001[Music] for [Music] yeah all right we're going to reconvene to regular session at 7:05 can I get a roll call please here student trustee Alon here and student trustee Jasio here trustee Lee here trusty Cho here truste tahada here vice president Walker here president gagos here and can I get an approval of the minutes so moved second all those in favor I oh we forgot the agenda oh can I get approval of the agenda so moved second all those in favor I I now can I get approval of the minutes move to approve the minutes second all those in favor I I all right no action was taken report out of close session moving on to number 11 recognitions and commendations January student of the [Music] month oh yeah oh Megan uh can we turn
002it over to Megan from tanova high school please [Music] hey all right good evening president gagos vice president wer trustees superintendent Presta and members of the jsd community every year teranova has the opportunity to select just one student to represent our school as student of the month one nominee who personifies all that we stand for and all that we hope our students achieve during their time with us tonight I'm very honored to introduce a student who exemplifies dedication leadership and generosity in every way Napoleon cimam Napoleon is the epitome of commitment and passion and it is my privilege to share just a glimpse of the impact he has had on teranova as a student he is nothing short of exceptional he possesses a deep love for Learning and a level of intellectual curiosity that pushes
003him to pursue New Heights with every step forward through his four years at teranova he has earned an outstanding 4.2 one2 GPA while pursuing our most rigorous cour workk including nearly all of our AP classes he plans to major in chemical engineering and has already been accepted to San Jose University UC Merced and San Francisco State with decisions pending from three other schools however Napoleon has made it clear his heart is set on San Jose State go Spartans Napoleon's influence extends Beyond academics his leadership and passion are perhaps most vividly seen in his commitment deep commitment to the tanova band where his unwavering dedication is nothing short of inspiring as a drum major and band member he has helped shape the program leading with both energy and enthusiasm his bandmate say it best Napoleon is
004super dedicated to the band and always makes practice worth going to we are so blessed to have a drum major as fun and dedicated as him he's always the first to do something scary and new which gives us the rest of band leadership the confidence to follow him into whatever he's leading us too and Napoleon's leadership extends Beyond just our campus and goes into the Greater Community as a member of the trim music Honor Society he is part of an initiative called Bridge team where he teaches drum line to middle school students at IBL this work has allowed him to give back to the very community that has helped helped shape him sharing his passion for music and fostering connections across generations of musicians and then through his involvement with Anime Club he has taken
005part in local service projects volunteering at events like fog Fest and the Cherry Blossom Festival in San Francisco these experiences have not only strengthened his sense of service but has Al have also empowered him to bring people together through shared interest but what truly sets Napoleon apart is his generosity this came through time and time again talking with teachers and staff whether he is helping classmates with math mentoring journalism students on perfecting their articles or guiding aspiring editors through InDesign and Photoshop he is always willing to lift others up he is the type of student who holds the door for others offers encouragement to his peers and keeps his family's needs in mind at all times Miss Jenkins shared the following I have known Napoleon for far longer than I have know Napoleon his older
006sister was a good friend of my sons and I had the privilege of teaching both of his older siblings service is a defining trait of their family service to God to community and to one another it is this deep sense of responsibility and care for others that makes Napoleon and his sisters such a joy to have in any classroom students like Napoleon remind us why we do what we do they give us hope for the future for the future others Echo these sentiment sharing Napoleon was a stellar Spanish 2 student he really wanted to understand the why of Spanish and worked to excel using it at every chance he could I truly hope he continues studying Spanish and other languages in the future Napoleon is the sweetest child on the planet humble always willing to
007pitch in where help is needed super supportive as his of his bad mitton teammates all around a great kid Napoleon is true to himself there are no false pretenses with him he goes about his passions with a drive and a desire to learn more and be better so every year we have this opportunity to select one student and tonight we celebrate the right choice Napoleon's leadership kindness and commitment to Excellence have made our school a better place and he truly represents the best of what it means to be a tanova tiger so Napoleon thank you very much for all that you have done to tanov for teranova we are grateful and on behalf of the entire tanova High School Community congratulations on this welld deserved recognition thank you Miss car yeah good to you do
008you want to take a picture at this time I'd like to open it up for any comment do you like oh yeah um should I just like offer some words yeah yeah yeah um yeah I'd like to give my thanks to my family my friends my community to being those to support those who do service for the community and I mean without the community I feel like I'd just be some guy running around doing a lot of things and not having any effect and yeah so thank you once again I'm honored to receive this award and I'm glad it's one of the representations of my work well deserved Napoleon um I'm going to try to make this quick because um Miss Cary basically said um a lot about Napoleon's amazing attributes um he is one
009of my very very close friends and through the year or throughout the years that we've known each other he's helped me constantly whether that's been um helping me with my avkem work or teaching me how in design works and formatting on a journalism page or even just giving me thoughtful notes on a book that we both read together and it's been amazing knowing your thoughts and just experiencing being your friend oh okay um I guess I'll go next um I just got here so I missed um a good chunk of the speech but um I know that this award isn't given out very lightly and I know that you have to achieve a lot to get this award so it's a big congratulations thank you Daniel hey man like that's one heck of an achieve
010a like you sound like an amazing student and it sucks that I'm not privileged to have known you because you just sound like a CR a awesome dude man so congratulations you I can tell you deserve it man thank you um I just want to say congratulations um you are doing a lot of things so keep doing what you're doing and good good luck in college and congratulations thank you yeah I just wanted to say congratulations as well well um being able to balance so many extracurriculars and also maintaining such a high GPA is definitely not easy um so yeah congratulations thank you Napoleon incredible incredible achievement and we I know we are all so very proud of what you've done um what you've accomplished for yourself and for your community it's incredible the work
011that you've done it jumps out when one of your fellow bandmates says he's always the first to do something scary and new which gives us the rest of band leadership the confidence to follow him to whatever he's leading us to and right there the word lead right I mean yes you were given this you earned that positional Authority within the band but it's because you have that intrinsic leadership ability which you will continue to carry on I have no doubt and that is something you should hold on to tightly and and really respect the fact that you have that skill set because that's going to take you into so many other places and the fact that you know exactly what you want to do the school you want to go to and the major um
012that's awesome so congratulations San Jose State's getting a really incredible person can I remind me of what the dream I wanted to be when I was younger which was become a chemical engineer so um special people get into that field and you are special and never forget that uh reading that letter two words stood out to me about humility and authenticity I think those two qualities you didn't have to say it I could just tell just first first impression right and so yeah s is lucky to have you your door maides your classmates they're lucky to have you um I would say pick the school that gives you the most free money okay that's my advice good luck congratulations thank you congratulations Napoleon um you know as I was was uh reading um about you
013I thought what what else what else can he do and then when you're a drum major I mean that just says it all you're a leader um you have to have have an innate sense of um being able to command people without commanding them you know bringing the best out of them and even when you came up here to speak you gave the credit to everyone else and um and that you take so much pride in service serving your community and I I think the world is going to be in good hands with you continuing to lead when we need good leaders and you're going to serve any Community you're a part of because I think that's just who you are and tanova is a stellar Community they for them there's so many scholars there
014there's so many amazing students and for them to choose you you really must have stood out and I can see why you're completely humble and I just want to thank you for um helping everyone in your community and for being a great example for our school district and to thank your family for giving you that Foundation um I want to thank you very much for all your support of him and congratulations you're going to go so far and please check in with us we'd like to know what you're up to thank you congratulations nooon um and thank you for your participation and your leadership in the community um I went to college for engineering and we all agreed at that time that chemical engineering was the hardest um so I wish you luck I think
015you know something I would avoid it just because it's hard but I think you know something I don't uh so I wish you good luck and if you go to San Jose State I encourage you to check out a very powerful piece of sculpture on the campus of the 19 68 gold and silver medalists in the 200 meter dash uh John Carlos and Tommy Smith uh who staged protest in Mexico when they won those medals uh it's very powerful and you should uh check out their story and um maybe it'll influence your future as well uh thanks again and good luck thank you I'll definitely check out those statues Napoleon um just kind of reading through all these accolades and all the stuff that you're doing um it sounds very overwhelming uh from my perspective
016um but it looks like you're handling it quite well considering you're standing here getting this you know Award right now um the one word that did stand out though uh my colleague mrada spoke on it was humble you look very humble as you stand here and and listen to everybody you know um give you Commendation right and it it's it's something that um one thing that I've always told my kids and and I commend you guys your your parents and your your friends and stuff is is just to always you know lead by example you know that's that's the my my one thing I tell my son every day when he gets out of the truck is you be a good leader lead by example um and you're doing a fine job of that um
017so I I encourage you to continue to do that you know we we need more more leaders um we need more people that you know kids younger kids that are aspiring to do things like you to to look up to you know to to go to um and you've had a great support system here obviously and it takes that you know they say it takes a takes a village right and that's not just your parents it's it's your relatives it's your friends it's your teachers it's your principles it's everybody around you so all that hard work it's paying off you know and this is just a beginning for you so I'm excited for you to see where it goes and congratulations thank you Miss prista Napoleon I'm always last and then it's kind of hard
018because people have said all of the things that I want to say so I'm going to call out just a few first of all congratulations um some things that stood out to me the phrase servant leadership kept sort of popping into my mind and somebody wrote that in a letter of recommendation about me one time and I was like what does that mean but what it means is that you your leadership which you are clearly a leader is very focused on on others serving others and I have great respect for that we need more people like that in this world um the word generosity kept coming out for me um you're clearly very generous you um you're very involved in your community I was just jotting down drum line at IBL volunteering with the kids
019that are younger than you fog Fest cherry blossom and um I I will say that in my life I'm on the other end of you know I'm exited High School quite a long time ago and the things that have fulfilled me in life have been all of these things serving others being in the community and so I'm and I didn't realize that when I was your age so I'm so excited for you as you enter on enter into the next phase and and uh if you go to San Jose State or wherever you end up um that you have such a such a beautiful life ahead of you and we are um very grateful for you being from our community and I also want to say congratulations and thank you to your family for raising
020such a and I assume this is your sister uh for raising such lovely children to be in our community so congratulations thank you cool um we take a minute to do a a quick picture with everybody real quick you you get with that you can take your mom um I think I saw it Ty so um I can clean it up send it to you this we'll one with the board and then I'll take one with you and Miss and then and then add your all right okay y c I'm gonna come and you can open that yeah squishing a little bit perf G have you go up there's that little bit that'll work that ready one two three perfect very hand you want to get it and then we'll ask your family to come
021up and get in the picture want to join in okay yeah you next to you yeah there perfect ready okay and then I'm G to ask the board to leave and Miss Carrie to go in okay okay ready one two three very nice and then can I get one of just and yeah perfect one two three very nice come on get ready one two three very nice thank you congratulations for okay well we'll move on to item 11b uh this is the fall sports championship recognition and the speaker is going to be the director of communications staff and housing and CTE Miss Denise shrie thank you um put this so I can see the Board of Trustees is proud to recognize Jasmine Colmes 10th grader at Westmore High School for the her outstanding achievements in
022the girls cross country Varsity division Jasmine earned the following titles 13th Place in the pal division 11th Place in the CCS division state division qualifier finishing 73rd out of 2011 finishers and I'd like and then I'd like to note that Jasmine is the only the second sophomore in West more history to qualify and compete in state finals and then she was also named all league in both pal and CCS ju uhsd would like to extend its appreciation to her coach Ronda moio for his guidance and support of Jasmine a true role model to her peers Jasmine exemplifies what it means to be a stellar athlete both on the field and in the classroom way to go Jasmine you make Ju uhsd proud and I'd like to now bring coach dagio up to the front to
023say a few words about Jasmine and present her with her certificate hi how you guys doing I I first what I'd really like to do is thank you guys for uh just recently in the last couple years you started to recognize a student of the month or an athlete of the of the SE semester or something I I think that's really nice and I don't know who came up with that idea but kudos to you because that's really nice and uh like I said I've been around a lot of board meetings been around for a while and uh it's really nice that uh I really see things getting going in the right direction and this is a really nice uh award that she's going just to give you an update um last year at this
024time I was up here with Erica Dorne and um Erica is is uh running at the College of samil and she is now the number one ranked girl in Northern California ranked two in the state of California in Cross Country uh she is uh just starting on the track and she's just hammering out outstanding times so to give you an update and I know that uh she is uh trying to decide exactly which career she wants to get into but there are numerous schools already offering her scholarships so uh this leads me to Jasmine Jasmine got to run with Erica last year and Erica was a real good role model for her uh Jasmine but had a great freshman year but unfortunately right towards the finals she got injured and she didn't get to compete
025in the Championships so now as a sophomore I um I started her off running against her own age in the frost soft Division and found out that uh the invitationals that we went to she won she went two consistent two invitationals in a row our own Ram Invitational and one that we ran on the other side of the bay so as in her own age group she's right up there but when you start to get to the state meet and you start to get to the Championships you're competing against seniors and a lot of girls who have been running since they were eight n years old with their parents so a lot of miles that she has to make up and alone just in this short period of time to say that uh she ends
026up qualifying for the state at her such a young age is quite an accomplish me uh I was fortunate enough to have one other young lady and who did this and she did that back in in the 80s and she ended up uh going to the Olympic trials and became an All-American I don't know what the future has for Jasmine but hopefully that um I get her in the right direction and get her ready when it's time to run it is always the hardest part to do that but then her potential is unlimited and it's exciting uh people ask me you know this is my 45th year as a coach at Westmore and I keep saying uh when you will ever retire it's pretty hard when you keep seeing fantastic people coming up I said
027well maybe and I said well now her brother is now on the team and he's a freshman on so they got one and then I got another family what are you going to coach don't forget mine he's in the eighth grade so uh I'm just very blessed and very fortunate that the uh School allows me to coach and to find these people and to get them involved so uh with all Ado I would really like to say i' like to congratulate Jasmine I'm hoping who knows that maybe next year we'll be up here again or whatever but we will keep you updated and I will let you be updated on Erica CU quite exciting she just came to see me two days ago to tell me how great she ran at this at this Championship
028race that she ran in Southern California so hopefully the potential is there and Jasmine is just incredible worker I have to tie her down and I have to control her because she wants to go but when she's uh she doesn't back down against the 18year olds that she ran against so when you look at those age groups when we're looking at age group she's one of the top four or five sophomore girls in the whole Central Coast section and you start counting number of bodies it isn't just 100 or 200 it's thousand when when you consider the number females that are running cross country and when you start to see age group so it's going to be exciting and it's a it always it puts pressure on me because you got you know she's got
029to deliver so it makes it look like I know what I'm doing but I'm very fortunate that I've been lucky enough and I'm sure she's going to make us and the district proud before she retires from graduates from Westmore so I'd like to give her award and have her come up and this is for you it tells you uh just a little upset you know what you've done over the years but over the season but uh that's where I'll leing at they said say a few words so I hope that's thank you get to the athletic congratulations Jasmine um I hope everyone has been having a good day so far I just wanted to say thank you for having me here this evening and how proud I am to be here um I also want
030to give thanks to my family my friends and my coaches for being my motivation my biggest supporters and for being the reason I'm able to stand where I am right now I would say that I've been running for quite a while um ever since I was six um but throughout those 10 years of running I've never received such an honorable and big acknowledgement such as this to be acknowledged and recognized by um my district and the board is what makes tonight very special for me um running has been my whole life and I don't think that I would have found this type of happiness and pride that I'm feeling right now if it weren't for running it's one of the things I love most about my myself as well um looking back at this season
031I feel so grateful that I decided to continue to push myself um even when I felt like urg to slack off during training and you know like sleep late and not eat like healthy but um last year though I was actually bummed out because of an injury that cost me many of my races and prevented me from running at CCS um so this year um my goal was just to initially run at CCS make up for the race that I had missed and just run a good race but while doing so I ended up qualifying for state which was a huge accomplishment and I felt so happy um because I honestly even though I worked hard there's I still felt like doubt in myself but um it all went away when it was announced that
032I was the last player for CCS I mean for state and um but to be here right now and to be given this award um it really surpassed my expectations for myself and it feels unreal um thank you again and I hope you all have a good rest of your evening thank you Jasmine you have to stay up there while we talk uhuh yeah we got to roast okay so we're GNA we're going to open it up uh for comments starting with our our student board please uh we could start from the left over there Charlotte uh I want to say thank you oh sorry congratulations for your achievement uh you're a sophomore and you're doing great things so keep doing what you're doing keep enjoying what you do as well and I look forward
033for what you do for the next two years so congratulations hi um so being in the same school I've seen like and heard very good things about you um particularly during like um raining season where like the entire track team just like runs in the cafeteria um so like that is just like very very surprising and like inspiring to me how you guys all dedicate so much of your time to running and so um keep up the good work and I cannot see where you can go next and congratulations hi um I also just wanted to say congratulations as well um my best friend she also runs um cross country and track and she recently sustained an Ingy um as well that prevented her from running and you know even though I didn't experience it
034myself I can't imagine how devastating it was for you but it's really just so amazing that you're able to persevere for that and just thank you for your achievements as well sounds amazing okay um I'm going to start this off by saying congratulations as well um on making it to State um that's honestly really impressive and everything that you've been doing is really inspiring cuz I know that it takes a lot of discipline like you said on like what you eat and like it takes a lot of drive to do Sports and on top of that juggling like Student Life as well so huge kudos to you hey Jazz um I haven't seen you in a really long time so but I have known you from art class if you remember that um I've been
035away from Westmore for a good couple years now and I can see that you're still still up to great things and I hope you never stop cuz you really did deserve that and congratulations indeed congratulations your the distance you run is a is a 5K right yes this is a legit time man that's that's awesome because I I mean I've run a 5k and I nowhere you're closer this time that's for sure add another 11 12 minutes or so so no fantastic really really great I can't if you're doing this as a sophomore I can't imagine what you're going to do next year or the year after I mean so congratulations keep up the good work um congratulations and I feel so humbled to see that we potentially could be witnessing the very young future
036Olympian and no pressure and I want to be very cognizant of that you're you're still young um and you still have a bright future ahead of you you and if being an athlete is something that you choose to pursue as a career remember the reason why you're doing it and I think you highlighted yourself when you said you feel happy it brings you Joy never lose that the moment you lose that it's it's not it's not fun anymore so always remember the thing that makes you get to that flow State you guys Runners they call it what runers runers high right so that's that's your thing and listen to your body is the only one that you have and you can experience life with um and I have no doubt you're going to win some
037medals I don't care where it come from you got medals in your future congrats hi Jasmine um my God you are so inspiring and just how you're speaking you're so well spoken um you're so mature and poised and you're only a sophomore um and I can tell you're really driven really driven don't be too hard on yourself you know you have what you've accomplished here is incredible and uh my son ran for Coach dagio my son son ran in 2015 when he was a freshman he also got injured and then um and he couldn't participate in the finals and um but the next year he came back and won some medals and it's I think that's coach deas Jo's track record right there but he tends to really Elevate the inner Talent of Someone Like
038You who's been running since you were six so just um I I feel like we're looking at a future Olympian also um but we're going to keep track of you you know while you're still at Westmore um and uh keep doing what you're doing you know and congratulations to your family um for raising someone so amazing and I know you know you don't get this far without that support with you and um and Coach tagio we know you recruited her brother because you do that you recruit eighth graders with that meat you have every year so you're checking their times and everything and we're going to be seeing a lot of you I don't think you're going to be retiring anytime soon but Jasmine amazing amazing [Music] congratulations I want to add my congratulations um
039I'm very happy that you enjoy running because uh only five people finish in the top five so when you have an off day or you're like me and you don't have top five Talent you better enjoy the race there's no hiding uh there's no hiding out there so I think that your success is do a lot of things that you can point at that will give you success in life one um enjoy what you do uh two be prepared and when you get out there you put those miles in you're getting prepared um three compete with passion uh for take care of yourself um and uh thank you for shining a little light on night good luck hi Jasmine um as a parent of former student athletes and current student athletes I know how much
040sacrifice goes into what you do and how much sacrifice goes into what your parents do um not getting home super late till super late some night super tired still got to do homework you know got to scarf down some food got to get ready for bed all that stuff I mean you do that on a consistent basis and it's it's tiring and it's it's hard and and you know you spoke about moments feeling like you know you want to give up sometimes CU it gets tough but you know you just got to remember things like that you know those aren't those aren't weaknesses don't look at them like you're soft or those are things those are teaching moments for yourself you're teaching yourself that you could be resilient you're teaching yourself that you know you
041could be strong and make it through that kind of stuff so those are good things you know when you feel that way and you fight through that those are good things you know when you fight through injury those are those are all lessons that you're learning and it's making you stronger whether you believe it or not so just you know keep grinding that stuff out you know what I mean and you know you're you're you still got a couple years left in your high school career so I mean you've you know you keep working hard you're you're going to be going places I don't know much about times like Andy was speaking on but um sounds like you're you're cooking out there so whatever you're doing you keep doing it and you know definitely remember
042to thank your parents for all their support and for your you know for your coach and pushing you and and all that good stuff but uh most of all you know big congratulations and don't ever forget like uh my my colleague Martin said over there uh the biggest reward is your happiness not not all the trophies and accolades you know you're doing this because you love it and it makes you happy so that's that's the best thing you're going to get out of this okay Miss prista thank you um I want to so congratulations I'm super impressed I'm not a runner I'm not really an athlete uh I can't even imagine doing that um but what I will say what I kind of want to focus on is it's wonderful to get accolades and it's
043wonderful to be the best at stuff that that's great I think for me as as a parent so I have a 16-year-old as well I really hope for him and I'm glad for you that you have found something that makes you happy that makes you healthy that you will have for your whole life that to me is um is really important and I don't don't know I don't know if I was because I was raised in the 70s it was just sort of a different time we weren't out there running and stuff like that um and and now you know I wish I had something that I really love doing that would keep me healthy and keep my body moving it's more of a chore for me so I'm so happy for you that you
044found this thing that you love and that you push through on those days that you don't want to get up and those days that you don't want to eat so healthy because we all have those days and that's okay to have those days but I'm just really happy for you so congratulations thank you awesome and now you get to take some pictures with us like with the board first and your family and Co up y right here say hello to everybody I will I will pretty soon I'm going to be able to coach everybody that's in right couple more years well everybody up there will be everybody up there will be former Rams yeah perfect yeah Marty if you can get right behind Rosie that won't be a little Balan down there we go ah
045there hold on I don't like one two okay thank you thank you and then Jasmine I'll get one congratulations and we can do it out in the hallway I can take one of you and coach and one with you and your family a little better without the one with you and your family out there how big is that SP yeah all right moving on okay so let's go to item number 12a for our board report starting with our student board trustees uh starting with Jefferson um okay hello uh for Jefferson uh we had garage B performance during lunch last Friday which was it was really fun um we are also currently having a know your rights presentation during f next time in advisory uh for all of the grades uh we have a Grizzly Got
046Talent coming up I think this Friday um also outdoor ad is happening a group of students went last week and there's another group going next week uh we took the senior panoramic photo last week which was really fun um truck and field are having their Rel light meet and then we are going to start prep preparing for a step up rally soon for Westmore um we're starting to plan elections right now um the first candidate informational meeting is going to be next Thursday um during lunch um and then for this Friday there's going to be a woman's History Month Spirit day it's where purple green or white in honor of international women's History Month um prompts tickets start today and then prom is going to be on March 29 the theme is we Las Vegas
047um there's going to environmental action Club has a thrift store this week in the cafeteria for regular items and they they are also having a PR popup in room 108 P for py there's going to be lunchtime activities in the hallway hosted by the math department and then tedex westore is going to be doing a speaking event during second period and sixth period um there was a Red Cross CPR event last Thursday um there are Island Fiesta auditions next Friday all spring Sports have begun and peer assistant will be having their retreat in idental this weekend um for teranova our journalism class is taking a field trip on Thursday to the San Francisco Chronicle um our Special Olympics and special prom has been confirmed and we'll be moving on to um preparation for it our
048second Club food fair is coming up um we have March Madness signups um we also had an all City band performance this past Saturday um where our band several other local bands and local businesses were able to perform or sell their um products we had our Sports crab feed on Saturday Asian Club is doing a flip uh their 17th annual flip-flop Drive cheer um cheer team are doing evaluations women and stem just did one of their monthly Beach cleanups our spring show Cabaret was cancelled um and we will be having career fair tomorrow on Wednesday thank you all righty so um March is a busy busy month at oana um so starting tomorrow we're going to have our MOD Pizza fundraiser um and the proceeds are going to go to oceanana ASB um this Friday
049we are going to be having our dance um it's going to be a Spring Fling hosted in our gym uh we're also going to be having our an room fair this is to raise money for an rooms at Oceana um then we're going to have Springfest um to welcome Rising freshmen into Oceana and that's going to be March 14th um as well as also going to have a squid games rally on March March 14th um then on March 20th we're going to be having a wellness Workshop event it's going to be a small field trip within the school um and it'll take first block and our Flex time um and then on March 24th we're going to be having interum and on March 28th we're going to have our senior X day um and then
050our prom date was released and that will be hosted on May 3rd oh oops I feel like with all these amazing people I feel like this isn't even that important anymore but um but at thoron the the CE P Wilderness Program left today for their 10day backpacking trip to Los Padres National Forest um we have our second workshop with our lead mural project to complete the first draft design of it um that's G to be really awesome I I got a look at it wow um and our school is preparing for our upcoming Polen career week which will include career speakers and trips to Alcatraz and stem day with the 49ers Foundation at Levi Stadium and I don't want to brag I really I was thinking about not saying this but I really I I
051couldn't just not say this but I'm actually on track to finish early um on March 14th so and that's it that's incredible congratulations to you that's phenomenal really really proud of you um I just want to take a minute to just um give my thoughts and condolences to our colleagues and friends in the Pacifica School District with the loss of um the principal of Ocean Shore School Tony Corton who also was a good friend of mine so it's um you it's been sort of a a difficult week but I just I do want to just sort of Honor his memory just remembering what a good dude he was the work that he did um not just at Ocean Shore this year but as a vice principal at Sunset Ridge and as a longtime educator at
052Ortega school and the you know 17 years of service he had to the students of this community and it's pretty powerful to see the lives that he touched and taught over the years so you know here's to you Tony and um my condolences to his wife Kelly and to his father Nigel and his mom Patricia um also want to just echo my condolences I didn't really know this individual but I want to just take a moment to say our school district is grieving um and let's take a moment to recognize that um and uh appreciate the impact that this person had in our lives um a few things that I wanted to report out um I did get the chance to visit Daily city um youth Health Center uh I had my first um like
053almost like an on-site meet and greet um went well um yesterday was the first actual meeting where I got to be a leaz Zong and um couple of things are standing out the rebranding um and the main focus is because the name Daily City youth Health Center in itself is is a mouthful I don't know if anybody can say that fast 10 times um and also really kind of want to highlight and showcase that the the center is not just for Daily city is actually for serving a much larer broader population than just Daily City so not county S ideally um and obviously like most known provits we need money so if you have friends with Deep Pockets uh let us know reach out to me um and then uh yeah that's about it for
054that and then I just get the chance to also attend the uh one of the study sessions was there study session or with the lcap meetings and I want to districted by there you go District advisory committee and I just want to take a few moments to acknowledge some incredible people that work in the school district uh Dorene Tina and Karine you guys are amazing uh for your patience just walking me through some of the questions that I had where in my head I'm like I will probably be frustrated to even have to answer these questions but thank you for your patience and for all the work that you're doing I really I I walked away from that session understanding a little like not just a little bit like how much work goes into the
055lcap and like how to like break it down and dumb it down so we can even understand it to that degree um and one thing that stood out to me was just because the price of a project is $0 does not mean it's free I will leave it with that um I really have nothing to report but I just want to say how wonderful it is to see all our student trustees here tonight and congratulations to Danny congratulations than yeah I I don't really have anything to report but I'm going to do it anyway uh Danny congratulations uh I missed a meeting a month or two ago and I didn't get to congratulate the student of the month congratulation from Jefferson um and I'm looking forward to the Aloha crab Feast on Friday night and
056uh also to the Thornton career day that's it thank you uh not a whole lot to report out Danny proud of you good job bud um Andy and my condolences to you and and all of Pacifica and and ocean shore and everybody that's affected by that it's that's tough um I did get to hang out yesterday with our student Advisory Board um that was fun I didn't really do a whole lot just listen to them collaborate and work and and have fun so um it's always nice to see those guys you know accomplishing all the good stuff that they're doing and listening to them game plan for it so looking forward to more of that um turn it over to miss Tony Presta now okay okay I have just a couple things to report on
057um first off it it's been a while since we had a meeting actually I was kind of looking back to see what happened in the interim and mid-February um we welcomed Santa clar Unified School District and Walnut Creek Unified School District to our school district we hosted um a learning lab we uh are we collaborate with the national Equity project on a district redesign program and so do they and so we visited Santa Clara unified last year and this year we welcomed those school districts to to our district we had um it was a day of learning it was a day of sharing what we're doing and hearing about what they're doing and then we had a student panel and we had the student panel in this room so the other school districts and we
058also welcome people from all of the schools in our district so there were administrators there were teachers uh many of the people on the equity teams from each of the schools came and so this room was pretty full and we had a student panel up here and Mr Dan arzaga sort of asked them questions about their experience in our district um and if they feel seen heard and valued here in Jefferson Union and uh I have to say I was very proud of us and um we left that day I really left that day it was a lot of work it was a little bit of you know it a little stressful welcoming people from other school districts but I was so happy that we did it at the end of the day I felt
059really good about what we're doing and I also it was so nice for I was happy that our staff got to got to hear from other school districts how amazed they are at what we're accomplishing so it was really nice um the other thing I went to just this past week uh Daily City partnership sponsored there was a there's a movie out called No address and it's a movie about um people who are unhoused and about how you know young people might be in the Foster system and that when they graduate from high school they're done when they turn 18 they're done and what happens to them and just the social safety net in our country is lacking and so there there are so many people who need support and so um I won't lie
060it was a late night on a week night and I came this close to skipping it and then I was really glad that I went to support Daily City partnership um and then lastly Annie did I hear you right March 14th is that correct yeah that's our end of the quarter oh my gosh I'm super proud of you but I'm also like really bummed because that means I'm not going to see you regularly I guess if you graduate so we're going to have to figure something out maybe you're going to have to do some volunteer work we were talk we were talking about that earlier um I I think I'm still going to be able to keep coming to the wonderful I'll talk that makes me happy okay perfect that's great okay so that's all
061oh that's it for me thank you all right thank you uh are there any board subcommittees that would like to report out all right and I think I'm turning this back over to miss Tony Presta for the AFT local 1481 report yeah thank you so Monica Casey president of AF 1481 asked me to read her report um so here is her message she's in Sacramento today for the CFT March for March 4 March 4 educ I think it's a play on the month and the marching that we are bringing back from before the pandemic the purpose of the March is to preserve education funding and prioritize comprehensive student Support Services uphold respect and dignity in education including higher education ensure Fair compensation and Equitable working conditions for all campus employees and advocate for livable wages
062and secure employment to safeguard the future of all californ C's Workforce we are also asking California to protect our kids not tax breaks for billionaires you go Monica yeah thank you Tony um all right so moving on to item number 14 uh consent agenda items can I get a motion to approve so moved second all those in favor I right uh is there is there any public comment yes yes we have public comment from Emily Ward if I should pop up or not yes please you so much um we so Emily just uh because this is a non- agendized item we can't respond to you but I completely but it's wonderful and um we have a timer so three minutes whenever you're ready yes whenever you're ready so I'm Emily Ward I am really really
063delighted to be here today so I was you know in my former life an ex PayPal and eBay executive and then my husband and I formed a company to actually help with education and specifically creative arts and also media arts especially in the state of California so I will say we have one son he's 11 he's beautiful perfect adopted from China he is um I would say very creative loves Roblox loves games not really sporty he's very smart but it is hard to tie him down to his academics but what we try to do with him and what we really want to see with a lot of kids is just their creativity um acknowledged awarded I love what you do in this District I mean we've attended a lot of districts I will tell you
064that we've attended a lot of Schoolboard meetings and what you do for the kids in terms of just acknowledging their accomplishment is tremendous the product I want to tell you about tonight is real time it is a digital video yearbook so picture everybody's yearbooks right I've got mine from I'll just say a long time ago it's very long time ago it's hard cover I've got three little photos um I don't even recognize myself in them I'm thinking was that my hairstyle back in those days you know I can barely you know sort of see myself in it but picture of every kid because everybody's got their phones these days right is able to upload their personal videos and that goes into a private secure school video library that we maintain and under your direction right
065and then any of the kids can pick their personal videos and we processed it into a yearbook for them so picture all of the moments you heard about tonight everything from the crabfest heard about Napoleon's drumming I'm like wow that kid's amazing he's teaching line drumming he's teaching anim I think Anime Club I want to hear mentoring in Spanish Jasmine's cross country running so picture if rather than a little photo two sentences you actually get videos that they are able to personalize and share with their families how terrific is that you know the great thing is we think about it carefully for all of you because we really want to do this for you um it's covered by proposition 28 right and then the great thing is um most schools resell their yearbooks for a
066profit so we actually intentionally price 30 seconds so that thank you so that we're able to cover our streaming cost pay your team but also be able to return money back to the schools and then the big big thing actually I really appreciate you mentioned it um it is a very big mission for our team we've attended a lot of school districts in Central Valley and la and there is a huge homeless youth population it's frankly I tried not to cry in a Schoolboard meeting because of the number of kids are homeless so we actually give um a fairly significant percentage of our profits back to homeless youth so anyway I'd love to be able to follow up with members of the superintendent staff and anyone you'd like to Del to me so thank you
067so much for your time thank you thank you thank you and we do have this handout you gave to us I'll pass it on okay all right so our next speaker is paa sorry Hi everyone can you hear me okay yes uh just want to say before the time I starts I had a better speech but I Chang a little bit so and I'll be like completely I hope you guys can follow so good evening board members my name is Paul Scola and I'm part professional at Jefferson High School I was born and raised in Brazil and I came here from College of s on a work visit to study psychology and now I'm here and next day I'll be in in UC so until that I'm here for a personal reason because I really
068care and so as you guys hear me I know that everybody in this room cares a lot of in their heart right now like politics budgets big decisions you guys are here at almost 900 p.m. on a Tuesday and you have your personal stories and politics and policies that are affecting each one of you guys right now and I recognize that but I really need you guys to hear me now um CU I need you guys to understand how important inclusive education it is for the you you you guys should start advocating for mod students with disabilities when we serve those students with disabilities we're not only serving them we also serving their families really low-income communities that everybody advocates for but at least in my Jefferson High School in at those classes those students
069are really being ignored they are not learning we have students that don't speak English that just because they are English as second language English Asal language and special education they are not learning English they're not learning things that the mothers because we talk about those students that want to achieve Olympics and stuff like that what about mothers that had toel our professions like me I'm not joking this my coworker told me Mothers say I just want my child to go to a restaurant and order food bys sorry about my voice I'm a bit sick today um it's very simple dreams that mother with kids with disabilities have physical um that you cannot see that I think we have to be more careful about and put in our mind when we talking about politics and when
070I was in student government in College of sateo for the two years I was there we never talk about special education even though I had like people in my family that have it and I know people that were there that have it we never think about to advocate for them so I'm asking you students now to please advocate for them their mothers siblings I've seen Jefferson students that we say they're so nice but I've seen them bullying students with disabilities that are basically cannot tell the mom oh this happened to me they literally signed battles that nobody's advocating for so you guys are going to hopefully see me next month here I will really advocate for these students and I want to make sure you guys are thinking of them and the moders especially please
071thank you thank you very much thank you Paul all right moving on to item 16 are there any future agenda items up for consideration all right uh and we will be adjourning back to close session and that is it I move to a Jour second close session second okay all those in favor all let's do it [Music]