001e e all right the meeting is now called to order at 5:15 p.m. can I please get a motion in a second for approval of the February 25th regularly scheduled Board of Education agenda so moved second all those in favor say I I any opposed any exstension the motion passes we have a close session item tonight there is public comment allowed on close session items members of the audience May address the board on any listed close session items persons wishing to address the board regarding an item scheduled for close session are asked to submit a request to address the board prior to the start of closed session comments from visitors shall not exceed 3 minutes unless the time limit is waved by a majority of the board the board shall limit the total time for
002public input on each item to 20 minutes with board consent the president may increase or decrease the time allowed for public participation depending on the topic and the number of persons wishing to be heard so we have item 3.3 tonight public employee performance evaluation titled superintendant does any member of the public wish to speak on this closed session [Laughter] item so the board will go into public session after hearing any public comments close session yes sorry close session um can I get a motion in a second to adjourn to close session please so moved second all those in favor I I any opposed or extensions all right the board will go to close session we'll be back at 5:30 e e e okay the board has now reconvened to open session at 5:30 p.m. leading
003Us in the Pledge of Allegiance today will be Brian Stanley principal of Jefferson Elementary good evening everyone I'd actually like to bring up elody one of our students to lead us in our pledge of Allegiance come on up Elie place your right hand over your heart ready begin I pledge allegiance to the 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 please be seated thank you so tonight's close session item was 3.3 public employee performance evaluation the board had a discussion and do we have a motion and a second to approve the minutes of the February 11th to 2025 regular Board of Education meeting so moved all those in favor I any opposed any extension the
004motion passes next up our reports to the board starting with Jefferson Elementary School by Brian Stanley principal good evening everyone we're very excited I'll bring this up I'm so used to crouching down with the students um but good evening board vice president um Elder board member superintendent Wesley as well as our executive board we are so excited to be here today with two of our students we have as you heard lead our Pledge of Allegiance El and we also have India here as well and we are very excited to share our dolphin day student newspaper and you actually were provided a copy during close session um for you to peruse after the presentation don't be like the students um but what I'd like to do is kind of start with an overview of what we
005like to share with you today um so we want to start with our student voice kind of how this all started and we're very fortunate to have the student who conceived this idea with us today and we also are going to have our students um share aot of our connections to our district strategic plan so starting with academic achievement and our focus on Ela and strengthening writing we're also going to talk about social emotional learning and action how all of our students are working collaboratively in fourth and fifth grade to create this addition and then our fourth is our post-secondary preparedness how are we practicing different career options through that as well so I'd like to start with a letter so this letter came from elody herself and I would love to read it over
006but I do want to spare your time cuz I know you have a very busy schedule but when I saw this letter it was the fastest yes that I have had so far as a principal El came to me with this letter really wanting to restart our school newspaper it was something that they had long in the past it was something that she wanted to bring back and she had so many Fantastic ideas of what they could do what the interest could be what they could write about that I sat down and meet met with her and was so impressed with her Gusto as well as her pride in that that I actually had her lead it and she actually code leads it with one of our fourth grade teachers Sarah Lor um but next
007I really want to bring up our students who could share more about this amazing opportunity so El come on up this student newspaper really helps with academic achievement our school goal is to focus on capitalization and punctuation in our writing the school newspaper helps with that because of course we need our work prop properly capitalized and punctuated to be in the newspaper to focus on academic achievement we also need to do non-fiction writing we do summaries interviews debates and more we also need to do editing and revising we review each other's articles so that they can be in the newspaper at the student newspaper there's also seal in action we build relationships and to do that we encourage one another and we form groups with similar interests we also make responsible decisions we organize arti
008AR Les and and identifi timelines such as when our next meeting will be we also need to collaborate we decide on topics and works together on articles now we will trans transition to India thank you Elie one of our district goals is postsecondary preparedness that means getting us ready for college and jobs with our newspaper we can teach and prepare kids for jobs such as copy editor digital editor and content editor if you're a writer you could learn how to be a journalist social media manager or even an author if you're interested in photography and interviewing then you could be a photojournalist a media Specialist or a newscaster the newspaper is a great way to prepare kids for the future plus it's lots of fun here is our first edition we have lots of Articles
009written by kids such as our teacher of the month article the big debate and one about sports I wrote the one about sports it's about why kids love sports and how it affects our body and mood in a positive way the big debate is about why or why not the voting age should be lowered to 18 the teacher of the month article is about an awesome teacher who teaches at our school it says why he loves teaching and some details about his life we make sure our articles are fun for kids and adults to read and we hope it inspires more people to join so I just want to take this opportunity to really thank our students for their amazing work as you could see you have a copy which I will now allow you
010to look through thank you for following directions um but basically with that just the amount of variety but the amount of teamwork that they had and it's funny you'll see a lot India was a very prolific re writer throughout this but it really was teamwork um especially with our teacher of the month we had students who were interviewing our teacher had different roles so it's really a fantastic way for people to come together and I was so impressed they do this during their recess time and we have about 30 students that come together to work on that and they are excited every single time when they hear that announcement that they have a meeting um but I really want to thank you all for your time as you could see here are students in action
011working on that and like I said this is during their recess time so there's a lot of passion around that as well thank you thank you so much for sharing that's fantastic [Applause] I know I have a couple of questions but does anyone else have anything um that that was wonderful thank you so much both of you for coming in and talking to us um when you meet at recess and you have so many people there how do you decide what articles you're going to publish the first meeting of the month after we distribute the Articles we just um put in the time to like decide on topics first before we do anything like before we start writing articles um we have events at our school such as Battle of the books and green ambassadors
012and if we have any updates about them then we can put them in our articles and I will also add not as a student but they've been using Google Classroom a lot and it's fantastic I don't know if you saw um in a past slide here just the amount of conversations that they have with each other and a lot of that planning as you could see with our newspaper meeting that they wrote that led actually organized on the board um they have all their topics there and they kind of brainstorm through that as well no I love this it's always wonderful to hear from our students um I guess one big question I have is what kind of inspired you to restart the newspaper do you are you interested in a career in journalism or
013any of these careers or do you know people who are what what drove you to that um I really like writing and I also thought it would be cool to just start it cuz like it's kind of funny how we don't have it right now and it's just a really fun thing to do and it's a good group activity and you want to maybe share why you participate in it um just like Elie I also love writing it's my favorite subject and I thought it would be cool I've always wanted to write in a newspaper so I really support the idea that Ed had I love it it's wonderful um is there any advice you would give to other students who might be interested in starting a club or something like this just do like
014do what your heart desires and don't like I don't know don't be afraid to start it sorry no thank you that's great advice for everyone um final question I apologize I know there's a lot did you bring any grown-ups with you today you'd like to introduce um I brought my dad and and do you want to share that your mom is helping your sister oh yeah I brought my mom but she's helping my sister right now so she can't be here thank you so much we we really appreciate hearing from you and keep up the great [Applause] work all right up next we have the midyear elcat presentation by ro Roy Lopez uh always easy following cute students good luck yeah so this is really exciting get ready to take a lot of notes this
015always happens good early evening uh board vice president uh Elder members of the board uh Dr Wesley uh and cabinet thank you very much for having me this evening to uh present to you uh the 2425 midyear local control accountability plan also known as the lcap update so just some background uh Senate Bill 114 from 20123 established uh a date for uh the midyear report to be shared with uh uh the school board so that's uh on or before uh every February 28th today's the 25th so check we met that requirement uh the report should include the following um midyear outcome data related to metrics identified in the current lcap uh available midar expenditure and implementation data uh and then the uh outc cap update uh is to be publicly uh available and will be
016available at the conclusion of uh today's board meeting uh on our website so just in summary the uh alcap operates on a three-year cycle uh the Final Phase of year three concluded uh last school year and simultaneously while that was ending the new uh elcap plan was being developed uh by the elcap committee and uh we are now currently in year one of the 2024 2027 lcap uh So currently we are going to uh we're implementing we're monitoring and we're evaluating the goals and actions found within the 24 uh through 27 uh outc cap so just a quick snapshot of the uh rbusd alcap we must engage our educational Partners uh that really uh includes the outc cap committee which I have the fortune of uh leading and facilitating that includes parents that includes certificating
017classified staff that also includes um a student representative very proud of that uh in addition U I'll be present at uh the district English learner advisory committee the daac I've reached out to Dr Wesley and uh hope to be in front of the student uh advisory Council uh in their upcoming meetings uh so that's uh our way of engaging our community uh Partners our educational Partners all of our work is centered around our our four goals around student achievement which is goal number one goal two is student engagement inal so social emotional learning goal three is equity and access goal four is parent engagement and of course we must provide uh a budget overview for parents so here's a quick snapshot of our district uh if you recall when I presented the California dashboard in
018January I did share with you that I really saw this as uh several information that's all related to one another um so here at the center you see our budget that we started uh the new school year with and uh we are highlighting our student demographics uh from unduplicated students um as well as uh the schools that we serve in the total number of students in our district our lcap responds um uh to our students uh and our student needs so think of our um outc cap metrics uh in three different buckets if you will uh at this uh point in time the midyear update reports uh on the lcap metrics that are are known that are unknown and those that are in progress so just as an example uh some of the metrics that
019are known we do use uh the 2024 Casp and Summit of Alpac data to help us um uh monitor our alcat plan there are other uh data points or metrics uh that we can use in the current year for example the uh California healthy kids survey would be administered in the month of March we will be receiving um those results I think the turnaround is pretty quick after uh the completion of those um uh surveys so we'll use those metrics as kind of like in real time um so think of the the midar report as in uh those three uh buckets the midyear report uh update also includes the expenditures and actions just a note on the expenditures uh that you found um on the uh metor report that was provided to you prior to
020today's meeting uh we do use the first interim report uh so whatever is reported on those expenditures which I believe is um October 31st that is reflected in the uh midyear plan and so you may see a difference once we get into some of the highlights that there's a difference in what has been uh our expenditures uh to date which is really uh October 31st uh to now so as far as the outc cap expenditures and actions again think of those in in buckets uh those that have been uh not started in progress uh and completed so uh outc cap goal number one is academic achievement if you look at the bottom right hand um corner of the uh of the slide you'll see what was budgeted uh at the beginning of the school year
021and um the expenditures again through um October 31st just some highlights um the counseling services uh was reported a year ago during this time but I wanted to once again acknowledge that particular group I sat in uh this board meeting in December where they shared the TK through uh 12 counseling action plan that's a great uh resource to have so I wanted to highlight that as an action item supplemental Services uh continue for our students there are identified staff uh at the school site that are uh supporting our unduplicated students um targeted students for uh interventions our English Learners ELD support credit recovery uh recovery with uh summer and Saturday school offerings and then we uh just yesterday I met with our um professional development committee where we took a look at the results and
022feedback from the te uh teachers uh and support staff um surveys from the November 1st District ypd day uh overwhelmingly I would say that the the feedback was positive uh we really got into um uh the results yesterday in the PD committee and so I wanted to highlight that because that is uh an action item there's about 21 action items Associated to outc cap goal number one outc cap goal number two is all around and school safety so again some highlights here um the school status which was formerly known as attention to attendance uh continues to be a valuable resource for us as we monitor uh our uh daily attendance and um chronic absenteeism uh this is the first year of the tri District uh seal survey so it provides real time uh information about
023um students uhal um needs uh whole child education once again wanted to highlight that students in our district have wonderful access to social emotional well-being activities uh music and PE Etc uh seal curriculum uh we do have a TK through 8 uh seal curriculum which is a second step part of the lcap is to identify uh a curriculum an seal curriculum for the high school um right now I'm excited to report that uh the high school is exploring um Second Step uh for the high school and we're hoping that um if all goes well we will have a TK through 12th um grade seal curriculum and uh supported by um Second Step uh lcap goal three is equity and access so we had a successful uh backpack giveaway uh backpack and materials giveaway um in
024August uh we had about 509 students participate uh each student received uh essential instructional materials that help uh get them started uh at the school year the new school year uh on the right foot and uh in addition uh our c-plan co- te uh teachers continue to receive uh days to plan uh to help support that program also included in the alap is uh opportunities for high school students to visit soal uh Rock U I actually part of the CTE committee and had the opportunity to listen in on all the wonderful things that SoCal Rock can provide um our students so those um field trips have occurred uh parental involvement uh I highlight here just um some parental involvement uh activities that have occurred this year special education has a parent advisory Council they meet
025five times uh during the school year uh dual immersion we've had uh two dual immersion uh parent meetings where we share with dual immersion parents the course offerings at the middle school and the high school uh for students who are um part of the DI program and most recently just last week there was uh a colleg goingo culture opportunity for our parents uh to hear about uh investing in your future uh college night I believe that was with ketka and so uh our opportunities to engage our parents continue and um we look for more offerings um in the future so just uh to share with you some of the metrics that we use uh that we monitor which are several uh you see here under academics includes Casp the cast data uh the Alpac um
026to College and Career again all of that highlighted is highlighted in the California dashboard uh engagement and well-being we take a look at our average daily attendance our attendance rate chronic absenteeism we take a look at the Cal uh California healthy kid survey the parent survey and the staff survey that's also associated with uh uh it's also called chicks um additional metrics uh teacher retention uh credentialing uh facilities inspection so working with M uh to get um information around our facilities and of course the Williams materials compliance um that we must meet uh yearly so with all of that that is the midyear uh present ation outc cap presentation again you were provided with the actual report that will be um shared on the website thank you any questions so just one thing I wanted
027to highlight for lcap goal number four parental involvement um that number doesn't look very high of what's budgeted but that's of course outside of all the normal work that our teachers and staff do working with parents and ptas and everyone else does so um I know I've gotten questions about that sometimes why why is that number so small and it's not that that number is small it's a that's part of our daily you know we're a partnership uh with parents in the community that's correct that's correct thank you for pointing that out any other questions just real quick comment as a soout rock representative and a board member there I really appreciate the the specific mention of that and everything that's being done there not only at our high school but now down into our
028middle schools and even at the TOA um uh invention night they had a our own prior assistant superintendent Brien nakama was there from SoCal Rock and had a room where she was having kids make a little electrical circuit and it was amazing it became y there goes the light switch happens every meeting almost um but seeing the engagement of even kindergarteners and it was just a little battery and how to make the strips of light uh to make contact and the light that lit up and the Joy on their face when that happened was just amazing to watch and it was it went from nothing to 20 kids crowding around and not enough to go around so that's happening at all levels just appreciate the the mention of it in there absolutely and is also
029the uh the C career Pathways that we're doing more and more work on to get that improved yeah it is quite impressive thank you thank you Mr Lopez thank you very much executive director of Educational Services thank you uh up next we have our Middle School math Pathways presentation by Dr Allison Garland assistant superintendent of Educational Services thank you good evening vice president Elder members of the board Dr Wesley in our community um I am presenting I'm excited to present on our proposed uh math pathway for our middle school but before I begin I would like to acknowledge some of our teachers in the audience um who are here tonight and Kathleen Shaw one of our principles and then we have multiple committee members uh listening at home listening in tonight so I'd like to
030thank all of them for their hard work so I want to begin by providing some context on how we got here today so the committee began to look at some data um and they saw some saw some decreases consistent decreases with students meet and students exceeded on Casp for Math and so this is the students from 2016 2017 all the way through 2223 three and you'll see a steady decline with the largest one between 8th and 11th grade looking at the data from last year we continue to see that the difference between 8th and 11th continues to be decreasing and we highlighted all of the Middle School levels there so you could see the decrease there was a little bump in seventh grade but then it went down again in addition the committee looked at
031the compacted math cohort so if you look all the way to the left I'll explain what those bars are so this is 2016 2017 through 2223 so these groups if you look at that blue bar of 180 students those are the students in 201617 that were taking sixth and seventh grade math that compacted of those 180 161 took the seventh grade the seventh e8th grade and then from there 148 uh moved on to the algebra so that's coher data and we have it all the way through 2223 so that made uh the committee wonder if maybe we're accelerating students who aren't um completely ready for that acceleration because we weren't holding on to the students through the years the committee also looked at data and they also looked at the course placement and sequence in
032the mathematical framework and it talks about the importance of success in algebra and how crucial it is to the overall success for students in math courses and developing the skills and knowledge depends on the students being placed appropriately and at the appropriate time so that was all put into our strategic plan and in year one which was last year there was a secondary curriculum adoption committee formed um we evaluated the effectiveness of the current Pathways and then we formed a partnership with an outside agency which is tntp which is also here with us tonight so that work began last year so last year in partnersh ship with tntp in January we established a secondary math committee it was made up of Math teachers who somewhere in the room tonight um secondary leaders District leadership some
033parents and a board member there was a snapshot um conducted with middle school so tntp went into our classrooms did some observations looked at assignments uh did some interviews some stakeholders and some feedback and then from March to June uh there were some committee sessions the first thing that they did was they developed a mission a vision uh for our math and which I will show you in a moment they reviewed curriculum materials uh investigated the highquality curriculum materials and then there was a subcommittee that was created to look at our current Pathways and then create future Pathways here's our vision so I'll give you a moment to read that so the important piece here is in our BSD we would like to strive for all of our Learners to have access to highly engaging
034collaborative and relevant math experiences and positive and student-driven classrooms so the committee began to discuss acceleration so in um the math framework they also talk about acceleration and how you have to be really careful when you decide to accelerate students and it isn't recommended did uh to compact the standards before um grade seven which brought us to the secondary math committee um recommendations so shifting acceleration designation Point later than fifth grade which would align with a framework uh provide more opportunity points for acceleration using objective measures for acceleration decisions and curriculum shift to support our math Vision so that brings us to this year so the pathway subcommittee was expanded we added an elementary teacher a fifth grade teacher we put more Middle School teachers on there and we wrote the six plus and 78
035course descriptions that you will see tonight discuss the new pathway implications and a draft for communications for our broader community and we determine the Readiness indicators for acceleration and here are the proposed changes so we'll see on here the largest difference is Shifting the acceleration opportunity so all kids will enter into a math 6 Plus class and in a moment our two Middle School teachers will explain what that looks like from there the students have the opportunity to accelerate into 78 it still has the end goal for e8th grade to be Algebra 1 and this also aligns with the recommendations in the pathway we are also looking or in the um sorry in the math framework and we're also looking at providing maybe another acceleration point in eighth grade and we will be Rec convening
036committee to look at that now I would like to call up Miss RL and Miss turl to discuss our proposed courses all right good evening I'm TAA turble I teach sixth grade math and science at Paris and I'm Melissa rumler and I teach sixth grade math and language arts at Adams um okay so our rationale for the new courses is that all rbusd math courses Foster deep conceptual understanding procedural fluency and real world application and they equip students with critical thinking and problem solving skills that will serve them in future mathematics courses and academic Pursuits given the committee's work on our new secondary math Vision it's important that all our courses are structured to appropriately Challenge and serve our students students entering sixth grade will be enrolled in a math 6 Plus course and all
037sixth grade students will have access to rigorous instruction that prioritizes conceptual depth while encouraging the growth of their mathematical skills this course will provide a strong foundation so that all students are prepared for the various mathematics Pathways in subsequent years the standard progression of middle school math courses would be math 6 Plus math 7 and prealgebra these follow the recommended pacing of the Cali common cor standards a math 6 Plus course will cover all sixth grade math standards and an introduction to the essential seventh grade math concepts the purpose of including seventh grade standards in the math 6 Plus course is to give students an introduction to Concepts uh Concepts essential to Future Pathways all Learners will have access to a highly engaging collaborative and relevant math learning experience delaying the acceleration decision to the
038end of sixth grade allows students to adjust to Middle School structures gain solid foundational math Knowledge and Skills and have an introduction to seventh grade [Music] Concepts the math 78 course will provide an opportunity for students who are prepared to move to an accelerated Pace to complete Algebra 1 by the end of their middle school year opening up options for higher level math in high school like AP Cal thank you thank you so with our new courses and our new Pathways uh we began to discuss uh placement of students and acceleration points so misplacing students um is common and unfortunately has negative consequences especially cognitive ones um students need to be appropriately challenged um to be able to engage and be interested in math but if you place them too quickly it can have consequences
039for for them and we really need to look at objective measures when we look at placing students into courses so we came up with our acceleration Readiness indicators so these are the four areas that we're going to look at we're going to look at the cast score because that gauges uh Mastery of past knowledge we're going to look at our map scores because that demonstrates their present achievement level we're going to look at their grades it shows how they're attaining knowledge over time and then we're going to look at mdtp Readiness uh test score which assess is their preparation for future courses I'm going to take one second to explain what that is so this uh mdtp is a Statewide effort that included the CSUS and the uc's community colleges Math teachers in K12 basically
040they wrote to develop these Readiness tests and it's Diagnostic and it measures students mathematical preparation for the course that they're entering into so these are the four different Readiness indicators that we will be applying um when students would like to look at accelerating so here's our next steps we still have a lot of work to do we've done a lot of work but we have a lot more work to do so we're going to share the new pathway and acceleration Readiness indicators with our current fourth and fifth grade parents uh via email we're going to send them a letter we're going to invite the current fifth grade families to a math pathway presentation that will occur before um the fifth grade parents go to the middle school nights so they're aware of the change we're
041going to continue to collaborate between Middle School teachers to ensure alignment of the new courses and we're going to work on the eighth grade courses to see if we can get some more acceleration opportunities in there we're going to also go to high school and take a deep dive into those Pathways look at acceleration points and we'll have some recommendations for the fall of 2627 and then we're going to resume our math curriculum adoption after the CDE releases the state adopted list so with that we are happy to answer any questions you have I'll start if I could so the the four areas for evaluation I think it was like two slides back that presents the what will be looked at as a parent I'm more interested in okay how is that decision made who
042makes it is there cutof points it is a which one of these is weighted more than the others are they all equal will it be um allocated as say you have 100 students MH and 50 of them meet the criteria for one and 50 of them meet the criteria you just bifurcate but if it happens to be maybe 3070 can we adapt to that and offer the placement for the 70 at at the one course in sth grade or and the 30 for the other one or what I'm I'd like to know is what's the real mechanics of this this is maybe you're not there yet and if you're not I understand thank you for that question we're actually finalizing all of the indicators you just asked us and all the questions you just has
043asked us and we will be ready when we have the parent meeting we will be sharing specifics about what the scores need to be um and what each of these different tests are so they can understand it we also have a backup documentation that explains all of this and has the framework information in there it's going to have links uh to the standards so it'll all be fleshed out and we will be sharing that with parents at our meeting and of course I'll be sharing with the board I'll put that in the board update as well from my experience with my own now seventh grader the the sixth grade compact did was an just an opt in it was you could select it and that was that was it there was no other right criteria
044and I think that's honestly what became part of the difficulty with that um will there be or is there consideration to still have any kind of a selective optin or is it purely these criteria and the the decision will be made for the student there is this criteria of course and then there's going to be different ways to show and demonstrate your acceleration and your Readiness for acceleration of course we'll always have um an administrative review process so if parents have additional questions or would like their students data to be reviewed again we will have that put in place so parents can can have that information okay yeah thank you um I have questions of course but um and it can go to the teachers or um however but the way I'm seeing this and
045tell me if I'm seeing it right but the kids you know in the in the old days we went through sixth grade in elementary school and so we're essentially leaving everything as is an elementary school for math so there's no ex you know there's no you know honors or division or anything going through sixth grade all the kids are going to be in the same class that yes ma'am and then so then coming out of sixth grade they have the choice they don't have the choice they qualify either for the 78 or yes thank you or seven um once they're in 78 do they have to meet any standards to to then go to Algebra 1 or is it once you're in you're in and you stay on that pathway so we are looking at
046Readiness indicators to stay on that pathway uh because if students aren't ready for that um if the indicators show that they're not ready they they may not do well in Algebra 1 at all and that is the the most crucial class that we take so we're still teasing out the eighth grade we have some time because that won't be applied for for a couple more years but we are going to start working on it this year to make sure that we have um that set okay um I'm just kind of walking through to my head because I know there will be parents who will be up upset that there's no honors option going into sixth grade um and I will admit it has taken me some time to get there as well but I understand
047it and I do think we need to change something and this is probably the first step to you know us getting there and increasing our scores um you know and also it's such a huge change to go from elementary school to Adams or Paris and this is one place now where the kidss are going to be in their same cohort horts and you know learning um I like the addition of the six plus um is that intended though so that those seventh grade standards kind of come in consequence at the end of the year or is it mixed into the curriculum throughout the year we are going to work on the scope in sequence we're thinking towards the end so that's the next step as we're going to work on this open and sequence for
048these courses and really the point of that too is kind of like pre-teaching so whether you go into s or 78 you do have some knowledge going into that and will help you even be more successful um and then you mentioned the pathway going into high school right now how let me see how I to say this how does this affect a kid's ability to get into um AP Cal BC like at the end are we seeing a pathway where a child can go through 6 78 Algebra 1 and still end up at at not just AP Cal but a but BC we we do have students now that end up in BC they do often T oftentimes take Summer School courses and I also want to say if there are students that are ready
049to accelerate um beyond what this pathway shows we're always going to be willing to meet with those parents and talk with those parents and but we will have to make sure that the acceleration indicators are met in order to ensure that students are successful because we have our responsibility make sure we're placing students correctly when they're ready right I would just ask that we make sure there's a pathway um that's visible to parents and students from the get-go as as to how you make it to the end because in doing all of this there's been some talk and concern from people who are saying well I'll have to go to summer school I'll never get into BC um and I I know that some parents will care about that um so that's more of a
050something in the perspective that we need to do is we go into the high school choices I just want to clarify Rachel that um right now we're starting at the middle school so the this current fifth grade class will move as they move the changes will occur so there's no change at all to the high school pathways um in terms of students having to take summer school to get to BC and um as of last year students can take Cal BC without taking AB there's about 68 students in BC it's I think one of the largest amount of students in the years of which 11 of them are in 11th grade so those those are still options for students that aren't being changed what will happen um after we finish the work of the Middle
051School we're going to go back and look at the current pathway for the high school and see if we can create more opportunities for students to accelerate not just summer school because right now it's only through the summer school process usually for pre-cal trig in the summer so we're going to go back and look at that it could also mean concurrent enrollment like two math classes at at once um but that's that's the work of the committee okay but I just want to make it clear nothing has changed in terms of being able to accelerate have to go back and maybe maybe Mrs rumler knows but um just calling her out here but but there was a path where you went to BC without summer school in the past there has been um because Common
052Core right before Common Core okay because I know my child did it so before Common Core um she went straight through and never had to take summer school which is a big thing with some kids who are doing the volunteering the summer and doing everything else summer school is not something we can just assume kids are voluntarily going to be thrown into so I think that's why they made the change to not make AB a prere for BC so you don't have to take AB to take BC that makes no sense to me but I'm not a mass person so I I that would be skipping a whole important level but um I just want to make sure that we're kind of sticking to our serving all student students you know across the board and
053that we can express that to parents and show parents that that you know there are Pathways because I think that's one thing redondo's always offered is Pathways and you know the opt in option has always been a big deal but it is a big deal at high school and I'm not sure it it was necessary at middle school so I think this closes that Gap and kind of allows for it but I would want to make sure we follow through through the high school oh yeah we will definitely if I can chime in um I'm the we go back to the makeup of the committing beginning so in there right there right there way in the bottom left corner there's a board member participation that was me yeah and we have a consultant in our
054audience she can attest to you I've attended every single meeting I've read every single research material I've asked questions that made a lot of people uncomfortable including our teachers because I feel what's being asked of us here and if you think about this what we looking at here we're addressing all of our students uh going forward uh and one of the things that we started with was believing every student at rbusd there are every one of you every one of you in here is math person we're going to change that language and thinking first and and and and with that belief that we had as a collective and we had every teacher at one point at at professional development day at high school library every secondary uh School Math teachers in here we all mix
055them up we work together to get to where where this is um we wanted to make sure we didn't leave anybody out in fact we want to include everybody and and to develop as a math person uh it's not just numbers it's how you think how you live your life and we wanted to make sure that's instilled on in every student at rbusd and then we move forward to okay how do we then um put together curriculum and Pathway to serve all of our students um and also remembering some students need additional challenge that will accelerate we made sure if we can go to the pathway slide so initially we don't have a pathway subcommittee it it came out of our our secondary math committee discussion hey we need to look at how we put
056our students through how they learn and and from that large committee we formed a smaller Committee just focused on this and I'm so glad somebody cleaned this up we when we had this up in a a screen it was amazing and we could have make sense of what that meant that's a shout out to Bri Decker by the way Osa and her she did this um so this was just a snapshot of of acknowledging some of our students who are ready to move move forward and also um I know that we just watching my kids grow some weeks when they're baby they grow just inches and next week they didn't goow at all um some students may not be ready to accelerate and learning math their brain development that they're all unique persons right and
057and next year all of sudden their brains developed they're ready to take on additional math so that's what indicates and some may not be ready so we have ex onet off that's how we I think we called it in the past we had two Pathways that are very rigid and it was opt in by some no rational reasons someone wants to do Compact and math they're stuck with it doing it three years if you didn't on the other Round And as our research had demonstrated that a lot of students that in both part you know camps it didn't really quite fit and we didn't have an offering to address everything else in between we think that's a good approach that we're taking now as a group group uh is being proposed now anyway um to
058address those so that we can encourage we will encourage every student to be math person and I I believe there more being work will be done to take to high school and there will be additional on and onramp offramp as well as acceleration points to address what you talked about um um I am a math person like everybody else um I love math I did well at math and I wanted to make sure that rigor stays with an rbusd while encouraging everybody to be the math person is that good enough campaign for all of us good okay so so that that this is the first real concrete step that we're demonstrating more more to come I'm so excited we're doing this and and um this is just an example of how Nimble our school district
059is and how we focus on everyone of you in here seniors right um and and all the way from TK we we're focused on students first and that's what we're looking at and this is clear demonstration of what we're doing so thank you to all the teachers um administrators parents uh Consultants that helped with the work we have a lot more work to do and we're going to continue to push this it's a big step um I I do remember 10 years ago when we switched um and the the crisis and and you know um anytime you switch the the main substance of our curriculum it's a big step um and so yes thank you um a lot um I know um I know what goes into these meetings so I appreciate it sorry just
060to answer sort of one of the questions you had too for example those MA high school math PS Pathways for Algebra 2 just this week they're able to register for the pre-cal summer school um so that is that acceleration point maybe that's something we could communicate better but that is you know that that's your path for BC right now um so there's some other options there uh I did have a few questions so I I really like that you know optin is very subjective so it's nice to uh just a few questions yes uh optin obviously is not the most effective way it denies some kids opportunities when they don't think that they they fit and you know pushes others to where they don't belong so I like that we're looking at something more objective
061there um how does this get rolled out though for example a kid who transfers in from another school district or if I took if I didn't take compacted math in sixth grade this year what do I take seventh grade next year so how do how does kind of some of those logistic things work out or have those been figured out yet well and really we take it in an individualized basis so sometimes we do have students that transfer in and they've already accelerated all the way up to let's say Algebra 1 or geometry and we have to figure out what class to provide to them when they're in middle school so we take it on an individual basis but we will also look at the Readiness indicators they will bring with them you know their
062cast scores their grades from their courses um they may use map or they may use a different format of assessment we're not sure so we we we would have to look at those students individually and see where the best placement is okay now that makes perfect sense um and then just one thing I want to emphasize even though it's been said over and over again this is not taking away options Algebra 1 is still the highest math you can take in Middle School just want to make that clear to to you know a lot of parents are concerned that we're taking away options um that is not the case um I do like this new math 6 Plus framework I'm I'm really optimistic to see how that works because it's essentially kind of compacted math
063for everyone in sixth grade but also keeping them all together so I think there's a lot of opportunity there um and also I want to Echo what Mr Cho said you know thank you to all of our teachers and staff and parents and everyone who worked on this I know it's a lot of work um I know we've still got curriculum to look at and high school Pathways and a lot more so don't go anywhere yet but thank you so much for all your effort on this and you asked the question about the current compact in math students and I think it's important to answer that question that again um this change starts with the incoming sixth graders so if the the current sixth graders will continue on the current pathway so they are still
064going to be accelerated moving forward um they're not following this that they're going to move on to the compa sorry to the seventh grade uh 7 eight and then they're going to go on to algebra in eth grade so they're still on that pathway it's phased in yeah it gets phased in that's the best way to put it so if just if you're in compacted sixth grade math this year next year and you did well next year you would go math 78 yes okay and it doesn't affect current seventh graders either I might as well put that out there too just just so parents know um current seventh graders will continue on the path they're currently on so couple of quick follow-up things it's been talked about yeah we I think we do need to
065show Beyond this as just so parents understand this isn't limiting the future this is you know once you get into High School these are the things and you've shared some preliminary things with me superintendent Wesley on that I think it is as part of this this is good Focus here that this is what's happening at the middle schools but beyond that we need to look at that scope um just to be couple things just to be clear every Middle School student will be on one of these paths there is no Mom I don't like math I'm not going to take can I do something else they have to take math they will go through one path or the other on this through middle school and and the other thing I do want to be clear
066on because this is the kind of thing we hear back from parents is the term compacted math and that option in sixth grade is going away and I will say that I have fully supported that because I've looked at it from a bigger picture that sixth grade where they come together from multiple different elementary schools that's their year to come all together and have that chance to get sorted out and get kind of equalized or or find out where they are where they want to head that that's I fully support that it's really kind of an evaluation year and that's fine uh and grade is I think is extremely appropriate for that and having it their first year at the middle school so I fully supported that but yes parents if you're older sibling took
067compacted math your fifth grader now is not going to have it next year but understand where it's headed it's not that the end result is going away correct it's just the steps to get there are shifting but that's the first thing we hear back what did they do with compactive math they took away compact yes we are I admit it I fully support it we're taking away compacted math it's something different now and just we own that and I fully support that and I think this is a great way to do it um a lot of little other details still need to be worked on and you there'll be growing pains with it too as we get those situations you know is there a seventh grader in the top path that wow just really excels
068during seventh grade and could there be a way for them to slip into algebra one that's something we're going to look at yeah those are the those outlier cases that need the but the the basic framework agree completely with this and I I do want to show it in the bigger picture how it okay transfers out into the high school real into the current Pathways okay I will say it to the camera yes compacted math is going away and just that's fine it's just shifting a semester still can take algebra when yes you know because there's fifth grade parents right now that are had an older sibling and they're thinking oh I got to get my son or my daughter into compacted math I don't want you just let them understand this is the night
069that it really all started and this isn't the final this is a um the disc when will we come back with an actual finalized yeah that that this will be and do we have to adopt this as a board or so this is this is where we are now in terms of just the middle school so that we can communicate that to our incoming families and they can begin to understand what that's going to look like and then we're reconvening the committee to start especially with the high school teachers to look at that the current Pathways and see what we can do in terms of acceleration points are on- rant off- rant points as well so we will come back to the board with as you say the the broader pict six through 12 picture
070but for purposes of Middle School 67 and 8 this is it this is happening right so that's that's agenda item 12.3 so we don't want to jump ahead yet okay pending board approval on a couple of action items later so anyone else just want to highlight the the work and courage it took for our teachers to come up with this design is is is is something to we all need to recognize and and commend them for um it it was a big change and it was something that they wanted to change and and they owned it and they developed it so I'm very much appreciative of extra extra extra what you took on to do this so thank you thank you thank you Dr Garland and thank you everyone who did this up next item
0717.4 student board member report by key G our JV game day cheer team won two USA national championship titles last weekend our seniors are currently signing up for their senior Excursion at Disneyland and our class of 2025 had seven National Merit finals list this Friday at 7:00 p.m. our comedy sports team is hosting a match between students and teachers and then a few updates from our young leaders about events going on at the elementary and middle schools Adams will have their eighth grade dance on March 28th and their Spirit rally on March 2st including a Spirit Week leading up to the rally they also had their sixth grade dance last Friday and then altta Vista Washington and Barrel Heights all have fifth grade band concerts coming up in early March that's all thank you perfect
072thank you uh up next we have item 7.5 strategic Plan update presentation by Dr Wesley superintendent of schools thank you um I'm going to go through the Strategic plan and just give a brief update and as you look at our vision statement I just want to share that this presentation with an update for every objective within our five goals will be posted to the website tomorrow for anyone who wants to go back back and look at the um update more in detail as I take us through just um as a summary these are our five goals um headings at the top and then each of the bullets is a an objective under that goal starting with academic achievement um well there you go um math achievement for all secondary students I uh I think that
073Dr Garland really emphasized the work that we're doing there uh but the whole idea is to make sure we have a a grade 6 through 12 pathway with um more acceleration points and um overall we have um increased achievement at the middle and high school level in math um after we make these changes so the work is happening um on the ELA front um we do have Middle School teachers who are currently um trying out working with Wht and wisdom curriculum as you know our elementaries adopted it they're in year three of adoption and so they have through March to um to utilize wit and wisdom in their classrooms then we will review their feedback and make a final decision and come back to the board um as to um whether or not we'll be
074implementing in 2526 um our teachers are fully implementing our tier 2 and tier three interventions this ties into the mtss multier systems of support that Mr Roy Lopez um has been talking about and working with the committee on really making making sure that we um we intervene early on um for students who are are struggling using appropriate measures um we've we formed a committee that looked at our honors classes in the Middle School seventh and eth grade social studies in ela and we did we have determined that there are differences between the honors classes and between the middle schools and so we're working on evaluating those differences to determine how we can better align those courses um so that students are having the same experiences and we do think that um if we do move
075towards implementing Wht and wisdom which is more of a rigorous curriculum that may help with some of that alignment and consistency so those two are connected there so more to come on that we put a pause on evaluating gate we want to First make sure that we've made a decision on our Ela curriculum so that's going to be coming up before Spring Break um and then we've also figured out how to um better align um our honors classes so once we do those two things will Circle back and look at our our gate because we may address some of the gate concerns while with those other two objectives you may thank you board you approved American sign language as a new course this is based on a survey we gave to RS students and so
076we'll be working on trying to hire someone to teach that class so fingers crossed students that we're able to do that um special ed compliance in terms of the IEPs we've made a tremendous gains and a lot of that had to do with um making sure that after an IEP we received the signed IEP a lot of the uh IEPs out of compliance were because you had the meetings but the parents wanted to take them home and review before signing and so just getting those back so you'll see at the first bullet the sped department has really been working on training staff on how to make um document attempts to get IEPs back and make sure we're scheduling meetings on time we have moved forward with all day Kinder um we are increasing the time
07715 minutes next year so we'll be 5 hours and 45 minutes um with our Kinder um implementing mtss again this is the work of our ed services and a committee this is our tier one two and three supports and interventions and it's really based on individual student needs and so we have a committee in place and we're moving forward and our goal is to have um two flowcharts one academic one social emotional that really shows how we can better support students as we identify their needs um for either academic and or social emotional moving to our social emotional goal um you heard Mr Lopez talk about Second Step that is our seal committee nice to hear that we may be able to adopt that in the high school level um it is our curriculum for
078elementary and middle school and our goal is to increase the um completion rate of the lessons and this is a work of Mr Curt and Bach and so you can see that halfway through the year in some cases we're actually higher than the end of last year so we are on track to meet that goal and he continues to check in with our um principles monthly to share the completion rates um you see there's a lot of work going on for our tobacco use prevention education another goal the the objective was to expand that so it wasn't just seventh grade to also Target 8th and 9th grade really trying to reduce the use of any type of cannabis marijuana tobacco usage and so um there's a lot of activities going on grades you can even
079see 6 through 12 but um the programs are mostly we have programs for all students but there's also a lot of targeted programs for students who need support um we want to promote kindness we want to promote positive behaviors on campus so here is um another concerted effort to increase kindness on our campuses and dis decrease mistreatment and so there's a lot of many ways that we do that throughout the school year we don't want it to just be one day one way um we are noticing a reduction in suspensions you can see and obviously there's probably a lot of variables that go into reductions and suspensions but we hope that these kindness campaigns and the work that we're doing with our seal curriculum is playing a part in um why we're seeing the reduction
080in the behaviors that results in suspensions we have a goal to increase our average daily attendance uh Dr alurn talks a lot about that and um also reduce our chronic absenteeism you can see at the midy Year we're not quite at where uh we want to be for our overall goals we've seen uh we did see a significant dip during the fires and um we're experiencing absences likely due to flu but we still are hopeful we may be able to reach our goals by the end of the year so while I have students in the audience please come to school obviously if you're sick we get it but remember even if you come to school for part of the day that does help with attendance rate and with your lack of learning loss attendance is
081key um moving into postsecondary preparedness uh as Mr Lopez noted very grateful to our counselors who have implemented and presented a TQ TK through2 counseling action plan with you um also want to note our objective was to evaluate the allocation of counselors we did that we increased allocations of counseling at the elementary school and we did that because we wanted to make sure that our students at the earlier ages had the supports they needed so that they could Thrive and move forward um you know in middle and high school having corrected any um behaviors or issues that they may have been dealing with earlier on so um we'd like to say that this objective we have met um again it was alluded to we have an objective to really facilitate postsecondary information sessions for parents
082around planning for financial financial planning as well as What It Takes amazing presentation by our Nest counselors and by connecta and a USC representative last week over 200 plus students I'm sorry parents families came from all grade levels and just want to put a plug in that May 5th is the next um event we're going to have we hope to pack the auditorium we have the the pleasure of having Mr Jeff celigo he's an author he's he's going around the nation talking about who gets into college and who doesn't so please mark your calendars this is going to be a great presentation for our families um we have done a lot of work on our CTA career Pathways we have a goal to increase students um in terms of their enrollment whether it be in
083our in our R UHS career Pathways or SoCal Rock enrollment or Pathways you can see here Dr Toronto has really done a lot of work with grants that are helping to fund that he's he's look at that number on the bottom almost raised over a million dollars towards um our CTE courses that you've seen um at the middle school we hope to expand that at Paris as well as um some of the courses at our high school and thank you board again for approving the Aerospace course um at the end of our engineering pathway um we've also had some the high school has hosted some professionals to speak to students recently the Aerospace industry and I think it was last week they had arts media and entertainment in the lunch and the library so a
084lot of work has been going into increasing um we will share actual numbers of students in these Pathways and the focus is also for students to complete them complete the courses at SoCal Rock not just enrolling them um Dr Toronto is also working on um essentially concurrent enrollment or dual enrollment with El Camino so you can see that this is a part of the nest um sessions that they have in El Camino Pathways and taking courses concurrently so students can graduate with college credit is um definitely uh a goal of ours and to meet that goal we are fortunate that next year we will be offering some El Camino courses on our campus with our teachers for instance Mr Smith we'll be teaching calp 3 students can take that and receive both college and high
085school credit so that's again the work that we're doing at the high school for human resources um it's we really want to make sure that our employees voices are heard they feel valued um one of the ways was to have a mentor program the work of Dr Stephanie and HR and so we have been matching up new employees with mentors we still have some new employees who need to be matched up so we'll be doing that second semester um as I meet them um but we have some great mentors um who are happy to support new employees which is great um we do have uh we had a poll survey that went out in the fall we looked at that information reviewed it shared it with our Union partners and so there's going to be
086another survey coming up after spring break to help us again see what we're doing well in terms of relationships communication Etc and what are areas that we need to focus on um to have better relationships with our employees and our employee associations um we really like the idea of recognizing employees and so we'll continue to do the faces and stories um videos highlighting employees throughout the district um as a way to recognize staff members and learn about what it is that they do um this is the work of Mr Winkler and um also Dr Stephanie really trying to enhance the capacity of our our current employees providing opportunities for them to um continue their education and get Advanced degrees if they'd like or C certifications we're really proud of this work is that we always
087share we have classified staff who are earning bachelor's degrees and teaching credentials free of charge due to a grant set we have um so um this is one of the events that Mr Winkler put on there's another one coming there actually several there was a flyer that went out today of several sessions for employees who want to look at um exploring um additional certifications and Sal salary for there also for advancement on the salary schedule and our last goal is maintaining in our facilities um and our it infrastructure Love Our IT team um the goal has been to strengthen cyber security and digital citizenship lessons so um Susanna Garcia has been monitoring the the citizenship lessons we pushed out more this year and I just want to put a plug that multifactor authentication that thing
088that we all love is going to be happening for power school and portal access soon I know it was there was a little bit of of a road bump bump when we pushed it out for our um email so in order to make sure that our data is safe we need to have the MFA so that's going to be coming look at the original objective pending feasibility stud wow we've come a long way we passed a bond um tonight we're going to be asking you to approve some Bond projects and so we're very proud of the work that we're doing and U Dr Alper and I actually have a meeting tomorrow to talk with our Consultants to start pushing out communication so our community knows what it is that we're doing with our bond dollars
089and so at this time I'll take any questions and I will come back with a full update at the end of the year I know that was a lot I will again post this um on the website all right thank you Dr Wesley yeah okay you're welcome up next we have our hearing section members of the audience May address the board on any topic regardless of whether it is listed on the agenda however 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 unless the time limit is
090waved by 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 for Public Presentation depending on the topics and the number of persons wishing to be heard I do have one Advanced written request so we'll start there with Jennifer Barrett push it thank you good evening um vice president Elder board members Dr Wesley and cabinet members my name is Jennifer Barrett uh my daughter Goes to Washington and she is currently in fifth grade so I just wanted to bring forth a little bit of information as we're starting to lose a little confidence um we recently got the map scores for my daughter and you know it seems to be the consensus with a
091couple of other parents people that are in PTA that reading levels are not uh doing so well and I just wanted to address you all and let you know that we're worried it's a deep concern um in the instance of my daughter's um map testing she had two different test procard um so she had accommodations in the first uh fall test and now winter it is now February and we're having to get ready for going on to Adams and and thinking about the future but unfortunately she's not meeting the standard so I just want to bring that to everyone's attention that I think we need a lot more support um as parents I think we need uh teachers to have less students in the classroom right now we're at 35 students and that's you know
092with children that may need uh support I think we really are putting a big burden on our teachers and um they are doing above and beyond the college Duty and they are tremendous to this community but I think we need to support them I think they need our help I know the parents need your help um I think the intervention classes are great in theory um we do need more people that have credentials not just AIDS um I think we need testing what are our current reading levels we're not doing that we have map scores but if you have an issue with reading are you giving them any kind of testing to know that the grade that they're receiving on the report card is the same as what their actual reading level is how do
093we answer that question as parents to further communication about curriculum I have no idea what my daughter is learning in class why is that yes wit and wisdom is posted online thank you for that I do not know what she learned yesterday I do not know she knows the states capitals I don't know that I wish I did um I'm very concerned for her reading and writing she is a very strong math student she loves math um she tends to go towards her strengths but I worry with a critical uh thinking component of math if her reading and writing are not in place how would that look so that's my time thank thank you so much thank you don't have any other Advanced written requests uh do we have any comments or questions on agenda
094items from the public do we have anyone wishing to address the district on matters not on the agenda okay then that takes us to our communication section uh this section provides an opportunity for the Board of Education to hear reports and Communications from our employee associations and the community support organizations listed below all reports are limited to 5 minutes members of the public May address the Board of Education concerning this section each speaker will be permitted to speak for three minutes per item the board May limit the total time of public input on each item to 20 minutes starting with the Rodondo Beach Teachers Association good evening there we go good evening uh my name is Sue Carlton and I and Tracy Kelly are the uh Union leadership Representatives here this evening and we have
095um Rael dickert from Lincoln Elementary School to do a presentation good evening um vice president Elder and um superintendent Wesley and uh board members and cabinet members and of course the community I'm a second grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary and I came tonight to let you know about a fun program that we're doing at Lincoln it's called Wellness Wednesday and this um is a collaboration with PTA um three uh three parents are on the wellness committee and myself and of course our new principal Dr Kim and um they are Trish Keeler and um let's see now I'm going to forget their names no Alisa dods and also Lindsay Fitzgerald and myself and we also work with Dr Kim and so she's been this started with Marvin Brown and we've just kind of continued bringing Wellness
096um to the campus uh once a month on a Wednesday and how we are working in collaboration with our garden program and the idea behind this was to offer nutritional items to the students um once a month to kind of introduce them into eating healthy snacks so we create a menu kind of based off what's growing in our garden we don't take things from the garden because the garden program does that but um PTA is now funding the program so we can bring a healthy taste to all of the students and the staff at Lincoln once a month and um our next Wellness Wednesday is on March 19th so we serve things like that students normally wouldn't taste so we had a beet salad we bring in fresh beets we show them we decorate the
097table they come up they get a tasting then they go on to their lunch um for the staff we decorate a table in the lounge we offer the same kind of tasting to them which is great we now uh at Dr Kim's request which I loved her idea please bring in some literacy so now we're providing some books in our library that tie into nutrition and wellness as well um the other thing is we have our student leaders on campus that promote the event on Wednesday mornings and remind the students hey students remember to stop by the tasting table and enjoy Wellness Wednesday so this has been a great collaboration with PTA this year and also our parents we need parent volunteers to Prep Prep the materials or the food items and then um serve
098them on campus and so it's a fun program that we do once a month and you're all invited if you if you'd like to come on March 19th to our next tasting so um that's it thank you so much for sharing up next do we have anyone from the California School Employees Association do we have anyone from the American Federation of teachers how about Rodondo Beach Council parent teacher Association hi good evening I'm I don't have a report tonight but I like to introduce Christine Conway from Jefferson PTA hi everyone hello board members community members staff teachers um my name is Christine Conway and I'm the president of the PTA at Jefferson Elementary this is Quinn Conway she is a first grader at Jefferson she's also my daughter and we are here because we've been
099given the opportunity to discuss a recent event at Jefferson and we decided to talk about Multicultural night um not only did we just have this event in January it's so it's very fresh in our minds we felt it was something that's probably one of the most special things that we do at Jefferson um we have had the last three years to Prof effect this event um this year we called it the Festival of unity and I don't have any photos unfortunately you might have some in your pamphlets but I'm going to try my best to uh to describe what it looked like there were about 450 to 500 attendees that night as they first entered our campus they were met with vibrant colors and ribbons um lots of flags representing every country in the world
100we had um a stage set up for performances and we had multiple tables spread out all across the Jefferson black top so that our own families could present their cultures and the countries in which they come from um at each table we offered um we displayed art books fun activities and of course the most important part we also offered food and drinks that were traditional items from from their from their trees which were probably the biggest hit nobody left hungry um and even our picky eaters tried things they would probably have never tried so very happy about that um the attendees are also treated to wonderful performances from students and community members there were many but these were a couple of the highlights they included a Brazilian capoa performance with live instruments we had Hawaiian
101hoola dance and dances from Mexico with very beautiful costumes we are also honored to have many of our students get up and very bravely discuss what their tables represented and I have an example um from our own family's table representing Hawaii um Quinn go ahead my name is Quinn McKenna my name means abundance our table represented Hawaii we had kuua Pig spam muui chocolate macadamia and Hawaiian Sun drinks good J thank you Quinn um we hope that you were able to imagine the beauty of this night and how special it was to bring everyone together to experience different cultures um thank you for letting Quinn and I share a little bit about Jefferson pta's Multicultural night thank you so much for sharing thank [Applause] you have anyone from Rondo Beach Educational Foundation good evening I'm
102John neemo I'm the president of the Redondo Beach Educational Foundation I have a few updates I'd like to share with you this evening the first one is that our executive director Christy Bieber will be leaving us at the end of this month well we are sorry to see her go we're really excited because she's accepted a new position I and uh we wish her well uh in the interim we have put together a transition plan where our associate director Gloria Macker as well as administrative staff uh Wendy vant will be helping to support the organization uh we will be actively searching for replacement to fill uh the position and we'll keep you updated in the future in the meantime we've got a really solid board uh composition board members are available and willing to help
103uh step up where needed so we don't anticipate any uh bumps in the road during the interim um we've got some two exciting opportunities for students I know there are a lot of students here in the room this evening and perhaps some uh watching online um RBF um started in 2023 a uh Legacy scholarship and we offer three $1,000 scholarships that are funded by the senior class gifts of the previous class so it's kind of an ongoing giving of scholarship so for those seniors uh in the room the scholarship is available to you and it was funded by the the class that preceded you so the deadline to apply for the RBF Legacy scholarship is April the 1st and um you can send your application in to rbef scholarship gmail.com um so I would encourage
104everybody to go to the Redondo Union um website check out the uh application and some of the eligibility requirement but it's a great way to get some money um as you move on um in your next phase of life um there was some discussion uh this evening about the Middle School uh math pathway dis um topic we are again offering um summer school um for middle and high school level courses um this is a great way to um you know spend some time during the summer maybe getting ahead or taking some enrichment classes we do have early bird pricing that ends on April the 4th so I encourage everybody to go to the rbef.org website and check that out um I think you know there was some discussion around math this evening and so if
105you do go you'll see that some of the summer school uh courses are related to math and all the courses are being taught by rbusd teachers so you may see some Amar faces and then the last item uh we're really excited to announce that our spring Gala will be taking place on May the 16th uh we have bought out conca's restaurant um in Redondo Beach so we'll have the entire place available to us from 6:00 to 10: p.m. the theme is sunset Suare so there will be dinner dancing um signature rbef cocktails and it'll be a lot of fun uh the good news is that the ticket prices have not gone up despite egg prices and inflation um so we're trying to be sensitive to everybody's budget so um please plan to attend um money
106that is raised for the gala goes directly back into the money that we raise and give back to the district so it's it's helpful for you to attend the gala and have a good time and purchase a ticket so with that I will um close for the evening say thank you very much for everything that you're doing and uh I will continue to uh provide monthly updates thank you thank you for sharing uh do we have any superintendent comments just that I'll have someone from my team follow up with the principal and the parent who had concerns about the reading fluency perfect thank you uh up next we have the general consent calendar does anyone have any items they would like to pull for discussion then do we have a motion in a second to
107approve items 10.1 through 10.8 so moved all those in student advisory vote all those in favor I any extenstions any no excellent we have no separate consent items so that brings us to our action items up first is item 12.1 approve authorization to purchase three vehicles from hunting forward not to exceed $190,000 I believe this is Dr Albert it is I hope the board is ready to get oh sorry may I get a motion in a second to begin discussion no so moved thank you sorry I hope the board is ready to authorize some expenditures tonight I've got a lot before you um the first is the um authorization to purchase three new vehicles um not to exceed $190,000 coming from um the committed funds that the board has committed two years ago um for
108vehicles two of the vehicles I really want to point out um our F passenger vans for redond Union High School um they're eight passenger vans because if we were to get larger Vans then they need special licensing um so eight passenger vans which will really be helpful for um smaller athletic teams like that need to travel or um teams that need to go maybe practice down at the beach or um a a debate team that needs to have like a Saturday competition um so it I think it'll be really great um for them to be able to have the two passenger vans dedicated to the use of the high school and has the P the price of eggs gone up higher than the price of busing are they about neck and neck right now probably
109fairly neck and neck okay excellent so these will help us eliminate some of those those busing cost then yes excellent thank you for sure and are the Vans just they're fully outfitted when we buy them they have the seats in them that the seating that we want and everything and okay sorry guys these are not party Vans but yeah to to use for those special cases and who can drive them any authorized um so we have a process I can uh share with you like in a Friday update um for an employee that's the key thing here it's not parents get to borrow this and take their kids for employee and their insurance and their driver's license All That Remains on record okay and then the one truck for maintenance is that just a general
110purpose or does it have to get outfitted with anything uh it no it's general purpose okay that Fred's new truck no any other questions I'm glad I'm not buying a new car student advisory vote all those in favor say I I I any opposed any extensions motion passes takes us to item 12.2 approve a bid award to next low bidder for toita elementary school retaining wall project to MPI Contracting Services I believe again Dr Alper a motion in a second to begin discussion so moved so moved so moved from motion a long time waiting for this one second second okay right uh normally I the action item would say to award the bid to the lowest bidder um this one is actually to the next lowest bidder because the lowest bidder actually did not meet
111all of the terms um of the contract with licensing so um the next lowest bidder is for NPI Contracting Services in the amount of $238,300 [Music] and I met with um our principal at toita yesterday morning um we reviewed the area that will be taking place for construction and so the demolition will begin the week before spring break do we know when construction then will actually uh the week after spring break so the demolition is going to take a few days before spring break and during spring break because it's the noisiest period And so then the construction will beginning the week after spring break and is anticipated to take 3 to four months we have an estimated 3 to four months 3 to four months so it'll be end of school year summer Beyond yeah
112um quick question is this a is this TurnKey does this just the wall we still have to back fill and do the paving up on top or is it everything included the drainage the and then do do the toita kids get to paint it again or is that that's a that's a school decision ision I believe it was the PTA that had the last painting on there so any toita staff here good news right finally yeah I'm happy I know this has taken forever to get through DSA so thank you for being persistent um and does this is the final you know the actual cost of construction which is nice to see because even tonight we had somewhere around $50,000 just for geotechnical studies and all this other work DSA approval all this other fund
113that goes before the actual construction so when people wonder why school things cost so much it's because we have to do 12 foot core samples and all these other things that you wouldn't typically see in other construction projects so I'm I'm glad this is it uh and we'll finally have a retaining wall back I know you did this but just wanted to confirm that um there's a quite a bit of gap between yes the awarde and then the next bid um just want to make sure they're going to be able to do all that work yes with some profit for themselves okay thank you this this is a known a known firm great thank you well I'm glad it didn't go to the third one that doubled again almost all right student advisory vote all
114those in favor say I I any opposed any extensions motion passes item 12.3 approv bid award to low bidder for South Bay Adult School multi-purpose renovation construction project to SSN K Construction is there motion second to begin discussion second believe this is also Dr Alpert all right we're moving up this one is for $3.9 34 million and it is to approve the bid award to the low bidder for the South Bay Adult School multi-purpose renovation construction project to SSN K construction that um project is anticipated to begin April 1 um at the next board meeting I will be bringing an abatement proposal to you that was not included tonight but there will be an abatement proposal on the March 11th board meeting um so with your approval on March 11th they will Abate the area
115um and then construction will be able to begin um April 1 and just to be clear this is South Bay adult schools own monies this is not general fund this is not bond fund this is correct they have the funds to cover it themselves that they get from various sources mhm student advisory vote all those in favor I I any opposed any extensions motion passes item 12.4 approve bid award to low bidder for Adams Middle School summer roofing project to best Contracting Services is there motion second to begin discussion so move uh Dr alurn again again yes um so this next item um along with all the way up to 12.11 um are individual awards for summer reefing projects um so they were bid as individual projects so you know some schools like at Adams
116they may have had eight bids whereas a school like toita may have had five biders but we had a lot of bidding going on the bid opening was was really exciting um all the vendors were in the house waiting to see what the low bid was going to be and um so for um you'll see that it was it's not just one firm so there's a lot of different vendors that are going to be getting work as a result of your approvals tonight um so the first one is for Adams Middle School and their Roofing projects will um cost 933 $3,525 that's for labor um and that is for best Contracting Services at Adams how much does this Encompass is it one building is it multiple buildings is it this is this is multiple buildings
117I can provide to you uh I mean we've got a schematic of every school and the projects so at some of the schools um the more the more expensive the bid um the more likely we're doing Roofing replacement some of these bids are lower amounts and in those cases we're doing recoding yeah just to give people a feel of you know this is this one is close to a million dollar MH and is it a quarter of the roofs there rough a third a third okay of the roofs I just remember the one at toita that was one roof and it was I think a quarter million or close to 300,000 and so just to be clear um these approvals are for labor and at the next board meeting I'm going to have uh approvals
118for um a Cass contract for all the roofing materials and these will it be all in one that or will it be I'm waiting to hear back I was emailing with them today and that's the one where we use the pre list we work with Garland company so this is labor this is LA labor we need to start our Roofing program at SoCal Rock I think and then as I'm looking ahead some of these have different contractors and some of them people everybody was aware all the contractors were aware of each of these and some bid on some and some not on others okay so the funding source for this is identified as measure s um because Roofing were one of the core things we wanted to be able to do as part of measure
119s but we have not issued those bonds yet although we are planning to can we do we have enough we can reimburse with when we approve the reimbursement to cover all these projects it's a good question actually um we anticipate that we will have dollars in the bank by the end of May and so um we should have our money in the bank to be able to write our checks excellent even better any other questions student advisory vote all those in favor I I any opposed any abstentions motion passes these are all going to sound the same item 12.5 approv bid award to low bidder for Al Vista Elementary School summer roofing project to Dr drip roof repair motion a second to begin discussion please so move Dr Alper yes it is Dr drip roof
120repair that's the name of the company uh this one is for alav Vista it is some um coding it is $342,000 um and it's maybe 25% of their campus thank you student advisory vote all those in favor all right I any knows any abstentions motion passes item 12.6 approv bid award to low bidder for Bernie Elementary Summer School uh School summer roofing project to Maven roofing company motion and second to begin discussion please so move Dr alurn okay Bernie um is for Maven roofing company not to exceed uh $298,800 Elementary School summer roofing project to RNR Roofing and Waterproofing Motion in a second to begin discussion motion Dr alurn again great low bid on this one $49,988 for portions of Jefferson campus student advisory vote I all those in favor I any knows any extensions
121motion passes uh 12.8 approved bid award to l bidder for Lincoln Elementary School summer roofing project to letner roofing company motion and second to begin discussion so move Dr alurn yes uh lner roofing company not to exceed 112,000 1800 I believe Lincoln was it's I think it's just one or maybe two buildings on the campus it's a small project student advisory vote all those in favor I he knows any abstentions motion passes 12.9 approved bid award low bidder for Paris Middle School roofing project to RNR Roofing and Waterproofing a motion and second to begin discussion so moved second Dr Alper um this item I particularly did not include summer reefing project we will likely be um working on this project um in the fall winter break um because we needed to have one of our
122middle schools open um during summer school and so it's a big project but it's not quite as big as the Adams project so um this would be awarded to RNR Roofing and Waterproofing for $536,500 student advisory vote I all those in favor I I any knows any extensions motion passes 12.10 approv bid award to low bidder for Rondo Union High School summer roofing project to best contracting service a motion a second to begin discussion so move Dr alurn R UHS not to exceed 740,000 $743 for I think it's three buildings on the campus um yeah three buildings on the campus so as we come close to wrapping these up is there a demand on our own people through this happening is there things they have to be doing you know we may UNC cover things
123that need further addressing if we find some Rod or something like that do we handle that internally or do we sub that out they they handle that the the firms that are that are doing this work will handle it includes replacing um worn out you know like if there's dry Rod or they have to replace beams or or whatever that is they have the ability to submit change orders up to 10% um of the total cost but they they usually work within the and all do these include gutters too I didn't have't looked at the details of the bids uh it depends on the what the project is okay so we may have to come back in and add gutters if they were taken out on but I know gutters are part of our bond
124okay overall project but in general there's not a demand on our maintenance staff correct with all this going on and then one other question who does the inspections um um who passes these and says yes the work is done and it's done to the standards that are needed Garland Roofing okay and that's an independent they are our suppliers of materials okay so it's the material supplier that follows up and comes through and says this was installed correctly and okay so apologies to our high school students if you have a leaky roof it's not getting fixed till summer or maybe we'll patch it in the meantime uh student advisory vote all those in favor I I any knows any abstentions motion passes all right one more broken record uh item 12.11 approve bid award to low
125bidder for toita Elementary School summer roofing project to roof construction Motion in a second to discuss so move Dr Alper so no one's going to be on the campus at toita this summer while they're finishing up the retaining wall and they are handling the roofing of most of the rest of the campus it's a large project um to um roof construction not to exceed 665,000 and one more general question in these is we've got it scheduled so that the anticipation is they would all be wrapped up and cleaned up and done before school comes back in or even before okay student advisory vote all those in favor I any knows any extensions all right done with Roofing item 12.2 approve agreement between randoo Beach Unified School District and Jeff selingo to provide parent education workshops
126Motion in second to discuss please all right would this be Dr Garland yes so this is actually the author that uh Dr Wesley um commented on during her presentation tonight so he's a bestselling author Jeff Singo he's going to provide two parent education workshops by the way funded by elcap as part of the workshops that we're um putting on this year in the area of College admission so on May 5th he will cover who gets into college and why and on November 12th he will shell elements of his new book it's called dream school which he covers the changing land landscape of colleges and how parents should think about the purpose passion and strengths of their kids in the admissions process and we recommend that you approve this agreement anyone have any questions yeah it's
127up to he is giving out free books at the November 12th one I believe we buy a 100 books as part of the contract yeah it's free for the recipient free to the people that are receiving them yes all right student advisory vote all those in favor I any nose any extensions all right motion passes item 12.13 approve Middle School courses for the 2025 2026 school year uh motion and second to begin discussion please so move second uh Dr Garland again I believe thank you per board policy our governing board must approve new courses it's important that our school regularly evaluates courses that are offered to students and ensure they meet student interests Community expectations as well as mandates we presented earlier this evening two new courses for our middle schools math 6 Plus and
128math 78 and we recommend that you approve these new math courses thank you does anyone have any questions so this is it this is the replacement of everything that's there this is all inclusive this is it this is the everything algebra one remains correct yes it does any questions uh student advisory vote all those in favor I any nose any abstentions all right we've got new middle school math coures and there you are the end of all your hard work is that's well I shouldn't say the end of it now the hard work more work begins more work to come thank you for all your efforts there uh that brings us to item 12.14 vote for no more than five candidates for the California School Board Association delegate assembly region 24 so we've been given
129a ballot uh where we can choose to vote for any of these delegates does anyone have any opinion on any of these I know in the past we haven't uh but this is our chance if anyone does there's only five running so if these poor souls want to uh kind of like School Board be the representatives then I'm all for it can you ask oh sorry Motion in a second to begin discussion thank you so I'll move second so you would suggest voting for all five of them sure anyone have any other opinions so can I get a motion then to vote for all five candidates for csba delegate assembly ballot region 24 he can make that motion right so I'll second your motion all right student advisory vote all those in favor any knows
130any abstentions all right we've got our delegates to vote for uh that brings us to we don't have any information items and we don't have any discussion items so announcements and Communications board member reports Mr Stenberg nothing this evening thank you uh Miss neemo uh we started our School site visits which we do every twice a year so this is our second time this year and and um I just recently went to where' I go Bernie uh and it's always really great to go on these School visits and to meet with the principls and the staff and to walk around and see what the kids are up to and I say it every time but I want to say again the wit and wisdom in the elementary schools and the writing that we're seeing from
131kids is amazing even in kindergarten kids are writing what I mean what I didn't think most kids were doing till second grade 10 years ago so um if anybody has a chance or wants to look into it it's really amazing to see what the program is doing so thank you m uh Mr Cho thank you um wanted to just highlight three items that this body uh adopted earlier as part of uh General consent items um I would like to Just sh focus on it I wanted to do this so we can move the meeting along earlier uh item U 10.5 has a youth art month uh the the the theme Here is healing through color um it highlights how important it is to have art um be part of our education and and everyday life
132and I'm I'm I'm grateful that the U uh this body had adopted as as acknowledging the importance of it and will celebrate and promote second item uh it's 10.7 um acknowledging March 31st of this year as the Caesar Travis day U I think everybody in this room knows and and uh Who U the Cesar chabz is and and and great work uh in our resoltion uh it has a his quote in it says a quote real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students the end of all education should surely be serviced to others uh end quote um it's such a powerful statement for a figure that had given so much to what we enjoy today and and perhaps as you know granted we should not but I'm
133so I'm glad that we were acknowledging um this important figure as at last day the March as his day and one last item um it's 10.6 um continuing on with my effort highlighting some of the important items in our in our lives March is a national women's History Month um some of the things that I uh discussions I've had over the years uh had to do with um acknowledging and promoting under represented groups um one of the discussions that I had with uh very intelligent people and I had to point out that you know um as we talk about this particular topic under representative groups we sometimes forget the longest underrepresented group of people on this planet is women I'm historically speaking and it's important that we not only acknowledge that they are they have
134been underrepresented but also focused on the success and contributions of our Our Ladies and women girls uh my wife my daughters um and all the folks in this in this room um our resolution reads as follows part of it second half American women of every race class and ethnic background served as early leaders in the Forefront of every major Progressive social change movement that's very important part and it's more important to here American women have been leaders not only in securing their own rights of suffrage and equal opportunity but also in about Abolitionist Movement the Emancipation movement the industrial labor movement the civil rights movement and other movements especially the peace movement which create a more fair and just Society for all and despite his contributions the role of American women in history has been
135consistently overlooked and undervalued in the literature and teaching and study of American History therefore this body designates March 2025 as naan women history month and I'm glad we've done that and hopefully this my little effort will go a long way acknowledging and celebrating women and their contributions and much more to come thank you thank you um yeah thank you for sharing all that I support that um also to Echo what Miss nth said with the school site visits these are so important and they're wonderful it's a chance for us to actually see what's going on in the classrooms and the playgrounds and the gardens and everywhere and see these eager students mostly eager students um out there um we also get to see some challenging behaviors too um and we know that our teachers and
136staff um you know face those and we get to see them too and that's important for us so I just want to thank everyone on team ARB USD for being there for our students every day um not always easy but uh it does make such a big difference so thank you for what you're doing um another thing I wanted to I got uh there was some notifications that came out today from Power School uh a lot of parents were asking if those were legitimate or not because they come from a weird address the links go to come from a a weird place it is everything you would look for in a fishing email um they are legitimate but uh it's you know disappointing that they would choose to send something like that that looks so
137suspicious after a breach like they had um but so just to answer for people yes those emails you got today are legitimate um and there may be other communication you receive about that uh another thing that's come up recently for particularly for our students here is I know there's been a lot of consternation about the use of bringing your own device at the high school versus having used Chromebooks um it is really important because we are legally responsible for what our students are doing with their devices on our Network so when you're on your phone that's your personal device there's you know we we can't do anything or don't anything there but when you are on a a campus Network or you are using a school device uh we are responsible through the family educational
138rights and Privacy Act the children's online privacy and protection act um there's you know significant requirements that come with that uh that uh you know could put in in in a lot of trouble in addition to exposing kids to things that aren't safe for them so I know it's not fun um having to deal with a lot of those uh you know all all the it feels a lot like big brother um but you know on the flip side we also have parents that come here who are very concerned about what their kids have access to so it's a fine line we try to walk um you know thank you to Mrs Garcia and her team I know it's not easy um you know there's no more CK Express I know people are excited about
139that at least but it's it's not uh you know there's there's no easy solution it's just an effort to keep everyone safe um and so it's it's something that we will always tune and try and work better for but I do apologize uh I know that's that's not fun but it is really important um and then my last thing is I will be absent for our March 11th meeting uh that brings us now to events activities and announcements so on March 11th we will have a regularly board regular Board of Education meeting at 5:30 p.m. on March 14th it is the trimester break it's a non-student day for middle school and high school it's professional development day March 25th will be our NE regular Board of Education meeting at 5:30 p.m. with that is there
140a motion and a second to adjourn the meeting so moved all those in favor I any knows or extensions all right we are adjourned e e