RBUSD Board Meeting 5/12/2026

001Mhm. >> Mhm. >> Good evening. I'd like to call the meeting to order. First, may I have a motion and second to approve tonight's agenda for the May 12th, 2026 regular Board of Education meeting. So moved. Second. All those in favor? I. The board will go in closed session after hearing public comment on any closed session items. Um 3.3 conference with real property negotiators and 3.4 public employee performance evaluation. Is there any public comment? Hearing none, can I get a motion to recess to closed session? So moved. Second. All those in favor? Aye. We'll be back at 5:30. >> Mhm. >> Okay, good evening everyone. Um, I'd like to ask Jen Jens Brand, Director of Alternative Education to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Hand over your heart. Ready, begin. I pledge allegiance to

002the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Okay. In closed session tonight on item 3.3, the board received information and on item 3.4, the board received information. Can I get a motion and a second to approve the minutes of the April 21st, 2026 Board of Education meeting? So moved. Second. Student advisory vote? I. All those in favor, I. I. Okay. The meeting tonight's agenda was motioned by Dan and a second and by Han and approved unanimously. Um, we will start with our Darts, Dignity and Respect Towards Students Award Presentation by Dr. Nicole Wesley, Superintendent of Schools, Keely Gold, Student Board Member, and RUHS Associated Student Body Members. Well, I'm going to turn it over

003to Keely, but first I'm just going to share that this has been a tradition with the ASB, uh, this annual award and so we're excited to be able to present it this evening. So now to our student board member, Keely. And I brought two representatives from ASB who will share a little bit more about the award. >> Good evening, board members and members of Good evening, board members and members of cabinet. My name is Arya Panchal. And my name is Christian Sharma. The Darts Award is something Redondo ASB takes pride in choosing. And in our discussion this year, we have we have decided to honor the business Lavender and Honey with this award. Lavender and Honey has always been very generous, helpful, and kind to our students and community. They have hired countless RUHS students

004and have continuously given many of them an inclusive and fun environment to work in. Lavender and Honey is extremely deserving of this award, and we are grateful for how uh we are grateful for their hospitality and compassion towards our students, staff, and community. Now, will Melanie and Charlie Porter please come to accept this award? >> [applause] >> Thank you so much. Congratulations. THANK YOU GUYS. >> [applause] >> WOULD YOU MIND TAKING A PHOTO WITH US? WE WOULD LOVE to have that for our records. Thank you so much. >> Okay. Next up, we have the Tech Trek scholarship presentation by Alice Matthews and Karen Hassan, American Association of University Women. Are they here? I'm Audrey Gilbert, I'm the president of the branch, but I don't know if the girls are here. I think one of the

005girls And you have to sit Yes, they're on the podium. Oh. of the Tor- the Torrance branch of the American Association of University Women, and every summer we send some seventh grade girls to Tech Trek, which is a science and math uh camp on a college campus, and the girls spend a week there. They go to the dorms, and they do college type classes that are specially designed for them. It's a kind of a a rugged process that the girls have to go through to get nominated and then to get selected. And so, we're thrilled that Nalini was one of the girls that was selected, and so thank you for the Redondo Beach School Board for giving her this proclamation. Thank you. YOU'RE WELCOME. >> [applause] >> DO YOU WANT TO SAY SOMETHING? Thank you.

006>> [applause] >> Sure, she'll come to the middle school. Congratulations. [laughter] Yeah. Of course, Darwin's >> [snorts] >> Thank you. All right. Next up, the Smart Device Task Force Board Policy Recommendation by Kathleen Shaw, Principal of Paris Middle School, and Joylyn Ichiyanagi Ramen, Assistant Principal of Redondo Union High School. Good evening, members of the board, Superintendent Dr. Wesley, and members of the cabinet. My name's Joy Ramen, and I'm one of the Assistant Principals at RUHS. I was I was able to participate in an effort to meet the requirements of AB 3216, which requires all school districts by July 1st, 2026, to adopt a policy on mobile communication devices with input from all stakeholder stakeholders, teachers, parents, students, and administrators. Tonight, you'll hear from our team. Today's presentation covers four key areas to clarify our technology

007expectations that our committee is recommending with it within the board policy we are presenting tonight. Hello everybody on the board. My name is Morbi and I'm an eighth grader here at Adams Middle School. The term covered devices encompasses a broad and evolving range of modern connected technology that students use in their daily lives. The fundamental definition to remember is that any device capable of connecting via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth falls under this policy. Or cellular data. The scope is intentionally comprehensive to ensure that the policy remains relevant as modern technology advances, moving beyond just cell phones to cover the entire ecosystem of modern connected devices. Good evening members of the board. My name is Pratik Prasad and I am a seventh grade student at Adams Middle School. For grades TK through eight, our policy is very

008clear and straightforward. Devices must be turned off and stored away for the duration of the day. This requirement takes effect as soon as a student enters campus and will be lifted when they exit at the end of the day. This approach eliminates digital distractions and ensures that our younger learners are focused and engaged during critical instruction time. Parents, fortunately for you, we have multiple phones all throughout the schools with multiple lines. So, if you need to contact your child in the day, you should have no trouble by doing that by contacting the front office. Hello everyone. My name is Jazmine Guardado and I'm a ninth grader at RUHS. For the students grades 9 through 12, we have established a clear three-part policy structure to manage devices throughout the school day. The standard expectation is that

009phones are put away and turned off during instructional time at school during the school day. However, students may maintain the freedom to use their phones for personal use during passing period, snack, and lunch. Additionally, teachers have the flexibility to approve their use for specific educational purposes when it directly supports the learning. And this this approach provides a necessary structure for a focused classroom while allowing legitimate academics and needs for personal time. To ensure a focused learning environment, all personal devices must be stored in designated secured storage areas during instructional time. This is a school-wide procedure that remains consistent across all classrooms and departments using numbered storage pouches or cabinets to maintain inventory tracking and accountability. By establishing by establishing this as a routine at the start of every class period, we ensure that devices do

010not distract from instruction and are kept safe from potential damage or loss. This consistency helps students know exactly what to expect and where the devices belong as soon as they enter the room. Hi, I'm Kathleen Shaw, principal of Paris Middle School. Um there are three critical behaviors that are never allowed under any circumstances without any exceptions um with the goal to be having a safe and respectful environment for everyone at school. So first, unauthorized recording is forbidden, so you may not capture audio or video of any individual without their explicit consent in any school setting. Second, we have a zero tolerance policy for harassment and impersonation. So, that includes deep fakes, bullying, making threats, or pretending to be somebody else. Third, recording in private spaces such as bathrooms, locker rooms, or changing rooms is an

011absolute violation of privacy and is never allowed for any reason without any exceptions. Um please understand that these are actions are not just simple policy violations. We want to emphasize that they could potentially violate the law and carry serious consequences, um including disciplinary actions for us as a school. That's still me. >> [laughter] >> Um next, our device search um and seizure policy is rooted in legal protections to safeguard privacy of all community members. As a fundamental shield against unreasonable searches, law enforcement is required to obtain a warrant before searching any device in the vast majority of situations. While we do recognize narrow emergency exceptions in cases of immediate threats to life or safety, these instances are strictly limited and thoroughly documented should they arise. Furthermore, should a device ever need to be confiscated by

012a school teacher or administrator for violation of the smart device policy, we adhere to rigorous security protocols for its storage to ensure that it gets returned to the parent or guardian. This balanced approach allows us to uphold individual privacy rights while remaining prepared to respond to genuine safety emergencies. Hi, I'm Nikki Imamura. I have an eighth-grader at Adams Middle School. Um in terms of liability and emergencies, just as in any kid is responsible for their own personal belongings, They are also responsible uh for the loss, theft, and damage of their personal technology. The school and district does not assume liability for for any of that. If there is an emergency, students can use the office the official school phone in the front office. And if the parents need to reach their child, they can also

013call the school directly instead of calling individual devices. All right. So, here are four of our key takeaways from the policy. First, students in grades TK through eight must keep devices off and stored away for the duration of the school day. High school students do enjoy a little more flexibility with their devices permitted during those unstructured times, the non-instructional periods. And privacy violations and viola- violations of the district policy can carry consequences. Finally, this policy is a partnership with teachers, students, parents, and all RBUSD staff that we review at a minimum every five years. We value your ongoing feedback as technology evolves. Thank you. >> [applause] >> Next up, we have the middle school honors and readiness indicators presentation by Dr. Allison Garland, Assistant Superintendent, Educational Services, and Roy Lopez Jr., Executive Director of Educational

014Services. Good evening, Board Vice President, members of the board, Dr. Wesley, cabinet, and our community. Mr. Lopez and I are here tonight to share the work and accomplishments, as well as the next steps for the middle school honors committee. But before we begin the presentation, we're going to have our members introduce themselves. Please share where you work, how long you've worked there, and what you teach. Okay. Hi, I'm Leslie Spainhower. I teach eighth grade English at Adams Middle School, and I have for 12 years. Um and this year I also work part-time in uh at Services as a teacher on special assignment. And I'm Sara Aldini from Paris Middle School, seventh grade English language arts. I teach uh honors as well. Yeah. Thank you, and thank you for serving on the committee. So, we're going

015to begin with how did we get here? But before I go into the background, I want to start off the presentation um by being very clear that honors is not going away. Um the work of this committee has been focused on strengthening and aligning our honors program to create a more consistent experience for our students to better prepare them for success in high school. And this work aligns with our strategic plan action item 1.3, uh which was to review our current honors courses and determine how it's differentiated from grade level courses. So, next Mr. Lopez will share the program information timeline. Good afternoon. So, we initiated the honors program evaluation in the spring of 2025 by bringing together all of the middle school language arts teachers and social studies uh teachers to uh gather information.

016That information was shared with a smaller working group that developed program evaluation research questions. Those questions were provided to the committee for this uh particular school year, where we conducted the program evaluation around uh honors for middle school. Uh we're here this evening to share the key elements of the honors program. So, I'm going to pass this on to um Leslie. Thank you. All right. So, out of the working group, we came up with some key research questions that we wanted to find out the answers to. Mostly, what is the purpose of honors courses in the middle schools? Um what students most benefit from from placement in an honors course? And how enrollment in a middle school honors course affects students at high school or not in honors course? Uh the biggest thing we found

017is that there was no aligned purpose or practices across honors courses across sites or even within schools. Uh it was really up to the individual teacher. Um to that end, we thought more about how we could identify who these courses were for. Um the California ELA ELD framework defines advanced learners for us and gives guidance on what students benefit from um advanced coursework and what kind of coursework is best for them. And then, we also looked at grades of students exiting eighth grade into high school. Um we looked at grades of students who were recommended for honors by their English teacher who took grade-level courses as well as honors courses. And we found that students in both courses do very well in high school. Um basically showing us that honors in eighth grade is not

018necessary to be successful in a high school honors course. Uh based on this, we created some outcomes that we wanted from the honors committee. Um we wanted a common purpose statement and definition of honors so that we can align among teachers and across school sites. We wanted instructional guidance for teachers on what differentiation is appropriate for um honors classes, including course design and pacing. And we wanted to think about the best way to make sure that the students who most benefit from honors courses are in them and the students who most benefit from grade-level courses are in them. Uh so, with all of that, we convened the honors committee to work on those deliverables and that is what Sarah is going to share. Uh so, as she noted before, we took a look at the

019framework that California provides for a definition of advanced learners that are there. Um and we have our resource here where students who demonstrate or are capable of demonstrating performance in ELA literacy at a significant at a level significantly above the performance, not just higher performing, but significantly higher. Um we really wanted to make sure we were targeting the right group of students for it. Um and of course, we needed to look at why are we doing this? What's our goal for the honor students as well? So we developed an honors purpose statement that's here. Um so after many drafts and going back and forth, we have The purpose of the Redondo Beach Unified School District Middle School Honors Program is to offer appropriately challenging coursework for students who demonstrate advanced academic skills and readiness. Honors

020courses are designed for students who consistently read above grade level, demonstrate advanced writing skills, excel in English language arts and or social sciences, and benefit from a more in-depth, accelerated, and analytically demanding learning experience. Lots of drafts to get to there. >> [laughter] >> Um once we did that, we wanted to realize once we have a purpose statement, what does, you know, an ideal honor state uh student look like? What are What are we identifying in these students? Um and they generally demonstrate on their own coming into the class um several skills that you see here with um mostly a lot of independent skills with literacy, um advanced writing academic writing that's there. Again, high levels of independence. They're able to self-advocate for themselves. Um they're familiar with that. Um they like to have class

021discussions. They engage uh in civil discourse. Um then of course, high curiosity and interest in the humanities as well. And then with that, you know, taking a look at how our teachers can guide these honor students to success. Um and these are six key instructional guidelines that we take a look at. Um and we want to make sure that the teachers are aligned in following these guidelines and implementing them with purpose. Uh with deeper instruction, streamlines content, advanced independence, faster pace, collaborative dialogue, and synthesized applications. So our teachers can really focus on um delivering the information to the students. Looking at what does it look like? Will we implement it? So English language arts, we have Wit & Wisdom, so we're ready to kind of jump in a little more sooner. So we have been

022working on creating honors pacing guides across grade level and of course across honors courses by the end of this school year here. Those are almost done. And we have social studies will be implementing framework that's happening and that'll start next year and then they still have some curriculum adoption that they need to do as well. But that'll also help guide those honors courses as well. And then ultimately at the end we have our goal to have increased rigor, independence, autonomy, I'm not simply piling on more work, but making sure that we're really targeting instruction for the honors students. So through this one thing that we all the teachers really agreed on is that if we are going to implement these instructional guidelines, then we have to make sure that students are placed where they're going

023to be most successful. Especially when it comes to grade level or higher reading and grade level writing so that they are ready to take on the increased rigor, autonomy, and independence of an honors course. So we are proposing these as readiness indicators for honors. These would not go into effect right away. And students would need to get three out of four meet three out of four of these indicators in order to qualify for an honors class. The task demonstrates application of literacy skills, grade level or higher Lexile on a district reading diagnostic that shows they're reading at or above grade level, grades in ELA or social studies aligned with whichever honors course they're interested in. They don't have to take both. And then a passing score on a district writing assessment. Our timeline for this

024is that next year teachers would implement the honors instructional guidance in in classes and we would begin communicating with students and parents about honors readiness indicators. Then the following year, those entering seventh graders, so the ones who are in fifth grade right now, would um have the readiness indicators activated for their entrance into honors courses, and then it would apply to seventh and eighth the year after that. Um is the timeline we're looking at right now. All right, next steps. Uh with implementation more than a year away, there is some work that must be completed early next year uh in preparation for the um 2027-2028 school year. So, we want to develop a writing assessment with rubric as part of the readiness indicators and a process for administrative review. We want to communicate the honors

025uh description, for example, including them in the course catalog for each of our uh middle schools. Uh provide uh information sessions for students and parents, and then train staff and provide the guidance uh developed uh by the committee. And that concludes our presentation. Thank you. >> [applause] >> Questions are for us. Do you have some questions? Any questions? Uh not not so much as questions, but first of all, thank you so much for serving on this committee. Um I really do appreciate that you looked at um our students' grades in eighth grade and then their performance in ninth grade, and to assure our parents that a child or student who does not take honors in eighth grade is not an indicator of their success in ninth grade. That's a really important thing for parents to

026hear, so I do appreciate that extra work that you put into that area. Um the other thing is that um the indicators, um those are are the four indicators, and three of the four have to be met. So, um this is great for our parents and our students cuz it's very transparent. Um and there are options I think I'm there the last one with the writing assessment, correct? Um cuz that's very personal, right? Um parents are always so nervous and we're only using scores and grades. Um this is giving a student opportunity to develop their own um abilities and that would be taken into consideration. So I just want to say thank you for all your effort and time on this. So I'd also like to thank everyone who worked on this because it's a

027one of the questions I get a lot is how do I know if my student belongs here? How do I know what's right for them? Um and looking where students are going to be most successful is so important. This placement is really important so that they, instead of being overwhelmed or being bored, they're at the right level for them, their own unique needs. And that can change over time, too. We have different ways you can accelerate or pull back, whatever's necessary. Um but this is so much better than the self-selection process we have right now where it's very arbitrary. It's just what do you want to do? And And it's oftentimes the parents dictating it rather than necessarily knowing what's best for the student. So I really appreciate all the thoughtful effort that's gone into

028having a very deliberate process for this to ensure that our students, you know, can reach their full potential. So thank you for that. I echo the same gratitude for being so comprehensive about it. I do have a question, though. As I think in the math adoption, we also had the same sort of indicators, but parents could still self-select to be in honors. Is this the case in the English and social studies as well or do you must you meet one of these? Yeah. They need to meet uh three of the four uh criteria. Okay. And just as a reminder for the math, um there's it's not that they can self-select, they can appeal they can appeal and they can give a reason why they are appealing and maybe like for instance this child was sick

029when they took the MDTP or maybe So so then there's a committee that will look at the appeal and maybe figure out if they can take a reassessment, but it's not an automatic uh self-select, but there's a process. >> an appeal process here as well, similar to math? Yes, we're we're referring to it as an administrative review process. So, that's what we do in math currently. So, if parents have questions or maybe are not happy about the placement, have some questions about the data, they fill out a form, we're alerted. So far, we like Kathleen just met with a parent the other day for math. So, we may look at more data, we may give them another assessment. There's always a a larger picture, so it's good to talk to parents to find out. Yeah.

030Okay, great. And if you're not in honors in 7th grade, does that mean you can't be in 8th grade? No, at any point is that You can always. And none of this is required for 9th grade. Uh the standards are the same whether you're in a grade level or honors course. So, at any point, students could be in honors or not in honors, 7th, 8th, and even in 9th and 10th. Like they're able to be in not in honors in 9th grade and go into it in 10th grade currently. Um so, the same content, the same standards are covered regardless. So, it's uh more fluid than like math where you learn specific things in a specific year. And will these indicators be the same for 9th grade honors, or is that a different process? This

031is only for middle school. Got it. Um because of the age of the student, um it's a time where they can really use more guidance in what's going to be best for them, and also since middle school transcripts aren't looked at by colleges, uh they don't have as much There's not as much guidance on what is going to help them develop so that they're ready for that honors class in high school if that's what they want. Okay, great. Thank you so much. Is it mine or theirs that has the feedback? Okay. All right. Up next, Patricia Drysdale Continuation High School presentation by Anne's Brant, Director of Alternative Education. Good evening, Board President Raymer-Flynn, RBUSD Board members, Superintendent of Schools Dr. Nicole Wesley, and executive leadership. My name is Yance Brant and I am the very

032proud principal of Patricia Driesel High School. We are an exceptional model continuation high school and a caring family of students, teachers, staff, parents, and guardians. I am joined I am joined by our excellent counselor, Ms. Lisa Watts, and two of our outstanding students, Anisa and Audrey. More from them soon. At Driesel, we thrive on providing the opportunity for our students not only recover credits, but often accelerate in their high school journeys. How does our unique school culture get them there? Tonight, we are here to share the balance of accountability and care for our amazing students. Additionally, we're proud of how our intentional work aligns with the strategic plan for academic achievement and post-secondary success. First up to share our interventions, our accountability, is Mrs. Watts. At Driesel, we take a proactive approach to supporting every

033student success. During our monthly PBST meetings, we identify students who may be struggling with attendance, behavior, and or productivity and we implement strategies such as our after-school tutoring and reverse readmits to support them. We closely monitor student progress through our grad checks and progress reports, which are updated bi-weekly. These reports are reviewed in advisement and during regular meetings with the student, principal, and myself. They are also shared with families to promote transparency and ongoing communication. Additionally, we support the whole child through Second Step and Digital Citizenship lessons. These lessons help students develop essential social and digital literacy skills. Thank you, Ms. Watts. I got the fun stuff. So, working in unison with our interventions, we are constantly brainstorming ways to incentivize and recognize our deserving students. For example, during our monthly assemblies, we celebrate attendance,

034hard work, and improvements with certificates and gift cards. We take photos and share them with our entire PDHS community. Speaking of attendance, this year we came up with the idea to reward on a weekly basis great attendance. Yes, my office is turned into a snack shop. One of our students' favorite incentives is uh to also work for a shortened school day. Once a specific credit threshold is met, our students can leave as early as 11:40 a.m. And finally, uh from this slide, spirit weeks are always fun at Dreisler. Our students and staff love dressing up and giving me a guilt trip if I don't dress up. I do have to leave campus once in a while. We also really enjoy celebrating students throughout the school year with early graduations. Our seniors and early grads enjoy

035mostly a cup of espresso with Mr. Vaughn, which some of you enjoyed recently. Additionally, all students and staff applaud our early graduates out in the quad. This is obviously quite emotional for many of our students. We also motivate students with field trips throughout the school year. Of course, solid attendance and consistently being productive are required for participation. Finally, a new tradition at Dreisler, we document all of these efforts and recognitions in a short video shown at graduation. As some of you may remember, there were many happy tears shed at last year's ceremony. Now, we have two wonderful young ladies here to share what Dreisler has meant to them. First, we'll start off with Audrey, and then she will introduce Anisa. Hi, my name is Audrey and I'm a senior at Dreisler. When I was at

036Redondo, I missed school a lot because I was in chronic pain and I became credit deficient. Dreisler has made me a lot more excited for school. I felt more included at Dreisler and I was part of ASB spirit committee and planned and participated in fun activities such as spirit weeks. I also went on a lot of fun field trips like whale watching and glass blowing. Those are two of my favorites. Um at Dreisler, I was able to learn at my own pace and I did not feel rushed. Reverse readmits helped me get work done faster and I even graduated early. Dreisler is a small school so it did not take me long to walk to classes and I had accommodated seating to help my back. I never received any awards at Redondo but this year

037I got student of the month at Dreisler. I am going to miss Dreisler so much but I'm also really looking forward to El Camino in the fall. Thank you. And here's Anisa. Hi, my name is Anisa. I'm currently in 11th grade at Dreisler. I came to Dreisler because I was a semester behind and felt like I didn't fit in. Since starting at Dreisler, I'm a lot happier. I have found a best friend and I look forward to coming to school now. I am really involved on campus. I participate in ASB spirit committee, school site council, making morning announcements, and the wilderness challenge program. I also really appreciate the other programs and resources that are offered such as counseling, job opportunities, field trips, and of course great teachers and staff. I have also received many awards

038at our monthly assemblies such as the breakers award and great attendance award. Although I don't have a reverse readmit because I'm my attendance, I do stay after school for tutoring. This has helped me catch up on my credits and I'm planning on graduating early next year. I am also one of the few juniors who has a shortened day because I might because of my high attendance and productivity. Thank you. >> [applause] >> Thank you, everyone. Any questions for our students or staff? Thank you. Thank you so much. >> [applause] >> And don't go too far, Mr. Brand, because you're going to give us the school status attendance awards. Yes. >> They're very important. >> You may all join me now. Thank you. This will be really quick. Promise. All right. Good evening once again. Um

039we are very proud and happy to announce our three best attendance schools at the elementary and secondary levels. As a result of their collective efforts, our students are better off both academically and socially emotionally. Additionally, our district's improved attendance benefits both our funding and overall budget. A huge thank you to all our RBUSD school sites, teachers, staff, and administration for providing safe, welcoming, and engaging educational opportunities for all of our students and families. They feel welcomed always. As we finish up the year strong, we'd like to honor Alta Vista, Jefferson, and Paris. For attendance rates, Alta Vista improved their attendance to 95.9%, a 0.4% increase. Jefferson, 96.8% a 0.8% increase. And Paris, 95.2% a 0.5% increase. Phenomenal. Give them a round of applause. >> [applause] >> Additionally, and I would argue this is as important,

040all three schools significantly dropped their chronic truancy rates. Double digits, by the way. So, as a result of their efforts, we'd like to celebrate and congratulate our three outstanding schools, Alta Vista, Jefferson, and Paris. THANK YOU AGAIN. >> [applause] >> THAT'S IT? THAT'S FANTASTIC. Great work, everyone. Thank you so much. That's it? Yeah, can we get a picture with our winning schools? Okay, great. Next up, we have our student board member report by Keely Gold. Thank you. Tickets for prom 2026 started selling to seniors and juniors last Friday. The theme is a night on the bayou, and tickets can be purchased on the RHS web store or in person at the ASB finance office. A ticket includes dancing, karaoke, billiard games, photo booths, gaming tables, caricature artists, airbrush tattoo artists, and so many food choices.

041Other senior events include senior excursion to Disneyland on Wednesday, May 20th, senior rally on Friday, May 22nd, and senior breakfast and senior send-off on Friday, June 5th. This week is wellness week and there'll be wellness activities and month-long celebrations in honor of mental health awareness at the high school. On Friday, May 15th at lunch in the quad will be the mental health fair. There will be music, prizes, and giveaways. Finally, congrats to the young leaders for putting together an amazing district-wide unity spirit last month. The young leaders put up posters at all school sites and made online flyers to publicize. Students at all school sites also enjoyed dressing up on theme and showing their unity. Thank you. Thank you. And now we have our superintendent's report by Dr. Nicole Wesley. Okay, as we enter as

042we begin the begin the ending of the school year, I just want to thank all staff because all staff do play a pivotal role in the the experiences and and lives of our students. Um tonight, I just want to shine a light on our counselors, especially this time of the year, and just show really quickly how collaborative they are, how impactful they are, and how supportive they are for our students and our entire school. Um I'm going to >> [clears throat] >> this this presentation will be posted, so I'm going to run through it, um and just introduce you to our counselors. Um we have Chelsea Ruffalo here. She's our Tulita Elementary Counselor. Um and as you're looking at these pictures, I want you to see the personality that comes out um and how our

043counselors really show up for our students and our schools. Um there's our high school team. Um as you can see, again, a lot of personality and connecting with kids. Um they know how to have fun among so many other things. Um in Redondo, we support students TK through graduation um with our counselors. And so, you can see here, we have Gretchen, um our counselor from Alta Vista, and And also you see some of our high school counselors um down on the bottom there including Rachel And- Andrews which is our counselor on special assignment supporting us. Um they're a familiar face. Um they support students in in so many ways. Um we do have one of the lowest counselor to student ratios in Southern California cuz we've made a commitment to having counselors at all of

044our elementary schools. Um also at our middle schools and our high school. We have two per grade level. And they're supporting wellness, um college and career counseling, and um support beyond high school. Um here is Sarah Lesick on the left and Josh um Baisa on the right Bernie and Adams Middle School. And uh social emotional learning is a key part of what they do whether it be in a group setting or in individual classrooms. We have Rachel [clears throat] Andrews on the left with Liana Orozco, our Burl counselor, in the middle Debbie Canter, our Jefferson counselor, and Paige Mosqueda, our Washington counselor, on the right. Again, um been here for many years building they do a lot of lessons. They're out on the playground helping students learn coping skills, conflict resolution, self-control, boundaries, how to

045develop friends. They do so much. Um and in this picture you'll see Veronica Fuentes from Lincoln, Gretchen Plewes from Alta Vista, and Kim Pappas from Madison. Again, [clears throat] in action serving students, supporting them, helping them. Um and making sure that we provide the most uh the best experience we can for our students and support them where they are. The same with our middle school. You see our middle school counselors here along with uh that's Tiffany Straight on the left and we have Amber Beach on the right. In the middle is Suzanne Milliken. She represents the South Bay Children's Health District so they work closely with our partners. >> [clears throat] >> Um again, our middle school counselors at Adams here. Uh Kelly Goo on the upper left-hand corner, Sarah Lesick and Jessica Fernandez from

046Adams Middle School. Uh more pictures in action. You'll see um our high school counselors will come down and meet with our eighth graders and get them prepared for the high school experience, Ashley Ann and Cecilia Foe in these pictures. And then once you get to high school, we got you. Two counselors per grade level leading you all along the way and enjoying the high school experience with you. These are the sophomore counselors, Diana Johnson and Denise Holmes. They will bring students from ninth grade to 12th grade. Um and so it's a cohesive experience. We focus on the whole child in RBUSD, so we have Destiny York Yurate and Denise Holmes in this picture. >> [clears throat] >> Um here we go. More pictures of our counseling team moving us forward. Of course, you just heard

047from Lisa Watts, our counselor at Continuation School. And there goes Evaces Patton on the right in a classroom setting. Some of our counselors do presentations and collaborations. Um and you can see them out engaging with students. There they are again. And last but not least, our South Bay Adult School counselor, Augie Adias. Um she's there to support our adult learners and guide them through their path as well. Before I conclude, we do have a TK through 12 counseling action plan. It's on our website, so parents can see how we serve students from TK through 12 and how we support them both socially, academically, and post-secondary. So, with that, we want to thank our counseling team for all that they do. Thank you. >> [applause] >> We have an employee of the Sorry, employee of the

048year video that we want to show, so I'll have Dr. Stephanie introduce that. Yeah, so I'm excited to announce that June Caponpon, he's been our long-time trainer at the high school, was nominated as the RBUSD Classified Employee of the Year and we nominated him to the the county level and he's the county representative for student support services going to the state level. So, Sam Alpert helped us put a great video as he always does and so we'd like to watch it now. Oh, yeah, it's the volume. Yeah, I remember when you first came, they didn't have a true sports med. Oh, maybe not. My name is June Caponpon. I'm the certified athletic trainer for Redondo I've been here for almost 25 years, I would say. Yeah, I remember when I first My name is June

049Caponpon. I'm the certified athletic trainer for [music] Redondo Union High School. I've been here for almost 25 years, I would say. Yeah, I remember when I first came, they didn't have a true sports medicine program, so I had [music] to build it and over time just keep on building it. Make it as competitive, successful as it can [music] be. So, June is our athletic trainer. He brings a lot of great things. He's a pillar for our school district. He provides injury [music] prevention and recovery for our athletes, so he's always has a safety really for us up in the office. He's he's a great support system. [music] We respect his judgment, his medical judgment. I know our coaches do as well and he's been here so long that he's become a friend of ours as

050well. So, a friend of mine specifically as well. So, he's just he's phenomenal and we're so [music] lucky to have him. June brings more than just the safety aspect as far as keeping our student athletes safe. Um and just the relationships that he builds with kids. Um I'm a former student athlete here [music] and so June took care of me while I was a student athlete here. Knowing that our kids are in great [music] hands, not just from that but also as a parent, too. With with my son um being a student athlete here. [music] I still have a lot of life in me. Uh these kids they keep me on my toes and keep me kind of young. So, I have to try and at least keep up with them if I can. That's

051amazing. YAY. >> [applause] >> THANK YOU. THAT IT? THANK YOU. OKAY. We're moving forward with our hearing section where members of the audience may address the board on any topic regardless of whether it's listed on the agenda. However, [snorts] due to Brown Act regulations, the board cannot engage in public discussion on items not on the agenda. Topics not on the agenda which are brought to the board's attention may be investigated by the administration and a report made to the board either publicly or privately at a future meeting. Comments from visitors shall not exceed 3 minutes unless the time limit is waived by a majority of the board. The board shall limit the total time for public input on each item to 20 minutes. With board consent, the president may increase or decrease the time allowed

052for public presentation depending on the topic and the number of persons wishing to be heard. We'll start out with advanced written requests and I only have one. So, we'd like to hear from Carol Summers, please. Board members and Dr. Wesley, thank you. I'm here to speak about kind of the limitations around dual enrollment and concurrent enrollment using those terms almost interchangeably for Redondo Union High School. California's current road map calls for increasing number of students graduating with meaningful college credit and explicitly emphasizes equitable assets access and structured pathways into college um college credit and careers. And what we're seeing at Redondo Union High School doesn't align with that direction. So specifically I'm speaking about the cap of eight outside classes for an enrolled Redondo Union student. So that would be summer classes that at the

053high school level or concurrent or dual enrollment courses that are limited. Um students aren't being given clear supported pathways into dual enrollment or concurrent enrollment. Instead they're being steered into AP courses. Um AP courses carry significant uncertainty in terms of credit, cost, and outcomes. To my surprise as I started looking at UC degree programs, a lot of it the UC will say they take AP and IB classes and then you dig into the major and they do not. They some majors won't take them to apply for that major. Um >> [clears throat] >> so AP's not equivalent to dual enrollment. Dual enrollment provides guaranteed transcripted college credit, AP does not. Um even more concerning to me has been the lack of transparency around this. Families are unclear about what options truly exist. Guidance around dual

054enrollment is often inconsistent and incorrect and policies appear restrictive rather than enabling. So it's not just a program issue, it's an equity issue. So, the AB 288 was designed to expand opportunities, not limit them. It encouraged partnerships that create seamless pathways from high school to college, improve completion, and support students who might otherwise be overlooked, or just the advanced student that wants to keep moving forward. Um the newer legislation, including AB 1122, is moving towards requiring districts to ensure dual enrollment pathways that lead to degrees, certificates, or transfer outcomes. The direction from the state is unmistakable. Access, equity, and clear pathways. I'm asking the board to please conduct a transparent review of Redondo Union's dual enrollment policies, specifically that eight outside credit cap. Eight, sorry, it's not credit. Eight courses. 40 credits. Right? Clearly um

055publish all available pathways and eligibility criteria. Ensure the counselors are trained to present dual enrollment as a primary option, not a last resort. What? Is that my timer? Okay. >> [laughter] >> Expand partnerships with the local community courses and remove the quick cap. Um our students shouldn't have to navigate unclear systems for um achieving that outcome. Thank you. All right. Thank you very much. I don't have any other advanced written requests. Is there anyone in the audience wishing to address the board on something on the agenda or off the agenda? Okay. Um Ms. Flynn. Yes. I wanted to um give a public apology to Ms. Janelle Tanaka cuz I did not acknowledge her in my presentation, and she is a counselor at Adams, and I cut some slides out for the sake of brevity this

056evening, and I just realized I cut You cut Janelle out? >> Yes, and I feel so bad about that, but Ms. Tanaka is part of the counseling team, So, I'll make sure to throw it back in [applause] before I put it on the website. >> at every meeting, so we can see her here. Yeah, I know. Okay, thank you. Okay, moving on to our communication section. Um this provides an opportunity for the Board of Education to hear reports and communications from our employee associations and community supporter organizations listed below. All reports are limited to minutes and we'll start out with the Redondo Beach Teachers Association. Janelle. >> [applause and cheering] >> Good evening. I'm Janelle Tanaka and this is Sue Carlton and we are RBTA's leadership for the next couple of weeks. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

057Uh happy staff appreciation to our staff and I want to thank our PTAs for making the week special. Congratulations RBTA for another successful open house at the elementary and schools. I had the privilege of walking through classrooms at Tulita, Alta Vista and Paris this year and yet again left impressed. The projects I see at elementary is always a fun experience to view and the third grade Tulita wax museum is I think a genius way to do that project. I also got to see Sue's, Jen's and Tracy's classrooms and that was fun and great and I walked into Jen's classroom and I thought it looked like a club. Like a fun dance club. Like she had lights on, she had music going, she had energy. A disco ball that I missed. Oh, no. Um let's see.

058Uh and to Sue, I got to see your chicken lesson that you did in kinder and that was impressive. At Paris there was such an energy when I walked into the rooms. To be able to witness the Paris staff in their element, speaking and interacting with their families was a cool experience. Being at Adams, I only get to see one half of our middle school staff at open house. So, to be able to see the other was awesome. Congrats to all of you because I know that day is long. I also want to recognize all our teachers for the May 6th internet outage. There are so many examples of the amazing ways teachers are creative and pivoted on that day, but I want to highlight three examples that I saw. Uh Miss Windorf and Miss

059Yee, who are math teachers at Adams. I was walking out to PE thinking, "I'll go visit the one subject not impacted by the internet outage." As I walked past their room, I stopped in my tracks because I was like, "Wait, the kids look like they were learning." So, I backed up and walked in and what I saw were kids engaged in the lesson with the teachers instructing because they used their personal hotspot on their cell phones to ensure the students kept on pace. So many of our staff did this, use their own personal devices to keep teaching. Miss Langner and Miss Califano, who are science teachers at Adams. They pivoted and did a non-technology lesson. Uh it was opposable thumbs. Uh you have to have seen it um to believe it, but it was it

060was an amazing lesson. And three to our high school, the AP testing that day, they pivoted and walked their students to the city library to ensure that they were able to complete AP testing. So, thank you RBTA for continuing to go above and beyond for our students. Too often people say we do this for kids, but the real impact comes from the educators who show up every single day for them. It's you RBTA who directly shape, support, inspire, and change students' lives. RBTA doesn't just talk about what's best for kids, we live it, walk it, and make the difference students feel every day. So, thank you. >> [applause] >> Thank you. Do we have anyone from the California School Employees Association? The American Federation of Teachers? Okay, we're down to Beach Council Parent Teacher Association.

061Good evening everybody. Um I'm Jessica Wong, executive executive vice president of Redondo Beach Council PTAs for a few more weeks before I take over the presidency. Um >> [laughter] >> In the meantime, thank you for everybody who came out to our internet safety panel last week. It was very successful and very educating. Um And beyond that, I actually have with me tonight the PTA president of Washington Elementary, Mariko. Thank you. Distinguished board members, Dr. Wesley and the cabinet, thank you so much for having me. My name is Mariko Fairly, and I am the proud PTA president at Washington Elementary. Like all of the other amazing PTAs and PTSAs in Redondo Beach, we put on a lot of programs and events for our students and families and community. Um so, I was trying to figure out

062what we could share that may be a little bit unique to Washington. And coming off of staff appreciation week last week, I thought it might be fitting to sort of highlight the T of the PTA, our teachers and our staff. Something that is really, you know, important to us at Washington is really showing our teachers and staff how much we love them and appreciate them throughout the school year. As you know, Washington is the biggest elementary school in Redondo. We have almost 800 students, and um almost 100 staff members. And so, what the PTA does is provide monthly staff appreciation. Could be something as small as, you know, coffee and muffins on a Monday morning. We know teachers love coffee. Um you know, we do like a salad bar. We've done a trail mix bar.

063Hot chocolate bar, um oatmeal bar. We love bars, I think. Um >> [laughter] >> but in in January, coming, you know, middle of cold and flu season, we did a wellness bar where we provided tea and emergency packets, throat lozenges, hand sanitizer, things like that. And we just try to do little things throughout the year to really show our staff how much we appreciate them, to rejuvenate them, get them into the classroom with energy so they can pass that on to our students. And so, I just wanted to share that that's something that we we try to do and um yeah. Thank you so much. Thank you. That's wonderful. >> [applause] >> Thank you so much, Redondo Beach Educational Foundation. Good evening. My name's Jonathan Schrader. I'm one of the newer trustees to the Redondo

064Beach Education Fund. And just for the quick update with what the fund's been up to, certainly you have all purchased your tickets for next Thursday's gala at the California Club. It is one of our larger fundraisers, and so we're eager to have you there and participating. We're expecting a great turnout to make There are some tickets still available, but in limited quality, so get sign up quick. We're expecting The tickets include food, drinks, live music, and a live auction. And we're going to be showcasing a lot of the impact of our funds and what it has with the schools. We'll see We'll hear from the Wizard of Oz cast from the middle school play, which was funded through an RBEF teacher grant. And we'll also see uh, the robotics team will be bringing their robots

065from the high school and showing them some of our cool tricks. I for one welcome our new computer overlords. Uh, we also want to highlight that registration for our summer school program remains open. While some classes are already nearing capacity, there are still great opportunities available for students to enroll. We encourage families to take a look soon before the sessions fill up. And you can find those at our website at rbeef.org to find out more and register. Did I forget anything? No. Awesome. Thank you. Fantastic. Thank you. >> [applause] >> Any superintendent comment? I do have a couple comments. Um, if you just give me a minute. One, um, I do want to point out that the Tech Trek is a free opportunity for students and fortunately we are able to send a middle school

066student, um, from each middle school every year. So, that's an amazing opportunity. Secondly, I want to thank, um, our three uh, student advisory uh, students are not here, More, Jazlyn, and Prateek. They're on my superintendent student advisory. They serve on various committees and we're very fortunate to have the student voice and they will be back next week presenting their goals and what we've accomplished this year. I look forward to that. Um, the third thing I want to share is about the speakers information about dual enrollment. Just to clarify some things that aren't completely accurate. Um, first and foremost, I'm not sure when her child graduated, but at this point in time there is information on the website about our pathways and about dual enrollment. If you go on the www.redondounion.org website, you look under school

067and college counseling, um, you'll see information on the pathways and also it's under El Camino, um, so maybe we can change it to dual enrollment so it's easier to find, but that information is there. Um, also I want to thank our counselors actually for presenting information on dual enrollment. I attended as a parent um, and I will say that Ms. Johnston and Ms. Holmes did an amazing job walking us through how to enroll at El Camino, uh, and dual enrollment, all the options, how to register. So, um, our counselors have actually done a great job with that. Uh, there's always room for growth, um, and also, um, I want to be clarified that, um, there is a limit to how many credits that a student can take for their transcript only. So, what that means

068is a student can take up to 40 credits and also get high school credit, but a student can take an unlimited amount of classes at El Camino and have them transcripted and sent that to their college of choice. So, the limit is just how many of those college classes will also count as high school credit. That's the limit. There's no limit to how many classes you can actually take. And thanks to Dr. Toranto, um, he's done an amazing job at increasing our our dual enrollment offerings. We actually have three new summer school classes. Again, my child's enrolled enrolled in one, and they've pushed out a lot of information to the families about these dual enrollment options. So, um, we have a a ways to go, but we have come a long way. Thank you. And

069lastly, I'm looking forward to the gala. Woohoo! Okay, and we can dispute it another time, but I wanted to clarify cuz there is not a cap in terms of how many classes you can take at El Camino. Thank you. Okay, we're going to move on to general consent. Does anyone have any items they'd like to pull? Hearing none, can I get a motion and a second to approve items 10.1 Second. through 10.7? Sorry. You have to say again. So moved. Second. Student advisory vote? All those in favor say I. I. I. Okay, moving on to our action items. 12.1, approve the lease agreement with Valor Christian Academy for 525 Earl Lane, Redondo Beach, California. Dr. Alpern. A motion and second to discuss, sorry. Yes, I'd like to uh seed my time to Dr. Sekhri to

070speak to this agenda item. So, in my transition to the new role, um I've been working with uh Valor Christian to renew their lease um at the the site over um on Earl Lane. Uh we came to an agreement uh where the the monthly rent would be increased um and it's a 10-year term with an option for 5 additional years beyond that. So, hopefully this one is in in good shape for a while to come. Any questions? Okay, student advisory vote. All those in favor, say I. I. Okay. We have a new lease. Moving on. Can I get a motion and second to discuss item 12.2? To reject claim 2514583 of a minor student. So moved. Second. Okay. That's Dr. Yes. Alpern. Um this we we do this fairly regularly when um we receive a

071claim from a family um that the our insurance carrier is rejecting, they need board to take action on that. So, our insurance carrier will work with the family um on this dispute, but at this point we need the board um to reject the claim initially. Okay. Any questions? Student advisory vote. All those in favor, I. Okay, motion passes. Can I get a motion and second for 12.3 to approve participation in a California multiple award schedule C-MAS contract 4-20-56006B for the purchase of roofing materials from the Garland Company for the RBUSD 2026 summer roofing projects. So moved. Second. Dr. Alpern. Yes. At a prior meeting this spring, you approved the bid awards for the labor for the summer roofing project work and this is a proposal for you to approve the materials and we are using

072a C-MAS schedule which allows us to get the best price for the materials in question. Having a lot of roofing coating work done this summer. Yes, we We went over that at our special board meeting. So thank you for that. Yes. Student advisory vote. All those in favor? I. Okay, motion passes. Can I get a motion and second for 12.4 approve proposal with Core Energy and testing for material testing and inspection services for the Madison Elementary School modular toilet project. So moved. Second. Okay, Dr. Alpern. Yes. I'll I'll speak to 12.4 and 12.5. This summer we are installing the modular buildings bathrooms at both Madison and Washington and this is for material testing and inspection services. For both This one is for Madison and the next board item will be for Washington. Okay. Student advisory

073vote. All those in favor? I. Okay, motion and second for 12.5. So moved. Second. Okay, and you've already spoken to it, Dr. Alpern. >> Yeah, I just wanted to make note that the location of these modular buildings will be on on playground of the kindergarten area. Okay. Student advisory vote. All those in favor? I. Okay, motion passes. Motion and second for 12.6, approve a change order request from PCW Contracting Services for Paris Middle School's retaining wall project. Can we open discussion? Second. Okay, Dr. Alpern, another retaining wall. >> Mr. Mr. Nail just stepped in. >> retaining wall. >> We were doing some repair work to drainage and things at the Paris Middle School between the upper and lower uh playground areas. And while we were in there, we discovered uh a cavern, basically, behind the

074wall, very similar to Toledo. So, we had really no time to do anything but fill it full of uh what they call two sacks two sacks slurry. It's sand and cement to stabilize it while we do investigations borings. And yeah, we've got a civil engineer on board right now. He's getting ready to get approved next board meeting, maybe. Uh it was just unavoidable. Well, I guess it's good we found it before it collapsed. >> Before it fell over on a student, yes. >> Yes. Okay. Student advisory vote. All those in favor? I. Okay. Let's get that wall fixed. 12.7, can I get a motion and second to approve the use of California Multiple School Award Schedule CMAS with Dave Bang Associates to purchase playground equipment. Second. Awesome. Dr. Alpern. Yes, tonight, um we are asking

075you to approve a CMAS schedule um with Dave Bang. We are not proposing at this agenda item the the locations and the actual equipment. We're just asking you to enter into the CMAS agreement that allows us to then purchase. At our next board meeting, you can anticipate that we will be bringing forward the purchase of the actual playground equipment. And that'll be a fun presentation for new playgrounds. Um student advisory vote. All those in favor? Aye. Great. 12.8, approve purchase of modular buildings and related facilities supply services under the Santa Cruz City Schools piggyback contract 2025-10 with American Modular Systems. Can I get a motion second? So moved. Second. Okay, Dr. Alpert. So 12.8 is similar to 12.7 where you're approving the process for procurement. 12.7 is the use of a C-MAS um schedule to

076purchase the playground equipment. 12.8 is um utilizing a piggyback contract that will allow us to purchase the buildings that you'll see in the next two uh board agenda items. Okay. Any questions? Student advisory vote? Aye. All those in favor? Aye. Okay, 12.9, approve correction to the April 21st, 2026 board agenda item 12.5, Letner Roofing bid price at Tamalina Elementary School. So moved. Second. Okay, Dr. Alpert. >> Yep, this is a correction. Uh we had asked you to approve a $279,000 um bid analysis, and it should have been $297,000. So, this is just a correction for the $18,000 difference. It'd have been nice if it was only $18,000. Student advisory vote? Aye. All those in favor? Aye. 12.10, approve the purchase agreement for the new for new modular buildings from American Modular Systems Inc. for Lincoln

077Elementary modular building replacement project. So moved. Second. Okay, Dr. Alpern. Yes, so this is the actual purchase of the buildings. Um we've got five classrooms for Lincoln Elementary as well as um a building that has bathrooms and custodial closet, etc. And um that's our 12.10 recommendation. And I just want to add that Mr. Neal, Dr. Alpern, and I went and visited these actual modular buildings at two different sites. One's in Long Beach and also in Huntington Beach Unified. Um so we were able to look at them, ask questions. We walked them with the um the own the owners or the directors of the company. So um we're excited about these modular buildings. Fantastic. Student advisory vote. All those in favor? Aye. 12.11, it looks like we're going to approve the purchase agreement for new modular

078buildings from American Modular Systems Inc. for Madison Elementary School modular building replacement project. So moved. Second. Dr. Alpern. Yes, the price is a little bit lower for Madison because there aren't as many classrooms that we'll be replacing, but um this is the purchase request for the buildings for Madison's project. Okay, student advisory vote. All those in favor? Aye. 12.12, approve school counseling residency capacity grant. Can I get a motion and second, please? So moved. Second. This Dr. Carlin. It's me. Uh this grant was written by our district counselor, Rachel Andrews, and it allows us to partner with LMU um to provide clinical training for our current our RBS D counselors. And it also allows us to host interns. Uh we're really excited about it. The interns will be from LMU and they're going to really

079help support our counseling program and our wellness centers. So we recommend that you approve this grant. Any questions? Student advisory vote. All those in favor? I. 12.13, approve agreement between the Redondo Beach Unified School District and Sharefest Community Development Inc. for the 2026-27 looks like school year. So moved. Second. Dr. Garland. Uh Mr. Berndt and Dr. Toronto worked together to um bring this program to Dreizler. Uh Sharefest is a nonprofit organization. They help deliver program content such as financial literacy, life skill development, and career exploration, different things like that. It's a semester-long course, um and it's no cost to the district, so we recommend you approve the program. Love that. Student advisory vote. All those in favor? I. I. 12.14, approve an increased pay rate range placement for the athletic trainer. Can I get a

080motion and a second? So moved. Second. Dr. Stephanie. If it's okay, I'd like to talk about 12.14 and 12.15 together. Um we took a look at these uh salaries for our athletic trainer compared to the neighboring districts and found that we were not where we needed to be. Um so, as you saw earlier in the video, June's been with us for 25 years, and we've had a really hard time filling the other trainer position at the high school for about a year now. Um so, we realized that we not only do we need to bump the um salary for the athletic trainer position, but it would be helpful to also create a lead athletic trainer position as well. So, 12.14 bumps the salary of the athletic training position, and 12.15 uh creates a new job

081description, um a lead athletic trainer, um that June would assume that role. Okay. Any questions? And just I want to say how happy I am that we're doing this collaboratively uh with CSEA and working towards that, because this is something that we've needed to fix for a while, didn't even necessarily know it, um cuz you will never hear June complain, but what he does for our students is just incredible. The amount of, uh, you know, wellness he can bring to them and keep them from getting injured and help them recover. Um, so, yeah, helping our students, um, be safe and and recover and all those things is so important. So, thank you and the team for working on this. Thank you. Okay, student advisory vote. All those in favor? I. 12:15, can we open it

082to approve the lead athletic trainer job description? So moved. Second. Okay. Student advisory vote. All those in favor? I. Great. Moving on to 12:16, approve the memorandum of understanding between Redondo Beach Unified District and California School Employees Association on skilled maintenance certification stipends. Motion and second? So moved. Second. Dr. Stephanie. As part of our, um, negotiations last year with CSEA, we agreed to form a committee to look at, um, giving skilled maintenance workers a stipend when they had specialized skills or specialized licenses or certificates, uh, more specifically. Um, so, we looked at that and basically came up with a schedule of stipends that would be awarded to skilled maintenance workers that possess a license or certificate in a certificate in a specific area such as HVAC or an electrician, um, along those lines. Um, so,

083we again, we worked very collaborative- collaboratively with CSEA to get this done, um, and everybody is very excited to get this in place for 201. Questions? So, I just wanted to say again, thank you for this one because I'm a big believer in stipends. Um, really, you know, this is some of the skills that go into some of these things are that, you know, stipends in general just encourage people to to go that extra mile. So, um, glad we're able to work collaboratively with everyone on this and reward them, um, for these extra skills that they're bringing to the district. Student advisory vote. I. All those in favor? I. 12:17 approve the 25-26 salary salary schedule restructure between American Federation of Teachers and its chapter local 1475 and Redondo Beach Unified School District. Can I

084get a motion and second? So moved. Second. Okay, Dr. Stephanie. As you may be aware, we've struggled for the last two or three years to fill our CDC teacher openings um and a lot of that has had to do with salary as well as certification. So, the new salary structure reschedule um simplifies and makes our salary schedule a lot more straightforward adding um four classifications as well as seven steps um as opposed to the old schedule which was much more complicated. Um but we've also created an intern CDC uh teacher position that allows us to hire um CDC teachers who are working towards an early childhood development certificate. So, to clarify, this gives more opportunity for people to enter the CDC workforce and get their credential and work at the same time. >> Absolutely. Just

085amazing. >> And be mentored by a current CDC teacher. Fantastic. Any comments or questions? Student advisory vote? All those in favor? I. 12:18 approve the job description and salary schedule for program director after-school programs. Can I get a motion and second? So moved. Second. Okay, Dr. Stephanie. >> So, speaking of CDC and after-school programs, we want to um basically consolidate our our our customer service for our parents and families in RVUSD. So, if for we want to say for any after-school programs, parents and families could go to one person um and get their answers. So, we're consolidating CDC um rec as well as right at school programs underneath one person, the program director for after-school uh programs. We start with the job description and then we'll move um the employee into that position once it's

086approved. Would this include any enrichment programs that are offered at specific school sites? In about a year, we will add that. Uh we figured adding rec and right at school in the first year is enough, but eventually um enrichment >> be in one consolidated Correct. >> It'd be really helpful for parents. >> Yes. One-stop shop. Okay, student advisory vote. All those in favor? I. 12:19, approve the job description and salary schedule for lead human resource resources specialist. A motion second? So moved. Second. Dr. Stephanie. So uh human resources is one of the only departments in the district that doesn't have an admin assistant. Um and so what this this job description does is takes responsibilities that an admin assistant or office manager would generally handle and place them on to a an HR specialist position.

087Um so that our certificated um HR specialist would also handle a lot of the office management duties as well as admin assistant type duties. Um and this would be a a a modest bump for her um in that position. Okay, student advisory vote. All those in favor? I. 12:20, approve the proposed revisions to the 25-26 Redondo Beach Unified School District Board of Education Regular Meeting Schedule. Can I get a motion second to discuss? So moved. Second. It's you, Dr. Yes. >> This is a um a request to move the June 23rd board meeting to June 16th, and that was just to make sure we had a quorum and staff is present. So um that is the only proposed change. Okay, student advisory vote. I. All those in favor? I. We don't have any information items

088tonight, but we are moving on to discussion items. 14.1, receive for first reading the following board policies, administrative regulations, exhibits, and board bylaws. Um we got a packet of over a hundred and something pages. Do any board Mhm. Dr. Do you want to start here, Ton, with your questions? All right. Sure. All right. I'll start with our um policy 30 uh 5131.8 mobile communication devices. Um just one comment. I noticed that um when you look at the paragraph regarding high school 9th through 12th um and the students can bring their devices on um maybe cuz I read it differently. When I initially read it, it was basically a duplicate of what we are asking our middle schools, which is devices are off from the moment they enter campus for the entire duration um until they

089exit. And then we put in the exception or the however. Um it just reads different to me. Maybe it just should say um cell phones are permitted are not permitted or are permitted during passing hours. Does that make sense? Um I'm sorry. I just uh I didn't I printed that individually, so I just 9493? I have a Oh, yeah. I have a quick question. Is it the part where it says, let's see, I just pulled it out. All high school. That one? 9th through 12th? Right. >> Starts with that paragraph. Okay. Yes. All devices must be silent and turned off. That part? Yes. Okay. I mean, I know that we are already in the presentation we require that it be turned off for all middle school students or kinder through um eighth. Um it just

090seems that it would read better if we didn't write it off that immediately upon entering campus all high school students' phones and and devices have to be turned off except for when. Does that make sense? Yes. Why are allow them? What can they do As opposed to Okay. >> that language. That's all. That'll be my only comment. >> And then um on the end um where this uh paragraph is students may be subject to discipline for off-campus use of mobile communication devices. I guess I just want to have a better understanding of off-campus. Is this off-campus in general? Off-campus at a school function? It It could be. It depends on what the student's doing. So, if they're doing some cyberbullying and that could be in their home. Um there's Ed Code around that if it

091is making a child feel uncomfortable at school that they could be subject to discipline. Or if it's a danger or bullying, harassment, or any sort of that situation. Okay. Yeah. So, this would allow us to if a student did engage in any type of um off-campus um activity relating to their mobile devices that um threaten pose a threat or danger to student safety, staff, etc. This is where it would allow the district to discipline that student. Yes. Okay. Thank you. >> Ed Code allows for it, but I think having it in the board policy is another way for parents and students to understand that that that could happen. Thank you. Just to clarify on that mobile policy, which I think it's not very different from what we've been normally implementing at the high school level.

092It's just that teachers will have to with fidelity collect those phones during classroom times. And if a student doesn't have a phone, I know I had students tell me that you know teachers don't necessarily believe that, but if if they do, they have to turn in a phone in the locked away the detention. Okay. Yeah, so for consistency and I think I mean observations we do walks together. Most teachers and Keely can maybe even share what she's experienced as a student. We'll ask for them to put it in the pockets and at this time I think it is well, I don't think it is the option of the teacher but this policy will require all teachers. So that way every student has the same consistency regardless of what class you're in. Any thoughts on that

093Keely? I'm sure the student I mean I put you on the spot but you are the student. I'd just say it depends on the teacher. Some teachers do use the phone charts and if they do it's always the same or typically the same phone chart but it really just just depends on the teacher if they're going to collect it. Some teachers use it for attendance, others ask for the phones but don't actually check it and then some teachers just don't collect it at all. But now they all will with this once next board meeting when we adopt the policies. Yeah, once it's adopted this is just your ability to give us feedback. Did you have any questions? Yeah, so of the all the policies in here this is the one that was most intensely lobbied

094in my home environment because I would take a you know stricter interpretation. One of the things I found interesting is a lot of the research showing that there hasn't necessarily been a correlation between academic improvement and total cell phone bans. Although there's been some improvements in discipline academically it hasn't had a huge impact which was kind of interesting to me. So you know I understand that I support it but like everyone's noticed the consistency is going to be the important part enforcing this with fidelity because that's where the biggest gaps are from from the studies I've seen. So making sure students, staff, everyone else is aware of this because I do know a lot of students have multiple phones. It's not that hard to get around things like these. It's squarely easy. Kids are not

095stupid. So it's making sure that teachers and staff feel both empowered and compelled to uphold these. So we want them to know that they're supported in this because we want the academic environment to be for academics not for screen time. So yeah, I appreciate all the work that's gone into this. I know there's a lot of very different viewpoints from everyone should have access to everything to no one should have access to anything. So I just want to thank everyone on the committee who worked very hard to come to this very sensible policy. And we do next policy. Yeah. Okay, the next policy I wanted to discuss is policy 7310 which is naming of facility and specifically memorials. I know we're making a change to our current policy and I just want our our public

096to understand reasoning for why it's such a personal and emotional um policy regarding memorials. So we could just share that with with you our public. Thank you Dr. Graham. Can you repeat what you would like me to share? I was trying Oh absolutely. >> my large packet. I [laughter] know it's a very thick packet we were provided with respect to policy 7310 the naming of facility specifically as it pertains to memorials since it's such an emotional and personal aspect. We've all experienced it here in our district with various families and friends. So I just want our public to understand why we're asking or what why this policy with respect to memorials. Um I don't know I wasn't I can I get a little help there? Dr. Thank you. I wasn't involved in that piece of

097it. Unfortunately we from time to time we have students who pass away. And it is emotional and there is right now a lack of consistency in terms of how we honor the student and or memorialize them. And what we find is that, um, there's a a times a desire to create a permanent memorial for a student in the in the form of a plaque, etc. And so, this policy is, um, changing that. We want to honor the student, um, but we do not think that a permanent memorial for the student, um, is something that we want to continue doing because what happens is, as time goes by, students and staff at that school are seeing the plaque and not understanding, "Well, who is this person?" And so, we have a collection of these of memorials,

098um, that have, over time, kind of lost some significance. Um, there are ways in which we can honor students through awards at culminations, um, through ceremonies, um, we can plant a tree. There's other ways to do it that aren't necessarily permanent, um, and so that their legacy and or spirit lives on. And so, we want to just be clear about that in our board policy so that, uh, when the time comes, we are all on the same page as to how we can honor the student and the family. Thank you so much. I just wanted our public to understand our our reasoning for this policy. And can I also add, um, in this, um, policy, there's no change to it, but this naming rights section, um, I'm actually in discussion with somebody who would like

099to give a donation and name some of our property, um, at a particular site. So, it's really important that we do have clear policy so that staff can work with the public, members of the public, on, um, what's allowable and not allowable. Is it Purina by any chance? It is not. I get that inside you. Okay, did you have any other That's it. Those were the only two? Okay. Um Can you tell me the name of that policy again that was just with the memorial? naming a facility. Yep. Okay. And then these will be brought back again for action next time, correct? >> Right. So, what we'll do is revise the sorry, 51 38. 31.8 31.8 I wrote that down wrong. Thank you for write that correctly for me. >> [laughter] >> Um share that

100in a Friday update so we can get any other further feedback before we bring it back as an action item with all the others for recommendation for approval. Okay. Um then we will move on to board member reports, Ms. Archer. Huh. Okay. Um It's always so fun to go to open houses. It's sort of like the bookend to um back to school night where the students and the the school starts and then back to school night is sort of the end of the year. Um so and see where our students have progressed. But I really want to thank our teachers. Um it's a long work day and those classrooms look amazing and they're cheerful and the teachers are smiling and welcoming parents in and giving families these wonderful packets of especially at the elementary school.

101So, much thanks to our teachers for for those long days. We really appreciate it. And then of course our custodial staff that have to stay really late to clean it all up and reset our school so it's beautiful again the next day. Um school site visits. Um in addition to seeing our students and all the curriculum that's out there, what's really great is our ability to see all the work that's going on with measure S. So, I want to thank our community for supporting public education and our students by passing measure S. Um our IT department, uh cameras, and um even the digital clock. It's so amazing what's been accomplished in a very short window um that they are doing for us and and everything that our business office is doing. And so, that was

102really great for for me to able to do that. And at our school sites, um something I was very observant about was I watch our students learning and how they're learning. Um cursive writing is personal and one of my favorite. And the penmanship and the cursive writing was really impressive. And the other thing I know it's a hot topic is the use of devices in school. I will say that as I've gone through um you know, elementary school, middle school, there's a lot of non-devices that are being used by our teachers and our students for learning. There's workbooks, there's pen and pencil. And and the the devices are a a complement to that. So, I just want, you know, our public to know that we are still using pens and pencils and paper and workbooks.

103So, um that was really good. And then I attended the Beach City Health District strategic planning um this last uh Friday. And thank you to Beach City Health District and Alcoves um and what they're doing for our students and that partnership that we have for our students' well-being. It's so exciting um construction, breaking ground, all of that is happening. And so, um big thank you to Beach City Health District. Thank you, Mr. Elder. All right, thank you. On the legislative side, um there's been a lot of activity from CSBA, ACSA, California State PTA um all around the governor's January budget proposal, which would withhold 5.6 billion from Prop 98. That's around $900 per student. Uh for us, that would be over $8 million. So there's a lot of advocacy efforts there. I urge everyone to

104continue these advocacy advocacy efforts to make sure we get full funding for our students and staff. Um Assemblyman Muratsuchi has been great. He's been advocating for us as well, but we need everyone to you know, if this is something you care about, please reach out. Uh other things like to highlight good luck to all the students with APs right now. We've got CAST testing coming up or already being done depending on where you are. Um got to go to open houses again these are wonderful. Madison's Multicultural Night and loved staff appreciation week just seeing all the things our community does, but also special thanks to our PTAs for all the work they do showing our teachers and staff how much we appreciate them because it's a lot of work for them too. Um but yeah,

105it's an amazing community with everyone pitching in together. Really appreciate that. Uh also this past Friday I was able to go to a cheer showcase at Paris with our local middle schools as well as some others. Um special thanks to Allison Speirs for all of her efforts to coordinate that, but it was just incredible being able to cheer on the cheerleaders who are normally there cheering for other people. Um so getting to celebrate them. And then a couple of things coming up this weekend. We have a pancake breakfast fundraiser for football, flag football, and cheer this Saturday at the high school followed very closely by the groundbreaking ceremony at Alcov at 10:00 a.m. and Coat Fest. Um so lots going on to to stop by this weekend. Sorry I will miss this exciting weekend, but

106um my oldest child will be graduating from college. She started in kindergarten in Redondo Beach. Feels like not too long ago and went all the way through. And I think about all of the amazing opportunities she was given as a student at Redondo and it was not so long ago that she was here doing a dark presentation when she was at ASB. So it was interesting to see that here tonight. I am super excited also to hear the report on the counselors because I can remember in not too distant past where that was not the case that we didn't have the lowest student to counselor ratio and that did represent a significant investment in counseling which I'm glad to see that we have. Love seeing June being honored. He was both of my daughters um

107trainer through being an athlete at the high school so he and I'm glad that we're actually going to have um an increased position for him and hopefully be able to hire a second athletic trainer. I appreciate this group meeting with a special board meeting last week or was it this week? It's all running together. We spent 3 hours going over the measure S projects to give some more prioritization and some um direction. As you can see Dr. Elburn has not wasted any time spending the money and even in fact refinancing the money to make sure we're um saving as much money for our community and making sure that their dollars are being put to good use in very prompt order. Dr. Stephanie, you have huge shoes to fill but we know that you will. Um

108and I want to wish our fellow board member Mr. Cho uh healthy recovery. We look forward to seeing him back here soon. And um with that we will be we have a non-student work day Memorial Day on May 25th and then we'll come back for our regularly Board of Education meeting on May the 26th 5:30 and again on June the 9th. The last day of school is June 11th so it's creeping close. Um with that do I get a motion and second to adjourn the meeting? So moved. Second. Student advisory vote. I. All those in favor. I. Okay, the meeting is adjourned. >> Mhm.