RBUSD Board Meeting 11/09/2021

001hey welcome everyone we'll stand for the pledge of allegiance by brienne nakayama 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 okay the board met in closed session and gave direction to staff um i need a motion and a second for the approval of the minutes from the october 26 board meeting please so move stressingbird charles i'm not going to ask you to vote since you weren't here last time so um all those in favor say aye aye any opposed or abstentions okay passes 5-0 the agenda was moved by david witkin seconded by ross strutzenberg and approved 5050 next up we have the lincoln elementary school presentation by brianna nakayama all

002right hello good evening board president flynn members of the board dr keller and cabinet i want to thank you all for inviting me this evening to have the opportunity to share with you about our playground pals program that we've begun this year at lincoln elementary and hopefully to continue at lincoln along with the positive impact and effects that it will not only have on our students but also the lincoln community this year and for future years to come so the purpose of our pals program can really be shared by this quote by author and motivational speaker dennis waitley the greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence this quote here truly encapsulates our job as educators where we strive each day to provide students with the

003roots to grow a strong foundation as they develop responsibility and guide each student as they take flight with their wings as they begin to navigate the world around them on their own i want to take the opportunity this evening to introduce you to pals which supports our students growth of both roots and wings so identifying our need at lincoln as you can see from the photo here it shows you an empty playground so we know in march of 2020 covid hit and everything changed for us really our need has come out of covid and to give you a perspective our current third graders were only first graders in march of 2020 our current second graders were in kindergarten and our current first graders were in preschool last year when students returned to campus they got

004to play on the playground but were kept in their cohorts with their classmates and other students they were kept in one zone together and they had a staff member to supervise their cohort now we are in this school year with campuses open and students back currently during our recess times our first second and third grade students play in grade level zones together that encompass multiple activities at a time with them returning to this larger playground at lincoln we've definitely seen a need to teach our students and help them learn pro-social behaviors during the recess in the mornings and at lunch our staff and teachers have worked tirelessly as they do every year teaching students how to use the equipment they've provided the directions and instructions for them to play together but even with all that

005direct instruction to our students they've still identified goals that we want to accomplish together and help our students learn what we've determined is that with the support of teachers and staff we've wanted to increase the student engagement and activities on the playground we've wanted our students to learn what we consider kind of our house rules at lincoln so for each zone or activity what those rules are for them to play together on campus not how they play at the park or at home with their friends on their social time and last and most importantly to engage in appropriate play with each other and stay safe at all times now that our staff and our teachers and our students have identified what these goals and needs are the next question became how can we use the

006current models we have in place and student models to really seek out and explicitly teach the pro-social behaviors that we wanted students to engage in we decided that we were going to tap into an untapped potential workforce we knew at lincoln that our greatest resource to utilize would be our current fourth and fifth grade students and to create for them an opportunity for peer mentoring as many of you know peer mentoring programs are phenomenal to help both the mentees and the mentors school mentoring programs provide the older students an opportunity to bring out the strengths of their younger peers work towards shared goals with someone younger and develop patience tolerance respect understanding and flexibility and we know coming out of covid and getting students back together to socialize in campus all of these are essential

007to support the whole child thus positive activity leaders at school or pals was created the next step was to get started so we had three steps to do we had a call for action training and getting our volunteers we put out a call for action and targeted every single one of our fourth and fifth grade students and asked them if they wanted to volunteer to be a playground pal what they would have to do and commit to would be volunteer for one week during the morning recess and to support a zone that they chose and feel comfortable in supporting the younger students learn and engage in some examples you can see their handball the playground structure basketball foursquare and there are many more that aren't listed next we provided training for our fourth and fifth

008grade students i had a presentation and it was there to establish the expectation if they wanted to sign up and become a playground pal and how their behavior would be when they left their upper grade playground at lincoln and went to access the lower grade playground during the morning recess time every single student had to sign a contract and have their parent and guardian also sign and acknowledge that they would be spending that time helping the younger students as a positive peer role model and playground pals really focused on citizenship fairness and safety and we wanted to include and get every single fourth and fifth grade student who felt comfortable and wanted to engage in this opportunity at lincoln we have 91 4th grade students and 108 5th grade students the students responded to this

009call for action 98 students signed up and volunteered to believe a playground pal at this point and we do have a few more trickling in as word of mouth has still continued to spread that means 49 of my current fourth and fifth grade students heard that call for action and absolutely stepped up to the plate to engage and be a positive peer role model as i touched on earlier peer mentoring has immense benefits for both the mentor and the mentee for our younger students some of the benefits that they have received through the pals program we're seeing a reduction in risky behavior improvement and better communication skills enhance social and emotional development we're seeing improved relationship with family and most importantly peers on the playground there are also increased opportunities for community participation and helping

010them develop increased resilience and mentor benefits that you often see in peer mentor programs are building confidence and capacity learning from and with a younger student learning new skills especially social emotional and communication skills self-reflection sharing their vast life experiences and wisdom with a younger person but hey if anyone knows the playground it's our fourth and fifth grade students and having the opportunity in taking a leadership role in developing leadership skills now i want to introduce you to two of our current lincoln pals and two of my most enthusiastic at this time to share with all of you what the younger students need most from pals and what they have learned from being a part of the pals program so first i'd like to ask alyssa to come join me i have learned it is

011important to be a good friend to help others follow the rules and do things the right way i like to help be on the lower playground to see younger students i know and to see my past teachers again it is important to show the younger students how to do things the right way because if they don't they can get hurt i felt happy to help the students and make sure they have fun and her next vowel is faith i've learned that i've learned that the students need help with following the rules some of the students are not listening to the rules like not going up the slide or only one person is on the bounce meme it's been fun to help the younger students on the playground i've learned to feel confident teaching younger students

012not to do the wrong things and to help them follow the rules [Applause] so at lincoln we're continuing to look forward to an amazing year as we continue to roll out the pals program increase opportunities and spaces available in the lower grade playground as the number of our students has slowly continued to increase and engage every member both staff teacher and student at lincoln in ensuring all students have positive interactions with one another thank you [Applause] alyssa and faith can i ask if you've brought anybody here to watch you this evening and if so would you mind introducing them for us you can step up to the mic come on melissa who did you bring melissa tell them who you brought um my mom what's her name thank you and tell everyone you want to

013step up here and i brought my mom barbara button thank you [Applause] well thank you both for stepping up and all the pills does anybody have any questions about the program so i just want to say this is an incredible program so much socialization was missed due to the pandemic so it's great that we're looking at you know ways of getting our students engaged and working with each other too to pass that along um are there any plans at this point to expand it to other school sites if it's successful i don't have any formal plans but i'm always happy to support my colleagues and share with them you know what we did behind the scenes to kind of roll this out and get it going and i know each kind of school has a

014different physical setup at lincoln we're fortunate we have two playgrounds um and all of our students do have the same recess time um whereas i know other sites have you know one playground and staggered recess time so it might be something we can look at but i would be happy to roll it out and support any colleagues who would be interested in other schools without a doubt wonderful thank you you're welcome my question is i mean it's so logical that this benefits teachers the younger kids and the older kids how did you get the idea for this was this yours or did you learn about it in your own research because it you know it's so clever so having come from the middle school um you know the secondary site a lot of the you

015know programs that are launched and brought out are all student-led majority and there is a you know teacher support staff behind the scenes facilitating and guiding them so i was driving to work one day in all honesty and it kind of came up like why don't we mirror something like that um and i spoke with our counselor miss puentes at school and she shared that there have been something similar you know in years past um and we you know briefly spoke about it and then it was just kind of like let's take it and roll with it and one of our third grade teachers last week shared that it was just an immense help to just even have the students you know physically on the playground to help you there to supervise and guide and

016lead and um you know i was going to go back to one of the slides but you could see you know one of the pals can i go back i'll wait for you but um you know it is very easy but it's something like i said and it's a great problem to have to have close to 100 students you know who volunteered and want to give up an entire week of their morning recess time to go um and you can see on the left there two of our pals are um helping you know supervise and engage in that foursquare game and she is very authoritative with you know hands on the hip and taking it very seriously and the you know upper grade students have thrived in having that leadership you know role model because

017those things that we've had pre-covered like reading buddies and you know older buddies with younger students have kind of begun so how can we do it and do it in a safe structured way that benefits everyone it was you know and our area of need was definitely recess so um it was you know not reinventing the wheel but really just rethinking and how i can make that wheel fit at lincoln yeah that's great thank you you're welcome so brienne with that many kids you said it was like 98 kids 98 kids are you letting just do one week and then that's it yes and they were very sad about that when i had to break the news that based on the number of kids so within a week you know handball they can play on

018each side as you can see on the left corner there but we have two handball walls so that means i can have a pal you know i can have four one on each side so it began to as the numbers grew and it was a great problem to have how i can increase zones or maybe have two students in each area so they had a partner and felt comfortable with someone is one was maybe supervising a game helping kids stay in line and be safe and wait their turn to be patient and the other can help kind of teach the rules and guide it so um i got a little crafty behind the scenes so each week we have about 20 spaces available for students to sign up for so i told them they essentially

019get one week a month and then they just have to wait until i release the next month for them to sign up on um and they get to sign up on their own comfortable [Music] yeah like if you want to be a basketball rolf you could come back every four weeks and like be back in the basketball zone i do not look good like this it isn't me so but you know it was playing to the students strengths as well you know and making sure that they didn't you know feel like if i signed up i could only be in this sport that i'm not comfortable or confident in but i can find my niche um you know and help with handball or the playground structure i can go and help the kids learn to

020count the you know lincoln house rule away on the swings and that was really important to me that it wasn't something that felt athletic and that students you know shied away from i wanted students to feel confident and really engage and step up to have this opportunity well thank you again this is wonderful thank you all right next up we have a staff professional development day presentation by dr susan wilds i got my heels on i don't need the stool today so good evening everyone so we're here tonight to share with you the work our teachers and staff engaged in last monday november 1st for the rbusd professional development day so why do we dedicate a day towards professional development so to be clear good teaching is not by accident our teachers put in a

021tremendous amount of effort to stay current in best practices to research to collaborate with one another and it's essential as we that we as educators we need to double our capacity every three to five years if we're going to keep up with these kids and their needs and their strengths so this day was really designed about how do we bring new learning to our teachers and then couple that new learning with practice and collaboration so why does professional development matter so this is one of my favorite quotes from mizell in 2010 effective professional development affects students that's the bottom line it also you'll see on the left sets teachers and staff up for success it increases teacher and staff efficacy it boosts teaching confidence and it provides teachers in space to work with each other

022so i want to go back a little bit you'll remember several several board meetings ago we talked about this idea of recovering from covid through what the research calls for is acceleration so i wanted to kind of give just back up a little bit to show you and re-talk about our acceleration plan for year one acceleration and recovery from covet is a three-year plan in redondo beach so in year one we have seven very targeted sessions session number one occurred before school started and that was how do we respond to the learning loss that we're going to encounter in our classrooms what's the difference between acceleration versus remediation next we looked at focusing on the priority content what do the standards say while we maintain grade level rigor really thinking about what is that grade

023level what is that course it's the rigor that is required in that grade in the stand by the standards session three we focused on using just in time assessments to diagnose students readiness for that rigorous instruction and then to design scaffolds so if we think of a scaffold like on the painters use on our house we sometimes our students need scaffolds to reach the rigor that's in the classroom session four was focusing on grade appropriate complex texts as a key ingredient for acceleration session five focusing on priority content through the use of grade level of grade appropriate assignments not just the text but what are we asking the students to do with that work section six will be building a knowledge as a critical component of acceleration and ensuring students have consistent access to strong

024instruction so that's your those were our seven sessions is our plan for year one acceleration so let's take a deeper dive into what november first brought november first was a focus on redelivering of session three and what does that mean these just-in-time assessments just in time scaffold well we wanted our teachers to focus on understanding how when we approach unfinished learning we have to what are the tools we currently have in our toolbox to do so how do we diagnose it next how do we leverage the map growth assessment that our students all engaged in and that data alongside the curriculum in the standards and embedded embedded assessments to determine our students whether they are ready for the grade level content if they're not ready then what scaffolds do we need to put in place

025to get them ready to make sure everyone has access to the content session four was focusing on grade appropriate complex texts let me give you an example if you were when we one of the pieces of text that we times um you see brought um to everybody's memory is a piece of text called go spot run right c-spot run the spot series that's not considered a complex text right because we think about the definition of complex text is if you can we can engage in a conversation whether it's going to start a dialogue between us it's not going to do that what what will com what complex texts will do that they'll engage the reader so we need to explain the importance of why it's important to use complex text at the heart of every

026lesson we have students who are reading maybe below grade level so instead of bringing the grade level of the text down we bring the scaffolds and the student up to the rigor of the text we want to determine the text complexity so how do we look at a piece of text and determine whether how complex it is lexile is one of those measures it's not the only measure though we want to look at a qualitative rubrics that will also measure measure the complex measure the complexity and then finally we wanted our teachers to examine exemplars of units that are focused around complex text with embedded scaffolds so everyone in the class can access that and then my favorite part of the day was a 15 minute employee wellness and stretch break and so i was

027with the math department at ruhs and we kind of stretched ourselves out in the classroom some people went outside some people stayed inside and we took 15 minutes just to practice breathing and be mindful and stretch something we don't do nearly often enough so thank you dr wesley in the hr department so there was a different additional staff training because we have non-classroom we have non-classroom certificated staff our counselors engaged in work with dr david schoenfeld around understanding the impact of the pandemic on students both socially and emotionally the counselors received a care solace refresher refresher and were able to engage in social and emotional learning planning they also engaged and doctored with dr vincent pompein creating safe and inclusive schools for our lgbtq students our pe teachers also participated in cross-level planning our elementary

028and middle and high school teachers were able to plan together they were able to engage in another really cool activity physical activity with pam powers activating your physical powers and yoga and yoga with carly chiavetti and they also participated with dr pompe our ot and our speech and our our deaf and hard of hearing teachers participated in facilitated facilitating iep meetings different evaluation tools where they could increase their efficacy aac and autism and introduction to the lamp system and our psychologist also can continue their morning with dr pompe and to give a little brief overview of what that training included it included a review of the california education code section 200-220 as they pertain to the inclusion of our lgbtq plus students and staff and the goal was to improve the school skills needed by

029these staff counselors teachers and psychologists in improving improving school connectedness and climate so that we could meet the needs of these students and finally the day ended with a participant survey we like to end every day because every time we do a professional development there's something to learn and there's something for us to grow and improve and so all professional activities and trainings always are accompanied by a feedback survey our professional development committee as well as educational services then spends a great deal amount great deal of time reading each and every comment and we disaggregate the results we bring it back to the committee and we use it for future planning questions my question is like if we go back to the sessions three and four sure as an example so these happened on november

0301st yes then then what happens like the teacher teachers learn all of these things that you want them to learn right but then what's the process to make sure that they implement it well so what we know about prevent the research around professional development it can't just be a sit and get right teachers need to learn that they need time to practice with one another and then they need time to plan and implement right and so this training was just just set up just so so each of these sessions was approximately 60 to 90 minutes where the teachers could engage and work with each other these sessions were actually led by our instructional lead teachers at every school site in every department and then the teachers were able to then work collaboratively to practice that

031so i could teach what a complex text is but then we provided time for the teachers to say okay what's the next unit coming up what's the text we're going to be using who's going to be able looking at our map data who's going to struggle who do we need to address and how can we address that so it was time and collaboration going moving forward as a school site principal this is some of the coaching that then this our school site principals would do as they go in with teachers and how do we support that this is the language that they'll continue to use so is there a regular cadence of meetings between the principal and each grade level to make sure that they're following up on it depends again on the school elementary

032middle and high school give you an example our elementary schools each grade level meets once a week during that pe time and that's where the principles sit in planning with the teachers and so they can have that conversation these are big lifts for teachers and that's why i say you know with really a three-year plan because these are practices that aren't new they're not revolutionary but we just need to bring our focus back to them and we need to kind of keep focusing on what's the next unit and it just takes time right um spending an hour is not going to ensure that it's done in every lesson in every unit it's just something that we have to practice over and over again that's what having instructional lead teachers also embedded in the grade levels

033and the departments is pivotal because they're also the experts so the weight of that kind of coaching isn't reliant entirely on the principal okay any other questions go ahead yeah thank you dr staff development day district-wide right yes did not include cdc no is it a requirement or is it something we elect to do or is it codified somewhere this is something that we elect to do and we do once a year we have two professional development days a year this one is k-12 and then we will break apart elementary and then secondary will have separate days elementaries in january secondary is in march okay and does it affect ada no it's not part of our 180 day count no okay so students still attend all the days they need to okay so basically two

034per year for any given grade level or yes and then we split up the the counseling and coaches according to that grade level as well we do yeah counseling there are unique um needs of diff of non-classroom non-teaching staff okay very good thank you i just want to jump in and say that these days are negotiated with the unions and there's also a pd day before school starts as well but when we come back before school starts with students it's also a pd day so i ask the question is it something the staff wants or is it negotiated that we want to do it as a district well we come to agreement that it's important therefore we have it okay so um i'm just curious did you get feedback on the professional development day we

035are we still right as of right now we have not had everybody complete the survey so we'll be pushing out again this week typically we push out a survey you get the first wave right now we're just over about a hundred respondents and we want to hear from everybody so we'll push it out one more time once we feel like we've hit we've given everybody sufficient time to actually complete the survey then we'll start analyzing it are the are the replies anonymous yes okay yes that's important for um that was input that we took directly from our professional development committee um we want honest feedback sure and then with regard to the map testing since that is new for us and something it's a huge lift for our teachers but also will be for parents

036as well it's just helping to support our teachers and then ultimately to get that information out to parents as to what to do with that data yes and so the data not only is it just the raw data what where's where's where's the students rit score on the for the teacher and the educator side that report delves down into for example what skills and knowledge specifically around a subgroup of geometry do these students need and it'll allow a teacher to kind of cluster by needs and by skill readiness you might have for students who might have some unfinished learning in previous grade levels and allows the teacher to very quickly identify that group them give them a little bit of instruction and kind of help move them forward any other questions i just want to

037say i really appreciate that we're making this investment in education for our educators because coming off the heels of a pandemic and a year of distance learning and all these other challenges we've had our students really need some different ways of doing things so i'm glad we're trying something new i really appreciate that we're working on that to catch everyone back up thank you thank you thank you dr wilds next up we have educator i'm glad for you educator effectiveness block grant presentation by lisa veale executive director of educational services good evening everyone it is my pleasure to present on the educator effectiveness blog grant eebg if you're looking for another acronym and with the passage of assembly bill it provided 1.5 billion dollars to schools to support professional development so that's professional development for

038our certificated staff our administrators and our paraprofessionals there are 10 allowable uses it's designed to support title 2 funding and title 2 funding is specific to professional development is for use in five years and that includes the 21 22 school year all the way through 25 26 and then the plan must be adopted on or before december 30th of this school year and then lastly data and expenditure reports must be provided annually to the cde so these are the 10 allowable usage the first is coaching and mentoring of staff effective standards align instruction and literacy improvement re-engagement and accelerated learning seo trauma-informed practices and mental health creating positive school climates improving inclusive practices supporting effective instruction for english learners new professional learning networks for educators not engaged in education related networks instruction education and strategies

039to incorporate ethnic studies curricula per ec section 51226.7 and then lastly early childhood education development and expansion so as you can see here this is our usd's allocation so we'll be receiving a little over two million dollars once we submit a plan and these are the ways in which we propose to spend those funds so the first is to provide science and stem secondary coaches in the past years we've had lots of coaching around math and ela and so we want to provide some support and science and stem content area and the same with the history and social science again we will be going after as you know a textbook adoption and so we want to support that adoption as well as curriculum implementation annual professional development day for certificated staff we've recently had one

040and we want to be able to fund additional ones for the upcoming four years summer institute institute's professional development for advanced placement teachers recognizing that we have teachers new to our uhs we have teachers who want to you know possibly teach in this area and so we want to provide professional development for that unconscious bias staff training and then guided language acquisition and design which is glad and a trainer trainer model and that's for our el learners so these are like sedai strategies and different strategies we use to support our elearners we also would like to participate in the orange county department of education multi-tiered systems of support mtss learning institute recognizing that we want to continue to refine our practices around that we want to develop and adopt a committee to explore and make

041recommendations pursuant to ethnic studies mandates in grades nine through 11 12 in accordance with assembly bill 101 so providing resources to that end professional development for 9-12 teachers to support again that curricula in accordance with the bill so providing those opportunities for them to professionally develop and then professional development to staff to support um growth of our tk program which again is another mandate so i'm hoping to support that as well so that is it for mine brief because even though it's two million dollars it goes quickly um are there any questions regarding the plan i do have one a couple um i'm not just biased training can you talk more about what that is and what it's for i believe dr wesley can speak to that i can jump into the department yeah so

042as a part of the rates and equity committee we have this uh subcommittee at the hiring committee and so one of the goals out of that committee was to come up with uh how we can overcome unconscious bias and particularly as it relates to hiring um and interviewing and so the idea would be that we would train our leadership team you know consist of principal supervisor etc and then those that are on the hiring committee so that we're aware of any biases that we may have an example would be like there's a bias that's called affinity bias an affinity bias would be if somebody comes in the door and i see on their resume that they went to ucla and since i went to ucla i'm already have this bias that oh you know they're

043a great employee we should hire them as an example right so it's not always linked to gender or race or you know some type of demographic but the idea would be to come up with unconscious bias training and start there and then we can expand beyond that so this would be for our teachers as or just staff in terms of hiring eventually that's the idea so start with our leadership team those on the panel and then expand out to ourselves so start with the leadership team and then correct yes are there other questions all right go ahead david that's right now go ahead so a couple things and with this funding we're finding places where we can use it and is one of the areas possibly for career technical education related for staff related to

044that yeah i can answer that mrs veal will you go back to the allowable uses oh sorry one more the list of people yeah so this is the list of this is the list of 10 and so for career and technical that could fall in under a couple areas it could fall under um effective standards align the instruction it could be an effective use for maybe coaching and mentoring it really would be where is the need um per in particular around career and technical education and then sorry miss field if you'll go forward to one more and then that would fall under our like that annual professional development day we could divide design specific professional development specifically for cte teachers okay and along those lines could this be used for board development because one of

045the things we get tasked with is voting on all these things that get brought to us and you know help us better understand things so we're better better educated to make those decisions do you mind going back to not at all so this is where that would get a little tricky really kind of thinking about where that would fall so that's a great question this is a this is a specific grant that the guidance is really still in process so we would probably have to check with lake to make sure that that would pass our auditors later down the line okay and then one of the things listed was the committee to explore the um new requirements yes uh yeah develop an adopted community would that be something similar to the ela committee that exactly

046it's operating now that we'd engage community members and staff teachers especially and absolutely probably a board member and because this is um for 9th or 12th grade we would engage students as well okay very good thank you you're welcome um ms deal there there's something that's missing from here that is the biggest concern that i have now as a parent and i know for sure i'm not alone because many of my child's friends parents are expressing the same thing writing teaching writing like i don't think that um at least at the middle school level as far as i can observe that the writing is of a standard that is acceptable and much of the work we've done this year with tntp um falls under that right so that's what the work we're doing around not

047only complex texts like dr wilds said but around writing and what that encompasses in terms of our ela classrooms so we didn't want to go after that knowing that these were limited funds and we wanted to make sure that we weren't double tapping the same areas and we also thank you thanks to the redondo beach ed foundation we have literacy coaches at all of our secondary schools and that is one of the focuses of the literacy coaches this year the literacy coaches are coaching whom the teachers not only ela their coaching history because writing at the secondary level is more than just occurring in english in the english classrooms writing is a key component of science writing is a key component of history social science as well and so that is that that is a

048lot of their work that they're doing okay i mean i would i would hope that it starts flowing down to the the student level at some point because like honestly my child is not being taught how to write properly it's just it's not happening so when i when i see kind of millions of dollars being granted to us it it is it is my number one concern as a parent so one of the things we also know in looking at the ela adoption the work that the committee is doing is looking around these best practices so we've spent some time looking at foundational skills we've spent time looking at complex text but writing is also a key component of our elementary program um that when we when we do implement in the monies that we've

049allocated during dip for different grants around the ela adoption will also include professional development around the implementation of that tech that curriculum which does include writing but i will definitely make a note and for secondary writing we can make sure that part of the plan is to focus on that thank you just to back up a little bit this is one-time funding that came from the state of california yeah that we gave us those 10 bill 130. because we've had a lot of one-time funds that have been brought up for us for different various and they're all within the those are guidelines that we're specified that we can spend or not spend on yeah there are restrictions around it and we'll end in 25-26 yes okay any other questions do you have any yeah so

050just to follow up on that if it ends in 26 we have to use all the money by then we do so planning forward if if some of these things we're going to have to find funding to continue the list of 10. yes and so that's one of the you know one of the areas that um the plan asks us to think about is how are we supporting our english language learners so if we allocate funding for it's called glad um for a train the trainer then we've used the money and now we have our own in-house trainers that can move beyond this grant so that's a lot of the thinking that was involved in this okay anyone else thank you mrs veal you're welcome thank you next up we have our student board member

051report by mr charles stearman all right so asb has recently completed a senior recognition night at the end of october this is where seniors were given a chance to be recognized for the variety of programs that they participated in throughout the year and their achievements at ruhs as well asp is also setting up and hosting the ucla blood drive tomorrow for all students at ruhs and students who signed up are given the opportunity to donate blood in the gym during school tomorrow that they will then give to the ucla medical team and it will be used to help save the lives of people who are in need or have certain health conditions and then also uh this month i will be preparing to start the young leaders of arbusd program uh for the selected student

052representatives in the district that will be chosen by their elementary schools and their middle school administration and this will be occurring around the beginning of december are there any questions about that all right thank you thank you very much next up dr keller you have a few things first of all start off with a little couple slides uh and right here you i want to emphasize covet 19 vaccine and testing both the pieces i'm going to share with you are optional at this time for parents and in one case for parents and then one for parents and staff and so the first slide i'd want to emphasize is focused on ages 5 to 11 coven 19 vaccine pop-up clinic this is the first shot we had our first experience yesterday and that was on uh

053at uh washington and we actually um exceeded the 348 registered folks that came through ages five to 11. optional optional and parents are bringing them into that tonight as well i just got an update and talita's been very busy uh do want to highlight a few things that this is redona beach herosa beach and of course manhattan beach uh saturday i was told saturday november 19th the 9 00 a.m to 4 p.m if parents are looking for the best time to arrive and the best time to do it it would be that saturday because there are still 200 openings uh as of about two hours ago and then all the information to register if you're interested is right at the bottom there or you can go to the um the beach city south district website

054which will take you there and again this is ages 5 to 11 and for the parents that are ready uh we're providing the service in partnership with beach city south district they're really the ones taking the lead on this and as you can see at the local beach cities and then the optional cobin 19 testing it was something we talked about at the pre at a previous board meeting and we really do want to emphasize um that this is optional uh and i keep seeing the word optional i think it's really important here uh some parents and some staff wanted this so we're delivering this we had hoped to start yesterday we're starting tomorrow thank you for an extra day or two of patience because we were also working on the um vaccine pop-up clinic

055uh and then the other piece is is this one out to all staff and all parents today parents and guardians today so everybody has this information we want to make sure people understand in the middle there the blue you click on that that's the first step the second step is actually you're going to get a an email that's going to have you finished the process so i want to make sure people once they click that complete it i don't want them to think that they are completely done so again services we're providing to people who are ready or for the folks that are looking for something optional and then i want to share with you that we had our first race and equity meeting on october 22nd 7th excuse me the agenda notes presentations handouts

056group work data everything we touched that day is on our website we actually put it up a few days before we promised we said within a week we headed up i think that monday and it's all there and even the group work that was displayed in the room is there uh dr wilds took a picture and so we posted it three very important holidays are approaching i want to make sure everybody understands this thursday is veterans day there's no school because we're going to recognize the men and women who served our country so bravely so thursday no school please come back on friday that could include staff and students uh and then thanksgiving recess november 22nd that entire week and then winter break of course starts that monday december 20th rbusd is proud to announce

057the kickoff of our 2021 partnership with um redondo beach pta and opt is here tonight for our project unified which supports the holiday season for families in need in our community and yes there are families in need in our community and i always have to remind people that um as of today we have identified 65 families the ed services team is taking the lead on this with pta we couldn't be prouder of the work that is done and if you're interested parents staff work through your site pta in collecting gift baskets food gift cards gift certificates you know toys and other nice things for kids and family that would be great and then ricardo and i will be working on the staff holiday open house our annual event to bring a little cheer to our

058staff who have worked very very hard this school year and so it is getting closer to the season the holiday season and we're ramping up for that and trying to make it as special as possible for our staff and for our kids and for our parents thank you okay any questions so just to reiterate for not everyone who may know the optional coven 19 testing there's no cost to rbosd for that because there's an l.a county office of education grant covering that is that correct do you want to jump in on that just to confirm that is correct thank you i know you must have said optional six times but just to clarify we are not is a district mandating anybody be tested or vaccinated at this time no thank you dr keller on the

059vaccination that's going on at toledo and washington is that redondo only or is it open to any great question um no you could it's actually we had plenty of torrents people that are not on permit in our district attend last night's event and folks from lumita uh i was told and then other cities throughout the south bay so other people did jump in so it's open correct there's really no restriction to who might come to that correct okay thank you okay moving on to our hearing section where members of the audience may address the board on any topic regardless of whether it's listed on the agenda however due to brown act regulations the board cannot engage in public discussions on items not on the agenda topics not on the agenda which are brought to the

060board's attention may be investigated by the administration in a report made to the board either publicly or privately at a future meeting comments from visitors shall not exceed three minutes unless the time limit is waived by a majority of the board i'm going to call advanced written requests first and the requests were handed to me as they were received at the front door all speakers have received the same information that i just reviewed please keep your mask on while you are speaking and we are not yielding time to other speakers we do have the timer on the podium and it will flash yellow when you have a minute left to wrap up and just a reminder to our audience to please not interrupt our speakers so that we can address the board appropriately so first

061up we have fernanda goldstein and please we'll start the timer after you say your name and how you're affiliated with rbusd so we won't start your time here until then all right um so i have to top it i'm sorry about um first time i'm talking so i'm already going to ask for more time so because i have two topics can you give me like four minutes are they topics on the agenda or are they not on they're not on the agenda so the total time for non-agenda items is three minutes are you able to wrap it up the boat do both i'll try my best okay thank you very much uh so my name is fernanda goldstein and i have two kids um at the brazil beach unit um school district uh good evening

062members of the board first of all i would like to thank you all employees at rbusd and the board for keeping schools open and students back in class i know it's not easy to be an educator nowadays so i appreciate you there's two topics i'm going to briefly talk about the first topic is please do not eliminate any advanced math classes compact math or ap from our curriculum we know that the california state board of education is proposing 2022 the elimination of the gate program along with advanced classes and when the time comes i would like to strongly suggest you not to adopt this specific part of the new proposal please the second topic of course vaccine mandates my request my ask is to please kindly postpone any mandate from now until we have more

063data available and there are four reasons for that one people claim while other vaccines are mandatory in public schools covet should be too answer the other vaccines had a long history and took many years to be approved and mandated kobe is still under emergency use people claim seat belts are mandatory well they're external and i don't remember the last time i used a seat belt and i had to go to our mri i had an adverse reaction to the vaccine that led me to a neurologist and i had to do an mri hasn't happened last time when i drove my minivan and by the way seat belts can strangulate drivers too it's not 100 safe either the third reason came from the fda itself dr cody meisner board members said coach i'm just worried if

064we say yes the states are going to mandate administrations of this vaccine to children in order to go to school and i don't agree with that fda board end quote fourth reason in the uk is not mandatory but recommended for kids at risk or based on family risk and history and while the history of the vaccines is remarkable let's not forget when they fail the dengue vaccine had 20 years of research two billion dollars spent and a sample size of thirty thousand uh people by the way pfizer has a sample of twenty six hundred it was approved by the world health organization in publishing several medical papers when announced one doctor raised concerns about the vaccine and the pharma company tried to silence him the vaccine was distributed in the philippines 10 kids died leading

065to a major lawsuit by the philippine government and compensation the victims this happened a long ago about six years ago to the people saying science is science well i would say science is not a religion cult or dogma furthermore richard feynman said religions is a culture of faith science is a culture of doubt as a matter of fact scientific concerning question is quintessential to science to finalize premium nocity which comes from letting first do no harm it's an ethical principle from the medical field thank you for your time in consideration thank you very much yeah perfect next up we have kendra weissner i have two students in the district district both my daughters this is regarding some content in school that i think you should be aware of okay um how it started alta vista

066elementary provided my two daughters with an exceptional learning experience susan wilds was the principal during their time there and i had nothing but high hopes for their continued education in the school district how it's going buckle up uh when the pandemic hit and the classroom went virtual things got weird teachers were asking my children for their pronouns the board insists that crt is not in the curriculum but i have proof that our educators are bringing it into the classroom my daughter was shown a series of youtube videos claiming race is an illusion created by white americans to justify slavery blm a critical race theory and queer affirming organization is celebrated with posters on our uhs campus belonging to teachers in addition pride flags pride is a sexual liberation movement can be seen in classrooms and

067on clothing worn by students and teachers what is the impact of encouraging this culture on campus i will tell you a student who repeatedly used the n-word in front of me and my six-year-old kissed his male white friend said i'm gay now pointed to his black friend and said i'm cheating on you to which his black friend replied that's racist i was informed that the same middle school student was removed from an activity for his behavior and blurted out this school is racist recognizing that his race can now be used as social currency my daughter was called a homophobic pro-life trump supporter by another student which she heard from a 12-year-old girl who now is sometimes a boy depending on the weather another one of her classmates who changed her name this year to sound

068more ethnic also claims they them pronouns last year my oldest was told her perspective on the george floyd case was invalid due to her white privilege gsa gay straight alliance is a club and middle school focused on sexuality and lgbt politics principal erickson claimed the students have the right to form clubs like these on campus but he didn't mention that the club was actually was wasn't actually started by students it's endorsed by all the big teachers unions a club about sexuality started by adults four kids let that sink in uh if you were a pedophile what would your dream job be are uhs employees a commie flag toting history teacher who glosses over world war ii and the atrocities of the holocaust to ensure a good chunk of time be spent learning the origins of

069k-pop while staff tip go around religious holiday greetings admin are tickled pink to email parents and wish them a happy pride month lastly we've got a woman on the equity inclusion committee who thinks black people can't be racist this is the state of public education and this is allegedly progress so who among you will be the gatekeepers it's gotten out of hand your teachers are using the campus as their own personal tick tock platform my daughters have a few years left there but i pray the younger ones that follow uh for the younger ones that follow that at least one among you has enough sense to turn the ship around and demand professionalism from the staff and keep political and sexual sexuality propaganda out of school they're just not trained to teach these concepts to

070kids and they're confusing them and it's just gotten super weird so i please um hope you guys will look into that thank you thank you next we have jake reppo repco hi everyone can you hear me okay all right thanks for the opportunity to speak today my name is jake repco i'm a father of three i have two girls in elementary school here in redondo i understand that the vaccines are currently not mandated at this time but according to the governor this is coming sooner rather than later like all of us with kids in here from the beginning of the pandemic my primary concern was keeping my family and my kids safe so being a good journalist i spent multiple days researching any and all information i could find about kovid that was coming out

071of china and italy at that time the results of that research on adverse outcomes from kova 19 were as consistent then as they are today and that if you are under 65 to 70 years old and you don't have comorbidities your chances of an adverse outcome are incredibly low the average age of death from someone with covet is equal to the average life expectancy this is not my opinion this is not debatable this data bears this out no matter how you crunch it and which country it comes from there are outliers of course but we don't create policy that affects millions of people from outliers which brings me to the reason that i'm here are kids the population which is least affected from health perspective by the pandemic but perhaps most affected by unnecessary measures

072including the forthcoming vaccine mandates the approval for 5 to 11 year olds under under an emergency youth is emergency use is a solution to a non-problem children have a higher statistical chance of dying from drowning in certain strains of influenza than they do have covid and we still want to force a rushed vaccine on them so they can attend school i'm not sure what country i'm living in and what year it is but it doesn't feel like united states and it doesn't feel like 2021. one of the popular opposing narratives is that schools mandate vaccines all the time and this is just another one on the list well this is false never has an eua vaccine been mandated to attend school and never has a vaccine taken less than four years for approval not to

073mention vaccines which are currently currently required immunize our children against diseases which are life-threatening and debilitating to them covet is not one of them another talking point is that kids need this vaccine so we can keep the adults in the community safe i don't know which societal contract you signed but i never signed the one where children have to do anything to keep adults safe it's the other way around i've watched adults left and right failing to stand up for children for the past year in the name of fear in places where schools have remained open throughout the pandemic community spread was lower or equal to communities that kept schools closed lastly if this vaccine works as intended and all the adults who want the vaccine have received it why are we even considering requiring

074our kids to get it at this time i haven't heard an answer to this question that is rooted in science or logic lastly i'm not anti-vaxx most people i know against these mandates are not anti-vaxx my children have all the required vaccines i just simply want more time to evaluate the necessity the effectiveness the safety of this vaccine before giving it to my kids the pfizer clinical trial had less than two thousand i have like thirty more seconds can i continue thank you the pfizer clinical trial had less than two thousand participants and is riddled with missteps and errors i encourage you guys to look at it i understand the position you guys are in i understand that you receive funding from the state you receive guidance from the la county public health but if

075you do your own research you do your own due diligence and you decide without a doubt in your mind that every single child needs this vaccine vaccine to attend this school district and you can sleep well at night then you've done your job but simply throwing up your hands and saying you're beholden to state restrictions and state mandates is not enough sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same thank you [Applause] okay next we have haley repco why don't you switch to here hi thank you very much awesome hi my name is haley robco um as my husband said we have three kids two girls at um who are in elementary school in arby usd and i'm here today to voice my extreme opposition to the coven 19 vaccine mandates in our

076schools the recent breakdown of the fda's risk benefit analysis of the pfizer vaccine for kids ages 5 to 11 showed that there were zero cases of severe covin 19 and zero cases of death from covid19 in either the treatment group or from the control group so any claims that this vaccine is 90 percent effective in children are meaningless because they are referring to mild cases to which children recover which children i'm sorry they are referring to mild cases from which children usually recover quickly and then have robust broad spectrum immunity so there is no reason for this emergency use vaccine to have even been considered by the fda for approval i just want to let that sink in like by their own standards this vaccine there is not an emergency and it should not have

077even been considered the fact is that the total number of deaths linked to covet 19 from 2020 and from ages 0 to 17 is 576. while deaths from pneumonia from the sage same age group in same time frame is 46 percent higher at all of those numbers were pulled directly from the cdc reports and for emergency authorization to be pushed through for vaccines that have a very small test group and a very small window where it was observed for short-term effects and where there have been none for long-term effects with no exemptions to this mandate is mind-blowing to me i believe as a community we should be banning together i am not an anti-vaxxer i believe that this is a term that was coined by the media to make it easy to dismiss opposition and

078to dismiss people who are speaking out against mandates my children are fully vaccinated they go to school here and i believe that there should be an option for people i think that parents who feel the way that i feel should not be scared to speak up because we are told that we do not care about other people that we do not believe in science when that is the complete opposite i think people should have the right to choose what to do with their children for an experimental drug i think that we have done an amazing job as a community banding together and i appreciate everything you guys have done and i um i just wish more people would speak up and that you guys would be open to fighting the powers above because i know

079you can only do so much but thank you for letting me speak and thank you next up we have scott matheu did i pronounce it correctly i'm sorry real quick before i start i just wanted to acknowledge dr keller real quick my wife and i uh emailed him friday with questions and concerns and he responded to us very quickly even took the time yesterday to call us personally and answer all the millions of questions we had so thank you very much doctor a lot to say so it's gonna be quick my name is scott matthew i have a six-year-old son that attends first grade at madison elementary as i speak tonight about an unsafe experimental shot i want to make clear that i never have nor intend to make light of those who have actually

080become ill or those that have died of coven parents fighting this vaccine mandate are not anti-vaxxers every child is up to date on their required vaccines they're not allowed to attend i am not anti-vaccine i am pro-parental choice medicine is one is not one-size-fits-all when i sign a consent to treat form it says parent or guardian not school board or superintendent let's be clear this experimental shot is not a vaccine it does not provide immunity in september this year the cdc changed the very definition of the word vaccine because it does not produce the results of a traditional true vaccine the shot also doesn't stop the spread of the virus results from your almighty cdc have also proven that the vaccinated are just as likely to pass the virus as the unvaccinated if covet doesn't

081even crack the top 10 causes of death in children then why do we insist on injecting those who are at the safest demographic in the world with a 99.998 chance of survival the original pfizer trial showed that a person is twice as likely to suffer a severe reaction to the shot versus the placebo this includes hospitalization blood clots myocarditis pericarditis heart attack stroke and death however when the trial concluded patients that were given the placebo were given the opportunity to take the pfizer shot five patients that crossed over and took the shot died proving scientifically this pfizer shot does not save lives the chairman of the cdc said that vaccinating all 28 million five to 11 year old children will save 28 lives based on her model she also admits that it will medically induce

0822968 cases of myocarditis israel currently is reporting 6 000 cases for every million dose given the vares database has already reported that 14 children between the ages 12 to 17 have died as a direct result of this shot this experimental shot will kill more kids than is expected to save and i'd say experimental because the pfizer phase 3 trial doesn't even finish until january 1st 2023 we don't have all the information another question we should ask is how is it the fda can be funded by companies that it's supposed to regulate since 2000 pfizer has paid a total of 4.6 billion in penalties and fines pfizer claims the shot is safe but admitted the results of a 12-year-old girl named maddie de guerre who suffered abdominal and chest pains painful electrical shocks throughout her body

083erratic blood pressure and irregular heart rates dizziness fainting seizures verbal and motor tics she is currently in a wheelchair due to paralysis from the waist down to this date pfizer refuses to acknowledge maddie and her family if you apply the odds of myocarditis and the probability of maddie's reaction to redondo beach's 9 800 children currently enrolled by enforcing this mandate you will statistically save less than one life medically induced 58 students with myocarditis and another eight children in redondo beach will share the same fate as poor maddie in conclusion even though the rest of this shot outweighs any possible benefit i still stand behind pro parental choice i feel that 20 seconds support okay 20 seconds thank you please i still stand behind pro parental choice i feel that the public has been grossly misled

084to this efficiency and dangers of this shot i still believe it's apparent apparent sole decision to do what they believe is best for their own child you are all elected because the community believes that you are good people and would do right by our children especially concerning their health and safety why are we giving the shot to these kids if they can survive at a 99.998 percent chance please do the right thing thank you thank you [Applause] next up we have eric lipiti um my name is eric lopetti you have three kids lincoln adams and riddando hi thank you for what you do i mean it it's not easy know i don't know any other person who spoke earlier but uh same topic i wanted to quickly address the topic of the immunization schedule i've

085heard many times we have mandated vaccination in school for decades why is another one a big deal here's why it's a big deal this coveted experimental treatment is one of a kind it's the very first to have been mandated that quickly let's look at the history he parodies b approved in 1981 took 16 years to be mandated mmr approved in 71 took six years polio six years to be mandated dtp 16 years varicella four years coveted less than one year a new drug so this is why this it's a big deal no other vaccine in the history of vaccine have been mandated to children under emergency use authorization this is why we parents have the right to question and assess the risk for our children given the absence of long-term data for those who don't

086know when the first polio vaccine was introduced in 1955 200 000 american children received the vaccine within days there were reports of paralysis and within a month the first mass vaccination program had to be abandoned investigations revealed that the vaccine had caused had closed 4 40 000 cases of polio leaving 200 children paralyzed and killing 10. at the time at that time it was science so sure science has made progress but no this vats this vaccine is not just another vaccine and by the way you can look it up it's called the cure incident yes we are scared all parents here are scared we are scared for our children and our instinct is to protect them if the vaccine protects those who receive it why mandate it and if it doesn't then why should parents

087and children be responsible for its lack of protection this is why we're asking you not to mandate the vex the the vaccine other school boards in california have made that decision not to reinforce the mandate you can look it up apple valley durham lesser valley and many more and they made that decision because of the absence of long-term data you have the power to make the right decision for everyone for parents and for the love of our children thank you next up we have catherine lippity it's a family business now hi my name is catherine appetit i'm the wife of eric mother of three boys in lincoln adams and redondo high i want my fellow parents to understand i'm standing here for the second time in one month and i'm not used to doing that

088i never do that i always trust my educated education board to make the right calls but as i'm unaware of your views on the matter and the matter is extremely important i feel that i must defend the people who don't have a choice and a voice it's our kids i hope my speech will encourage all the brave souls to come and address the board and or sign the petition that we as a group put together and to encourage the board to pass a resolution asap against the mandate or in different terms pass a pro-choice resolution i am personally against the vaccine experimental injection i should say for numerous reasons but that's not what i'm here to defend tonight i'm speaking on behalf of a lot of parents who are double vaxxed and or have vaccinated

089their kids already but still want to keep our freedom of choice alive and are against segregation we do not want to co-parent with the government our health and our kids health are ours to take care of if we let the government dictate that what our kids must get as medical treatment or if we are coerced to do so this is the end of a human right and i'm not saying that lightly it's the end of our freedom of choice you can think it's okay we're in a pandemic it's going to get better you are wrong giving up to the right the rights now you will never get them back fear-based science creates a state of emergency during emergency emergency laws are introduced and then they will never go away if you think it's just one

090shot or two or three when will you stop and draw a line how many boosters will you tolerate when will it be too late what will you do then go down in the street and protest it will be way too late the battle is now rise up now we need the parents and board members we need everyone to come together and fight for our rights freedom that our veteran fought so hard for us to have it's our civic duty and our duty as human beings on this planet to leave our kids and our grandchildren a country in which they are free to live since april 2023 my students have been back to a full-time in-person schedule with over 10 000 staff and students on campus and no outbreak there is no justifiable legal reason to

091risk the health of our children by injecting them with a currently experimental vaccine regardless parents who wish to provide their child with extra protection already have the opportunity to get their child vaccinated and you guys did a great job to provide those clinics a school imposed mandate turns kovid19 vaccination into a coercive act free of consent because students would do not consent to get the job we'll have no option but to disenroll for rb usd we are asking you to help draw the line like many other districts 15 as of today are currently doing and we will be so proud if rbusd was siding with us in this battle for medical freedom and pro-choice thank you [Applause] thank you next up i have monique grant i think you want to speak on two topics one

092on the agenda and then one not on the agenda so well becoming a professional i lowered the mic this time okay so we'll start the first three minutes on the agenda topic thank you um i just wanted to start out with i have some thank you i wanted to greet the board and dr keller um i wanted to mention a father's name scott smith i don't know if you're aware of who that man is but his daughter's 15 year old daughter was raped by a transgender on school grounds by a boy who is dressed as a girl in the restroom it's pretty big news and so i'd like to speak out about the you know the ludon school district tried to cover it up because it didn't it conflicted with their transgender policies so going

093into policies and um i was told during the staff meeting that you were training only pe teachers school counselors school psychologists at the last staff development training as they are the ones the students would most likely go to instead of their parents what what you call training i view as promoting the lgbt agenda why when you are promoting teachers to hang flags wear trans pins lgbt flag pins calling boys and girls people and assigned pronouns to their names it is in fact promoting not just supporting these families and students but actually promoting and exposing sexuality gender identity and sexuality to all children including mine this is discrimination and bias against religion my beliefs that are protected by california ed codes zero one 51501 one five zero zero and five one nine three three you aim

094this training for elementary level staff you said that you want to give support to these kids that they would want to know that oh i'm safe here but these kids are in a classroom they're not sitting with their counselors during the day they're not sitting with their pe teachers where they can put a flag up so i'm confused by this a lot of this is confusing when all why like when you why would you do this to the elementary level staff why why when all i've been told about this book this book is anti-racist found in my daughter's fourth grade class at washington am i told that the lgbtq isn't being taught or promoted in elementary school yet the following week you have a staff development training to promote this within your own with your

095own staff hypocritical in my eyes how does california ed codes 200 through 220 not discriminate against religious beliefs and the california ed codes that protect our rights you say you don't ask students demographic questions but that is a lie students are being asked instead of putting lgbtq visuals around classrooms why not do your jobs better and add all of the new genders to a student's registration done by parents so you can privately have that student's gender sexuality be known before the school be known before school sorry by um so you can privately have the students gender sexuality be known before the school year between the teacher and student without having to expose all students to gender sexuality not all parents have their kids sitting on tick tock or talk about sex every day with their

096kids could i please finish how much longer do you have on this topic maybe like 30 seconds 30 seconds can we with their kids oh i guess i'll wait thank you okay all right go ahead i feel we are allowed to that privacy we are allowed to teach our own kids not you stop pushing this agenda and saying you're not i was told that because of a student's suicide last year that one was too many so your answer is to train elementary staff to fix this talking about one too many that you're afraid of more suicides but you're not afraid of 9 000 students being forced to vaccinate to intent in person school and the adverse reactions or even possible death of children you're not looking out for our students health not of what you

097say not of what you say or what you're doing none of what you say or what you're doing makes any sense almost everything new that you're bringing in or doing contradicts something else that you're saying or doing dr keller talked to me about working on boundaries for teachers curriculums etc but when you promote flags and pins and visuals what size how many will be allowed were the boundaries well thought out or put in place before you trained our staff your staff when have you or will you be training or promoting staff to wear crosses or religious flags or symbolisms so others of religion of faith aren't discriminated thank you so we'll start the timer for the next [Applause] okay um kids have been in school seven to eight months now and no deaths being unvaccinated

098and being in school back in school has worked why then would you mandate it please keep it a choice anytime parents ask ourselves the questions that start with why would you the why would you the board do this or that it always is the same answer money all at the cost of sexualizing indoctrinating and discriminating our children over these medical choices this vaccine doesn't stop covid and it is experimental doctors are telling parents that children do not need this vaccine so why are you going to and i you know i was talked to about the polio you guys like bring up different things like eric mr la le petit had said they these other vaccines were studied much longer i'm not an anti-vaccinator i would probably i'm hoping i'm proven wrong but maybe in two

099three more years when we know what the adverse effects are side effects might be it's unbelievable to me i'd like to take this time to address the superintendent and board members about the lack of understanding and respect i was giving when i was had to call a meeting with one of my children's teachers at washington a couple weeks ago it was a first to me and i had to do that but was for good reasons my daughter informed me in her fourth grade class at washington in her classroom library that there was a book called this book is called this book is anti-racist as my questions were well received by the teacher in my meeting i was extremely taken back and offended when i was told by the principal that i was sounding like it

100was an attack and could possibly be making the teacher feel uncomfortable appalling i quickly reminded the principal that i was the one uncomfortable i am the parent and i'm the one to call this meeting and for very good reasons also finding out that there was an online grammar website called no reading dot com that was asking my fourth graders class their gender in order to log in what does this tell you when my fourth grader nine-year-old is asking her mom why she has to fill that out that sort of thing info to do her classwork it's uncomfortable and necessary but you're training staff to use visuals now for lgbtq i'll skip to the end because i know i'm going to probably run out um it's quite confusing this no writing is aimed for 14 18

101year olds with interest not appropriate for fourth graders my intentions were good my intentions were to protect children from being asked inappropriate information from seeing inappropriate stuff but i was talked to like that to like that from my kids principal not once i'm sorry i'll look into this i'll follow up and get back to you not to thank you for bringing this to my attention from the principal when even the head of the curriculum dr wilds could see here understand and treat my concerns and myself with respect she knew i wasn't picking any fights but was actually pointing out poor choices of online curriculum and inappropriate teaching materials available to my daughter's class i hope that our staff development might do a training on remembering how to treat concerned parents with respect and not making

102them feel attacked it's uncomfortable enough for a parent to need to call a meeting respect from staff is important these are our children that's it thank you next up we have jerome chang good evening everyone thanks for letting me speak my name is jerome chang and i'm a parent of a couple of kids in elementary school i came here to let everyone know the public that i'm helping host a community event this sunday morning from 10 to 12 on november 14th so ellie county a few years ago formed through their human relations committee formed a la versus hate initiative it's ongoing lavshate.org and so next week they're promoting county-wide something called united against hate week it's hate against everyone oh sorry anti-hate against everyone sorry about that and so uh we're inviting um we coordinated

103efforts with the other beach cities hermosa beach manhattan beach and redondo um to create a uh a chalk art event particularly for kids where they can come in and color on the pavement we've designated perry park on the slauson lane side from 10 to 12 this sunday it's invited to everyone if you show up you can get these fancy coloring books for your kids we should have a stack of a couple hundred of those on this sunday i want to also let you know that one of the commissioners in that county commission is tanya mckenzie who is a fellow resident in redondo beach and she's the co-host for this event with me and we coordinated with this with the other cities that commission had enlisted a group of us to activate the south bay and

104so a bunch of us went ahead and divided up into the three beach cities so um yeah so it's open to the public this sunday 10 to 12 uh november 14th it kicks off a whole week of programming throughout the county so thank you next up we have heidi threadgill hey good evening and dr keller and all oh sorry good evening dr keller and all esteemed board members here um some of you even had my kids um in their in your in the schools here i am a parent um right now i have two kids i have one in redondo and um one in adams is my last child i've i have seven children all of my children have been here since they were five years old i'm in redondo beach school this is a

105beloved district to me um i also do homeschool so i have experience with that due to some to some health challenges that my child had um i'm here to request that you stay the course with um keeping vaccines and testing as a choice for parents [Music] i know that you have a heavy burden to bear as far as providing academics and safety for our children however the responsibility of protecting our children is on us parents and i am encouraged by my other parents who are um speaking up for our children we're not only speaking up for our own children but for your children who are in the district to have a choice and how you're going to raise your kids and how you're going to protect them medically academically what they're being educated in and

106so that is why i'm speaking here today i want to let you know that you are supported in this there's many parents here these are just a few representations that would support you in this decision to keep it as a as a choice and so i want to thank you for this time that is all i had to say [Applause] thank you next up is martin snyder thank you um before i begin i wanted to point out you said that um all the testing was optional but it's mandated for your student athletes right the department of public health mandates that yesterday now it's yes yes okay but as a district we have not made any district decisions [Music] thank you i am martin snyder i have uh three kids in redondo beach um i pre-coveted

107i also volunteered at tots math olympiad and battle of the books for my school back when parents were there i would like to talk to you today about fear history has tried to teach us these lessons over and over but here we are again trying to learn them as if for the first time it is the greatest irony that we find ourselves with all of history's knowledge but only some of its wisdom between 1800 and 1600 bc a fear psychosis spread through ancient egypt caused by the invasion of foreign rebels hungry for power and conquest initially this fear psychosis was justified by a real threat yet even when these foreigners were successfully driven far away from egypt the ruling power sought to artificially maintain fear among the population realizing that a fearful population is easier

108to control than a fearless one three and a half millennia later many societies were successful in pushing away their monarchies forcing revolution in france and the founding of america many famous figures of the time spoke about fear no passion so effect effectively robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear said by 18th century philosopher edmund burke he was a member of the british parliament who criticized his own government's actions towards the american colonies including its taxation policy which precipitated the american revolution john adams wrote critically that fear is the foundation of most governments thomas jefferson wrote when people fear their government there is tyranny when the government fears the people there is liberty i leave it to you which one we're closer to and the philosopher voltaire wrote those who

109can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities words that have been sadly proven true too often through history stanley milgram in the 1960s carried out the first experiment that showed that people given authority even capriciously would induce great harm to their subjects if they thought it was for the good of science it is from this perspective that he wrote the disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority many of us wonder if school boards and other local authorities have relieved themselves of responsibility for their decisions because they believe they are just doing what the authorities command them for the good of science personally i am optimistic that the board will recognize the information and science is clearly showing that mandates are a fear-based policy and that

110health decisions should be made at the doctor's office not at the principal's office because that's what the greatest school district in the south bay would do thank you next we have sheila garcia uh good evening um every time i hear people speaking i start thinking of all the other things i want to say like i come up here and i have like a set agenda but basically what i want everyone to know is that um i'm not responsible for your reality of me i recognize per the brown act that all questions asked tonight can be included in the next board meetings agenda and then i'd also like everyone to know that this board here can exercise their own local control because there's 15 districts out there that made their own decisions also i've seen uncivility

111and i know it's happening on the campuses so whatever your title is i want you to remember your professional conduct okay so everyone in this room needs to have professional conduct i am a parent i have the love of my life my son one child and i'm going to speak out for him and i love these parents that came to speak out they're passionate and yes i've had maybe some uncivil wording but i love my child i love my community and i know you love your children and i know you're going to make a decision based on all the facts that you have heard you need to take that back when you go back to the schools when you go back to the boardroom when you go back to your loved ones and remember that

112it is about community it is about helping one another and if we lose that we're going to lose a lot i don't hate you guys i believe we're one nation under god i can say that because i love god i love my faith it is what makes me strong it is what's going to make me help anybody if you were to fall down right now i'm going to go and help you even if i have some dispute because i have that i feel for people so what i want you guys to do is start exercising please get strong exercise your local control you don't have to fall for these mandates you don't have to do the mandates it's guidance that's why the clause is guidance which means that you do what are our numbers is

113it zero that's what we base it on how many coveted cases do we have we've done an excellent job are people dying what are the numbers you can't align it with lausd we are separate it's redondo so the next board meeting have the numbers that's logical have the numbers how many people in the community have it how many are dying from it if it's at zero we don't need the mass we don't need the mandated uh vaccination and you as as a board have to make those decisions when the kids come to school they don't they have you give consent for the kids to have education it's not an implication to include a mandate that's unconstitutional the board has anonymous tactic i understand responsibility to its 9 600 students i applaud you but that does

114not negate accepting an unconstitutional mandate california governor codes 37 100 just one second the legislative body may pass ordinances not in conflict with the constitution and laws of the state of the united states thank you okay that's all the advanced written requests i have is there anyone else that wants to speak okay moving on to our communications calendar the redondo beach teachers association good evening board members dr keller members of cabinet and those members of our community watching at home my name's sarah robinson i'm the president of the redondo beach teachers association and am a high school spanish teacher at our uhs tonight under the topic of communication i just wanted to kind of communicate the daily life of our members so the daily duties of school personnel have returned to our pre-coveted standards teaching

115and learning in classrooms after school in person meetings extracurricular activities parent-teacher conferences all of the things that we missed so much and worked so hard to get back to but what people who don't spend every day at a school site might not know is that there has been so much more that has been placed upon those already full plates enforcing masking rules documenting students seats and movements throughout the day in classroom for possible contact tracing providing sanitizing supplies for shared materials monitoring quarantine students as well as supporting students when they returned from quarantine as well as so many other tasks that have been added when it comes to providing instruction many of us find ourselves having to adapt and alter our content to help support our students for those keeping track that makes three years

116in a row where teachers have had to drastically alter their curriculum meanwhile we're also providing social emotional support to our students who may be struggling with the effects of the pandemic or the stress surrounding the return to school we're also dealing with a lack of substitutes teachers with unfilled sub requests struggle with the difficult choice of burning burdening their colleagues with covering their classes or with the disheartening idea of having their students go a day without a teacher and our teachers just like everyone else must deal with the emotional toll of the pandemic meanwhile some of our members have had to weather personal attacks on their values and their professionalism made in this very room i don't share this in search of pity or a pay raise although we're always open to negotiations but rather

117i'm here asking for your support asking for the support of our community for the teachers who are in our classrooms the counselors who are in their offices school psychologists who are traveling from site to site who are doing everything they can putting everything on the line and even behind the needs of these students we're asking for support when a teacher reaches out and may have to have a tough conversation with a parent or an administrator we're asking for support when we tell you that your student needs your help at home when we're asking you to listen to our professional judgment about the best way to support your students we're just asking you to listen thank you do we have anyone from csca or aft redondo beach pta good evening dr keller school board members and

118cabinet i'm thrilled to be here tonight to give you a few pta updates and introduce you to an amazing pca president and share some positivity for all of you first up i want to introduce you to timmy lowsk [Applause] timmily is a second term president who always does above and beyond for her families teachers and administrators timily thank you that was a lovely introduction um good evening everyone um i am here just to do what we do at our board meeting so at our board meetings and pta meetings and we start them off with shout outs and i think that you guys deserve to hear some of the shout outs from our community and our board members i'm so proud of all of the work that we do to support the community um this year

119and i also want to share with you some of the things we've done this fall that we're really excited about so we hosted um kinder kickoff and class post and we got to see lots of smiling eyes on the lincoln yard we had a huge turnout and people were thrilled to be there we had our first in-person book fair in two years and i got to volunteer kids came with e-wallets parents could sign up um put money on a little e-wallet and it was connected to the registers or they can bring cash it was really fun to watch the kids count their cash and see how much they had left so math was being practiced that day which we were proud to support um and uh we also had a successful membership drive we had

120over uh 687 members um and i want to thank all of you guys for your community memberships because i'm pretty sure all of your names are on that list too so thank you for your support um i also want to give a shout out to kim weiss our vp of programs who has set up some fun and safe activities in the fall both for both in-person safe activities as well as virtual activities for families who aren't quite ready to be in person and we've got our virtual art family night coming up on friday and we have a movie night at the rhodium coming up and that'll be in december so we're looking forward to that too um we had an overwhelmingly positive response from the community on that um i also wanted to share that

121we had 22 submissions for the reflections program and that was led by kim k weiss our other kim weiss on the board she also um was able to secure our hands-on art docents for all of our classrooms we're really excited to have that program back and be able to support it um not a bibi our new dei chair person led us in inclusion day and created a pledge well for all of our students we also have a new team of project unified chair people who are really excited to support the program and we are also grateful for that partnership with the district and being able to support redondo families we hosted a pta meeting with a coffee with a board member and i want to thank um board member dan elder for supporting us on

122that he came and answered questions from the community and also educated us and um what's going on at the school district and at the board um including um discussing the ela adoption so it was great for the community to hear about that um we also have uh next month we are going to be hosting our pta meeting where our principal will be hosting a q a and while i have her on your minds i want to give her a shout out i wish she was here she has been amazing and really supportive we meet once a week she comes to all of our board meetings and all of our general association meetings and we are so grateful for her support her strength and her openness and cooperation with us um she uh she has got

123some serious school spirit she's been known to don a blue wig um for some of our events and she has been known to um to uh cruise around the school and neighborhood with our mascot leo the lincoln lion um so she has got spirit for sure and then shout out to leah lincoln lion who is a celebrity on our campus and brings smiles to all of our families and then finally i want to give a nod to kimberly kiwis who in these very challenging couple of years has led um has been complete so supportive of all of us and us also opened up a new conversation among the presidents where and the units where we get to collaborate and share ideas and i think a lot of creativity has come out of that we're looking

124forward to jog-a-thon in the spring and and more community events and for now i just want to say i'm honored to be able to support the lincoln community and to stand here in front of you today as a representative of that community i've been a lincoln lion now for seven years and the community is supportive fun and collaborative and generous with their time and resources i'm also grateful for the school board and the school district that offers parents a collaborative seat at the table i think we lift each other up as organizations and as individuals parents and educators every day and to me that is the heart of community so thank you [Applause] okay all right thank you timmy that was wonderful so these have been some very challenging times for all of us and

125especially for you school board members and administrators these days it seems like the world is filled with negativity but i'm here to remind you that these that there are still bright many bright spots to be found the upcoming thanksgiving break is a great time to reflect on things we are grateful for with help from asb web and along with the wonderful principals and pta leaders here in our district we like to shower you with our appreciation by sharing these thank you notes combined compiled by some of our rbusd students there's even a video from paris middle school i hope reading these notes will lift your spirits and serve as a reminder of why you are here thank you for all you do for our children thank you can let's leave it on the table there

126kim and we'll grab them after yes thank you yeah and one last comment um 33rd district pta continues to bring our speaker series next week september or november 16th at 7 pm social media online safety and it features rbpt pd thank you great thank you so much [Applause] okay and i don't see anyone from rbf so we'll move on to the general consent calendar does anybody have any items they'd like to pull separately i want to pull 10.1 10.1 anybody else all right can i get in motion in a second to approve 10.2 through 10.6 so so strettzenberg second okay all those in favor student advisory vote thank you sorry charles all right great all those in favor say aye aye me opposed your abstention passes five zero okay can i get a motion in

127a second to discuss 10.1 so move stretzenberg second okay rachel go ahead i had a question on um for dr wiles on number 687 and 688 the star sports theater arts yes so that is our after school gate enrichment program that we kicked off for our first session and you will see the first line item is to cover all of our elementary schools and our middle schools and the second item is in educational services we had to add an additional instructor our middle school classes were so popular and so full we wanted to open up and have an additional instructor to be there for the students okay any questions or discussions all right all those in favor say aye aye student advisory vote sorry i charles right any pose or extensions motion passes five zero

128moving on to 12.1 we have the front of classroom technology purchase under the irvine usd piggyback contract from cww cdwg can i get a motion and second to discuss please second scrutzenberg go ahead mr kinsey good evening uh tonight before you uh we are bringing forward a new type of technology in front of our classrooms and hopefully it'll be great for our teachers during major queue we purchased lcd projectors but we did not mount them to the ceiling much like what you see here in the boardroom nor did they have speaker systems or retractable screens when we did at the end of major s c and when we built new buildings with major q we did put in some classrooms with lcd projectors in the ceiling and kind of that kind of technology but the

129rest of the classrooms basically just had an lcd projector on a cart and the teacher would move it around and kind of do whatever screen prices have come down dramatically now we now feel it's time to bring to replace all those units they are dying they're over five to seven years old and tonight before you we like to put in 265 classrooms 75-inch interactive tvs these tvs are interactive we can actually project wireless to them we can hardwire to them as well it's a new type of technology that this will we kind of call phase one that we put into these two classrooms and this is what we're asking for you to approve tonight any questions any questions one question i have is once we spend this money how much is left under sr3 i

130would so under in the sr3 plan for this particular chunk of money we allocated one million dollars to cover the cost of the television's additional equipment to install as well as the installation and so after you remove that um all the other chunks of money have no no this will be the first expenditure out of sr3 so everything will be left second to your question so just approximately like very round numbers how much would be left for under these stimulus programs for technology that we may need in the future so sr3 was a kind of a unique it's one of the the a unique grant that allows us to um has an allowable expense for this type of technology other grants um sr2 sr1 expanded learning opportunity oftentimes had line items to support distance learning

131which we're no longer in to support wi-fi they had different kind of technology allowable expenses this is the first sr3 is the first one really that allows us to provide greater in-person interactive televisions to this extent okay thank you go ahead dan sorry i was going to say uh having seen these at madison the difference in visibility between them and the projectors is just phenomenal so i'm excited for that one thing i wanted to share though i remember when i initially looked at the cost of this it seemed astronomically high uh per unit until looking at the mounting equipment could you talk a little bit about what the process is for mounting and why that's so challenging sure what we'll be doing is we'll be placing what's called a diversitrack over our current whiteboards inside

132the classroom so when we put this it's a long 20-foot track where the tv will sit on where you can move the tv left or right and so it's just not a standard tv mount that we would just bulk on the wall like what you would at your house these would actually go left and right because we still want to use those white boards inside the classroom because the teachers still do have a desire to use their whiteboards and move back and forth even though there's an interactive whiteboard capability on these boards um so those are a little bit more expensive those are about 530 a unit on the diverse track by itself and we're also covering installation in this as well as we will not be installing it we'll have our vendor come and

133install it to make sure it's installed properly on the wall that we can do it uh in an expedient time frame thank you yes yeah it's always important to make sure we mount these correctly just for safety reasons for nothing else thank you else no all right student advisory vote aye all those in favor say aye aye any opposed motion passes 5-0 the suit worked moving on to 12.2 increase one minute increase the minimum wage from fourteen dollars to fifteen dollars an hour for student workers noon supervisors and campus safety assistants can i get a motion and second please second instruction dr wesley yes this is a recommendation to increase the classified salaries impacted by the minimum wage mandate which was senate bill three passed about three years ago so this is our third year

134increasing the minimum wage per the bill so we are mandated to increase our minimum wage from fourteen dollars fifteen dollars and it would be effective monday january third twenty twenty this impacts just three classifications student workers new supervisors and step one of our campus supervisors camp to safety assistance so staff is recommending that the board approve this increase any comments or questions i'm not going to ask for your vote since it's salary so all those in favor say aye aye any opposed motion passes five zero motion and second for 12.3 the revised declaration of need for fully qualified educators for the 2021-22 school year my motion second please second stretch okay dr wesley so the original declaration of knee was brought at the june 8th board meeting and so um since then you know we've

135had to hire for particular positions and there are rare instances when we need to hire a certificated staff member who may need to be on an intern credential i mean they're working on their credential or a short term staff permit or emergency permit until the candidate finalizes their credential we do have the ability to do that especially since we have partnerships with universities and we do have a couple of areas in which staff members who are on leave want to extend their leaves so we are going to need to find credentialed employees to cover those so we may need to hire someone on an emergency permit or a short-term permit obviously that's not our goal but in order to do that we needed to revise the declaration of need so in this case we did

136add spanish mandarin speech and language a math class in an english class not speech language i'm sorry a math class in english class matter in spanish okay any questions or comments student advisory vote aye all those in favor aye aye no opposed motion passes 5-0 moving on to information items for dr alperin the unofficial attendance and enrollment reports yes um i think i'm going to see if mr kinsey can pop up thanks derek for doing that i should have told you ahead of time um i miss ricardo post all of that um i i have provided some information and the same information that's here in this board report i had provided to you as a board in my in my update but i did want to share that same information with the public as it

137pertains to our enrollment as well as our attendance so because the attendance taking laws have changed over the last two years um our normal where where we're providing this like graphic comparison for you which is normally pretty straightforward is a little more complicated because um you know to compare this year's attendance to on and on any given day to last year when we weren't taking attendance in the same way um is a difficult comparison so what we attempted to do was to engage in a comparison um data from this year to two years ago so it's actually like page third slide i think yeah the last one maybe yeah um so you'll see the 2122 data compared to the 1920 data and at least for the first like you know five six months of school

138that'll be our our basis for comparison um to be able to do that uh so one thing that i did want to share with you is that in the earlier pages you will know page one thanks you'll note that our district enrollment during the first month of school actually went up from the beginning of the school year to two months into the school year and this is an unusual pattern for us during a typical school year you'll see our enrollment highest on the first day of school and then over the course of the first couple of weeks of school as we're sort of chewing up like who actually shows up versus who's on the rosters you'll see those numbers kind of um go down not significantly but you know they they kind of sort themselves

139out by removing our no shows but not this year um we actually have two months into the school year more students enrolled than we did on the first day of school so i thought that was important to note um i don't know why but but that does not reflect people coming from independent study into our schools no okay nope um i'm just sharing the data i don't necessarily have all of the reasons why the data is shifting per se the other piece that i wanted to draw attention to for the board and the public is that we receive our funding our local control funding formula based on our attendance so it's really a combination of enrollment and attendance so if you have the same enrollment from one year to the next and attendance goes up

140right then the following year you'll receive more money if you have lower enrollment and your attendance is better you're still going to get less money but you'll recoup some of that money or some of that loss and so this is sort of the where we find ourselves so for next school year we will receive funding based on this year's attendance and that attendance is a complicated formula that includes both enrollment and attendance with lots of exceptions for kids and special students in specialized programs and one positive piece that we are seeing in this year's attendance which is actually the very last slide is that we are seeing higher attendance rate on a daily basis than our average so our average attendance is 96 and we are saying higher than a 96 attendance rate on a

141daily basis thus far hopefully we'll keep that up hopefully our students will remain healthy hopefully our families will support their kids in coming to school and not taking extended vacations long weekends etc etc um the not so positive piece is that over the course of the last two years we have seen um approximately 500 fewer students enrolled in our district than we did in the 2019-2020 school year so financially next year you will see that as we be from the budget perspective and when we do our budget projections we need to look at a three-year budget projection so you will see that reflected in our budget projections for next year and the following two years and obviously we keep track of this very closely on a monthly basis and i'm happy to answer any questions

142you have about that before we answer any questions mr stearman can i excuse you i know you've got to get some studying so thank you very much does anybody have any questions about the attendance report yeah dr albert you mentioned about next year is there pending legislation right now that would extend the whole harmless ada for this year yet that would affect next year what's the nuances of that you want to talk about that yeah i think we're all i mean whether you're cbo your superintendent you're bored um you're advocating for that with your local folks in sac that are going to sacramento and voicing that so any um uh any heat we can put on um sacramento that includes from our colleagues from our labor partners uh board and ourselves it's very helpful last

143we heard it is something they want to at least discuss but they would like some meat on the bone uh with that and so i think the discussions are going to occur as opposed to just passing along um uh the dollars to districts without any accountability to it and that's understandable and i think we're we would embrace a version of that because we've been um very prudent yeah for sure as i stated though the formula is a very complicated formula as it stands now so there you know as dr keller said there's some interest in sacramento with adjusting the formula for how they make determinations so that could benefit us but at this point on the conservative side on the numbers side we have to assume that the current legislation is what we will be

144dealing with come july 1. and it would be from essentially not this year from but the difference from yeah so two years two years yeah yes yes thank you um correct because all of that legislation over the course of the spring of 2020 took place and they held school districts harmless for any loss in enrollment or ada over two years so we were but we i i would argue that as a school district we've been conservative and we have adjusted um our staffing accordingly and so we don't really anticipate you know like any kind of major um shifts that we haven't already been planning for over the last two years so we haven't operated as though we're going to have this money forever we we have adjusted accordingly over the last two years so if

145we're roughly 9 500 this year the one from two years ago would it be at the 10 000 level or just under so for enrollment yes but not for ada okay okay thank you now it's good to look forward with this not not to look forward to it but look forward at it okay anybody else all right next up we have our first reading of board policy 6143 course of study it's a discussion item so i don't think i have to open a discussion does anybody have any comments or questions this was brought up i think mr strutzenberg when you mentioned last board meeting i did bring this up but i thought it was an appropriate thing to do and i appreciate that it was found to be integrated within an existing board policy which

146very much simplifies things yes that was fantastic so appreciate that give dr wells credit it's a simple one sentence edition which we makes love easy for everyone but the bottom line change will be that any you want to explain that just the change that we're making dr wilds absolutely so it's just one sentence addition underneath the subsection um around secondary um basically outlining that course offerings for grades seven through twelve and that would include your request for electives at the middle school um would require board approval okay does anybody have any comments or questions i do so we're adding just this one sentence in here why wha what's the reason that we're changing or adding i know i know you brought this up to be on the agenda but i i don't know what why

147we're doing this the major difference would be that prior to this high school courses were brought to the school board for approval additional curriculum correct correct but based on practice not based on a board policy okay and it did not include middle school based on practice or policy okay so now we're saying we want a policy that brings seven through 12 all classes yes so when it says courses courses new courses of course so they wouldn't be the same classes every year would it no we would only bring new courses to you and for grades seven and eight that would be electives only the state sets the course of study for core subjects okay that was my question one of my questions and when it says the board shall adopt normally you would see approve

148so when it says the board shall adopt all new course offerings is that the same thing are we voting and approving on the new course or fair point adopt and approve do have different meanings i hadn't thought about it in that context i just want to make sure that we all we all know what we're looking at going forward is this going to take a board vote to to approve a new course and so if this is a first read then i i would suggest we i see that it says adopt earlier in this under elementary grades but it seems to me it should say that we should approve doctor while are you fine with the proof um yeah either way yeah the course of study at the elementary basically for the core contents for

149k through eight is set forth by the state so the so the board would adopt that as their practice so i can so happy to put a proof that makes sense now i understand why there's a difference so yeah i think it applies differently but and and what's the feeling on adding in the seventh and eighth grade electives that was something that redondo that our that we didn't ever come to our the board's attention before the the sense i get is a more transparency to the public as to new courses being offered because this is a public meeting otherwise we would approve them within our own management system and at the site although parents typically would find out about it based on the elective choices for their child but the impression i got was this

150would allow more transparency district-wide for both of the middle schools in particular and you dr wilds you're recommending this uh this was the language that was proposed that that we were asked to bring forward okay but my question is as as staff are you are you guys recommending that this is something we add i would say yeah sure it's it makes it more transparent i don't i don't think we either way it works for us if the board feels this is more transparent to the public great so yeah i would comfortably say it's a recommendation either way it's work and for us the the one thing i would say in dr ross feel free to chime in here dr alfrin uh it also puts us on a better timeline uh proactively um because we would

151have to bring it to the board um you know by early spring yeah right um to put on the books to sell it to kids if it's a new elective for the following fall semester yes so in some ways that's a good that's a that's a good piece a little more accountability in the process i kind of feel like this is how how does curriculum become curriculum this is like you know how does a course become a course just just a little history i think that for middle school they have not spent the kind of time to develop courses that high school has and that's primarily due to the fact that they're not credit bearing courses um so that that has been a big a piece of that you know when high schools adopt uh

152put forth new courses they're also aligning it to external um requirements beyond high school like an a through g list and getting her g approval so you know this is a very specific formatting that they follow that they submit to ed services and then they also submit to uc um and the middle schools have been looser frankly it's not that they they haven't thought through but i think what this will do it will sort of um formalize their timeline and they won't be able to you know kind of spend like a quarter or a semester planning for it but they'll really have to spend a good year before that happens i think you know dr keller saying yes it's because it it really will require greater thought and planning which is not a bad thing

153and a clarification with this to discuss from staff if there are if these are border proved then i would think that essentially kind of freezes them in content and title could changes be made to courses and you know even the change in the title of a course can make a big difference to people would do we think that this would essentially freeze it as approved and is that a good or bad thing i'm not going to say historically as a high school principal rarely do you change a course title because it impacts the transcript um and so you know that transcript has been sent to the ucop which approves the a through g n c double a so you change a title on a course or course number it could impact students who are applying

154you know two three years down the line i i would assume that a major revision to a course would have to come back to the board but that's rarely happens okay yeah just thinking of things that could happen versus what really happens in practice i appreciate that that in practice it just really doesn't happen at the high school because then you're messing someone up you're not comparing apples to apples having it board approved will add some gravity to it that if you really want to make some changes you're going to need to bring it forth again so okay thank you yeah and just you've summarized it well it systematizes it and regardless of who's the administrator new administrator coming in they clearly understand the process so i think that is helpful and then also put

155in an open session the community can all hear okay any other comments or questions all right does anybody have any correspondence they'd like to share looking forward at the calendar of events oh wait dude i forgot board member reports let's start with mr witkin ms nimitz mr elder so i know it comes it's come up quite a bit tonight um we've had no discussion of the vaccine mandate here we do not have a vaccine mandate i know a lot of people are reacting to what the governor said though and so just to briefly sorry minor detail but but with thanksgiving around the corner one of the things i also wanted to really do is just thank all of our amazing teachers all of our amazing staff who support them our incredible leadership team and all

156of our leaders out there and everyone really focusing on providing the best education possible for our students it's been a heck of a couple years here and so i really appreciate and and thankful for everyone who's been part of that we have an incredibly supportive community our ptas ed foundations all of our parents who are investing their time and their energy to make sure our kids get the best experience they can and i also want to thank our students for their incredible resilience these are difficult times for everyone and they luckily a lot of them don't know any better but this has been brutal for everyone so i'm really really you know appreciative of that and also i just want to thank be you know give my thanks for my family my very supportive family

157we have been healthy and i'm thankful for all the balances we've had in medical science over the past year that have helped keep us healthy also thankful for all of our health care heroes who've been on the front lines fighting this and putting themselves and their families in harm way so really just want to give thanks for this incredible community focused on supporting our kids great mr strutzenberg yeah socal rock we do have a board meeting planned for this uh coming week and hopefully that will happen nothing really new news i don't have an agenda yet but i will report back on that and then in some ways i kind of wish this came towards the beginning because when there was more people here to see it but i want to say a thank you

158to all of our staff and cabinet and the teachers and everybody because looking over even our agendas so much of it is coveted related this just isn't normal and all the extra work the extra reports the extra looking at data the hiring is each one of you has had so much more work added to your world and yet you just plow right through it and keep going and i want you to know that's really appreciated thanks for making sure we were all thanked i just want to echo obviously those thanks and um remind everybody that we are honoring our veterans this thursday for veterans day no school thanksgiving break we have a week off the 22nd through the 26th we'll be back here on december 14th at five o'clock for open session and then we'll

159have our winter recess from the 20th through the 31st and almost wrapping up our first semester which is hard to believe it's going by very fast and does anybody have any future agenda items they would like to see placed on the agenda i do okay this is i don't know how i came across this again but relating to career technical education and maybe from my involvement with socal rock and so forth but we have a board policy that i'm not sure if it was just implemented in february of 2019 or if it existed prior to that but it's just for reference it is board policy 6178 under instruction concerning career technical education and part of that is the requirement of a board advisory committee for cte and i don't know that we've ever had that

160and it is in our board policy as a shall it's a little bit complex it requires the committee shall consist of at least one student teacher business representative industry representative school administrator member of the general public knowledge of about disadvantage and representative of the field office of the california employment development department the edd the way it's worded and this is backed up with edcode8070 same wording that it's a requirement that we have if we have a cte we have to have this committee i would love to have it because it helps forward the things that i'm trying to work towards with socal rock it is not an easy thing so i'd like to maybe get some help to look at the language of it does it you know do we have examples from other area

161districts that actually have this or has it just been missed was it new in 2019 i don't know raymer you weren't even on the board then and it may have happened and then covet hit you know shortly after that and just never got addressed so wasn't aware it wasn't always on the books one uh two is i can certainly look around to some of our neighboring districts i think for us and the membership districts i think being part of socal rock i think we've felt like this has been a version of this has been maintained in our district um but i'm happy to look at this i'll follow up we can roll for you and i can talk and and you know look at the specific board policy uh and add code and um i

162can bring back recommendation what have you at a future meeting yes i'm not sure if the board policy was new at that point yeah yeah i'm thinking it could have been something that was added right about the time of my arrival so like 2005 2006 i can see politically why it may have come forward then but that being said the only thing i would say is that i just want some sort of if we do something like this i'd want some sort of synergy with what we're doing and i would too yes yeah yeah and i'd look to exacerbate what we're trying to do and get some more support for it if it you know i don't want to impose it if it's not a requirement right i would love to see it i think

163it's not going to be easy if that's truly the list because that's getting together a group of people that is not easy to pull in but you almost have it on the socal rock board is what i'm wondering if that was yeah we'll do some more research because we can speculate all we want here but i think it's better to just get the research bring it back for a discussion maybe or if it i don't know do we need to put it on the agenda for discussion or we want to well let's get an update and a board update once we have the research and then we'll look at it when it's appropriate to bring it back thank you anybody else all right then i need a motion and a second to adjourn the meeting

164all those in favor say aye aye meeting is adjourned you