001Good evening. Open session. Please ready to begin. This will have All right. Um, good evening everyone and I'm here to present the ASES award which stands for the achieving a cultural exceptional service. Um, our first uh, person to recognize is Joanna Nahar. Are you here tonight if you join us? All right. Um, teachers a hair of ours from Jack North wrote this about um Joanna. Sorry. Joanna has been the MTSS parent in my classroom and during a challenging time when I was out for four weeks, she played an integral role in maintaining order and focus among the students. I was confident in her abilities to assist the substitute teachers with rules, routines, and materials, and she did not disappoint. Her dedication and commitment to creating a conducive learning environment truly set her apart. One of
002the substitute teachers even remarked, "Miss Joanna was amazing and made so made things so smooth for me to be able to adjust quickly. This feedback underscores how essential Joanna was during my absence." Joanna is deserving of this recognition for her hard work and dedication. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Um, it is my additional pleasure to recognize Chris Nations, the teacher from Bolton Osbury and Marcel Palasio's principal. Unfortunately, he can't be here tonight. Hi So, Robert T. Douglas Jr., father and a tripleAC parent, wrote, "I would like to honor Miss Nations and Mr. Palasios on behalf of the African-American Advisory Council at Bolton and Alsbury in recognition of their contribution to the advancement of our committee. They have been at all the meetings, hosted scheduled activities the whole year, and created and implemented a platform
003for more parent engagement like the AAAC. So, thank you so much for your contributions. All right. And lastly, this one, this one's huge. All right. Um, I would like to recognize Lette Certan, the school nurse. And so, um, six people have written. So, I'm going to read a lot of what they wrote. All right. So, uh, Landra Perez, mother of Alisa Aldaba, wrote, "My daughter lives with type 1 diabetes and asthma. This will be my daughter's second year being cared for by nurse Lynette while she attends Discovery Elementary School. As this year comes to an end, I want to take a moment to express my deepest appreciation for the most exceptional care and kindness nurse Lynette has shown to my daughter. As Elisa's Eliza's conditions come with stressful moments, Nurse Lynette always handled each situation
004with professionalism and compassion. Her attentiveness and kindness has made a meaningful impact on Eliza's daily life, allowing her to continue to strive in her education and have a safe place while being away from home. Knowing that my child has been in such capable and caring hands has brought me peace of mind as a parent. We feel so fortunate and grateful that Eliza has nurse Lynette in her school experience. We would love to see her get the recognition she truly deserves for the of the world. All right. Another parent, Anna Rodriguez, wrote in, "I have known Miss Lynette for four years, and there's never been a moment when I haven't felt her support for my daughter and our family. Having a child with a medical condition is always difficult, but Miss Lynette has consistently shown care
005and concern for my daughter. About 3 weeks ago, she intervened to ensure that a specialist could see my daughter for a medical issue that was causing her to miss a lot of schools. Miss Lynette used all her best resource resources and managed to get the specialist to attend to her within two weeks when the original appointment was in August. She not only embodies everything the Award represents, but she is also truly deserving of recognition for the incredible work she does at this school and her dedication to the students. So, thank you. Thank you. Okay, so the next four shorten it out a little bit are from employees at Discovery Elementary School. Lucia Oi Nino, Jessica Ortiz, Narita Rosales, and Danielle Rodney. And this is what they said. She is like a mother to the children
006when they go to the health office. That's what you want, right? She is a great mentor and doesn't delegate. She makes your work more efficient. Working and learning from her is an immense pleasure. Miss Lynette is the true meaning of a team player, always willing to lend a helping hand, share knowledge, and support others. She is dedicated, hardworking, and made exceptional achievements as our school nurse. She extends her hand to the poor and needy, demonstrating her compassion and care of others. So, Annette, thank you so much for what you're doing. Um, six is the record. And so, see if someone else can deal with that. Great shop in the text. I've run into that wonderful nurse several times at Walmart. Um, can we have the enrollment? Yes, ma'am. As of yesterday, our total UTK through
0078th grade enrollment was 13,920 students. Early learning was 485 students for a total of 14,45. This is a loss of 30 from the last border report and a loss of 221 from the same period last year. Of that population, 1,157 identify as homeless, 341 as foster, and 78 students have one or both parents as part of the armed forces. Thank you. Presentations requests early learning self evaluation project fountain director. Good evening. I'm happy to be here on the last Tuesday of the school year to present the program self-evaluation for the state preschool program for Lancaster School District. We'll start uh with just talking a little bit reminding everyone that the process of what we do here in the early learning program is to be a bridge. The UPK program bridges the early learning and care
008system with the TK12 system at the school district. um as children enter into the school district. Our district, we decided as a district to blend and grade funding, which allows us to leverage um some of the funding that we are receiving from different sources to lower the ratio inside of the classroom slide to change. So just as a reminder in the UTK classrooms in Lancaster School District, we are using different three different funding sources to lower that ratio. Two of the staff members are paid from ADA um and TK aortionment funding that comes from the LEA. One of the t the para educators is paid out of the state school funding and the fourth para educator that comes in to provide continuity of care as children transition into the ELL program are funded jointly with
009the CSP dollars and the ELO dollars. This allows us to provide a high quality program in a 1:8 ratio for the entire length. Part of our program requirements is that we conduct a self audit each year which consists of five different parts. So we'll go over just a couple of the parts because um these are the things that we picked out that are sort of the most um exciting for us. So let's start with the family piles in our program. Each year we are processing eligibility requirement in need for up to,250 children. 977 them of them are now enrolled in our state preschool program in a contract that has only 862 spots. So we are growing quite uh large as a process of um enrolling in both programs and providing a high quality the uh
010program. The word is definitely getting out. Um we maintain accurate files on each family and each child. We capture documents for each child and we uh come into the SIS system and that helps us to make sure that we have the right eligibility and need salary calculations everything that every child needs to make sure they qualify for our program. And then we also monitor through that same system the attendance and report attendance then back to the state which then allows them to reimburse us for earning uh for each of those children and all of that work that we do in the family file does help support us to provide that blended UTK program as well. So on the next slide we I'll talk about the enrollment as it has sort of traditionally um historically there's
011a real long delay in the slide changes sorry about that. So if we look at these three different lines the bottom line is our full day program in 2020 or 2223 we were um given a full day preschool program. So we started full day we have 120 spots and we've seen growth in the program. Uh we got that program just after COVID. So we have um providing we're providing four classes of children in that program full day that are three to five and this year we opened our two-year-old program. The top line is the partday preschool program. So pro uh after the pandemic we did see a dip in the partate preschool program enrollment. Um but it is uh gaining trajectory uh after the pandemic as more people are bringing their children back to school.
012The blue line in the middle is the TK enrollment. So, we've had TK in the district for a very long time, but only in 2223 did we start blending the children. And it wasn't until this current school year that all children were required to also be state preschool eligible. So, you see the TK numbers are off the chart, which um Mr. J mentioned earlier that he has noticed TK numbers are growing. So, this allows us to then provide um a high quality program for 977 kids across the district. One of the areas of the uh program self audit is the strengthening families. In our um program we have provided this year with a concerted effort on um family events. We have uh weekly Wednesday training for families that consist of uh nutrition, parenting, behavior strategies,
013literacy, math, those things happen every Wednesday virtually online at 9:00. Any family can uh tune in to that same link every Wednesday. We also have provided movie nights for families and uh one of the big events we invited uh provided this year was uh the kindergarten enrollment event and that event brought out over 1350 families and we um incorporated families that are in preschools in the neighboring district or in the neighboring uh not district the neighborhood. Um so we had families that came from CCRC from private preschool um all interested enrolling in our UTK program and our kindergarten program next year. One of the other things we did to strengthen families was removed barriers by providing vaccines to families through our federal vaccine clinic. We have also um contracted with a doctor in the community
014now to provide glasses for our children that don't qualify um for glasses under other programs. Uh one of the things we're super proud about is we opened the top spot this year which is our 2-year-old class. Dr. Maretti was there on the very first day and met our two very first two-year-olds that enrolled. Those kiddos are super excited about being there and they will be with us now for their two-year-old, their three-year-old year, and then when they enroll in TE by the time they get to kindergarten, they'll have been with us three whole years. One of the other areas uh that we uh look at in the program self-evaluation is the program quality and that uh the two pieces I want to talk to you about tonight are the classroom assessment scoring system. This is
015an assessment that's required by state preschool. We taught staff all year long about the components of the class assessment and they were assessed in the spring. That assessment is observational. We have an outside uh uh consultant come in and do the observation and it's in three different domain areas. One is emotional support. One is in classroom organization and instructional support. At the bottom, which you can't see if you're in the audience, but you can see up there the scores that came in. So the average for the program for emotional support was a 6.66 out of seven. Um the average for the classroom organization is a 5.81 out of seven. And then instructional support the national average is 3.75. It is the hardest area for staff. That's the area where you purposefully create planning and integration
016activities, analysis and reasoning, ask open-ended questions, connect to children's lives. We have a 2 uh 53 in that area at a seven. So, we're not at the national average, but our goal next year is to far exceed the national average and be intentional about the we're providing for children and the ways that we're asking children to plan out for themselves and integrate their thinking and their their real life connections in the classroom. The next area is the DRDP results, which I do present the DRDP results every year, but this year I want to show you um a little bit more what it looks like with the TK lens. So the first slide is um shows that what we are looking for is to get kids in the spring rate period to be in the building
017middle or later band. So what I've circled there in the orange is for all children across the program from 3 to 5 years old, children are in or very near that beginning uh building middle or later band. These kiddos are working on things like approaches to self-regulation, social emotional um development, language and literacy, math, physical development, health, and English language development. When we look at just the TK kiddos, when we separated them out into segregated them, they're much further along that band. So, they're moving almost to the end of the DRDP, which is showing their readiness for kindergarten. And then one of the things I really want to spend time highlighting is in the DRDP and the learning genie program that we use, they have a a report called the cohort school readiness report, which
018shows whether or not TK kids are ready for kindergarten entry. This is looking at those same dimensions that the DRDP measures, but it shows in the yellow. It'll show if a child is below or if a child is in the blue, that is at or above, which means they are ready for kindergarten. So in approaches to learning self-regulation, this is where kids are looking at their ability to have self-control, engage and persist in activities and use shared materials. 82% of our Tiko kiddos are ready for kindergarten and are at or above in that ability. Um in the area of social emotional regulation, um we are working on relationships with adults, familiar adults and children and social emotional understanding. So supporting children to identify if they're having a feeling, what is the feeling and naming the
019feeling and then using you know messages for their classmates about who took my toy and I don't like that. Um in this area 90% of the TKOs are ready uh according to DRP for kindergarten. On the next uh slide you'll see language and literacy development. This is receptive language, reciprocal communication, interest in literacy, concepts about print, phmic awareness, and letter and word knowledge. And you'll see that overall 87% of the TK kiddos are ready for kindergarten entry. Um, which um that's awesome because we've been doing systematic instruction integrity for the last two years in phmic awareness. We are really seeing gains in the children's readiness for kindergarten. And then the last slide shows um cognition, physical development, health, and English language development. And children are above the 80 uh% mark for all of those areas.
020One I'd like to highlight is research tells us that children at this age need five um five to eight hours of out of unstructured active play. Because we have them in the TK program, they are getting an hour and a half of outdoor play each day. and that is providing them with opportunities to develop their gross motor skills in ways they wouldn't have been doing in the old kindergarten TK program. So be being able to be outdoor with kids each day to have that unstructured play um in developmentally appropriate environment is providing them massive gains in that physical development domain 94% of them already. So in total, our program self-evaluation shows that we're doing a pretty great job at explicitly teaching social emotional skills to children in a play-based environment that's appropriate for their age
021and cognition. And it also is supporting our ability to teach the early learning literacy skills, the cognition and math skills that are what is the state is measuring whether or not our kiddos are ready for kindergarten or not. We work really hard each day to work with every kid and train our staff to be ready to be intentional with kids each day and we're pretty proud of our program. So that is what I would just like to share with you about uh our self-evaluation. Any questions? Yes, I understand this one. Okay. out of 7% of what we're currently at. You know, roughly so below you said about trying to get that improved to just sort of overcome the gear. Give me a little bit more understand about why we are so low in that's a
022hard that's a hard domain for any teacher because um in the TK classroom lots of stuff's going on. there's disregulation like eight conflicts a minute on average in a TK class. So when while staff is intentionally planning activities oftentimes they get distracted with handling other stuff or the phone rings or they get distracted from whatever um happening in the class. So, we worked this year really intentionally on building strategies that they could use and embed into their instructional day that will support them to use those um intentional planning, cognitive development strategies. For instance, I gave them the example when when you're reading a book to kiddos, put a post-it in the book that lets you know that right now on this page, you're going to stop and ask an open-ended question. It's about intentionally putting
023strategies in place to remind them, "Oh, yes, I was going to do this." Because if you've ever worked with three to five year olds, they'll distract you with stories that have nothing to do with anything. And the teacher's job is to use the information they're giving on a daily basis and bring it back to the early learning standards. So, we're working with them to intentionally plan for that. So, on a page of a story, they might put a different post-it note that's a different color that says, "Here, I'm going to use whatever information they give me after I ask that open-ended question to connect to their lives." So, if you're talking to them about a book about the farm, they might say, "Um, pigs like mud." So, then the teacher would then intentionally say, "How
024do you know that pigs like mud? Have you seen pigs with mud? Where have you, you know, seen pigs? Where what experience do you have with pigs?" which actually gives the teacher opportunities to learn a little bit more about where their child is coming from. There's other opportunities when they release children from circle to go into their centers to ask children what center are you going to go to and what will you do there. That gives opportunities for children to think about what they're going to do and plan out what they'll do in that space. And it also gives the teacher the opportunity to say, I'm going to check back in with Pam in the dramatic play area because she said she's going to do whatever she's doing in that dramatic play area. I think
025it's just a matter of slowing down a little bit because emotional support they got it class organization they got it the intentional pieces around class the instructional support domain we always need a little bit more work there so that's our goal for next year each teacher looked at their scores and they wrote a personal goal and then a team goal for their room um about how they're going to help move forward on that instructional support that was pretty much question and my next question was going to be How do you plan on changing that? What do you have in place to increase? Thank you. Anything else? Other questions? Thank you very much. Next, we'll have the DAX update by Miss Cindy Co. the consensus on the board really wanted tacos. So I just I don't
026know. Sorry about that. Yeah, we just needed that follow. Sorry. Okay, we'll give you another chance though tomorrow. Tomorrow if you come to the classification ceremony, we'll give you ice. Not today. That's okay though. It's free. You're coming. But please come. Thank you. Good evening, President Stalson, board members, superintendent Marietti, cabinet members, and community members. My name is Cindy Quinn. I am the director of the department of overseas assessment, integrated technology, and multilingual learner programs. This evening, I am honored to co-present a brief update of the work that the district English learner advisory committee, DAC, has done for the 2425 school year. With me tonight, I have Carla Tovar, coordinator of multilingual learner programs. Uh, David Alvaran, DAC president, Rosa Corona, DAC vice president, and Marian Gomez, DAC secretary. So, let's talk a little bit
027about what DEAC is. Um, all California school districts who that have 51 or more English learners are required to have a DAC committee. We at the Lancaster School District currently have 1583 students and of course we are not the exception. So we need to have a DACA. DACA advises school board um on English learner programs, recclassification, needs assessments, parent notifications and LCAP. We would like to share um reclassification highlight following guidance from the California Department of Education and proof input from Los Angeles County Office of Education LEO and Skoey Sacramento office of education um and collaboration with our DA committee. Our district has aligned their reclassification criteria with those of the districts in the Los Angeles County. Students are required to meet multiple rigorous, this is very important to highlight, very rigorous academic and language
028measures as outlined in the reclassification criteria shown in this particular slide. A needs assessment. Okay. A needs assessment survey is conducted annually to gather input from families and students with an English learner status. Dick advises the district on programs and services for multilingual learners, including overseeing the survey. The results help us better understand family experiences to imp inform and improve our multilingual learner programs and strengthen school home partnerships. This highlights district-wide trends from the responses that we received. Overall, families reported strong engagement. Most are familiar with their language programs and feel informed about their child's academic progress. Attendance of parent guardian teacher conferences is high and the majority feel welcomed by their schools. This slide summarizes open-ended feedback from families. Overall, they express appreciation for strong communication in a welcoming environment. They also identified areas
029where additional support and clarity would be helpful. This input highlights both strengths and opportunities as we continue to improve family engagement across the district. We are excited to share some of the highlights from this year. We saw over a 350% increase in a participation from families. Academics workshops and the new engagement opportunities were offered through the year. We held elections for DAC officers. The commit review and commitment on their reclassification criteria. Members also evaluate commit effectiveness and provides key input on LP as our continued efforts to support multilingual families. We've worked closely with the student family services department this year to expand access to meaningful learning opportunities. This in includes hosting academic workshops focused on literacy development at home through engaging content. In addition to these academic offerings, we've straightened these collaborations with student family
030services team to increase participation in DAC and ELAC meetings. We're proud of this growing partnership and positive impact impact it's having on family engagement across the district. This year, Lancaster School District staff and parents, guardians had opportunity to collaborate at the CAP conference. California largest bilingual and multilingual education. Gatheringly, parents and guardians attend workshops focused on academic achievements, language development, and leaders. Leadership. Everyone returned inspired and eager to continue supporting a students through a strong home school partnership. The following portion will be presented in Spanish and translated into English. Square power including on family feedback. DACA makes the following recommendations. Offer more technology workshops for families focused on parent square and parent and powers school. Expand languagemies including after school and Saturday sessions and include specific topics or agendas on flyers to improve parent attendance.
031In closing, we thank all DAC members and ELAC leaders. Their commitment ensures that multilingual learners and their families remain central in district planning. Thank you for your time and we are happy to answer any questions. Okay. for behalf of the families, we want to thank Superintendent Dr. Marietti for your continued support. Please accept this small gift as a token of our appreciation. And I just would like to add the fact that we have our families, our DAC core members be part of this presentation which to my knowledge is first time here with us and I we just finished celebrating with tacos. um their their commitment and our appreciation for their involvement all year long. How many are we? Okay, that's a trick question because this year we have reclassified 301. However, because we had to
032cut off at some point at last year's ceremony, we have over 400 400 um students that are going to be participating tomorrow. So, our current number is over 90% of what uh the population is and it certainly meets the LCAP goal of 10%. We'll move on to action. This is approval of change order number one, Indiana for the Sunnydale Elementary School construction and modernization project. Motion salute. Motion by Mr. Giles second by Muser. All in favor? I vote passes 31. Approval of amendment number one to agreement of architectural services with SBA architects incorporated for Sunnydale Elementary School modernization and construction project. So move by Muser second by Mr. D. I motion passes 31. Approval of 2025 2026 fiscal stabilization plan. Motion by Mr. Giles, second by Mr. W. All in favor? I motion passes 40.
033Adoption of resolution 2024 2022541 designating certain general funds as committed funds balance. Motion motion by second by all in favor. um slide. So uh one of the strategies that we use particularly during the time period where we have right amount of one-time funds is through the use of assignments and so what through board action uh there can be assigned certain funds to certain projects and so that those monies are set aside as a restricted pot of money for specific things. So for instance, one of the things you see here is um one month's worth of salary. Should uh there be a cash deferral of the state level, we would have one month of salary on hand to be able to survive that cash. With board action, you can also unassign these dollars. And so if
034there's a point of time where we decide that we're not going to be using those dollars for a purpose, the board can reassign those back to the general fund so it's available for just the general use. And so what you see is the list of those assignments that uh uh we have intentions to use those dollars in different areas. If you see dollars carry from one year to the next year to the next year, same thing. It's not three times the money amount each year. It's just assuming if you don't spend it one year, it'll carry to the next year. It'll carry to the year out. know we might be facing some deferrals this year. So signing those dollars so that we can meet our payroll is um very smart. So this is justed or
035there. Yes. If you look a little bit up down at the bottom and see the description of the different items, uh we earmarked those dollars then to be used on those different things. And so that money is just essentially set aside by board direction, which means it's it's no longer tagged as part of the general fund. It's set aside for the projects that you want to see happen within the district. what we've been using assignments uh for the last four or five years success. So what it is is a commitment and a commitment is an expenditure that we have identified that it will happen and because we as Dr. already uh expressed because we might have deferrals. We will have a deferral in June. Uh we are preparing for that and these commitments that you're
036proving right now it's going to be showing into our budget for the 2526. Uh it's a budget strategic to keep us solid to keep us fiscally solid and it can only be unassigned uncommitted with board action. All in favor? Five. Thank you for listening. Adoption of resolution 2024 202542 education protection account requirements for 2025 2026 school year. Motion by Mr. Giles. Second by sir. All in favor? I motion passes 40. Adopt resolution 2024 2022543 resolution of the purchasing program participation agreement joint source will national purchases purchasing cooperative joint powers authority a mouthful right motion by M second by Mr. Win. All in favor? I question I ask source well the same one we're using at the ABSA. No, ABSTA is its own? Uh well, yes. Yes. Good catch there. Yeah, I caught that the other
037day at the board meeting. They are also using Sourcewell. Sourcewell is a a nationwide JPA that um essentially uh gives us access to piggyback to buy things, big ticket items without having to go out to bid and and what's wonderful about this is the third one we've joined in the last year. There's absolutely no cost and yet we get access to many of the products that we need much more rapidly because we don't have to go through the big pro the big that's what I was hoping that it was part of the same group same group y in favor motion passes 40 adoption of resolution number 2024 202544 for and ratify the district's entry into lease leaseback LLB agreement for Sunnydale Elementary ESTK and K project motion motion by Mr. Giles second by Missir. All
038in favor? Yeah. This this is um this is part of the world of lease leaseback that we're still learning so much about because this is the first time the district has ever taken a lease lease back project. It turns out uh there's a resolution that has to be adopted by the board to be able to do lease lease back. Um when we when we initially started with CFW who's all the projects they're listing are going to be lease back projects. Um we were not aware of this requirement they did not share that with us and u Sarah Beington who uh is now kind of the lead person on all these she discovered that this is a requirement that the that the board has to pass a resolution actually access the lease lease back. Um, this
039is one of a number of of resolutions you're going to see in the future because each of those projects we're going to do is a lease lease back project and there'll be a resolution associated with it with everything else that's encompassed in that project. So all the different contracts, the guaranteed maximum price, all of the different elements that that are associated with it. The resolution is the first one. So we checked with the county, we were able to do this in a rears to get us in line with where we need to be. And you'll see a couple more coming in the future months that are for the projects we're also working on. Right now, this is just for anybody else. That's correct. That's just one of the what will eventually be 19 projects that
040we'll be doing. No, the resolution costs nothing. It's just a county requirement. Uh the project itself is its own cost. But as you recall, the nice thing about lease lease back is that guaranteed maximum price. Once that price is stated, as long as we as a district do not direct any changes, that's the maximum price. Hopefully no change orders. No more. All in favor? I motion passes 4 individual action item human resources for facilities and construction planner Sarah Beington Sarah Beington motion by Mr. Sec. All right. Uh Miss Mrs. Bevington has been uh with us for or has over 16 years of experience in facilities, construction, and operational support, serving the last eight years as a facilities and construction secretary for the Lancaster School District. She recently earned her bachelor's degree in business management, graduate
041graduating sumakum laud with four with a 4.0 GPA, an achievement she is especially proud of as it reflects her commitment to personal and professional growth while balancing a full-time career and family life. She takes great pride in her work, supporting the district's mission by helping maintain and develop safe, functional, and welcoming learning environments for students and staff. Outside of work, she's a proud wife and mother of two amazing kids. She leads her daughter's Girl Scout troop and can often be found in the bleachers, cheering on her son's league team. During her downtime, she enjoys spending time with her family and friends, making memories, and enjoying simple moments together. And she's here in the audience tonight. work open for you, Sarah. Sir, all in favor I motion passes 4 Z. Welcome motion second down the road.
042for provisional internship permit 20 motion by Misters second by Mr. Lan passes explain it. move a variable term waiver for 2025 2026 school year. Motion by Mr. Williams, second by Mr. All in favor. She passes. Individual action item student and family services approval of the agreement for additive tutors with agents of change. Motion by Mr. Giles, second all in favor. Motion passes 31. Addressing the board. Individuals who wish to address the board may may complete a speaker card and present it and any excuse me and any supporting documents to the superintendent's assistant or other district official prior to the start of the meeting. Personal information such as a student, parent, guardians name, address, phone number, date of birth, email address, or other directory information as defined in education code 49061 may be excluded from the
043minutes of meeting by submitting a written request to the superintendent. The board president shall recognize individuals who wish to speak. Individuals wishing to pre to present testimony to the board concerning specific items on the agenda may do so once that item has been moved, seconded, and is on the floor for discussion. Final limits of three minutes per person and 20 20 minutes per item shall be allowed. Board bylaws 932. Board members may ask questions for clarification purposes. However, no action may be taken and no discussion may take place on an item on the posted agenda not on the posted agenda. Brown act comments from PTA CSA comments from the audience. There are no comments from the audience. Consent agenda item superintendent item 16A through 16 G motion move. Motion by Muser second by Mr. W.
044All in favor I motion passes 4 Z. Consent agenda items business item 17A through 170. Motion by Mr. Giles. Second by Misser. All in favor? Motion passes 4 Z. Consent agenda items. Educational services items 18A through 180. Motion. Motion by Musler. Second. Second by Mr. Giles. All in favor? Motion passes 40. Consent agenda items, human resource services, items 19 A through 19 C. Motion by Mr. Giles, second by Mr. W. All in favor? I motion passes 40. Consent agenda item student and family services items 28 through 200. Motion motion by Mer second by Mr. Giles. All in favor? Motion passes 4 Z. [Music] Okay. Comments from the board and superintendent, Mr. G. Thank you everybody that hung out for us. Uh really cool to hear from our ASUS winners and congratulations to them. Great presentation.
045It's good to hear our little guys are doing good. I guess that you guys had the bar, you know, to meet now with your uh your carnival thing you did. That's like, you know, that was like the toast of the town. So, good luck trying to beat that next year. And thanks to Cindy Queen and our DAC group. Looks like they all went out for ice cream or whatever, but they're gone. But thank you for their hard work and great to hear what the be transitioning uh 4001 of our students to English work English they call English proficient I guess. But anyway, great great news. I'm just glad to be here and uh show everybody the last great last day or two and redesated. That's what I'm looking for. Something like that. But reclassify. That's
046why that's a reclassification. And congratulations to all our kids that are going to promote in the next day or two. and I get to go to some of those and and congratulations to all of our staff and support staff and everybody involved for the getting through the year and hope everybody has a great summer after Thursday, right? Somehow it still works. Have a good summer that echo what said that very nice words of Sounds like they all respected by their best. Ellie, you did a great job explaining the uh UTK and early childhood education. having second graders has got to be very difficult. I I read to uh during the reading read to kindergarteners I just can't imagine in a teacher all day or even half a day those kindergarten and now you're saying two
047year olds. So, it's got to be so difficult. Green did a good job. If we can get 400 students reclassified and now they can go on to high school. That's part of what the request does. It gives them that uh ship and take just another thing. If any of you went to the book club ceremony the other day at the gym recruit, it was fantastic. Were there far more than that? That would be out with a combination of side and Lancaster. Absolutely. That was phenomenal. Uh probably about 20 schools and that was the battle of the books and Dr. Andre did a great job with with that. That's part of uh something that was brought to us by the vice principal at our Maravista Jamaica. And I'll tell you what, those students do their stuff.
048My grandson's even part of the book club and his team came in second place but you know I think El Dorado it off my but uh this is something new that our school district is I'll tell you what these students students learn, they read. I think there was at least five or six on each team, but it could be more. So, uh any families that your students love to read next uh next school year, get them involved in the book club forward from there. Friday is going to be a little event over in Park J. I think it's uh only by invitation but Rose is uh in charge of it. Welcome center and uh sounds like it's going to be very and thank you for that book club putting that on. That was that was
049fantastic. Excuse me. I'm going to reiterate a lot of what's already been said. Um I'll mention um nurse Lynette because I knew her personally and I just so nice to see her up there getting um the award. Love to hear about the early learners and it it does amazing two, three and four year olds. They don't like anything much less than junior high. So hard to imagine, you know, all day with the little ones, but I know it is making a huge huge difference as children enter um, you know, kindergarten, get to know them for three years and um, thank you for all you're doing there. Um, Cindy, thank you for presenting the information on DAP. It's wonderful to see that. Um, you know, they're organized, they're working, they're making great strides, and it sounds
050like you guys are doing wonderful work in getting kids to classified. Um, congratulations to Sarah Beington. I see she's left with her family, but um, it's good to see her moving up and we're just about out for the year. So, um, congratulations to everybody that made it through almost more weeks for people that are working in district, but I know the kids will be funed. [Music] Okay, the AC's award winners tonight. I also want to congratulate all of our staff classified and certificated for all their hard work and wish them a wonderful summer vacation. We still have a couple days to go, so just hang in there. Um and also congratulations to our eighth grade promoting class and uh we look forward to our celebrations in the next two days. And um finally, thank you
051to our DACA prince. Um you know, one of the things that uh we mentioned at our f our student family services celebration the other day was how important that connection between our families and communities are. If we're going to succeed as a school district, if we're going to succeed in educating our children, we have to have partnerships with our family and our community. So, I want to thank them. Finally, thank you to Dr. and our ECE team for the wonderful work they do in our students. Dr. I just basically had an opportunity to um attend a family engagement celebration which was absolutely amazing. Um just the the turnout and just to see all the parents there and the caregivers that just do everything they can to help support our district as well as kind of
052help support our students and just the collaboration between just the many organizations that we have here in the district that all came together to put that was an absolutely amazing event. You guys did a wonderful job and I really enjoyed the argument. Um, like Mr. Win said, not all the books. I thought I was honestly going to like a little book fair where I was going to purchase some books, not where I was going to be amazed by our students that, you know, basically had to read a certain amount of books. And you know, it's interesting because they just asked them a question from the book, just random books. and they had to know the book content of the book, the title and the author, you know, and so just on a whim off of
053whatever question character had on Purple Shoes, which book, you know, so just to know that these kids had the ability to retain that type of information and just to see them just regurgitate all that information and be able to answer those questions in 15 seconds, by the way, um was trul truly truly something to see. So I can't wait till the one comes back next year. Um we do as uh they mentioned have our reclassification which is the numbers are just astonishing over 400 job well done you know so I look forward to being able to attend that tomorrow evening at our AV fairground 5 to 7. Um so uh yeah that's really awesome. I'm looking forward to that and um great presentation on DACA. Wonderful job. I look forward to seeing everything. I like
054the fact that you guys have came up with the board, you know, so there's a lot of checks and balances there and I like the way that program is going. Um Fountain, thank you for taking the time to explain everything to me. speakers take that information and I like the plan that you're putting into place to have those numbers change as far as our instructional support is um concerned. So I'm really looking forward to seeing where we go with that. I love the whole starting school at two. Awesome. You know, because that just means it's just going to be that much more successful. So thus far, this is your second presentation I've I've seen and you're just doing a wonderful job. So please continue that up. Um Dwayne had also Mr. Dwayne had also touched
055on the other battle book. So Nancy Corey she won I think it was um so they walked away with a trophy. So we had a nice little showing in the kick some butt on those other districts. So, um I was really happy to hear about that and congratulations to all of our uh people that we just grew with their uh provisional internship commits and their variable term waiverss term waivers. Does that work? It's going to be really um good for our district as well. And with that closing, I look forward to our keeping this summer and welcome center. And it is a private, but Rose just does such a fabulous job over there. So, I can't wait. I hope in that close this evening till 5:00 p.m. Thank you guys for coming. Can I get
056a motion? Motion by Mr. W. Second by M. All in favor? Motion passes 40. Thank you and good night.