001Evening open session at 6:13 p.m. Take a close session to pursue a government section 7.1. On a vote of 50, the board of trustees approve the rejection of the claim for damages on behalf of student number [Music] 7104. Item 5D motion. Next we'll have the pledge of allegiance led by assistant principal Jessa and students to Good evening. I'm Miss Petals at Endeavor and I'm here with two students from Endeavor that are going to help us lead Am I guest? Thank you, Mr. Go ahead. I recogn all right. Um, I'm here to present two ASUS awards tonight. And ASA stands for achieving a culture of exceptional service. First off, I'd like to recognize Aris Gayton. join the side for please and I'm gonna read what a parent Yeah. Mrs. Johnson, are you in the room? There
002you are. Okay. Mrs. Johnson, she's right there had to say about uh Miss Gon. It is with great admiration and respect that I recommend Miss Gayton for the ACES Award in recognition of her unwavering support for students and her innovative student centered teaching strategies. Throughout her time with my student, Miss Gayton has consistently demonstrated a profound dedication to student success, both academically and personally. Her classroom is a welcoming and inclusive environment where every student feels seen, heard, and valued. Whether it's through personalized learning plans, behavior supports, or simply offering a listening year, Miss Gayton goes above and beyond to ensure that all students have the tools and competence they need to thrive each and every day. For these reasons and many more, I wholeheartedly recommend Miss Gayton for this well-deserved recognition. Thank you, Miss Johnson.
003And thank you, Miss Kayen is a a clubs teacher over at Discoveries. That's that's a tough job. Thank you, uh Denny Zaval Zenny works in the risk management department. Miss Gates, Miss Gates. Um so, uh Leah Burnquist and she's the instructional coach at Monav Vista Elementary School wrote this. Since August, I've been dealing with a Kaiser insurance issue. Oh boy. In the beginning, Zeni took the time to walk me through the process. A few months later, when Kaiser was still giving us trouble, Zeni went above and beyond and made several phone calls to help fix the situation. Fast forwarding to a few months, we were having the same issues with Kaiser. Shocker. Zeni participated in a conference call with all the parties, explained the situation, helped get it fixed, and also used Danielle Gates assistant
004as well. Zeni continued working to resolve the issue and kept me informed of her progress through multiple emails and phone calls. What has been a giant pain in the neck for months has finally unresolved thanks to Jet Zeni going above and beyond. I appreciate her perseverance and compassion while trying to resolve this issue. your items. As of yesterday, uh our TK UTK through 8th grade enrollment was 13,951 students. Early learning had 487 students for a total of 14,438. This a gain of nine students from the last board report and a loss of 14 of 205 students in the same period last year. And uh yes, of those students are 1,158 identify as homeless, 340 as foster students, and 707 students have one or more both parents in the armed forces. confirmation of bond sale cost.
005Well, this is um this is a kind of a new item. I don't think they had this requirement the last time uh that we sold a series of bonds, but um and the state has regularly added new levels of oversight to us. And one of the things is reporting out to the poem the uh cost of issuance for this particular series of bonds. And so that's what's contained in the item showing a breakdown of the different uh uh service providers, the attorneys, the financial advisors, US Bank, and what those corresponding costs were. All of those were paid from the bond proceeds. Thank you very much. Quick, we have curriculum highlights middle school highlights by principal George Lopez and principles Jessica and Todd Parker teaches Jennifer Greenwell and an Mandela student. Hi. How are you guys
006doing? It's a pleasure to see you. Always a pleasure to see you. Uh so I I would like to thank the board, Dr. Maretti and the executive cabinet for uh having this out. um want to go ahead and speak about the wonderful things happening at Endeavor. Uh we have a great art program, a great music program, archery program. I was trying to bring out the archery, but Todd wouldn't let them shoot the apple off of his head. Maybe next time. Um the great music program, but the one I want to go ahead and highlight today is our co-eing model. So, I'm going to go ahead and invite um Miss Greenwell and to come on up and speak. They brought more support just teaching model. I do not do the tech. So this is just a
007a snapshot of um some of the team um as uh resource teachers along with our par educators along with some of the general education um kind of in all different settings. So co-eing is an instructional model where two educators, typically a general education teacher and a special education teacher, work together in the same classroom to plan, instruct, and assess a group of students. The goal is to provide all of our students, including those with special needs, access to the general education curriculum in a supportive and collaborative environment. When I first started this pro this year, um I was very hesitant to co-e. This is only my third year teaching. So I'm an older new teacher, but I was very hesitant to collaborate daily with somebody. Um I think it's made huge difference in my teaching
008and also in the students that I have in my classroom. Um we've seen a lot of growth and we see a lot more confidence because they don't know that they're in there getting special help. they're just getting the help that they need when they need it. Comes to the inclusion, right? So, inclusion is the educational practice of placing students with disabilities um in general education classrooms alongside with their non disabled peers. The idea again is that all students, regardless of their ability, belong to the same classroom community and benefit from learning together. So, in our co-taught classrooms, um the students are working side by side. Again, they don't know general education teacher from special education teacher. we're all just teachers there. Um, inclusion promotes equity, respective, belonging for all of our students. Um, what our
009goal is that when they leave, again, they they've come in with a lot of them, you see, they're very shy. They're very um worried about how they're going to fit in and where they're going to fit. And we're seeing a lot of growth we see when they leave that they don't feel outside. They feel like they belong. And that's that's really our goal um in the proc model is to make sure that they understand that every child belongs in every classroom regardless of each individual needs. Uh so through the co-eing model at Endeavor Middle School, we effectively support our resource students requiring specialized academic instruction while also identifying and assisting students who may be at risk for a learning disability. This collaborative approach equips teachers with a range of targeted interventions to support students academic
010growth and contributes valuable insight to the student team process when needed. One of the things with the the SST process and one of the things again with the co-eing is allows us to um to really look at all of the students and reduce that over identification that we're seeing and that we've seen in previous years. Right? We're able to to touch on those those students that we can see are starting to struggle and work directly with the teachers and get them the interventions that they can that that help them to avoid. Oh, okay. we just need to go straight to assessment or anything that um and here are some pictures of our kids. If you like at the top left, that's u me in the classroom with my current educator and that's a small group
011that we put together. Um the small groups are really effective because it kind of forces the kids to be more engaged and participate more. Um the kids love the small groups and I love the small groups. Um having the three teachers allows us to do that. Um the small groups will usually be like me and then my parent educator and then we'll have our court teacher who is a working lady in the room or giving the whole class instruction just kind of show again they touch in um in different areas um in the middle at the bottom you know our students are presenting in front of the class they're not as nervous in the the um he was very shy at the beginning of the school year um he went up there he owned it
012he um did amazing um Again, in the bottom, you can see as well, um, we have students who who weren't sure where they fit in in our school and were nervous about trying out for sports and, um, and just what to do. And so, they've grown and they we have students that were on our championship basketball team this year that were super excited um, to be there and to just be to know that they had followers. Hi. Um, so accommodations and interventions, general educations and special education teachers collaborate to effectively implement student accommodations, support services, and universal design for learning or UDL um, strategies. And it ensures that all students have equitable opportunities um for success. And what I really like about um the accommodations and interventions, we're not only utilizing it with our special
013education students, but a lot of the general education students are benefiting from h having those um many of the same accommodations that we are allowing for our students that have IEPs. One of the things that they don't realize is, you know, I mean, it is a multi-ter system, right? That's what we're we're working in in that asum across all boards. And one of the things that I think that general education teachers don't get that um extra added support when they're when they're in their program. Um, and so we get to be those those um people that come in and really show them all of these interventions, these accommodations that are designed for all students that are all tier one intervention and be able to um show them, okay, well, if this isn't working, maybe we
014need to go a tier two intervention. Okay, well this is what a tier two intervention looks like and things that um so again working on both areas of strength. They're curricular experts. They're like, okay, well this is what we're working on. This is this, you know, our lesson planning and stuff. So now how can we best support all students and really focus on that UDL so that we can have um again all all students have to support each individual student and then of course you know because you know data data right special education we're all about the data well everybody is um so this is just um to show that um how how much our our students are really are growing how much they are gaining from these co teaching models um this is to
015show the difference um between the beginning of this year and just middle year. And if you can see all the lines underneath the bar, those are the lines of students that really didn't meet growth yet. Um but we still we know one more diagnostic so that we're we're going to get to see and if as you can see it's very it's very minimal. I mean they're really I mean they're rocking it. I mean they're doing really really well. um they're working again working closely with their peers to gain you know one of the things that we know one of the biggest strategies right and um you're taught your relationships you know they're going to they're going to learn more from each other most of the time than us so um and it really does show
016it shows in the depth Um so just some thoughts about co- teaching model uh from black educating the RSP co-eing model for six grade for the past two years that makes the data collection ensure students are receiving their service minutes so much easier. But the classroom inclusion has done wonders at fostering social skills and helping to reduce the feelings of isolation that students sometimes feel. Um from our sixth grade teacher, Mr. Hris, the additional support provided by my co-eing team has been instrumental in promoting success of both general and special education students. Um and got from one of our parents been impressed by the responses responsibility from my son's needs in the middle middle school in particular having Mr. Green will assign himself help enormously. Two, they've been helping him in multiple classrooms with different
017teachers. I mean, this help made his recent academic growth possible for us. Excited to see new engagement with school. Very happy to see uh do not think this would have been possible without Greenwell or someone like her. We also have some quotes from some of our students. Um she's a sixth grader. How I feel about the co- teacher is like I feel like they help me and some explain different from others. They are really nice. They teach me new things. They help me in ways that I can barely explain. Help me a lot with stuff I need help with. Every time I ask for help, they come and help me. One of our seventh graders. I enjoyed being in Mr. Hendrick's co-ar class last year with Mrs. Well, Miss Kendall feel like I learned a
018lot and got a lot of support. I miss being in that class. It helps me with my work so I can focus. Another seventh grader. We got eighth grader here. I like being in a bigger class while still getting the support that I need. Um, and one more. I like that if one of the teachers is busy, the other can help out. Also, they both teach at the same level. all students as you can see those quotes were those were SAI services don't um can't tell which one is which that's the Uh the key things that's happening in these classrooms is we are seeing less discipline. So we're looking to expand that out toward more of the campus. Um that is my presentation but I would like to thank Miss Greenwell, Miss Areola Broadband Preci
019Mr. Parker, Peta, super extraordinary Perah Lala. So, um, want to thank you guys very much. Questions, comments, criticisms and doctor. Well, I have a question. Yes, sir. when uh you showed the pictures of the students in a smaller class size. That's Yeah. Oh, okay. I thought it was maybe smaller class size, but uh it's 35. Okay. Yeah. Right. It's just a small group. So it does feel like you're getting more in it is the instruction focus on our core classes. not give me a hard time today. George, are you in there teaching also? If I'm asked to, I will go. Thank you. Well, you're going to have your best Thank you very much Endeavor and I really like the concept of the universal teaching and not making students feel different than other students in the
020class. something that's very big improvement. It's very important that we um allow them to feel the same and still be able to the assistance that they need. So, thank you very much. Next, we'll move on to presentations and proposal reports. I charter school update Good evening. I'm Nicole Kent, former director at IE Lancaster and now I'm the director of leadership and network relations with California. I'd like to have our school director. Just going to go through a couple of the highlights. So our learner retention has um maintained pretty steady over the years. Over the last five years we managed to maintain roughly around the same amount of learners um every year. Um we hold steady in our enrollment and we hold steady in our staff retention is also held pretty steady. We did have a
021little bit of a dip. We change, you know, when you change leadership sometimes people move on or whatever. Um, our enrollment is sitting at about 795 as of census day. We're roughly about um 45% Hispanic and 33% African-American. We kind of mirror what you your district mirrors. our EL learners um uh decreased this year um but also um we last year we reclassified a large number of learners which allowed us to land in the mid track uh on our dashboard and so that's why you see kind of a dip in the number special education however has increased and that's what I think one of the things is that we do offer a full inclusion program through all of our grades K through eight so like what they were just presenting. We have a very very
022similar model. Um and so I think that allows and we offer um our special learners range from mod severe to um um all the way up. So I think that's why our numbers continue to increase. People kind of want that. Um so our suspension rates have stayed steady over the years. We have not had any expulsions and um our ESPback scores. So for math and ELA we've had some increase over the years 22% in ELA and% math science however did take a dip from last year from the pre year to this year but we are we put some interventions in place to kind of move still there and as you can see like our test scores have increased and we're almost at not even almost we are where we were when COVID started so I
023know like across the board people have seen loss postcoid and now we're finally put so many things in place to kind of get us back there. So, we're on an upward trend. Um, which is great. And then we use map and map data to kind of track and see where we're going, track our progress. And so, what this tells us is that once we test them in fall and get a baseline data, then we can test again. We test again in spring. That tells us the growth of our learners. And so what this number is telling us is that in both math and ELA a majority of the learners are making at least one year. Some are making more than that but some are making at least one year. Now it does not always reflect
024in the cast because oftent times we get kids that are two three and sometimes even four years below. So if we're making like one year, two year gain, it doesn't always translate, but we are closing that gap. And then so our other data indicators for 2324 with our chronic absenteeism, we will have 42.04 and our suspensions 5.62. Um we have a lot of things like absenteeism have um we resources we do rewards um social worker that helps us um with that our socioeconomically um disadvantaged as you can see um it has increased um throughout from 2021 where we are right now 24 and then for our finances um Lancaster holds a very very healthy budget. Um with all the one-time money and all things I hold a very healthy budget. Um we have a positive
025net income. We're projected over the next three years. Um there is a dip um in excuse me there is a dip in revenue but that's just because we have some onetime funds that are going to be ending and so that's going to show like a little bit of a dip in funding but they do have a healthy b healthy budget. their fund balance um has grown from 6.9 to 7.2 million in a really really good position. Um just I know you have a copy of the presentation but this is kind of how we allocate our funds with the LCAP. And then we received LLP fund. So I know that number seems relatively large for a little tiny school but we had some money roll over from the previous year and so that's kind of why.
026So some of the things that we do with our program, we have a super robust afterchool program with interventions with um with clubs and sports and dance and all the things and we have STEM, we have music, we have music production. So we have all these things that we're hoping that we're using funds to do summer session. We we've been doing Saturday schools. Um coming up in the 2526 school year, charter schools will now be able to use uh ELOP funds to work on um for chronic absenteeism to kind of um to regain some of the ADA there. It won't change the chronic absenteeism number, but it will help with ADA. So, we'll continue to do that work. And we have our after school enrichment program. So what are we doing to close the achievement
027gap? So as you can see in mathematics we we do a lot of things. We push in for math. We have math support intervention. We have our core instruction bridges and CPM math curriculum. Um bridges intervention still to math math 180. We have a math coach, tutors, has talked to how we do school tutoring and we also um very big on professional development. We also push in for reading intervention. Um we have a program called University of Florida literacy institute which is reading K through two. We have our open up resources. We use resources such as dream box read 180. Uh we also do interventions in small groups. We have literacy coaches and we do profession development. See the growth all the way through. And so because it's above the negative, it shows that the
028kids are growing every year. And as you can see our learner outcomes. So um from fall to spring the light color is from is fall and the darker color is spring. And as you can see um our learner outcomes are growing and expanding as we some of our successes as we mentioned earlier we are in the mid track for the charter performance category. Um our intervention program is robust as we were just sharing. Um we have a big we have big support when it comes to counseling and social emotional uh support. We are a restorative practice school. So we do a lot of that. Um have our enrichment programs, our sports programs. Um we were really big on that. Basketball, soccer, track, cross country, a lot of things. and have a lot of community and
029family engagement and again some of the programs enrichment programs STEM mea club we have a music program we have choir arts club sports program I'll just mention things we have a dance cheer team that's new to us this year which is really big ballroom dancing we have some awards and some of the major projects we do I'm just focus on a We have a glider project where our eighth graders learn to fly. We have our dream up to space where um we go to space center and put things up in space. Um shark dissections and finance park where we had our eighth grade who just went on a field trip and they were able to learn real world application finance. That is our presentation. We thank you for your time. Is there any questions? Yeah,
030I have a question regarding the Pineets Park. Where was that located? Um, in LA. So, it's a company that basically what they do is they give us curriculum for the year. The kids do a little bit of simulation throughout the year and then at the end they have a field trip where they go and they set up like a place where it's like they can go and they can pay their rent and they can pay their bills and they can get they you know they have a fake job and they learn how to balance a checkbook and all the things that you would do as a adult. Okay. So they're actually going there and uh learning how to budget. Yes. Yes. So for the throughout the year through our in our advisory time they learn
031how to actually do finance like what their personal finance is going to look like and then they go and they simulate it and they and where do you get sharks? Well so yeah we did shark dissections which was actually kind of cool. Uh they came they're like little baby sharks and uh they we just ordered them from a client company you like a box of these sharks and you do the things this is our second year. This is our sixth grade team that does it as now it's a thing. So now you know our learners are looking forward to it when you go to sixth grade. So you're going to have the opportunity to dissect the show. There's not much to it. No, not really. I used to catch the unemployment. But that's one of
032the things about us with PBL is that some of the things are legacy projects. And so as you're growing up as a learner with us, you'll say, "Oh, when I get to eighth grade, I'm going to glide the fly in the glider. When I get to seventh grade, I'm going to send an experiment up to space. When I'm in sixth grade, I'm going to dissect a shark. When I'm in second grade, we do they do a farm project and they grow fruits and vegetables and sell them." So, it's kind of a thing. And people get the kids get excited about their options as they're growing through our school. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Uh, thank you board, uh, Dr. Marietti, executive cabinet members for letting me come up here. I am a longtime listener,
033first- time caller. Um, so excited to be up here. I'm going to go over a few little things kind of like about the department as well. This will be primarily focused around multifactor authentication but thought I'd take this opportunity to kind give you guys a little idea of snapshot and what we do on the IT department. So uh in IT we manage about 600,000 accounts. Uh on the hardware side we also manage about 1,200 wireless access points, 150 servers. Uh we have 500 network switches, about a thousand cameras, uh 850 Vonics, another 3,300 Windows PCs, about 30,000 Chromebooks, and I put 10,000 iPads. The numbers a lot larger. There's a lot of discussion, and we're we're looking at kind of like what are our tablet options look like for the future, too. So, we got
034a pretty heavy tech staff there. And the people managing this are our uh site computer technicians. We have one at every school site and two at the district office. The two at the district office kind of serve as our help desk. So calling with their issues, they can remote in and get kind of support with that. And the whoever is kind of like not providing support uh online is able to go and then support the district office as well. Uh on my data team, uh we have five uh those are focused on um student information system support and uh a lot of our data systems. So, a lot of that rostering that we need to do, getting making sure that those people have accounts, they're a big reason why we manage 600,000 accounts. Um, uh,
035administration, that's me and my secretary. And then on the infrastructure team, uh, we have, uh, four and, uh, currently have an open position and their focus is on keeping, uh, the technology working. So, it's kind of like because they look at all that device management, servers, data services. So jumping in to uh why do we need multifactor authentication or MFA um I won't read this entire quote here um but it does kind of like highlight uh something that is uh is a typical designator for the education sector in the United States and that is that the education sector is a target-rich cyberpore environment uh meaning that we are essentially the lowhanging fruit when it comes to threat actors looking at it kind of like attacking us. So, moving on to uh another one is CIS
036which is a cyber security infrastructure security um administration of of the department of homeland security says for K12 schools cyber incidents are so prevalent that on average there is more than one incident per school day. And then Sophos, which is a a major uh anti virus or or uh endpoint detection and response uh provider, says that over 90% of ransomware attacks on lower education in 2024 were due to an exploited vulnerability, compromised credentials, or a malicious email. Uh we as the Lancaster School District uh have and are experiencing fishing uh that can steal your passwords if you simply click on the PDF attachment. So, what happens uh uh that we've seen is a a fishing email is sent out. A user clicks on it and it goes through and it steals all your passwords not
037only from the Google Chrome say that you're logged into um but it'll also go through if you have Outlook set up it'll pull those out of there. If you have Edge, if you use Firefox, it will literally just harvest all those credentials. So, uh what do the threat actors do once they have uh access to an account? um they conduct follow-on fishing attacks using that account to kind of like increase their access and attack. So what you'll see is, you know, teacher A gets fished and then the threat actor uses their account. So then teacher A then sends out fishing to teachers B through, you know, F. And so you'll see kind of like this follow-on fishing uh happens kind of like on a quick turnaround. Uh the other thing they look to do is
038steal data. Uh so you've seen that in um uh you're starting to see that in more and more attacks as they're going along. Uh the other thing that they look to do is try to gain access to other parts of the network or any other platforms and they'll look to kind of like escalate that access. So if they have basic user access, they'll try to see what they can do to try to escalate that to like an administrator access. Uh and then they look to uh deploy malware as well uh when they when they get that access. So when we say multi- factor authentication or MFA, what do we mean? Um there are essentially kind of like as the graphic shows, there are kind of three components to a uh a factor. One is something
039you know that's considered a factor. So it can be a pin number or it can be a password. Uh another factor can be something that you have. So that can be uh authenticator app, a a little token or um or something like a confirmation text on your cell phone. And then uh a third factor is something you are. So that would be like a fingerprint scan or face scan. So when we say multifactor authentication um that that's uh difference is you need to put together the different factors. If you have, say for example, I have a PIN number and a password and that's what I'm using. Well, the the concern is well the PIN number could be potentially harvest in that same type of attack, you know, I grab your passwords and so you need
040to kind of mix up those different factors to ensure that if one component of it is compromised, you still have the other to secure it and to secure your account. Users who enable MFA are significantly less likely to get hacked. Uh and so then you know if a malicious actor compromises your password or your PIN or something like that if they compromise one factor the idea is that you have the other factors to keep them from getting access to your account. So the uh it has been researching um options for multifactor authentication and we landed on Duo. Uh Duo provides uh these options um as you are logging in. So, it will have you prompt you for your username, it'll prompt you for your password, and then it'll give you options to either use a
041security key, which is kind of like a little hardware piece uh that we'll be showing you guys a little later, uh Duo Push, which is a push to a uh cell phone, so a push notification. That does require that you have the Duo app uh download and installed on your device. uh a dual mobile passcode also that is a rotating sixdigit kind of like generated one that also requires that dual mobile app. The the nice thing about the dual mobile passcode is a push notification requires that you have cell phone coverage and we know sometimes in the Analopee Valley cell phone coverage is a little in some places and so that passcode is something that can be completely kind of like offline essentially. So you can kind of just open that up and plug that
042in regardless of what your uh coverage looks like. And then finally, if you don't have any of those, uh we have a bypass code. And that's kind of like that's an ability that the IT department has uh to still be able to get you through. This picture is an example of what is that little hardware token that UB key. The uh dual app is available on both the Apple Play Store and Google Play stores. And that's a little icon that kind of shows what it looks like in those stores. It is from um it is owned by Cisco which is a a global uh technology provider. So it's uh it's pretty easy to use. It is has enterprisegrade uh support. Uh so if something goes wrong, it's going to be going wrong for pretty much
043the entire plan. Any questions on that? and hospitals. Have they both rest? Yes. So, uh you guys are part of our initial phase which we're pushing out for our part two and district office staff. So, uh they'll receive you and they they'll receive an enrollment email that'll say, "Hey, please set this up." It'll have a link to kind of like get everything set up. And um then uh beginning on the 12th is when it will start prompting me for that multifactor set. And I think we actually do have uh actual keys for you guys here as well. But Charlie, are you available to pass this out? Is is Google being uh targeted? Everybody's being targeted. Um so with um I would say everybody's being targeted uh and with the prevalence of um single sign on
044capabilities. So we use Google as our primary kind of like it's called an identity provider. Um and so by us placing this multifactor authentication in front of Google then that means once you do that multifactor authentication then you're logged into Google and so if we have Google SSO set up so if we have Google set up for power school we have Google set up for Gmail if we have Google single sign on set up for all these platforms it not only protects these platforms but it makes it a lot easier for you to log in because you're only prompted one time to essentially initiate that access for that to to get into that platform. So, does that answer your question? No, I' I've just heard that Google has been targeted. Uh yeah, and in this
045day and age, everybody's targeted and they're targeted on a very consistent basis, especially the major players. And so that's why um it helps to ensure that you know whatever solution you're looking for is essentially kind of like it's great. So, when you're logging in, you put in your username, then you put in your password, and then you'll have that little prompt as it showed right there. And then, so you just select, oh, I'm using the key. You plug the key in, press the button, boom, you're in. You don't have to keep the key plugged in. You don't have to keep pressing the button. It's just that that one time when you're logging in. Uh, that's it. It'll probably be easier. So, you can use it for a phone, but it's primarily going to be for
046any kind of likeing device that you have. Maybe for any laptops or any of you would like a laptop, I'd be happy to for you. Thank you. Thank you. Closure of leadership academy. Public hearing will be held at this time to receive input on proposed closure of the leadership academy effective June 6, 2025. All right. Good evening. So, we wanted to provide a real quick overview of the closure of the leadership academy and make sure that there was a general understanding of um purposes to why and where things were going and what we were doing at this particular point. So, the purpose of the closure of the leadership academy is to kind of give you some information. The leadership academy recently or as of February 3rd was serving 39 K through8 students and will be
047closing at the end of the 2425 school year. This decision was made for a couple of different reasons. To promote greater inclusion by mainstreaming students back into the comprehensive schooling environments and to reduce exclusionary disciplinary practices that disproportionately impact students in alternative educational settings. In order to relocate the students, all students from TLA will be transitioned or have transitioned to Monav Vista in grades two through three. Discovery Elementary 4. And we've had Sierra take um two students um into their Cubs classes. Each family and student were communicated with to ensure to assure them of a positive nature of the positive nature of the change um for each of these students. And students in grades five through eight um will be have been returned to their neighborhood schools. on the rationale and the reasoning for this
048is that TLA served students with high needs and a significant prior with significant prior challenges in in traditional school settings. While small, it did have a 12 to1 um student to teacher ratio, the schools showed that there was persistently low academic performance in both ELA and math. exceptionally high suspension rates as is received by the data that was been provided to you um based on the equity equity impact report that uh reached up to 64.1% in 23 in the 2324 school year far above the district average of 3.2%. Integrating students um into comprehensive schools with targeted targeted supports will improve access to resources, inclusion and um engagement. Equity and support me for equity and support measures um we are going to ensure and have ensured um a successful and equitable transition. Mental health support and
049sitebased administrative monitoring is provided um at receiving schools. So we have principles um as working with um clo were closely working with uh students in the some of these classes. I was just as recently I was at discovery uh this afternoon um speaking with their ILT the instructional leadership team who was assured that that was um happening and have actually observed it myself and have seen some real positive impacts from for some of the students in those schools in those class who have moved back into that school. We were able were also able to maintain the classes for which the students were enrolled um they were intact um and at at the receiving elementary schools. So both both uh Discovery and Monab Vista kept their their classes intact when we moved them over. So the
050impact of the community, there is a minimal disruption to the local community dynamics as anticipated due to the fact that these students didn't come specifically from the neighborhood for which TLA was observed to to sit. So many of the students were across the district. Disclosure is expected to enhance representation and belonging by reintegrating students into a broader school community as well. Um there is a commitment to equity absolutely um the decision aligns with the Lancaster School District strategic plan to foster a culture of belonging and to ensure equitable access to educational opportunities for all students. Um so I just wanted to make sure that there was a general understanding before we move forward with this. Um what the process would be is that tonight we will be at a we're conducting the public hearing. Um
051on May 20th we would bring a resolution for closure and then on June 6th the closure would thank you Dr. will be closed at 7:04. Individual action items. Option of resolution 2024 34 compensation for missing for missing for Dwayne W on 202. [Music] Motion passes for adoption of resolution 2020 2025 number 35 board compensation for the miss meeting for Greg TP on April 15 2025 by motion by Mr. W second by Mr. Giles. All in favor? Motion passes 4 Z individual action items. Individual action items. Human resources. Approval of assistant principal Erin Hirs. Motion by Mr. TP, seconded by Mr. Giles. Oh, Mrs. Hirs is currently an assistant principal of elementary in the Weim did I say that right? me elementary school district and been in elementary education for the last 25 years serving as
052a teacher. She's founded Lego Robotics programs in three different school districts focusing on hands-on and STEMbased learning. She is proudest of her family. Her son Nathan is a successful mechanic. Daniel is a Warp Park college student in the animal behavior science program and starting an internship working with birds in Ireland after he graduates in June. Her two daughters, Emily and Audrey, are highly involved in theater and drama at their high school. Lastly, her husband, Ken, is an IT project manager for private and public schools in LA and San Francisco counties. She's passionate about traveling and hiking to discover new places and see new things. Whenever she has a chance, Aaron is out on a new trail with her golden retriever, wonderfully named Sparty, because she's from Michigan. So, Aaron's here with us tonight. Thank you
053for inviting me and for having me this evening. Um, I'm very excited to be a part of Lancaster School System. Excited to find out I have a fellow Spartan with me. Um, go green, go white. Um, and I just can't wait to get started and I'm looking forward to serving the students of Mariposa. Thank you. All in favor? Welcome, Miss Hurst. Motion passes [Music] 5. Assistant principal Michael Garcia. Unfortunately, Mr. Garcia is not here tonight. He had a an emergency IEP that he had to be attending and it's 6 and a half hour drive. He sends his regards and thank moved second. Mr. IC has been in education for 28 years and currently serves as the assistant principal at Linda Verde Elementary School in Mary'sville where supports both academic and behavioral programs, coaches teachers, and
054helps build a positive school culture. One of his positive proudest accomplishments was leading the implementation of a schoolwide PBS framework that significantly reduced behavior referrals and improve school climate. He is proud of the relationshipships he's built with staff and students, making a conscious effort to be approachable, consistent, and solution focused even when the going is tough. That's helped him create trust. And trust moves the work forward. Outside of school, he's passionate about personal growth, leadership, and staying active. Whether it's hiking, playing sports, or new food adventures, you can always count him in for a good podcast, a great book, or any excuse to laugh. All in favor I motion passes 5-0 to go durable term waiver 2025 2026 school year literacy authorization Joshua Elementary reading literacy um optimization elementary school. Jennifer Lopez bilingual authorization Spanish
055and we have [Music] Adrian bilingual authorization Spanish motion by Mr. W second by Mr. T. All in favor? I motion passes. 5 provisional provisional internship permit 2025 2020 26 year motion by Mr. J second by Mr. Wayne. All in favor I zero. addressing the board. Individuals who wish to address the board may complete a speaker card and present it and any supporting documents to the super to the superintendent assistant and 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 director information is defined in education code 49061 may be excluded from the minutes of the meeting by submitting a written request to the student. The board president shall recognize individuals who wish to speak. Individuals
056wishing 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. Time limits of 30 minutes per person and 20 minutes per item shall be allowed. Board bylaws 9 3 to2 board members may ask questions for clarification purposes. However, no action may be taken and no discussion may take place on an item not on the posted agenda. Brown act comments from PTA CSA comments audience no comments. Consent agenda item items superintendent items 18A through 18 I motion by Mr. W second by Misser confirm the oath of affirmation that July Don't you who can do it? I think the judge is even on there. Is it making it us do it with pretended or it's him basically? It's
057okay. I'm a doctor. It's been trained been trained for because it's like what if I want my buddy, you know, Judge Jackson to retire that wants to come down and I'll say hi to us. That's what we used to do, right? It was fun. Now we can't Well, we can have them do it and we just have you do it on Do it twice. Yeah. Okay. They went to college. That your only question, Mr. Awesome. All in favor? Motion passes 5. Consent agenda items. Business items 19A through 19AB. Motion Second motion by Miss second by Mr. Giles. All in favor? I motion 5 consent agenda items educational services items 20 through 20 AC motion motion by Mr. W second by Mr. T. All in favor I motion passes 5-0. Consent agenda items human resource services
058items 208 through 21e motion by Mr. Second by all in favor I motion passes 5-0. Agenda items student and family services items 28 through 22Q uh except for K and M. Motion by Mr. Giles, second by Mr. W. All in favor. Motion passes 5-0. Legislative policy discussion and then we'll move right over to comments from the board and superintendent. We'll start out with Mr. W. Oh, did that. Thank you very much for your for I can't imagine your job being easy. I can't imagine your job being easy with all the uh new uh ways of attacking [Music] computers, but I appreciate what you're doing. who came to us from Lahi. Is that right? So, thank you. That was a good good place. The boss I had at the Alo Valley Hospital when I worked in
059the medical in the data center also came from. He changed that whole hospital completely. Um, it's good to see we had a plus nine on our attendance. from the last reading over almost over uh 15,000. Again, still amazing that we have 77 military uh people in our school district coming from Edwards or part of Edwards. It's uh it's amazing. Thank you to for endeavor for uh their teaching is a very goodation. Finally for teachers it's teacher appreciation week and I really appreciate teachers. Thank you very [Music] much. But really enjoy that. I've seen it in action and I you guys doing a great job with that. You know your general education special education everywhere. So it's a very very good program. I'm glad that you Dr. Go, thank you so much for telling us giving
060us a little bit of background information on DLA and what's going to happen uh with the kids and um you know I think there's been challenges and both facto life all the little fishing expeditions that you used to do. So you speak with us a lot. I'm just going to say that it was frustrating sometimes when you be in a big hurry and you know take on it but that's exactly what happens. So um you know being really vigilant to make sure that we don't allow is an amazing job that you guys are doing new adins. Congratulations. you know, it was it was nice to see that there are some newest principles coming in and um you know, from out of district, so they'll bring some some things we like and some things that maybe
061are a little different. And I think that that's a really good thing. Brings some fresh ideas. Yeah. Likewise, um neat to see the program at Endeavor. need to see the um regular teachers and the resource teachers uh working together and collaborating and um and the kids um participating uh in different ways uh also in the sports that was really exciting. Uh so they are definitely integrating and and it looks like it's working really well. Um also uh thank you and and your staff and team for everything you do. uh was very eye opening to see all the different things that you guys are responsible for. Uh so um hats off and uh you guys make it look easy. So you're doing a great job. So thank you and I know um school sites are attacked.
062I know even school sites in our valley have been uh you know cyber attacked and whatnot. So, um, you guys are doing a great job and you for updating our security, uh, with this way. So, I look forward to learning how to use these little keys and stuff. Thank you. And, uh, welcome to the new, uh, assistant principles. It looks like they're bringing a lot of energy and I'm I'm interested in what kind of birds are in Ireland. I thought that was kind of interesting. And uh also was neat to see the PBIS um that they used throughout the previous school. So seeing that too and uh teachers, we love you. Keep up the great work. Okay. Yeah. Well, everybody said all the things I wanted to say. So uh you know on that um
063I did want to say thing about Brandon. you know, he sends out the email to do this two factor thing like, "Yeah, I'm not clicking that." Like, make sure I talk to him first because he's going to get me. So, you know, I've learned that as Julie has learned. He's been doing that for a while. So, yeah, I'm not clicking anything. I don't care if it says good trick, you know. And I did get a fishing one the other day that's, you know, said Mrs. Charlson was needing some cash. Figured that wasn't her, but you know, just clicked on it for fun. No, I didn't. So, yeah, it's all good. But uh yeah, I love the district. Sometimes it's fun. But uh I also wanted to only thing anybody didn't point out was we did
064have six acclamations and we you know the teachers get a day and a and a week and the nurses get a day, the classified school employees get a week, Asian-American public islanders get a month, and the better hearing and speech people get a month. So, congratulations to all our our resolution recipients and they do all do a great job and uh we appreciate them and uh thank you for all the information we got and once again congratulations to our new um bad men and uh oh also congratulations to our ACES award winners. Those were always it's always fun to give out see people get awards that people really appreciate our people in our district. It's always good to see them do. Thank you. Thank you very much, Dr. Marriott. Yes, I want to thank Endeavor
065for coming out and talking about co-eing. You know, back um in the 1990s, I actually had an opportunity special education co-teers brought back all the great memories of 13. Um also want to uh thank Dr. Guin's first spearheading the closure of TLA. you know, we have those students dispersed back into our Cubs program throughout our district and um you know, initial results of that is they're they're doing uh really well and they have access to all the resources that all the other students have at the comprehensive school sites. So, um we're really hoping that the success of the Cubs programs continues with the addition of our students and we have every indication that it's going to continue. So, and then Mike is supporting [Music] um we just want to um appreciate and celebrate all of
066our classified employees and our certificated employees. I know it's uh uh classified students uh classified uh employees and teacher um appreciation, but you know, it's for all of our staff members and all the great work they do with our kids. So, we want to just celebrate and appreciate them. So, thank you. that basically just a echoing on everything that everyone else had to say a lot of the reports today. Um it was a most definitely a really good presentation by Endeavor. I really like that program that so uh congratulations to Endeavor for all the progress that they're making. Thank you to I verifying the progress that they're making as well. Thank you Dr. Glor for your report on TLA. Appreciate all the work that you put forward to making sure that was taken care of.
067So we appreciate um other than that I had an opportunity to get over to Joshua for their uh salsa competition. That was um really really good and hot, very hot. But uh it was really a great success. Kids were performing and dancing. So that was pretty awesome. We also had an event this past uh Saturday was the read and count literacy is here at Park View. Another um successful event. So didn't have an opportunity to make it out. We all should be one. Oh, you'll have to meet us next year. Um, we have food distribution taking place on Friday, Sam. Yes, food distribution. So, we'll have food distribution here at the Parkview campus. So, you come out, send someone that may need something. We'll be out ready to serve as usual. Um, other than that,
068congratulations to um coming on uh Garcia and uh first so welcome and uh our ACE award winners are award winners as well and again echoing teacher appreciation week. I get to wake up to a great teacher of the year for for Discovery Elementary campus every day. So that's pretty awesome. So I really appreciate all the work that's put out and the great jobs that our teachers we had quite a few teachers get those awards over the last month. So congratulations to that. Other than that, that is about it. I wish everyone a wonderful Mother's Day weekend. So um enjoy your weekend. I guess we'll see you back next week and we will say to close session at Oh, I'm sorry. Did I get a motion? They're quick with it, right? Yeah, we got a motion
069with Mr. Giles and we got a second with Mr. Win. There's no argument there. All in favor? I steps to close session at 7:27 a.m. Oh, no. I'm sorry. We We're just reset the close. We're just close. We're going to adjourn. You see, I'm so excited. You guys, got to go home.