes and one exstension um yeah thank you cool um we have authorization of superintendent as executive secretary to the board um the next is uh adoption of resolution 08 2122 the authorized signature uh for resolutions we then have the read-option of established policies rules and regulations from this date through the organizational meeting of 2022 and then we have representatives to the various committees um the first one is selection of Representative to the HOSA Beach Education Foundation and the HOSA Valley and view Vista parent teacher organization I believe from our last meeting that was Jen thank you very much as first um is it it's probably helpful to have a second on these as well I don't think and thank you Doug

088just as a second that's great and next is the city school district compact that is um that is the board of presidents so Maggie congratulations uh on that one and Doug uh would be the second on that next we have selection of Representative to the measor S facilities meetings uh those are weekly meetings and um I will continue in that role I'm happy to continue in in that role um as I've been the lead for the measures facilities on The View project uh for the last year so I think for continuant sake uh that makes a lot of sense and also Maggie has volunteered to be second on that then we have selection of Representative to the local control accountability plan committee genton put his hand up for that one and uh I believe dog

089is a second and then we have selection of Representative to the wellness Council uh Jen thank you for your uh continuing service on that important matter um I don't think we discussed a second on that so I'm happy to put my hand up if the board is okay on me I'm seeing some thumbs up so I will be second uh On Wellness then selection of Representative to the LA County School trustees Association uh Doug thank you on that one um again I don't think we discussed last time around a second but I'm happy to to be on that as well so um just if there's ever meetings you can't make Doug happy to step in uh then selection of Representative to the LA County committee on School District organization um same thank you Doug and

090uh I'm happy to be a second on that so with that do I have a motion to approve do you want me to repeat it all or I think we're good with me having sort of spelled all of that out um do I have a motion to approve uh the remainder of the annual organizational meeting and appropriation to selection committees so move thank you quenon do I have a second second thank you Jan uh Christine if you you could take a roll call vote please board member Cole hi board member cluth hi board member McCall hi vice president clerk Gardner I all in favor thank you board all right I'd like to be the first to say congratulations and thank you uh thank you Maggie as I mentioned before I know you'll be watching this

091and uh thank you I'm really excited um you know to have your leadership in in in this uh in this in the presidency role um your years of service to HOSA Beach um you know stand before it so it's great to have such a wonderful educator and um uh leader in this role and uh Doug likewise um thank you for for your second to on on coming into things um and it's it's exciting it's exciting times um so with that yeah I mean I should formally pass off let me just get let me just finally get which one do I I can pass I'll just pass this one over um good anything further on this one we're good all right next we'll move on to board reports um I will ask Quenton do you have

092any um to report no okay Chen I believe you have one item I'm just gonna um give a little update from the equity and inclusion committee meeting um when we had the last time um so I'm just going to read some notes we um with the committee is active we had a lot of participants we had I'm just going to [Music] count 15 people there on a pretty regular basis which is great and we we're meeting monthly um this time we looked at the I ready data and looked at and analyzing it a bit um looking at changes from the last year to this year um again we all looked at the same data that's been presented to a lot of different groups at this point at the decrease levels in both math and reading

093um and then looking at like kind of breaking through and like looking to see who those students are and what we can be doing um our biggest areas of concern as a district and and Miss GL pointed this out the last time where our special ed students and our math performance of our African-American students and our English Learners and um that we have a small population of African-American students and English Learners even a small change can make a big difference in that so just learning how we can support those students and um support teachers um so we were just that took a lot of the time um we also got some feedback from the teachers that were present at the UCLA centerx responsive teaching um professional development workshop and got a lot of great feedback

094on just the experience that they had listening to the moderator and um they felt like it was very engaging and that the person that was presenting was very knowledgeable and that they could take away some great tools back to their classroom and we're we're working on the what what is currently being called a response procedure a draft in terms of like if there are some impactful news stories in the country or in our community or globally and and potentially how or what do we and how do we take a response on things like that or do we take a response it's just it was a conversation more than a any sort of decision and then we did look at um there was a question by one of the committee members just for us to review

095and look through what it is um you tell us more about panorama tell us more about um the company tell us more about the questions that we're looking at why we're looking at those questions and I think we went through them um and and gave a lot of great information there's a lot of great information on the website as to what the questions are how parents do have the opportunity to opt out of taking the survey um the kind of information that it can give our our staff to know how to work with different students and um just that social emotional Wellness of students is is really important in terms of um also finding Equity um and diversity so did I miss anything Dr Johnson I'm sure you're going to talk about it in your

096presentation no but that was very comprehensive um thank you oh the one the one area that we're still working on I feel like we've got a list of goals and the one area that we're still working on obviously is this um response procedure so that's the only thing we haven't quite like nailed yet I would say we're still it's a definitely work in progress what was that response it sorry would just be if there's a global or a community issue that um for example like George Floyd from last two summers ago it's like what what is our how do we respond to something like that or is there you know how do we give staff a response that feels supportive right thank you Jan um did dou anything from you um there was a couple

097of items uh on board reports uh that Maggie was going to give um the first item was around the PTO hbf uh board meeting or updates um I have a couple of items just to sort of quickly uh cover that from hpto anyone watching um spirit wear popup tomorrow a details three to five get your um stocking uh stuffers or or items gifts um you can also donate to Middle School class fund to celebrate Middle School staff for their holidays um and and both Spirit Weare and middle school middle school class funds can be purchased on hvv pto.com the hbf uh the big update is that hearts of HOSA um save the date if you haven't already is March 26 uh so that's a great one to uh line up for there is also the

098annual giving campaign uh as we saw this evening from the steam presentation how important uh the the the contributions from the community and from families whatever level you can give uh is so important uh and I think that's the the emphasis behind um the goal of G giving a 100% again at whatever level we know sometimes that is hard for families um at sort of uh the contribution levels but anything or even donation in time is is great uh so that's a a class Grom competition by December 31st for 100% I also had eron gave me the great reminder about year end gift of stocks uh as well as Grandparents Club latter so those items from HB hbf and hbpt there was also an update uh on csba um I'm just aware that Maggie made

099it down to San Diego uh we appreciate her service and going to uh the conference and being a representative uh for for that uh for the district so thank you Marie and with no further board reports I will move on to superintendent reports uh and board discussion so first item is r25 2122 security camera update Simon good evening um my name is Simon Duren I'm the technology coordinator here at fosa beach C School District um it's good to see all of you again in person especially especially you former president Stephen Mcall um so lastly uh where we left off uh was just a couple months ago where we did the initial security camera infrastructure upgrade project that was our proposal which was approved and here is a quick and brief update of the project uh

100next slide please all right so um the overall summary of our project um was we installed eight cameras at View at Vista currently um or for are known as Vista School site and 10 cameras at Valley uh next slide please um the original cost breakdown is shown here this is the same information that was listed on the original PowerPoint side that was presented by Dr Johnson um just brief numbers um all costs associated with the original project did not include installation um and everything was projected at a 14-day uh resol uh 14-day retention policy at max resolution uh next slide so the final cost break breakdown so we did run a tad over budget um this was in the form of a consultant and a boomlift that we had to rent uh just due to

101technical techn uh technicalities and safety risks uh we brought in professional help uh due to some of the mounting locations of the cameras uh as uh as you're probably aware the MPR is a very large building at Valley and um that was a that was going to be a situation where we needed outside help um but overall the project went pretty smooth and um here are some of the results next slide please um so quickly just briefly what's being recorded um so I don't want to go through all the lists but it's 247 um and to be clear audio is not being recorded that is a civac compliance regulation I know that some of the neighbors or members of the community may or may not be concerned about that but just to make it clear

102across the board audio is not recorded um and right there that picture to the right that is an example of one of the security cameras that is mounted on the side of the NPR at Valley um I would be giving more descriptive uh like locations of where the cameras are but no that's that's that's our confidentiality um we we we would like to keep our camera locations discreet obviously in event of purpose where we ever need to pull footage next slide please so here is a quick snapshot of basically what's being reported um top left you have the indicator of the camera on the top right is time date stamped uh in case the footage needs to be pulled and um uh audited in any situation and also too a good feature of the cameras

103includes heat signatures so each of the boxes are identified as heat signatures and it shows where they've gone or where they've been now this is extremely important in issues where we we are a Beach Community so we run into a lot of fog uh mildew there are going to be times where there are poor lit locations um this just helps us identify or just uh Mark who is on our campus um and just gives us a more clear picture of uh what's really going on next next slide please um so this is are one of our main cameras so this one is not this this is a camera in the front front center of Vista campus um everyone will see it as they're driving by this camera is uh very special this one we're going

104to be beta testing some license plate scanning technology which will allow us to scan license plates of any vehicles that come on and off campus Um this can be extremely suitable for us and in uh high-risk situations or heavy traffic flows and just kind of helping us filter like what's going on with our campus this works really well well in the addition of the new visitor management system I don't know if any of the school board members have seen um but we have the kiosk in the front office this is really just helping make our our campus like really safe and secure um especially flexing our new campus new shiny campus with our new kiosk and cameras it's it's a good look uh next slide please and yes that is me uh any questions thank

105you Simon uh B any queries thanks for doing that work Simon yeah anything from you dog good yeah I was going and thank you thanks also I mean you go above and beyond uh with the installation here so I mean while you know in terms of the budget but I'm glad you were smart and not getting up trying no one was trying to get into those places so um you know thank you so much this is great technology and keeping things safe so um all good I just want to say thank you too it's just it's great to see how much just professionally you've grown and then like how professional we are now it's just it's awesome so thank you and your your four years ago like lot changed I know no just you're you

106know super confident it's great to see you know you up here and doing that and your sweater is is outstanding tonight absolutely thank you indeed that's strong um in terms of that is there an annual licensing fee associated with this no no no no sir so um due to the fact of uh the way I built it out um this is is uh it's a it's like a Lego kind of style system so we can add on top of it um but the subscription services that we have this is all basic functionality um this is a this it's it's a 50-50 Cloud solution so uh the footage is stored locally on Prem on the camera itself and on the cloud um it there's an app that people have access to um to review the footage

107um it's really cookie cutter this is not going to be a recurring a cost that was what I was trying to protect the district from this wasn't something we wanted to try we wanted to get into an annual an annual cost we wanted just one time have it work 10 years and then we'll look at it 10 years later that sounds great thank you son no other queries moving on to item r26 2122 measure s construction update Nancy good evening board members I'm excited to present our construction progress update at the for most the V School uh next slide please oh I'm short okay as you know this is our Infamous sign that we removed from the front of building I welcome any suggestions on what to do with it uh it's currently stored in

108one of the classrooms uh next slide please okay starting with F1 Kinder building we got our fire sprinkler brein and then our fire Riser installation uh next slide please uh so we're tiac wrapping that's to waterproof Water and Air intrusion and then we began Roofing uh F1 next slide please sorry okay F2 Kinder building we've got the mechanical electrical Plumbing installed and then we're putting up the uh facer board installation at the front of the building at the top uh next slide please okay uh F2 again uh the framing is complete and on the right side we're doing our electrical Bol installation next slide please okay uh again we've got the roof going on at uh on both sides the left and the right you can see it's complete on the right for F2 next

109slide please okay Building B this is amazing the walls are massive I if anyone has seen it in person your eyes are probably this big like mine every day so here we've got the re insulation of the rebar and on the right side we're pouring the concrete into uh the formed wall next slide please okay look at this building this is absolutely amazing um so we're doing the electrical Rin and we're doing the Cur curb forming on Building B on the right hand side next slide please uh so we we're on the left side removing the wall form uh wall forms um showing our beautiful massive walls on the right side we've are doing waterproofing uh with the Ty light paper next slide please uh data low voltage and storm drain installation on the ramp

110leading up to the back next slide please uh site utilities are going in uh along the ramp also so we've got our sewer connections uh next slide please and then our Infamous Aerials so you can see uh F1 we've got the roof complete almost complete at f2 and then all the War uh walls formed up at Building B and next slide please um again another shot uh aerial shot uh next slide please uh that's f one complete with the roof uh next slide please uh Building B those massive beautiful walls and uh next slide please and there's another shot of Building B so next slide and that's it amazing great update thank you for the photos what any queries Paul looks like we're going to be almost done by Christmas I was going to say

111F1 and F2 let's get it open half halfway through the school year this is great yeah any other questions honestly go by and Sue the walls they're so massive and beautiful um I recommend it it's really really really cool stuff so that's great um all thumbs up from our end Nancy thanks so much to the team and uh obviously California needs the rain but I'm keeping my fingers crossed for sort of a slightly dry by the coast uh uh session all good okay um with that thank you we'll move on to item r27 2122 the effective Educators Grant syvia well I'm excited to be here today to share with you about our Educators effective Effectiveness block grant um this is part of assembly Bill 130 which renewed for um educator effective for schools to provide

112professional learning um and to promote educator Equity equality and Effectiveness so when we received the information in regards to this grant we wanted to keep in mind our goals for the district and darn everyone's going to know what our LC cap goals by the end of the year because I'm G to put it in every slide presentation but um we want to make sure that we are focusing on professional development as well as closing the achievement Gap and that is what our uh focus is going to be when we're looking at the educator Effectiveness Grant slide please so what we really want to focus on is what is it and the most important thing it's one-time funding and the nice thing about this professional learning Grant it can be used for teachers administrators um our

113parent Educators classified staff um but what we really want to do is focus on Equity quality and performance slide please so when we look at at the overview of the grant um the nice thing is is that um Hermosa Beach is receiving $225,300 report um in September of 2026 we have a few years to spend this which is great in regards to making sure we have long-term objectives for our staff that we can measure what we're doing and um see growth with our students slide please there are 10 categories that we can um spend the money on and um you can see the 10 categories that are listed um based on the funding that we received we will not be using um the money in every single category we will be using using them in

114a few categories um coaching and mentoring is really important to us as well as um the language art literacy piece we want to really take that opportunity to provide extra staff day for our staff to focus on uh literacy we also want to um work with our special ed team to close that Gap and provide them with specific targeted intervention and we also um are looking at improving um inclusive practices and helping with um the new um TK um adding on to that so our um new teachers can get the um professional development they need to provide to our earliest Learners slide please you can see how we broke down um the funds um to create to our whole total um as mentioned each category is listed with the roll out for the years um

115in the future so I look really forward to working with our team and our staff um to create cre some objectives and goals and to meet them with a data slide please could you go back a slide sure so the majority of the funding here is going to standard align instructions and literacy is that is that an easy translation for that to like it's really targeted at educational like core educational standards and ensuring that all the teachers are doing a great job of teaching the Core Curriculum so what we're going to do is look at our I ready data and this is going to provide the district with an extra professional development day that we can focus on so some areas could be when we're talking about literacy could be in any um subject area

116social studies for example we are looking at a social studies adoption we are working um in regards to a consultant for literacy um and Target it through um research based practices so that is where the majority is going in it's for that additional professional development day that we're paying for I just wanted to link it back like super explicitly to those three goals that we keep repeating that you referenced at the of start of the presentation it looks to me like that line in particular and probably other parts of here are really kind of targeting that Excellence education goal that's what this is really in support of yes and it's also targeting um k through eight um teachers as well as um par Educators and classified staff to for supp great thank you I was

117going to piggy back on that is that you could also say it's aligning with Equity as well because it's like improving inclusive practices and early identification and development of iaps is is a big part of of of our part of that mission so great job on getting this gr I mean my understanding is this money is you have to apply for it it doesn't it's not just sitting out there we create the plan and have um the long-term what we want and be very specific so we looked at the areas from our data that we have um special education um our I ready data to focus on that area and then we know that um the universal TK is coming in the next few years that we keep rolling back the date so we want

118to make sure that our TK program is really strong and that our teachers have a specific curriculum to work off of and that um we know that once we get our kids in the district they stay so we really want to Target getting those um students here as early as possible well thank you for applying for the grant get filling out all this information and just making it aligned with our mission and and getting it it's a lot of money and it's nice because we can use it for staff and which will affect our students I anything from you thank you syvia thank you team moving on to to item r28 2122 first interim reporting update on thank you Stephen um I am here to give our first interm report this evening next slide um

119our takeaways from the budget of a high level view is revenues and expenditures um have resulted in a break even budget at first interum um Staffing increased Staffing due to enrollment increases and contracted services are for special education are the main um costs of increases and as we all know as we've been talking about forever managing enrollment is critical to the Future funding not only for 2223 but and Beyond next SL slide so we'll jump in right with managing um enrollment as Jason mentioned our current enrollment is 1235 um since we started our marketing campaign to increase enrollment we are have increased by 42 students which is fabulous and we're going to keep pushing as Jason mentioned we um are starting the TK Kinder Roundup um marketing campaign um late February or late January um

120so that is going to help push enrollment as well um our funding this year we're still being held harmless and we're funded at 1308 but in 2223 it will be based on our actual attendance um either prior year or current year whichever is higher next slide here is the budget overview um on the my leftand column um that was our budget at adoption in the middle are the increases and at first inm that's the total budget and the takeaway here is that we're at a break even budget next Slide the budget overview um I just wanted to highlight some of the onetime revenues that the district has received that are new um the South Sela has given us two grants the ADR Grant and the learning recovery Grant these are targeted for special education students

121and the special education department so we have $92,000 to address their learning needs um in addition to that um we applied for a grant with the Los Angeles County Office of Education which is the ELC grant for covid um it is helping us manage covid um covering salar for our classified um health aid as well as our district nurse and covid supplies and testing um new Revenue that is coming in there was an increase of $111,000 for our lcff funding and that's due to the increase in unduplicated population and that's primarily due to parents taking the time to fill out their free and reduced lunch application so I wanted to say thank you um an increase in special education and then of course um the local Revenue the hbf um funding came in higher than

122initially had been planned and we have a large um donation that's being recognized at the first interim budget new expenditures that we were that we had planned for the first interim were the ab200 the negotiated increases for salaries um Staffing increases sense budget we um had to hire additional staff for teachers six par Educators we have three teachers out on a leave of absence that we're covering in addition to that we were able to bring back our librarian and um our Music Teacher 100% And the art art teacher for Middle School um service and operating expenditures increased like I mentioned prior um the most cost is due to special education increase in contracted Services next slide when we take a look at our multi-year projections um on the revenue at the top for all three

123years there has been a slight increase and as I mentioned that's due to the increase in the unduplicated student um population and our expenditures came in a little bit better than anticipated so our outlook for the three years is a tad bit better than it was at budget um but we are still cautiously optimistic that enrollment is going to continue to grow and these numbers will get even better as enrollment grows um next slide just a quick reminder that uh Statewide reserves for elementary school districts and that's what we are K8 Elementary District is 20.4 seven next slide and finally our reserves when we um look at our reserves we have the beginning and um ending balance the reserve by percentage is what I want to call your attention to at the end of this

124year we're planned to be at 31% and in 2324 we're planned to be at 17.5 that's slightly lower than the Statewide average and and that concludes um the budget presentation does anyone have any questions thank you paa um dog any queries good um see I just had a quick question is is the Ada based on actual attendance 100% agreed to by the governor already I thought it was still maybe in question on on how they're going to do that there is there is lobbying going on right now to try and um hold harmless for another year um but at this point we're planning on and jumping to the budget is based on um moving to the actual Ada so we'll probably have more a more a better idea on what that's going to look like

125in May is that true yes great that was that was it thanks you're welcome Clon for parents and even maybe board members who aren't uh versed for long periods of time in school budgeting uh Break Even is good news right Break Even is great news okay thank you very thank you very much we're in a healthy Place fiscally I just want to make sure everybody was clear on that thank you thank you that's great um Jason any you want to give any updates on ssda or any lobbying efforts I know that's not direct to this report but sort of associated on we continue to work with um small school district Association Along with csba and AXA it's administrative Association um it is on all of their lobbying and advocacy for this upcoming um legislative uh

126work and then um we have met with Senator uh state senator Ben Allen um uh alir suuchi uh as well um who's always been a major Ally to education um and uh there was a followup with um Ben Allen staff about trying to get a build together for um uh either hold harmless or an average of ADA and I I think that what I would say is is that it's it's it's not a done deal um there's road to travel but I think it can only get better I don't think the situation is going to get worse um so Paula's presentation is is certainly the worst case scenario and I think that what we're looking at is something that will be better than that scenario um uh coming out of Sacramento and and there's we

127actually were just at a budget presentation today and there's it's it's it's looking good as far as school funding overall and and we're hoping to um get you know support from the state to understand that you know uh all school districts lost enrollment and all school districts are trying to adjust to you know the most unpredictable enrollment period in the history of education so um we um are hopeful and not just hopeful but we come in with the strategy really aggressive about lobbying to our local officials and also to our advocacy groups thank you Jason thank you pa okay one just one other point of clarification I just um lest anybody watching uh forgets this I think we're we're feeling really good about where we are physically which is fantastic that's one of our three

128main goals um but we owe a huge dat of thanks to the community for without the hpf funding you you highlighted that in your presentation that local funding is uh is key to to our good fisical health so thank you to the community and please keep it up yes thank you D thank you moving on to item r29 2122 culturally responsive campuses syvia I'm happy to be here to talk about our culturally resp responsive campuses um our culturally responsive campuses Fosters respect and understanding of others and by providing Equitable access to education and supporting tolerance of those who look different or have special needs creates a positive effect on our learning environment and also increases uh students capacity to learn slide please so when we look at our l cap goals um our um goal

129number one is really the focus on equity and inclusion and we just want to build our capacity with our students our staff and families and this is why we're doing the work that we are doing slide please so October um it was the highlight of American Indians Alaskan natives and native Hawaiian peoples um it was an exciting time um we had some a lot of activities going on in October there was a great focus on um our Native Americans slide please we also focused on um bullying as well which was a schoolwide uh theme and um a drug-free um Red Ribbon Week was also happening um and the activities for um our um drug-free Red Ribbon Week were k through eight they just looked different at each level because um when we're talking about middle

130school students they're going to do something different than our elementary um school students but it was participation districtwide slide please so in regards um to Red Ribbon Week um one thing that I'm really happy that Dr Johnson did bring is we had um a Halloween braid and it was a lot of fun um the kids really enjoyed it um and it was about just having a happy and healthy celebration so um I'm the witch at the bottom with the big hat so I participated in it as well and it was just great to be out there um and have the kids um enjoy there was a dance parties at Hermosa Vista Hermosa Valley it looked a little bit different um I'm really impressed um with our counselor at Hermosa Valley she did a safety net

131um lesson with students and that was provided to all students on campus and that provided students the ability um to teach them how to ask for help or how to create a a plan if they needed coping strategies you can see the art that was um presented by Miss Ripley's class uh they did chalk drawings going up to school um our lower elementary kids and our elementary kids they love getting dressed up and they love participating in um all the dress up days so they enjoyed that aspect but there was a little bit of something for everyone and our counselors also had copy with the counselors um for families as well just to talk about um some of the topics that were discussed during that week slide please in the live Library um there was

132a focus on um bullying and um a lot of different books were um available to students um Miss Myers she does go into the classroom and do lessons with her students in the Middle School the books were displayed and students can choose what they wanted to um choose so the book on posted was about broken friendships um on social media and failures of communication between um students so that's just a very relative um book right now that was brought up and that the kids were able to look at there was also um some websites and resources that kids could look at as well at Hermosa Valley SL please um November um we did highlight um the Native Americans um slide please slide please there's a lot of exciting stuff going on in the campus um

133at Hermosa Vista um they had um a virtual assembly and I think that's one thing that um Co Tau that was one great thing Co brought us we can now have assemblies virtually with people from all over the world so they had someone from the Gabriel gab Lino tribe um and the kids were able to learn about those traditions and cultures and they really enjoyed that um at um Hermosa Valley and Hermosa view there were books available for students um they were able to learn a little bit about the Cod Talkers in an appropriate um way with um children's books and picture books and so it was a great way to tie in the whole theme please in um Hermosa Valley our third graders um learned about American history um they were able to look

134at um artifacts via uh the internet and they also had um book studies that they can use so I really appreciate our Librarians um really owning um the culturally responsive classrooms and what we're doing and providing those resources for our students to use slide please December um we are promoting inclusive and accessible um just for all students and we want to highlight um the students on our campuses please so we are focusing on disability awareness month um just letting every um student know at school that everyone's different and how we can be inclusive um so everyone can be included in our school culture and then that includes in the classroom as well as outside of the classroom um recess and lunch slide please and I'm really excited about the work that the schools are doing

135so um one thing is as um we have a program called PebbleGo in our lower elementary and our um culturally responsive resource Specialists where were able to pull a list up for our teachers to use in how to address um any lessons on disabilities so in um the lower elementary level I know Miss Ager did a lesson um I believe on deaf students and that we have the materials at our school and then as well as if our students wanted to learn more and they're non-readers you can go on PebbleGo and it will read a story for you and highlight the key vocabulary words um there was also many virtual assemblies um that were held Miss tanita provided some videos for her teachers to share um this video I wish we had time to watch

136it but it's a great video I would love to send it to you um it was just about inclusiveness and um it focused on a common theme that all kids like is Star Wars and how if you have a common theme it doesn't matter where you're at there's still that connection um Valley I am um very excited about their work they're doing with their friendship Foundation they have uh created a partnership with the Friendship foundation and they are pairing up um students with um students with um that are in our um special day class and um providing activities and um Miss blo had said that there's so much participation every once to participate so it's great that we have um students who are willing um to learn about others and um we're linking our students

137um to other students on campus slide please um we're really pushing our Librarians this year like there's so much in our libraries um if you're a parent and you want to introduce your child to anything there is a book for some everything and um Miss Myers and um M ra have done a great job in cultivating our library so that there is something for everyone so for Disabilities month um I know that book uh rescueing Jessica is about um the bus bombing and during the marathon and about a girl who gets a dog and how the dog and the girl's relationship is and it just teaches from a different perspective um so when kids now see um a person with a therapy dog like what does it mean and um it provides more context to

138Children um and then there was other books that were shared um at Hermosa Valley um one other great thing is that another book it's a a a picture book um with the cat and it just kind of shows different people um so the younger kids can relate um to how different people look and on a side note we had um social studies um adoption committee and we were able to bring a lot of these books for people in the committee to see um the work that we're doing and they were really impressed with our selection that we have at our school slide please any questions thank you s any queries um no query just uh just want to say thank you for to um the entire staff and administration for continuing to push forward um

139all of these uh programs and and Concepts it's so important for for all of our kids to be exposed to all um these different cultures and ideas and and everything it it's just um a key to as you said at the beginning um making sure the educational opport for everyone is is the best they can be so thank you for continuing to push these forward thank you T um quinson good thumbs up Chen no double thumbs up all right thank you soia Ming on to item R 30 2122 equity and inclusion update for holiday sweater I can tell um hi how are you all doing um major kudos to the the staff here with the Christmas sweaters I'm I'm very proud I'm very very proud of all um particularly that hat of paos um tonight

140I'm going to uh give us an update about the equity inclusion work um this is uh the next Benchmark and so we're reporting at the end of this first trimester slide just a quick summary here um in the our performance uh we had 12 objectives um that were the product of the work of the equity task force last year um we are in the action uh stage uh which also includes additional planning um between November and December 20121 um and we are currently on target for 11 out of our 12 objectives slide this is a slide that um you know we've we've uh you know been showing over the course of since the plan was created in June um I want to take a moment with a slide just to point out um that uh

141the vast majority of these items are academic in nature um and they are centered on academic achievement um if you think about our goals I mean like I would like in uh culture culture of excellence and academic achievement to be the race car um and financial stewardship I mean like and that work to be the gas that goes in the car and I would say that our work in equity and inclusion is the engine that makes it go um really a school's power horsepower per se is its ability to serve all of its students so that all students can achieve um and that is hard work and in many ways that is the work um good instruction serves all students um and this work from the get-go has always been focused on providing the best

142instruction for our students so that all students can learn um I really do believe that I mean like some of our highest achieving students you like will Thrive likely in any environment however the vast majority of students will Thrive because we put in the work to make them do so and that is really the purpose of the work of equity and inclusion and it's not new it's been the work of Education since its Inception so I uh definitely appreciate um the work and I I would encourage all to continue to reflect upon this slide and when you break it down you can see as we'll go through that the center of our Focus here is on academic achievement thank you slide so objective one we uh continue on with our committee uh made up of

143parents staff uh and Community uh uh they've done a great job they've been a great group we've had fantastic discussions uh everything that uh you see here tonight has been reviewed by this parent uh committee um and we've received feedback on our most recent meeting we did our I ready data analysis we de briefed about our professional development session the feedback was very positive from our teachers that serve on the committee um and we also reviewed survey data from our teachers that was also positive um I'll talk a little bit about that in a second and then we've been doing some work with our response procedure Slide the fontas and panel Benchmark assessment is uh uh the gold standard in Reading assessment for students what I appreciate about the fontas and penel reading assessment is

144that not only uh is it an accurate assessment it also helps demonstrate to the teaching staff what a child needs in order to make growth in reading that is really the true purpose of the assessment not just to provide a letter saying this is how your kid performs but to also instruct the staff about how to support that child um um the FMP system I'd like to point out is also not new to our district uh it was actually been implemented several years ago but what we found was it hadn't been implemented to Fidelity um and our goal is to ensure that not only are all students grades 1 through five receiving the FMP assessment kindergarten will get it at trimester three that's that's the timeline but also that we're tracking that data and that

145that data does not disappear and that we'll track student growth particularly for those students that are at risk through the course of their time here in Hermosa uh uh the results are being completed there's uh Lea noice working really hard um and inputting her data uh from the FMP assessment and uh those results are currently being shared during parent conferences um which which is an opportunity for the teacher to talk through the results of that assessment Slide the Panorama assessment uh uh as given last year as well too it's the same survey that was given last year it is being completed uh on December 15th uh there was a parent information letter that included the survey itself I I also encourage um uh families to read the survey data it is very the survey and

146the survey data uh it is very short um uh however I do believe that the questions mean like give us great insight into how we're supporting the social emotional needs of our students which I also believe is essential to their academic achievement at school um and there is a great deal of research that backs up going as far back as 40 years to show that there is a strong relationship between the resilience and social emotional well-being of students and their academic achievement as well as um uh inquiry into about the experience of our our students me like and how they connect with students of a different ethnicity or culture on our campus I think this is important for all students I think it's also important for us to recognize that the experience of individual students

147on our campus is not the same and that a student that is a minority or any other group May perhaps have a different experience than a student that is the majority that's important for us to capture and to be aware of that said there's also an opt out that you can do if you do not feel comfortable with your child taking the assessment but I definitely recommend that one reviews the assessment before doing so slide oh and I apologize there will be a board presentation on those results like there was last year in January the objective for trar Benchmark assessment system so as we've mentioned that like the the the engine is understanding mean like the performance of our students and then doing something about it so it's one thing to assess mean like but

148it's another thing to actually have an understanding of the data you're looking at we are not waiting for the California assessment in order to understand how our students are doing at the end of the year we're building out an assessment system where we are taking checks during the course of all three trimesters so that our teachers can utilize data in order to adjust their instruction we're also taking multiple measures because one measure is not really that useful you need three measures in order to triangulate the data to understand mean like how a student performs in a variety of Assessments so major kudos to our teachers here are the assessments you see and we'll be building out this data which I'll talk later about how we're storing it slide this is our Data Tracking System which

149is now online and we're finishing the final design on it working with Vicki um in the business department with Sylvia um so uh we have currently already uploaded our I ready data and now that we're collecting our FMP data it'll be uploaded into Power School why is this important well prior in order to get data you had to go to five different places in order to find it and typically teachers don't have access to those places or the time to go looking so in turn now that data will be stored like in a the student information system so a teacher simply just click in power school and they can look at that students performance not just this year but in all the years that they attended Hermosa this is the foundation that we're working on

150in order to build pillars for achievement so I do find uh another thing that would be um very important is if a student is at risk or struggling there is record and history so that that student is not starting over every year and their teachers understanding about what they need in order to thrive slide this is uh the equity dashboard so the equity task force and committee last year determined that rather than solely relying on the California state dashboard to report on our achievement data that we needed something that was more um uh connected to our local indicators or our local assessments as well as something that would be updated more frequently than what the CDE does which is just once a year so perosa not only is taking its achievement performance seriously and taking

151steps in order to build upon it we're also being transparent about how we're performing and publicly sharing that information on a trimester basis this is important because if we're doing the work we want to show that we're having an effect if it's not working then we'll try something different in order to do better but the important thing is is that all will be able to see this data by simply clicking on our website and it done as you see there in a digestable way that all families can understand so we're currently in the process of uploading our most recent assessments which are being taken here at the end of the trimester and we look forward to in January having the site go live SL so one of the more important meetings that take place on

152a campus is a Student Success team the Student Success team process is when we bring together the Education team including a counselor or an administrator and the teacher on record in order to support a student that is not making grade level progress so what we found though is that this process was a bit disjointed particularly if from school site to School site and there was no common database of tracking these students so a student may receive intervention one year but then we were struggling to keep record of that student year to year so each year the student was starting over again uh working with our principles we've built out a database where that student information is stored and will be transferred grade level to grade level each year in a standardized way here you can

153see we're able to collect data and statistics now based upon the CES that have been conducted per students as well as the special education assessments that have been conducted and um in relation to those ssts the form you see below is a standardized form there's slight adjustments from elementary to 6 through eight but we're moving towards a standardized system that is trackable slide we have conducted a professional development um uh with uh UCLA Center X um it was uh conducted by Dr Orange um who also works with Manhattan Beach Unified School District as well as Los Angeles County Office of Education um I attended one of the trainings as well too she was phenomenal it was an hourlong training and the purpose of the training was just to think about who are the students in

154your room and how do we think about how they perceived the room and that's important each learner brings a very different experience to the classroom and our understanding of that makes us better teachers it helps us better to have those students Thrive emotionally as well as academically um the there was a lot of positive feedback a lot of good discussion we're looking forward to the next session that's going to take place in January um we did do conduct a survey and on a one to five scale the survey on average re we received a 3.6 rating slide tier one to three interventions so tier one to three interventions for those that are not in education means tier one is what all students receive mean like in order to be successful I mean like that could

155just be differentiation or you know teaching a lesson you know different ways in the classroom where all students have that experience tier two might be a more directed intervention that ALS Al takes place in the classroom so if you pull a small group you mean like on a regular basis in order to work with certain students on a focus skill and tier three is more restrictive but it may be like a systematic intervention that takes place usually outside the classroom and that may be special education services for example our goal is to work with our staff on tier 2 interventions what happens before a student is assessed for special education and also recognizing that a student shouldn't have to wait to be assessed for an IEP before they receive intervention so we have built out

156a program that we purchased last year and have begun training our teachers with called level literacy intervention and I had the pleasure of seen it in in practice at Hermosa Vista um in my last visit uh very exciting we also have several other programs here at the K2 level um including our after school intervention for reading and for math which is a little more restricted but it's targeting still those level two students but it's taking their that instruction outside of the school day slide at Hermosa Valley in grades three through five we've really tried to build out our 6 through eight intervention we weren't happy with what we were able to get to last year in our intervention at the 6 through eight level so we've built out air tutor math support thank you to

157the board for approving that and then we've also developed um with support of our teachers a student academic support class that will begin in January targeting sixth to seventh grade students who have been struggling in the first trimester and will serve as their elective in order to teach them study skills as well as support them with their academic classes and then after school there will also be an intervention in math and reading slide for objective 10 we have our schoolwide programs I won't go too into the depth because this is part of what Miss GL presented on um though I am very very pleased in working with our responsive pra practice uh specialist who have been working with us in order to push out programming um uh for our schoolwide themes that you saw and

158really trying to help our teachers highlight these activities in the classrooms well not creating more work for them as well too so delivering that content to them and kudos to our Librarians and thank you hbf for our Librarians um and help also helping to push out that content through Reading activities slide on that note objective 11 we begin working with our responsive practice Specialists that's Miss Ager at the first grade level Miss Myers uh who works in our library and Miss cederquist at the fourth grade level they've been putting together lessons which you see such as for example a highlight of PebbleGo learning a about um people with disabilities um and fun activities that just give a broader understanding to our students about different types of people um uh so far um it's been going

159well they're putting out their first newsletter in December um and we continue to work with them in order to provide resources for our staff um they're a great team by the way I'm really excited that they're they're doing this work slide objective 12 is where we're is still still a work in progress um I've been working uh with the LA County Office of Education as well as school districts um that have been engaged in this work for for much longer than than a few years in some cases up to six to eight years um and we've been trying to create a uh procedure Matrix uh in the event that there was an event that the district would need to respond to that you know would be an incident that that that may Inspire bias or

160require response from the school um it's a difficult work and I I think it needs to be done carefully as well too and I I would put to the board that this is something that we should take our time with um uh I have reached out to Dr orange we've been I've been in communication with other districts as I've mentioned and the committee uh is working closely we're going to talk about a few scenarios but I I it's been slow going but I I I think that that that's for a reason um that it's something that should be handled with great care slide so in closing those again our objectives review um I think that you can see that this work is progressing um the engine of our school district is humm um and I

161look forward to this work continuing because I think it's building a strong foundation not just for this year but for the next 10 years of achievement in our district slide thank you at this time I'll take any questions thank you Jason um both any queries we start down the S Clinton I've got an observation and a question so um my observation is just that you know a lot of this stuff in here this is this is tabbed on the agenda as the equity and inclusion update but I thought you did a really compelling job of articulating how connected much of this agenda is to educational excellence and I I just think it's really it's good to emphasize that and clear and I hope anybody watching this kind of took that away because I think the

162three goals that we have are not mutually you know they're not separate isolated goals they're really mutually reinforcing goals and I think we did a really good job of displaying that whether it's the the FMP benchmark assessments or the tri Benchmark systems or the SST redesign those are just absolutely Bullseye aimed at educational excellence and um and making sure that that educational Excellence is broad-based which is uh fantastic so that that was my observation my question um is you know this this presentation touches on all the pieces of I guess a process and a system which I applaud because you know that establishes rigor and establishes a continuous Improvement you know mindset and approach that will I hope you know track through the system for years um but if somebody wanted to know more about

163outcomes rather than process what would you say to somebody who's saying gosh you know I saw I ready assessments that said there was you know a lot of kids not at grade level what would you say to them about you know how Hermosa as a district is performing in terms of just just pure outcomes with kids at or below grade level uh relative to other districts or whatever sort of uh comparison point you you'd give to that yeah well one I would say it's a misunderstanding of the I data that that's a diagnostic data so to look at that data and say that there students performing below grade level I would probably uh show that person which is also in the presentation the trimester one data from last year as well too which which was

164actually you know relatively preco um and those results are comparable uh as overall achievement and and why I say it's a diagnostic um is that that diagnostic um assesses students at the beginning of the year on all the standards so the reason you see so many many students performing below grade level is because the year is not over it's still the beginning of the year um and at the end of the year when you take that assessment I will I will guarantee now the results will be higher um because that is actually a comprehensive assessment in that case not a diagnostic you would say wait but it's the same test relatively obviously adjusted so the questions are not the same uh which is the purpose of a diagnostic it's to understand where you need to

165go um in regard to the performance overall uh January is when we review our progress and that is also when we're inputting this data and that is purposeful because that's when all the data will be collected by then and inputed and we can review achievement and what we want to do I'd also highlight to in regard to achievement uh you know in relation to the schools so we are looking to put together that other data one thing we do find that is challenges that not all districts share their data like we do publicly um uh particularly localized assessments um and uh the the ones that do not only is it comparable we perform well um and there's a long history of that as well too uh the uh uh areas of concern that I have

166is the performance of students with special needs we we saw a dip in that performance on one measure but a measure um that's also a National Standard that the the loss of performance with students special needs and students in general is experien across the board we aim to do better I think we do and are doing better in relation to other school districts um but uh I I also think that we need to see that data in January um and have the time to look at it as a try versus just a single measure that's a diagnostic thanks and just to play that back to me trood it you can't measure how the achievement of your sixth grade students in the second month of sixth grade you need to look at it at the end

167of sixth grade just as a for example I I think that you absolutely can measure the achievement of your students two months in the sixth grade I don't think that you can say that schools are failing because they haven't finished and it's it's a diagnostic it's not it's not intended to be viewed that way understood thank you very much yeah thank you Quinton that was my you had my question so I just wanted to clarify that because I I remember initially when I saw the data I had that exact same question but once someone explained it's just at it where it is at the semester or that quarter or that point in the year that students hadn't learned all those standards yet so they were going to get lower scores that made a lot more

168sense and the data made made sense um I'm just excited that this um kind of platform or this this what we're building here is going to be so instrumental in like helping continue to build rigor in this community and just I'm I'm I know it's a lot of work for teachers to put and do all sorts of these assessments but hopefully um they'll see the the rewards for learning how to like look at the data and share the data um but I just really want to thank them for for doing it and taking it you know just joining us on that um I'm just also curious to see how the I ready data and their fontas and panel data like kind of came together that'll be really fascinating to see so um maybe it'll tell

169some of the same picture maybe it'll tell a different picture so it'll be interesting to see what that is so thank you for the presentation I I it's nice to see it kind of all come together and and thanks for the question before that Quinton it was mine as well um I agree and thank you thank you board members great questions and great builds um and clarifications sort of more of a question for the future um and I'm just curious because again building on the point about data and tracking over time which I think is phenomenal to be you know to be able to have that wherewith all I'm curious TK maybe even in the future should facilities or Provisions provide to preschool is is some of this data Diagnostics able to be used at

170the younger grade levels I don't know if the FMP and things like that goes at a younger grade levels I think he touched on Kinder I just wanted to that so uh in our TK Kinder full day enrolling uh fiveyear olds February 2nd um we have um the the the FMP assessment but it's not done until trimester three and the reason being is on the spectrum of A through Z reading on the fontas and panel um you know 90% of kindergartens kindergartens are going to be a um and that's because like they're still developing phenic awareness letter you know print concepts and so kindergartens kindergarten teachers have their own assessments that they utilize um they're very short you mean like they're all of the skills that are the bridge skills to of pre-reading and those

171are much more efficient and much more accurate um they they don't come in a a letter uh because they're individually block-based but by the trimester three you mean like that's when an FMP assessment is more relevant uh for them so that's when we'll see that data uh I ready is begins at first grade I mean like and that is really because of the test is online and the same thing that you know many of our kindergarteners are still emerging readers um so the the assessment is not beneficial for them you or their time in the same way that it might be even at first grade it's very difficult um to provide an online assessment um so I I I would say that like that first grade is when you'll see like the rigor of those

172assessments but it doesn't mean by any means that we're not doing assessments at tkk that's great yeah thank you awesome thank you oh good Doug did you have a yeah okay it's slacking uh F me um I did have one other question please just a Wonder um is I'm I'm sure you you're all seeing this and all these assessments and things are going to give us some data about kids but just there's just there were so many gaps that were missing from last year to this year just a school for all grades all in all in all places School Hermosa doesn't matter where you are in in this country there's gaps with kids and I'm just G to continue to ask this question every time we meet which is like the the gaps are bigger

173now and so how are we we're going to we got to do different things we have to think differently and I'm not we're we're just not I'm not sure we're programmed yet to think differently on how to close those gaps we're doing a lot of the same things that we've been doing for years to close the gaps and I'm just I'm I'm just putting it out there with like everyone just keep thinking about how can what can we do the gaps are big we can't just ask the teachers to do it we can't ask kids to go to two English classes and two math classes and more you know it's just at some point we have to start thinking about how do we close those gaps differently so I'm just putting it out there yeah

174I think that's a good point if I if I may just four I I I totally agree and and I I think that there are some initiatives that are trying to get out of the box some of them we don't qualify for because of our um our social economic status and how the state is funding those types of programs for example there's a program where it's it's an after school like beyond the day program um but unfortunately we don't qualify for that type of funding um what what I would say though is that this work I think we should all the board included because it's it's originally started with a board um task force um we are doing work that is ahead of the curve as far as making it a central district Focus to

175support these students um many times and speaking as a former special education teacher work and intervention of atris students is periphery work um and so I think that's important to acknowledge I would also say that it's important to have pillars or foundations of intervention work again also speaking as a former special education teacher as like in order to do this work so I would say that that the work that we're doing is is essential and I would say before we chase a program or something out of the box to ensure that the foundation you mean like is working for what really is I mean these intervention systems they work they're research based ssts level literacy intervention like these are programs that work we just have to stick with them and we have to put our

176energy toward them and lean in and and I I will say I seen it with my own eyes like we will see gains good thumbs up thank you Jason thank you all right board moving to consent uh do I have a motion to approve the items on the consent calendar so moved thanks quinson do I have a second second thank you Doug Christine if you could take the roll call please board member Cole hi board member cluth hi board member McCall hi vice president clerk Gardner hi all in favor thank you um i' just like to add particularly there were a number of notable gift items and I just want to say uh to those community members some actually are outside of our community so thank you very much for for the donations um some

177of them were uh health and so forth but um you know thank you sincerely goes a long way all right um I was going to ask if with a two minute quick recess before we get into board action items be okay I'm getting an okay oh thumbs up on the okay all right we'll just take a two three minute quick recess if that's okay and then we'll we'll we'll get back into our board action items thank you thank you everyone just as we rejoin are we all good cameras and everything's back Jon you're good great um moving on to or continuing with now with board action items uh on under the superintendent items we'll take the first one s22 2021 the Board of Education compensation Jason all right it is recommended to the board to

178um discuss and possibly wave the monetary composition by the school board um this has currently been the president um and um yes so that's my recommendation to the board it is it's partially a discussion but I don't know I don't know if it's not worth the money ho ho ho all right well discussion or end or motion I don't if anyone wants to open it up for further discussion how we doing no I'll I'll move to [Music] um I guess I guess uh wave the monetary compensation by the school board members I will second Christine If You Mend any honors board member Cole I board member cluth I board member McCall hi vice president clerk Gardner I all in favor thank you well done Bo all right moving on to s23 2021 California school boards

179Association delegate assembly nominations has recommended the board uh to suggest a nominee for candidate for the csba uh Association delegate assembly um one of you might have a board member in mind um uh who may not be present so uh if one of you could consider nominating that person thank you thank you Jason um yeah uh well board any anyone here present want to put them m I mean it does make sense there there's um the only thing I would clarify is because it's the 2224 term as well yes we we went through this last year as well too we pulled up the video and we're okay we can nominate that person all right okay good I'd like to nominate Maggie B Monica for this position I enjo she enjoys this position and I would

180like to see if she'd like to continue to do that so that's I'm not even asking her I'm going to nominate her we're going to vote her in I bet let's see anybody want to second that I just have one question do we have other things we can nominate Magie for but I will second it okay um thank you for that um Christine all right board member Cole just to confirm she does would like to do this I don't want to actually I would not um allow this if she was not and I guess also to fur the clarify because it she her term uh finishes and so this is so whether she would continue yeah okay good you are can nominate Maggie B L Monica thank you all right good so I board member

181clu I board member McCall hi vice president clerk Gardner I all in favor thank you Christine moving on to business item b60 2021 the first interim report for 2021 2022 thank you Stephen um it's recommended that the board approve the 2122 first interim positive certification so that it can be submitted to the Los Angeles County Office of Education by December 15 thank Paul yeah well done um any queries comments apart from awesome I moved to uh approve and certify the first interim report great I second Christine board member Cole thank you Paula and yes I board member cluth hi board member McCall hi vice president clerk Gardner I all in favor thank you all item b61 2122 fiscal year 2021 2022 budget revisions thank you Stephen approval is recommended for the 2122 budget revisions for

182the first interm report this is the financial um obligations that go from us to the dis to the Los Angeles County Office of Education just paperwork got it thank you V any queries seeing none um do I have a motion to approve item b61 2122 the fiscal year 2021-22 budget revisions so moved thank you Jen do I have a second second thank you Quon Christine board member Cole hi board member cluth hi board member McCall hi vice president clerk Gardner I all in favor next item is b62 2122 the educator Effectiveness block grant syvia it is recommended that the board um approve the Educators Effectiveness block grant I spent some time today um sharing with you how we are going to spend the money and how it's going to affect staff as well as students

183so I ask that you approve this right uh board any queries comments oh I was to going to ask I didn't see that on the the monies in Paula that I on your report is that correct that's correct it has not been recognized on the first interim report it'll be added at second interim okay and according to Sylvia's plan uh we won't be spending any money this fiscal year so it'll just be sending money in reserve until next fiscal year and then a budget will be included okay great [Music] thanks do I have have a motion to approve uh the item b62 2122 the educator Effectiveness block cant still moved thank you Quenton do I have a second second thank you Doug Christine Bard member Cole I board member cluth hi board member McCall hi

184vice president clerk Gardner I all in favor thank you item b63 2122 contract for non auditing accounting services it is recommended that the board approve this contract for not aiting services with I Bailey um this training it'll be professional development training for the business office um so I recommend approval thank you board any queries seeing none no comments uh do I have a motion to approve item b63 2122 the contract for non aing Services counting services with i b so Mo thank you do I have a second second great um Christine if I could board member Cole hi board member cluth hi board member Mcall hi vice president clerk Gardner I all in favor thank you item b64 2122 agreement for Flex benefits with Navia benefit Solutions PA approval is recommended for this contract with

185Navia Ben benefit solution our current provider affordable benefits is merging with the mother company of Navia benefits so they're the subsidiary that will take care of our um flex spending accounts got it V any queries comments yes Jen had a quick question for employees will they um feel the difference on this or have to do anything or is it going to cause any upheaval it's an annual enrollment um it comes with health benefits every year so you can elect to participate at annual enrollment time so there is a form that they need to fill out should be no pain in all gain this company is digital in the 21st century um so they'll have a debit card they no longer have to uh submit reimbursements it's it's going to be a plus for them and

186who in our district just so who takes care if someone has a question about health benefits do they go to Christine do they yeah great well that's a nice person to go to thanks indeed thank you um seeing no other queries um do I have approval do I have a motion to approve uh item b64 2122 the agreement for Flex benefits with Navia benefit Solutions so moved thank you Chen do I have a second second thank you uh Doug do um Christine board member Cole hi board member clue hi board member McCall hi vice president clerk Gardner I all in favor thank you item B65 2122 telecommunication service upgrade atosa Valley School [Music] Simon one moment uh it is uh recommended that the Board of Education approve the proposal from Gateway Tona to provide telecommunication

187services for hero Hermosa Valley School campus uh just brief background just in case uh so the vendor Gateway telnet has been with hbcsd has been hbcsd primary telecommunication vendor for over 20 years and they definitely have hbcsd in their best interest that's great thank you um any questions to Simon on this item just real quick what uh is this going to be any kind of new functionality or capabilities yes so the uh previous phone system uh like the the the phone system we've adopted at um the district office Vista and as well as Vue to be to be determined um it will allow all the side campuses to use um uh in District transfers and obviously more functionality behind the usage of this of the phones because the phone system that we have currently at

188Valley is about 20 something years old even older so this is a modern uh yes it's it's it's a modern upgrade that it's it's it's a it's a necessity at this point got it thank you well do I have um do I have a motion to approve item B65 2122 the telecommunication service upgrade at HOSA Valley school soov thank you do I have a second second thank you very much uh Christine M Cole hi board member cluth hi board member McCall hi vice president clerk Gardner hi all in favor thank you item b66 2122 consultant agreement for professional development services it is recommended that the board approve um the consultant agreement with Just Right literacy um this year we are addressing learning loss and we want to ensure that our teachers are using a research

189based strategy stry for the classroom so we are um training our teachers with the lli and the level literacy intervention and um the cost for this um will be coming out of our expanded learning um Grant so I ask that you approve this thank you um board any queries comments none seeing none do I have motion to approve item b66 2122 the consultant agreement for professional development services um with uh just write literacy so sorry I didn't have a I didn't have a question I a comment please okay I just was thinking about some of the comments earlier and just um how many of the prog I just want it's a point I want to make just that there are a lot of programs if you're paying attention things like just right literacy fontas and

190panel um the new social studies curriculum uh these things are all very academic focused so I just want to if there's people in the community that are wondering whether we are only focusing on social emotional Wellness no like we are focusing on both things and these are these grants that that you're getting and these these um professional developments that you're giving are kind of critical components to kind of building a really strong Foundation academic foundation and we're trying to access things through social emotional Wellness too so I'm just wanting to make sure that that is not just glassed over because just WR literacy is all about reading so and and level literacy intervention is all about reading so just just wanted to put that out there just make sure people are paying attention that's it

191I approve it thank you Jen um I'll start again but it's all good um do I have a motion to approve isem b66 2122 consultant agreement for professional development services um with Just Right literacy so moved thank you do I have a second second thank you um Christine board member Cole hi board member clth hi board member McCall hi and vice president clerk Gardner I all in favor thank you and Jen thanks for that comment um all right last item uh b67 2122 consultant agreement for independent educational evaluation services so the district is in need of a consultant to do an inclusion assessment and um we are recommending that um you approve the consultant contract with Dr Amy hred um who to do the assessment okay Bo any queries on this item no comments we

192good do I have a motion to approve item b67 2122 consultant agreement for independent educ ational evaluation services with Dr Amy hred for in yeah so thank you have a second do I have a second oh Quinton seconded you did okay thank you board member Cole hi board member cluth hi board member McCall hi vice president clerk Gardner I all in favor all right thank you thank you everyone uh moving on to board member Round Table um which order should we go in Quenton anything for us no thank you congratulations Doug correct yeah I'll say congratulations to Maggie next time that's great yeah indeed so yeah formalities happening in in January correct great [Music] um Jen um not much just other one I wanted to thank the people that came out tonight it's always hard

193to come to a board meeting it's hard to stand in front of the public and talk and I just want to just to really appreciate that they came and said it with such Grace and understanding and um I think really conveyed their point of view very clearly tonight um maybe even more so than I've heard in the past so I just wanted to thank them for coming out and wish everyone a happy holidays indeed D um yeah I want to wish everyone a happy holidays seven more days of school let's power through hope everybody gets through it in one piece we're almost there so great job everyone getting us uh to this point um thank you I'll say this again next time but thank you to Stephen for leading us through uh one hell of

194a year um so great work it's an honor to serve have served with you um so thank you thanks man and I'll close with happy holidays everyone um all the best stay healthy be well um and uh yeah we look forward to continuing the new year but do rest up and enjoy their time so with that um I'd like to say that's ajour adjourned for this evening do I have a motion uh to adour the meeting so moved thank you do I have a second second Christine board member Cole hi board member cluth hi I board member McCall oh ho I vice president clerk Gardner I all in favor this meeting is adjourned thank you everyone happy holidays