JUHSD Board of Trustees Special Meeting 10.3.2020

001um i think you just have to go into google docs yeah you can use my low agenda one that i usually put my notes and you can use that if you like okay i'm just gonna share that in the chat nicole yeah yeah i just want to make sure it goes into your um [Music] that google drive that it's in google that's in docs and not words so that's okay thank you that i think i didn't do yet okay so officially called order at 9 11. we're all here take it away you don't have any other items on the agenda just need a motion to approve the agenda so moved that can all those in favor say hi rosie you actually have to unmute because people can see you so i thank you you see

002me yeah we can see you i was laughing at all his enthusiasm seconding yeah well you know just wait i was like okay i don't see anybody fighting for this morning so let me just go ahead second that motion i realize the three items you're talking about are the three that i put on the board agenda so i did see that yeah yeah no worries it seems a long time ago yeah all right so we're here for our very close i'm not closing our third session around equity so i'm gonna go ahead and turn it over to nicole thanks everyone for showing up on a saturday morning yeah good morning good morning excited to hang out with you it seemed like just yesterday that we had our last session together and you all did a

003phenomenal job of wrestling with you know what is your equity statement for the district which is powerful and um as you all were closing you all kind of talked about you know what you know you really um took away from that session and there were some great takeaways and a lot of non-closure right because there's a lot more work to do so what i wanted to do today is just kind of continue to bridge the work you you started i know you have a couple of um timelines i want to check in on one of them or particular you were taking your equity statement i think you were going to i want to check in and see what's happened since the last meeting maybe gotten feedback from others but also i think you wanted to

004update and amend your policy your equity policy to include the statement and um i believe that was it for that policy but we do want to take some time today to go through that um and then also um spend some time looking at going back to your priorities right so really thinking about your priorities um in terms of your um kind of four buckets kind of areas that you want to look at so you can really stay laser focused as a governance team to get those things done so um i know that you're also as you're kind of transitioning and you know things are changing um not just even with leadership but also with like just the climate around us right um you know trying to consider reopening schools i'm not sure where you all

005are at with that um as a parent you know i'm just like wow this is amazing i'm not sure how i feel about this but as educators you know i recognize that you all have a lot going on and so i want to make sure today really helps you stay focused on what are those priorities that you know regardless of what's going on around us we got to really stay focused on those things that we want to you know have last for beyond just to hear that you want to have system change so that's why we want to prioritize our work so um before we start though i actually thought it would be great it's it's saturday um andy's gotten his coffee he's gone for his run and i'm not sure where everyone else is

006good to go um but i do want to make sure we at least just have a chance to open up with a little bit of just team building um i think that sometimes we're in business so much that we forget about some of the things they're most important with just us as people and really ensuring that this work continue to be safe for you and continue to grow and build your your relationships um so i'm gonna do something real simple today i'm just gonna ask you to just whip around i know everyone knows you your celebrities in the city right because you're on zoom like every week almost right um but i'm gonna ask that you just do something real quick that we do a quick whip around and just share the story about your

007name okay so what's your name how do you pronounce it and of course a little story about your name now this is going to be tough because i'm going to ask you to do the one minute version of that like 60 seconds right there's the dissertation version there's the 10 minute version right but i want you to do like the the 60 second version of what is what is the history of your name okay so i'll i'll start and just um you know kind of model for you and then we'll make some connections of why this is important later on um so my name is nicole um my mother calls me nico um i never quite know why she pronounces my name differently than the rest of america it's a very common name but she

008says nicole and what's interesting is as i unpack my ancestry and kind of think about all the different um nuances of where i'm from you know beyond just even american you know experiences as an african-american i realize our creole ancestry really has a mixture of languages and so even though she was born and raised in vallejo lived in california her whole life um but she still has kind of a southern sound and also she has this pronunciation of words that don't necessarily sound like you know the average person who speaks english standard english so i make that connection because i really appreciate the journey i'm on about learning about my own ancestry beyond just america and western uh you know europe western africa just really understanding my creole people and so that's why she says

009me calling so it's just interesting okay now that was like less than 60 seconds i think so that's a record for me um so now i'm just going to whip around and ask each of you to share again your story about your name okay so i'll start with andy and i'll just whip around the screen base and i see you all so andy why don't you jump in sure um you know andrew uh from the brief which is you know manly or brave and that was given to me because i was a 10 pound baby so i was a big boy and my mom yeah my mom you know was like 5 1 so it was basically given because of the size of me as an infant there you go see that was less than

01030 seconds i think i forgot i muted myself all right thanks andy that's interesting to know uh tiffany oh you're on me tiffany um are we doing first names first names yeah first names but i forgot to say that if you want to go into your last name absolutely but it was really your first name so i apologize um so two things about my name tiffany um i mean a super common name not very original at all um i was born on valentine's day so my mom considered naming me like valentina but my sister's name older sisters her writing name is tina so that went out the door and i think she just liked tiffany i'm wondering if it was like related to a sitcom um but every person in my name every person in

011my family has a name that starts with a t so my immediate family there's tina tiffany and my parents are thomas and terry of course they chose those names when they immigrated here um so they each have stories about their names but even on my dad's side um he's one out of ten brothers and sisters and they all have names that start with teas um in vietnamese so yeah the kind of a tradition kind of continues with this too powerful wow thank you for that tiffany appreciate that uh carla let me go to you next okay so i don't i don't know where my origin is of my name because i guess i never asked my mom but i will say that when i was well because you know i was born in hong kong

012so actually i didn't well you know i was little so i don't think i remember myself as my family calling me carla when i was young before we immigrated here so i was like i have had a different name until we came here when i was like seven or eight so um but yeah i never asked my mom i think she probably just pulled it out somewhere you know like okay well that's a good name what's his name or that i guess i don't know but i guess that was something that i will have to ask her when i get off the zoom today so that's all i can see all right uh yeah that's not a bad idea it's more storytelling sit with mommy and just mom why carla right yeah my mom also

013did not have a reason either so that was interesting and my dad has um since passed away so i don't know what what the where the nicole piece came from either but uh appreciate that carla tony what about you uh well uh the story that i'm told so my name is tony ann and uh anne's my middle my mom's name um the story that i've heard about my name is that my parents were gonna either name me christine or christina and they could not agree and so when i was born my dad's cousin tony benedetto had just died and they said why don't we just name her tony so i think it was sort of by chance that some guy named tony died and um so they named me that but when i was little

014i i hated my name because everywhere i went teachers and classrooms would say oh tony i thought you were a boy and i would you know it wasn't nice to hear that all the time so i remember when i was a teacher uh i well and still like people's names are really important to call them by the right name to not editorialize about their name and i kind of learned that firsthand yeah yeah well wow i appreciate you sharing that tell me and you spell it t-o-n-i which is interesting too so um i appreciate that uh kalima hello so uh kalima is uh the faith it means faith uh it is so in islamic tradition both my parents are muslim uh in order to become a muslim you have to say the shahada which is

015that's all you have to do which is a direct it's a declaration of faith and so the to declare your faith is taking the kalima so uh my whole name is a sentence um then my mom had four other kids and learned that it was a mistake to have that expectation so only my sister and my only the top two of us have that full name and your whole your full name is a whole sentence but my full name means um faith that grows i'm a strong faith in wow powerful thanks kalima and i tell you kalima i had a student with your same last name so i think it's salahuddin right and it's extremely my name is not unique at all if i go to an and i was it was if my mind

016was going like you know when you go to disneyland and you see your name on the little things like i'm going to explore and i was like oh it's in english and it's right there so [Music] there was kalima's all over the place like kalima says beans all over the place yeah interesting we're going to make that connection one day because that's it my student that was her family so we'll see uh all right thanks kalima rosie good morning everyone um so my name is rosie that is my given name rosie it's not short for rosemary rosalie i used to get all that get those questions forever and ever um when i was in sixth grade we had a names project where you had to learn about your name the origin who named you all

017the stuff so i just innocently went home and asked my mom who named me and why did why did you name me rosie and she was washing dishes and she just turned around said your father named you after his girlfriend and so i said really she said go ask your father so i asked my dad he goes oh no i just like the name and then my mom said oh i i saw the letters i saw the pictures of this woman we were in the the philippines and he was here in the united states and he was a handyman and she was me she was a divorced lady with two little kids and her name was rosie rosie rosie and so i went okay this is the side of my dad i didn't know um

018but in my family i'm called ronnie that's my nickname because when i was 10 i was diagnosed with leukemia and one of the things they said was uh was to drive the spirits away change your name so they don't know you they can't find you so they let me choose my name and i loved archie comics at the time i did not want to be called veronica but i like that it was a sexy veronica but she had this masculine name so i said i want to be called ronnie and they was kind of ruled they went um okay so from now on everyone in the family calls you ronnie so i am auntie ron i am to the great nieces i'm mamaron if i open a restaurant it'll be mama ron's um so that's

019real identity is wrong interesting wow okay my story is boring i know all of our stories are like whoa i know okay maybe she should have went last i'm muting now but yeah yeah i don't know that's cool thanks rose i appreciate that i'm gonna try not to call you mama ron but i look forward to your restaurant i'll go when they let us open back up officially right oh thank you so much uh nick yeah uh we have similar names um yes we did yeah it's a cool name i like my name um i asked my parents i think that they had i think like most parents they they agreed on a name after a certain point um my dad had you know a couple ideas my mom and they've never called me by

020my full first name is nicholas so people say nicholas or is on sometimes you know you get issued an email or something um it's i don't respond to it even as a kid they never called me nicholas so i don't know why i guess formally on on that so anyways it's nick and uh nick uh like andy's name mentioned two is a greek name uh nicholas means a victory of the people i looked up a few years ago which is pretty cool um nick is just like nike so i thought that was cool because sometimes my students ask me what's your name i'm like my name is mr oh that's all you need to know um and we laugh about it but like um but niko says all over the classroom it's right there you're

021wearing it and that's what it is so uh regardless of victory but my story is as cool as rosie's so yeah so i feel like nick i just i just like the way my name is but um that's cool and this is a question oh okay okay thanks nick all right um april well my parents um named me april because they liked the month it's not as interesting as rosie or nick's story and my middle name is nicole so yeah best name ever i appreciate that april and espanol right it is every once in a while people change our names right and change it to different languages too uh well thank you so much april um luca jump on in luco good morning good morning my name is luca and my my name comes from

022a city in italy it's a small city in italy yeah that's about it okay okay look i appreciate that all right oh powerful and i think i didn't miss anybody i think i think we got everyone um and i just appreciate you sharing um to start us off this morning um when doing this type of work sometimes we forget just who we are in this work and sometimes something as simple as pause think about your name starts to make you think about your story right which connects to your identity and specifically your cultural identity right your belief systems right the way you interact with people the way you see the world um some of you started to talk about your ethics i don't know is jake listening jake are you still here jake are you

023there yeah i don't know if jake was there jake's like i just want to be in the background huh leave me alone no [Laughter] it's like you didn't tell me i'm eating breakfast or something okay i didn't also didn't want to like if he was listening like we're like jake's not oh yeah no good thinking yet yeah i just assumed he was like i got you all set up now leave me alone okay cool so yeah no but if he jumps in there he does i'm here sorry no we were saying if you were here we just wanted to acknowledge that you were here and if you wanted to share how you got your name oh i look i did my obviously my name's from the bible but jacob so uh that's funny while you

024guys were talking about it i started looking it up so it has to do with i guess jacob came out um with a twin holding his heel it was interesting but yeah thanks for including me oh thank you jacob i think we call you jake but it's jacob yep ah thank you so much but yeah i mean even with that like you know jake um looking up just kind of the history of it right it makes you just pause and just go back to like you know why am i here how did i get here what is my my identity and this is important in this type of work because often we'll get caught in like we're gonna go into the technicalities of governance and all that good stuff but when we talk about equity

025focus work um it's important that the people part of the work really be acknowledged um in this because ultimately you're wanting to address equity gaps for your children and families and a lot of the work we're going to do is deconstructing some of the systems that have actually really destroyed or diminished people's identity and so something as simple as our names right there's so much to unpack behind that and as you know you think about modeling even for our teachers in classrooms we're with kids every day there are many who don't take the time to just ask kids how did you get your name how do you pronounce it right what do you want to be called what's your identity right versus what we typically do sometimes we even look at a name and we'll

026make assumptions about where they're from what language they speak um and and just completely miss who they are right we'll miss rosie's story right we would miss that if we didn't ask right and so those are the things that is really important as we do this work when we start to look at your equity definition you all spent quite a bit of time by unpacking that and what's going to be really critical is that as you apply that lens to your work you have to remember we're applying it to people and not always just systems right which are policies and practices which is where governance lies right but we always have to remember our people um portion of this which is most critical to move this work and remembering to deconstruct things like institutional racism

027requires us to dismantle the construct of race in itself which often race actually creates division amongst people right it was a concept designed to divide people based on people's characteristics right based on their nationality and then we just really realized that even after y'all were telling your story we all have something in common right we have more in common actually than not and so when you break down our dna right yeah i don't know how many of you done ancestry.com and that great fun you know 23 and me and you're learning about your ancestry but at the end of the day we all have more in common than not even genetically but when we operate in the constructs of race and then we're going to go into talking about your data what happens our kids

028are putting those boxes right and what happens is we only operate in those constructs and think that that's how we address equity and equity is about giving people what they need right that's the short version of it right giving them what they need but if you don't know people we can't give them what they need so as we do this work today i want you to be thinking about that and that was just kind of a warm up but starting with you knowing yourself knowing your identity is really important in this work as we can begin to wrestle with how do we deconstruct some of the equity gaps that exist in the school district that are systemic right have been long-standing okay so i really appreciate that um what i want to do is i'm

029going to share my screen and just share um the agenda that i shared with you all so hopefully you all got it and um i don't know tony if you plan to take notes or if anyone wants to take notes i kind of have my own notes that i take but i don't want you all to feel like you need those for your minutes um so feel free to use this template and what i did is just broke it up based on what i think will do in terms of time frame i a lot of times we'll adjust but notice that um we kind of had three you know things that we wanted to cover and i broke them up into chunks um in terms of just kind of reviewing governance right what effective governance

030is important we always revisit that look at prioritizing our work and that included when you talked about the equity statement really revisiting that your policy and then also doing a little bit of equity impact planning i can't i call it planning but this is the beginning phases of planning which you actually are doing now you're doing it kind of simultaneously so we're going to have those out of three chunks but you see i broke up the agenda based on what i really want to hit on these talking points and then at the end we'll spend a little bit of time talking about what you want your next study session to involve because these study sessions are important for you to have time to really wrestle with um what is what is what is it we

031want to do as a team okay so before i jump in and get started um i wanted to um kind of remind us of our four agreements uh before we jump in and so um i will also i just have like kind of i don't want to say old slides but slides um here that um i'll reference just for you and if you all want me to share it in your folder i can do that as well but these are a couple slides you've seen before um but just remind us of our four agreements as we work together i think it's really critical as you continue to advance your work and jefferson that we not skip this step and this step has to be about safe space for everybody to engage in the work so

032remember for agreement stay engaged experience discomfort speak your truth expect and accept non-closure very important when we talk about unpacking things like racism that can be very uncomfortable for people very much um cause quite a bit of barriers when we start to deepen the work um there will be pushback with this work everyone's not gonna be a fan of this um because you're deconstructing the system that people are used to right like this is just the way we do school and so if we start interrupting that there is discomfort um so we want to ensure that safe space is really modeled so as a governance team that you're showing and demonstrating this is safe space even when we disagree with each other even when our troops are very different it is important though that everybody

033have a space to engage in this work and that it is a journey that non-closure it's a journey and so it's messy right that's uncomfortable in itself right it's messy and you all really demonstrated these really well in your last meeting that i joined you on um in terms of just the ability to just experience discomfort be okay with like we're thinking outside of the box right like that's uncomfortable in itself um and to be able to say this is what we're gonna call out as equity is pretty bold so we're gonna go back to your statements definitely and look at you know how we want to deepen that but this is going to be some powerful work you do on behalf of the district and i want to just make sure we always go

034back to this so as you're going to different meetings different spaces make sure that safe space has been established because i'm at the end of the day if people don't feel that they can engage and they feel attacked or they feel judged because they're just not on the same journey they don't understand or even they may say things that are really offensive um you still have to recognize the journey that people are on and we have to meet people where they are right but we also have to speak our truth and call it out when it's not okay and so that's something you have to create and that's really powerful and we can't skip this step in the beginning of this type of work or else down the road when things get uncomfortable you know

035what happens right it's going to stop this is a political space right there's uproar that may happen those are the things that we have to ensure we really get ahead of so we want to go from safety to brave space which is to actually do things actions that are going to change the trajectory for kids um i do want to remind us though that safe space and discomfort are different things so we're going to have to always be able to remind people that when it gets uncomfortable okay that is very different from being unsafe okay and so when we start unpacking things like privilege right people who have power people who have um benefited from a system and we're calling those things out there are gonna be people who are gonna not like that and

036not feel comfortable because it feels like an attack so you have to be this is where we talk about our strategy learning more language and our awareness so that we can meet people where they are so that people don't feel like they're pushed out and can't engage in this work okay so that's really important we have to keep wrestling with that as we continue to move on our journey together um so any questions thoughts about the four agreements as we continue to um to unpack this work together because this is always something i don't want to skip questions thoughts about our four agreements and if we're still good with them all right everybody's good okay [Music] jump in because i thought it hurt someone okay no i'm saying still good thank you okay perfect perfect

037all right excellent so um what i want to do is uh let me move this out the way what i want to do is jump right into um some reflection um and i know you all have been you know really on this journey um together for you know a bit of time but i know also there's transition in terms of leadership and you're really trying to kind of move forward and you'll have obviously um you know in january you'll look at your governance you'll revisit some things which is a very normal process for boards so i want to just remind you as you're going to do your equity work this year always stay focused on ensuring that you have effective governance practices that's going to be really critical that you have practices that are effective

038because if not then it's going to be very difficult to do equity work um equity work again is very messy it's very um unconventional and so if we don't have effective practices it'll be very difficult to actually see this work through and again the work will stop at the governance level so some of the reminders i want to give you is um when we talk about this assessment you all have seen this we've gone through this if you recall i want to say it was back in june um and this is where we actually went through like what is where are we at as a governance team and so this is a great assessment that you could do you know maybe every quarter obviously csva has its own assessment but i really like this one

039because it really comes from kind of research around what the eight characteristics of effective board and so we're not going to go through them all right this moment but i do want to make sure i remind you of them um making sure you're committed to a vision for equity and i think you all are feeling like yes we're there right ultimately you want to be very effective at that right and so we talk about very effective meaning that in the end all five of us are in that same place that we're committed to this vision for equity we have high expectations for students okay um and there are some clear goals around that which is part of what we're working on um we want to make sure the second one that you have strong shared

040beliefs and values about this work right and beliefs and values is important it's where our personal kind of perspective comes into play but also as a collective governance team that this is our belief system and that our community recognizes that this is our belief system so even when the pushback comes it is very clear that we have shared beliefs and values about this work and that everyone in our system eventually starts to have that common shared value and that you believe in the system that you're in so like when we talk about the history of public education one of one of our favorite activities right um the reality is this that um the system wasn't designed to be equitable for all kids and so while we know that we still have to realize that we're

041the system right we make up the system we create policies we influence practices so we have to believe that our system that we're providing for kids actually can be um accessible for kids now all kids can learn in that system so that's going to be really important that we believe all kids can learn um the third piece that your board is collect um collaborative in its relationship not only with your staff right but also with the community and that there's a communication space that happens and i know that's something that you all are working on is how do we ensure we have a great communication structure so that everyone's informed everyone has the same information there's timeliness there's consistency but how do you make sure there's a collaborative relationship that you're doing this with the

042community and not to the community that's important we talk about equity driven work i'm going to pause for a second for those first three any thoughts or questions about the first three shared vision shared beliefs and collaborative relationships any thoughts about those three so far and maybe even where you think you all are at how are you doing on those i'll start um just a thought um i think one of the things that we do well as a board is um we do share our thoughts and input but there are times where i think if we anticipate having a difference of opinion on certain things that we need to start from um the middle you know ground that we all agree on which i think is an effective communication tool but i do also think

043that um something we've learned as a nation in recent months and many years that we all obviously have political ideas and different ways to approach it and i think our board does that well um but in terms of speaking our truth and all those things that we all um take all of our perspectives together and just bring it just bring it to the table so that we can discuss those things because certainly um all of us here not only represent our own views and people who um obviously want us to be on the board and bring that to our community but um we also have you know a range of perspective and depth that um if we always just try to mediate what we're doing we're not going to bring our full capacity to the

044board and our ideas so um i think that's absolutely true that the shared vision in in understanding how to collaborate with that means um being open about that i think people appreciate that and i think we've been doing a good job but i just want to encourage that continue to encourage that um dialogue thank you for that i appreciate that perspective all right any other questions thoughts i know tony what i've neglected to say part of why i also want to revisit this is that um as the governance team you know kind of transitions i want to make sure that you have an opportunity because this is about you know governance team you know board members and superintendent kind of collectively so this is really helpful as you make that transition and really plan for

045um your work moving forward so if you have any questions or thoughts about this please you know share we'll definitely revisit these as you all transition officially so so i think um that we do number one well we get a shared vision as a board and even including the executive cabinet like there's a really good shared vision between us that's a and there's a level of understanding of what that shared vision is and why that shared vision is and it completely stops with us hmm we don't explain it or share it or really work to make sure that the folks outside of our bubble understand it before we start making changes because of it um so i also think that we need to really define what collaboration means that when we say we're having a

046collaborative effort what does that mean so i i'm really proud of the work that we've done return to school i feel like that's our first real collaborative effort that i've seen in this district that involves students parents teachers administrators all working together on the same page that's not a performance art you know i've seen other things done where we like have a budget work study this is before tina um because this is the first time we're gonna have to do it again where we're just pulling people in the community to discuss something that's already been decided and really just trying to get them to rubber stamp it you know or and i kind of feel like that's how things that's how people feel like they're voting when we have when we have surveys and other

047things that go out to do that collaboration piece it's really them voting on something that's already been decided and we're like pick one of the three instead of asking them to help decide or build what those three things that they're voting are in it doesn't mean it has to be the whole district but you know really having all stakeholders students teachers parents etc and not just the same people over and over again you know so i think that we really need to focus and and define what real collaboration means we also need to focus and define on what real communication means because we'll you know we'll say something or ask for something to be communicated and then we'll be told it was communicated but you know if it was an email on friday that's not

048communication you know so it's um i think those are two areas that i feel um that we could really do more work yeah absolutely now i appreciate that kalima what a great um example and i just appreciate that reflection because many boards don't don't think of it that way right we think of it as we're the governance team and we make the decisions and you know yes you have to make executive decisions without asking the questions at times but ultimately like there's a culture that we want to create around collaboration with our community which is important we talk about empowerment of voices who haven't been heard right when we do equity work we have to bring others in so i just appreciate that powerful and we will talk a little bit about communications a little

049later so thank you for that um anyone else for the first three i was going to whip through the last ones um just to kind of check in with you just review them again hopefully you can see it on your screen you may have to blow it up on your own i think i can't do it on my own for some reason because i'm in google docs or google slides versus the other one i just haven't figured out how to do it evidently but the fourth um characteristics is about being accountability driven spending less time on operational issues and more time focused on equity and policies to improve student achievement and so this is a you know big one right we we hold ourselves accountable um so we're measuring and monitoring progress right and that

050is over the kind of bigger things which we'll talk about you know the bigger issues those priorities versus some of those micromanaging type of things so this is really important especially for uh board members superintendents like that relationship and i'll show that slide in a second uh but making sure we recognize like we understand our roles and that we hold each other accountable we're measuring the impact of our work but we're not in the weeds right that's where what's really important is board members supposed to be at that you know 30 000 foot level and we start getting in the weeds of you know the nuances it becomes tricky and i will say this though every board has its own culture so we have to recognize what that means um and my example is um

051i i did it um i managed the school board members campaign a couple years ago and i mean he won um but he's a 35-year you know educator in the same district where he won and so he knows everything about everything right he knows every aspect of the school district he knows everyone and this was a real challenge for him because in the end what he had to do is start recognizing his role and his role was simply that you're governing now right like you can't he's to be a substitute principal for example right so he wants to go jump in the schools and he actually does he has a culture he's created but and people like it but um he goes to schools every week right he brings a city councilman with them and

052he's in classrooms and he has a different lens and so for the superintendent that had to be a relationship and understanding because if not that becomes very uncomfortable it becomes kind of um invasive and it becomes something that um that it causes confusion right where teachers like why is that board member here right and so without collaboration and communication in number three and number four you know it's important accountability is important that yes board members should know what's going on at school right like that makes a lot of sense um and not that you don't trust your superintendent in terms of reports and your staff in terms of reports but you have a pulse on what's going on in the school district but that has to be something that's very clearly understood but it's not

053about coming back and doing your board report and saying you know i noticed i went this one classroom and there was a water fountain that was dripping and i just noticed it was dripping and dripping and i need to get the maintenance person to come i mean that's like getting in the weeds right and that's not really our role our role is about really looking at the priorities teaching and learning and maybe that water fountain of that is impacting learning then yes you may want to check in with your superintendent but we don't micromanage and we just stay in that space of holding the people accountable but we also want to make sure we're not in the lead so that's really where that one comes from um the fifth one is around being data savvy

054so we definitely got to talk about that being data savvy using actual data to drive your governance using data to ask questions of the staff um and when i say data good data right so both qualitative and quantitative so that's going to be important this year that we not just look at the dashboard or that you're you know your typical metrics for achievement which are important but they aren't the only metrics to define student success so having multiple data points is going to be important and this is going to be something you have to work on as a team because superintendent and designees district staff have to be a part of providing that data for you so you're going to have to really understand that piece around how do we have a culture around using

055data to drive our work and really measuring the progress so that we have continuous improvement right but that requires us to use data and ask those questions as governance team members um aligning your board um um aligning and monitoring sustain your resources i should say so this is where you oversee the budget right you oversee kind of human capital you oversee even time right around the calendar what happens professionally um for people when they're learning so resources is important right that it's aligned and that you actually monitor so you have the lcap which is a tool to help you with allocating your budget but you have to make sure we're measuring and monitoring that and you're also sustaining the things that impact your students right so there's going to be some decisions you'll have to

056make around your budget and your resources to make sure you're addressing equity so this is a really important one and the example that was pulled out is your professional learning yours you spend you know 85 90 of your budget on human capital and so it's very important that human capital those people in the system are able to grow especially in this type of work if professional development is not something that's focused on it's going to be hard to expect change um it's going to be hard to expect capacity to be built without putting time and resources to professional learning and this is not always about like hiring people to come from the outside by the way this is about collaboration you have some experts who already work in your district right they're called teachers they've

057been doing this for a while and there are some teachers who actually are equity leaders who actually can be a part of that leadership and so having that capacity for them to collaborate and be able to leave their own um kind of pd is really important piece of this work so that requires you to allocate time for them to do that right um so i'm gonna pause for a second i went to accountability data savviness and uh resources questions thoughts about those three and maybe even how you think you're doing on those or questions you may have yes tony i'll share the slides by the way um this is where i think rather than using you know the non-effective somewhat effective type of breakdown that this is the area of growth these are the growth

058opportunities for us because we've started to do some of this work now it's really how do we take this to the next level in terms of the way we we read the data this is you know how do we ask questions for different kinds of data right you know how do we you know how do we continue to learn using your the example you shared to continue to stay in our lane you know you know and to really govern from that high level um and and developing the the trust with the superintendent as well right so it's these are the areas this is all what i think what what's encouraging to me is that we're already well on our way in this journey especially with this that we've had with you and you know and

059the work that we've been doing and and when you go back to the first three items it's clear we have the solid base now it's now it's really about elevating how we do the work which is why we're here this morning yeah absolutely yeah and it's exciting to hear you say like we're on our way we have this foundation you know we're we're moving this way we've got to take it deeper but that's powerful to hear and tony should be really exciting to hear because every board can't say that by the way um all right good anyone else on those three before we move to the last two and then we're going to jump into our prioritization of our work yeah i think um i think for me with the data i mean it's one

060thing to be data savvy but also you know being able to art to question the collection of data yeah is it how is it collected is it really representative and that's been the thing we've i feel we've struggled with since we've been on the board and it's gotten better um but sometimes you know surveys only give you so much and and i know that we follow up with the different groups as much as we can um but you know so if we see that some things are skewed a certain way at least we can identify it and question it you know we we have that capacity but the collection of data for me is still you know um it needs to be improved yeah well and then also if we have the data like are

061we actually putting are we just doing it just to do it are we actually you know we don't want to waste people time people's time and are we actually really listening to what the surveys have to say and are we actually doing something about it right because that's the whole point of um doing a survey is to you want to hear you know get get the voice so then we can say okay we're going in the right direction this is not what everybody wants and and try to implement those changes so you know yeah yeah i love this discussion it was one of the things that we definitely have to talk about is again go back nicole one second go ahead luca oh go ahead luka sorry yeah um so this this is for our

062school as in like the teachers and the staff members and the board members right of the way that we can present a reasonable and um equal viewpoints and stuff like that towards the students so this question from the board meeting and the staff members towards the students right yeah i think so i think it's a great question um luca i think the data it's a lot of reasons why we use data but specifically it's about addressing the needs of students absolutely um but there's go ahead and we're trying to um provide equity from the board to the students but most of the times the students do need to rewire their thinking a little bit because they're taught things when they're younger that probably shouldn't have been taught to them you know what i mean absolutely

063yeah it's like while we're focusing on how to provide for the students we should also focus on how to i'm not trying to say like change the students but rewire thinking because most of them some of them they they're taught things that probably shouldn't have been normalized for them yeah well said yeah you know luca that's a really powerful profound statement i think when we talk about this data um this is where we talk about uh qualitative data right so not just about test scores and how kids are doing on homework and grading but it's about how kids are learning right and so if we observe one of your classrooms luca and we so we collected data around observation and we saw the interaction of students right we saw some of the responses of students

064um and and literally i know you all at the high school level but what's interesting lucas this is where we talk about why the elementary kids actually need to um really have culturally relevant instruction right at early ages because you're right they're taught things at early ages it's where implicit bias is taught this is where we're just taught is how we do school and even going back to our identity right students identity is often taught and solidified early on an education system sometimes kind of creates that for them right it defines it for them and so the data shows and so we all we do have to collect data around student behavior right and what do we need to do to involve students in this process too because kids have to be a part of

065the change so i just really appreciate that and look forward to your your insight on what kind of data we want to collect because that's the hard part right is what questions do we ask so that we actually know what's going on um and be able to inform our work so i know there's like all drafting and some and something like that but if you if you would try to change the way the students learned would you start with elementary or would you and progress up towards um the high school level because i know that the high school middle schoolers if you starting at elementary they've already been taught these things and they they've already been put into the wiring that they've been taught in elementary so if you start at elementary you still have

066what seven grades that have already been taught these things and need to be rewired and reset throughout from what they've been told when they were younger yeah yeah it's a it's a complex one luca i think systemically if we did it right we would start with our tkers right or ella our uh what do you call it kindergarten first grade because that's where kids development really starts and they're super spongy right they learn really quickly but i will say this the the reality is that the maturity at middle and high school actually is where you know kids actually have a sense of understanding the world and that there's uh some logic um and cognitive processes that um based on the brain development that absolutely middle and high school is an appropriate place because this is

067where you make decisions on your own right you're able to make you know think for yourself your parents although you're raised by your parents you're raised by your family um you have a sense of independence and so this is why this work is really important even at elementary in high school so um there's there's but there's the data we got to collect on that i think we can assume that all kids have the same understanding have the same um problems at others but i definitely say this is why we collect data and the board needs to know this right so that the board can make decisions to impact it this is where that conversation about ethnic studies comes in right you know why did that come up because kids need to be exposed to understanding

068multiple cultures not just one dimensional which has often been the reason why we're having these discussions now right is that we haven't allow kids to explore different um ethnicities and understand um identity for all children so there's still at you that look to your point that that's why it's not enough for us to do it um that's why i've been really happy that all of our feeder districts except for two are also participating in this same um type of training and um two are currently working with nicole to have similar sessions set up and our district that we get most of our students from which is you know jefferson elementary uh joined with us in a resolution to call for ethnic studies so that we're all on the same page right it doesn't it's not

069helpful to start this work in high school for students um that's a that's a heavy load to lift so uh that's why you know one of the reasons why i started the equity network was so that especially for our district that we can ensure that all of us are on the same page and pushing towards the same direction to your point so that work is also happening in in some of our feeder districts and hopefully all of them in the near future i have one question i'm just i'm going to give you is it i don't think of it as a question but it's an idea what if if i was able to start a club at the school and provide the information that is being given from here and also provide the information that

070is on this this chart and the data that you're trying to enforce i was able to provide that directly to the high school students within my last year of high school i was gonna do that that would be perfect and you know that's one of the reasons why we have you as a student trustee and i'm hoping that all of the students trustees are doing what you're thinking about doing and and not just keeping the information that you learned here with yourself but sharing it with other students absolutely because you guys are going to focus on the much younger group and that's where it starts at right that's the main focus for the um the ethnic studies and the change for for the little ones but it's kind of harder for the for them for

071the high school students to learn from from the school boards and the um this type of thing because they're all stuck in their own little ways i'm not trying to like send them like you know but if it was from a student to student you think uh be more open yep yeah that's all i have to say yeah that's powerful oh gosh that's deep luca we appreciate that because this is this is the work is the kids definitely um have to be a part of the change right and and this is why we kind of do this work and have hope for the future because us adults have a harder time changing right because we get set in our ways but but students have a whole different trajectory um a lot you haven't learned which

072is great those kind of negative things that are taught early so this is really exciting we'll definitely look at some key action that where students can be involved as you start your action plan i think this is a great one so everyone do not forget what lucas ideas because that's absolutely a great way to leverage student leadership to move this work powerful um so the last two things were about um tiffany are you trying to say something oh yeah i was gonna oh no worries i i think to luca's point too about how the wiring and the conditioning starts in the elementary school um so circle up does a lot of work with jefferson elementary school district um and training the teachers on how to rewire their thinking and then also how to facilitate practices

073and circles and community community building in the classroom too so you know students are having the chance to check their assumptions and look at their biases um as they're kind of like moving on in life and i think yeah we should definitely talk luca because i've been working with some of the sites and creating like school climate committees and things and i think it is more effective if they are getting if it's more peer-led in terms of like these conversations and dialogues and discussions because they are really deep and really personal um yeah i don't know oh yeah for sure i need to write that thanks tiffany and i apologize i didn't see i had to open up my screen to see everybody so i'm happy that uh you jumped in thank you that's powerful

074wow wow that's exciting um so the last two pieces of this is just to reflect on i'm working as a united team um obviously with the superintendent um and each respectively understanding their roles and so we'll talk about that in a second but there's this trust and actually strong kind of equity focus together right the collaboration is really um important and that's why i go back to that safe space conversation that trust in this work working as united team is important um and that's why it is it is one of the characteristics of effective boards we got to make sure we remember that and then the other piece number eight is working together which you all do a phenomenal job of working together to do professional learning um really focusing your training spending the time

075on a saturday right actually unpacking this work is important and that's something that's ongoingly needed for governance teams to build capacity many teams just do a few study sessions a year right on some of the big things that happen you know maybe there's a budget study session obviously you do one around superintendent goals like some of those structural things that just happen but this type of work requires constant learning you know the conversation that luca just brought up like that's a study session in itself right of how do we utilize our students to actually lead this work right um that's a big piece so having ongoing professional learning is really important together so that you can continue to commit to this work ongoingly this is where i call it creating a culture right of doing

076this work so um the last two um how do we feel about that as a team we feel like we're doing a pretty good job united we collaborate we learn together okay good good all right excellent and so again i encourage you like about once a quarter i want to say once a quarter go back to this you know make sure you're still on the same this is our caller our pulse check okay as a governance team our pulse check and those last three things at the bottom is what we're actually going to go through today so having an equity statement so obviously you've gone through that process we'll talk about that in a second having an equity policy you've gone through that process and you're going to continue to evolve that and use that

077as a lens to drive your work and then having an equity plan right so how do we actually do this work making sure we're holding ourselves accountable to the future in terms of making this work happen focus monitor measure so that we actually can close equity gaps so those three things are actually um going to be what we're going to cover actually today okay um in terms of um in terms of roles um i gave you a um the link of the slides here so i'm not going to go through each of them but i want to just remind you this is a good one to go back to as well um in that every quarter just go back through and say um you know how we doing and remember there's that dotted line superintendent

078and board work together um and sometimes you do cross each other's lanes at times that's very normal but you want to make sure you create that culture that works for you how you communicate right what works best in terms of board members communicating right how often do you want your information how soon do you need your packet right um those are all things that just kind of come into building a culture and a relationship but remembering very clearly there are distinctive roles between superintendents and governance teams and superintendents include the designee right so that's cabinet members as well but the board has its role and this is something i talked about earlier right you're the visionaries you adopt the policies you monitor the process but then the work actually happens at the ground level with

079your superintendent and so this is why it's important when we talk about prioritizing our work that we don't have a thousand things that happen right in terms of like our policies and what we create because what the work has to actually be done with the staff it doesn't happen with the board so we want to make sure we're really clear on who does what right who's collecting that data right who's the person that's doing that those things have to really be understood in terms of visionary and then who implements the work okay so this is always a good slide just to remind you of um and then this slide is a bit embedded in here too i'm not going to go deep into it but these are all things that are just good to remind

080us along the way like are we being transparent right are we being responsive right those are important things these are some of the more technical things we think about like what does it actually look like right being responsive to our community right timely communication collaboration when there's a problem we actually respond um ensuring that we're inclusive like those are all like kind of some of the things to consider so i'm not going to go deep into that but just want to remind us of um effective governance is super important we're talking about doing equity driven work okay questions or thoughts about that piece before we get ready to jump into our next um prioritizing our work in our equity statement all right do we need like a five-minute stretch break we've been on about an

081hour and zoom exhaustion is more real on saturday than monday through friday right all right let's do five minutes okay five minutes then we'll come back um it is what time now it is 1006 so about 10 11 okay we come back but just get something to drink go to the restroom um just a five minute recess if that's all right word president with your permission all right that sounds good thank you okay all right see you in five minutes [Music] so [Music] all right we are coming back closely to the computer hopefully we got stretching and water and check in with the children who hopefully aren't tearing up the house all right no comment actually mine are sleep still um but they're supposed to be up because they they got in trouble yesterday so

082that husband husband's like oh you guys are getting up you're cleaning up and wearing you so well my daughter's teaching a class in the kitchen a dance class too like three and a half year old oh wow wow oh well um we got a few more hours together less than two so we want to just uh jump in and roll our sleeves up i want to just check in um looks like tiffany you're doing notes there so um you all are good just checking in we got everything we needed okay perfect perfect yeah i was thank you i was taking notes and finding that i wasn't able to really actually participate very well right never didn't help me yeah no collaborative good good yeah and you'll be able to pull it all together i think

083also you have your recordings a lot of times i go back to my recording to make sure you get what we talked about um so what i'm going to do is um i'm going to actually shift and transition into our priorities and just talking about the priorities of the board um and so um i want to do that through um kind of revisiting what you all did or your last session right so you all had some conversations obviously um you started with just your equity statement right and so we want to definitely revisit that i do want to ask where you are in that process um also where you are in amending your policy and then i want to unpack those uh four priorities that you created in your framework that's okay um and so

084i just wanna i'm gonna go ahead and share the notes from last time i think you all have these you all share these with me so i'm assuming you still have them um so you remember these here so this is when you wrestle with your statement so you have these three statements and um you were kind of wordsmithing kind of wrestling with uh doing the whole elephant blind man process right like no it means this it means this and so um i just want to pause and just see where you are in the process of developing your equity statement so um nicole my understanding i looked at the notes actually yesterday and it said that um terry and i were gonna work on it but my understanding at the end of the last session is

085that we decided to kind of relook at it again together so i know i have not personally worked on it that day absolutely yeah and i listened to the video again too yesterday just to make sure i didn't miss anything else and i believe it and you were going to table it and maybe and wait to come back today but i do want to ask did anyone else you know in between have discussions with people try to get input um anything like that between the last time we were together in september with regards to your statement so i did talk to tony tony we did talking so that uh that uh we needed to add an element in here that reflected the lgbtqia plus community um and then so and i went back and looked

086at it so i think the part for me that kind of stands out is that we say political economic and racial inequities so either we add something in there or we just remove social political economic and racial and just say systemic inequities in all areas so i'm in all areas because there there are a lot of inequities that we need to to to address and i don't want to limit them to these few because there's other things that are out there that are also affecting our students educational process so and then really but in our policy we do call out uh uh gender and um lgbtqi issues so you do so that's why i was thinking maybe just remove those words and and change it to can you know confront and dismantle systemic inequities we

087you're right lucky you have a much better recall memory than i do colleen i do remember talking to you oh yeah yeah it's been a week can you tell me oh um what i'm wondering should we maybe just cut and paste this statement into the new notes and make amendments what do you think yeah i was i was thinking that too i just won before i did that i wanted four so let me copy that for you all right in here and i think the one that we did we worked did we end up working really with statement was it statement three that encompassed everything yeah yeah good thanks yeah and that's what i wanted to check into because i know you all were working from that document and i was actually um i could

088see it at times i was on my phone so i could see it and i couldn't so i just want to make sure so now it's in there so you all can word smith as we're having our discussion so um so kalima mentioned about um and i think were you on statement three kalima when you mentioned yeah statement three which is i believe this the to me has always been that's the statement that we're working with and i like the statement as is except that it i just didn't i felt like it didn't reflect lgbtqia plus issues so i was like how do we put it in there um and then i was like or we and the reason why it's coming up is just because we we call out social political economic and racial

089but then i'm thinking about it more i'm like you know there are gender inequities like they're all kind of other inequities that are not encompassed in just those that i feel like we're gonna leave something out if we try to list every single one yep so let's just not list them because we do want to interrupt all systemic inequities right so one thing that one word that people use is social cultural like together it's like social hash cultural which is kind of encompasses all of those remember those bubbles i would have you look at like all those kind of ways that we discriminate against people genders included age is included um but i want to make sure that you all just really are critical about it it'll be i guess once you've identified what are

090your key equity gaps you want to close then i think this will make more sense because your statement is about what lands you place on the work you're doing so if you're calling out lgbtq for example um then there's probably going to be some data that you plan on addressing that really um speaks to hey when our equity state what does it look like when we reach equity based on what our statement is so um i think you're going to have to call out the things that you really feel and i think you did that in that first piece where you talked about um racial inequities like you're calling out ethnicity right so racial and ethnic and inequities i think those are going to be important to call out because if not then you become

091very general and then it's it's tough to really say like we close this gap so i i remember us kind of having that discussion about what do you want to call out um but i also like your idea kalima about let's call out you know systemic inequities because there's a lot of them right there are a lot of them and as they as we collect data we may see some find some things that we didn't know about right so i like that idea i just wanted to bring that out but um so so i i definitely want to hear others ideas um i've sort of flip-flopped in my thinking a little bit because um i wonder if we don't so i wonder if we don't call certain specific things out if it just becomes an

092amorphous sort of a statement and so i almost think actually that we maybe should just add so i hear your point kalema that we we're not going to get everything in there probably if we list them all out you know um but i wonder if we i kind of think maybe we should call some out and just add lgbtqi you know i think if we don't call them out then it just becomes a general statement that's harder to kind of measure our progress by i don't know there's no statement doesn't have to be the the focus is called out in the board goals kind of like a board policy versus administrative regulations right so that yeah and that that and that it frees us up to where we can shift to where if data is

093if the data is showing that there's gaps in inequity in a certain area that's not listed in our policy you know we can it relies heavily on data and you know and where our district is at any given time yeah so there may be something that shows that the data that there's a gender and equity gap and that we need to shift and focus on gender right now the data is showing us quite you know it has been showing us for a while that there is racial inequity but i feel like that is compounded if you are a person of color who is also identifies in the lgbt uia community you know it's or if you're a person of color who is also a woman or a male like each each they each come with

094different things so i feel like i i want to capture all of the whole person and not just a part of of the person but um that you raised your hand sorry i i i i understand what you're saying um but i'm sort of looking at this you know from you know when we're educating our community perspective because sometimes when people hear the word equity or inequity they don't understand exactly what that means so actually defining what it is and stating it i think is important and the other piece to that is i also see this statement as sort of a living statement meaning that we can add if there's a new type of inequity that that we don't are unaware of as you were saying we can always add that to it as well

095i think we can i think by adding gender inequity right now i think that i think we should um but maybe there may be something else that we don't even know about you know that may that may pop up and i think and we can and we can edit the statement as appropriate at some point down the road as well but i do think that that as it is um i like the statement with that as adding the additional um description i think april had her hand up i just wanted to say that as um as a you know as a lesbian it's always really important to me to feel like me and my family are seen and i think calling it out is really important even if that means later on having to add

096to it so it's my two cents maybe there's a way to name out the not the bigger ones but you know like the ones that you just named kalima that we know for sure are our challenges and naming the intersections of those identities because i think if we don't name it we can fall under the equality versus equity like it almost being like every identity is really important when we know that racism is at the root of a lot of it and it's compounded by gender and sexual orientation and socioeconomic status um but maybe we name like you know the main ones and intersections and um and then it could be a living document too okay oh nick had his hand up go ahead yeah thank you um i think echo and kind of you

097know clarify what we're talking about too i mean the statement we we have multiple statements on equity right our our statement here policy what not but i do think it's important to sync them up in a way that um like you were saying um kalima and as well as andy and tiffany in april um naming those things is important um we could go into restating the affirmative action clause and really just going to like you know race class gender um lgbtqi you know gender identity um or sexual preference um talk about inclusivity you have to think about like ability right immigration citizens citizenship status um age creed there are all those things and there's a important reason to name all of them it can be a kind of exhaustive list it might seem that way

098but i do think there's a reason for that and i think it can be grounded in our policy and our statement here in a way that doesn't take too much away from it i think it does build into it and we can always add an edit as we go along but just to echo that i think it's worthwhile doing it yeah and and the reason why because normally i'm all i'm all about no quit racing you know you have to say race like you have to say but the reason why i'm normally this why i'm comfortable kind of leaving it out here is because we're saying we're committed to with special attention to underserved inadequately served disenfranchised by educational system so that's the way that i can make the argument that this is not equality

099right because we're focusing on those that are in historically underserved and inadequately served so if you're trying to come to me with an argument that our equity statement is saying it needs to be equality for all then you need to prove to me that the group that you're advocating for is falls in line with the with that bottom part of the statement and i think that makes it very hard for somebody to say or make the equality argument by by us not call calling on specific parts because as nick also brought up immigration i mean there's so many things that i was thinking about that are really really important and impactful to a large portion of our students that is not particularly tied to race and uh it may be more cultural thing um and

100i don't want anybody to feel unhurt or unseen because we just didn't call them out in the few things that we list that everybody feels that everybody that falls in one of these groups that's underserved or inadequately served feels like we're talking about them that's well said i appreciate that kaleema because i think once you all collect data right this is going to evolve even more because there's some unknowns right there are people we don't identify because they don't show up in a box right a census box or some demographic box that again this is part of what they call um dominant culture right like this is what keeps us in these constraints of putting people in boxes right and so i think that you do want to be you want to be general to

101catch kind of all because there are people who will feel invisible that you don't have a name for what they identify as right and i think that's important as well but i also want to say you know you have to be intentional about what system you're trying to dismantle and the reality is when you do the history of public education history is around a couple of things right the system was designed for who and so it's around ethnicity right it's around social economic status right and it's actually around gender too if you want to break it down and then you can break down religion as well right like that's that's what what education was built for so if you don't recognize the structure you're dismantling what'll happen is over time you'll kind of forget and

102it'll start to go back to okay again talking about um language right again language it was about dominant standard english right so you want to make sure you stay laser focused on what you're trying to address so that when you measure the impact of your work you're really intentionally measuring the impact of dismantling the system but i want to say this your policy actually calls out students right and i think it's important you do recognize your policy calls it out but your statement is like the lens by which you're doing your work right so your statement is going to be that lens by which you make decision so you do want to make sure you're calling out those systemic inequities which have gotten us to a place of disenfranchising a whole lot of people right

103but the history of it is based on some real constructs that have to be addressed and racism is a big piece of it so i think you've got to call out racism because if you don't you'll be kind of spinning around in the circle like which is what we always do because we've been taught to not talk about race right and we've been taught that's uncomfortable i mean just so you're for your visual i'm going to pull up your board policy just so you can see um the language that you use there because that might help you also um based on what you thought out let me just pull it up real quick and just really quickly um thanks for joining i pulled up the wrong one sorry let me go back wrong one it

104was this one there it is uh oh i think i went too fast there it is see how you call that out and this is more you call out more about how you'll govern so this is more like what you'll do right like we'll make decisions with deliberate awareness of the impediments i just want you to see some of the wording you use here um yeah so your policy is pretty explicit right it's pretty explicit so i think your statement is really that um that i want to say that shorter version right so you want something you can remember right like a kalima i love what you said is i want to make sure when i'm having a discussion with somebody that we can distinguish the difference between equity and equality and that it really

105calls it out um but you also for your statement you know you don't want it to become another like larger version of your policy where all of a sudden you can't even remember what it is uh but also you want to make sure it's the lens by which you apply it to your practices so your policy is pretty extensive and it calls some things out yeah and even look at the policy like thinking about it now i'm like we need to add foster you know because they're uh because foster students fall through the cracks i mean we just don't serve our bosses um i think there needs to be a call out here that which we're talking about students of color but i think in our policy we also need to have really add our

106students who are from you know indigenous background um because we really that's a whole other area that we really do a poor job in terms of there's there's one piece you called out i think which is breaking down student i mean it's yeah it's an interesting term like mm-hmm yeah um yeah we should change it instead of because i'm calling out because with tony put in the chat that we should and that that's not indigenous that's in we should just change that terminology to something else but i'm talking about they are indigenous students from indigenous background i think that's different that that that's another thing that needs to highlight it out he's another call out on top of race that's just another added level so to me the policy is the place to play and

107to move shift and constantly adjust and add but uh the statement is more of a frame of mind [Music] yep and the part why i brought this up is your policy starts to call out like more details as well so i wanted to make sure you all kind of saw that that this is our lens by how we govern right your equity statement is really for your entire district right like this is the lens that as principal my equity statement is what drives my work as a principal right as a parent i recognize equity in jefferson union high school district this is what it looks like um the policy is how you govern so i want you to remember like the purpose of these two things right the statement is really a broader sense of

108a lens of how we do work in all aspects so it's not just going to be governance right it's going to be teaching and learning right what does equity look like and that's why it's important to really wrestle with what do you want that to say so what i'll do is i'll put back your statement up on the screen [Music] which wrong one there we go so i'll let you all continue to wrestle with how you want to uh how you want to move forward with your statement and then we'll actually um you're kind of doing your policy conversation at the same time which is part of what with the purpose today but once we finish this piece and you decide kind of how what direction you want to move we'll talk about some of

109your priorities that you actually want to address so i want to just kind of get your thoughts on where are you at in your statement do you feel like you need more time to evolve this um i know i have notes that you wanted to amend um your policy on october 6 which is next week so i wasn't sure about even that timeline but just want to kind of get your sense of where you all are at again this is not a rush but it definitely is obviously a priority in figuring out how you want to plan your work moving forward i think we can knock this out today i'm hoping that we can get this approved you're like get it done kalima i didn't hear you i'm sorry what'd you say i said i'm

110hoping that we can get this approved that we could add this i'm in the uh the uh agenda for october 6 today so that we can get this approved because we're also discussing not doing a pledge at the next meeting so i would like to have this policy so i can use it as the reason why we're not doing the pledge [Music] so this is a quick uh question or suggestion do we want to sync up the language not obviously completely but at least the kind of affirmative action clause what we're kind of identifying that we were discussing just earlier in our statement matched up with our policy and even like we're looking at our policy some of the language of the word indigent by changing that um and making sure those things are aligned

111but uh clear so what suggestions i mean can you make the change suggest the changes that you particularly what are particular suggestions of changes that you want to make sure um i have to pull up the policy since we're on the statement but i would say the part of the policy that talks about um with respect to you know race class gender um or gender identity um citizenship status i'm not sure if that was there you said the foster you know youth um age and create um ability right um some of those just if we just zero in on those words i think and there's probably five ten of them right at least then that would be one of the things i think we need to start with so yeah so so uh sorry i

112may i jump in yes please so i definitely i'm sort of writing things in the chat i definitely think that the policy needs to be amended because i you know i think it's i i don't agree with lumping in the word indigent connected to racial and ethnic groups it sort of implies that they're not that they go together um anyway so i do think we need to amend the policy but i wonder if we should remain i think we should maybe remain focused first on this statement or do one or the other right like so should we focus on the statement and get that what we want it to be or should we spend more time on the policy first because the statement will flow from the policy and we want to make sure that

113the policy is included on the board agenda so i'm just sort of wanting to make sure we're focused on what we want to make sure it gets done today so i have just a something to think about i know kaleema you mentioned like i want to get this done we you know we have some things that we really need to move forward on um but i do want to challenge you all to think about one piece which is um involvement never mind equity i said we do need to get stakeholder feedback from this so yes that's that's what i was thinking you read my mind is that you know you have your statement and i look at this as a draft right but you also want to remember that you have um and i'm just

114gonna you know remind you of this piece here um this particular image which you you all have seen before right like what's going to happen is that you're creating equity as your statement and equity is like the elephant remember this conversation and so what's going to happen is although as a governance team you're all coming together and you're all kind of doing this elephant blinding thing right you're all kind of coming up with your perspective and you're sharing so that we're all kind of the same understanding but what's also going to happen is that your stakeholders your students right who are on the line now so we can even ask them they may have some different thoughts about it um people who are called out um april had called out like my own personal identity

115this is how i think it should be seen so if you think about each stakeholder your students your teachers your parents right those have not all been a part of this process so i want to just caution you about before you approve it you probably do want to get some additional input um but i also want you to feel you know like it's a draft and i think andy said it's a living document right like it can be adjusted because this is something you own right this is the lens that you want to apply to your work so i just want to remind you of that um as you think about you know although october 6 is an important date maybe it's something to think about what do we need to do in terms of

116who else needs to be a part of this process um to ensure that we have a perspective that really um the community agrees with and gets behind so that when kalima like you mentioned i want to be able to you know back up my argument about why we're doing this work and when you mentioned about you know the difference between equity and equality well even that person or people who you're having that debate with um you know did they give input on it like that is part of the process so i think it's important that you make sure you have more um uh feedback than just on the governance team if that makes sense rosie it's really hard for me to see when you raise your hand that way if you could if you're going

117to raise your hand could you use the chat yeah yeah or or the part of the participants okay or just jump in just don't meet your mic okay phone number so yeah i think so for um oh if we're doing we're thinking about october 6 we could even gosh could it's not agendized but could we even say just as a comment uh during discussion that you know we're working really hard on an equity statement and and that we are i mean to the point about the pledge you know that we're working really hard on an equity statement and probably redrafting um our equity policy and that will be bringing that to the stakeholders for feedback i mean that could be instead of i know it'd be nice to have something to present but we're we

118don't rush this is not equity is cannot be rushed and as with all the comments that are here you know there there's so much to think about and we this and it's way too important you know so i think if we can even just mention it that this is this is why the pledge of allegiance can be problematic for us and because this is the other word this is the important work that we're doing right now and we need stakeholder feedback so is the um is the statement like the so i'm just kind of using analogy is the statement like the um cover letter to the board policy or the statement is the statement and then the board policy is the board policy like is it like um this is what it is and in

119detail the board policy defines what our equity statement is so then you know if we're doing an equity statement obviously it's just i would think that it's a little bit broader but it's more inclusive and then we can be more detailed in the board policy to be more inclusive if we're going to try to separate it that way right because you don't want you don't have to because if we're going to define everything in the board policy that we don't necessarily have to have every you know everything that's on the board policy and try to fit it into the statement right so um you know i guess it just depends on how we're looking at it right so although the statement is the statement because this is like this is how we're standing our ground

120and this is our foundation and this is what we stand for yeah that's a great question um just to clarify so statements um are your belief system right it's like your declaration this is what we believe we belie and you're literally it's a definition is what it is right you are giving a very clear understanding of what equity means in jefferson i think that's really important and it is more of the briefer version right your policy just like any other policy is your blueprint for how you govern right so you want to remember that that statement is something that i almost look at it as like it becomes our mission statement in the long run right like that's what it eventually becomes we believe this and you call out what it is and you don't

121almost call out what it looks like right when you when you when you see it in place but your policy is more in the details like you said carlos more of the details it really is a guide for how you govern and remember your policy calls out other policies that you have right um other references and so this that's more of the detail and i think that you want to be really clear with that statement your definition is to make sure everyone has a common understanding of what this is right so right so i'm thinking like just i mean because like where everybody's kind of going back and forth if we're going to like hey make sure we're going to list everything on the statement um and then you know of course we're going to

122do that in the board policy and i definitely don't want to exclude anybody um but we're like i said so if like um we're able to explain in detail like hey this is this is our equity statement and in our board policy this is exactly what we mean right then we don't have to worry about oh my god we forgot these you know these groups of people in the statement because we're going to make sure we're very inclusive in the board policy and when i saw the other paul um statements from other school districts they're not dissertations right they're kind of just like this is what we stand for this is like a three sentence thing and then hey should you want to define what it is that we're looking for then you need to

123go into our policy which can be the dissertation of exactly what we mean and you know include every underserved and under-resourced student and community that we're talking about so maybe that will kind of help decide how much or how little we you know how how how broad or how detailed we want the statement to be that's all um because i see that there's like a fight for that so my perspective anyway awesome and then maybe if then we can decide on that statement today then at least we can agree on the statement just a statement on the sixth and then we can go into hey we need to go back to this on the board policy and make sure we're including everybody and be a living document and hey nick said you know we forgot

124indigenous people or you know like foster children and you know whoever else then we can just put that all in there um you know yeah i mean board policy is the law it's that enforces what we do and you know people will always call us on well where's the board policy on that right policy on that so this is the law that we enforce so these are the specifics and um the equity is our heart is our um what our belief system yeah so that's the original point that i was making yeah this up was that um that's exactly what i want to do um and so i though if we could pull the statement back up yep um [Music] yeah chicken one second all right just translated for you kaleema that's all that's good

125one of my favorites one of my favorite uh sketches with key and peel is the you know the translator so you could uh you always just be right there and be my translator for me it's exactly absolutely like i see what you sometimes like i see what you're saying but then i look at the faces and like okay now this is what she's trying to say like this is like you know like so then you know like let me just say it in like you know the karla way from the clean away and then it's like you know but i think it took all of this for us to all get here yes like the circle right right so okay yeah you're yes okay yes we got a klima but with the statement this version

126i'm fine i want to add back because i feel like this is also a key thing that helps people not you the whole equality versus equity is to put back in um systemic equities to bring about a more just society so the to bring about a more just society was taken out so um i think it should pretty put back in and then i like this statement so oh my gosh so i think we should delete statement one two is that okay with you guys so we're just working on this one yeah okay all right so we're not confused those are gone and this is just the statement uh let me see how i came and so you juhsc uses our educational systems to write current and historical inequities by examining and understanding how our

127decision-making reinforces or interrupts injustice we embrace inclusion value diversity respect all viewpoints and educate ourselves in order to confront and dismantle systemic inequities and then this gray part it's just that the last part is systemic inequities to bring about a more just society that's just my suggestion opening it up to everybody else i think that's good we have the word uh inequities twice which is fine because i think it needs to be called out do we won't do anything to change that you know normally i would but to me it's like it's inequity is the key point so to me i don't have a problem saying it multiple times i think we need to that's the other pieces you know you can to make the argument of is the group that you're advocating for suffering

128from an inequity right now which i think a lot of our parents are you know the answer is no for a lot of the parents that come to the board you're just inconvenienced right or something but it's not an inequity uh and so um you know i feel like that's a really important distinction that we probably need to kind of hammer home with folks okay yeah i usually don't like something to sound redundant but i agree i think that it's okay to have it twice here there's no word that really says that exactly that works for me looks good okay uh taking it over to our student trustees any uh comments or feedback on this are you guys okay with this i think it's good yeah it looks all good so i'm going to turn

129over to april april is there a way that we can include this uh and send this out for feedback yeah um to which groups do you want to do it to everyone in the district family students staff it's everybody in the district that's my opinion open up to everybody else okay and are you thinking well hold on everyone is everyone else okay with everybody just sending it out to everybody or do you want to do it in a specific flow come with what message right and then i was going to say that that would be my thing is you all may want to agree on how you're going to communicate this because your feedback you want to get you want to make sure you get it in a way you collect it like it makes

130sense so you may want to have some structured talking points on how to share this out and and i would almost actually just encourage you all on october 6 you present this as a board right this is our draft statement that we have collectively agreed to but we want to get your feedback and you kind of start that process of here's how we would like to get your feedback and then you say hey it's coming out and you give time frames you can be very clear so that it's not something that's confusing to those that are maybe facilitating these conversations which will include your principles right they're the ones that are leading your site you want to make sure that they all have an understanding of what you're asking or else you'll have some confusion

131going forward and then people's you know belief systems maybe get in the way of even getting feedback right so so we can add it to the board agenda as a discussion item um nick had his hand raised yeah that sounds good i'm just gonna ask to um kind of you know exactly what rosie was saying too about you know mentioning these things the board policy how we're discussing it now to discuss the board policy and the statement in tandem obviously and then i guess i just had a question maybe once we get to the policy we can discuss this after um in terms of publicizing you know sometimes if the uh that statement our our board recognizes you know includes and has the affirmative action statement basically to board policy um how we want to

132use our statement and how we want to use our policy in terms of um promoting it and publicizing i guess that in terms of like where we stated um i think it's good to see that i know when i attend other meetings or see things or even recontracts that when i see that that clause then i know that it's being stated so i was wondering how we want to use both the statement and the policy in different places because i think a general statement does work and it gets the point across this as well um i think there's a justice but i think that the border policy is very important too i have a question yes it's about the it says j-u-h-s-d is committed to engage educate empower all students with special attention to those

133underserved and et cetera but it says special attention what is what is is um the main point of special attention how does that how does that um could you elaborate on special attention [Music] were you all referring to i don't remember when you had that particular word but i think that to me spoke to your intentionality around the data right and so specifically it was about yes you want to empower all students but you want to ensure that you're really addressing the needs because that's where equality you kind of called out equality and equity right here right is all students is equality we'll make sure all kids have their needs met but you specifically want to look at equity as serving kids who have not been historically served well in the system and that's where

134i think you're going to find race will come up right gender will come up language will come up right special needs will come up but i think that was the difference and i'm just going back to what i think i recall and so for me it just it's focused that that's that's going to be the board gonna focus on that so maybe we don't use the word special attention if it's kind of already a little confusing um and maybe but maybe with intentional maybe intentional focus maybe yes what are your thoughts luka what's your um do you have an idea or you have concerns about it how does it read to you because with the special attention so people could take special different ways i'm not saying that they're gonna think negatively because of course

135we're trying to provide things towards the um this part but special attention i don't know it just stuck out to me [Music] do you like the wording of with intentional focus do you think maybe people might think that like that's not fair or do you think they'll be offended by it like i'm attention just gave me i don't know just i had to re-read it a couple times yeah i i feel it just feels clunky it's just it's kind of a little clunky area i'll let i'll let you guys know when i get here if i can just say to um the word special does have a stigma right i teach in special education we use that all the time it's something that we do on and we're proud to to say hey you know

136we all are special right and um you know whether people are in ap classes or people who are in special ed classes tracking itself is defined by inequities and so um like people were mentioning this does address inequity and uh look on it out because we're special um just like we're talking about the word indigene you know like there are some words that just um are gonna feel like they're gonna target people in a way that it puts you in a box even though the box may or may not be true doesn't mean you should be identified and labeled that way so um yeah i think intentional focus honestly i think it's a better way of avoiding it too um yeah sorry to cut you off now go ahead um this is special is just

137it's like uh it gives me the idea or the thought of sort of an exclusion from the group that were from an exclusion from the whole community you know what i mean so if we use special it's like uh specialists like okay hold on we agree with you on the word special it just yeah i'm glad you called that out that's a good catch i changed it in there um if you guys feel good with this i was gonna send an email to candace right now i don't think she's actually published in six and if she hasn't i can have her add a discussion item um just on this equity draft equity statement do you think we're ready to do that or should we go over it one more time before i send that right

138i'm thinking more heavily focused but intentional songs but i'm thinking have heavily focused because like if you're yeah just you guys look at that [Music] you're cutting in and out so we heard heavily focused like a heavy focus on those underserved versus intentional focus it sounds like because what does attention i think when we say intention to me intentional has a higher level of impact than heavy because all everything that i do has to be guided by that it's just more you know our our singular focus and our purpose that it's not something that we're just gonna hope happens or you know hopefully if we do these things that impact these people every decision that we make our intent behind that decision is to affect change in this areas so that's why intentional to me

139is a much more powerful word yeah that sounds good that sounds good [Music] i'm seeing in the chat are people suggesting that we say priority instead of intentional i kind of like intentional myself i like intentional yeah we say everything's a priority in education that's it it's all subjective that's the problem yeah focus intentionality priority yeah right intentional means we're we're doing it on purpose we're deliberating what we're doing i think that's good right and then priority is like we're elevating it in terms of importance all right do you all feel comfortable with this one has a draft or a keyword is it draft right it's still working it's going to be massage maybe but you've given people a great vision on what equity is can i make a suggestion yes um in terms of

140the discussion item for the board meeting does that mean what's included in a disk what does it mean when it's a discussion item so for a discussion item that's usually kind of like a first read through before we uh vote and put something into practice so it's the it's the first time that's introduced to the community at large saying just or to the board letting everyone know that this is something that is going to be voted on in a future board meeting to adopt so uh it'll be brought out to just for the board to discuss and make comments and discussion and comments about it about why we feel it's important or to make any changes at that time too and then it'll be brought back in a future board meeting to approve and then

141do people get to make public comment right after that yeah because then i would suggest uh as a public comment prompt or question like hey how should we get feedback on this like what should be the process because i like what nicole was saying like really structuring it you know and then we can get impact input in terms of like what's the most strategic way instead of just like hey everybody here's a survey versus maybe like first taking it to principals get their thoughts kind of massage it then you know giving talking points to principals to share with their staff and when staff have given input then we share back with students and then get their input but maybe people have other ideas and then another um another discussion prompt or you know could be

142around what nick was saying like how should the district incorporate this statement to ensure that it's at the forefront of you know all of the work that we do moving forward like do we put it on the website on these documents so my hope is that april uh can come up with a communication plan around how we introduce this and how we get feedback and that that could be part of the presentation and then she could also get feedback as well so she comes we could give her direction now to come to the board meeting with a plan on how this is going to be introduced to the community how she plans to give feedback we can give as a board give feedback to her in in suggestions and direction for her communication plan and

143she can also hear from the community at that same time make adjustments and then move forward with that i think we do i think tiffany your suggestion needs to be broken up i think we do the first part is get this through the community get it approved and then the second piece is how should we use it because i don't want to say how should we use it in the same sense in the same communication about do you like it because then it kind of suggests yeah you know we're already using this one so you know yeah yeah agreed and and tiffany the discussion in a board meeting isn't like a it's not an actual back-and-forth discussion do you know what i mean people are saying it right the board is discussing and the public

144can make comment on it but the board isn't really supposed to go back and forth yeah just soliciting those yeah when i would be more than willing to work with um with uh april um in terms of even talking points if necessary i think you make it real simple you know you don't want to do too much complexity um including a survey because there's going to be folks who you're not going to reach so just even having something sitting on your website right to just say hey give feedback about our equity statement and some key things that you can collect because you want to be able to collect the data easily you don't want it to be so convoluted as someone you know who's going to collect this by the way and disaggregate this data

145is going to be important too to talk about whose role is this so you want to make it as simple as possible so that you can get back the feedback and also um i would suggest that before your october meeting on the sixth that you also have um not only you know how you're going to collect feedback but also some timelines right so obviously kaleemi said this is discussion on the six right but then when do you want to vote so you all have to have that timeline already you know maybe it's a month you pick november that you won't actually take a vote on it right but in between you have some timelines on collecting the data the board needs to then see the data right so you can probably have another study session

146between the time that you're going to vote but you want to just make sure those timelines are pretty clear as well um for october 6 which again can be part of the discussion item so do you want me um i'm sitting here thinking of my next actions so i can ask because i don't think she's published it yet so if i can get in there before she publishes it that's best um i'm just going to put the statement as a discussion item without all the we know that we want to do those other things but is it okay if i just have her put the statement in there and then we'll talk about this we can also i would say put the statement and policy because it's just a discussion yeah okay and the policy

147as is right now because or are we going to work on it and then we'll give her that one so we can we can i don't know we'll see what happens i mean she just has to have the agenda item in there so if you she can always amend to add additional attachments but i think we're definitely going to discuss both the policy the statement and the policy so we know that and and just remember today was designed for you to look at your policy but again this is one of those non-closures um unpacking your policy takes a lot of time and i think you needed your time for your statement right like those are two different tasks um but i do want to say this that you can definitely include it in the discussion

148i think it'll be a good idea um to talk about what are those things that you're continuously looking at in your policy right and so you have some language you wanted to look at um i think some of the things you were calling out in your priorities of the work probably should be embedded in here which you have most of those but again remember you adopted csba's policy so i specifically remember you saying we want to make this our own right so it's okay to say here's our draft policy but we're still making adjustments and i think it's fine to say that on october 6th but for today i do want to ask the group how much do you want to go into your policy piece because we also um have a little less than

149an hour to also talk about those priorities remember those four buckets we want to make sure we revisit that just to make sure and the same token you're doing you're parallel in the work by the way you're doing your action planning as we speak but you want to prioritize what are going to be your real focus areas of the governance teamwork so do you want to spend some time on your policy today um just kind of there's a couple of things i could point out that you can you know consider but we don't have to spend a lot of time but i definitely want to make sure you have time to do your um your four buckets that you all started that conversation in the last study session um do i think we can move

150on to the buckets and then if you just want to email us your suggestions for the policy we could discuss those suggestions at the board meeting okay or that word yep yep yep and then by the way our next study session which um i got to go back to i don't think we have a date set but we can also include that in our study sessions i'll make sure all right perfect all right so i'm gonna do one more check because zoom exhaustion is real do you need a three minute stretch break cause it's been another hour y'all want to do some cheer yoga together do you all need a five minute break just run to the restroom anything like that because we are on our last home stretch but i want to make sure

151because zoom exhaustion is very real yes please okay thank you rosie all right let's do five more minutes come back at 11 15 and we'll finish off all right he just wants to say hi hey brysie how are you doing i miss you i miss you too thank you we i was so excited i was like we're gonna have our walks again this year because we we did two walks together last year yes you i walked you ran yes ran you ran the whole time i'm so missing our walks you missed your walks with auntie he's like only if she was gonna buy ice cream no he got it oh yeah that too well you know that's the winner right there we just got gloves so he just wants to try them on that's okay

152and you just had a birthday he did you're you're a grown man now are you growing up boy now mm-hmm yeah those are nice i like it where we get them at where do we get them at costco start them young they know when we go to costco and target okay there you go before they even you know can read they know the little symbols yeah they're like we're going i do miss my walks we've been going biking on the weekends so i finally like buckled down and got a bike too oh for jiu-jitsu okay but yeah so and they go even on the scooter they go way fast like i can't walk and have them be on the bikes i'll lose them or they'll lose me anyway you say good morning good morning good

153morning good morning good morning i'm not todd yet and you're not coming on the chair oh i thought you grew so much since the last time i saw you but you're just standing on the chair okay thank you for telling me i would not have known i haven't seen you in so long oh wow okay get out of here okay bye bye bye bye [Music] working woman now i know paying paying those taxes better vote so you know where your money goes no she buys lightsabers and stuff with her that's right carlos that's right right i was like as she should do what you can he bought as a lightsaber i can't tell you how much money i dropped online i don't want to know either kylo ren builder with a lifesaver [Music] that's i

154had okay the lady when i was at build-a-bear doing the exact thing she was like who this for who is this for and i was like uh me and let's not judge okay i'm feeling a tone in your oh voice that's fantastic yes you better go buy that stuff she got paid start paying rent okay [Laughter] oh my god would i do stuff without the people like oh my god clean you're such a good mom you always take your kids and stuff and i'm like yeah it's for my children yeah it's like yeah i benefit from a journey sure that's right i'm doing this because i'm a good parent and i want my kids to have fun there we go no yeah they didn't know it was an excuse no one saw that thank god

155i don't videotape me like pushing them out of the way like get out oh lord at some point i'll be able to go back all right you all ready y'all having too much fun i went down the hallway and i left the sound up and i was like they're having a party in there let me come back to this well it was bryce having a party this is i mean you could have study sessions more often he's having his private conversation with kalima as usual because that's my baby right there [Music] okay i'm gonna put the um priorities document in there just because we're gonna look at that that those the quadrants i'm just gonna put those notes back in there for you that's in the link and then i'm also going to refer back

156to what is that your old agenda there it is okay i wonder if i want to put this in here yeah i think i'm going to put this in our notes [Music] all right copy and the notes are here all right so let's see go ahead and share my screen now so y'all can see what i just did to our notes okay so um just kind of coming back i know you all are good with your equity statement um in terms of october 6th and you will have a discussion item on it and then also set the tone for how you want to um get input from your community um and only a suggestion i had was create a timeline as well so those two things um would be important to share when you need

157it back when you want to actually vote on this um so what i want to do is go into um the conversation about your um and this is going back to your notes by the way um the framework that you had and so i'm just referring to some of the notes we don't need to go through all of them but you all we're starting to talk about kind of the purpose right some roles timeline we definitely still need to wrestle with what is that timeline you want to have for this work um and specifically i think the statement kind of drives some of your timeline right now but you do want to think about how you're going to communicate this out and i think that was the conversation you just brought up um and then

158at some point we don't talk about how you measure the impact of this work and so we don't think we need to go into details of your measurements yet but i do want to say first step is coming up with your statement so you can actually have a measurement for the work so it's hard to say here's what equity looks like um if you how you measure what equity looks like when you didn't say what equity is so you all did that first step so then your metrics are going to come in the form of data collection and those different aspects that you're going to really start to unpack some of these these challenges and so your priorities is what i'm calling them as a governance team and remembering that it's important to prioritize the

159work so that you can actually be laser focused on actually addressing those gaps so when you have a thousand priorities um unfortunately you won't get anything done well and so that's where this conversation came in and you all started to wrestle with the lcap priorities what we call them and so that's the piece i'm gonna go to right now and switch documents okay so you talked about hr you talked about budget you talked about teaching and learning and you talked about community climate um one thing that you did wrestle with was facilities came up if you recall and um you talked about you know is that going to be a priority or do we want to really look at that as one of the you know obviously there's lots of things you do in governance

160but what are those things that bubble to the top when you talk about addressing student achievement addressing equitable outcomes for kids so these are the four things you left with and then you table those for today so what i'm going to do is switch and show you the other document um and those i think tony and tiffany you are both taking notes so however you want to wrestle with these is fine i don't want you to feel like you have to um you know use my format i just literally copied and pasted from your last agenda um so here's the other document that i just shared in the chat okay and you all remember you were kind of wrestling around like what are our priorities right which is really important and things that bubble to

161the top are are a lot of these um i know that this was one that you all kind of said hey we're going to switch and we're going to i think you agree that you're going to take facilities off and you're actually going to um i think the word you use was just looked at it and got that fast community climate i think was the word so is that okay with us to go ahead and switch that to community climate okay okay and that was i'm just going and literally i listened to it last night so that i did not forget um and you all wrestle with this and facilities was one i brought up because um it's obviously something that falls into um that operational part of the work and so like i mentioned

162it does it should be a priority when you pass a bond measure right because now you're talking about budget right and how budget is allocated towards you know specific facilities that's where that conversation comes up but on when you look at what bubbles to the top of governance teams facilities not necessarily going to be that each time so we want to make sure that you have real a real lens for how you're going to do your equity work and this narrow that focus to at least four things and some some narrow it to three but i think it's hard to go any lower than those four because you do have a lot that you have to oversee as a governance team and again it's not saying that other things don't matter right but what it

163is is you're prioritizing your work so that you can really do well and these four buckets you selected actually honestly they cover a lot okay so i want to make sure that we have a chance to take to wrestle with this and i remember nick specifically saying okay are we going through each one of these and kind of going through the nuances and so i think this is our moment to do that like let's take some time and unpack what do all of these things mean um what falls under these budgets so it sounds like you all agreed to them and so at this point um whoever wants to take notes fine or i can take notes either way it's up to you so you all can fully participate so you let me know um

164but i think tiffany you were taking a lot of notes too correct okay so i'm going to stay off because if i take notes and someone else doesn't i always mess it up so so i'll let you continue to take notes but i do want to just kind of pause and let's go through the priorities right let's go through what you have so far um and i know you you started with hr teaching and learning um budget became a conversation um let's do this though just because we didn't have a chance to go through climate let's start there um community climate let's start there and then we can kind of go to each bucket okay so maybe we spend about 10 minutes on each okay as best we can okay and i say 10 loosely

165because you have about 40 minutes left altogether anyway all right so community climate um tell me what you were thinking about community climate let's open up that discussion because you know why what is that priority is that around student discipline around police and schools so this is where you start to wrestle with what is community climate actually mean i'll let you all open up for discussion i think police and schools fits in there we mean we have only one school resource officer and is he really we don't even know what his function is at this point what do the kids think of having him there okay so police in schools specifically sro and then and go go ahead oh i was just gonna ask isn't he only in our daily city schools too like that's

166sort of that's not sort of that's not in pacifica but in daly city right just daily city and then another piece of this is really firming up policy around police interaction in our schools when is it okay to call a police officer and then um another piece of this for me is some sort of momu with our police all of our police uh uh jurisdictions and how they you know how they operate on our school sites so we would agree police in schools would be one and i and i didn't say this but i don't want you to go too much in the weeds on each of these but i do want you to call out the things and this is a big one so i don't want to say you're in the wrong direction

167but i want to make sure that you have ample time for each of these so school policing schools is a big one and you get called out a couple of things relationship roles the mou um what else do you want to call out under community climate curriculum okay so is that like culturally relevant curriculum okay does that go under teaching and learning though i think it could i mean to me not being reflected in the curriculum affected the climate for me but i think it could go under teaching and learning you're right i'm just questioning this point of process for clarity so do you think it's important to just kind of put what we need to in all these buckets maybe um like with kalima and tiffany both saying maybe we can sort through it

168later i don't know what's faster what's more efficient because i feel like there's a lot there are a lot of things that overlap and that's what like the reasons that yeah nicole you mentioned yeah yeah yeah and then keep this in mind nick too is that you all are gonna unpack data right so you're just kind of doing like i think this is what really we need to focus on but there's gonna be data to reveal like hey we need to folk like you like so for example in community climate yeah police in schools culturally relevant curriculum discipline is going to come up right your suspension's expulsion so those are kind of the big things right and though i think you're going to continue to do your study sessions right around you should have a

169budget study session you're going to have a culture community climate study session so right now we're kind of doing a big picture of what kind of things does this look like so um that's why i said i'm just going to give you like maybe 10 minutes for each right but i do think that whole group discussion is important and then you all should have i think you all said you were sharing this document with each other before and you were going to place your thoughts in along the way so i don't know you know once i back out i don't know what happened to be clean so i thought this discussion was important your last session and so um so i'm going to keep you on task you got a few more minutes for this

170one we're going to move to the next bucket so we want to make sure we hit them all for sure so discipline curriculum policing schools can we put culturally relevant curriculums i think i heard that from kalima if i heard you correct right kalima that's what you're referring to okay yes perfect and then can we also put uh school safety school safety yeah i think physical safety like psychological safety like how students feel at school and i'm wondering that's policies like your safety plan has policies and protocols too right for when there's an emergency as well so i think that's going to be important too and then i'm dealing with like students issues between students and between different student groups fights things like that [Music] those student interactions can we um can we say conflict

171resolution too maybe uh not it's not dated term i think it's still relevant but in terms of uh restorative justice um we talk about safety that means different things different people right need yeah so i think that and i think um luca was mentioning that right so that's a really good point thanks thanks nick i was i was struggling i was like there's a word or term that i'm looking for yes exactly thank you and i like to add um like uh like engaging the families that have language barriers so you know making sure that they're included as you know that they're fully informed and engaged as well just you know not letting their their language barrier be a hinder for an obstacle for them to be engaging as well so so parent engagement and

172specifically calling out language yeah or like have make sure you know i know we have some liaisons that do go to the families i know especially at thornton but just making sure that we have that for all the other schools as well too awesome okay okay good good good um tiffany can you um just because this is also from my memory when we come back to this is discipline can you just remind us to um include the matrix right because you all should have a discipline plan or matrix whatever the word is uh but i think that's gonna be important to look at that um because that's where the policies and and uh ex behavior expectations fall in so i think that's a good one to call out all right any any other things that

173you seem that you think are missing under school climate uh community climate before we jump to our next one go ahead nate yeah i was gonna say um in terms of uh engaging the community like colleges college students um non-profits community partners right welcome welcoming them on campus because we do talk about police and needing the clarity for that because of the relationships that have or have not been established there but in terms of building relationships with community partners that we do want to welcome in accomplishments and is this where you may want to include the partnerships that you called out in your um piece around um the work like with tiffany myself and trust wes is doing as well so maybe looking at how that fits into that in terms of i mean i

174don't know this word i'm just going out there when you said partner so yeah all of that i think even just like you know we talk about student teachers and why some schools get more student teachers than others and in terms of outreach and retention projects and in um cultural student groups at the colleges with state or community colleges um skyline and city um yeah no okay got it got it got it okay sorry i didn't realize it was going to the other screen there we go all right perfect okay so you feel like he captures community climate i think that's important that you at least capture the big picture this is a priority to use the important things that should rise to the top for us and that as a governance team we're going

175to be measuring and monitoring okay all right so i'm going to move you to um let's go up to budget okay we're gonna move up to budget uh all right so for budget you already started with three things you talked about before that it reflects equity so i think that was the spirit of um like our belief systems really show up in our budget right what we value shows up in our budget um ct was the careertech ed piece um restorative justice so these were all ways that you sound like you were um thinking about how you allocate your budget other things that rise to the top so cte so that this is maybe me personally i always have a problem with cte is brought up in terms of equity because uh that's always the

176thing that's suggested for certain students other parents are not comfortable with their kids being part of cte and fight it hard and want their kids to go to college and there's kind of this acceptance it's it's uh that in that everybody feels like i get told this all the time anytime we push for college for everybody the pushback is certain kids just aren't never talking about their kids yep got it so you know for me if we're going to have cte on here then we need to have college because the data shows the one thing that creates equity especially with african-american males is college if they have a college degree every data point changes so it is kalima would it be a good idea in here just to notate that we need to in our

177budget we need to really um because remember at the governance level right so we're going to be um measuring the purpose and kind of revisiting the purpose and measuring the impact of our budget impacting college and career uh pathways that would that be fair to say that yes yes so revisiting the purpose because if we're allocating money towards something if you don't measure the impact of it and it shows that you're tracking kids all over again right the whole vocational versus college track so that would be a good one just to notate that we want to measure the purpose of this and the impact really understand the purpose of medical impact so that's a good when you call it out okay so budget thinking about our budget what are those things that bubble to the

178top budget undoing professional development related to equity your professional development wellness sorry wellness is that for staff and students would you say i would say the equity in how we pay people ourselves as a district say that again yes yeah equity around how we pay ourselves as a district like i think we need to start being much more mindful of that as a district to acknowledge how we are also part of the whole pay disparities got it okay so looking at the salary schedule this may come into play with your bargaining unit conversations as well some negotiations so that may come under probably should come running this budget as well although hr will also overlap with that i think but it makes sense because your most of your budget goes towards your your employees so

179it's a good discussion okay anything else that bubbles to the top with budget i think the another thing is that it should reflect our values i think um looking at and i think we alluded to it below but kind of looking at staffing levels at each of the schools um we are doing that but you know making them more equitable i think nick had mentioned that also earlier right how how um yeah staff is allocated to schools which again is probably going to show up in your hr so you'll notice these two are going to overlap and truthfully the budget is going to overlap with everything right because your lcap is going to reflect where you're spending your money so looking we are maybe going to have to make cuts so making sure that those

180are equitably handled as well [Music] got it okay what about like um like staff housing and stuff are one of those like incentives or supports or benefits it's it's a benefit [Music] tell me more about what your question was tiffany when you when you're referring to the cuts no not the cuts necessarily as a another way of looking at budget and equitable like distribution because i know the the housing piece was a you know part of that too okay just how to categorize that yeah so i think just ensuring all benefits are equitably distributed good good okay and this one's a tough one because again you're you have a you know a budget that um has a lot of you know you you spend money in lots of ways so this is good that again

181you're prioritizing your equity work and these are things that will rise to the top right that impact student achievement impact um student experiences so um your lcap um budget this is again this is why you do study sessions on just budget alone right because you're gonna have to unpack a lot of these you're gonna have to make some decisions soon about you know future budget cuts possibly um i can't recall if bond measure was on your ballot for this so maybe that should come up around the bond measure if the money is if it passes you know how is that money managed and is it again is it going to be about equity is it so that's going to come up right about your facilities plan all that good stuff so that might be one

182to consider a little helpful too because even in thinking about staff housing right a lot of teachers made the point that you know they're not going to be able to move into housing but if it's equity if we're distributing the benefits equitably that's the equity if you already have housing we need to ensure that we're equitably distributing our resources so it's helpful in having that discussion around that's why we made that budget decision there was an equitable there was inequality happening with housing within our teacher ranks directed fund so this is all i'm just bringing it up because it's awesome perfect frame arguments so you feel like we've captured um a good sense of you know how you want to really um be laser focused on equity around budget okay so you feel comfortable we

183can move on over to um our next priority which was human resources i call it staffing so however you want to call it but human resources is really around again um the largest part of your budget right but also this is about human capital right like people who work staffing so let's look at what we've already shared let's see there's what you want to add i think you're continuing the leadership pipeline of underrepresented communities with the emphasis on on staff of color i would also ahead here that we don't have this as policy but i think you know we've added this policy that i like that administrative level staff meets with the board and closed before we approve it so we can we use that time to kind of re-emphasize that we're a board that's

184focused on equity so know that before you come into the district i mean i think it's a really nice thing that before staff before we vote on it there's kind of that discussion with the executive cabinet superintendent ford about our priority yeah so i i would like to see that continue and have that something that's more formal it's right now yeah so kalima would that fall into even job descriptions because i think that's going to be a big piece that comes up when you post a position um it should be very clear what the expectation is which drives into the you all have the bullet point about closure responsive interview questions right so even that's more like the process right but if you're the board really again you're at that 30 000 foot level so

185you create the framework you have the vision but obviously the you know hr superintendent hires people but with that framework yeah the job descriptions may be one to um to call out you know in terms of um positions that you're posting other things that pop out for human resources um what about um our you know making sure that we're looking to hire people of color when it comes to our walk-on coaches and athletics you know i think that's an area that we you know pro sometimes we just simply hire who is available but i think there could be greater intentionality athletics there what andy uh just mainly athletics yeah that i think that's fine what you wrote intentional higher staff calls for athletics and then also looking at our hiring policies and practices to make

186sure they're up to date because i know nick brought this up before about how certain things that may have been disqualifiers as felonies but california has changed the law i don't know if it's on here i think but um i think we added decriminalizing misdemeanors related to drugs and alcohol but broadening that out a little bit yeah so yeah yeah just as good thank you for being up um there is a question mark around cannabis i did bring it up with first in mind thinking about decriminalization of cannabis uh um offenses because like you mentioned the law has changed vastly i think you're saying in the last couple years but um when you think about drugs and alcohol and rehabilitation and a lot of the things that we're looking at as a society decriminalizing um

187you know the war on drugs that you know if somebody it's that one way but if somebody has had a cannabis conviction um it almost completely bars them sometimes depending on how uh our hr processes are structured so take out the question mark around cannabis uh maybe just leave you know leave it as is and expand the definition to understand where the law is going um when i think too just to broaden out the reason why i bring this up is that i had we met with san mateo county is looking at closing juvenile hall and uh we met with one of the people that's uh spearheading spearheading that and um he was charged with a felony and now he's back in the community doing tons of great work but he's not really allowed on

188a lot of schools districts because of that felony but if i feel like if people could hear his story like he would be an awesome person to have in school is what i'm trying to say and if we could have more if there's some way that we can look at like you said reviewing hiring class make sure we're not excluding people that could be potentially valuable as teachers as you know um staff on campus that may have gotten in trouble in their youth and charged with the felony but you know have years of positive you know or just great people and also with the lens of looking at you're much more likely to get arrested if you're a person of color in charge of the felony so we're excluding a lot of folks here so

189would it be ideal if you all call out the um because i think i think maybe it was nick that said we want to make sure our hiring practices are um our update right up to date i should say so making sure y'all are still staying in compliance with the law so i think it's important you recognize that too so you don't have a lawsuit um if something happens right and you miss something because of back so the background checks are important but also you have some discretion right to make those decisions um so maybe there's this calling out that piece about making sure your hiring practices are in alignment with current edco current you know um law is important to protect yourselves but also maybe there's a piece about people who have had you

190know any issues in the past and even current people who don't have a record right like this whole piece about holding people accountable but also supporting people and i think you called out professional learning in your budget but i think this might be a place to say in our staffing our human resources we have to make sure we provide support but also hold people accountable right and that's going to be important when you're doing equity work because people cannot continue to harm children but you got to make sure they're aware and they're supported to understand what that harm means and then we're not going to expect accept it so therefore there's no accountability but balancing that out of support and support and accountability tony you had your hand raised thank you i'm sorry i'm like

191going like this i um so i actually really love that we're talking about this um since since i've been in the district there it would be really great to have it come from the board down because our district is uh has a clear bent towards not allowing anybody with anything to come into the you know like any distance of time ago we have had a practice of just not allowing them to work in our district or to coach in our district etc and so i don't think like that and since i was in charge of hr i have been you know fighting that fight for the last two years and so we do there's a really clear set of expectations of who can and cannot work and they're very clear um and a lot of

192it we have just been using sort of our discretion to decide who we will hire so um it would be really helpful to have very clearly set out um you know expectations from the board um i will be the superintendent so it'll be different because i will you know also come at it from that bent but i think that that we have really kept large groups of people out of working in our district and i think unfairly so that's my editorialism there rosie um so i know that in jefferson elementary my daughter had a middle school teacher who at back to school night was very open about um his history and that he had spent some time in in jail but got his life together um you know i had met a great teacher at

193skyline encouraged him to continue get um become a teacher and so he was able but then i do recall that one day so i didn't question it because he's a teacher you know he he clearly was able to teach despite this and and but then later on car and i never questioned it carly said oh today he's he said i have some great news i'm no um i don't and and i guess a mentor teacher was there and told him that um his probation was he's cleared he doesn't need to have any more supervision or something like that and and i i wonder that's something we could do or it was baffling to me but he was an incredible teacher one of those teacher students go back and visit and let him know that you

194know you know i remember everything he taught me kind of teacher got it yeah this is good stuff you all are in a really good place um rosie i'm happy you brought that up one thing that comes to mind with hr just make sure that whatever you do in your high-end framework make sure you run it by your attorney right because you want to make sure you are covering yourselves um and you know obviously having a vision um that is the board's responsibility but you want to also protect yourself from any litigation that you may miss because um of you know wanting to have inclusive practices but again remember you're shifting the system you're making changes so in that you want to be proactive so that you don't have to go back pedal and then

195all of a sudden it blows up because um it can happen um i hate seeing that it can't happen so you want to just really be mindful of that so um i want to make sure because we have about a little less than 15 minutes and i want to make sure we get to our last um priority um so i want to make sure we're good on hr there's a lot you can see to unpack with hr and i'm thankful tony that you have that experience so this is one where i think with the board you can really help give some even more close direction because you'll have such an insight but this is good stuff you all are packing unpacking some really great stuff and i'm so i just appreciate that um that's a

196good one yeah good idea yep absolutely the restorative practices we want with kids won't do the same thing with adults um [Music] so and oh you know what you called out by the way let me go back you call i think i mentioned something about bargaining units but you may want to call that out in terms of your negotiation process doing that you know with an equity lens right i think that's going to be important so i don't want to forget that's a big piece of the work all right so we good with that are you okay with moving to teaching and learning okay so for teaching and learning like student discipline is always at the top but one of the things that doesn't get talked about a lot is how extra credit is handed

197out how what students are allowed to make up work and if there's a way to track how which students are giving forgiveness on makeup work and extra credit so would that be around like assessment of of student uh work i feel i mean i feel like they're when it's if there's a witness tracking when people find a way to track like when extra credit is assigned is usually the same data presents itself if it's disproportionately assigned okay got it got it okay and this may all fall under grading by the way so i just want to make sure i call you today because there's a lot of ways that people um actually people but teachers go um how they assess kids right and it falls under um you know that grading piece what goes into

198a grade which may come up for you in itself right what is the grading policy which you all have and is it equitable so that's definitely one you're gonna have to unpack but you called it out so you're good access and promotion of ap classes open access and promotion or more open access although it does overlap into hr because they're having questions around you know um compensation and and capacity for teachers teaching every classes but i think that should go for um you could i guess it's a good point to make then access and promotion of ap classes for enrollment and for teaching opportunities um i think another thing in teaching and learning is which assessments we continue to use because uh you know right now we're using the sat as an assessment but you

199see using every they're dropping sap so we're spending money on this test and i don't you know and again i if we if the district wants to continue to use as an assessment like that's fine you know i'll take direction from the educational professionals on this but how many assessments do we need are we going to do sat and tasks and you know like actually to that effect too just to add because we're in distance learning when these assessments are being given and what accommodations and modifications are being provided um how they're being provided it has very and this is across the nation obviously or you know as many places that are not returning to in person um which is pretty much the entire nation but um that and in terms of the lpac i

200think just another one to understand is like how how are all these things being administered and how are we going to look at this year in context of it i know sats were dropping because they're not allowing people to and this is in the weeds but they're they're making going first right which is ridiculous but that's just for this year i'd just like to add special education onto the list you know just are we providing the best op you know accessibility i guess for the program and having those students succeed too because i remember um that we were in a meeting one time and and somebody put on chat like that's great that we're doing ap tests but that also you know it's like a certain amount of students that are doing those tests and

201what are we you know helping all the other children as well not just the ap course students you know so go ahead mustafa jump on in um access to extra help after school programs or whatever like things like that because um the students that need extra help often have a hard time getting it and then can we add to that like and add counselors like access to counselors and mental health do we have mental health on here i knew we needed somewhere but community climate has wellness in it um oh yeah yes it was i think it was in budget budget okay i think you all put in your um yeah i think you put it in budget wellness and the reason i included in the teaching and learning is that the students have repeatedly

202told us that the biggest indicator or the biggest cause of this stress is homework and grading [Music] yeah do you want to call out relationships here um just student teacher relationships um maybe rigorous instruction which i always say is just a a fancy word for high expectations for all kids yeah whether ap or just you know your regular coursework um but i think that's a big one that low expectations for students of color low expectations based on stereotypes associated with kids unfortunately um is very real in the classroom so yeah all right add on to like student teacher relationships um i know some there are some teachers who often compare students like to other students which um doesn't help the situation and it messes like it can mess up the classroom environment and create like

203a hostile environment towards other like other students yes nick thank you ethnic studies we do have culturally relative we have up at the top the uh culturally reflective curriculum um but i don't know we could add another bullet to that [Music] so i want you to just take a moment as you look back and i'm going to kind of make this smaller so you can see once again this one and the one above it right there and technical studies is different than culturally reflective classrooms right with culturally responsive curriculum or just an open response because i feel like it's too and we it's an ongoing discussion but i feel like yes we need to have specific classes that focus on pacific culture but i also feel like every class should be reflective of the ethnicity

204there's a there's a story that could be told in every class and if you don't see yourself reflected somewhere you don't think it's for you um so math there's examples that are used for math that can be more culturally reflective you know there's there's things in science that can be more culturally reflective okay so as you all kind of you know look at these we have about five minutes left so i want to make sure that um you know we have a chance to pause and just kind of sit back and reflect on what our next steps are but you have come up with themselves in the curriculum can we also add in textbooks or all books oh yeah yeah yeah good one themselves in the curriculum and all books not just a textbook because

205the library supplemental so yeah you're yeah that's a good one kawima yep curriculum that's big call it out all right you capture that one tiffany i know i think i'm on it's up at the top it is okay the culture is uh culturally responsive curriculum students should see themselves in the curriculum in all books texts yeah all right all right good stuff all right there we go good stuff good stuff yeah excellent so now take a deep breath for a moment you're like whoa so now this is a lot um and i say a lot meaning if you only had if you have this is four priorities now we could easily add another 20 priorities and you see how it'd be very hard for you to get anything done just one of these priorities alone

206is a lot of work to unpack and a lot of work to measure and monitor and really provide um support towards so that's why you see where i want you to really break it down to just pick four and then but you see what's happening there's a lot of things that fall under those four and so if you can apply your equity lens as a governance team to these four priorities there's a lot you can actually do to really close equity gaps in school district because you're addressing staff right you're addressing the community you're addressing students you're addressing really the entire system with these four priorities so that should make you feel really good that you're not missing anything right but in your um policy one of the next steps that i'm gonna suggest um

207is that your policy um in your revision some of these priorities will show up in your policy actually you have a lot of them in there already believe it or not but they will show up in your actual equity policy which will also reference other policies that you have so i just want you to just pause and feel good about you have really prioritized your work just in that few moment in these few study sessions and so now the next steps are how do we make these things happen right and even the priorities of those bullet points you have under each priority right you're gonna have to narrow even your focus on that so you can actually address an equity gap but overarchingly this is the work of running the school district right there's a

208lot of work to do so how do you prioritize this you can be effective and if you can hit all four of these areas it'll be like a domino effect with everything else it'll just be the way you do business and so i'm really excited for you on that so what i want to do is just share with you um you all have this document so please save it for your notes so that you can be able to go back to this for your next session and so what i want to do is just share and one more thing really quickly before we move on i do want to say that in the in the other document would that have the framework and the roles i do think we're gonna after this meeting we're discussing

209goals for tony but i think one of those big things is building the roles in the framework on how we go about doing all this work which i don't think we've ever done in this district and so like getting a better understanding tiffany from you and circle up of like what is your capacity and what exactly could you be doing that's in regards to this work and then getting that clear understanding on because i know corrine's plate is full so what does she handle and then what can you handle tiffany you know so that it's not all on her because normally all this rolls over her and um and so and tony on help i mean i think working with you to kind of get clear roles how we fold april into this and then

210how we go about putting together the framework of how this is all you know how we go about figuring this out and how we go about making other people educating other folks about it and how we roll it out i really feel like that needs to be a major focus too before we dive into this yep absolutely yeah so i'm putting my notes like a strategy meeting tony korean april myself um yourself to kalima if that's appropriate for creating an equity framework or like a process for the equity work yes that i think that would be awesome just so we could all kind of get everybody on the same page and ever because i think a lot of times the work starts it comes to the board we say that's not what we're thinking or

211that's not how we want it to flow and then i don't want to just i you know i feel like it's a disappointment to the people that put in a lot of work before that and so if we could get all that clear understanding before when they actually jump into the work yeah yep that's good stuff so um what i have kind of captured here and i actually i'm putting in the wrong place i apologize tiffany because i have my version of this and then you all have your version but so i accidentally put in the wrong place but i think it still helps so these last pieces here like we've been these two parts that i kind of broke up in the agenda um some of them specifically like we didn't talk about the

212article which is absolutely fine this is a framework that i will use in your action planning process but one of the things that you all have done is you've actually begun to create your plan your plan started with your statement obviously your policy is part of how you're going to infuse this work um but what we want to do next is actually in our next um meetings i'm trying to blow this up what i was really trying to do so you can see it um what we wanted to do in our next um study sessions i'd recommend i should say is review revise like your action plan right so i'll actually take some of this and start to show you how you're actually creating a plan um and i want to have you think about

213again how we're going to apply that equity statement as you move forward so by the time we meet again you all will have had feedback hopefully you have made a you know a vote on it but we'll decide that later um definitely continue to go back to these priorities and then i think i heard klima say set some goals um around just kind of what we're gonna do um identify whose role is what who's going to do this work think about leveraging some of the current partnerships you have because this work is hard for just the staff to do alone it's going to require a team you have a task force also i don't want you to forget about so leveraging the work of that group because they can do some of the data dive

214they can do some of the analysis they can make recommendations to the board based on some of your key focus areas that you want to call out um your communication i heard that kalima um that that's something that you want to continue to make sure we hit on is how we're communicating um have i called a framework so how is this look is going to be important with this type of work specifically and i think you just need it in general um and then timelines revisit okay what is this going to look like based on timelines what's our framework and timeline for the year um and then start to look at how are we going to measure the impact of our work so that's where the data conversation comes in and what are those key

215data points what data do we need to collect still what data do we have so um and again going back to your priorities you're all going to spend some i think you do need to spend more time on those priorities but in future study sessions what's going to happen is you'll probably need to break those priorities up pick one priority out of the four and use your study session to unpack that so how do you feel about next steps and and uh even you know before we you know go as do you have dates you want to talk about or do we want to do that another doodle poll or something but just want to ask you about is this kind of what you see is a good next step for you okay okay anything

216do you want to send us uh dates that you're available for the next meeting and i think it's just easier to work that way and then we can just look out for the team it worked well last time sure yep i'll send that and then i'll also send um some um um recommendations to think about on your policy revisions as you continue that so and then you all have these notes and all this so feel free to do what you need to do with them at least you have them for your minutes however you want to you know capture your minutes and um let me know i didn't plan to be at your meeting on the 6th but um let me know um actually i have another meeting that night so i can't join but

217i'll try to watch it on youtube and then um you know let me know if there's anything you need after the sticks in terms of your next step but i think you all got it i'm super excited for you um you should feel a little tired from all of this because it's hard work but this is the work that has to be done um and i just commend you because every board is not rolling up their sleeves like this and this year you're really creating like historically um a legend right for generations to come and this is powerful so i just want to you know hopefully you're feeling good about your work and i'm just honored to support and share the space with you and thank our students you know of course for giving insight

218they always give like a whole lens that we as adults sometimes just like you totally forgot right so we just appreciate you mustafa luca for joining me on your saturdays right thank you thank you guys so with that i'll turn it back over to you kalima and tony as you close oh out was great we do have to go happen in closed session and just respect folks time um i'm just again thank you to everybody for showing up on saturday i'm really excited about the work um turning over to tony i'm just really really excited i'm so excited that we're doing this i can't even really think of a that's that doesn't do it justice i'm really glad we're doing this i'm glad that every person who's here is part of it so well done

219awesome okay so thank you everyone um we're gonna move on to clothes so okay everyone else we could have kicked out and all right have a great weekend everybody take care