001All right. Good afternoon or evening. I'd like to bring this meeting of the board of education September 25th meeting to order at 6:00. Uh, Miss Trusty Kamacho, will you lead us in the pledge of allegiance? All stand. >> I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. Under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. All right. Um, Miss Ramirez, will you please take the roll call? >> President Keer, >> present. Trustee Mansfield, >> present. >> Trusty Kamacho, >> present. >> Trustee Anderson, >> I'm here. >> Trustee Heatherton. >> All right. Um, item number two is adopt the agenda. Do I have a motion? >> I'll make a motion to adopt the agenda. >> I'll second. >> Okay. I have a motion
002from Trusty Kamacho, seconded by Trustee Mansfield. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Those opposed? say no. Okay. Agenda is adopted. Um item three is communication reports limited to five minutes. Board member reports. Do I have any board member reports? Yeah. Um actually I've been really busy for the last two weeks. I went to the high school to see Mr. Zenino and spent about two hours there talking to staff and just had a lovely time. Then I went to the multicultural celebration at Biju Park um on that the next day. And last week I got to meet with uh Principal Holmes at Sierra House and a CSBA representative to talk about math and the Golden Bell Award. So that was really exciting. And choir has started. So mark your calendars for December 9th. And
003today I got to go to the middle school and see uh Cross Pulse. And then this afternoon I helped seniors with learn a little bite of reality. So I've been busy. >> Anybody else? Trusty Anderson. >> I visited uh Myers Elementary this afternoon for the u >> crossbows >> tap performance. Spectacular. [Laughter] Those folks are awesome. They are that good energy. >> Yesterday I was at the high school and I watched a just a stellar math lesson by um Chelsea um >> Vermilion. Is it Vermilion? >> Vermilion. Yes. She is a an incredible incredibly talented instructional teacher. She's fabulous and she has such a great rapport with the kids. I was highly impressed. >> That's great. >> Thank you. >> Trusty, come watch it. >> Trusty Anderson, did you learn anything? >> I tried to
004I tried to keep up with with the lesson. >> Could you understand? >> I was looking over student shoulders. >> Exactly. >> I bet. Um, I went to the multicultural event at Beiju a I guess that was a week ago and it was so much fun. There just saw a bunch of um the Tahoe uh resource center was we shared a table with them and they had the most dynamic junior and senior students running it and it was just such a feel good to see these kids up there doing such a great job. um also went to tap on the high school. I think that was Monday, Tuesday. And it was and that was a lot of fun and the kid the high schoolers were so interested and just wanted to interact and had a
005lot of questions and it was Yeah. Yeah. It was really great experience. >> Thank you. And I was um I've been out of town, but I managed to get to see the Tahoe Arts Project um performance at Sierra House. And um I had a math experience. I was at the middle school yesterday at the tail end of the color run and went to the math leads the club. And u Yes. And I was tasked, but it reminded me of why I asked um associate superintendent to use absolute values in our presentation later tonight. But uh I I had to be reminded of what some of like what negative exponents were. So um it was uh interesting and uh Karen Duca uh heads that up and she's really great and enthusiastic. So that was nice. But
006we need to have more girls in that club because there's only one girl there. So we're going to be talking about that later as well. Um and uh and today I was at the high school for the bite of reality which was great and the kids are super engaged and enthusiastic about that event. So that was really um great and um and I got to see the girls play tennis and volleyball and they did really well. I think both both um sports are doing really well. So it was fun to see see that. Um and thank you to all the folks that involved with sports like the coaches and everything because it's a big labor of love. I know. And it was nice to see a lot all the adults involved as well. All right.
007Uh, next we have the student board member report. And I saw that our other student board member at the volleyball game, so I understood that she would not be here tonight. >> Yeah, she actually has a rival game with Truckucky tonight. So that's right. >> That goes well for them. >> Um, but yeah, I wanted to mention uh the top performance. I actually got the privilege of introducing them at the high school on Tuesday, which was really exciting. Um, so that was really cool and it was really exciting to see so many high schoolers be genuinely like engaged. I feel like that's such a struggle with kids my age sometimes is getting them to be engaged with presentations, but I think it went really well. So, that was really great. Um, and then on back
008uh the day of the last board meeting on um the 11th, I I'm not sure how much Mary got to talk about this, but we had the small school districts association presentation with the um superintendent's advisory council and that went really well. It was great. We presented for probably about 30 minutes about the importance of student voice on the administrative level and stuff like that. Um, and I think it was really impactful. It went really well. And then, um, Mary and I are actually kind of piggybacking off of that for our CSBA presentation in December, which we had to talk for an hour, so we'll see how that goes. Um, >> yes, it'll be good. It'll be good. I'm lucky to get to work with her. She's great. Um, and then of course I was
009going to mention the bite of reality, seeing you guys there. That was great and it was really cool to kind of see that bite of reality I guess. Um and again seeing the senior class like engaged which is really exciting. Um and then lately we've had like presentations for all the grades to discuss A throughg requirements, graduation requirements of course for the seniors college stuff. Um and that's been really good. And uh last thing homecoming next week so that's exciting. I hope to see you guys at the game and whatnot. But yeah, that's all I've got. >> All right. Thank you. Thank you for sharing all of that. Okay. And we have um next is our superintendence report and we have Dr. Reer here. Thank you, Trusty Keer. Um that Dr. Cutler is currently at
010the Association of California School Administrators uh meeting and assembly. He is the presidentele, so he was unable to to miss that meeting. So you're stuck with me here. Um, Anna, Anna, thank you for the updates. You mentioned that you have a big project, chemistry project. So, um, please scoot out and take care of your studies as soon as you need to. Okay. We really appreciate you being here today. We we actually offered to read the report, but she really wanted to be here to uh to see Peggy as well at the Tahoe Arts Project. So, thank you for being here and squeezing this in. We know you have a very busy schedule. I just want to thank you guys, too. you you know you shared in your board reports how busy you are and how
011engaged you are with all the activities and events and and we just really appreciate that and I know our principles really appreciate you seeing seeing you on campus as well as our teachers too and they know that you really care and um and you're fully engaged as board members and really appreciate that. Thank you. Um bite of reality again thank you uh to those of you who were able to to volunteer as well as several community members. This was actually initiated uh through a conversation with Trusty Heatherton uh a little over a year ago when he talked about the importance and need of financial literacy. I was down in Placerville uh helping out at an EDCO booth at the community fair and ran into a gentleman with Sierra Central Credit Union and mentioned bite of
012reality this senior uh senior students simulation where the the the credit union folks come up and they they do this whole activity and Anya, I'm glad you had a positive experience with it and and Trusty Kemper and and Mansfield, it sounds like you had fun upselling them and trying to break Anya's think so that's the whole key is just to try and and have that simulation learning activity. So thank you both for joining that. Uh and and then just finally there is a community conversation this coming Tuesday at 6 pm around bike safety. I know we'll have several uh bike experts as well as law enforcement um around this topic and of course we know that this is an important topic in our community especially as we see more and more ebikes on the streets.
013That's all I have. Thank you. And thank you. And uh I wanted to remind folks also that there's a bike safety class that the community college is offering to students on Saturday. And is that the middle school? And >> it's at the college. Yeah, the college is hosting that. So that's Saturday. So this is the week for bike safety before before we get the winter sits in. We'll train them now so they're ready for next spring. So great. Um all right. And then next I have um item 3D which is employee association reports. And I don't see anybody in the audience that is going to report. >> I don't believe we have any. >> Okay. And then um our next item is public comment. >> No public comment tonight. Thank you. >> None were received
014by email or anything. Okay. Then item number four is our partner organization update. And tonight we have the pleasure of having Peggy here from Tahoe Arts Project. >> Yes. Because the microphone picks up your uh words. >> I have a >> You have a There it is. Look at that. >> Put that together for me. >> Very nice. >> I just push when I'm ready. >> Okay. >> Thank you, Kelly. >> Is this good or do I need to put it? >> Move it. Okay. Okay. >> Okay. Good. Good. Thanks for having me, Peggy Brownie, executive director of Tahoe Arts Project. And I want to thank my Cross Pulse groupies for going to all the school shows. It was really nice seeing all of you there. And I hope you enjoy. I know you want
015to show them what you learned. >> The lawn. Um, so I'm sure most of you are familiar with with Tahoe Arts Project. Um, we have been around since 1987. And actually, I was thinking about it as I was driving over here. Um, next week on October 1st, it'll be 33 years that I've been with Top Arts Project. So, I thought I'd do it while my kids were growing up and now I have grandkids that are grow. Guess I'll just keep on keep on doing it. So, um, so Oh. You might need to start again. >> Our mission. >> Oh no, that's not that. Okay. Um, so this is our mission. This mission has been this was developed in 1987 when we started. We are in our 39th season right now. Um, and our mission is
016to provide cultural enrichment and diversity for the community through performing arts. It really should say performing arts and education with particular focus on our youth. So our programs go into all Lake Tahoe Unified School District schools as well as Diamond Valley School down in Markleyville >> and Zephr Cove Elementary over on on the Nevada side. And this one, this screen, I was kind of hoping it would be more towards the end, but um we um give out scholarships to um South Tahoe High School students, and these are the five students that received the scholarship in 2025. Um Aubrey Ivand, um Emma Zion, Lily Irwin, Payton King, and Sam Lap. And we our criteria has a little bit to do with performing arts, but if they're going on to pursue their college education in performing arts,
017but we kind of take it a little a little lightly, you know, if they're going to maybe minor in music or or dance or plan on having taking dance classes or whatever. So, we kind of but these these were the five that got their scholarships from us last year. $1,000 each. I don't know if I already said that. So, um, so this is kind of what it looks like in our schools. Few of the school assemblies. You can see there's a lot of interaction with the kids. Um, and you could see I think that's Alex Raone when we had him and he's, you know, kids are crowding around him afterwards and having pictures taken and looking at his little dog. So there's there we try and have have some interaction with the groups rather than
018just them seeing them on the stage. We we try and make that work out. Um that was Backhouse Dance. It was here last year, Modern Dance Company. So kids really enjoyed seeing the different styles of dance that they do. Um, and then this one, it's a little hard to see, but there's Alex with his dog. And I think that's at the high school. Is that the high school, you guys? It looks like it. >> Yeah. And then, um, alias brass. Um, they were here last year, too. Our brass brass quintet, and the kids really enjoyed that. >> We try and choose a variety of of programming for the kids. um a lot of different cultural groups, um things that they wouldn't normally get to see and of course live performance is always the best. Um
019so we thanks to our Dancing with the Tahoe Stars event which has been very successful and it's coming up on our 12th year, we've been able to kind of branch out and do some more giving like scholarships. Um, instead of our funding just going to artist fees, um, we've started doing scholarships, a scholarship to Sugarloaf Fine Arts Camp, uh, we, um, give a scholarship to Lake Tahoe Community College graduates. We sponsor some of the schools with theater programs that they're doing, mostly Tahoe Valley with theater programs that they do. Um we have um a summer children's theater program every summer and um we've been doing um for the TAC kids um gosh we've been doing it for like four or five years a um drumming I'm really tired you guys it's been a long day
020so if I'm uming um with Liz Brasco it's a drumming and self-esteem a six-week program with the um TAC students that that's been really successful. Um, and then, you know, a lot of a lot of organizations may reach out to us, you know, and say is, you know, would you sponsor this for us? And like the studio, the dance studio through their nonprofit, um, asked us if we would help them buy lighting lights for when they do their their dance. and we're like, "Yeah, as long as we can borrow those lights if we need them." So, you know, it's kind of kind of works both ways. So, um so if anybody, you know, needs anything along that line, you know, we might be able to help you with that. Um this was from Alice and
021Wonderland Jr. that we did in um July. We had over 70 kids that were in it. It was a ton of fun. It I just love children's theater. It's amazing what these kids can do and what they learn in such a short amount of time. You know, it's super fun to watch them. And, you know, we provide them all with a t-shirt so they can, you know, wear it around town to show that they've been in it. And of course, my gra grandchildren don't want to be in it, but they still get a t-shirt. So, one of these days they will. I think that the the youngest uh the young not the twins, but the youngest might want to be in it soon. So, we'll see. And then for this is our 39th season. So
022we've got um Cross Post Duo which is here right now. Um and then in January, I think it's January. Yeah, January we have Push Physical Theater and you can kind of see they do a lot of interesting things with their bodies and um we actually had them here probably about I don't know 15 years ago. I rarely ever bring back groups, but they were really spectacular. And you know, most of the kids have moved on now. So, um, and then the Katie Jane band, they're a Celtic music. I was trying to get them around, um, St. Patrick's Day, so that was as close as I could get for them. So, they're going to be really fun. Um, and then the Living Voices program, we bring that in um, every year. Um, that's a little different
023than our big assemblies. It's done in individual classrooms. Um, it's historical presentations that incorporate a live actor with film. So the actor is is portraying a character from a certain historical event that has happened like the story of Anne Frank or they do a bunch of different ones but I'm really excited because they have one called our revolution and with this being the 275th anniversary of the American Revolution, we're bringing that program in. So I think that students will really like that one. So that's what we have for our 39th season. And then of course we have fundraisers. Um we just had our and I don't have it on the screen, but we had our um music on the beach fundraiser at Tahoe Lakeshore Lodge and Spa. Um which there's music there every Thursday night
024for free all summer long. And then um on the third Thursday in August, it's a fundraiser for us where we do a $20 suggested donation and have a wonderful raffle. Um so that happened on the 21st and at that event we introduced our couples for Dancing with the Tahoe Stars. We've done that now for like this is the third year where we've announced them there because we've got this captive audience. So, um, and then that brings me to Dancing with the Tall Stars, which is coming up on October 11th. There's two alumni in this room. [Laughter] Um, so it's coming up October 11th. We have eight couples. Um, they're they're busy rehearsing and raising money for TAP and tickets are on sale. How many of you have been to it before? You're you're going this
025year. Yeah, it's it's really fun because it's very community. It's it's it's a lot of fun. You get to see these people. We have it at bal and um it's just a ton of fun to see people up on the stage. Tony Sunzeri and Robin um Rasmusson will be dancing from the school district. So, they will be a lot of fun. >> And our you have to go just for that. And our our theme this year is icons and legends. So take that and come to the show. And >> and then um we're going to do a new fundraiser with Alex Raone the magician um in April, a night of magic with Alex Raone and guests. So, he's going to be bringing in some some magicians and um it's going to be April 25th at
026Harris and Alex wants to have whoever wins the star that wins Dancing with the Tahoe stars, he wants them to be in his magic show. They don't whoever I mean they nobody knows that yet, but but that'll be that should be kind of fun doing that. So, um, and that's that's pretty much it. Do you any questions or am I forgetting anything? Ara, >> oh, >> she's our student board representative on our board. So, >> excellent. >> We we are very blessed to have her and she does a great job and >> I'm lucky to get to work with you guys. >> I know. It's really fun. And then Emily, how do you say Emily's last name? >> I'm actually not sure. >> Not Emily Co. >> Cojima. >> So, we have we have two
027of them now. So we have because they're so busy, you know, and and so Emily and Arya are both are both on our >> student board and come to board meetings and >> talk about TAP at school and introducing the groups and >> yeah, and we'll be helping out at Dancing with the Stars so we can can show you your seats. So you should come. >> A great help at getting those people in their seats and all that good stuff. So >> and Peggy, can you remind us of the performance that's happening this week for Cross Post? >> Yes. So, tomorrow night um at the high school theater, doors open at 6:00. Um the show starts at 6:30. It's a free public performance with the group Cross Pulse that's in the schools right now. And
028they're like they do body, they call it body music. Um, and they also play instruments and dance and sing and stuff, but a lot of, you know, the tap tap tap tap tap tap >> hamone. So, they're a lot of fun. the kids have really been enjoying them and and we have started offering free public performances um you know just to give back to the community that supports us and um so spread the word on that and it should be a >> and I know a lot of the time the kids will come home >> after seeing him and say oh mom dad we got to go got to go >> I love that I love that because it's like >> you know usually it's parents taking kids to things so it's really fun that
029the kids kind one up on their parents by like wait till you see this, you know. >> So, yeah, I was that kid. >> You were that kid. >> That's great. >> Well, thank you so much, Peggy, for all that you've done. We all love it. >> And Arya's gonna get out. All right, we'll see you next time. Hi. All right. Our next item uh under educational services is the California assessment of student student performance and progress update presentation by Dr. Reer. >> Thank you, President Kemper and trustees. Uh thanks for the opportunity to share some preliminary data on our 2425 California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress or CASP. Um, it is possible we could see some slight adjustments to these to this data when it officially comes out by the CDE in November.
030If there are any significant changes to what I'm sharing tonight, I'll be sure to update you on that. So, here are some highlighted information on the CASP. Um, you it's administered every May. Uh, we need to test 95% of our eligible students. uh ELA and math is tested uh for all third through eighth graders and 11th graders. Science is tested for fifth graders, eighth graders, and 10th graders. The data is disagregated to help us learn more about our students progress. And you see that where it's disagregated there. So tonight we're going to provide you with a little historical data from 2122 which was just after CO and and we went two years without administering CAPS during CO. So we have about four years of data now postco where we can see some of the results.
031Um and and the big question that we're always asking is are we getting a little bit better each year? And that's what we're striving to do is to to see if we can get a little bit better each year. First, we're going to review our historical English language arts data. This is displayed by the percentage of students who met or exceeded the standards. As you see, overall, we continue to be around 44 to 45%. California state average was 47% in 2324. Our 2425 California data is not available as a whole state yet. That should be available November 13th. You can also see our progress with our students who are socioeconomically disadvantaged or SED, our students who are English learners or multilingual learners, and our students with an individual education plan or IEP. Our students who
032uh do have an IEP had quite a jump compared from 23 to to 2425 and an increase of around 9%. Um that was highlighted today at a uh meeting that I was at with all um ED Elorado County leaders. That was pretty exciting. Next up is our math which continues to climb slightly over the past four years. You can see our subgroups there. And again, we see increases in all of our subgroups with a 4% jump with our students with an individual education plan. As you see, we are hovering just below the state 23 24 average of 36%. Again, we don't have the 24 25 data for the state of California yet. This slide represents our science data. Again, our fifth, 8th, and 10th graders take this test each May. We saw increases in all
033of our groups with the exception of our multilingual learners. Our results this year slightly above the state results in 2324. I need to apologize for this next slide. There is a lot of numbers there. Um and and what it does is it represents um I asked our wonderful my wonderful assistant Jenny Goldstein to take a look at the males versus females progress. This request was motivated by an article in EdSource in their September 2nd edition where they actually identified Lake Tahoe Unified School District is having a large gap in math performance between males and females and they are accurate. There's a link on that slide for that you could read the article and there's some differences we're seeing in our percentage of males versus percentage of females meeting and exceeding standards overall. You can see
034if you look over at the 2425, uh, our males were at 39% and our females were at 32%. About a 7% difference. Um, higher differences in third, fifth, and seventh grade. You could see those differences there. We actually provided a precoid and a postcoid comparison at the bottom of the slide. What we saw coming back from COVID was definitely a dip. We know that that um as hard as our teachers tried, we may not have had uh you know instruction virtually or online. It was an incredibly uh challenging task and we saw some some data slips in all of our areas across the nation. So that data below is showing an overall rebound from males but not from females. So we'll work with our leaders and our our teachers to learn more about that. While
035we were looking at math, males versus females, we ended up and took a a look at the other subjects. And here's our historical males versus females in English language arts. As you see here, our females overall are outperforming our males. 48% to 42% meeting or exceeding standards. And the pre and postcoid table down below there shows both males and females re rebounding back to their original levels from the precoid. And then our science. We took a look at our science. Males. Did that slip? No. Males versus females. I didn't got to press harder. >> There we Okay. and science where males are uh outperforming females by about 11% 38% to 20% 7%. As you can see the pre and postcoid data our males have rebounded and exceeded pre-COVID numbers and our females have slightly exceeded
036pre-COVID numbers. Again we have some research uh to learn there more about those gaps to work with our leaders and our teachers to try and learn more about this phenomenon. Next up, I wanted to share our preliminary CASP achievement achievement levels by site. Here you can see the district and each site historical data in English language arts. I also asked Jenny to include the demographics of each school site. Each school has different challenges. As you know, each site, for example, the Tahoe Valley School has the highest percentage of students who are socioeconomically disadvantaged at 63% while Beiju has the highest percentage of students who are multilingual learners at 35% and our Sierra House School has the highest percentage of students who have an individual education plan at 21%. As you look at the data from
03721 to present, it goes from left to right per site, you can see the the bar graphs. And what we would want to see uh for good news is see those bar graphs getting progressively higher as you move from left to right per school. You see that somewhat in Tahoe Valley, Beiju, and South Tahoe Middle School, which is good news. Next up, we're going to take a look at the math by sight. You see rising bars at the district, Tahoe Valley, Sierra House for the most part, Beiju, South Tahoe Middle School, and South Tahoe High School. We're excited to see some progress and we understand we still have a ways to go. Finally, science results uh by district and school. Rising bars are evident for the most part at Tahoe Valley. somewhat at Beiju and
038South Tahoe high school. So we have data uh on our CASP. It's administered annually. We use other data um as well our I Ready data. We use uh grades, we use A throughG, we use interimm assessments um to to to guide and monitor our student growth and and obviously we have some work to do. We're excited to see a little bit of growth, but not overly excited. And again, we have some work to do. This agenda item is forformational purposes. Do you have any questions for me? >> Any questions for Dr. Rita? >> Thank you. I do. Thank you so much for the presentation. And I'm sorry if I missed it if you have already said this. Statewide is it are they the same? Are they are the are the girls females lower than >>
039They are statewide. It has been historical there. But we uh like I said in the Ed Source article, we were called out. We've got a a higher gap than most other districts. And so that's definitely concerning. >> Yeah. you know, and I I know our science department at the high school continues to get increased um engagement and um and more and more students, both male and female, taking the science classes at the high school, but I definitely need to work with our team to to try and learn more. >> Do you have any any idea? I guess I mean if I if you if you did you think >> females typically will outperform males in in English language arts and males um traditionally have outperformed females in math but we've seen some changes I and
040I recall in a different district prior co we were seeing the females outperforming the males in math ELA and science and that was concerning their males tells what's going on there. But this is concerning here that that we're seeing some traditional differences here at Lake Tahoe Unified with the math and with the science. >> And I I noticed it it the largest numbers were fifth grade. >> That was where and I and I don't know, you know, I feel like especially related to math that we've been making so much progress with math at the elementary school. Um, but the fifth graders maybe are they're kind of, you know, they didn't get a lot of that new math instruction early. You know, they're, you know, we've only been doing it for a few years, so they
041they didn't start off, you know, as first graders with that with some of them more with the manipulatives and whatever that kind of. But anyway, it'll be interesting. But I I I mean I hope that um you you know you mentioned that we're working on it and and are these going to be subjects like for the collaborative time and that kind of thing where teachers are talking to each other about what they're seeing in the classroom related >> we'll be working with our leaders first >> what they'll be working with us. >> Okay. >> I kind of come back to what Arya was saying about getting the kids engaged >> and that as a teacher you know that that's threearters of the battle right there. >> Yeah. All right. Thank you. >> All right. Thank
042you. >> And next we have uh school plans for student achievement. We have Beiju school uh first up information item. >> Thank you. Principal DPI with Beiju Community School is going to provide us with an update on her school plan for student achievement. Thank you, Principal DPI. >> Good evening, board of trustees, Dr. Reer. Tonight, I'm here to present on Beiju's school plan for student achievement for the 2025 2026 school year. Um, Beiju Community School is proud this year to have 18 TK through fifth grade two-way bilingual immersion classes with three program goals. Academic achievement, bilingualism and biiteracy, and social cultural competency. Beiju school continues to represent a diverse group of students and this is from last year's data. 35% of BYU students are English learners. 65% of students are Latino. 30% are white and
04359% of students are socioeconomically disadvantaged. Oh, there we go. In alignment with LCAP goal one, inspire lifelong learning for fostering curiosity, critical thinking, and problem solving skills to increase achievement among students. Beiju continues to focus our collaboration, professional development, and instruction around increasing the rigor and student engagement in all content areas. We know that the quality of our first instruction has a profound impact on student learning. We continue to focus our collaboration and professional development on instructional strategies that are inclusive to engage all learners in the classroom. We aim to support 100% of students to participate at the same time. We are continuing our work with thinking maps that support critical thinking and writing through all content areas including science, social studies, and language arts. We're also excited to pilot a new math curriculum this
044year. And uh we have four teachers at BYU that are piloting illustrative math at this time. And our work in math continues to focus on standards, open tasks that we've learned through Caled partners such as coral counting, counting collections, and supporting thinking through math story problems in alignment with LCAP goal 2 to establish a positive climate and culture through an inclusive connected school community ensuring engagement for all students and families. We uh continue to use the resources that are provided through the community schools grant for a second year. And we're thrilled to welcome a new school counselor, Sydney Miller. Sydney is beginning to li to deliver social emotional learning lessons in both English and Spanish and all classrooms twice a month. She's working to build programs like kindness club and our conflict managers program. and
045we continue to implement attendance incentives and communicate with families to educate them on the importance of school attendance. We're excited that Beiju was just short of 97% average daily attendance for the first month of school. Our parent volunteer committees have begun and parents are welcomed and invited to volunteer in classrooms and in various areas around the school. We have 16 parent volunteer committees at Beiju. We will also be starting our afterchool clubs for students and students can participate in enrichment clubs like ukulele, running, board games and many more. In alignment with LCAP goal three, maintaining a culture of continuous improvement and professional growth for all staff members, ensuring ongoing learning and development to support student success. As I previously mentioned, BEu continues to deepen our work in program alignment and implementation of thinking maps. We
046just con uh concluded some incredible trainings on teaching writing through thinking maps and our staff is eager to implement these new strategies in their writing instruction. Our fourth goal aligns directly with our single focus plan. Um, and this has been much more than three years now at this point, but Beiju Community School will focus on implementing researchbased instructional practices in English and Spanish language development as a single focus for this point. I think we're at five years. In order to improve student achievement, particularly for English language learners, we were able to onboard all new staff on the principles of dual language education through our continued collaboration with the association of dueway two-way dual language education. Um, we continue to achieve to strive to achieve bilingualism and biiteracy through speaking, listening, reading and writing. And we
047have very clear goals for our students. Our goal is that all students meet grade level reading expectations in Spanish by the end of second grade and that all English learners achieve English proficiency in order to reclassify as fluent English proficient by the end of fifth grade. We're making steady progress towards these goals. Um and here I have listed our new staff members. Um, so Sydney Miller is our new school counselor joining us from Santa Rosa. Uh, Emily Meyer is our uh an additional speech pathologist. She's also uh supporting preschool students through the school district. We have Christina Ramos who is teaching TK. Carol Olmos is our new first grade teacher. Jean Pierre Bolanos is our new third grade teacher. Kelly Brooks joined us from the middle school is our new music teacher shared with Sierra
048House. Uh and Mia Ortiz is our new PE teacher. Um I want to give a little shout out to Kelly Brooks. I know um we for the first time have started choir uh for the holiday concert on time. Um so we're really thankful for her for getting that going and being really active. We uh hoped that Beiji will have our biggest choir group yet. So, thank you to Kelly. Um, but we're very very excited to have our new staff members. Um, and the the year has been off to a very positive and energetic start. So, that concludes my presentation. Are there any questions or comments? >> Questions? Trusty Anderson, >> comments. >> Principal DPI, I want to thank you for your efforts in increasing student achievement at Beiju Community School. Um, and congratulations on the
049attendance, 97%. Share your secrets, please. >> Uh, the the secret, there's no secret that the kids can't get educated if they're not there. So, uh, attendance is so vital, so vitally important. What have you done? >> Oh, we have several things we've done. We have we have an attendance board first thing when students walk in the in the school where they each time they have a 100% of the students in their class present their little Bobcat gets to move up on the chart and once they reach 10 days um their class earns a pajama day or something little but some exciting uh celebration for their class and teachers have been working hard to celebrate that with students. Um we've been sharing that in our weekly newsletter to parents. It's the first thing that goes into
050our weekly newsletter. Um, and the other piece that I've really worked with as a school site of students that are maybe tier two or tier three is um, educating parents around the impact that missing school has met. So, I've I meet with parents and we discuss what are the challenges about getting your student to school and and here's what we've seen in terms of the impact it can have on their learning. So, those are some of the things we've done. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. I was going to just also congratulate you on the 97%. That is wonderful. Good question, Trusty Anderson. The illustrative math, is that what Sierra House is also using or is this something else? >> Yes, it is. Great. >> So, we have all of our elementary schools have a teachers
051that are piloting that curriculum. >> That's wonderful. Great. Okay. >> So, you guys are also working with Caled partners. >> Yes, we are. We I think we're entering our third year working with them. So, we have four staff members that are part of that collaborative. >> Yeah. So, thank you for your presentation. That was great. Yes. Thank you. Glad you're doing so well. So, and can and before we I know we can we give her applause, but the I want and I know we have uh we have Cindy Martinez here tonight too to talk about uh the middle school, but I I didn't know that Kelly So, Kelly Brooks's um halftime with Beiju halftime souse and then Tyler Pow is at the middle school now. >> Yes, we did. >> I didn't know that that
052swap happened, but I saw his name when I was at the middle school. I thought I'm confused. So, um maybe we'll hear more about that. >> And Tyler's amazing as well. We're actually he is doing some instrumental music with our fourth and fifth graders. So, he is still visiting >> PJ, >> but he's doing middle school kind of full-time other than the instrumental um helping like Kelly did last year. So, he's going around to all the elementary schools and doing uh instruments. >> Yes. >> Wow. Okay. I know. I know. I don't know what we're going to do when, you know, we're we're encourag I mean, it's great because we're encouraging all these elementary kids to do uh instruments and then at some point then um the classes at middle school are going to be
053full and the middle school teacher is not going to be able to run around to elementary school. So, I'm not sure how we're going to fix that, but um I'm excited that more kids it's a good problem yet to have. So, >> we just had our our assembly with him and the kids are all excited to bet and everything. So, >> okay. And they had him last year, right? because he helped out au last year, right? As well. Okay, cool. All right. Thank you so much. All right. All right. Thank you, Rosie. Good job. All right. Next, we have Miss Martinez, principal my >> Thank you, Miss Martinez. And I think you have a special guest. You're going to need to >> That's >> You're going to need to uh introduce your special guest tonight
054up at the front of the list. Okay. >> Um good evening, Dr. Reer, board of trustees, and committee members. Sly is online. Cindy Martinez, principal of Sto Middle School, and tonight we'll review our school's goals, identified actions for the upcoming 2526 school year. Um, South Tahoe Middle School single plan for student achievement aligns with our district's mission and vision to discover and foster the unique talents of our students. Cultivate a collaborative, diverse, and nurtured environment that develops confident lifelong learners. Sorry. Am I I'm clicking but it's not >> okay. I think we're uh No, back up a little bit. There we go. Um at South Middle School this year, we proudly serve 720 students representing diverse ethnic, linguistic, and soio economic backgrounds. Um we have about a 47% of our students are Hispanic, 46.4% white.
055Um and I'm going to point out the low soioeconomic percentage um with a 54.6% and this is all based on the seeds from last year. I do expect a higher number as we really have been working in um completion of those uh food services forms through the fund our future and we're about over 91% right now with uh completion. So we do expect those numbers uh to go up for our school. Our instructional programs at South Middle School included the our English mainstream program as well as our two uh courses that we offer for our students enrolled in the Spanish English uh two-way bilingual program. Our site goals um are directly connected to our district's LCAP plan and focus on four areas key areas. One of those areas is of course our student learning focus.
056Second goal focuses around climate and culture. Third goal professional development. Um and then our last one is aligned with our single focus. And then to here for uh goal number one uh to inspire lifelong learning. Um our team continues to strengthen our tiered instructional model with innovative approaches. Our students are enrolled in core classes and they have a weekly advisory block. Um and in addition we have the daily 30 minute response to intervention or RTI/flex block providing academic support and enrichment. Our RTI scheduler is the platform that we utilize which allows uh our students flexible um access to intervention on a daily basis, extension, assignment support and additional extra time for them to complete an assessment or retake which fosters again innovative ways to personalize uh students learning. Uh this year actually backing up this
057year our curriculum leader uh committee is leading um structured collaboration days focused on instructional alignment across grades and departments. We have also this year something new. We have restructured um again with the support and input from the team our meeting schedule to be able to provide more frequent uh grade level as well as subject teams um supporting alignment and scope and sequence instructional practices and that and the assessments. And then to support our English language learners, uh we're excited to to inform that we have hired two instructional assistants who have are working with our multilingual learners and we've added a newcomer EL support class during the RTI flex time. And we also like um elementary team we are continuing this year with our work with our with the California Ed partners through the math collaborative
058and we also have the joint monthly collaborations with our high school team uh focusing on math practices in a vertical way. And then in addition for after school and actually in uh during the day support, we also continue to work with our TRIO program which they are serving the highest number at the middle school that they have. Um currently with a total of 185 students enrolled in the TRIO program. Um, and in addition, we're super excited to inform and share that we um will be able to expand enrichment opportunities uh through a $25,000 grant that we just received from the cannabis revenue uh the cannabis revenue grant which will again support our uh the funding of new afterchool opportunities and enrichment such as the math lease that was brought up earlier and okay around goal
059two we know that everyone matters is at South Tahoe Middle School and we are committed to supporting the whole child um enriching our you know the whole child. Our second goal is to build an inclusive and connected school community with a major focus on social emotional learning. Our school counselors, our wellness staff and our team provide students with targeted supports while um in addition our staff is engaging in wellness practices. This year we're um diving into the wellness um educator plan book and journal. um which kind of follows the the flow that we started last year with the 180 days of self-care for busy educators. And then in addition, the wellness center supporting uh by organizing workshops for staff. So we had our first one last um they they led the first one last week
060with the focus on stress management for staff. We continue again to uh strengthen our PBIS practices with a dedicated committee and this year uh will be led by Mr. McCary who's joining me here tonight um as a new dean of South Tahoe Middle School. Our PBIS work will continue to focus on bringing positivity, student incentives, and celebrating um achievements. And then we continue with partnerships with families and community agencies to uh definitely remain central to to the work we do. This year we are collaborate collaborating with our parent of course with our parent teacher association with our schoolside council our ELAC as well as a number of local community um agencies and then our PEK program uh sessions this year began um have been coordinated and will begin on October 15th which is earlier than
061previous years um and this year's focus will be um on social emotional learning strategies for families and and for them to deal with those uh topics at home. And then we will also continue which we brought back we started last year the Latino literacy project for secondary schools which is um which focuses on literacy bringing literacy into the home. And then our third goal um is to maintain a culture of continuous again improvement for staff and our team um la at the end of last year identified the elements of focus for this year. Uh and we're continuing to utilize the new art and science of teaching as a as a tool and this year we're concentrating on assessment highlighting critical information and reflection. And then we will also be revisiting engagement practices in partnership with
062our partners at the county with through ETCO. And in addition, we'll be engaging in vertical alignment with our TWWBI team. Uh and this year we began already the work collaborating with our BU and high school colleagues. Our single focus continues to be um and focusing on maximizing student engagement. well, student, staff, and family engagement to strengthen our our school community. This year, we're expanding restorative practices, and we're also continuing to offer um training on tools, not rules, which is an approach that promotes positive responses for behavior and supports um student connection and achievement. And then as well this year in collaboration with our PTA and our PTA president and team, we're working um to increase parental involvement and we're looking for new opportunities for parents to be involved and and provide volunteer opportunities at STMS.
063And then did I go a little too far? I think I'm missing a slide here. possib well I don't see the slide but we I do want to welcome we have we have welcomed 13 uh staff members to the Timberwolf family which is really amazing um and then they're joining us in across areas of our of our campus in teaching instructional support food services and supervision campus supervision and then finally I do um I would like to um add that we do have some community event uh building activities coming up um which include our PBS rodeo that happened the first week of school. We had our first tap assembly this morning. Our color was yesterday and our first fall dance is scheduled for October 30th. And then in collaboration again with our PTA and our
064sunshine team which are two teachers leading um Miss um Heather Wellman and Miss Sarah Barto, we are collaborating uh to bring um our first cornhole tournament for staff which is scheduled for October 10th. And again the idea is to just bring you know some social fun time together. um and our PTA supporting us in coordinating that as well as we're organizing an outing with our team to support the Tahoe Night Monsters sometime this year. >> So, as I began um my 17th year here in LTUSD, I'm honored to continue working with um alongside the incredible staff that we have, our students, our staff and community as a whole to make a meaningful difference in everyone's lives. And that is it for now. >> Thank you. any questions? >> I I do. Um I spoke with
065one of the teachers today and I had spoken with this person earlier in the year and was kind of feeling nervous about this year. >> Sure. >> Because of problems that she had faced last year. And I asked her today, "How's it going?" She said, "I don't know whether the kids are over COVID or what, but they're nice this year." So, that goes into your culture and climate that you're talking about. And I noticed today at the assembly all the um live like Giata sweatshirts and t-shirts and but here's my question. >> What is 67 and 41? >> Oh, the question of 67. That's how you >> 67 or 41. I have it. >> I'm trying to find out the real like meaning of it, but I think it just got lots of traction. It's
066just the same from what my understanding is a basketball player. They asked him, "How tall are you?" And he responded, "67." And it became just the thing. So today, the leadership students from Miss Fischer's class selected the spirit days for this week and they wanted to have a 67. So kids were either wearing t-shirts that said 67 or they painted their faces. It's just a 41. It's a vibe that's happening around the middle school. So, >> I would just go with it. >> And then I was wearing my pink pants. They're like, "Is that part of the 67?" I'm like, "Yeah, I >> absolutely." >> I'm like, "If you think it is, yes." >> So, >> I also have a Okay. >> Explanation there. So, you know, it's it's picked up. I was asking kids
067because I was in the hallways yesterday and and some kids were like 42 42 and other 67 and then um I when I was at the mathletes, you know, it was numbers. So, I had to ask the mathletes and they couldn't really explain it to me either. But Karen sent me I just want to say she sent me a follow-up email that says in slaying and meme 67 originated in a 2024 song called Doot Doot by artist Skrilla where it was used as an example of being bipped right on the highway. It later became a viral trend on Tik Tok where users adopted the phrase with a singong tone and hand gesture to describe something ordinary or so so like a basketball player being underestimated for their true skill. That is >> six. If I
068ask a student I've asked students >> but the I like your response about the the height of the basketball player 67 >> because if you do it like this really cool >> yeah some Exactly. So, so exactly >> I got into classrooms and states. So, it's six or seven like not and >> Exactly. You're so cool. Exactly. So, we're learning the um the the middle school culture. >> I'll make sure to bring updates on the new saying. >> Thank Yeah, we need we need some education. We need some education. >> Yeah, >> I'm so glad I asked. Um, and then I know you were faced with the challenge of not being able to do uh back to school night this year because of the power being out. And so I'm I'm happy to see how
069many things you've got going on to try to, you know, increase family engagement and parents and I'm glad PK is starting early, but I don't um any other ideas in terms of I know I saw some in your newsletter like getting parents involved or or like u people that are coming. Some of the Boys and Girls Club staff are showing up at lunchtime. I mean just trying to get more adults. Yeah. On campus. >> So it's been a it's a mentorship program. So Boys and Girls Club has the title of Christian Ree is soccer specialist and it's also mentorship. And so we connected um just actually two weeks ago >> uh with Christian who was open to coming to our school and kind of do organized games um at lunchtimes which has been pretty incredible.
070And so then when we met formally, he brought his partner Luke. And so they started right away the following week. And so they've been coming Mondays at lunch. And so on the soccer field, we have the Christian Christian Reese's um soccer team and they bring the you know the best. And so it's it's really organized. Um and then Luke is running like a football to the side. Um >> Oh, cool. They did say they possibly might be able to join us Tuesday. So, I'm really going to follow up on that because it's really really helpful. Um, we've also done um a sign up for volunteers for parents to volunteer. currently have three that are coming at lunchtime and right now we're zooming into lunch but >> um the idea with the PTA president Karine uh
071Duca um we're going to meet and identify u maybe to start possibly like three committees where um we can really guide the parents in different ways to get involved and not just supervision. Maybe we can learn from principal DPI with her 16 parent volunteer committees from her. I know I know you mentored her. I know you mentored her in the past, but you could she could mentor you. You could >> I know you I know you >> you did. >> I know you mentored her, but >> I feel like my approach has to be different. So yes, I will take care of >> any advice. But >> any advice? Yeah. Well, and I wonder I mean, and I I don't know how to make this happen, but I know there's community members who want to
072volunteer. So, I don't know, somehow doing outreach, too, where it's not just parents, right, but other adults who are looking for ways to engage with students, you know. >> One of the exciting things, too, and I think that's coming from parents. This was this is the the the year where we've had the most parent um attendance in a PTA board, you know, board meetings. That's been really exciting. As well as our election for site council was intense this year. We had an actual, you know, we had seven competition >> to eight is seven or eight parents. I can't recall the exact number who um we needed three parents to join the site council and so we had to have, you know, a formal election which is amazing because at times we're tapping into people's shoulders.
073You want to join or this year. >> Those are those are all good signs. Yeah. Great. Thank you. That's awesome. >> Thank you. I was on campus the other day and I one thing the parents could do if they want to volunteer is there was a a spirit color race or something going on >> the color run. Yeah. >> Yeah. The color run. >> Yeah. >> They could spray the kids hair with the with the red chalk. >> There were a lot of parents that showed up. Yeah. The parents were there. >> The color brings probably it's a bit the event that brings the most parents. So we did have quite a few per about 20 parents period. So, >> yeah, there was a lot of parents. Yeah, that was good. >> Last year, I
074was thinking about joining the count the board and I thought, "Oh, if I can attend that, I'm going to join for sure. That looked like so much fun." And I I was working unfortunately. I was so bummed to miss it. So, but yeah, >> maybe next year. >> Oh, next year. Absolutely. So, real quick, um, right now we have about 720. >> Yes. >> Is that about average? Higher, lower, or >> it? We started a little bit lower than last year where we had started last year around 740. What's interesting is that our sixth grade cohort is larger than previous years. >> So, um, actually I had a teacher yesterday from sixth grade ask, "Do you know what the numbers are in fifth grade coming up?" If it's a similar bubble or if it's just
075a bubble of >> So, I need to look into that. >> But it is um it's a whole cohort. Um, I mean, I'm sorry, another class that was added um for sixth grade. >> Oh, you added a whole new class. Yeah. Teacher. >> That's good. You lost a teacher by promoting him, Mr. Cook. >> Thank you. Great job. >> Thank you. >> Right. Thank you. Welcome. >> Okay. Um, our next item is personnel services, salary adjustments, and insurance contributions for employee groups. This is an action item. Miss Buttery, thank you. Nice meeting you. Thanks for coming. >> Come back anytime. >> Angela, would you pull up that? >> Yes. >> No. Colle's got >> scare everybody away. >> It's fine. >> Uh good evening, President Keer and members of the board. Lake Tahoe Unified School
076District has finalized agreements with both STEA and CSEA. On the screen, I realize it's small, but it's also in the packet. Uh you can see the breakdown of the increase to the insurance cap for both groups as well as the unrepresented. We also settled with CSEA on a 2% increase this year and 2.5% next year, mirroring what we settled with STEA for. uh staff's recommendation to approve the salary and insurance contribution adjustments for all employee groups as presented. The bottom chart just shows the breakdown of um where the increases lie for 25 26 26 27 um for 2425 all the other unrepresented already received that 2% and 2 and a.5%. Um so their certificated classified management are received that last year. So confidential was the only one that didn't receive that. So they received it.
077They're receiving it this year. >> Okay. Any questions? Board members. >> No, but I'm very glad we have this that we've reached this and um >> I'm glad we've come to an agreement. >> Absolutely. That's what I was trying to say. >> It's still painful, but it's not cutting off limbs painful. >> Yeah. >> So we just keep that attendance up, right? So he could I'll talk about that, too. >> Okay. Yeah, we're going to be doing attendance next. Okay, >> so um any more questions or do I have a motion to approve the um salary adjustments and insurance contributions for the >> I move to approve the salary adjustments and insurance contributions for employee groups. >> Do I have a second? >> A second. >> Okay, I have a motion from Trusty Mansfield and
078a second from Trusty Anderson. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Those opposed? Okay, motion carries. And next we have Miss Buttery on business services and operations. Our first item 7A, Proposition 28, Arts and Music final report. Uh Prop 28 legislation allocates 1% of the kindergarten through grade 12 portion of Prop 98 funding guaranteed to the AMS education program. We required to ensure that at least 80% of the AMS funds expended are used to employ certificated or classified employees to provide arts education program instruction. the remaining funds to be used for training, supplies, materials, and art educational partnerships with no more than 1% of the funds received to be used for administrative expenses. This report is a final report of expenses for AMS funds for the 2425 school year. We recognize that this
079spreadsheet could be confusing as it has us compare the two prior years of spending for arts and music instruction to the audit year, which is 2425. So, please allow me to explain it. In the simplest terms, we were allocated 525,000 for AMS. We expended the full amount. That's it. >> No, it looks it is just one of those things that even trying that's their form of like how are we analyzing all of this? >> And then there's a small amount that we spent for non-instructional but but well below the cap. That's >> Oh yeah. And we do we um do try to do what the 1% administrative because part of that is the administrative fees in general are how >> we pay for business office doing a lot of this reporting which these reports are
080not >> simple. They're hours sometimes days. So or if it's the ed services side doing the reporting. We have I think three reports due next week and we did two of them and then Jenny Goldstein's doing the other one. Does this report is this one we have to I see it's just an information discussion item. So we're not approving this approve it at the next meeting at the next meeting. It'll be an action item. So it's not being submitted just yet. Okay. Any other questions on this item? >> So Prop 28 when did that pass? >> Is that is that is that >> two years ago? Three years ago or 22. >> 22. Yeah. That's what I was thinking. Yeah. >> Okay. And how long is it do we get this money for? >> Hopefully
081forever. Hopefully forever. >> Oh, that is wonderful. Well, I knew nothing about this until the packet. So, it's like good. Okay, >> good one. It's difficult in a lot of for a lot of districts to spend because the goal is to expand arts and music >> when you have a pretty robust arts and music program, which we do for the size of this district. >> Um, >> it's difficult to continually expand. So, how the law was written makes the >> um it can be challenging. But with as we're in declining enrollment, if we had potentially to do riffs, this is allowing us to keep our program, >> right? >> To maintain what we have >> and we're adding the instru I mean we did have some room to grow just because we had cut made
082cuts like to the instrumental program like at the elementary. So that being able to bring that back has been helpful. >> Sounds like we might have more students though, right, from the record >> middle school. We might need more music teachers. I know that's great. I don't know where we're going to get the money for that >> for for a, you know, >> for an basically having a full-time middle school teacher and then somebody else doing instrumental. >> We'll have to figure out where we can find the money for that. >> That's on your That's on your >> That's on the radar. That magic wand. >> That's on your list. All right. Thank you. Um, then I'm going to move on to item 7B, which is the enrollment and average daily attendance update. That's where
083we're going to find more. >> That's where you're going to find more. Tonight, I'll provide you with an overview and update of our current fall enrollment and some additional information about attendance. As you know, I like to use the same slides just as a refresher always. Um, there's very specific vocabulary around attendance. It can cause some confusion for those who are new to it. Is helpful to know these terms and I'll give you a minute to just read through the terms and definitions. Oh my goodness, I >> jumped ahead there. Sorry about that. >> This slide showcases the current enrollment and ADA as of September 19th, which is last Friday, including the percentage of ADA. So the enrollment is the average daily enrollment. So it takes the enrollment day by day for that for month
084one, which is really just what we're looking at right now. And then it takes that average daily enrollment and then the average daily attendance as well. So it shows you their percentage. So this is where uh principal DPR because they did receive the same information. Um got that she was at 97%. So Meyers is right there right there. >> Sierra House is just under 95. Tahoe Valley is at just about 93. The middle school's at 93.5, which is great for the middle school. Um, high school's at 94. That's actually an improvement, too, from last year. Um, and elevated at 91 is an improvement from last year as well. So, we're starting off strong. Month one always seems to be pretty strong. It's just a we need to maintain it a little bit better. Um, so
085we have our three-year comparison of both um enrollment, ADA, and that percentage. And if you just look at the LTUSD total between last year and this year, that the green column in the middle and then the far right, you can see that we are actually down about 178 students, which we had leveled out. Um it actually has been really difficult to predict our enrollment in ADA to do the projections because we actually went up in 23 24 and we then we stayed pretty level. You know 30 students really isn't that that many to lose but being down uh almost 180 is that's significant. And in order for us to um combat the loss of funding with the loss of students, we need to increase our ADA. So we need students to be in better attendance
086because that will help our funding because every day that if we get increase ADA by 15 students, meaning 15 more students are in attendance, it's thousands of dollars. It's tens of thousands of dollars. So the more we can increase it and just talk about it. Listening to principal de Pierre was was very interesting. It was enlightening for me and it gave me some ideas of how Dr. Reer and I can support uh the sites even better with the the great achievements that they're already making every month with the fund our future campaign. They their competition that they had between them was incredible. So I think we have almost every school over 90% completion >> on the forms though >> on the forms. So the districtwide we're at 91%. >> Unfortunately the 180 students that we've
087lost >> we believe that they're mostly low income. So we are at as of Monday >> 54.9%. >> Oh my god. >> It'll round up. It'll round up and that's really only >> and we need 55%. >> If we get a couple more we'll get there. And that's really what it is. And we we have ways to really look at the data and that's what we're going to do heavily next week of not just um who has not completed the form, but I can see who uh was free and reduced last year and who if they don't have it this year and then we can target those families. >> We can go talk to them. >> We can ask them specifically if we need to. So we'll do some more targeting on that. But really
088listening to Principal Day, it was really it was enlightening and I think Dr. Dr. Reer and I are both very focused on increasing attendance and how can we help the school support the schools better. One big thing that we did was this is part of an enormous spreadsheet. Um I think it's about 15 sheets wide and they all feed into each other and talk to each other. Um the principles now have access to it too. So I track attendance and enrollment monthly. >> So it's 20 days of ed of school. So there's actually 11 months according to the state. >> Yeah. >> Excuse me. Um, so month one went from the first day of school until September 19th. So we are now in month two. And we can see longitudinally where we have gaps and
089issues. So really trying to target those months as well. And then really targeting the um >> chronic absentee students. Karen Goldberg also is kind of taking the initiative to really help target some of her EL students in particular, the ones who are chronic absentee. So I think we have a really good plan of how we are going tore increase attendance because as we know if kids aren't in school they can't learn. >> So uh and they're not going to make academic achievement. So the first goal is to get them in the room get them in the seats. So uh it's really powerful. >> Thank you for the focus. And um I had a question on this chart. Yeah. Why at the bottom on the totals did you not do the percentage like 3,200 ADA, you
090know, of the total enrollment? It's like 94.5% or whatever. Why? >> It ends up being kind of wonky because how it's actually calculated throughout the whole year. I could show you the chart. It ends up being odd because it ends up being cumulative. So, I can pull the cumulative, but it doesn't the numbers a lot of times they don't look like they're correct because it when I even did the cumulative um the month- by-month comparison for the principles, the end of year looks higher than every single month because the average it's an average enrollment average attendance. So, it looks a little off. >> I mean, the fact that Yeah, we don't have like 62.9 students. We have 63. Yeah. I mean it's because it's an average >> it's an average enrollment average daily attendance but
091>> and if you um >> because I'll present this again like in January halfway through the year if you would like me to present like longitudinally that percentage where we are because in January I will give you um August through January. I'll give you the cumulative so I can do the percentage at that point if you want me to include that and then include the annual ADA for the prior years if you'd like >> and and not just by school but by school and a total district. >> Okay. >> Absolutely. >> Excellent. Thank you. >> I love data. So >> that's cool. So awesome. Awesome. All right. Sounds good. Any other questions or comments? But thank you for the focus and Dr. Reer and Miss Better and all the sites. I know. I I do
092think that that message, you know, I know last year the elementary principles were real consistent about putting attendance right up front in their weekly newsletter. Middle school, high school, not so much, but I've been seeing more of it this year. So, and we're seeing the results, too. So, all right. Okay. Next is board governance. This is an action item. This is the uh 2025 June and August policy update. Second reading. Second and final. >> Second reading. President Camper and trustees. Yeah, we have our second reading for June and August policy updates. Do you have any questions? >> There was a lot in there. A lot of >> quite a bit. Yeah. >> About sexual harassment complaint filing, but a lot of it's just procedural. It seemed like a lot of it safety plans. I'm always
093worried about, but uh I know we'll hear from Miss Ramirez and Dave Zebo on that later this year, too. All right. Um if there's no questions, do I have a motion? I'll make a motion to approve the um policy updates >> for the >> for 2025 June and August. Thank you. >> Uhhuh. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> All right. I have a motion by Trusty Kamacho and a second by Trustee Mansfield. Um all in favor say I. >> I. >> No oppos. Those opposed? None. Okay. Policy updates are approved. >> Thank you. >> Next we have the consent agenda and item number nine. Do I have a motion for the items to be adopted on the consent agenda? >> I make a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> Second. >>
094All right. I have a motion by trustee Kamacho and a second by Trustee Anderson. All those in favor of approval of the consent agenda. Say I. >> I. And those opposed? None. Motion carries. Item 10, items for consideration at future board meetings. Do I have any items that want to be considered for future board meetings? See none and then I will item 11 adjourn at 7:18. >> Yeah.