Broadcast of the Lancaster School District Board Meeting

001e e e watch this meeting is being recorded order of any action taken in Clos session Pur government code section point1 rep report Stu student discipline approv of exposion a motion motion motion by Mr wi second second by Mr all in favor passes 5 Jordan [Music] ready sorry information items enrollment report so um our total utk enrollment for 8th grade as of yesterday 13,930 students Early Learning 471 students for a total of 14,46 this is a loss of eight from the last board meeting and a loss of 24 the same month last year of that population 1,139 identify as homeless 362 identify as Foster and 705 students have one or both parents serving in the armed forces thank you Dr per highlights F Academy curriculum clubs and activities principal well good evening board members executive

002cabinet and parents my name is Marcelo palasio and I'm the very proud principal of bton gbury Academy of Arts and tonight you'll be hearing about our school and the great things we do who better to communicate that than our very own nigh hog students themselves so I'm going to go and bring up D Tre r hi my name is um so are you do any hands on activities such as frog and brain dissections um we went to the California Science Center this year and this has helped us with our carinated thinking skills problem solving and more for our curriculum as hand and our creativity um our history presentations are very intricate and they though they help us provide public speaking confidence our Ela culum is very very intricate as well but it Prov talking and

003they are able to advance um overall sixth grade is very well for a Kickstart for the rest of be here I'm going to give it to EV Norris for our next top good evening my name is and I'm a seventh grader at rburg seventh grade in is filled with many fun and handson activities um one of these activities is our project where basically we get to pick either to make a castle um we get to a feast make mediable um clothing plans and um Med weapons and once you are done with your like your art you get to write make a writing assment explaining what your art is and the history behind it and this allows us to work on our writing skills and also um bring out creative characteristic character and also we have

004um an engineering app that we use called um object um and it allows us it allows us to make 3D objects like such as like to cubes pegboard and um and brackets to make a cube and we also use this to make a cabinet for our most recent trip all campers and the cabinet were basically we that was our thank you gift for campers and it was showing us showing them how we use app and then also confirm how they use the app to make their um campers on the their site and also there's many other activities we do such as PL tectonic um movements and writing assessments on that and seventh grade is a well preparing grade for next grade which is 8ighth grade and now I'm giving it to J or for eight

005grade good evening our a year Bon has fun activi projects like our [Music] trices um we also get plenty of fun Hands-On projects like our roller coasters and our gy mazes all of these projects test our knowledge on different subjects that we like dur the year for example our gravity mazes and our roller coasters require the basic fic Concepts that we here um while our dances show us different art styles and our trials get to show us different processes after a murder case um all of these projects build our communication skills and they build our relationships with the continents we not build these great connections with our classmates but we also get to build those relationships with that makes are time and now I get toic your book is and we get to do we've

006got to learn to make video to share with the students at our school them about upcoming events and that um we' got to update them about our all the different clubs that we have and we get picture of everything that our classes have my name is Madison and I've been in ASB for two years and I'm one of the chairman so one of the leaders of the group um ASB is the associated student body which is a club of students that get to represent our community and our school and make it a better place all around and make it more fun for everybody um ASB has really like changed my life it's given me a lot of leadership skills it's led me to connect with a lot lot of different people that I thought I

007would never connect with um and we get to it's really fun because we get to do different things for our school for example we have our color Wars in one of the pictures up here which is where teachers and students get to interact with each other other and have a bunch of a lot of fun and just do things together and experience things out of just teaching um we got to do different things like our canned food drive with the car club and we got to actually get food for people who need it and give them that food which the car club don't uh brought to the center we got to um have a Veterans Day pep rally along with our other Robotics and signs of at Pep rallies this veterans um P day pep

008rally was to support all the veteran families at our school they got to come receive an award and just be recognized for everything that they do for us um we do different things like lunchtime activties spirit days dances we even just did a sock Drive sock and blanket drive for the Wildfire victims down in La um we wanted to recognize everything like we wanted to give back to them um and give them things that we don't necessarily need and yeah we have we got AOL school spirit award at our um at our ASB conference that we just went to for showing the most school spirit and being just like a good school in general um I'm passing it on to Zoe hi my name is Zoe na I of book finders which is a lunchtime

009club that happens almost every Thursday in bookbinders we do many art things it's not a book club it's spefically made for people who are artistic poetic and anything else uh currently we are working on something for maker space where we are decorating the bulletin board with all kinds of different things gears paper machet all kinds of stuff and the photos you see up here are from our board decorating competition during the winter where we went against staff and other clubs and we won I'm also representing the environmental Club as one of the many publicists in there so I get to uh control over most of the social media and environmental Club we're currently working on the solar oven composition where we are going to build our own solar oven using recyclable materials and we're going

010to cook three uh meals inside of said tar ovens recently we finished our makers Fair competition where our team won second place I believe and got $100 where we're going to currently spend on a celebration and possibly a Disney trip uh the spare is where we take recycled materials and build uh cities and reusable sources that can help our environment with mosphere we had to build a re uh recycled City in two miles away from the ocean in the desert and so that was a fun and quick competition where everyone got to participate white presenting for our robotics Club as well um this is one this is an amazing club that I have never um been a part of before but these I've been in robotics for three years and I've been a captain of

011one of the one of our three teams for two years now this robotics is an amazing Club it's so um interactive and you get learn new things do different things with Hands-On projects and it's really just um General amazing and wonderful we compete in the Vex V5 robotics competition for Middle School um we recently just went to a competition our state competition last Sunday unfortunately we did not make it to the world's competition we were four points away my team specifically um but we were all very close another one of our teams team 93535 n was very close they were um one match winning one match away from going to world as well we were very close and we've worked so hard this year and we're just very proud of our robots which you can

012see in some of the pictures on the screen um you can also see three Awards the first award on the far left is the build award this award is an is um this is an award that shows what like your building it says that your building is amazing and in general just wonderful that you can have some teamwork you all participate you know what you're building you do the game design really well you know the game strategies everything the one in the middle is for our robotic skills award that award is getting second place out of the whole tournament 40 teams you got second place in the whole skills skills is something you get one minute and 45 seconds to run by yourself and you have to score as many points as you can getting

013second place is very good since there are like 40 teams you're competing against the next one on the the third award there is the think award this award is given to a team who can demonstrate their programming now programming is something very specific that you have to learn it's basically kind of self-taught we do have our teachers who are amazing who help us um but this award is really significant because it's award that's not really given out the competitions very much so to win this award is very amazing um this award demonstrates you know your program you know how to write it and you know how to explain it very well to the judges that you have to talk to um recently um our first competition was the winter wco competition where two of our

014teams team a and team n got invited to go to the US create open competition in Iowa this is our first time ever going to this competition it's a Once in a-lifetime Opportunity because you have to get invited to go there it's an invitation only competition where only a couple teams get to go the cool thing about this is it's a national competition so people from all over the world get to go and you get to meet new people and you get to Alliance with people from who knows like you could get people from China people from Florida anywhere you can imagine and you have to figure out how to talk and communicate with them in the best way to win the whole competition um this is really like I said an amazing Club it's

015given me a lot of leadership skills as ASB has and a lot of responsibility as well trying to manage the team while still being respectful to all the members um this is a club that's really changed my life and I'm glad that I got to experience this I'm going to be handing it off to Jazzy to talk about one of our team three years now being ctive um but Science Olympiad is a club that consists of 23 very biger events eight of these events are build events like Mission possible or scramblers and then the rest of them are all science based our teams at our schools are need a very talented verying students this team becomes a and we're all extremely supportive of each other um our club is very difficult because a lot of

016the academic material that we need to study is college leveled and working on learning all of these new topics while also having to do our school workor is um a bit of a struggle I uh I do Crime Busters and I do Crime Busters portions and poison and scr all the require Advanced college chemistry that I'm very grateful to have my teachers and coaches helping me with because I know that it's really hard to have to learn these new topics and still stay on top of the grades um but despite the challenges that our team faces with these our team was able to get 23 total medals at our regional competitions six of these medals were first place medals and they helped our team score third overall um now our team is preparing for our

017competition in ctech on April 12 our team is working very hard right now and we're very proud to be able to compete against some of the top schools in Southern California and in the country as well um shate your ongoing support executive cabinet for to greater things for 20256 so thank you very much to us you guys but apparently get swag bag instead okay perfect I got let me ask was Iowa Sunday Iowa was California please bring warm CL yes thank you request for report yes semiannual report Ino Flores good evening name ailio Flor CEO C Forest wers thank you again for having us just a couple notes first off I did not dissector fraud until ninth grade so sixth grades kind of impressive uh secondly I went to college with the one of the

018stepsons of Vanna White so got you see here at a graduation he did a great job um this evening uh I'm here to present update to the uh information uh plan uh back in 2013 back 2013 uh the board had commissioned a master plan uh for which was the basis for us to move forward uh a examining our overall facility needs in the district but secondarily as a basis for um measure LS which was approved by voters in 2024 the board adopted that plan in January 2024 and uh as ongoing part of our services what we want to do is be able to provide the board and Community uh updates on a periodic basis what is the progress of that implenting that overall plan so our plan is to come back to you every six

019months with update obviously uh the board has been moving forward with projects uh that the district has brought for forward to for approvals seen contracts for Architects and for Builders things that nature but want to make sure that we are providing a ongoing uh report to the board about those activities where we're at um and uh inform the board and the public any changes to this that program over time uh as uh as things evolve so uh even before measure LS passed the district had started embarking on some of these spef those improvements and we had utilized uh existing Capital Bal uh balances to do that uh primarily that was uh the modernization projects slated over at mon Vista Nancy Corey and New Vista um and those are to bring 21st Century Learning environment upgrades

020to those schools in addition to that the district was awarded with a grant uh grant program from the Califoria preschool transitional kindergarten the kindergarten facilities grant program about $5.6 million over there which has being implemented at sunny day so uh those projects were uh were separate and started from where we're at uh where we're at today uh is we have started construction over at Sun sale with the new PST KK classrooms uh in addition to that uh what's been added on to that project has been the modernization of the two existing kindergarten classrooms as well so that whole kindergarten TK complex uh a will have new classrooms but also will be modernizing the existing classrooms as well um and so the uh construction of the new buildings is underway uh the mization uh just came

021out of BSA um and uh we also uh embarked recently on the uh modernization design process for the rest of the campus over at as well since that will be sub to the division of State architect probably sometime in the summer uh with that particular program at mon Vista uh we are currently underway in terms of design modernization portion of that uh project going into DSA I believe on Tuesday uh and so we have completed the design process over there for with agency approvals over at Nancy Cory and new vissa both of those are modernization projects as well uh those PL have been submitted DS uh and we anticipate having approvals for those probably uh in April May of this year uh once we have approvals from uh the division State architect as well as

022the California Department education uh that does allow us uh two things a is to move forward uh with bidding out the work with our Le back Partners uh and to assemble what those constructions to look like the other allows us to do is submit our application for matching state grants um and so uh the critical for us to do that is achieving the approval from DSA and the approval from CDE once we do that we're able to submit that and get in line for funding uh as the district uh and board may recall uh there is quite a backlog at the state um and uh and so it's very important for us to get into that line as quickly as possible uh so that we're able to to Gar the funds uh from the uh

023the bail bond throughout this whole process we're obviously looking uh centrally at the educational program uh programs that that the board has has put in place and guided by the superintendent and District leadership um you know we're happy to report that you know we continue to look at the the implementation utk from a facility standpoint also from the visual Performing Arts programs as well making sure that we're pro providing facilities that support these these initiatives uh at each of the sites as we go through these different um as we go through these different uh campuses and and programs and so forth there as well uh we do know that modernization will happen in place which which means that uh we will be doing a phase approach to modernization each our campuses which means that we

024have sections of the campus that are under construction while we Contin instru um there is plenty of housing on most of these sites we're utilizing the Portables other facilities and we're working with District staff as well as site leadership on making sure we can coordinate all the different movs that weate having through that and that's an interactive process uh what looks great on paper sometimes it's not uh great in practicality and so we go back and refine those things uh and so we with initial plans for that working to finalize those things uh prior to construction so that everybody has a good idea what's going to be the first space look like what what what classrooms we have access to have access to what does you know play time look like things that major so

025working with them to uh with the district in order to get those uh developed and moving forward that as well the other thing we've been working uh on related education program is Furniture pictures and equipment so developing a standard um so as we go through the modernization process as we go through the construction providing a standard for all of our sites so that we have the same type of furniture uh at our side that it's appropriate to the uh instruction that's happening in the classroom um and appropriate to um uh the facilities that we're building so the district has assembled some uh Furniture advisory committees meeting with those folks different grade levels School sites uh to determine what uh the standard will be uh say for kindergarten uh for e8th grade everything in between uh

026so that there is a consistent level of Furnishing at each of school sites moving forward to support the educational program the sorry just have a so I always think it's my two-year-old um uh going back to State program like I said before we garnered about 5.2 5.4 million so far this preschool program called tkk program um and looking at uh the overall enement data our eligibility for State Grant is based on two EV uh first is the age of facilities and B is our enrollment um and so those are the two things we always look at uh is a you know when do we see these particular um buildings coming of age for eligibility so for our existing sites uh it's 20 years for portable classrooms is 25 years for permanent classrooms and there's cycles

027that we go through that and so part of it is seeing okay you know when are we eligible for those dollars because if we make improvements prior to become eligible reset the clock and we want to make sure we're optimizing our our opportunity to get those dollars in front uh and to uh augment what is being supported by the voters through measure LS and the other Bond proceeds that are coming through the other thing is enrollment that's something we constantly look at um or new construction eligibility making sure that you know if we have any any any additional growth in the area whether that that makes us eligible for additional dollars the state in order to accommodate that uh and the other one is site specific so for modernization we want to make sure that

028you know we have adequate number of students in order to Garner that that modation process as we go forward that as well as I mentioned previously uh the application process has not changed it is uh based on a uh a date received uh process which means that you know when when you submit the application they stamp it receive it on this day and they process and review us applications that basis uh prior to the passes of prop two which we'll talk about momentarily um you know we were looking at you know wait times maybe two to three years before we' see uh the reimbursements back from the state uh we hope that with the new influx of of dollars uh from prop 2 uh that that will be a little quicker uh but you know

029in the meantime what the district has uh has enabled us to do is utilize local funds that we have on hand to upfront the cost of those and uh submit for reimbursement which they can be used for future projects down the line prop two was a uh a 10 billion General obligation Bond uh that the state passed uh approximately um uh about 8.5 billion of that is for K12 education small CH of that goes to Charter Schools uh but there's approximately $7 billion do for new construction and modernization uh and uh right now uh you know everyone's kind of getting in line trying to get those those particular items out there as well one of the things we looked at uh is that there is is a new uh Grant category within all this for

030modation uh so we have the traditional modernization program which is uh 25 years for permanent classrooms there is a special supplemental Grant if the building is 50 years or older uh and believe it or not they've now introduced if you have a building that's over 75 years or older uh now the 75 year old and older building Grant has a few strings ATT tach to it uh first off uh they do not want you to modernize the 75 year building they want you to replace it uh so uh some of our school sites believe it or not within the next 5 years we'll be crossing over that 75y year threshold uh and so one of the things that was not originally contemplated in the plan was replacing those facilities um uh with new construction uh

031and so that's one of the things that over over the coming months we're going to examine what is that that cost Effectiveness in terms of replacing some of these so while we did not contemplate reconstructing any of the school sites within our plan given this uh additional dollars from the state that's something that we'll probably bring back to District leadership for evaluation and ultimately it's something that we recommend back to the board for consideration as well um but there's about four or five schools that will reach that threshold uh in the next five years uh and that's something we're continue to look at um it only applies to permanent classrooms uh I know some it feels like we have 75y old Portables on some of our sites but uh uh those would not be eligible

032for this as we go forward overall in terms of our total sources over here real quick I'll read off the narrative the overall sources identified in plan back in 2024 have have remained virtually unchanged uh there's about increase of $3 million uh in additional sources that's attributed to uh balances and developer Fe as well as addition eligibility for for state aid uh we have not uh integrated that 75 year outside of this so like I said as we evaluate that and as we make recommendations about utilize those funds we bring those into this particular uh budget uh but the primary source of funding uh remains uh measure LS $12.1 million B by voters in November uh I'm happy to report that we're currently in the process of uh of issuing that for series of bonds

033uh I'm also very happy to report that uh we did recently get our bond rating back uh for the district and for those bonds and in fact uh the raing agency had upgraded uh the District bond credit rum from A+ to a double A minus um and so that one notch of improvement uh will lower the overall cost of borrowing the district encounters um it may also afford ourselves some other opportunities as well regard our outsanding debt uh so because the credit rating has been improved uh there may even be opportunities in the future for us to look at some additional refinancings uh to take advantage of that that lower interest rate uh the other thing of note there as well I think uh it's incredibly important to give credit uh to your District leadership

034uh for your uh Financial uh wherewithal uh uh today uh the other large ra agency um outfit uh booties actually downgraded the entire educational sector uh for California so here you are getting up uh folks are seeing a a dire economic outlook for many school districts as it relates to declining enrollment um exasperated by federal policies um as well as uh an overall change in the overall economic environment for schools uh and state governments so uh even in that type of environment uh the work that your end CPO everybody in the district has done over the past few years resulted in actually getting an upgrade uh whereas many of the other folks out there are facing uh different circumstances so just wanted to note that highlight that in this presentation uh is it happened last

035week uh but it is something of note and I think you should all take a a vow at some point appreciate that as forward in terms of the uses uh you know uh we we haven't made any major adjustments that we are currently in the process of finalizing designs and so we will see things in Phase One in terms of uses those costs will change over time as we actually adopt the uh the overall contracts for construction um um with that said uh we're not seeing an immediate impact on on tariffs at the moment um you know there's a lot of stock P already in the United States it's already been imported and so forth however uh it is important to note that tariffs on lumber on steel on metal um on other Goods uh

036may have an impact on our overall uh construction budgets and it may also have an impact on our construction schedules um and so that's something that we're we're constantly looking at we're monitoring uh you know as part of this program uh we do have a program Reserve approxim $33 million throughout the LA the program uh we try to maintain at least a 15% Reserve uh to deal with two things cost inflation and changes program so for example change of program would have been when the state said you're going to do utk right we have some money set aside and those typ of programmatic ches where we can adjust and help mitigate the cost of those additional unfunded mandates but addition to that it's also looking at at Cost increases now uh the tariffs that are

037currently in place are 25% at the moment uh depending if you want into a weekend some places they dump up to 50 uh I will tell you right now that you know while we have a program reserve and while we currently have a high level confidence that we're able to design and construct the projects that are currently budged in phase one we don't know the impact of those tariffs yet that's something that we're going to experience as we go through that that Contracting process um and you know we have a high level confidence that those projects will be done if those are our long-term tariffs if those if those costs do uh uh trickle down into our our into our construction projects uh that's something that we're going have to look at how the imps

038are overall scheduling and sequencing our projects point4 so as of right now we don't see an impact uh but we are Cog of the fact that there may be impact going going down further as we work through those things I mean schools are built out of lumber it's built out of steel they're built out of a lot those essential uh pieces so that's something we're doing the other thing we're looking at as well is uh labor force uh so you know one of the things that people of forget about in this region is that with the fires in the Palisades and the fires over in Altadena there's a strong Demand right now uh for trades so you know Carpenters plumbers um HVAC folks and things of that nature uh but but also specialist so for

039instance like hazardous waste so anytime we do a construction project we're required by the state to make sure that we have folks on monitoring you know if there's any any type of of uh hazardous materials typically that that's not present but we're required to monitor those things those professionals believe or not they know that there's hazardous things happening that Alena with the fires and hous it so there are some professionals that seeing being less available um you know we're we contining to to expand our universe of of Consultants to deal with that uh but uh so far we have haven't had any any major effects from that but you know you may have questions about what the E is what the effects of these tariffs are and so forth on school projects and so hopefully

040I giv you a little bit of background information terms of where we're at seeing in the marketplace over the next six months uh uh like I said we're looking to we've already start construction over at Sunnydale uh to get the DSA approvals for those other three projects we talked about uh and to submit uh for G approval over uh for the balance as well as you go forward um and uh I think the other part of it to is to start finalizing those transition PLS so as we transition from design agency approvals working with staff working with the district and working with sites to start choreographing what do these activties look like on site uh so that we try to mitigate as much inconvenience as possible construction is messy construction does inconvenience people uh but

041we do try to make an active effort of Trying to minimize that where we can uh and so uh you know we'll be working with the district in order to uh to uh try to make things go as smoothly as we can uh as we go forward so like I said before uh our our hope is that um come back to you every six months give you an overview because I know sometimes in its uh discreate Parts you know you can't quite see the whole picture and so it's a nice way for the community and the board to tr to understand what things we've done things we plan do forward as we do that as well uh and uh you to that we do this in the two-step process so we'll be submitting the full

042report back to the board for approval at a later meeting want to give her B overview of of what we have uh what we've been doing so that we get comments back from staff so we'll com we'll incorporate all those and we'll probably come back we just talking with uh with Dr free over there uh probably the April 15th board meeting uh with that report uh for your uh consideration and adoption uh once again just make sure that you know you guys are been informed what is we're doing so with that happy answer any questions you may have yeah I was wondering if um based on the modernization of Joshua if we learn anything from that process that we making changes or going to incorporate in the new modernization uh that was the first question

043and the second one is um some of our schools uh are were transforming into K8 School and so uh if there's going to be any changes based on that uh in the future too absolutely so the the first answer your first question you know I don't know Joshua intimately but you know given the experience of your staff they've provid us feedback you know you what pain points issues it's that nature we're trying to incorporate where we can you know once again that transition uh planning process I think is also critical to that as well um so you know we're just having conversation regarding technology uh you you know we don't want to be modernizing One Wing and knock out you know the the infrastructure for all the internet right uh so things like that and

044uh you know one of the things that that I know that for a fact that what we talked about early on was we want to make sure the duration that we are these projects is much quicker as well and so um you know I think know we look at those typ of things you know we're trying to incorporate that where we can um you know I think Joshua was is a standalone project as as it as it relates to the rest of the plan um and I think we're trying to incorporate those as best we can and then you know take what we learn and you know admittedly each time we do this we're going to get better at it you know and so we're trying to take our best stab at at the first

045time second time so so we help see that Improvement as we go forward um so but you know staff has absolutely articulated some of things that they want to see done a little differently and so forth on that one and Pa said what was the second question some of our schools were going to be transitioning to K8 schools yeah so the modernization and so for for all of this what we've been doing is that we have been working with the district to identify what those schools are and then we're modernizing to the specification that was identified and adopted by the board in this plan so we are as we go through the modernization process we are reconfiguring those those School sites uh to accommodate the desired educational program at those sites so that that so

046we're working with District miniature thinky this one was going to be Ka so we're as we go that modernization process making sure that the facilities meet those needs um obviously were very pleased with CFW for what they did prior to this and getting the bond P that was very good I think uh coming back with some good ideas for Lar thank you I appreciate that and like I said we working very closely with distri Administration and and I think you know one of the things that U you know the Mandate I think the board gave us superintendent just know we have this money want to make sure we use it or the uh pchy Power of that dollar deteriorates so I think that's something that uh is very much driving what we want to do

047it's been a collaborative process um and you know it's been very very nice to to I think have the district leadership really guiding us you know this is the path go down have that their vision from the board uh and making sure that you know we're doing that and now that said you know it is a multiphase project priorities may change things may shift and that's one of the reasons why we think it's important for us to come back every six months and say this is where we're at this is how to change because if a 75% tariff hits Us in June right that's going to change you know all types of calculations of what we're able to do and and the sooner you know that soon the district knows that soon the community knows

048that we can make those adjustments and so forth so thank you very much thank you very much for your time next we have our Middle School attendance boundaries 2025 2026 Director people good evening thank you for having me this evening um we have been working when I say we um Mr Charles Coleman had partnered with me as well as Dr L working with Davis demographics currently known as management going forward to take a look at our Middle School boundaries um Osa Creek and Endeavor are facing huge increases in their enrollment numbers uh additionally Osa Creek has been carrying the largest enrollment numbers throughout the school district for several years now um additionally impacting go Creek and Endeavor our new construction between Apartments town houses and homes around their surrounding areas so we needed to take

049a really good look at how this is affecting student enrollment um with that our friends at Davis demographics created a density map this map represents all of the students in the Lancaster School District and their residences just give you a moment to take that in you'll also notice that we do have some families outside of our boundaries attendance waivers attending several of our schools as well this is our current um established Middle School boundaries and again this is for Amarosa Creek and Denver Middle School P Middle School Anda Middle School you might be wondering about Fon Al Academy again that is not part of the break breakdown here because they are School of Choice so that's school is completely attendance waiver based as well as Linda verie which is now um D TK through 8th

050grade so moving into the proposed Middle School plan this boundary will move emosa Creeks boundary from 40th Street West back to 35th Street West and so as this year's fifth graders are promoting to sixth grade who might have formerly been zoned for emeros they would now be zoned for endeavor Middle School well within our walking boundary there um then to the east New Vista Middle School's boundary get a little bit um of the students who are currently being transported by buses over to Endeavor middle school that's within the two and a half mile walking boundary of our school district with transportation and then along Avenue J we've had several students crossing over J to attend MST Middle School those incoming sixth graders with now be on for Pou middle school and then there's a small

051pocket over here near the district well over on um the other side of the district office that currently walks over to Osa Creek and another section that are transported over to Endeavor they are also zone less than two and a half miles from pite middle school making that a walkinging as well So eventually we'll be able to phase out transportation for students within this area over to end govern middle school because it'll just be a walking school going forward um again that'll be a phasing plan where we'll affect this year sixth graders and then of course they'll triculate into seventh grade and eth grade after that and then this one just has the overlay of all of our TK through e8th grade schools and elementary schools this is our overall map um as to what

052it would be if the board approves has Chang in Middle School bound but all of our schools represent questions anybody want me to go back to that do they have any idea on be anys and how much that would be phasing out of that extra trans a probably there's that with island of kids we talked about that are Curr zoned across the freeway across Sierra and they're zoned to go all the way over to Endeavor that group is now going to be zoned for New Vista So eventually we will see some savings from that but the bulk of our transportation cost is special education boundary changes will not change any of that writers ship we still have as is driven by the I so our savings will be minimal I'd like to add if I

053may that um unfortunately we have two buses that transport currently around Parky middle well around the Parky education complex and unfortunately those buses are running late on the regular daily we have students not arriving to school until 8:30 a.m. up to 9: 9:15 almost daily with this change that Bally need eliminate that element so now we're getting get the school faster and on time because we're not of is they right just to be clear this is just for our Middle School this is just for our middle schools no changes to to be clear this doesn't affect students that are currently in that is correct they will still have the opportunity to matriculate up to their seventh grade to their eighth grade if their families would like to have a discussion about moving the whole family

054together we're open to that conversation too as long as SP thank you to your review accountability so good evening Gard um it's great to see you all tonight I'm really happy to be able to be able to give you this real quick report about the local contr accountability plan um this is a report that we are um provided that we're providing that's going to give you the update on where we currently are in terms of the work that we've started um in the district as well as some of the outcomes that we've currently receiv as of recently in through the dashboard it's going to be going to be having a team that's going to be behind me that's going to be supporting this report um so everybody will be taking a little bit of a

055turn to be able to explain and talk about some of the pieces that they have that their departments or their the schools that they oversee are looking at in terms of outcomes so to begin um I wanted to start off by saying that this this these are going to be the targets that we're going toie tonight the first one is going to be to provide an overview current results available meaning that we're going to be going over those early dashboard results as well as some of the two pieces that we have in place you're going to see some changes in some of those uh some of those metrics as well the second piece is going to be we're going we're going to be providing an overview of the collaborative work among all the Departments Lancaster

056School District we all work together um every degree we all have a piece of each other's work on a consistent basis and we always in con constant communication and how things are working from one place to the next a bit of a background on this particular report this rep is a mandate from the state of California under Senate 114 that came out in that came out in 2023 um as the elap is developed we must provide a mid a report you're going to notice that on this slide it says that it should be done honor before February 28th however um in this particular this particular year we had an outstanding uh phenomenon in the LA wild the wildfires that put everything back in terms of the work that we're doing throughout the state so we

057are able to we were provided the opportunity and extension to be able to support this report by March 31st so jumping into this we are going to be see in the metrics section you're going to see metrics and then we're going to see actions and work that we've been working on and things that we we've been doing throughout the district um by goal in the lcap so in this particular space I want to make sure that there's an understanding that each elcap metric falls into one of three different buckets either we don't know yet because it's too early in the school year and we're just not there or the information is in progress we are working very very hard right now to be able to provide for it to be able to secure it be

058able to get it um I examples of this will be areas having to do with certain with certain Staffing making sure our numbers place at the end of the school year and see when we're adding those places and the last one the last bucket is what we're going to be reporting on today is going to be that the outcome is known what that means is that these are dashboard results cast results or California's testing results our science our science Testing results from the previous school year that we're able to look for so that being said we're going to jump into this um we're going to start off with Goal one um this is our academic goal for the local control and accountability um every student will demonstrate continuous growth towards Mastery of common state standards

059that is our goal for this particular one and in this space there are various actions they drop into you're going to note a couple of things here I'm not going to go over all all of the metrics in this space just as I feel that it's it's it's there's a lot um we have currently but I am going to go over a couple of high points you're going notice that we are addressing specific questions in terms of our as we go through this report you're going to see when we get to you truth you're going to see that we are addressing specific questions um as opposed to numbers that are provide a rating piece to these to these bases um in this particular report I also want to highlight the fact that the the the

060metric of cast that is the California science test um that is taken and I want to highlight in this particular area how we are starting to move in a positive direction fact that we jumps to 14.67% met or exceeded St consider proficient in in science at this time again kind of highlighting the you through pieces we wanted to make this more relevant for the board and for the community as a whole um as a opposed to us providing a a scale score of one to five we provided an actual question of of percent positive or positive response when we talk about a positive response that basically means that a student or student group or the students who answer these questions at a specific store within the district answered at between a scale of one to

061five on either a at the either four or five level which means that they positively perceive The District in this particular space so for this particular uh this slide what I wanted to highlight um is the idea that in with our staff for the first time we are starting to see really significantly positive movement in the fact that my school runs smoothly so we're starting to see a lot of this is to be honest this is due to the hard work that we've got coming from all of our school school level leaders the school teachers our teachers classifi staff and that they see there's a positive in this particular slide I wanted to highlight um some of the other piece having to with our dashboard local indicators these are required metrics that we have to

062provide on a consistent basis every single year to be able to make sure that we are in a position where we are textbooks textbooks toilet paper and tissue for our students what we like to what we like to call it it's the basic stuff basic we in this particular space have been sufficient with all of our textbooks and I want to make sure when see those local indicators that those are required pieces that you into so that being said we're going to jump into our first set of goals and actions and what we've been doing so far thus far in the school year and I'm going to introduce Miss Christa Thompson good evening all right so I'm gonna we managed to get everything for CIA into one slide actually not every these are just a

063couple highlights um I want to talk about our big focus on structured literacy in this um especially in our early grades the foundational um we are focusing on curriculum making sure we have the appropriate curricul to support structured ly foundation so to that end we have fully implemented hegerty sips uh ready Reading Writing magnetic currently we are in the middle of a 68 pilot six through eth grade pilot invited to the public viewing this evening um which is also happening tomorrow you stop by um so we'll be adopting the six8 um Ela curriculum this year you'll be I'll be coming back to you next month for that um and then to that end we're also assessing that work um and the curriculum using Dibbles and I'll talk a little bit more about that in just

064a minute um sips and irating data show an increase in our foundational reading skills we're really excited about this data um we're starting to see some significant movement in our data for early reading so that sets up the foundation for everything else so we're very excited about that um this year we are um we're in the final year the second final year before we adopted a math curriculum um as you probably know the math framework was um adopted last year right now they are doing um approvals at the state level next year we will be uh piloting a new map program for implementation in 2627 so more to come on that um we also have a big push for Teacher Clarity standards based instruction rating and Reporting um as as you're aware so all of

065our elementary schools beginning next year will be doing standards based grading and we are still pushing to your Clarity that strong sense of learning intention success criteria assessment and feedback ensuring that our lessons are designed based on standards um students are assessed based on standards and we be the rigor of the standards um and then there's a but it's I believe it's the instructional um professional development and coaching okay yes excellent so um we're supporting all of this with our professional development and instructional coaching so we have a l lot of PD over the course of our two professional development days our pay Tuesdays through lli um profal development offered after school for extra pay and then of course our instructional coaches provided an immense service in in supporting that job embedded um support for

066teachers ands okay so the next SL yes no yes okay I'm going to take off my CIA hat I'm put on the aim hat I'm sing in Miss Cindy Queen um I'm going to share with you a little bit about what's happening with our um Department of assessment integrated technology and multilingual Learners her title is a lot longer than um so they are working in AIM on consistent training there are a lot of training there's a lot of training going on with our MLS um teachers of ml so they are doing some piloting of the of a potential new ELD curriculum using suit k12 and language power that is process right now there's going to be two different series for teach feers um for professional development one for integrated one for designated teachers um there's

067uh integrated technology there's an integrated technology coach that is tied to multilingual Learners to support that program we also have Elations to help track our MLS um and support with curriculum supports as well and so there's training um trainings through elevation that's kind of asynchronous um on the platform and then there's also strategies within elevations which is a capital S on that meaning it's there's some specific spefic strategies in that program aligned to ml instr um and then there's obviously consistent ongoing trading for our Bal Paris as well so uh to support our newcomers as well those are the folks that are less than one year in the in the country um we are supporting them using Rosetta Stone and iPads for newcomers that with the translation so as you know we have more than

068one language in our district the translation have multip languages not just believe that's it oh and the um sorry last one integrated technology coaches are consistently at site supporting at sites just like our that's it from now I'll be back to hello everyone how are you I'm going to just go over briefly how we created or integrated The Early Learning Program into the lcap the goal of the lcap goal one was to is to increase aent growth for common course state standards and what we do in early learning is build foundational skills that will then support children to be self-regulated and ready to learn and build their critical thinking and collaboration skills so one of the ways the state asked us to do that was to re-envision what a kindergarten uh the first year of

069kindergarten that TK space looked like in partnering The Early Learning and care system with the tk12 system and we we sit in this place in the middle between those two systems on this bridge called the upk bridge and we are integrating those things in ways that are asking teachers to do things differently with a different pedagogical approach meaning they're doing play based learning the state made this great graphic that it talks about uh what playful learning looks like and those are um ways that children are learning in Learning Centers and we have integrated this across our um preschool and our TK spaces we have 862 part day preschool program spots in our district which we are one of um very few districts in the state of California that has done this in such a a

070way um where we are uh leveraging funding to support children so in the 862 spots that we have um 54 of those children are enrolled dually enrolled in the utk classroom um 390 are in the preschool classroom and that includes our full and par day preschool for a total of 894 children which you can see that means we for the first time in the history of Lancaster School District have over enrolled our preschool program um at the end of the year we have an option to collect funding for that over enrollment but we're serving more way more children in the program than we have a contract for inside of that space we have 120 fully included special education students in our utk and PK classrooms uh 33 homeless and n cluster our hope uh and

071our work this year is also to be building the capacity for principles in the early learning space and to help them understand why that classroom looks different why it runs different why it has a different ratio and uh why we are Staffing it with staff that has very particular uh qualifications around Child Development so given the I'm going to give you a little bit of an update on some of the work that we've been doing with leadership this year um in this particular space I'm going to jump the leadership piece I'm going to jump into the special special implementations this year has been a big year for the continuous improvment department and the fact that we've been really focusing on trying to build back our ad program be able to build in the the process

072of building in um student mentors one of the pieces that was approved by the board recently was that agents of change and that was allowed allowed us to be able to put a class serious support for for our schools other PES that we've really focused on is those element programs which has allowed us to be able to build in plc's um on a for some of our schools twice a week for for our teachers to be able to get together and be able to work and be able to really be able to plan collaborate and do the work of analyzing the data that they're that they're using to move their school forward another the hot piece of this was going to be our visual performing arts program which is starting to ramp up um some

073of the facilities master plan that have been provided um are building that are building the facilities for us to be able to support a stronger more rigorous um Raa program in our district which we'll be known for we have Elementary music in our program as well as as well as many Arts programs which going home General all the time another piece to this um was our label School support which was recently and continues to grow in our district right now which is a mentor program that we've got with our kids right now which is something that has truly supported many of our students from the from a from a perspective of mental health being able to support students as they are experiencing issues at that particular moment in time um another piece to this is

074that for us was was the implementation of Youth truth which we continue to work through hard to make sure that that's working very well and then the next slide will go into a little bit more detail on the work that we've been doing with our leaders so with our leaders we've been supporting them through a three tier a three tier approach I like to say that we're mtss sizing our our leadership approach in L cter School District um we have all some type of an approach in which what we're doing is providing for the meetings the trainings and The Works our sale and our lead systems um throughout our district all of our principles have have access to that and we R through that the next level is the support that we're providing our our

075principles through various um various Contracting agencies 3E Consulting being one of one of them Bridges to educational Excellence as well as school services to provide services for our principles and support for our principles in any gift gave us and then finally we focus significantly on the work that we're doing with individualized coaching through those individual through those individuals through instructional rounds um and other aspects of the leadership the leadership Journey for our for our principles and our administrators students with disabilities so just to give you a quick background in 2015 there was a task force that looked at the outcomes of students with disabilities and it was dim you know High poverty students with disabilities High Dropout rates um students who really could not read as they moved out of high school low paying jobs

076PR so what they found was that we in students with disabilities need to be part of the accountability system we were two separate systems for a very very long time so they they um the state um the house Force recommended that students with disabilities part of the account ility system so then we be became part of Cal heads for the last couple of years um we were no longer a separate group so I became part of my friends over here in um differentiate assistance lcap and all those great things um part of the push was having students in least restrictive environments having students access um to their non-disabled peers and access to core and we did this by um we measured this by looking at students I when they are in general general education 80%

077or more of the day that is a metric that we use and the state uses and they give us um met they give us a Target to meet so unfortunately this state is a year behind so this is 2324 data and you will see that um we have not met our Target in 23 24 this is census State data but we also want to know um we want a progress monitor because between 23 24 and now we we've added a lot of things we've done Learning Centers in many of our schools um Dr Fountain talked about inclusion in TK our general Ed Partners um especially our teachers and our special ed teachers have worked together to really look at push and models for resource support um the beauty of IEPs and you all know I'm

078passionate about IEP it's individual it's what students need so not inclusion does not mean one size fitall it's differentiated so um looking at each student individually so we did some progress monitoring and the beauty of is we get our calpads data so I uploaded data from calpads on March 11 and we put it into a system and we see that we um passed the target so we are on target to meet the metric that the state has um provided us so when it takes the Census Data again for next year it is um looks like we are on target to meet that um CDE requirement um we pass that so um I think what we are putting in place we will continue to grow this and I really feel that our students with disabilities will

079benefit um the time they spend gener miss me all right I'm spping in for Mr hoffen to talk about our um ntss par programs so uh several years ago it's been about five or six years now we um implemented the ntss program to support our K2 teachers with um instruction with the idea behind this being that if we hit them when they're early in the K in the early grades with um prevention practices and prevention strategies and academics and behavior we will see a decrease in the need for intervention as they go up grades so just a little bit of data about where we're at with that program right now we have 138 parent Educators which is about 85% of their K2 staff are currently working at this um support in their classroom onl and

080behaviors or an academic um so what are the pairs that supporting the academics which is um really a strong piece of K2 instruction right now is small group instruction so they're a huge help with the small group instruction helping that happen um taking different groups and teaching with them um there also a very strong support with our foundational literacy program which I spoke about earlier um they're also part of the social emotional um support out on uh the playground during lunch recess kind of supporting the behers and they also supported theal arena with PBIS and preventative so what is the data look like um we're going to take a quick focus on uh their Dibbles data which is you know I said we we talk about Dibbles a little bit and our strong push on

081foundational literacy and so a little bit of data here first of all Bibles is our testment very similar to I in that it's given three times a year to students in grade 10 through second grade and it measures foundational reading skills um this is our third year implementing this assessment program we didn't have any data that spoke to foundational literacy skills like this does we're very by the business in place um so regarding this the devil's data here's some just some fun takeaways um six of our school sites have surpassed where they were at the end of last year in that grade level so let's say second grade scored 38% proficient at the end of their second grade year last year at the midyear administration of did was this year they have already surpassed that

082second grade score from last year mean and that has that has to do with instruction so um we have six of our school sites that have met that um so we're we're looking really good for the what that is an indication of is that we have very strong foundational um reacy instruction in place so five of our school sites using dig coach data are shown to have very strong implementation six which is the ccul to teach those foundational literacy skills 12 of our school sites are within 10% of meeing or exceeding that LE your data from last year in their grade level so very very close to meading the bar from last year and exceeding that and 12 grade level teams have shown growth from the beginning of the year to the middle of um

083so we're seeing some positive Trends in in our early literacy foundational data very excited about that and we like to attribute a large chunk of that success to our hello my name is abur Chavez I am the coordin of Community Schools I'm filling in for our executive director samum right now recovering Froman so we want to congratulate them for that um so I want to present on thank you I want to present on student Family Services some of the pieces that we're doing to support the academic growth of our families so one of the things that we're doing is partnering with family leadership Incorporated they're really supporting us and bringing in a couple of series of classes where it's a train the trainer model where they're training our our family ambassadors or staff oras but

084at the same time our families so our families are encouraged to come to this training session when they go back to their school sites they're expected to co-facilitate some of these sessions with our family ambassadors can reach for the E on so again as they're going through the process learning that correctly the material they're really owning it right and they're really able to go back and teach the families themselves so that's one of the things that we're doing some of the series is Pary Partners familys challenge kind um every family Ambassador in community school on at at sit or training these programs we're regularly looking to expand the programs that we're providing to our families so for example this last semester we worked with uh the aim Department to Pilot a curriculum a program called

085so this is a literacy program for our 0 to S year old uh students for the families Spanish speaking families only U often times the families are coming to us they're Spanish speaking only inan I don't know how to support my child in reading or academics or their their homework because I don't know how to read or speak English so this curriculum is really teaching them some of the foundational skills that they can do in Spanish to really build literacy capacity so not just um staying with Cent engagement we definitely wanting to build their academic skills also another thing that we're very proud of doing is working with the Department of Public Health there is a parents Ambassador leaders program where the Department of Public Health is actually taking five parents per site and they're

086actually teaching them and involving them in some courses on public health what they're required to do say go back into the community go back into the schools and teach what they're learning so today just today um Kelly and her program had an enrollment uh opportunity so kindergarten enrollment and we had several of our heal parents um asside information on public health issues on vaccinations on Asma so on all of those different concepts at the end of the program they receive a $500 gift card so they're learning um a lot of these Health um resources but they're also getting P for at the end of the day so we really love that opportunity hope that they continue getting fund for that because it cost us nothing it's being funded through them um and one of the

087things that we're doing is moving really from engaging our families to really collaborative leadership where they're part of our school councils our trip AC's so they're involved um and they have a lot of voice right they're not just sitting in the crowd they're actually part of the decision making that's a lot of what we're doing in our so wrapping up goal one jumping into goal two this is the goal that talks about Equitable learning practices and positive learning environments and in this particular space we're focusing mainly on our attend focusing on chronic abente as particular spes um in this I want I want to highlight something here chronic absenteeism overall throughout the state has been a significant number all for everybody for everybody there's everybody struggles with chronic absenteeism students um getting students to come

088to school and having them in school on a consant basis you'll see in this particular space that our Baseline year last year or last or prior year we were at 41.9% when we first started this LC cap we're current we just recently in the 24 the 2425 earlier we were at 36.2% so from 22 2223 school year that's the dashboard that's the Baseline to year one results we dropped to 36.2% currently as of today we're sitting at around 30% chronically absent so we're making positive gains in that space that's the kind of work and that's at this point in the year so we're in the process as the year gets longer which we're going to and students are showing more we are going to see less chronic absen in that space um and it's due

089to at least my theory of action in this space would be under this youth truth measure when I'm feeling upset stressed or having problems there's an adult from school who I can talk to about it that is a huge key that we have that we have' seen pop up in this district and you'll see with our middle school students that's popped up my over 25% in a position of students feeling as though that they were they had that that they have that when they have that we know that our students are going they have a reason to be they have more of a reason to be in school and they've got some likely they got a like higher likelihood to do better in their classes that they that they're in just going to let you

090sit and see a little bit of these pieces as well um again the youth Truth uh one of the youth truth with our middle schools as adults from my school stre students with respect again we got a lot of these numbers have gone North we're starting to see that our students are having a more positive perception of school on the whole which is truly a testament to the teachers and the side administrators that we have on campus that over and over and over again so that being said I'm G bring up and she's going to discuss some of the pieces with pupil safety and sorry it takes a second to get moving all right um so in terms of Department of people safety in there's a wide range of activities that we participate in across

091the school district specifically with mental health services very proud in our school district to um share we've got mental health services at every single one of our school sites so we've got school counselors at every single School site when uh there's a counselor shortage we pull a counselor from another School site to go and support that School site so our students are never left without someone there that can support them whether it's they lost their dog or there's something more pressing going on in their lives um in addition to that we have partnered with um school-based mental health therapy and so school-based mental health supports um are delivered at all of our school sites it's a referral process when something a little bit more supportive needs to be put in place for students where a

092counselor they just need something more um unfortunately Osa Creek is the one School site that we still need school-based mental health support at um due to a lack of space so hopefully with a little bit shift in their numbers next year we'll be able to get a space over there for that to get going as well um social emotional learning is is a huge piece of what we do on our school sites every single day throughout the school week our Middle School teachers got together and revamp their entire plan and output of what they're doing on a daily basis with our students as well including some academic pieces and counseling pieces in their advisory periods um then additionally we also have our alternative education sites where we have our Cubs program to really provide that

093smaller environment support for students who need something a little bit different to have some behavioral improvements that they can focus on their academics and then get back into a larger sized classroom we're proud to have that program at mon Vista and Sierra with kindergarten first grade and second grade and third grade program and newly over at Discovery Elementary the growth of a three4 program um and so really excited about that space there and then of course we've got our rise Community Day School setting for grades four through eight for students who need something a little bit different um in a more structured environment due to their behavioral causes um the last piece is I just want to throw out that for all our alternative education programs the support of the administrators the teachers on site

094the teachers and programs the school counselors our mental health support as well really helps to reshape some of our children who we had some missteps to let them know that you know there is forgiveness and that we can learn from our mistakes and go forward and focus on our tics good evening as you know I am Arie Robertson with the elop um department and the mission of the expended wining opportunities program is to provide a safe supportive and inclusive engaging environment for our TK through 8th grade students before school after school and on non- school day so with that so far this year on a daily basis we support over 2,000 students at all of our 19 schools throughout the district um and we continue to work on securing our partners continue to work on

095securing more staff so that we can always open up more seats as we maintain we usually have a wait list at most of our schools um on our structured um our structured non-school days those are our Saturdays and our intercessions during those days we always have a assembly that is a culturally relevant assembly that attaches to um a time or a idea that um has been requested and right now this year we've been using schoolyard wrap for all of our um our Saturday schools and intercessions so in our disguise learning that is a where we support the students in learning but they don't know it so right now we have a collaboration with Discovery Ed and so the students in about 10 of our schools have access to Discovery Ed which is an online platform

096we've partnered with our our partners and trained them on Discovery Ed and soundtrack so they are able to deliver lessons that are academically based but they are social studies and Science and then um along with our partners to talking about the professional development to make sure that we are continuing to offer excellent programming we also um we as the elop department also offer training for our our partners in the summertime during the school year um just to make sure that we are we have them working with our students and maintaining their um their their goals over the time and then of course we have our structured afternoon activities which are part of our after school day but then also clubs and teams that we support throughout the district at many many of our schools that's

097it all so for our goal to equable practices and environments but student Family Services ening educator sta capacity we've been focusing a lot on framework that's here for our district and we're definitely trying to implement the full framework of a lot of training really understanding uh the four pillars which is integ supports family Comm engagement learning opportunities and that collaborative leadership that I spoke onity for our families so we're really focusing on our family B school where Community School are going back to their site and our tasks to really Implement that along with a leadership collaborate leadership structure so another thing that again when we're looking at our community and our needs there's a lot of trauma in our community right so we're going to be doing a lot of trainy for family but also

098for our staff we just uh recently did a trauma resiliency trauma interviewing train we have about 80 participants and the majority of classified staff so what I like about that is that often times our classified staff of times don't have the opportunity get manage some these trainings to do a full day trading and a half day training because those are going to those trainings directly impact the work that they students with our families with our community because they're coming to our schools our families that our students traumatized right so we definitely need to be able to support them and provide a safe and weing environment so we feel that enhancing their capacity on these topics are going to be very helpful um we're also aligning across our district on PBIS supporting positive behavior interventions cours

099because again students are coming disregulated they're coming with trauma so we definitely want to provide safe positive environments for them so we're working again to bring in a lot of trainings and fast parent engagement so again we're providing our staff training on parent engagement itself because often times we just expect our staff just to know how to engage with our families but often times do that they don't know how to do that right our teachers are lacking some of those skills um and we're also enhancing the of our administrator so that that information can be shared in again in the collaborative structure and a te strategy so we're building the capacity staff to understand what are some of these strategies that they could Implement within their schools to support the overall so those are some

100the things that we're doing and the last goal that we're going to be talking about tonight is going to be our goal having to do with our safe and supportive schols in this particular space I want to jump right into the idea again talk about chronic absm a little bit we've also seen that attendance rates starting to increase space in terms of the work that we're doing there and that's an ongo goal um however I do want you to take a couple of like one piece with our elementary schools my child's learning environment is safe that's something that I think could have been said last year but it wasn't seen to the degree that we that we're seeing it now of pieces having to do with label and some of the practices that we put

101put it into the there's been a significant amount of there's been a significant amount of increase in terms of taken from our from our families so in this particular space as well um also wanted to point out the fact that we are looking at um a relativ movement in terms of the idea of people feeling empowered to be able to play a role in their s and the system that they are part of so our families just like Mr CH Dr Chavez about earlier we Council people people are making more of an effort to be in a position where they actually have some governance structures to play that role of leadership thank you so that brings me to our part of goal three um one of the big things I'd like to give a shout

102out to our school site attendance teams they are doing some powerful working School sites working together banding together to call families to meet with families home visits to really keep the focus onine getting our students in school um our student services department is done a great job partnering with health services department so that when there's health issue our ldns our RNs our health works all work together to support families and encourage bring their child on it and let's take a look at them and see if their health to keep them at school um if not of course they partner with um not only hael har but Asal Health to also make that online connection with a health provider to further investigate what's going on with your child and let's see what we can do to

103get them on the mag feeling better again about the school um our new program with Power School attendance Suite intervention is sending out monthly postcards to our families which um they're bright they're beautiful they're colorful and it just is a great opportunity digitally for family to see that postcard um through a text message or an email highlighting the success of their student with their attendance and also if they're slipping a bit drawing attention to that as well because it looks like a thermometer so green and blue of course are great and the further we get into the Red Zone we need to work on a defense and really get improving um in addition to that we also have digital Communications in terms of excessive excused absences and treny notifications as well um then into school

104safety um as you know for years we've been a closed campus district and what does that mean it that all all exterior entrances to the school sites are closed and locked throughout the school day we continue to revisit training and accountability with not only site staff but specifically safety teams that's our campus supervisors our supervision AIDS where they regularly control around campus internally to verify that subing up to their vehicle that gate is locked the entire time in addition to that as you can see from this particular slide we have a variety of implementations that we've put in place most recent of course we have our cic crisis alert system which with seconds count it makes a big difference in terms of getting support to the classroom to different areas of Campus um and if

105needed to initiate an immediate lock down across the campus as well where we're not waiting for someone to get to the phone to address the staff of opa system um in addition to that of course we've got our Raptor visited manag system that immediately scans an ID of a person to ensure their safety that they're able to actually be on our campus and around our children um supporting and and visiting in addition to that we've also got a revolve weapons detection system that has been deployed at all four of our comprehensive middle school campuses we Contin to re visit training support and sustaining that training throughout the school years it can never be just to one and done continue support our staff um and also providing some accountability along the way to make sure those

106measures are in place and consistent when all righty so under um all three say supp environment Family Services supports and um part of our department is health services so these are some of the updates that want to provide today uh the great impact that a lot of these services are kind of bringing to our school so Kinder oral assessments with Jerry Smiles we over 12200 assessments Vision to learn Rec get um 813 pairs of classes students so again I think this is significant because now our students are able to see right often times these students might be the students who are exhibiting behavioral challenges maybe loping because again they're not engaging in the curriculum because they cannot see the board right so having 83 students see is very significant and we're planning to continue increasing

107that and one of the things I book this here is our coordinat of Health Services I want to give a shout out to him because he's coordinating all of these efforts across the district it is a lot of um coordination and it's often very difficult to coordinate across the district with agenes did a great job of doing that so Hazel Health we've had over 1300 visits and that has resulted in over 3600 instructional hours save so our students are not going home anymore so when a student is saying stomach hurts my head hurts they're not just causing families and being sent home so we're doing um haal Health visits tell Health visit and that's often resulting in the student staying in the school right not being sent home uh big SM we've been able to

108service over 400 students um we also partner with Salva R um we're doing that uh for for distribution on a every two every two uh weeks we provide on average around um service on average 300 families so again this is very significant because of our demographics our population um families are need so Salva and wel W are a great job of bringing those needed meals to our families right and the vaccinations or the vaccine clinic has provided 296 vaccines since October so again all of these are very significant because they're directly impacting the health and providing safe and supportive environment for our students and our families uh with this slide I just want to again showcase I brought up family bachor in school y um just wanted to showcase that they're integrating we're integrating as

109a department into all other departments because that's why we're here we student Family Services we support everybody so just really quickly our family ambassadors are there to back family through trainings and workshops and experiences where our community school the exons are there to support the second the they're there to address the systemic needs through Community Partnership so they're really again like we talked about the previous like how lot of these agencies are not partnering with us that is a Well Community School Ison did my role and Brian's role um in bringing those resources in just wanted to share a little bit about what that looks like so I'm not going to Del this particular point but I do want to make sure that everybody's understanding that there's a significant amount there's a lot of work

110going on in our district in terms of all of the pie have with students family services and when you take it down to the educational services Department in terms of people safety and attendance all the way throughout the system there is there is a lot of Partnerships that we have a lot of friends that we have in this community and a lot of people that we serve and so doing the reason that we come to these places is to be able to really show and be able to support and show show our community how much we care about our students not just in their learning but in the whole in the whole system all for us it's about the whole child that we're looking to develop on from the forward speak towards high dosage tutoring

111more work with mention programs can be recognized that academics although this is the reason and the purpose for our for us being in the business it is also though we can't teach kids unless kids are served at that Bas level maso's hierarchy them what they but that being said I really I would like to thank the board for giving us the time tonight to be to expand on the program that we do have there's a lot we know that there's a lot we've approved a lot we worked together a lot we partnered to be able to create a system that is I feel that we can all thank you very much for questions here yeah just like that there's a lot of really positive growth in a lot of different areas that's um really exciting

112to see um and we're not just on one U measure measurement um I also like to see that um in the area of safety uh we have full lock down schools where the all the outside doors are locked and um one of my questions is are the teachers doors locked at all times throughout the day also I know that is something um we're not doing it I'd like to move towards that they have those little Stoppers that that make it convenient for teachers that they need for students to go out for just for a minute I know this is kind of off anent but kind of on the same topic too but just thought of it it's absolutely on topic and I appreciate the question that is the expectation throughout the entire school district is

113that all exterior doors Universal hallways are not only closed but locked at all times um anytime my team and I or even my teamates behind me that they're visiting School sites if they find a door that's prop open they immediately remove that trash one they removed that block it's G creating an unsafe environment we know very well what occurred in Texas it's because the door was propped open as well as other sides of so we're doing everything we can to mitigate any potential risk that we possibly can and that's one of them um what was the second well we don't have really need for door stoppers because all of our doors are that is correct and I would say it also extends to our district office um arv and also at Cedar all our doors

114that's just um that's just the way it and every single entrance that is open for the public has a secondary door that's locked so um that's been an emphasis we put on our did a great job with um maintenance and operations to get that taken care of over the last year several years not sure if much for you Kim but um I've noticed some of the schools are starting book clubs is that part of the clubs at the schools yes that that's one of the things that again in partnership with the school and class departments will definitely do that Joshua started a book club recently uh with students and I want to say they have over 60 or 70 students par participating actively in that book club which is amazing to see right were um

115having the students be interested in reading and taking that time to engage in that other things um and so Dr J at monista is also spearheading our Battle of the books and so that is an automatic elop club that will be sponsored and students get to keep their books they um read their books kind of like the black knowledge B when they um are Hispanic History knowledge B and they get their information and then they have a contest so that should be coming um at the end of the school year toward the end of the school year as they are competing their groups together their teams together and then they'll start competing on a smaller level to the district level and outside of the district as well well I I heard about it uh from

116one of the schools and the uh students are getting their Lexile levels and it's impressing them that they're reading at a level higher than their class so I wanted to say uh sounds like a good start to get these uh children and possibly their parents involved we're looking we're really looking forward to the competition and uh I believe that every child should have a book any book get a book you got a book for Christmas you got a book for your birthday you got a book for the end of the school year you got a book for the beginning of the school year you got a book and a in my classroom student to adults and they hate it but uh that's what I do if anybody wants to a book club let me know

117because I want to start one uh but yes but thank you for that question but that's actually happening in our schools a lot and we do want to start something with families too with our parents so that they can engage in the academic fe uh I know working with our director a uh with Cindy we're also looking to be ESO classes right where our families are learning how to read and write in English but we also to read write in Spanish so that they continue that um language right so we definitely want them to engage in the academic Theses of reading and writing with the students so that's very exciting those are things that working for towards future thank you to individual action items business adoption of resolution 2024 2025 to resolution approving the associate

118membership agreement joining the education technology joint Authority motion by second by all in favor motion passes 5 approval of attendance zone changes for armor go Creek and deist in motion by Mr second second by Mr Giles all in favor motion pass 5 individual action items Human Resources approval of coordinator of special education Rachel holes second shler excuse me my voice has been a little squeaky the past week to get through this um Rachel is presently our lead speech language pathologist working in special education she spent 17 years as a speech language pathologist with 15 of those years in Lancer School District she graduated from the University of r Iona and are in the speech language pathologist of the year in 2011 2016 and 2020 additionally she was named special education support staff of the year

119in 2013 she also received the inaugural Force for good award from the University of St Augustine in 2021 Rachel is most proud of the Innovative speech Intervention Program developed but to provide language based support via mtss and add the needs of our youngest Learners she loves spending days with her family at the beach working in her Greenhouse watching her daughter complete compete in horseback riding and supporting her son's boy scout USA Journey as he is currently working on his Eagle Scout project she's with us in the audience tonight with her family welome director of facilities and construction Bob Moody motion by Mr Giles second by Mr ke all right Rob is currently the director of operations for the Lancaster School District he began working in education with the Lancaster School District 32 years ago starting

120as a custodian one in June of 1993 Rob promoted to custodian 2 then Lee custodian then maintenance one then maintenance three then maintenance four then supervisor of operations he's finally earned this last promotion this evening director of operations uh with over 21 years as Lead Supervisor Andor director Rod takes great pride in the growth of the facilities Department he says alongside my colleague Dean we have helped shape the department into the efficient skill team it is today through deliberate planning and Hands-On leadership we've expanded the maintenance grounds security and custodial Staffing introduced a night maintenance team weekend crews and enhance the overall operations competence and ability of the facility staff as a run I'm proud of the strong versatile team Dean and I have built and the lasting impact our improvements have made on the

121facility facilities department when he's not running facilities Rob enjoys his family camping and the beach and he's here with us tonight right all in favor motion passes Contin approval of director of classified Personnel sh pulos second by Mr W and this one's coming to my department relle has been in education for 28 years and was the principal at Amarosa Creek for a decade before that she was the APF p with me and taught at amoa cre for 12 years teaching sixth grade and eighth grade Algebra her biggest to get educational compliments accomplishments were earning her first master's degree in curriculum instruction and a second one in administration she is most proud of raising two amazing kids the first one attended Cal State Monterey Bay and the second one went to San Diego State both are

122now adulting when she is not running ammer grocer Creek she likes to run hike stay active and be outside she's with us in the audience all in favor all pass is 5 Z all right addressing the board individuals who wish to address the board May complete a speaker cardum and present it and any supporting documents to the superintendent's assistant and other District official prior to the start of the meeting personal information such as a student parent Guardians name address phone number data email address and other directory information is defined in the Education Code 4961 may be excluded from the minutes of the meeting by submitting a written request to the superintendent president shall recognize individuals who wish to speak individuals wishing to testimony to the board concerning specific items on the agenda may do so

123once that item has been moved seconded and is on the floor for discussion time limit to 3 minutes per person and 20 minutes per item shall be allowed bylaws 93 to2 members may ask questions for clarification purposes however no action may be taken and no decision may take place on an item not on the posted agenda Brown act comments from PTA CA how welcome Gina good evening everyone uh it's been a long week already it's Tuesday it's been a long night um I wanted just talk for a couple minutes about um the impact that this year has had on teachers and my members my slbs counselors and everyone within Town membership you know we've all worked harder than we've ever work worked teaching has changed everything has gotten um exponentially more difficult since Co and

124just you know just in but I want to talk for a minute about communication and how we can all work I think to improve communication so that it doesn't make our jobs more difficult um I want to acknowledge some of the teachers that are here tonight for Discovery Elementary School um I not as much as they have but we we've had uh some difficult difficulty this last uh several days I think that we could address those issues by communicating and communicating our plans and maybe vetting those plans um better and think about the impact that those changes could have on the staff I know that they've had a difficult time over this last several days wondering and feeling like maybe the district didn't appreciate and value them much as I know that we clearly do

125so I'll leave you with that Dr maretti I know that you're going to be paying a visit Thursday and I really appreciate you going out to to hear their concerns yeah and I do want to thank the discovery staff for being here I want to thank the discovery staff for holding me accountable I am far from perfect and I I make decisions and the best sisters of children but sometimes not always correct um decision were making was the best interest of Discovery School apologize and that issue has been resolved and seek to do better in the future I hope you all have R nice comments from the audience [Music] will be the moment if you want to break free probably should go right [Music] now there's a fun part for everyone that say cons send

126agenda item superintendent items 16a to 16g I get a motion motion motion by Mr Gil second by Mrs yuser all in favor any questions motion passes 5 Z consent agenda items business items 17A through 17n motion by Mr ke second by Mr ly all in favor I motion passes 5 Z consent agenda items Educational Services items 188 through 18K Mr Gs all favor questions item resource servic items 19 a through 19 B by m second by Mr T one obain all in favor motion passes for one not stay consent agenda item student and family Services 28 through 20f motion motion by Mr W second by Mr Giles all in favor questions motion passes 5 legisl policy decision discussion comments from the board and superintendent start out okay thank you guys for hang in there it's

127been fun um thanks to fton I guess principal he was here I guess SLE y but thank you for Fon for the presentations that was very informative been and fun and I think I learned a little bit more about fton thanks to CFW for his presentation it's cool to see Sunny Dale is underway and hopefully we learned a few things and we'll stuff fixed up and spend the money before or it's worthless uh thanks M for your work on the all the Zone exemption or the Zone zones not the Zone exemptions zones Dr going with your LC cap crew thank you for your whole group I mean you guys all did a great job I mean so much information but you guys really do do a good job if we were brand new board members

128we would be flush with questions but you answer them all so thank you guys and congratulations on our new to promote promotes Mrs Holmes Mr Moody and M pulos you guys are all welld deserving and you guys all go out and have some ice cream or something cool tonight and that I'll thank you guys guys for hanging out and making it fun for us too way too doing a great job CFW have also hand it to Dr free and Dr Marti taking it to San Francisco and getting us higher Bond [Music] rating in light of everything that's going on in the state and even in the federal government we improved our standing fantastic Dr also for his uh diligence at the Ido Valley School transportation uh he's no longer the president but I think they

129still treat him like President they asked him all of the questions thank you for making uh another pass to my job iing agreement it's okay I enjoy [Music] it all district is looking very like Gord who can collabor whole group collabor great that okay yeah a lot to talk about first off in allsbury I agree I learned a lot about the different programs that the kids are involved with there I thought it was neat that they presented a lot of it themselves and um wow there's just a whole lot going on at this school and and uh the kids are doing great all the different awards they're winning um in the makers fair in the robotics uh Science Olympiad uh so great to see uh keep up the great work um also CFW thank you

130for helping us with the fonding and all the um administrators and uh staff that helped um with uh improving our school you know our rating uh that's fantastic like Mr W suggested a lot in this environment it's very difficult to do so great work to to everyone uh in those areas um also um midd School attendance boundaries I'm glad we're addressing that and helping to even out our middle schools and um great present uh for all the different uh things tonight and especially the lcap uh with everyone involved with that and it was neat to see um the perceptions of the parents and students is improving in a lot of different areas so that's you know things are improving when their perceptions are improving because they're the ones there every day they're experiencing it they're

131seeing it so uh proof is in theing as you say um also school safety glad to see that we're locking down our school working on that the uh entrances to our schools uh also with the middle schools with the detecting systems and that we're continuing with training in that and also uh with the attendance uh today's environment 91% attendance and working to get up to 94% that's really good as well um great job to see promotions homes Moody andos I know they've really been working in our district a long time so it's need to see those people being promoted and our kids were at Armor Goa for probably most of those years that was there too so great to see that everything has been said however um I just want to you know fold in

132Milbury was wonderful hear from the kids um and the fact that they are so proud and so involved in what's going on at the school I think that was kind of a take away for me um the progress report on the bond is always good to hear it's nice to see where the money's going um and that we do servic team wow okay that's all I'm gonna say um you guys did a great job very thorough lots of information and that we haven't a lot of information and really really well presented um Rob Rachel I've known you guys forever so happy to see that you're moving District great you'll be in positions leadership and hey um first off if you had an opportunity to go out to be here at Park around one o'clock today

13312:30 we had a carnival that was amazing over a thousand I believe over a thousand people attended train and we had barard animals we had a pH party food and um it was and all the schools were represented with their kindergarten team and registering kids so that was a wonderful experence and uh I do want to acknowledge the presentation and the collaboration uh between all of our departments and the hard work that all of our um departments do together collaboratively um working in the best interest to serve the whole CH look forward to Spring breaking thank you I will also Al and author presentation so Mr and his students um pretty hard for to get up and speak in front of audience so the kids did an absolute phenomenal job getting up and expressing their

134excitement for everything that they were involved in and letting us know where they've been where they're going so um I haven't had an opport to go and look at their robotics personally but that's something that I'm most definitely interested in doing in the future um Mr Flores again made a stellar report and letting us know about our money and our bonds and the the way that the money is going to work for us and the schools so I look forward to seeing um an updated report in April to give us the progress on that this coch as usual you do a wonderful job at protecting our schools our students staff um continue doing that I do look forward to seeing what the outcomes going to be on the changing of those uh borders as far

135as the schools I do think that based on your explanation that it's going to take a lot of pressure off our and it's got to redirect a lot of students places that they can be easier to get and I think it's more important make sure our students are arriving at school on time so they can get all the education that our teachers have to get so thank you very much um Dr go always appreciate your presentation I really really enjoy being able to get um each person that's in charge of their departments to express what's going on in their Department it really helps me put a face to what everyone's doing and the responsibilities that they have and I am enjoying the feedback and seeing the members increase I know we still have a lot

136of work to do based on what I heard to tonight we're we're moving in a really positive direction so I can't actually wait until 2026 to see our numbers reach those goals thank you very much congratulations to the promotions of Melle Ro and um Rachel um I am very impressed with the fact that we retain employees that we have where they're putting decades and Decades of commitment so I'm glad that apparently something right to keep and um promotion's great um Gina thank you for expressing the concern we are human you know our directors do the things that they think that they should do at the time it doesn't mean that we're not going to make mistakes or missteps or misjudgment but we are we do have the ability and they do have the ability to

137stand up and say hey think I got it wrong this time so you know not that we don't want to continue to do that in the future you know as far as progressing our schools but we want to make sure that we do not make any of our employees feel like they're not because by all means without our teachers and our support staff we cannot exist and be the district that we are continue to grow we're going to continue to work the best that we can to make sure that we're doing the best for everyone involve students and our teachers thank you for expressing that now as far as all of our programs I had opportunity to go to Joshua they had a women's um health and wellness fair that was really really nice um

138there's a lot of things going on because it is the women's history month so look to every woman and tell them thank you because we're powerful um El Dorado is going to be doing a dancer site on Friday at anope Valley College so if you have an opportunity it's supposed to be I believe they're performing art center there 7:30 I'm out see our teams they they always perform at our our part event so get out there and see him and support them other than that another successful meeting in the book and 14 it's been an early evening so um be able 8:4 as long as I can get a motion oh wow I click that TV secondment all in favor all right I know there's no questions motion passes 5 have a wonderful evening do

139you and