001Everyone is now 5:37. Is there a motion of the >> So moved. Second. >> Second. Item number eight. Tonight, it is my pleasure to introduce one of the driving forces behind the incredible climate culture and student experience at Water High School, our outstanding leadership students and their fierce leader, Mr. Bra. Atwater, leadership is much more than a class. They are the heartbeat of our campus. They create opportunities for students to connect, lead, serve, and take pride in our school and community. Mr. Braa has dedicated countless hours to shaping not only student leaders on our campus, but future leaders for our entire community. We are incredibly passion and our leadership students high school. Good evening, Superintendent Peterson, Mrs. Cabinet President, Jainga, and board. My name is Nathan Braen. I'm the activities director here at Outwater High.
002Thank you for having us tonight. I'm with some of Atwater High's best to talk about what we do in our class and student activities here at AHS. The girls here will introduce themselves and go through a slideshow that they've prepared. >> Hi, I'm Shayla Dominguez. I'm this year's ASB president. >> My name is Elisa and I'm the current senior class president. >> Hi, my name is Ashley Gonzalez and I'm next year's elective senior class president. That's a little taste of what it's like to be at High School. Who are we? We put on school events and help all other groups on campus. This past year, we had 150 kids sign up to be in the leadership class. And The 15 students, we kept 105 students. All 105 students in leadership have at least a 3.0
003GPA. All of the elected officers have at least a 3.5 GPA. And every student in our class has zero to little discipline. Also, 90% of the seniors in the leadership class are going to college after high school. What we do leadership has three main jobs. First, our job is to promote school spirit. We want to be known as the spirit of the school, the one with big student sections where everyone dresses up on dress up days. Second, our job is to get students involved. There are 2015 students at Outwater High School and 1,828 of those students are involved in extracurricular activities. Again, there are students atwater high school and 1,828 of those students are involved in extracurriculars at our school. That is 90.7% of our school. Lastly, Mr. wants us to volunteer our time to
004help our community, which we will talk about later on. We are known for putting on iconic events such as homecoming, rallies, prom, and tomorrow we have powder pup. So, let us know Mr. Peterson. We like to have unique events, too. One would be our traditional powder toss that our seniors do on their last day of school. We are also one of the first schools to put on the the wish rally. And we've kept tradition alive by having our homecoming parade every year. Our clubs are the backbone of our amazing student involvement. We have a total of 44 clubs including from an outdoor club to chess club. Most clubs are ran by non-leadership students and are led by HS staff who volunteer the time and simply do it to make our school a very special place.
005One teacher that comes to mind is Mr. Jimmy Brewer. He has been the FCA adviser for at least 25 years. FCA has FCA has meetings every week on Mondays and they've been having them for at least 25 years. We appreciate Mr. Brewer and teachers like him. Community service. Mr. has us volunteer when we ca when we can to help out local community organizations. Throughout this year, we volunteered for about 35 community service events. That includes Operation Christmas Star with the Merced County Sheriff's, the elementary drugstore project, the I Love Winton Community Cleanup, and we've also done tours for different class reunions. 92% of the seniors in the leadership class will get a white cord, which means we have had at least 250 hours of community service. Now for impact, we hope that our class makes
006a difference and that every student at Outwater High School has a great high school experience. We love to put on our wish rally where we raise money and grant wishes for our peers. We are very proud of our involvement numbers and we feel with our strong social media presence that all future Falcons know how to get involved and stay involved. Lastly, it's pretty awesome that the last several senior classes have given senior gifts that help at our high school such as murals in the gym, new inflatable tunnels, different sound systems, and this year my class is giving a new Freddy the Falcon mascot. Student Coming into high school, I was a very shy and and very hesitant to put myself out there. Over the past four years, leadership has made a positive impact. Through getting
007involved in school activities, events, and serving others, I learned that my ideas and voice matter. Now, as a senior, I'm no longer afraid to lead, speak publicly, or step outside my comfort zone. Leadership didn't just make me more involved at school. It helped me as a person and prepared me for my future. >> I've been doing this for a while now and kids like these are pretty special. Um Shayla, if you would have told me four years ago that she would be the ASB president her senior year and speaking at a board meeting, I would thought you were taking crazy. I think she said maybe three words her whole fresh air and it was hi Mr. She's literally one of the best presidents we've had in these last 19 years that I've been here. Um,
008I guess in closing, I'm pretty confident that all those kids, that's last year's senior class, that they love this place. And, uh, these young ladies and the kids in my class, we're going to do our best to work hard and get the whole student body involved and do the best we can to give our special. Thank you for your time. We just have a couple comments. Shayla, you're making me get tearful. Mr. Bra is making you get tearful. But thank you ladies for coming and sharing and presenting and um it is exceptional and not normal to have that number of students getting the white cord for community involvement. So Mr. Braa, that's kudos to you for really encouraging that exceptional. Um, this is a very very busy time of year for all of the seniors
009and staff and as trustees we try to get around to as many senior activities as possible as well. And so one of those that we've had recently is lunch with the superintendent and have you had your water yet? Yes. Okay, I missed it. I'm sorry. But at two other sites, they talked about declining student engagement. Um, and I'm just curious if you've experienced that here at Atwater. It sounds like not. I mean, you're doing all these incredible things. >> No, we we've had slight decline. Um, I mean, I got to give credit where credits do. Our FFA department, that's where we get a lot of our stats from. But I think a big key is we have so many staff members that take on these club duties and they do it outside of their time.
010They do it like being around kids and just helping the school. I think I found out today been here 29 years a meeting or get together for FCA for 29 years. This is the only school I've been at. So I I I think that's incredible. But FFA, FCA, we have something for every kid. >> And you still have great attendance at and dances and things like that. >> Yeah, we had a huge problem this past Saturday. One of the best ones we've had. So, yeah, our homecoming dance was big and good. >> Thank you all for your leadership. >> Nice presentation. Two seniors, right? Three of you. What are your plans after school? >> After high school, I plan to go to Fresno State for psychology. After high school, I will also attend state and
011major. >> One other comment. Before we move on, Mr. student involvement here is outstanding mainly because of your consistency. You're 19. You have a little one at home, but the energy you bring to this program hasn't changed. And it's what makes people like me here. But when I had to leave, I had tears in my eyes when I had the feeling. Mr. It's not like one of the other. Thank you everybody. I'd like to take a moment again and our incredible leadership students for everything they do for high school. Though we are wrapping up the school year, there are still so many great things This Saturday we will host the reading extravaganza providing free books to local children and families. This event is a wonderful opportunity to spark literacy while bringing our community together in
012a positive meaningful way. Next weeks is also honored to host the MUSD service and categor app and preparing to honor our classified staff next week. I want to take this time to recognize the incredible staff of high school. The great things happening at Outwater are only possible because of the people who show up every day committed to supporting students and one another. Our grounds and facilities have never looked better. Our office staff continually go above and beyond to support students and staff with care and professionalism. and our leazison keep our campus safe while also building positive relationships with students. This year our teachers have to step up by embracing the district's instructional goals around deeper learning and teaching instructional leadership team instruction and staff growth throughout the year. In addition, all teachers delivered character lessons
013throughout the year to better support. Truly what makes high school so special is the number of staff who chose to give more of themselves as mentors and leaders who consistently show up for our students. that we are incredibly such a dedicated staff. Their commitment is the reason for the success and culture that make high school such a special place. I am truly grateful for allowing me to share my app and thank you for your ongoing support. Mrs. Parley, do you mind if I ask you a question? Sorry. Character Strong also came up at one of our student lunches and I wondered how you implement it here and how students receive it. >> Well, it's been a transition over the last four years that I have been here. It was originally in the social studies department
014and then it moved to the English department and then we moved it back to part social studies and part and we had conversations and didn't allow our social English teachers to be able to have the time they needed the school year to fulfill all of their instructional needs in so had some conversations with some of our department chairs and other site staff and we made the decision that we were going to part of of are currently adopting which was our assembly schedule. Um and so we put some time into it last year. We brought on some grade level. So teachers that were grade level teaching we had come in at our startup school started and gave us kind of an overall what do our student body so that we flex Fridays throughout the year and
015we switched to that That assembly schedule allowed for about 40 minutes for our character lessons. And a few months ago, we had some conversations about possibly the um certificate staff voting to change the schedule. They didn't feel my support. We changed that schedule. So now we have 22 minutes every other Friday schools drops and teaches that lesson teachers with that class. We've also taken advantage of that time and we've done some early things whether >> thank you for sharing that and have you got what is the student feedback Um when we have gone in classes we felt that the students were sometimes questioner waffles or pancakes. Sometimes some of the questions rel always have something that they appreciated by our students. And so I think all >> Thank you. I appreciate that you recognize your
016team here and um for sharing what you're doing here and taking staff feedback to develop a program. And do you wear royal blue every day? com. It not on the yellow card to speak it on the return of the public invited to on the subject. issue. Individuals who wish to It shall be comments. Apologize and I'll be fast. Anyway, good evening members of the board of trustees administrator staff and guests. My name is Marcia and I've been privileged to serend the last two decades teaching economics and government. I have always loved my profession and consider myself a dedicated educator. However, after student and other challenging behaviors in speaking with other teachers, I learned these issues even more common. This trip was concerning because these behaviors not only impact student learning but also the development of
017responsibility, accountability and character of our students. Like many became increasingly concerned about the future challenges facing public school began teacher position high school became available. I saw this as an opportunity to address these disciplinary challenges. I applied for the position and was given the opportunity to be the teacher. Since stepping into this role, I have discovered that the technology and tools currently available to our centers in our district are inadequate. We are essentally using 20th century methods for 21st century. Too much time is wasted manually data students trajectory for deeper conversations with both students and parents. that help reset their moral compass and foster personal accountability. After navigating the first semester this year and seeing improvements in both ties and behavior began developing a tool to modernize our intervention centers. I call this tool compass
018guidance systems. This application would allow intervention center teachers the ability to extract data from identify students requences system. the scheduling of detentions and Saturday maintains a centralized calendar to parents and students provides a real pending pastenced provid difference for those notes have decreased by 300%. just to really grasp in the last years I've known teachers have lost faith in teachers and so entries were not so incident You will notice that incident behavior went up because teachers saw that I was calling students to seeing problems and teachers were there for years. So I leave you with that. I hope the district will consider talking this year to cars over this year. I wanted to push myself. Thank you for your time. This is a software program and I reached out to high studentana. It's pretty easy
019and what we did allies attention Is it an app? >> It is an app. Good evening. I wanted to give a quick attendance update. As we all know, when we came back from our attendance suffering and so we've been working diligently to try and increase attendance. So, I'm gonna share a little bit of data with you. First, I just wanted you to see our enrollment numbers. The ones in green are up slightly. You can see overall districtwide, um, I ran this, this is our average daily enrollment number from the first day of school till the last day of March, and we're up about 20 students this year. percent of ADA um isn't quite where it was pre- pandemic, but uh when we first came back, we were probably around 91 92%. So, we are seeing
020some increases. Um the schools in green have been able to increase from from last year. I want to give a shout out to our site attendance staff who work diligently every day to track all the kids who are not coming to school. And I also want to give out a shout out to Kelly Sharp, our program administrator, who is sitting over there who puts all the protocols in place and trains all of our staff and she does it all behind the scenes and doesn't like to be the center of attention. Um, some of the interventions that we've done is we had a big focus on connection to school when we came back from CO that's made an impact. We've changed our counseling program so that we can intervene with students. We have mental health clinicians
021on every site. We changed and revamped our start process so when we bring parents in for these meetings, we We don't talk about punitive measures. We talk about how to support students and then we ask questions to try and figure out what they like so we can get students engaged on campus. We have incentive programs. This doesn't mean kids just perfect attendance. It could be even if we're seeing an increase in attendance. We might offer an incentive for that. This year, um, Kelly helped pilot the short-term independent studies. So, students who are gone 5 to 15 days for a variety of reasons, mostly medical, some college visits, um, there's a variety of things. We piloted this program so we can collect the time those students are gone for those 5 to 15 days. We also
022have after school ADA recovery this year. Um it's been a little glitchy and we're going to work on those glitches and hopefully have this up and running stronger next year to help with our attendance. We have Saturday school recovery. We have our SAR board that um we bring parents and families to to try and be supportive and find out what we can do to get them to school. We've made 95 referrals to SAR this year. So, um, those are all meetings that we have community members, uh, district attorney's office, people all come together to try and and find ways to get the kids to school. As a result of the, uh, SAR meetings, we've had 77 referrals to probation and we've had 18 referrals to the district attorney for SAR violations. So, joining me tonight
023is SA and she's going to talk about um, the Here to Learn program and what happens after we refer them for SAR violations. Good evening. Thank you so much for allowing me to come here today. I'm gonna give you an update on our here to learn program as well as a legislative update to tell you kind of how the laws have changed and how we program. So the here to learn program is almost 10 years old. It is a partnership between my office and the school districts in which we provide an investigator and support staff to help the schools in school. So this last year we saw a pivot in the legisle. So historically the charges that we would file against parents were misdemeanor. The punishment the last few years was one year of probation.
024Um so kids go through all the processes that were just um that was what you were looking at once you got to court. So the legislature looked at this law and they decided they wanted to pivot away from criminalizing truency and shift towards more supportive intervention. So they did away with 270.1 but the educational code infraction still remains and so code 48293 has kind of the same responsibility that parents have to send their kids to school and there is punishment attached to it as an infraction that's surrounded by fines. So first conviction $100, second conviction $250 or more than $500. But with those convictions, the court may also order the person who's convicted to enroll into some sort of educational program. And if they do not complete the program, then our county, we have our
025safe program. So supporting attendance and families through education. It's a one day class that we offer several times a year in partnership with school districts for parents to teach them about why sending their kids to school is important. So that's the educational program that we offer. So we had to look at how how we were going to shift and how we going to use this to engage parents, keep them accountable and most importantly get their kids in school. So the goal is to make sure that kids are in school meaningfully participating in their education so they can be productive. My job as district attorney is to hold people accountable and make sure that we're keeping our community safe. The most important thing that I can do to keep our community safe is to invest in
026our kids so I do not have to see them later on. And so that's why investing in this program investing in our youth is so important to me. So what are we going to do now? How are we going to meet this goal? And so we kind of had to reimag our program this year. And so what we've done to the here to learn collaborative court. So for those of you who don't know a collaborative court um is a court that is aimed at a specific type of crime that is just like it says it's collaborative in nature. It is aimed at rehabilitation. So it's not just cases end up on a calendar influence and they're kind of lumped in with everything else. collaborative courts for instance people going through drug treatment we have drug
027treatment we have uh veterans treatment court very specialized court so I approached our superior court with the support of our superintendent and said you know we invest in all these other areas we need to invest in our youth and so graciously agreed to create here collaborative court so this is what we have started this year we uh are now filing these educational I just went over and placed on this collaborative court that takes place once a month out at Jal. So it's at the juvenile justice court. We wanted it to be specifically with that judge because that judge has experience working as well as the juveniles directly. So we thought it would be a very good approach. So what happens in this collaborative court is upon filing the refer to the learn. They are if
028they decide to enroll in court if they don't want to plead guilty to the punishments that we just went over. They ordered once every other month, take their child to school. unexused absences in one year and participate in a safe class. Beyond that um we are looking into what is the specialized needs of each family, what is the child facing, what is the parent facing, what is the impediment from getting them to school and coming up with a specialized plan. So our role in this is our legal process clerk um our investigator go to court and I say assigned but I have decided that I personally I'm going to handle this calendar through the end of the year because I'm very invested in success and I want to make sure that it'll tell you a
029little bit earlier this week we provide the court with updated attendance records and provide support to parents to overcome those barriers I said to So after the parents show success and do all the things. So um we've now had three learn calendars. Um it's a slow moving process. We kind of had to um go back to our case our backlog of cases, get everything amended, make sure everything was charged correctly. So we just had our third here to learn on Monday. Um we had about 10 families show up. We had um a few of them actually plead guilty. One parent was fined $500. Um the ones that plead guilty were ordered into our class. given a future court date to make sure they comply with that. We had two parents um that took enem children
030to court with them, which I thought was a good thing. Um they said that they wanted their kids to see, you know, what the consequences were and what they were dealing with and really asking the judge, you know, please help me with this. And so it was positive experience. Um I'm very hopeful for it. Um and so that was our first one. Uh we're going to do it once a month. And so it'll be you know it's a yearong program we kind of see our first success story but off to a strong start so far and some other things that we've done to kind of revamp our toarn program is increase our reporting back to the school districts. So historically we were just turning over a report that kind of had just very basic data
031but this year we work closely with the school districts to give more details in what is going on. So these are some examples of the things that my office assists with and the things that we report back to the school district of home visits number of parents that we attended serving warrants for people who failed to appear in court number. We just hosted two trainings at our office for school districts uh for administrators to talk to them about the proper documentation that's needed for these cases when they come to our office. communicating reasons like when we don't file cases and what we success So, we're off to a good start and I just want to thank you guys for your support and ask if you have any questions. >> Good afternoon, district attorney. So, quick
032question. Let me review this from every other month. Is that right? So, six times a year. >> Not every month. They go every other month. I know things. You have your program. Sometimes they don't follow or sometimes tighter. >> Is it going well between you and your >> Yes. Like I said, it's only our third one. So, we got to get it off the ground. Uh but he's very he's very invested in it, you know. Um we're going to meet our next date and so I think it is going well >> because I saw that obviously No, I said 10 showed up. Signed up. Yeah. Yeah. We got we got to get them into court. That's something else that my office has now taken on. They can't say I didn't know about it. Thank you
033for the presentation. First question is improved or help. hard to track because we have to rely on the site to notify us that they have violated their um before we make the next step. So if they violate and it comes to our office then Kelly takes the next steps prior to everything there's supports in there but there's a punitive aspect to it. So looking at the slide that um what does that look like for a student? So shortterm independent studies coming to school. >> Correct. So we don't use short-term independent studies just because they're not coming to school. If they have a health condition, if they're um going with their family on a trip to Mexico, that happens a lot around Christmas time. We use short-term independent studies for that. So what are some of
034the different things I know um all the schools working very hard on engagement at water you know 90% which is phenomenal um what are some of the other things that are happening prior to the interventions we have our counseling programs so we've asked we've asked counselors that so we're referring we've held here probably has a number on the top of her she's smart and remembers that kind of stuff. Um we have increased our SSTs probably by 10 t times the normal amount um over the last couple of years. So that's one of the things and they're very supportive. We're we um bring the nurse in for those meetings so that we can find out is there a health condition? Um how can we accommodate? We get a lot of doctor's notes for anxiety. Students don't
035come to school because of anxiety. Um it's debatable whether it's just anxiety or if it's just normal response and they don't have the coping skills. So refering out to Sierra Vista to do groups. We have our intervention um coordinators who will be presenting tonight that that do groups. Those are those are all supportive measures that we do as interventions. >> Um it it depends on the kid. Yeah, every situation is different. Um so really the biggest thing is trying to get them connected to school. If they have some reason to come to school once we get them here, we can keep them. Thank you. Thank you both. I have a couple questions, too. Sorry. First one's for you, Christie. Um, the independent studies program, that's new this year. >> Yes. Um, yes. >> So, it's
036not run through independent high school, right? It's run through the site. If if the parent notifies that they need to be gone for 5 to 15 days, we review the criteria and then we offer them that program so that they can continue in their studies. >> And I'm sure we don't want to necessarily encourage this, but >> my and all went to MWain and it was a very known um option and used very very often. >> Um so I feel like it could be something that really did benefit students and obviously our ADA numbers. >> Yes. And so we we didn't want to roll it out and find out all the mistakes that we made. So Kelly we had I had her roll it out at Merced High School first. Um, we piloted two different
037options and then we worked with them to decide which one we like the best and now we have also used it at UHack and El Capitan High School. So, we've done it at three schools this year and we're going to train our administrators this summer and roll it out full scale and advertise it for next year. >> Okay, great. I mean, and it is a burden on teachers, right? I mean, they have to it's a lot of work. Yes. But since a lot of things are online now, it does seem a little more feasible. Okay. Um, thank you. Um, question district attorney sa. So I understand I mean I think we all want to offer people support and right but I imagine there has to be some teeth to this also or why do they
038even need to show up? So obviously there's $1,000 fine. People can't pay the fine. What happens? I mean how how do we do how do we make sure this makes an impact? So they Yes. So I do think that fines have a bigger impact than the probation like I said because they were just going on a bank case load. There was no oversight and that's through no fault of probation. They have other things to deal with. You know what I mean? So I think that a fine is much scarier to parents. So they're put they can be on a payment plan if they cannot afford it. But our court does send people to collections if they do not pay their fines. And the other thing that we're doing now that the judge admonished the people
039that pled you know just because you pleaded this doesn't mean that we're not we're done here. You know, we can continue to file against you. And so the act of having to come to court and getting hassled by being brought in and stuff like hopefully easier to send your kids to school instead of having to keep going and dealing with paying fines and being sent. >> Okay. Thank you. And I assume that there's a cost to this. And how is that shared? >> Cost to to you. for your staff for running a program like this. >> That's that's the partnership that we have. Yeah. With the school districts that everybody pays a portion um for the investigator. So that's the program that we've had since 2017. >> Thank you for coming and sharing. >> On
040the fines, it says three or more convictions. Fines not more than 500. Is that per conviction? >> No, it's on your conviction it's $500. >> So then you have a fourth is another 500 or >> it can be Yeah, it can be 500 at that time. So once you hit the 500, you don't go back. >> Got it. >> Well, thank you for what you're doing. >> Thank you very much. Item 11 induction program update. Good evening. Our new teacher support program includes our induction program and the induction program helps our teachers with preliminary credentials get do the necessary measures to get their clear credential. Um we've run our own induction program in NUHSD for quite some time now. Um, so tonight, Kim Bur, who's program administrator, and Linda Gonzalez, one of our new teacher
041support mentors, are going to share our program with you. >> Good evening, board president Jasinga, board members, Superintendent Peterson, cabinet, Mrs. Robeck, and Mrs. Wilson. Um, I am here with Linda Gonzalez, who uh is now officially our lead mentor. So, Linda has stepped into a role of taking on many additional responsibilities as we enter an accreditation cycle for induction. Um, and we are really indebted to her for all the work she's already done. So, that this is our team. Um, and we have Becky Gibson who has served in the Merced Union High School District for many years who is retiring this year. And so, we are bringing on Kayn Davenport who is currently an agriculture teacher. Um, at Capitan. So, we're excited about that. We won't miss. >> Hello. Good evening. Board of Trustees, Superintendent
042Peterson, Miss Wilson, and Miss Roback. Got it. Okay. Um before we begin, let's just what exactly is induction? It is our job embedded program in which new teachers uh with a preliminary credential out of the credential program need to go through some coursework experience on the job to properly clear their credential and we do that during their work hours job program. Um we've had it for more than 20 years and this is their way of clearing their credential by working for typically two years for most of them. just one day decide to sign up and and be one. As great as that sounds, you have to also be a sponsored approved program from the state of California through the Commission of Teaching Credentials, CTC. Um, and to do that, you have to go through a
043seven-year process. Um, I guess the best way to describe it is it's similar to what sites experience through WASK, so something of that nature. Um, and ours is seven years with specific things to do per year. And with that, in Bakersfield. There are we are one of 25 uh programs such as us who have our own program within our district. So, it's very special and definitely helpful for our teachers because we're able to support them not only to be lifelong effective educators, but also um specific to what our district needs are. So, this is what accreditation looks like for an induction program. It's seven years. Um we've listed some of the requirements to stay accredited. Um, every year we have to collect and analyze data. We also have to submit data about our candidates with
044the state. However, there are other things specific to each year. So, if you take a look over there, you'll see a star next to year four. That is the year we are currently in. And this past March, we submitted our preconditions. Uh, preconditions are pretty much um non-negotiable legal policies that you must do for your program to even exist. So, this patch past March, we submitted those. This coming fall, we'll have to do a program review much like a narrative that we do for WASK that gives context to the standards and preconditions that we do and to make sure that we're actually doing what we that we're doing. And then about a year from now in February 2027, we will do our common standards review which will provide evidence that we are following standards. Um
045unlike the conditions, the preconditions, they're more like standards you would see for students curriculum or teachers CSTPs. There are standards that evaluate the quality of our program and we'll be doing that in the near future. I want to point your attention to year six. That's where you get to join the fund. Um when we have our site visit in year six, whether that be the fall or spring, they will ask for board and district participation. Um they did say that's more likely going to be virtual than on site, but we'll soon find out. And here's a list of the preconditions that we did submit with evidence to follow. Um, I won't list all of them word by word, but I did uh emphasize some of the phrases so you can see some of the requirements
046of our program. Um, I mentioned before it had to be job embedded. But each new teacher that comes into our program must be assigned to a mentor to offer no less than an average of one hour per week of support. They also have to develop what we call an ILP, an individualized learning plan, which aligns to the current 2024 CSTPs. This is not an evaluative tool that goes along with whether or not they stay with our district. This is actually a progress monitoring tool we use to show professional growth. And lastly, by order of the state, we have to offer an opportunity for teachers to come this program who could be considered experienced or exceptional and may not necess necessarily need the support for two years. They could apply to have the support for one
047year instead. So, what do those things specifically look like? As I mentioned before with the ILP, that's an individualized learning plan. You see to the right one of our teachers, the wonderful Miss Aividito. She is seen there with a um um a rubric as you say of CCTPS and she's using that to evaluate her progress of growth through her goal. To the left is an example of what that ILP looks like. An ILP is at least six pages where they document each CSTP and their growth. And so you'll see there an example of this comes from a teacher from LCAP. She wanted to by the end of first semester establish consistent implementation of a beginning routine in her classes for student engagement and to reach at least 80%. And there she had to link evidence
048of that progress. So she visited a veteran teacher which she linked her notes from takeaways she had from that experience that we supported. Then she also asked for me to be her measurement of growth where I came into her classroom. I go to their classrooms every week as all our mentors do. But we specified three dates where I would collect data that she would have a data driven goal on whether or not she grew with that engagement 80%. And guess what she did? And then she also reflected on that growth and where she's going to move it moving forward. And all our mentors provide this similar type of support for every single candidate in our program. And of course, our program is uh expects at least one hour of average of an hour per week,
049which will mean about 36 hours of support for our teachers that we provide. But I could tell you from our documentation by April, we far surpass that with honor candidates. Hand it over to Kimberman. So in addition to some of the um program requirements Linda has described for you, we have additional things that we have to adhere to to keep our accreditation and one of those is to maintain community partnerships. So in the last couple of years we have really worked to revive some of those partnerships. Um how that looks is we have collaborated with Atwood Elementary School District and they also are a district who is a program approved sponsor and holds their own induction. They have four full-time release mentors similar to model and so we've had a lot of things in common.
050What's really cool about that collaboration as well is their teachers are preparing students who then come to us and our teachers get to then take over that um and support those students. We've also collaborated with the Merced County Office of Education several times. We've invited both of them to our advisory meetings um so that they can advise uh our program and help us make it better. In addition, we do partner with the University of San Diego. That partnership has existed for quite some time. The way in which with them is to provide um graduate level units to our teachers. That is a really cool incentive that the Merced Union High School District has offered new teachers within the induction program, like I said, for quite some time. Um that uh allows them to take all
051of the work they're doing um and have a financial benefit for that, too. >> Another thing we've recently revived is what we call our exit interviews. And so this this really is a program requirement from the state, but it's something we believe in as well. Um if you are around campuses in the next couple of weeks, you may see mentors, you may see site administrators, um Tiffany Gong, myself, and our year 2 candidates. So we don't want to put added stress on them as they exit our program. We do however want to provide a structured opportunity where um they are really showing the culmination of all of their work, their goals, their evidence. as Linda described in their ILP, we just sit down with them in in a non-threatening um informal environment and we ask
052them questions about their experience. Their feedback helps us improve and it also just gives them an opportunity to self-reflect. And the ones we've conducted so far in the last few weeks have been um really amazing just to hear their experience. As we wrap up, we wanted to report um some interesting information about credentiing. So ultimately within the induction program, our main goal is to support our teachers as they are new in the district, but also to clear their credential. Um that is the main goal. So I wanted to provide the past three years. Here's some data around the credential types that we have cleared. Just interesting sometimes to look at the patterns um the places in which we have really high numbers. Um, we just wanted to provide that to you just for your reference.
053And lastly, as I said, once candidates have successfully completed our internal MUHSD requirements, in addition to the state requirements from the California Commission on Teaching Teacher Credentiing, uh, we as authorized submitters do submit the clear credential recommendation to the state and that is really the end of that process and the candidate exit induction. Um this is how many credentials we have cleared within the last few years. Uh those are actually the numbers of candidates in our program. We actually cleared more credentials than that. I think it was 24 and 25. And that's just because um as a result there were some TPA deferrals. There were some executive orders um from the from COVID um times in which teachers were given extensions for various things. So uh that that has been a little different. that these
054are the number of teachers in our program and the reason I wanted to include this as well as the number that we are planning to clear within the next three weeks is because we are happy to report that we have 100% completion within our program and we are able to and have been for the past three years to clear 100% of the credentials of the candidates enrolled in our induction program. So that's a good And this is Linda already described that when she talked about our accredititation cycle. And that concludes our presentation. >> Thank you. Um I appreciate I just want to speak to something Mrs. said about your intentionality regularly looking for something. to your success and also want to congratulate. >> Thank you. Item 11 environmental science Hello again. Um, I know that
055over multiple times throughout the last couple years, there have been questions about what kind of programs we are offering our students with UC Merrced. So, tonight we wanted to share one of our newest opportunities for students and it's the environmental science academy. Mr. Boyin at Yusede High School and program administrator Kina Austin. They wrote an outdoor grant and they're using that to provide this opportunity. So, Kina is here tonight to share that with you. >> Good evening. board president tonight. I am here to talk about I move a lot but I got a few good started They were very generous with their money and we were awarded experience outdoor activities. Our application also included leadership development and internship opportunities. That was one of the driving forces for us to apply for this grant. We wanted
056another way to pay our kids. We have been intentional with how we spent less than half of our funds which has now allowed us to have this opportunity with consumer. So we're going to be partnering with them to provide experiences for our students to be outdoors and earn college credit. So the program is going to run from June 8th to the be a sevenday activity of which will be in person in a classroom. They're going to earn college credit through UC Merrced. The other four days will be in a reser. So the week is the person They're going to get leadership credit going to send out their teachers instructional aids and it will be held on both for the enrollment is to provide opportunity and our kids without both of our sites and we wanted
057to make every one of our students had equal opportunity to someuring the vernal pools their experimental smart they're going to take a college trip to Monterey Bay and then also stop at the reserve and that's going to happen in week two. So they have a welcome tours. Going to familiarize them with the campus and have a full day experience. of all the good things. Learning activities outcome that we are college credit is open to all of our students. We will start recruitment with high school because that is chosen After that, we're going to talk our science teacher teacher that is environment. yesterday signed up. Our science teachers and our teachers want questions. Not. Hi, Kina. Good to see you. Not a question, but just that's a very robust experience for those students to be able
058to travel and see these places maybe they've never heard of before, even knew about. So, thank you and Mr. Boyin for organizing this very much. Thank you. >> I love the creativity of expanding the grant to students and this is an exceptional opportunity for any kid in our community. Thanks for leading the charge. >> Thank you. Uh, good evening, President Jinga, board members, superintendent Peterson, cabinet here talk tonight about our MTSS program, but specifically our intervention and kind of what they do. Just a reminder of our statements and just the words every student all that's what we do at tier 2 is we try to work on students wise this is the official Orange County now MTSS framework basically it talks about dealing with the whole child academics behavior and It says some students that's
059where intervention coordinators come in because they deal with small groups. What we're trying to do is we're trying to implement MTSS and get away from the old model or the old way of doing things. Now we try to be proactive. We use universal screening and we focus on the whole prior to MTSS for a kidics over here. Hey, if they're doing bad with behavior seem to have poor things I'll just go through a few of them. First one is pathways to success partner with probation. They have that they want to get involved with kids prior to getting involved with law enforcement. So we can make referrals for certain reasons to call the parents and try to prior to being arrested. Um we have raft which has recovery assistance for teens county. We also have character
060I oversee the day reporting center as opposed to kids and we send them to the reporting center where they get also get to work there. That same program also has our first level understanding drugs with our drug counselor. We also partner with program called improve your tomorrow. We have two we have two programs in the district. one at Mercedes on to intervention coordinators. I'd like to introduce Kaitlyn Mayo. And before she comes up and speak, I to publicly thank her for all the work that she did with me and with our intervention coordinators. Her background is is mental health and what we're trying to do is teach skills and sometimes those lines can get blurred and she would help us unblur them. She would tell us what we can and can't talk about with kids.
061Uh she's moving on to El Capitan, but I would like to thank her for everything. So this is a list program. So you can see the list of our wonderful team members. The bottom half of that list here child. Part of the reason that list administrators. This was developed as a growership opportunity. I said also to serve two reactive approach to a proactive approach. So what we are doing over successful proactive instead of reacting to This is our early warning system alongside data to identify students. members. So basically what was just mentioning that data it leads us to a for our students to be able to develop skills. So that students that come with this acquisition, some of them have already started developing skills but just need more support for the long coordinator. bring both
062sets of students and essentially gives them that foundation and that support to have that practice of those skills essentially going to make their educational experience more successful. Now the intervention coordinators we essentially focus on two types of lessons uh we focus on emotion regulation and coping skills. Um we teach these basically twice a year. So we have cohort for emotion regulation and coping skills in the fall and then we get a brand new cohort of students uh that we teach these skills to in the spring. Um throughout that time uh basically we don't teach them these lessons but we're there for them. if they have any other type of need that comes up as a result of having practiced these skills just you know things that pop up out of the blue or they have
063an additional support now essentially skills okay uh we teach and I I'm always honest with them we're not going to teach you something that's completely invented here it is things that you practice and that take dedication. So we go anywhere between just getting them to change the thought process of their dayto-day lives at school from potentially unhelpful thoughts to more helpful thoughts. That way they can go ahead and be able to teach them skills that can help in those moments. You know they feel like heart is racing for whatever reason. Essentially what all of this does basically helps them become more selfare and when they become more self-aware they're going to be able to identify some of the uh emotional triggers or switches that causes them to potentially have behaviors that will then impart volume
064of their emotions. I I don't lie to them. I tell I tell them we're not eliminating the emotions. We're just simply bringing the volume down that you can stillive at school and still be given that opportunity to go about your day without interruptions. I jump to the volume. These are all very hard. I'm going to focus on overseas pretty last year. I had a student actually I like to use this little way around as I go over start exhaleing. kind of notice. I feel like my body But uh expectations for them because sometimes they think Peterson, I'd like to introduce one of the freshman that I have pleasure to go ahead and also teach this lesson to Few words emotions for sure. Even after it more schools have very helpful students and teachers. As a
065result of all this good work, um we were featured in a couple of articles. This was in the National Center for Youth Law. Um it talks about reduction in suspension rate and how that puts more puts the kids in the class more, right? They have more instruction because they're not they're no longer getting suspended. Uh Character Strong also featured us um on their website talking about our tier 2 intervention coordinators and work with the small groups. Um I would like to thank Mr. Peterson because this was his this was his brainchild. Um I think associate principles um they are very busy people. uh they're running back and forth and I'm asking them like look you got to build relationships with these kids. You got to work on them with these skills and whatnot. Um Mr.
066Peterson said hey why don't we why don't we try something different right? So the intervention coordinator was born. This is a list of um intervention coordinators current intervention coordinators and their is our first cohort of intervention coordinators who are now all associate principles which was half the goal maybe half the goal for Mr. Peterson was you know grow your own. I love this because they get the opportunity to work with kids at a different different level and skills prior to going into the associate principal. Thank you. Any questions? >> Congratulations on your new program. >> That would be she taught me well. Mr. Johnson, quick question. So Benjamin said he was in Louis's Mr. Reese's freshman court. How many students do they generally see? And it does it's not I'm sure it's not a static
067number. I'm sure it fluctuates. >> It varies because what happens is we look at panorama, we gather data, right? Who should be in this cohort? Um but then you got to talk the kids into the cohort. Not a lot of kids want to go into a small group to learn how to brea with their hand. Right. So, some of those kids get seen oneonone. Um we say about 40 um each cohort. Sure. Um and then we can only get through two, right? It's it's 10 week cycle. So, in the third cycle, which would be now, uh they start taking on administrative duties, pick up that walkie-talkie because we want to make sure we demystify what it's like to be an AP for them because appate Thank you. facilities. hoping to have a little bit more
068fiscal uh updates today. Usually the last three years the governor has given his May revis. So we are expecting to Revenue projections are up. We do expect some onetime funding this year which basically continues the district ongoing budget is balanced and tight but extra one time. So narrative uh the Mayu when the state actually passes trailer bills, we do have settlements already with DTA and CSA. So, whatever the cola is that goes into that, whatever the cola is that goes into that big deal um will be um the raises that are are reving for that. You will see the salary coming to the board uh at one of the June meetings that has the numbers in current facility projects that we do have going on. We do have the district office. Um current projection is
069completion August 31st. That's the parking and the main building. Uh furniture, equipment, doing the things that we need to do September to October. See, I was off a month. I said don't hold me to that. Um moving the district office in the October. So I am going to probably a month or so in the new office before finishing. Um, outstanding projects. We still have board and conference room in one of the other buildings that we would like to be completing. Interior work in the M building, interior work in the transportation building, which is currently uh we have a lease in that uh building right now. They're going to be ending their lease here within the next six months. So, we will be taking that warehouse building back over as we complete this project. those things
070will happen pretty much at the same time. Um, and then we do have expansion of the Livingston transportation yard. A little bit of work going on at that particular location as well. Golden Valley Pool is also one of the current projects that we have going on. Uh, we're finalizing the designs, DSA approval and bids, hoping to do the project by December 15th of this year. Uh, which would then turn us around for starting immediately after the 2027 swim season. Um, we could probably to do it earlier, but it is not good to be pouring concrete in January and February. So, get through the swim season and be pouring the concrete in the late spring and summer. But that does mean we will be move losing one season. And so, based on the weather of the
071different seasons, it's most likely going to be a water season that would need to be moved. We've been talking about our facility needs and all of the information and gathering information. These are the different components that we have going on right now. We have a facility standard list which is a district list identifies everything that we have at four campuses. That's our standard and who's missing those and then those are on that particular list. Uh we have the CTE grant match. We have our applications in. We get a little bit more information in June, but we really don't get the decisions until December to decide whether or not we're getting funded. Uh which could be anywhere between 10 and 20 million of match that we need to be able to provide. So we have that
072sitting out there as well. Infrastructure needs. Uh we have a group called modus design who basically went through with engineers on every one of our campuses and is coming back with kind of what you would call a heat map. Uh which basically says where are the trouble areas on each of your campuses in terms of roofing, HVAC units, electrical units, concrete work. All of those types of things are being done in that particular project to see what the infrastructure needs. Obviously the older campuses have more needs infrastructure. Merced high being probably the greatest need for infrastructure. You also then have the thing that we've been kind of focusing the most on because it's the most unknown, but it's actually probably the smallest piece of those components, which is other identified needs that site principles are
073having meeting, taking inputs on their site. What are the other things that are not in those first three boxes? And that's everything from uh lighting at certain fields, turf fields, those types of things that they're identifying on their sides. A lot of them coming up with uh bathroom remodels in certain older bathrooms on their campus. Those are the types of things that are being identified in that last box that are not in the first. All of those things put together, uh we'll have the two 2026 MUS facility master plan. um design studio platform will be where that gets housed and we do plan to have them here in June for a presentation and they'll be able to show you that product and show you uh how all of this stuff fits together. So if we're
074putting all of what I just said together and put some figures and dollar amounts to it. Currently in the building fund we have $21 million. We have special reserves for developer fees which has limited uses but facility projects can be part of that um which is 16 million. We have East Merrced district about three million. Um if we were to do a $30 bond it would be 217 million across the three SFIDs. So if you take all of that together all of those three things on the left kind of fit into that middle column. So you have everything from Golden Valley second gen second gen Livingston pool you can go down the list the CTE grants access control audio enhancements cameras and securities key infrastructure base amount for some key basic work in HVAC units
075roofing electrical upgrades and things like that and then a Merced CTE facility that would be similar to what we're doing over here in water. You put all of those things together you would still then with what we have available if the bond to pass a $30 tax rate, $12 million per site for them to be able to do the things that they're identifying that are in addition to everything that's in the middle. And that's again everything from we need new lighting here, we need these bathrooms renovated, we need so that's what's possible and that's the potential of how all of that fits together. So timeline May principles continue to take input and other identified needs for that last piece. Uh June 2nd board meeting we have a presentation by most designs that goes over all
076of those things put together possible decision on a board at that particular meeting takes us into fall sites continue to take input on facility master plan and public meetings and events general election in November which would include a bond if we decide to put a bond out for that December we would get the CTE grant funding notifications at that point we would have all the components we need to start making decisions what available funding do we have what can do that takes you into the January, February one to actually prioritize and put together what actually can work and what can actually be done. I can guarantee you that if we pass a bond and we're looking at all these projects, that's going to be a very enjoyable January and February of going through those projects
077and seeing what's there and what's possible and what we can do. And if we don't do a bond, that's going to be a very miserable discussion because you're going to have about 95 million worth of projects before you even talk about the principles list that they're putting together right now and about $40 million. And that's a lot of making decisions on what gets cut and what doesn't. And those discussions are very very difficult decisions and discussions. >> Thank you, Dr. Wymer. What about theaters? I see those on the list. >> Uh the facility standards uses um four schools or more, which they only have at three. So that doesn't actually hit that facility standard one. If sites do not have one, they're supposed to be having conversations at their site on what they would have
078or what they might need. If you were to put uh theaters on that, you're probably at 20 to$25 million each. There's a whole lot of stuff that has to come off those lists. Is there another something like a theater? I mean, I just the schools that have theaters have the advantage of having some great like their scholarship nights are much more pleasant. They're, you know, the rest of them in those cold cafeterias and hard metal chairs. And again, anyone who doesn't have the theater is supposed to be addressing this with their sites and talking about opportunities and options and things that might work for them, which could be taking existing areas and repurposing those and renovating those and modernizing those into a not a theater large theater space, but something that might be able to
079handle something that's a little bit larger in a crowd size. Might have a stage that you could do some performing arts things, but you would be talking in the 150 range. >> I just want to make sure we don't leave the arts out. I think they're very important and I think we'll see some of that coming up in feedback discussions. and all all the principles who do not have one currently know that that's supposed to be a topic of the conversation and discussion and supposed to have ideas and thoughts on where they might go with that based on the needs of what programs they have on their campus. So the principles will probably give some of this information. For example, band rooms since, you know, some of the high schools need some band rooms and
080I know a high school that needs locker rooms and and so on. Yes. So um I mean again once we have all of those lists and put together and we kind of have an idea of where we're at on what the funding is going to be, those are going to be the types of conversations that need to happen. They don't you don't actually project you're going to do on a bond. You list the potentials of what you could do and then once you know what you really have, then you're going to have to go do those. We started having some really creative conversations at Livingston yesterday when we were out there walking around. What if you didn't put the pool where it is right now? What if you move the pool right to the back
081of the gym and you made a facility right behind the gym that could be locker facilities and team rooms for both the pool and for the uh the new gym right out that And so it wouldn't be attached necessarily, but you're talking about a 10 foot walkway to go across something like that. So there's a lot of options and things like that that you start playing with once you start knowing if if we're talking about $225 million or we're talking about $40 million. We're having $40 million, there's not a whole lot of conversations uh that go on. But once you get in that $220 million range, then we can have a lot of those creative conversations. Uh again, repurposing for black boxes and larger theater types of programs or programs or moving on to item
08212 employee associations per case we will move on to item consent agenda. And agenda motion to approve. Make motion to approve. Second. >> I'll second the motion. for their donations. Atwater Lions Club, Healthy House, LHS Alumni, Livingston Historical Society Scholarship, H&R Farms, Jeff and Betty Deno, Eugina Anderson, Ellen Grow, Claudia Eaton, Robert and Margaret model, Natasha, Cindy Ramirez, and Merced County Sheriff's Department. Thank you again. Is there any discussion? Any questions? >> I guess I have more of a couple comments. Sorry. Go ahead. >> Go. You first. >> Um I just it was brought up character strong was brought up at Golden Valley and then um Mrs. Parley talked about it tonight. So I think that's on the consent agenda and I think it warrants some restructuring or some conversation about how to make it
083effective across all of our campuses. I noticed that there's um a religious club being asked for approval and I've heard feedback from some of our club advisors that um they get a lot of backlash on their campuses when they start these religious clubs and I think we all agree in freedom of speech and allowing our students to create these different clubs. So I just kind of wanted to comment on the fact that I think we should be supportive of one another rather than tearing each other apart. Um, and then as we are furnishing all of our new facilities, in particular the district office and such, I just would ask that we be mindful of staying within a budget and having um an appropriate standard for all of our new office furniture. >> So, just just
084to add to that, I just can just uh Remind us why the personal report is so long this time. Thank you. My passes. to item 14 agenda Now we're good. All right. Thank you. Uh background on at the January board meeting, the board approved resolution 5-25 to eliminate classified services for the 2627 school year one program manager. So the resolution tonight is the final steps towards terminating those services. Um, so the the superintendent recommends the board of trustees adopts the resolution tonight 9-25 for terminating the services of classified employees for lack of work and lack of motion. >> So moved. >> Second questions. motion passes. for educational partnerships which provides programs and services designed to support college readiness and access for students. Continuing this agreement will provide services to attempt to increase the number of
085students eligible for admission to four-year colleges and universities, support the district's efforts to advance equitable access to higher education, and foster long-term institutional partnerships aligned with public service and educational goals. The superintendent recommends the board approve the continuation of the agreement with UC Merrced through C. Motion to approve So moved. >> Second. motion passes. Item 14 C parent square provides a comprehensive communication and engagement platform that supports school-to communication including messaging notification and website management through smart sites. Renewing this agreement will ensure continuity of a unified communication system that enhances family engagement, streamlines district and site level communication, and supports accessible, consistent outreach to all stakeholders. The superintendent recommends the board approve a three-year contract renewal with parent square for the engagement platform annual subscription, including smart sites. MOT moved. Is there a second? Any
086questions? >> I just wanted to comment. I asked Mrs. Garmin for some information about the two-way communication and she shared that 25% of parents are engaged communicating back through Parent Square, which I actually thought was a pretty high number and appreciated knowing. Thank you, Cheryl. >> And it actually could almost be as high as 50% when we looked into it because there's 20,000 users in Parent Square. You assume some of those are two parents. It could be a little bit higher, but just from the the cursory glance, it's at least 25%. passes item 14. >> Thank you. Read 180 is the undisputed leader in intensive reading intervention. After 20 plus years of proven success and an unparalleled track record of research and results, including thousands of success stories, hundreds of case studies, and nearly a
087dozen gold standard efficiency reports. Read 180 is the only program proven to break the cycle of failure for struggling readers. This is a one-year extension of our current contract. The superintendent recommends the board approve the contract renewal for the one-year read universal subscription package. So moved. >> Second. Any questions? motion passes. Thank you. >> nutrition services is currently operating under a spending plan with the California Department of Education due to having excess balance. Always a nice place to uh in fund 13 funds from fund 13 will be allocated for the procurement of equipment kiosks. I will get uh a copy of the current spending plan and get that to you in the poll so that you can see other projects that aren't here yet but are considered in the near future so that you can
088see all of those. I'll send that out within the next two weeks. Uh the superintendent recommends the approval of purchase and installation of equipment and kiosk for Merced High School using the ser piggyback contract Sweetwater Union High School District number 23 second. >> I just have a question. Can that fund also be used for upgrades to cafeterias >> to some extent? passes. So item number 14 is the development fee study proposed fee increase and we will have a public hearing on this. The public is invited to address the item. Um it is now 7:28. The public is invited to address the item and we do not have anyone at this time. So at 7:20 I close the public hearing. Good evening. It's a pleasure to be here tonight to present the developer findings and resolution
08925 implementing set increase. The study is performed every other year to determine if our school district has and or will increase its student capacity or enrollment. We anticipate approximately 296 additional students per res. development and thus an increase is applied to assist in supporting classrooms for students. These are increasing $57 per square foot to $58 per per square foot for residential and um to 87 for commercial buildings and structures. We ask that the board approve, excuse me, the superintendent recommends that the board conduct a public hearing. Thus, we did and adopt resolution 10-25 approving the development fee justification study. Do I have a motion to approve? Is there a second? Second question. Does this go into effect regardless of what the elementary school districts do around us? >> Uh yes, they are individuals. So um
090individual entities and thus um each district does apply their own work together. 14G. The Merced County Sheriff's Department provides school resource deputies who assist MUSD with safety, security, education, and prevention at school campuses. The the county and MUHSD provides for an annual payment to the county not to exceed $938,848 along with an additional allocation of up to $100,000 per year for overtime. These funds support operational costs associated with the services of four SRDs at Livingston, uh Colony, and Atwater High Schools for the 26 through 29 school years. The superintendent recommends that the board approve the agreement with Merced County for four school resource deputies at Livingston Colony and Outwater High Schools for the 26th through 29 school years. Is there a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second questions. Motion passes. Item 15 report.
091>> Thank you, President Jinga. Just want to point out that May is probably not probably, it is the most difficult month of the year for administrators and school folks because we're wrapping up one year and we're planning for the next at the same time. So, I just want to thank all the cabinet. Everybody in this room that works for this district has dealt with a whole lot this spring and I just want to let everyone know how much I appreciate them and their efforts. Um, I'm in the process myself of finishing up cabinet evaluations. I go to all sites, sit down with administrators and talk about the different divisions of the district and get their honest feedback that gets put into a summary and goes out to everybody at the end of the year. I'm
092also in the process of finishing up senior lunches. That same process, we look for themes as Mrs. Ham has talked a little bit about tonight. That summary will come to you and I will talk about that at the June meeting. We have the salute to service uh lunchon next Tuesday. Just as a reminder, want to thank Lesie, Viviana, and Heidi for all of their efforts there. That that requires a monthly or excuse me, a weekly kind of one hour planning session on everybody's parts. Um and then we have graduation coming up. So, looking forward to all the end of the year events. I want to say thank you and congratulations to all of those who are here tonight who are retiring. Mrs. Roarbach, Dr. Wymer, Mrs. Pelisir, you're all you're all approved. Um, and good
093luck. Yeah. And thanks for thanks for b being busy uh taking care of our district and bringing in the next generation to lead our young impressionable youth I guess right and indeed it has been a very busy May. Um, I was able to go to the senior lunches at Golden Valley in El Capitan. And in addition to appreciating the student insights, I wanted to say thank you to nutritional services for some very tasty lunches. Um, scholarship nights. Uh, I was at Golden Valley's guess that was last week and I just thought it was very noteworthy that 49 students received UC Merrced scholarships and that was just Golden Valley. I'm excited to hear what that number will be at El Capitan and Mercedes are this week and next week. Um, I can't read my own handwriting.
094Um, I just, yeah, as as um, Superintendent Peterson said, I know it's a busy time. It can be a stressful time. I also think it's a very exciting and fun time. And so, I hope that um, we're able students and staff, everyone's able to finish the year strong and we go into this graduation season with a lot of good energy. >> Yes. My apologies. I was going to wrap up with explaining this slide which got the information on this a couple days ago. Do I have to turn this on? No, I don't. Good evening, everyone. Did you share this with them already? >> Okay, so really the standout information here, the applications have remained same um very consistent over the years. The admits remain high. They admit over 90% of our students who do apply
095and meet the criteria for the UC. What has really changed, really increasing is the students that are enrolling at UC Merrced. You can see in the fall of 2018, we were pretty low. Oh, I think that says 92 students. I'm not sure. We had over 192 accept their admissions deadline is still open. They've extended that. So, they do anticipate that more MUHSD students will be accepting admission there. Their scholarship packages, as Trusty Ham mentioned, have become very lucrative and I think that is a huge selling point for our students. Um you can see at the bottom the total amount of scholarships being awarded this year, $3,686,000. That is a fantastic incentive for our students to remain here uh in their hometown and go to school at UC Merrced. So very exciting information. Um El Capitan
096has the largest number of admits. That's why their number of scholarships um is so large. They have over 50 students that have committed to UC Merrced. And again, the um deadline is extended. So we're looking probably send more that way as well. So, very exciting information. >> Thank you. Yeah. Um, I had the pleasure of attending the ALR conference in Shell Beach a couple weeks ago. It was very informative. I learned a lot of brings up HR things I kind of understand a little better now. Appreciate going there and was able to attend GV and Outwaters superintendent lunches very always very informative. I appreciate the principles and everybody that organized that as well. Excited about the Amazon book that you have coming up. That's great. And I do look forward to salute service. Thank you.
097>> Um first like to congratulate um all those that are moving into new positions um and all those that are retiring and moving on to their next chapter. Mrs. retiring but wish you the best. Um I was unable to attend the senior lunches at water and so I would like to apologize to Mrs. looking forward to senior interviews um at water and valley salute to service um coming up. I did have the u the privilege of presenting the Rotary scholarship at UHack. So it was very nice to see all the kids receive their various scholarships a lot of repeats you know coming up in the stage. So very very successful students and graduation. So d to what everybody said and uh in addition to that as always thank you all for everyone who's here but
098also who's maybe going to watch at home or is watching at home. Another school year is almost over and we always try do our best or do our best actually. We don't try we do our best. So thank you all for everything. >> Thank you for hosting us this evening. Thanks to Mr. Ber and students for a great presentation. Um as the trustee said it is the season to cate everyone. So much goes behind the scenes and thank you teachers already counting Congratulations. You will be missed, but thank you for your service to the district. today's meeting.