001all right calling the may 10th for the education meeting to order i will start by acknowledging ab361 um the pandemic guidelines allow us to meet either in person fully virtual or hybrid um and we will vote on that later on um are there any comments from the public on the closed session items do we have anyone in the public [Music] make sure everybody agenda um hello we're pleased to announce the selection for the past 18 years she spent 17 of those years as a teacher in grade support and spent this past years two elementary schools in our district she also coordinated district-wide articulation across sites to implement cis with integrity with their work in training and restorative practices carly is well voiced to lead the school in the pursuit of district nurse for students and
002two older children ages 20 23. she loves to travel to places like italy east coast in hawaii and we are out of chambers and she loves [Music] please join us as a new principal but pengrove elementary school [Music] no i'm just very excited to be joining probably city school as i've seen so welcoming already in just the past week i've gotten to know so many faces and had a welcome bushman and the new principal at valleyjust elementary school jamie wilson her duties on july july 1st 2022 jamie became a teacher because she loves children and she became an administrator because she enjoys working with other adults children is their priority she feels passionately that all students should receive an education that is equitable connected to their lives and geared toward their future jamie spent the
003last three years receiving training in improvement science and applying that knowledge to supporting alternative high schools this experience taught her how to gather locate organize and summarize data to inform change ideas for systematic improvements at the district and school levels she is looking forward to collaborating with the valley vista staff and community in applying her experiences as they plan their next steps as a school jamie also looks forward to developing strong connections with valley vista stakeholders in an effort to foster a strong sense of community centered on student achievement she holds a strong belief that the connection between home and school will ensure all students reach their infinite potential jamie is looking forward to getting to the valley vista community and serving the students who learn there on a personal no-no on a personal note
004jamie grew up in petaluma and considers herself a product of our wonderful community jamie and her husband jeremy have two daughters who are students within pcs she has stated that she feels fortunate to experience our district both as an educator and a parent and as it better prepares her to serve valley vista families in jimmy's free time she enjoys reading spending time with her family and friends and traveling please join us in congratulating jamie on our new leadership role it's so exciting i'm so thankful for this opportunity to work in valley vista but also with this leadership team which i already love so much and i'm so excited uh director of special services we are pleased to announce the selection of the new director of special services for petaluma city school sarah factor sarah begins
005her assignment as the director on july 1st 2022 sarah brings diverse experience to petaluma city schools through her many roles in education over the last 20 years sarah began as a classroom teacher and then a special education teacher here at pcs she moved on to the channel park unified school district as principal of monitor elementary school before spending the last two years as a director at the sonoma county office of education sarah has a passion for educating young people and is dedicated to enhancing the educational experience and opportunities for every student who enters our school system she's very excited to be returning to pcs to the pcs team and is looking forward to reconnecting with our schools staff and students sarah firmly believes that when educators come together as a team the possibilities are endless
006sarah has two children a 16 year old son and a 13 year old daughter outside of work she enjoys spending time with her family enjoying her son and daughter's various sporting events and exploring sonoma county we're fortunate to have sarah return to work with us as the director of special services she brings a wealth of knowledge and varied experiences that will benefit the students and families of petaluma city schools please join us in welcoming her as the new director of special services [Applause] [Music] i do have to say that as i entered i'm coming back um [Music] so thank you so much for the opportunity i'm truly truly blessed well welcome it's jason all right moving on to student of the semester from san antonio and eric are you presenting [Music] san antonio [Music] is
007[Music] um [Music] um [Music] one more time of this year from his teacher brian is an incredibly artistic and creative young man well elected by many of the graces of humor and management for our campus he's also working on our soccer team for this year and a member of our village club an activity activities every morning right before class in room five brad has done very well this year has passed over 10 years and transferred to a university without too long ago that rob is lost in his video game but now high school [Laughter] and are your friends [Music] congratulations [Applause] thank you for being here in person yeah we really appreciate it all right next up um update on school counseling and mental health no not yet student reports i always skip something so
008sorry i'm like why are there so many people okay all right soon reports to the board from casa petaluma high and san antonio good good do we have to move or remote i know sometimes they're online is are they [Music] um [Music] and so i don't i don't have a name of a presenter i don't see josie as an attendee and i don't have a slide deck from them has anyone else received any notification from them all right so we i guess we'll see if josie shows up at the end but let's move on to petaluma high school do we have the they're the presenter in-house or are they online dave are you still there yeah i'm here so karen did they communicate with you are they in person uh justin's there i see justin
009yeah we were getting this slide i have the slide deck um and it says um it doesn't show a person on the on the document as far as who's presenting but i have the slide deck just to promote justin maria please okay can they get rid of the chat yeah carl do you mind closing the chat box just for us for now thank thank you [Music] all [Music] is that you yes it's me hi justin is there someone else we should promote justin um i can text somebody real quick and find out it wasn't supposed to be me but i can read slides is should be in here dave can you promote nicoletta johnson please okay one second full house [Laughter] or day josie or is it someone else there's nicoletta hello okay so i'm
010nicoletta and i'm going to be sharing a little bit about what petaluma high school has been up to recently so starting with we currently are in the midst or actually the end of our spring sports and our spring sports include girls and boys lacrosse badminton boys tennis golf swim track and field baseball and softball and within our spring sports teams we do have a couple of pennant winners and so petaluma high school is very proud to congratulate our baseball our baseball team our boys golf team and also our boys track team for winning league and our baseball team did go undefeated in league so a huge congratulations to them also moving on link crew held an assembly in february and this assembly was actually supposed to happen in the beginning of january which was supposed
011to be to check in with their freshmen after the first semester of high school but kovid was really bad when we got back from winter break so we decided to push it back to february and at this assembly there was four guest speakers and these were four link crew leaders and they discussed things from balance to time management to perseverance in high school and also we had our gq show in on march 12th and a part of gq we had our spirit week and we also had the show itself and our theme for gq was reality tv and our and so we titled it keeping up with the seniors kind of like keeping up with the kardashians and pictures on the right we had a red carpet portion of the show and so our contestants
012they got to like wear whatever they wanted to wear to impress the judges and those were some of the outfits that our contestants chose moving on recently we've also hosted a variety of lunchtime activities and this it ranges from cornhole to giant jenga and then we also did pie face with our gq contestants the week before the show to promote the show and it was one dollar to pie any of the gq contestants in the face that you wanted to moving on we also had the neon dance recently and there was mr moore himself in the picture and this was our i happened two saturdays ago and this was our first dance that we were able to have in per in the gym in person so that was very exciting we have also had a
013variety of lunchtime competitions recently this includes a 3v3 basketball tournament that we had and this we had students in it staff we had our basketball coaches participate and we even had a harlem globetrotter participate on a team with two students because he had coached a couple of our basketball players and he lives right by the high school so they asked him to join and he did and we also had a class volleyball competition and the junior class one list and this is just a competition between all of the grades and they just go out and compete in volleyball against each other moving on last week was the start of ap testing and so this has been happening in the phs library from last week and then this week is the last week and i'm very
014proud to say that i finished all my ap tests and i will never have to do an ap test again which is very exciting moving on on cinco de mayo bsa our bilingual student ambassadors had a bsa market where they sold things from tamales to agua fresca and there were multiple reports that the food was delicious also last week we had our staff appreciation week and asb wrote notes and thank you cards to all of our staff members on campus as well as we made these posters for all of our departments and so we had like the pe department social science english et cetera et cetera and we made these posters and we hung them up in the halls and then on the hearts on the posters we had a lunchtime activity where students got
015to write a little note to either a teacher in a specific department or to a department itself and just like little notes and then again we put them on the posters and hung them up in the halls for the teachers to see and ptsa also held a luncheon for teachers and then moving forward into what's coming up for petaluma high school we are bringing back a long time tradition that hasn't happened at petaluma high school um in a while we're bringing back super spring week which is a week that like i know my parents had when they went to high school at petaluma but then it didn't happen for a while and we talked about doing it my freshman year but then with covid sophomore and junior year it wasn't able to happen and so
016this was this week is going to be from may 23rd to the 27th and it's basically just like a jam-packed week and we have lunchtime activities every day we have a spirit week some of our lunchtime activities include chalk art salsa and guac which is one of my favorite lunchtime activities it's when staff members they get to make either salsa or guac or both and students they get to go out and try each of the salsa and guacs and then you vote on who's the winner and we get little trophies for the winners and it's really exciting we also have flag football on that wednesday as well as backyard games and this is the week that also yearbook distribution happens and we have our annual car show that is put on by ffa moving on
017we have the end of the year senior activities coming up and these activities are also part of super spring week we have the senior valley senior sunset and at senior sunset this is when seniors they get to get their yearbook a little early and we also have senior recognition awards moving on we also have prom on may 29th at the academy of sciences and i'm super excited to be there and to have prom in person and be able to have it [Music] and finally we have graduation coming up on june 11th and we also have project grad that night and so yeah that's just a little bit about what petaluma high school has been up to thank you very much we actually do have the presenter it's carissa stout dave you can hear me out
018there okay i promoted her to panelists do we have a slide deck no i don't i don't think so and i'll pop my slide down well it doesn't seem to be on the uh the document that has all the other slide decks but you're as a panelist you can share your screen and that sounds good yeah because the person that i send them usually to um miss collingwood she's i didn't know that she was out of office until i was just checking who i shared it with um okay yeah so if you want to share your screen then you could that would work too okay um i'm going to be doing both student of the month and site report so which would you prefer i start with uh why don't you start with student of
019the month hey are they here you know that's what i thought i just i our student uh josie you guys uh know her um she texted me uh a couple of hours ago saying something came up so okay i'm happy this is great let's see whatever one second [Music] let's share screen okay so is it sharing yeah i can see it okay so i would like to present to you guys about february through may in the big house so first things first i would like to start with highlights in our classroom so our academic highlights so um our gardening and um nursery management classes were in scholenberger a couple of days ago doing some work with local groups um just restoring sorry um schulenberger park and they were even serenaded by some native birds while
020they were out there life lessons so some of our teachers us prepare for our futures um in economics classes and success 102 some teachers have been having their students fill out the tax forms such as the w-2 and the 1040. culinary arts as always it's been some good food um luke cox is pictured he is one of our big house catering members and he was welcoming students i mean sorry staff to our first um pop-up breakfast in over two years which is where the big house catering club makes some food sells it to our staff members and learns some great life lessons about um selling their food and then some highlights in our arts departments so sights and sounds we love to showcase our arts in the big house and one of our favorite ways
021to do so is sights and sounds of casa this is a twice yearly activity where once a week on wednesdays at lunch we hold sights and sounds which is where we showcase our arts so far we have seen some work from art classes we have had musical performances and tomorrow we are having the choir perform as well as the jazz band and our staff band which the choir will be performing with i am totally biased but i happen to hear that the choir performance will be pretty good um but our next day parade so the gaucho band and the united ankles both marched proudly in the butter next day parade to represent our school in this beloved community event now some highlights in our gaucho community so random acts of kindness week um a spirit
022week essentially of spreading kindness and positivity was put on by leadership in i believe early february and we had some fun days including cookies and a compliment which is what is pictured that is where students came up to the table to get a cookie and they were given a genuine compliment by our leadership students oh that's great um staff appreciation we love and appreciate every single one of our staff members and so recently asb has been working to show our appreciation pictured there is counselor appreciation day we got sandwiches from dandy's nose we had some student goods and we made them a poster and we've done similar things for our custodial staff our clerical staff and our teachers peer mentors so casa seniors have been under classroom through a program done with mentor me as
023part of their senior projects we're excited to see this program grow in future years and we are already excited to announce that there has been a lot of progress jared huffman visit a while ago the u.s representative was in the big house visiting the united anglers and the hatchery um as part of his um sorry has one of the things he stands for is environmental conservation so he had a very nice visit led by some of our environmental conservation students and then he was in the nmu and spoke with some students we were able to ask him questions that ranged from a little bit of everything um and we were giving some great answers asb baby shower so um this is a fun one um as some of you might know miss hayflick our asb
024advisor um was it was pregnant she just had her baby and we surprised her with a baby shower um in leadership on her last day and seen in the picture is josie actually with her gift to miss hayflick which is a mama gaucho shirt and a little gaucho onesie um sonoma county youth service awards so our gauchos love showing their community involvement and in the annual um press democrat youth service awards we had multiple gauchos represented including miles rivers who was our winner in the diversity equity and inclusion category and we had multiple other gauchos present and nominated including myself um casa hosted the pef awards night so the petaluma educational foundation um gives money to students seniors every year and this year we held the awards night in our gym and over 260 dollars
025was given to local class of 2022 students from casa grande petaluma high and st vincent's and just all the high schools in petaluma basically and um and it was a great night and we were all very thankful for the donors gq so gauchos love giving back as i mentioned and we were excited to bring our annual gq event but this year we made two big changes first of all we really wanted to focus on the charity aspect of gq so instead of gentlemen's quarterly it was gaucho quarterly charity event so we focused on our community involvement and each candidate spoke on why they chose the charity they were representing and the people's choice winner all of the funds went to their charity um our winner is actually pictured of our people's choice that is carson
026aiden he was representing the mamba mamacita uh sports foundation um and then our judge's choice winner was esteban sierra representing i believe the miracle foundation um yeah and our other big change was as you might have noticed i didn't say gentleman's quarterly i said gaucho quarterly that's because this year we opened it up to female contestants too um we had two female contestants night up something happened so we only had one and that might have been me um so it was a great night um we were very excited to see a full house promposal contest so the winner of our promposal contest which is an annual contest held on the casa grande asb instagram um where students send in how they're asking their date to prom and the winner gets two free prom tickets so
027one for each person and the second place winner gets one free prom ticket the winners are shown here kaden ramirez and hermione um they had 689 likes and our second place winner was tasha diego with 645 likes teacher appreciation oh sorry teacher appreciation i mentioned our staff appreciation but what needs a special slide to itself is teacher appreciation um over some of last week in continuing we are showing our appreciation for our teachers including um chalk messages all over campus handwritten notes to each of them um with delivered with some candy we made we got some coffee donated from starbucks and we're doing everything we can to show our appreciation for our hard-working and dedicated teaching staff now some upcoming dates for the big house um boosters awards night is in two days on may
02812th that is going to be when our casa grande boosters club awards their annual scholarships and then the 19th of may we have our senior recognition awards night the 21st we have prom for seniors in the city at the san francisco design center game week is from the 23rd to the 27th of may and this is something that admin and asb are working together on where it's going to be a week of games held on campus we have um chess ping pong three on three basketball and the esports and students are going to get to compete in tournaments then on the 26th we have the band and choir concert and awards night where each section is going to put on a concert and get some awards then the first of june we have senior project
029night where gauchos are going to show off the work they've been putting in this year on their casa capstone then our finals are from the 8th to the 10th of may with periods first and second on the 8th 4th and 5th on the 9th and 3rd and 6th on the 10th and then the day that everybody is looking forward to but specifically the seniors on june 10th we will be holding our graduation ceremony and it will be our last day of school as well as project grad okay and that is all i have for you i would like to thank you um the board and everybody that's here um for allowing me to present these presentations the entirety of this year it makes me sad that this is my last one but happy that i've
030gotten the opportunity to do these are you still there is she still there yes if you only you've actually been doing this since you're in eighth grade i believe right making board presentations i mean kind of i made some board presentations when i was in eighth grade first in the month and then i do site reports now thank you thank you congratulations my people okay next up is san antonio valiant are you guys going separate together separate does that mean we're excited to have you guys in prison yes we're thrilled you're here we really are we really appreciate you guys being here that's great hi my name is your mic dropped out my apologies [Music] next live dave here we go this is san antonio high school the home of phoenix was established 56 years
031ago our mission then and now is to provide a path towards mexico graduation for federal students who have struggled with education san antonio has supported students with a variety of programs including high school meet on the track preparation pathways space [Music] uh okay [Music] um [Music] um [Music] 145 students have passed their cemetery in high school this year 66 seniors thirty percent juniors and sophomores fifty seven percent latinos and latinos thirty four percent white and dogs are not hispanic orange location questions you'll have to be closer to the bike um [Music] the place to feel successful next time [Music] there we go [Laughter] lots of things happened at san antonio participated in the december fun run where one of our students jaime came in first in a 5k for the past three years instead of
032coming here san antonio has submitted an entry in the pet limit gingerbread house contest and mcgeary's cooking club made some delicious and i eat delicious super bowl snacks for the big game she needs some students to school to participate in a student panel for new teachers and got to share their ideas about what we're going to get this year on reddit for days we invited speakers to present information about careers we held trades day where electricians plumbers sheet metal workers and hvac workers came and talked about their jobs salaries and steps into getting to getting into the trades we have also had representatives from the military therapy dog organizations and detective zeus rivera visited us to tell us the story of his journey to becoming a police officer san antonio has a wall san antonio
033has a long-time relationship with the education arm of the california temple institute and we have gotten to see many films and documentaries last friday sean hayes known as the game hopper visited us and shared the documentary about his life as a southerner sean's story was very interesting as he shared some of the hardships he's encountered in a career where where there are very few persons of color who are felters is that like with the falcon like the bird that's so cool did he bring the falcon with him no no he's going to come back that is so cool yes it is next slide dave the teachers of san antonio really make us feel that they care about who we are not just as students but as people if i mention something i'm going to be
034doing over the weekend they asked me on monday how i went i know they're listening to me and are interested in what i have to say our classes are smaller than they were at petaluma high or across the grande so our teachers can give us the support we need to be successful each time we get to know our teachers and it feels like a family they are constantly looking for ways to help all of the students they really want us to graduate have a plan for our future the teachers celebrate successes with awards and recognitions we have an award ceremony at the end of every recording period where we recognize students who have gpas higher than 3.0 and the student of the grading period and now we would like to share a video that our
035friend ben and really nicely of some of our students talking about their experiences how has your perspective of san antonio changed since [Music] well i was terrified of it at first but i met a friend i met some friends and kind of got into it and plus like getting another teacher um it's a good school for sure and if you're scared don't be because you're like friends [Music] oh yeah i'm a junior [Music] so what opportunities have been presented to you at san antonio that weren't presented at other schools um definitely more credit um like gained uh it helps a lot and actually extra credit at any point if you just ask for it um i love that i'm using this as a natural um and also just lots of friends that i didn't know
036that i would like get to meet because i usually wouldn't have like seen them at any other point what would you tell students who are struggling with decision the decision to attend san antonio um do it we're not as scary as people may say we are um or and i wouldn't come to san antonio because it's an easy school i would come here to genuinely like finish your like high school and like have a good experience and i am in 11th grade all right what opportunities have been presented to you at san antonio that weren't presented at other schools sos is very similar it is slightly different enough how does the size of the school affect the social climate i'm not very social myself as much as i hate treatment though from what i've seen
037uh people are pretty friendly here right and what would you tell students who were struggling with the decision to attend san antonio there's nothing to fear necessarily you just this is that burns it's uh it's a very welcoming place very nice it's very pleasant all right so go ahead and tell us your name and what grade you're in how does the size of the school affect the social climate go ahead and restart so san antonio being like it's a lot more social than it like in some is most people suffer from social anxiety like they can't you know have social interactions and everything so being a smaller school we interact even more how does the size of the school affect how the teachers interact with the students when i come to like san antonio i
038feel like i walk into the classroom and i'm not going into the classroom i feel like i'm going into like somewhere where like i feel respected and like the teacher like you know i get it kind of like oh it's just another teacher or whatever when you walk into the classroom it's like oh that's somebody trying to help you that actually wants to see you succeed and you can like tell them you know stuff my name is jennifer cabrera and i'm in my channel all right what opportunities have you been presenting at san antonio that were not presented i feel like the the teachers here i never really had that connection over at the other schools where people care about you and just in general they pay more attention to you rather than like other
039schools what would you tell students who are struggling with the decision to attend san antonio um i think i mean if you really want to go to this school i mean you can it's not based off of what your parents want and just mostly based off of what you want you know what you think is best for you i mean i don't think my parents wanted me to go to school and i never saw myself going to this school but then i saw they had many opportunities here for you and finally i can feel like i'm actually like getting somewhere in life rather than like at other schools i never really felt like i would get anywhere in life just because of the teachers but now here it's like i have tons of support like
040i've never ever built like a lot of teachers here all right thank you so each of us wants to share our answers problems i'm just thankful to have such a to be such a positive yet um [Music] okay [Laughter] grateful [Applause] great job and thank you for being with us [Music] to give his presentation he has a little bit of a talk that he wants to do and then he has a slideshow [Music] is nathan on zoom [Music] hello can everyone hear me yeah we can hear you nathan oh okay great thank you um yeah like oh okay yeah um there you go you good okay all right yeah um i have a quick speech i'm gonna give before i present a slideshow with pictures throughout the year and then we have some student interviews
041that we'd like to show my name is nathan thatcher i'm a ninth grader from valley oaks we're an independent study school where students can work at their own pace i plan to stay at this school for all four years of high school because of how positively it's impacted my education and my life as a whole i'm enrolled in four different classes right now and i enjoy all of them i decided to enroll at valley oaks at the end of my eighth grade year because no schools had um supported how i learned before when i was in elementary school i was at a very small school that was too slow paced for me i understood all the content but i was really bored because of how slow paced it was and i was encouraged to move
042to a larger school for seventh and eighth grade when i switched to a larger school it was the exact opposite but not really in a good way the environment was too fast-paced for me and i struggled a lot i had trouble engaging with my teachers because of how many people there were there and i didn't feel like i was a valuable part of my school i was too distracted by the amount of students in the social environment to focus on school and it really affected my grades however coming to valley oaks has changed this entirely i can set my own pace for learning and all of our teachers help the students to engage with the material and make a supportive space to ask questions and deepen our understanding of the content it also gives me
043time to work on my extracurricular activities like acting and music which is where i get my social interaction from since it's quite a small school there's less students i can also take breaks to focus on my mental health so i'm doing well in school and mentally um other teachers here at valley oaks are phenomenal as well and my favorite teachers i've had throughout my education i'd like to specifically call out ms parker and mr tarpinian i took physical science prep with miss parker my first semester here and i absolutely loved this class we had weekly science labs that i always looked forward to miss parker made the learning fun and educational and i absorbed the content really well my weekly meetings with her to discuss work and hours were always supportive and a non-stressful environment
044i felt like i could ask questions about the things that i didn't understand without feeling judged and overall i learned so much in this class it was my favorite part of the semester this current semester i'm taking english 9 with mr tarpinian i've always loved english class but in a big school i never felt like my opinions on the literature or our discussion topics were heard in a class of 20 to 30 other students this year has been much different because in a smaller classroom environment i can equally contribute to discussions and feel heard all the assignments i find really interesting and valuable and i really enjoy this class another fantastic thing about valley oaks is how well it prepares students for college in a multitude of ways it obviously teaches students how to work
045independently which is a very useful skill in college oh okay it's still working yeah okay um this also teaches time management skills which isn't only good for college but throughout all of life um this one is more of a personal skill that it's taught me but going to valley oaks has taught me how to commute using public transportation i live in katahdi and all my classes are in petaluma so i get to take the train back and forth every day that's an important skill in college especially if you go college in a big city where you might not have a car and need to know how to use public transportation valley oaks also offers the class my 10-year plan which teaches how to prepare for our future this class taught me how to set goals
046for college my career and my life overall and also taught me how to achieve those goals this is incredibly beneficial because just one year at valley oaks had made me feel better prepared for college in all valley oaks is an incredibly valuable school there's so many kids who need to learn at their own pace or in a different learning style than other schools operate for example high achieving students can work at a faster pace and get their high school education done quicker and graduate early to move on to college and different chapters of their life students with extracurricular activities can take time to do what they're passionate about and even perform a career while not missing school and due to being smaller students connect with their teachers better i doubt i'd be doing so well
047if i wasn't at valley oaks because other schools haven't catered to my learning style i'm very grateful for them um now that's it's pulled up i'd like to share some photos from our school year with a slideshow that miss parker made uh you can go to the next slide um this is sorry uh this is one of our return returning juniors evelyn zacks um she is making incredible artwork that piece is in our main room of our school um she's working on her art portfolio that's required for university applications and our end of the year portfolios uh you can go to the next slide please um these are some photos from our science labs um they were two hours long i had these science labs last semester and i really enjoyed them can go on
048to the next slide please some more uh science lab pictures next slide please here are three of our students that were selected for student of the month last semester and the semester i believe next slide please this is minastes one of our students she's very inspiring and she has big dreams and we expect her to see her at the paris olympics uh next year i believe i don't know when the olympics are sorry uh next slide please um we are very happy to have a new bench for everyone to enjoy it is an honor of our math teacher that sadly passed away it's very so pretty the birds on it it's beautiful next slide please we've had 11 students graduate throughout the year and eight more will soon these are photos from our bell ringing
049ceremonies with their graduates and their families and all of our staff and i believe the next slide also has some more pictures of our wonderful graduates yeah next slide please some photos of previous valley of students stopping by to say hello it's a very small and close-knit community of students and teachers so it's good to see students returning next slide please and this is a staff party i believe for all our lovely teachers and staff next slide please uh lastly we have a video of some students that we interviewed um a few weeks ago to share their stories about valley oaks and why they enjoy the school i was in mexico for a little bit so um i was a lot i had like lots of um school troubles like peer pressure and all that
050so badly oaks really helped me to um because you know it's just like a one-on-one with teachers so it helped me um you know just avoid those type of problems so and then um also helps me with like a work i can work because if i were at that loom i probably wouldn't have time and then um i don't know i guess i the homework also uh having one-on-one with teachers helps me you know if i have any questions i can just ask them because in public schools i would always be quiet like if someone says raise your hand if you know the answer i would never raise my hand so here i mean i just mostly know every answer to the questions that teach you something great um do you plan on going to
051college if so do you feel that valley oaks has prepared you for that i am i'm going to go on the far and it really has helped me because i was talking to a counselor and she says that valley else is really good because it helped at college we're just going to be by yourself so that's what valley oaks is great um do you feel that you engage with your teachers differently than you have at previous schools how so definitely i feel i engage differently with my teachers than at previous schools i feel encouraged and unconditionally supported by each teacher i'm very grateful for the individual meetings that i've gotten to know each of them personally and last question what is your favorite thing about valley oaks my favorite thing about valley oaks is how
052comfortable everyone on campus makes me feel and how quiet it is and how there's no large loud bells and um it's very small environment perfect thank you so much good morning ashley thank you um you came to valley oaks as an ab-130 student for 100 distance learning i realized that it was my type of learning it was my style of learning and so like being able to um pace myself like in my own way was very like um helpful for me i do plan on going to college and i think because of two classes uh specifically which is goal setting and my ten year plan full health thing great lastly what is your favorite thing about valley oaks um and here like more of like the small little community that we're all willing to go
053above and beyond and the teachers um are amazing they um going to a traditional school was very stressful for me in a lot of ways i wasn't good at the social aspect and so i came to valley oaks so that i could really focus on um i'm able to do a lot more of what i want to do and i can help in a way tailor my classes towards what i want to learn yes i plan on going to college um and i think that raleigh has prepared me for that by again being tailored to what i want to learn and also by how fast i can go because i want to be able to go at my own pace yeah do you feel that you engage with your teachers differently than you have at
054previous schools how so um [Music] well there's obviously the big difference of not being in the classroom of 20 to 30 kids at once you know you're able to interact with your teacher usually often one-on-one and that creates this better understanding what the other needs yes i volunteer at vale vista elementary transitional kindergarten twice a week and i also do babysitting both of these are really helped by valeax because i go to tk during the day and when i was at a traditional high school i had to go after school and just do like prep work definitely i get very stressed at regular school i'm not good at talking to people it's a lot better here it's good me too um and last question what's your favorite thing about valley oaks just being able to
055work at my own pace really being able to interact with my teachers one-on-one rather than a classroom environment so that they really see my needs personally and are able to work with great thank you so much thank you so much um i think that valley oaks did in fact exceed my expectations and coveted safety because they limit how many interactions we have with teachers and students and the very few times we do interact physically they have like the mask protocols and other safety measures to keep the students safe when i went to a public school i wasn't really open to the options of distance learning and online learning because i didn't think it would be as efficient as in person learning but now that i'm actually doing distance learning i see that it can it's
056just as good as public school i do feel like i engage with my teachers differently because um a lot of my teachers in public schools it was mostly just interacting with what it had to do academically but with my teachers not only is it academically but they also go beyond teaching to like make sure we're okay emotionally and i really think that's a that's a good job on the teacher's part actually right now with the mass mandate being lifted i think that valley house is really a great school for me because it's it would give me anxiety if i were at a public school going with people that i don't know if they're contaminated or if they're not wearing their mask i think that being a hundred percent online really like helps with my anxiety
057about the virus thank you william thank you so much for coming in and that's is the best way for me to learn and it also improves my mental health greatly um it's allowed me to try and graduate earlier and it has seriously impacted my mental health do you feel that you learn better at valley oaks and how so i'm 100 since the second i got here my grades have raised by pretty much two letters at any of my previous school like me and i would never communicate with them but here my teachers engaged me all the time and i email them and they're super helpful great um do you have a job or extracurricular activities and does going to value support that more than a regular school definitely i work 16 hours a week and
058on one of my days i work one to nine on fridays which would not be possible at a normal school and lastly what is your favorite thing about elliot um just overall though and how i'm able to go at my own pace all right good morning roxanne thank you so much for coming in i came to valley oaks for this semester co-enrolled at petaluma high kind of to regroup for the semester junior year being a super busy year with work and sports and a bigger homework load and it was a cool opportunity to kind of just slow down for the semester it's been pretty cool to just have an open kind of schedule and work on my own twice i've had more motivation being able to do schoolwork when i am in the mood to
059do school work and i can go at my own pace and work on what i want to work on like at whatever time i'm feeling like it yeah i feel like you have a better connection with the teachers because it's one on one and you can go more into just school work when you're having conversations and you get to know them better than you would at a public school yeah i play volleyball and i do indoor cycling and then i have a job so it supports my schedule and i'm able to work more hours at my ice cream shop than most kids would be able to um school-wise it's taken a lot of stress off of me and i've kind of been able to focus yeah it's definitely lowered my stress thing is that you
060can kind of do make your own schedule and like do life how you want to do it and there's a it's cool that there's an opportunity to do that because you know at public school you have eight hours of school a day and you can't really do anything besides school and where you have your limited time after that yeah great that's all thank you so much thank you good morning kayla and thank you so much for coming in i think that valley oaks has only benefited me when it comes to my education i believe that prior schools that i went to were greatly organized but i think that now i have the ability to organize my own school life and schedule wishers and i think that i've been able to actually enjoy the work that
061i'm learning i definitely want to go to a college probably hopefully an ivy league college learning especially when you go to different schools they're dealing with 30 different kids per classroom and you kind of get more of a intimate relationship definitely allowing myself to be in my own environment with my own kind of a company with obviously teachers and having virtual based learning i definitely feel very safe when it comes to the virus great and last question what is your favorite thing about valley oaks oh there's so many but definitely a huge thanks to all of my wonderful teachers i also think that the curriculum is really great especially when it comes to finding what you like best in your niche but overall i think it's just a really positive and educational environment great that's
062all thank you thank you of course thank you that's all i have all right thank you thank you so much all right so we are gonna take a five minute break [Music] okay all right um is check one two check check we got time cheers check one two check [Music] thank you check one two check check yes [Music] check one two check i yes psychology testing testing oh check one two check [Music] check one two check check one two next foreign but if you don't have check one two check csu's [Music] okay [Music] he's like restarting it is is the new director of um special services is her name sarah fountain [Music] show you um all right re-convening [Music] all right next up uh school counseling and mental health [Music] okay good evening everyone thank
063you superintendent harris board of education community families and staff for allowing the counselors and mental health providers to present their work to you today i just want to kind of set the stage a little bit nationally the surgeon general has identified mental health as a crisis locally our students over the last five years have endured buyers smoke and pandemic i was doing a little calculation today in our current fifth graders their last quote unquote normal year was kindergarten and for our ninth graders their last normal year was fourth grade so it just kind of puts things in perspective as the trauma that we've collectively endured over the last few years however we are resilient and resourceful so there's always there are always good things to be learned from these situations but it has been a
064challenging five years the impact on our counseling services and mental health has been tremendous and we're seeing explosive growth so tonight we have our league counselors and our lmfts to share their bright spots and their areas of of growth and concern and need so we have brett's clove and megan mccl i'm gonna say her name wrong i practiced mclelland um our lead counselors here and then we have linda walsh and nikki jackson after that so thank you all and i'll run your slides hi everyone so i'm megan mcclellan i'm the lead counselor at petaluma high i know most of you um we presented last you know in the pre-pandemic days so it's nice to be back um and so yeah we do have some slides which i think might taste pulling out but um i've
065been at petaluma high for the last eight years as a school counselor and i actually did my internship back at casa grande so majority of my time has all been in petaluma city schools and hopefully will continue to be um so we're just here to kind of talk about what school counseling has been like especially with all the added challenges that mighty brings up um she's getting to the slide so i'll just start talking because we'll just move this along and i've got lots of energy for you guys to keep you awake um okay so school counseling association um we are dictated through asco which is the american school counseling association um and so there's three main domains that we're trained to cover academic career and personal social development so academic is a multitude of
066things and of course makes up a big majority of our jobs so that's everything from making sure every single student our school's on track during their high school diploma if they're not working with them it's kind of a perfect timing that there are all these other um presentations because some of the students from san antonio and valley oaks are kids i used to work with that eventually went there um so making sure students are on track for a diploma making sure they're on track for their a through g requirements working with students on the dnf list which we get every six weeks at the end of the grading periods we work with you know our high achieving students our students that are credit deficient which as you guys all know from the last couple years
067has only increased working with students that maybe are just in the middle need that extra push so trying to work to make sure students not only graduate but also to make sure they're taking courses that are going to fit their overall interests career is everything from exploring future plans and interests after high school whether that is looking into four-year colleges junior colleges trade schools apprenticeships military helping students secure internships job shadows helping the new community service etc um and then personal and social development which has become which is a huge huge part of our job as well so you know students come in our office in crisis with everything from you know something that's going on in their home life they got in a fight with their parents who we do 5150 of suicidal assessments
068we work with students when they're having difficulties with teachers um and of course the mental health crisis it's not like the pandemic just is all of a sudden when it started we've always been dealing with these problems and you know the many issues that teens deal with but over the last couple years we've seen such an increase with students with anxiety with depression um social isolation has been a really big issue we've dealt with with students just coming back to school and you know honestly not knowing how to like interact with their peers and so we do this through a lot of different ways um you know we do go into classrooms and help out there um a lot of our core work is done individually with students one-on-one um some groups and then also
069of course we do a lot of parent nights and other things to help really engage and now i'll turn over to brett for the next part well thank you and thank you um ford for allowing us to present it's really a great opportunity um so i wanted to just talk a little bit about um some of the the key areas that address the the overall sort of global areas that that megan was covering so um school-based mental health services so i i don't want to steal linda and nikki's show because they're coming on right after us but i just want to say that the school counselors we are the point of entry so to speak in most cases for the school-based mental health so some students do self-refer uh to our our program but many
070of them at some point are referred to us from teachers they come in on their own and there's a large i guess front-end process that takes place where we work with these students to try to identify uh what it is that where their challenges are what's you know keeping them from being successful and in many cases when they have some you know some really heavy underlying issues trying to convince them that seeing a therapist is a great idea and sometimes that alone can take several meetings um uh early interventions um so the early indicators you know pretty obvious you know typical stuff grades uh attendance behavior um in the school counseling realm uh some of the things that we're doing to address uh these concerns is uh every six weeks we get a report that's
071our dnf report uh for this last grading period it was 51 pages long of d's and f's uh so these are it's an itemized report that every student has at least one d or one f and it it tells us which courses they're they're failing or in danger of failing so it takes a while to tease through that information and figure out is this an f because uh they missed pe for a week because they were quarantining for covet or is it this an f because they haven't done 20 assignments and so um over the you know the process is to try to get all the students in to check in with them and try to identify what's going on also with attendance we receive attendance reports on students who are truant and also excessive
072excused absences and we make every effort to meet with those students but again many of them aren't at school because that presents a lot of challenges in of itself um and uh in some cases we have to refer them into the start and the star process to address that also looking at behavior so we often receive referrals from the discipline student services so students who have been involved in peer altercations or social media drama type stuff will often be involved in doing restorative practices and things like that to try to get those issues resolved before they mushroom into something out of control 504 plans so again much like the uh the school-based mental health our role in 504s is really all before the 504 plan has even developed again intervening with students who are struggling
073um you know there is i think a perception in the community or parts of the community that a 504 is kind of a magic wand and if you get one all of a sudden you have great grades and live happily ever after that's usually not the case but um for students who qualify it does provide them with some good you know accommodations but um again that process getting the medical documentation talking with the parents educating the parents about what exactly a 504 is and often what they you know heard on facebook or over the fence is not all that accurate um and then as of now uh petaluma and casa grande have around 100 504 seasons with 504 plans which is uh not a lot higher than usual but uh a significant portion of those
074not surprisingly our anxiety and depression related um challenges that students have uh master scheduling so um the master schedule process um one of the things we've done to really try to make things more equitable uh and uh on the casa casa grande side and i know petaluma high does some similar things uh when we build the master schedule uh when i first started the process working with the principal several years ago the first classes we put in were the ap classes and everything else kind of came worked had to work around those and um we flipped that process on its head the first courses we put in now are all the special education courses and the english learner courses then the aap courses and then everything else and um again that takes time it's it's
075a tricky process trying to figure out all the complexities of that and a lot of it is tea leaves and crystal balls to be honest with you um outside coursework so there's been a boon in um you know opportunities for students to get high school credit uh anywhere besides their local high school and where that falls into our role is making sure that these programs that they're enrolling in are actually legit and accredited um because there's plenty of programs out there send us a hundred bucks and we'll send you five credits kind of thing so educating students and families about what may or may not be a good option for their their child um attendance so that the tsar process was essentially shut down last year during the pandemic so there's a tremendous backlog of
076students who've essentially been truant for a year and a half plus where we really didn't have any effective way to intervene with them we did home visits and things like that last year had mixed success um but so we're we we're dealing with this backlog of these students that have you know many of whom have missed the majority of school for the better part of a year and a half so it's it's a lot of legwork to try to you know engage those students and families services for alternative uh school students i just wanted to touch on that so um as the uh uh south county um population our tsp classrooms on our campuses those have grown significantly we've gone from one class at casa to three classes since i believe the program was put
077in place about six or seven years ago one of the things that's challenging with that is we try to again with equity get those students equal access to our electives um and and we've developed some ways to integrate their course requests into our scheduling process even though in in the computer we're two separate schools so there's some tricky parts there we're also asked to attend their iep meetings and be their their school counselors to a certain extent um lastly on this slide i just want to address um i didn't really know what to call this but help desk and i know there's been um you know a lot of talk about failure um certainly you know again we have a number of students on our dnf list at both high schools unfortunately um and just
078how you know the school counselors are reaching out to these students and i i want to assure you that we know they're there we we are trying to use every tool in the toolbox so to speak to connect with these students many of these failing students um it's it's a complex situation it's lack of engagement from the student the family there could be transportation issues a whole whole host of things um just a little thing i have one student that during the pandemic she barely ever turned on her zoom camera we went knocking on her door we're never able to contact the family um i was finally able to meet her at the end of the year fast forward second semester of sophomore year now she's still truant uh didn't show up to start or
079sar meetings things like that i've sent out 26 passes uh so far this semester i've been able to get her in my office once so that's just one student so it's it's a it's a time drain in a good way we're trying to connect with these students um just another little data point um we uh our our counseling secretary at casa grande jen cox is great with collecting data and as of this afternoon we've had 4 876 of counseling appointments in our office since the beginning of the school year between the five councilors at casa grande all right megan ours is still working on getting data together okay so college and career services so of course that is a huge part of our job and we also rely on the help of our two college
080and career center specialists so at petaluma high school we have mccoy dalsworth who um works 25 hours four days a week and then over at casa grande they have val alstain who's wearing 32.5 hours but that's split between casa grande sonoma mountain and carpe diems so between the counselors work alongside with these in these positions um to help with everything from planning our um college visits our evening events um again reviewing a3g requirements also being an expert at ncaa so that if a student wants to play a sport in college they're also meeting those requirements because fun fact they're not the same um reviewing college applications we put on college application workshops at both schools throughout the year um counselors of course are tasked with writing letters of recommendation for any student that's applying to
081college so this last year i think i wrote about 30 for my own caseload and i think each counselor would say about the same um submitting financial aid appeals um i just had a student a few weeks ago who got into the school of her dreams but there was an issue with financial aid so then i had to help assist to make that happen and luckily she got a 30 000 scholarship so it's all good now but you know those types of things that take the extra work knowing not just financial aid from the fafsa side but knowing the california dream act we put on cash for college workshops we do virtual we've done multiple virtual financial aid workshops um we then also like brett talked about we have to not just know everything to
082make sure students on track with their own classes are taken within the school but we also have to make sure like if they go and they take a class at santa rosa junior college at college or marin if uiu and apex name the school then not only is it getting on their transcript but that also they're submitting it correctly when they do their college applications that they're submitting those transcripts on top of their own transcripts and getting all the steps to then get to their next step whatever that might be um and then of course career development we try to do as much with that as we can as well so making sure we're informed about the ct pathways at each school um trying to put on resume or help students with resumes um our
083college and career center has helped in the past with work-based learning they bring in military they help promote job shadows and internships industry events community service um one of the big things that's been a huge setback i mean not only are the are is it just you know pedaling high the four of us and it costs for the five of us we do have one person but they're not even a full-time position and at petaluma high we were without a person for almost two months which meant that all of january and all of february not only was i doing my lead counseling work i was also basically the college and career center person for like the in-between period of time um i know 10 000 degrees as a presentation at night and they do provide
084some help and they are supportive and i do like their services however at the end of the day students always come to their school counselors first so um it's hard to get those students to directly connect and sometimes unfortunately the 10 000 degrees reps like the financial aid situation i talked about i tried to refer it to 10 000 degrees and then they didn't know how to do it so then it ended up back on my plate so sometimes these extra services that are supposed to help us can create some more work um and so i mean even things like now that students have accepted their college offers like i had a student the other day who just came in my office and just wanted to sit through his entire college to-do checklist even though
085he'd already been at home with his parents because he was like i just want to make sure i'm doing this all correctly and of course my favorite part of my job is working directly with my students one in the audience tonight but all of these just require so much time and energy and so your day is always ping-ponged around between the mental health crisis the college issues the students that are failing the teachers that are coming to complain and everything else in between so that's a little about college and career okay so um master schedule challenges so the counselors um have a role in in building the master schedule from scratch which is happening as we speak so i i work with dr osterman our principal but also just uh more broadly the planning of
086the schedule and also once the schedule is put together dealing with all of the moving parts associated with that and just to touch on a few of the of the the big ticket items so to speak so dual enrollment um is uh is is a fantastic opportunity for our students so many you know every year seems like more and more of our students are enrolling in college courses at santa rosa junior college as well as many other colleges college of marin and then online for you know the sky's the limit one of the challenges we face is some of our core classes are shrinking due to dual enrollment so students may opt to take a english class at santa rosa jc instead of casa grande and it's it's a bit of a double-edged sword because
087um that's a great idea for some students not a great idea for others um and if if they take a class over there then it's one less student in our class and ada and all that good stuff so and but by the same token as i understand it um our our college and career and it indicator on our dashboard uh we get you know points for for students who are um having an early college experience while they're in high school so um the the tricky part is well students will say okay great i'm uh i'm gonna take english this summer at the jc and we counsel them and all the steps to do that and then they show up in august and say oh you know i went on vacation instead so then you know
088oh is there a space in an english class somewhere so it's this these this moving target of um the the class size that our sections are allocated based on is about an average of 28 students per class with a cap of 32 students so we basically have four seats to work with um you know as far as an average across the campus and of course some classes are smaller but most of them are are pretty darn full so it's it's some real challenges there trying to read the tea leaves on how that's all going to work when the dust settles also our bell schedule limits opportunities with a six period day for example a tenth grader who has an iep is required to be in a study skills class which is essentially becomes their year-long
089elective and so oh sorry you can't take culinary arts sorry you can't take art you can't take band you have to be in your study skills class which is a great support program um but it limits opportunities if we had a different type of bell schedule such as a 4x4 or something we could better accommodate um students who need support classes we see the same thing with our english learner population where they have to be in two periods of english um and then that takes away from their elective opportunities um credit recovery so i'm sorry online programs um so one of the things that again like the jc classes we have become sort of college advisors for all kinds of colleges out there that many of them i didn't even know existed um so students
090are showing up with a transcript from fill in the blank college and we need to figure out how that articulates into their their high school credits and so forth um credit recovery um i think it's pretty common knowledge that the need has increased greatly due to distance learning and and the pandemic um at our site we went from one section 32 students of a credit recovery class to five sections and thank you for the board administration for allocating those extra sections because we needed them and but uh credit recovery is not really a one and done in the sense that many of these students are not even in a place where they have decided that they want to recover those credits and so it's been a challenge this year counseling the students yes they're sitting
091in a class and they have a great little online english class in front of them and they're playing video games or and not progressing so there's been a lot of time spent trying to get these students like hey you know you're a sophomore if you want to graduate on time something needs to change here so um the online credit recovery is is a great option but it comes with a lot of counseling and follow-up to to help it be successful for the students english language development english learners this program has grown at both comprehensive high schools especially at casa grande we've received 33 newcomer students since the first day of school so to put it in perspective just a few years ago that was usually about seven or eight that number so about a little
092more than triple we had to add two new sections of our english language level one class mid-year to accommodate all these new students one of the things that we do in our scheduling that has worked out pretty well is we try to cohort these students in their mainstream classes with bilingual assistants so we're not just saying okay here's a math class you don't speak the language but good luck we try to have a bilingual assistant in there unfortunately there's more of those classes than we have bilingual assistance staffing so we we hope to see an increase in that but again those classes were all full so now when we're getting newcomers and it's still happening it's really interesting you know sadly getting a student from el salvador who stopped school in sixth grade and then
093putting them into math one in the middle of the year taught in english you know uh needless to say there's some struggles there specialized scheduling some of the things we're doing to try to address some of the equity issues um one of the things i've learned in working with a master schedule is you can try to do everything perfect and some stuff you just don't even notice it until it's too late for example um i never thought about five years ago if asb class was scheduled the same exact period as a spanish for native speakers class that that might present some problems about students wanting to get into one class or the other so we try to really look at not only what area says where the class can where we can get the most
094students into that class but also who are those students that are that we're trying to get in there so that's just one example of her how we're trying to front front load the process to uh provide more equitable access to some of the electives and other classes and lastly enrollment between schools so we have some students that go back and forth between petaluma high and casa for electives not as many as you think it's usually transportation is an issue but one of the scheduling challenges has been um the south county consortium students and i'm not picking on them at all i spent 12 years in special education so i i love special ed and i believe in and equal access but um there are 43 seats in our casa electives that south county students are
095in so essentially we have a class and a half that are full before we even put any cost of students in those classes and as i understand it we're not we're not funded for those extra sections and again that program is growing we try to include those students as much as we can in our electives but again that when you're dealing with that 28 average class size there's not much wiggle room there okay um and so then just last thing to touch on is school counselors staffing so oh it can change there goes perfect so um this just kind of gives an overview from back in 2007 through 2008 there were 16.6 full-time school counselors district-wide currently we're at 13.5 full-time um school counselors there's no school counselors at carpe diem or sonoma mountain and
096then of course south county consortium students you know we help them like red side especially with scheduling and whatnot um asca standards recommends one school counselor per 250 students and the average now it's kind of cut off there but there's about 331 students per counselor um and of course you know our roles and the needs and the challenges of our students have increased and we want to be able to serve all of our students and that can be extremely difficult to get it all done and when you look at schools even like carpe diem or sonoma mountain or even san antonio which had funding cut and then was able to get funding back so that gus could come back those are some of the remote most at-risk students as well and yes they do have
097mental health support at times and and they'll talk more about that but like they don't have the school counseling support to help with all those other services and then in addition you know over the years and the eight years i've been here the amount of tasks that get added to our plates year after year is increasing but the needs of what the kids need to be successful not just while they're in high school but in their future is increasing so it is a really hard balance to get everything done that this job does require of us so just to close it out you know our goal obviously is to give every student the attention and support they deserve and i'd like to just uh i want to quote our one of our former principals at
098casa grande ron everett who hired me about 15 years ago and in one of our department meetings i don't remember what we were talking about but he made a comment about the counselors being the heart of the school and uh you think well what about teachers you know don't slight the teachers and of course he didn't say the counselors were the brains of the school they see the heart but he understood that you know if you think of the school as an organism and all the blood that's pumping and the counseling office is the heart like everything in the high school really comes through the counseling office one way or another whether it's the planning whether it's the implementation scheduling mental health you name it and so i think he really understood how um you
099know our mission of getting these students to a place where they're ready to learn because if they're not in the classroom you know they're not ready to go so um again uh we we really we do our best to try to meet the needs of all students but as i hope you've seen from some of this information um it's it's getting to be a challenge for sure and so um we'll continue to to carry out our mission of trying to meet the needs of all students and thank you very much for your time this evening and if you have any questions anyone have any questions yeah we have two we work in the classrooms at casa grande high school we have two bilingual assistants who work in the classrooms and then we have one bilingual
100assistant who runs our bilingual office and and is a primarily does translation for families and outreach [Music] um yeah i was gonna do a whole thing but um i'm not you guys really do a lot we're lucky to have you um you know the the amount i'm it's just impressive the amount that you have to carry anybody you know everybody in education carries a lot um i um especially in helping the students in so many different areas i was i just wanted to kind of go back to um well i was going to ask you about the equity study um and there was there were things in the equity study that directly relate to our um our goal too which is all student scholars will have rich academic options that meet their unique needs and
101there are a couple of things that were brought up um exploring or ensuring that all high school students have access to a through g and then the open access to accelerated coursework to increase student agency which is i think what you were saying about the master schedule and changing the master schedule so that it you you first think about the ell classes and things like that um and then additional courses and pathways to enhance learning so i just wanted to ask you for your help you know like your thoughts about um how we how we change it how can we help so that it is a more equitable system so that we don't have the inequities um that we saw in the study so an example um the access to a3g coursework um it could
102it also is influenced by our graduation requirements so in the study they actually point out that in our grad requirements um world language and visual and performing arts are lumped in under the same category of requirement so i would just you know students can choose one they can choose if they want to graduate they have to choose one they could choose both a through z or cte yeah um uh a through g are two different categories so is it that that's just an example of possibly would that could you change that graduation requirement so looking at graduation requirements in terms of their um work um kind of um meshing with a through g as as an example of helping making it more equitable um so i was just thinking about your thoughts looking at the
103equity study with all of the stuff that you have to do how can we help you accomplish that does that make sense yeah so i'll comment a little bit on that and then brett can jump in um so at petaluma majority of our classes are e through g um with the exception of our some of our rsp classes which when we do transition ieps for students coming into high school if they choose to go into an rsp english class for example we explain that that means they're not on track for a four-year college but they still are on track for junior college so we make sure to like make that clear early on um and with open access at probably any student can take any class that they want of course if a student is
104failing every class we might have a conversation about is that a good idea or not but um we definitely and in my time of working there we've seen an increase in all students but it definitely could still get better um i think that if you change the graduation requirement like separated out the art and the language it could be beneficial um i think there's some real pluses with it um but i do go back and think about some of our most like high-need students that are really just struggling across the board um that i don't know like i don't know if it's that we need more supports when they come into high school so that when they're a freshman they're i don't know if it's that it's smaller class sizes or a more uh i
105don't know i don't even think after school opportunities is the right thing because a lot of students have transportation issues but embedding more stuff into the school day because i think what often happens and you know we tell all students that we want them to be keep everyone a through g track until until you know they really have a sense in my senior year hopefully they make a decision but if they freshman year let's say they come in and they fail a bunch of classes um and then we paint out the picture of like okay you're gonna need to do summer school credit recovery x y and z um then some of them are like no no no i don't want to do this so i don't know i mean i'm i think our graduation
106requirements could be changed um and students do really still get confused about that like it's a constant almost daily conversation wait i need a language and an art and i'm like well it depends on what you're looking to do um i don't know what i get i guess also yeah um i was thinking and it's anecdotal i don't think it's it's widespread but that students were allowed to drop classes uh in their senior year that then um or junior year which then disallowed them from being able to apply for college because they weren't they had they were on it an a3g track they were allowed to drop so things like that are what um you know and take a ta position mm-hmm right so i mean we all know that right of course so i
107just i i'm just trying to get a sense of the study um really brought up a lot of of issues that i um that i just want to get your input so you're right you know those kids that are struggling would be it would be hard for them to do both so um i don't know what the answer is but i definitely wanted you guys to kind of give us something but i love the idea that you were talking about the changing the bell schedule right in order to allow for more electives and more opportunity and i was going to say in any time of the student comes in to drop a class like and i think it's true and for any of us school counselors we don't just like willy-nilly let them drop we
108have conversations about what does that mean and then if you drop this what's your plan and we usually typically i mean the first two weeks of school are different because students are just swapping out classes left and right but um if they're like going to drop a class like i did for example the student dropped spanish earlier this semester but she was one of the perfect example of a truant student anxiety depression failing every single class so she eventually we allowed her to drop her language class but that was after like multiple meetings conversations with teachers parents etc so i think we're all trying to keep our students not just on track for graduation but also a through g but then i think the mental health issues are often where like that leads to those
109a through g changes i think you're right well i'm oh were you going to add to that because i had a question yeah it's just a dovetail so that the a through g requirements i think one of the um if we went to that say for graduation requirements uh i would want to see the shoring up of the foundation as far as students who are behind when they get to high school because one of the issues we run into is if you're if you're not ready for math 1 or algebra 1 in high school we don't have anything for you you go in math one or you go on math one and and so they kind of start out with a flat tire and i think going backwards into the junior highs and even into
110the elementary schools and trying to address that because again if you have a bad experience in math one freshman year the first question to your counselor is how many years of math do i need to graduate two years but three years is a through g you know so it um and i would say there's you know there can be similar experiences and languages i did want to put in a plug for the cte and that also meets that requirement and i think that serves a need a lot of students that rather than taking an art class that they have no interest in and and suffering and getting a d minus if they can take a welding course or an automotive class or a culinary course that's something that's maybe a pathway that they're headed down
111that it just enriches their experience and rather than just checking off a box for a requirement okay thank you that's great i also had a question about the equity study i want to give you guys a chance to respond to some of the things that were said in the study and that came out of the study um so you mentioned equity just a few times so i'm just wondering like what do you see as the biggest equity issues at costco high school and what is your role in advocacy for these students who are having these experiences that were highlighted in equity study uh well it's it's certainly a big concern and uh i you know there's a lot of you know i'll speak for our side at costa grande but i think it's probably similar
112in in looking at the demographic makeup of some of our advanced and honors classes um there seems to be for whatever i think it's many reasons but uh i think one there's some untapped potential we could have in in changing that um we're getting more more and more students who went through dual immersion programs either in our district or through our our program at mckinley um spanish language and those programs are are typically diverse in terms of the students and many many of our top performing students and i think they could be real ambassadors to to making those advanced courses you know inviting students from all corners to campus to feel more comfortable in those classes because they've had a really unique experience in their in their primary elementary school also i think tapping into
113i'm a huge fan of just using our teenagers to market i mean i can go in a classroom and say take art it's great you know but they're not going to listen to me we just had an event at kenilworth junior high school we call it ask a gaucho we got to do it in person again finally we bring costa students over at lunch and we haven't raffle prizes it was a wheel of fortune thing but the whole thing is the eighth graders can ask a gaucho anything they want about casa and to just give them a welcome mat i did my best to reach out to many corners of the campus to have a really good cross-section of students we had uh representatives from several of our clubs like mecha black student union as
114well as our leadership program and other clubs and so we i think that casa was well represented so these students many all of them are most of them are very high performing students so they were able to give the inside scoop to these kennel war students so i think there's a lot of untapped potential where you know hey i took honors you can do it too kind of thing yeah i think what maddie was asking previously correct me from wrong matty and what came up in the study as well was there's just just like such a high number of white students and the honor as an ap i know that you guys do a lot of this scheduling right in leadership as well um so i guess what's your role or how do you see
115like changing that addressing that issue because it's something that we've known for a long time that along with just the disparities and achievement graduation rates amongst all of our students i think having an adult whether it's a counselor or a teacher talking directly to those students so you know hey you are getting all a's or your have a 3.0 or whatever um have you considered doing this i mean when we do the registration presentations we highlight ap and honors classes for every single student we talk about all the many different reasons why a student might do it and we put on at problem high we put on an ap honors night i think it as something similar and try to encourage it but i do feel that um it takes more of that direct like
116hey mighty have you considered taking honors biology next year i see you're really strong in science um and i think part of it is i don't know maybe more data i mean i do think the last two years our data's been so messed up from covid um and then we used to do psat which we've done away with which is totally fine the only small benefit of it was to be able to see like students that might have ap and honors potential but i think there's other maybe data points that could be utilized i also have to say one of my huge frustrations is when i first started i used to be able to get access to our free and reduced lunch list which i know is not necessarily the same population but there could
117be there is often overlap right um so i used to be able to get access to that so i knew who every single one of my students was that was socially economically disadvantaged so i could not only meet with them to give them fee waivers for testing but no like targeted approaches as they're going through high school maybe they're not thinking about college because they know their family can't afford it so but over the years i think maybe i like snuck in my first year working here i don't know but i've asked every year since and all i get told is no no no that's confidential and i understand it's confidential but also as counselors we hold confidential confidentiality so if there's anyone in this school system that should have access to it and know
118who those students are it's us because oftentimes those students are one in the same in the student example i used earlier talking about like appealing her admission um for financial aid for ucla i just never knew that she was financially disadvantaged until she came in my office two weeks ago and her senior year so i think there's better ways that like getting us not just getting either the counselors that data but then also like looking more closely at like students like gpas at the end of each grading period and then cross comparing that with ap and honors classes but i'll be honest like we can't just do that as counselors we do need the help of teachers or other site people to really push that um and my our previous principal used to push that
119really hard at paddling high and i love our current administration so but but that hasn't necessarily been as much as a goal over the last few years as it was when i first started so i think it comes not just from counseling but i think it needs to be all in the teachers the administration making sure it's you know district goals etc so what do you guys think is the biggest like i guess reason or reasoning like for the gaps that we keep seeing like year after year in those classes like the disparities in those classes like the racial makeups of those classes as well as just i think test scores right i think that um you know there's not as many students probably taking any ap honors classes because they don't either have older
120siblings that have done them or they don't have parents at home that are encouraging them to do it and so again it needs to be adults on campus and i again think it's counselors teachers and ministers i think it's all the adults because um frankly if i had time to meet with every single student on my caseload on a regular basis and like learn more about their interests and figure out like are these the right classes for you then i think it could be tailored better but i mean the reality is with 300 plus students per caseload like i do look at all my students schedules but maybe not in the way do you want to come up in a dress not really sure why you're clapping about the disparity but i i just don't
121know which part of it about needing more yeah we're recording this one we can't hear you on the microphone no sorry no i was plotting because i was applauding what she was saying so i think to help answer your questions more counselors are needed when i first started in 2007-2008 we had a larger enrollment and i had 100 fewer students then than i will next year i have 398 students in august i had about 298 no no around 300 when i started and our enrollment was several hundred students larger in 2008. so if i can spend less time dealing with 400 students if i can deal with 300 students then i can pull up a report of all my students in free and reduced lunch whose parents did in complete college who have a gpa
122between a 2.0 and a three 4.0 who aren't in any ap or honors classes yet and i can meet with them individually and i can talk with them and i can encourage them because who knows maybe someone is maybe someone isn't but i can do that because that's my job and i can get them to maybe meet with an ap or honors teacher and say miss plow what do you think if i want to join your ap class next year how hard is it i've never been in one and she can do that with you and you can tell her give her input and then she'd come back to me and be like i met with miss cloud just like you said and i'm going to take her class next year which i've done that
123with students this semester and it's been awesome and we can do that with more and more if we have more counselors doing helping our students instead of having 400 kids that's true that's the case but but also um so i don't know if that alone would help the disparities that we're seeing here because we've been seeing kids with kids individually will help them all we've been these disparities for i mean for years even when you know in 2007 you know or whatever like you've been seeing i'm not saying alone yeah i know that's that's why i'm saying like that is the biggest thing that i think we can do is meet with kids one-on-one because we can have a million parent like nights we can promote our programs to the parents online resume in person
124we can go to their communities and have them in community centers and some people will show up usually the people who don't have to work or don't have to stay home and take care of kids will show up for those meetings and those zooms and those presentations and those dog and pony shows and we can try that as many times as we want and we'll get whoever shows up but if we can meet with the kids we can get them while they're at school in their classrooms and pull them into our office because they won't probably stay after school and they won't come during lunch they want to eat some good food and they're going to go to the cafeteria um if we can get them then we can talk to them we can convince
125them and we can like help them like i don't want to just assume that it's just the students of color that don't care like like it feels like you're saying like it's just the students of color or low-income students that will not opt to take ap and honors classes unless you sit with them individually if there's other barriers it just it felt like a simplistic answer i don't know what students of color that's that's what we're talking about notes of color no wonder did i say that it was only students of color talking about that that was my question that you were answering was about the disparities and the gaps with the students reaching first like personally seeing them talking them and then convincing them that they can do it so is that not happening
126now no it is but it could happen more if we didn't have so like if i have 400 students that's 400 possibilities of like a three-hour 51.50 conversation okay if i have 300 students that's 100 fewer chances i hear that the ratios like i i know for everyone if you had less people interact with you could have more impact yeah however i was asking about like the disparities in the classes right now currently um i don't i don't think that the ratio of uh students of color have changed over the past right am i right like i think it's always been majority white students in the schools that has changed but we're still seeing like the persistent gaps even when you had you know 300 students on your case so versus 400 like that hasn't
127changed so just a couple ideas um i think if we had more entry points then the the the honors and ap classes we've offered have been fairly stagnant and i don't mean the content but just the the types of classes that we offer um i've often wondered if we had a uh latino history or a chicano studies course or um that you know given that segment of our population might be interested in taking a course like that and maybe develop a love for history and then perhaps want to take ap us history or or ap government as a senior or something like that so i think that if we looked at some of our elective courses that are within the core subject areas and and looked at at things that might be different entry points
128you know like for example our ap psychology class is one of the first and only ap classes that many students take some of them never set foot it's just i like psychology i really like it so i'm going to try ap so i was thinking if we had some other advanced courses that were that we looked at different topics that might be you know different than what we've offered in the past that we could get students more excited about those subject areas and then then they might open that up their ideas to taking their core subjects in advance their ap as well you know it reminds me of ap spanish for native speakers and how successful that was and how it made them uh the the students that took it feel like they could take
129an ap class and be really really successful so i think that's a great idea but we also don't want to make assumptions and just assume that that is the only way that i know i'm not saying but we don't want to assume that that's the only way that students will be engaged right like we don't say like the asian students have taken asian studies classes black synthetic black studies class to be engaged like that's that's hard to hear that that's because we don't have that right now so that's what i'm just asking like just to address that that we're seeing that we're currently seeing i think also i mean i don't think our district qualifies because they've also asked over the years but i think having an avid program or something like that tell again
130helps support students throughout their four years and encourage that because i mean studies show if there's one supportive adult in their life that like encourages them whether it's a school counselor or any other adult like to kind of boost those students through there's a better chance so i mean i don't think that we alone are going to change things i think that there needs to be an like all-in approach from like all the schools and all the staff that works for us one last comment on that too i i also think if the district um was able to really double down on recruitment when we have teacher openings and i i think it would have a really positive impact on us on our whole program to have teachers who represent all of the student body
131you know we're majority white teachers at our site and i think that's pretty standard throughout the district and i truly believe that there can be inspiration you know you know that person is just like me and and they love american government or they love biology or whatever it is and i think that could be you know when students see that uh in action i think that could be powerful yeah i totally agree with that but yeah i'll stop all right thank you thank you do you have a question oh i'm sorry if anyone else have a question sheldon [Music] but like i felt so much more motivated to like take the and do something and get involved in something because an adult wouldn't do it and like i feel like it gave a lot more
132than one time with the counselor and he knows you're i mean i'll just say like i'm a white student and when i was in middle school the only reason why i ever took an honors class was because the teacher told me to i had two college-educated parents they could really care less about what i did with school and education because they had a lot of other stuff going on so it took an adult reaching out and then once i started taking honors classes i took them throughout the rest of the time so yeah i mean whether no matter your color of your skin like oh we don't want to just assume that they have an adult at home that's doing that for them and again that's where having more counselors more teachers more adult support
133can help so nikki jackson and linda walsh are here to talk about mental health hello a little bit of a height difference we're going to adjust the mic as we go um i'm nikki jackson and this is linda walsh and uh we sorry a little nervous okay i'm good so whenever we get the pleasure of talking about our district we always start by saying that we are so lucky to work in a district where mental health is valued we have successfully had a school-based mental health counseling program for over 20 years this semester we have five district guidance coordinators which is what linda and i our positions um and thanks to covet funding we were able to add another one last semester we had four so we supervised 15 clinicians in various stages of licensure
134all of them are part time at 25 hours or less a week so what what do we do we engage in crisis management threaten suicide assessments including incidents of of death suicide overdose or family tragedy in our community we provide classroom presentations social emotional learning consultation to administration and staff and long and short term individual and group counseling we help students deal with everything from peer and relationship issues to significant mental health concerns and everything in between we're going to look at the national data next slide thank you as has been previously mentioned and if you follow the new york times they're doing a great um series of articles on the mental health crisis for teenagers that's going on right now so we know that mental health needs were already on the rise prior to
135covid we're not saying that it's all just because of covid and you can see the percentages of persistent sadness and hopelessness from 2009 to 2019 there's a jump from 26 percent to about 37 um sadness and hopelessness are important because it leads to it can can lead to suicidal ideation you can also see that the suicidal ideation numbers increased from 20 2009 to 2019. by 2021 the rate of sadness and hopelessness jumped to 44 so less than less than 50 but not by a ton uh that's a seven percent increase in just two years also at play in the mental health issues that are going on are equity issues that already existed that are being exacerbated by the effects of the pandemic and the mental health crisis according to cd to the cdc dad and
136mark i'm so sorry you guys i swear to god i can speak in public i'm just gonna take a second just give me a second okay i'm so sorry i tell the kids i work with that my fitbit registers public speaking is exercise because i'm actually having panic attacks so we can do hard things i can always feel your pain uh i don't know that's beyond my abilities okay so according to the cdc data marginalized groups tend to experience higher rates of mental health issues and have greater difficulty accessing services and this has all been exacerbated in the pandemic as well studies are showing that the effects of covid will be long-lasting and create an even higher need for mental health services the infrastructure does not have the capacity to support that need so researchers
137and the apa are identifying schools as the number one place for positive impact for student and families well-being so we at paloma city schools are already set up for that in some ways right that you guys have been supporting mental health for so long and we're grateful for that go to the next slide when people experience traumas like 911 or hurricane katrina the data published by the apa has shown that the impact on mental health continues for seven to ten years out so we're in this for the long haul the number of children admitted to emergency departments for psychiatric distress is increasing over 100 000 people within again national data within the last year have died from drug overdose people are suffering from anxiety and depression at four times the rate than before the pandemic
138and mental health issues really are the new pandemic okay thank god [Laughter] oh this is not gonna [Music] take it work all right um so we in this slide are presenting the data from fall of 2021 so last semester which was the first full semester of returning to in-person instruction after the experience of distance learning and hybrid learning as well we served a total of 202 students at the elementary level and 262 students at the secondary level we conducted 19 suicide assessments at the elementary level and 97 suicide assessments at the secondary level um what is also noteworthy i need to raise this up i think though what is also noteworthy uh if we compare it to the fall of 2019 so the last time we had a full semester before distance learning the number
139of students referred to our program has increased by 36 percent and the number of suicide assessments doubled during that time period in in 2021. we've also noted the number of school-based mental health full-time employees serving each site as well as the student population at each site and for the full-time employees at the elementary level it's 4.91 fte and at the secondary level it's 6.6 fte so next slide please so what we are seeing um schools are requiring more and longer sessions sorry students are requiring more and longer sessions due to the severity of needs and there's a couple reasons for that one is that there has been an increase in the number of dysregulated students on campus and the severity of the issues at all school site has really intensified this year the second is
140that there's been a significant increase in mood disorders eating disorders self-harm substance use and also suicidal ideations while acknowledging that we all have experienced in some ways a collective trauma transitioning this school year has been challenging for our students and the adults as well and this has led to an increase in attendance behavior issues and academic issues as well and then last are there have been fewer community resources that are available to take on students so a couple things there's a less access to community mental health resources due to long wait lists and secondly even if the students do get outside mental health services frequently um the number of sessions is one to two times per month and also the duration of the session is a lot less as well so next slide please so
141the unmet needs um in a normal quote-unquote school year our caseloads are really full by september but we are able to provide services for those students in a timely manner this year things have been very different given the number of students and the severity of needs it has been challenging so we are so honored to provide mental health services in this district and to our students but we want to ensure that we're doing everything we can to help those students as well thank you [Applause] um [Music] to be able to see somebody and what ways can we as a ward do to alleviate those willingness so that kids are not just dangling out there [Music] i'll speak first and then i'll let linda um this is a real struggle for us when we have kids
142on our waitlist we are very aware of who they are and what's going on and we just don't have enough boots on the ground to be able to give them the services they need when we have kids on our on our caseload they are um under our license and so um that's the only way that we get to have our job is by answering to the to the state board for our license and so we have to make sure that we are providing ethical and consistent treatment to the students that we have um so we have much smaller caseloads than the school counselors for that reason so in terms of moving kids up on the wait list it tends to be we tend to prioritize this year we're prioritizing crisis and emergency and it sucks
143because we were initially intended to be preventative services um and we just are barely we're not really able to do that this year right um so i don't know the solution to moving people up on the wait list i know that linda and i lose sleep i know that all of us and the mfts let me speak for us we lose sleep over these kids that we often feel like we have their safety in our hands and it's scary and um you know we have had a lot of loss this year for drug addiction and um it you know it's a very heavy weight that we are carrying um for these kiddos and so you know i can say that we are doing as much as we can right now we're trying to like find
144community partners to shore people up with we consult with kaiser i can't even tell you the conversations i've had um like we advocate for more services for our students we try to coach parents into how to say that you deserve more services and here's how you can get them um you know we are we are trying to do everything we can to just kind of shore these kids up and help get everyone through um the school year do you want to add anything to that [Music] um one thing that we have done this year and i think it's really a tribute to our counselors is that they have taken on uh the role of also providing group counseling so they will see a student individually for six to ten sessions approximately and then we're moving
145them into groups we're very intentional about it it's not that we just get a group of ten kids together and yeah let's go we get together kids that we feel have common issues we put together kiddos who uh we think could be advocates for each other and supportive for each other so that really helps kind of move our caseloads on but that's really a tribute against our to our counseling staff we also rely on the school counselors at our sites we check in with them a lot of times they're checking in with some of the kids as well so that's uh that's a big piece too for this i mean always thank you yeah thank you okay all right next up is the eel map the eel master plan [Music] okay um [Music] um [Music]
146our data shows that they is that there's a systems issue and the data can kind of point to that when there is when it's very difficult for us to kind of determine a trend as you can see from the data in regards to our reclassification of the green being our secondary uh students can be moving at our high schools the green bean federal high school without surviving see again it's hard to find or identify a trend which leads of back to the system's issues [Music] so knowing that um to ensure that we can support our students um the purpose of the eomaster plan is to provide a centralized support and direction of all the school sites to ensure that business services are provided to every english learner and it outlines our legal obligations and best
147practices for providing a quality and meaningful education and the very heart of it is just trying to do what's right so uh we're also trying to create equitable coherent and sustainable systems in our of our english language services develop an equity driven process to go district-wide taxi to deliver research-based programs and practices that leverage learner students as engagement systems to foster collaborative partnerships and implement a local accountability model that ensures english honor students so we haven't updated our language plan since 2003 there's been a lot of changes in the long best practices so this is um and we want to make sure that our elastic plans policies uh radio a framework our state federal group requirements um in july of 2017. the e.l roadmap offers a vision and mission the california english english-language programs policies
148and practices as well as guidance to local education agencies as they educate english learners it is also it also defines four key principles uh related to elements uh to steering our uh [Music] the components that we're looking at and updating these are essentially our chapters so we're looking at our initial identification assessment repair notification program placement looking at our instructional programs so where are our eld where's our dlc program look like both in elementary and then secondary making sure that we've got all of the new approaches in terms of integrated and designated eld looking at our monitoring system um for student progress and with the classification process so not only monitoring our english learners um water still at pl status but also how we're monitoring our classes by our rfs students for four years afterwards
149to see how they're doing the very family engagement title 3 funds for our english learners this year we have continued to meet our english sort of resource teachers our religious research teachers tina huggins we've met five times this year to look at these plan components and having the committee provide influence feedback so looking at specific things such as our alternative reclassification process for students who have ieps and then she's making sure that we're streamlining that also talking to the special services staff um updating those forms so really clean systems into place and be getting those conversations so that when we go into next year we can continue to update and improve our plan our next steps uh we are creating a figure plan the i expect to have a direct faded grade to the elf
150waiting one last time before the end of the sphere so that they can provide more feedback um we want to provide professional development and review the master plan with our administrative staff our leaders um implement that plan we know that we should review it annually we certainly want to be looking at this document ongoingly and not wait you know too long um as you can see from 2003 we were in a very only top 227 land in terms of people we have completely swung the other way which is fantastic for our english learners and it's really exciting to be able to be developing this and together with our educators um knowing that this is the landscape um for california and for our most part it's a really exciting time for our existence that was great
151thank you [Music] okay uh i'd like to spend just a few minutes just giving you an update on 10 so uh 1000 degrees was started in 1981 in california that supports students from low-income backgrounds to get through college to get to and so their scope of their work is to provide on-site sport three four days a week at casa grande high school in high school they provide outside college access focused around uh work focused workshops and one-on-one support for students with a focus on seniors from low-income backgrounds five college matriculation topics including enough admitted to college awareness financial aid and college applications when people the agency will provide services programs for before school during lunch or after school hours at casa grande they had 13 college access workshops 832 student family reached now that doesn't
152mean that they reached it it means that some of those may have had multiple meetings with them so a total of 832 pounds that uh they've had 45 plus one and one student meeting they've submitted 42 scholarship applications and that's titled high school they've had big college workshops 5.5 students and families reached with 56 one-on-one student meetings and 43 submitted applications so our next steps with them really is to you know conduct an end of the year um check in with 10 000 degrees uh review uh updated data and services to see what has changed since the last time we uh back in march and galaxy back in our recommendations for from determine whether or not we you know want to utilize their services uh it'd be important to gather the information from the school
153sites and determine the benefits that will be the cost and there's a lot of any or other alternative things that we could do with the funds that we use to to obtain ourselves if there is any uh purchase orders or warrants i forget which one it is today we're giving them another hundred thousand dollars for just that few points of contact like the counselors get four but um that's my initial thought just based on those numbers and the context of talking to the counselors earlier i'm i have a mentee through mentor me she's not my mentee anymore because she graduated and she tried to work with 10 000 degrees and you know covet happened and everything happened and it you know they couldn't reach her she couldn't reach them i don't know which it was
154but if they're the so-called experts and they couldn't reach this kid that i've reached pretty easily and i was like yo you need to enroll and she was like oh okay and i was like okay let's sit down and enroll at the jc which i had never done but i helped her do it and it didn't i didn't um [Music] um or true counselors they they train them on the application process and pass the process and how to reach students and focus on their own questions and they're not necessarily here i'm not [Music] the opportunity costs like spending 100 grams on 10 000 degrees um [Music] um [Music] those benefits um [Music] um yeah from listening to the presentations it sounds like that money is better well spent on counselors so what grade levels is
155it just 11 and 12 that they serve they really focus on scenes yeah i want seniors specifically so so they only work with seniors you know so they don't work with ninth graders that are failing or doing well and you guys um [Music] scholarships first gen i mean i hear that they're open to it but i mean i think that's their primary goal but they are also happy to help any student that comes into their office during their office hours once e-librarians they speak to our parents they send giselle lisa my information all the time so they're very pleasant yes please they do come to me that meetings and so they're not necessarily helping the freshman for the sophomores they are recruiting them and giving information to their parents and it is something generally through
156the generations of students with siblings they know oh my sister my brother was at ten thousand degrees when i'm a junior i'm going to run next year i'm going to access those services as well so i i think it's worth 100 000 or whatever personally what i've seen with my students um and positive benefits in the connection that the students have and it is another adult on campus who's promoting going to the university and saying yes you have doctor that's fine here's what many of them participated in 10 thousand degrees so they have that kind of action because they were that student that's not many years ago and they all successfully completed college and they come back and they tell their stories and i think they're working thank you thank you do another question um
157and so just from my own so um [Music] it's a part of you know the the push for college building culture it's uh it's it's part of it i don't believe that they they are the answers to the college of interest process but they're one that supports [Music] here and the students say they basically recruit and develop it was about 30 students through the whole process and held their names and it was absolutely amazing really you know and i think that the students where they were with their goals so people wanted to be two-year ac down they blocked into that process uh four-year it was really what the student wanted to do but you know my perspective has been so although they do provide i felt like their ancillary program was much uh well well
158and it's been a little scatter shot this year it's been a little tricky in communication with us thank you it's probably ours so we don't really know with the data that you had how many of those students that were served and that filled out the scholarship forms and application forms for low-income students right if that's if that's the case if it's open to all or well the scholarship is generally for first generation are those of the scholarships that they're applying for but um of kids that they actually they interviewed and accepted into the program i felt like that targeted um influence was really powerful more so than this year and i think this year's been honestly an unfair bad year for them as well i mean our own person has been out a number of
159times for health reasons um they restricted their points to coming on campus more restricted than public school than we were in work and so i love what they do and i really like the people um i just don't know that the current's been super successful this year say that because i believe yeah are they still providing scholarships i i remember oh yeah yeah yeah that has expanded a lot okay so it seems like two different experiences yeah yeah yeah be great if we could have them come speak as well yes i think again i mean there are four-year colleges that students can go to because they're not agencies private options for them so yeah be thank you guys [Music] in audience please give your first and last make the name in the chat and what
160you would like to speak about something that is not on the agenda under government code section five four nine five four point three a after the public have the right to [Music] of address providing that relates to the subject matter jurisdiction of the school district government code allows speakers to criticize the district's policies procedures program services and or employees the district does have a policy specific to complaint against employees from the public pertains a specific district deployed or requested a complaint first be submitted in writing to employ the immediate supervisor for investigation with the comments about something that is not on the agenda it will be heard only during the public comment and non-agenda items period once that part of the meeting is over once that partner is over comments will only be taken on
161agenda items during the discussion of those items the board values public comments not that we cannot take action or discuss items not on the agenda we listen carefully and appreciate input from the public public comments are subject to a four minute per person limit or 20 minutes for subject matter so we do have a speaker here krista o'connor seriously [Music] but [Music] going to do my best to speak briefly on some issues going back to the ability presentation mr huma shared some of the data compounded by the atlanta organization there's a strong reaction to the teacher's reported response to the survey question in your estimation how many students do you believe can successfully graduate uc and the board members reacted to the notion that only one percent of teachers surveyed felt all students who will
162graduate having met their eighth reaching requirements yet [Music] we completed that survey last november many teachers voluntarily took time out of our teaching day to meet with the arena representatives and answer their questions we also spent time in our staff meetings completing their survey many of the questions did not leave room for an adequate prayerful response remember two that we were coming out of more than a year of this morning during this time when we saw many of our students and our colleagues struggling considering everything you've heard this evening our response is less about not believing in our students it is rather not believable in our systems this partnering comments that we heard that night about your teachers who championed our way through those many months supporting students however we could felt like you forgot
163i do know improve my colleagues are there some of the who believed in him i see those stories playing out every day on my campus and i know it happens daily on every other campus in this district as well there may be students we do not or cannot reach for any number of reasons you've heard a lot of those reasons tonight yes we can all learn and grow in the areas of developing more compassion and empathy and understanding for those whose experiences are different from ours yes it would be important to try to increase that 66 percent to a higher number yes we are far from perfect but we do care deeply and we do support and encourage the students in our care this year the el students at petaluma high school have faced a
164significant obstacle last spring i accepted the alert position at phs for the second time in my career last summer i was hopeful that we might be able to use coveted relief funds to possibly hire a second bilingual instructional assistant to support the one position we already had at least in this first recovery year i even spoke to mr hua about it last august the hard cold reality is this is that's my newcomer students have i only have more assistance [Music] she has worked with you have about 10 over the course of seven years yet they are struggling to pass even their basic courses because they have no bia support your district has dozens of classified positions that have gone unfilled all year long including instructional assistants for our english learners and our special education students
165i am begging you the board and the cabinet to settle your contract impasse with csea compensate them fairly and do whatever you can to help us hire and support staff our students desperately need since as a team you truly care about and we all truly care about this your time is up i have been four minutes that you will do what you can to help us serve them now thank you do we have anyone on zoom we have sal andropolis status of equity related professional development at pcs we promote sell to speak hello can you hear me yes thanks okay sal andropos here they he pronouns um just following up on some of the discussion from earlier tonight um and this this uh you know may have been covered in a previous meeting so i
166apologize if this has already been shared but just wanted to check back in around the status of um i guess professional development for pcs on staff and admins around equity related issues particularly around implicit bias um and uh just there was a previous process certainly with you know circle up that have been paused and we've done the equity study and plans have been outlined kind of in in that process and again i might have missed something um along the way but just wanted to sort of just raise that question and ask about um status there moving on to reports on activities and correspondence of school board members since the last board meeting csba legislative conference climate and sustainability action event equity reboot committee naacp general general meeting and education committee pcs board study session pcs
167arts show community achievement awards iou meetings meeting for the planning of the cultural festival at casa pjhs open house in el cap did i miss anything okay um next up comments from the public on consent agenda items we'll reopen the chat or if anyone in the audience wants to comment on anything on the consent agenda the channel [Music] there are no comments from the public on consent agenda items okay all right um approval of consent agenda by consolidated motion i move to approve the consent agenda by consolidated motion second any questions or comments on any of this not even maddie [Laughter] okay all in favor all right all right um comments from the public on action items can you open the chat please [Music] oh there's just the one okay let's just close yeah i
168think we can close it unless anyone's comment on ab361 probably not okay so moving on to item 13.1 our options are remote only hybrid or in person so i moved to stay in hybrid for another month all in favor all right um discussion information jason [Music] i would like like what we're doing to move forward the pd and addressing the things are in the equity study and what we're going to do and place a circle up so we get at some point if not the next meeting then hopefully in june update the community about that [Music] and all the other things we're asking teachers to do is that different than what joanna's asking for say you're saying jerked