Robla School District Board Meeting - May 14, 2026

001going to go ahead and call this meeting to order. Will you please rise and join me in the pledge to our flag? 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, let the record show that uh Trustee Divine, Trustee Cardona, and Trusty Doo are present. There was no action taken in closed session. And at this moment, I will entertain a motion to adopt the agenda. >> So moved, second. >> It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Opposed, abstensions. Motion carries unanimously. We will now move on to see we'll now move on to recognitions. Uh we'll start with Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month resolution

002number 950. Whereas Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month is celebrated in the United States during the month of May to honor the contribution, achievements, and cultural heritage of Asian-Americans of Asian-Americans, Pacific Islanders in the United States. Whereas Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders have enriched our nation's history and have played a vital role in shaping our society through their contributions in various fields including but not limited to science, arts, literature, technology, politics and business. Whereas we acknowledge these Americans for their vast contribution to the grow in our district, our community, our state and the nation in the areas the education, governance, agriculture, business, literature, science, the military, medicines, and the fine arts. And >> whereas Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities represent diverse culture, languages, and traditions and have made significant contributions to the cultural tapestry of our

003nation. Whereas is essential to recognize and celebrate the achievements and contributions of Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders and to promote understanding, appreciations, and respect for their heritage and culture. Now therefore, be it resolved that the Robla School District encourages schools within the district to observe Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month by organizing educational activities, events, and initiatives that promote awareness, appreciation, and understanding of Asian-American and Pacific Islander heritage and culture. With that, I'll entertain a motion to approve. >> So moved. Second. >> Been moved and second. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Extensions. Motion carries unanimously. This is passed and adopted by the governing board of the Robus School District on the 14th day of May, 2026. Okay, we will now move on to communications. Members of the public may address

004the board of trustees regarding any special board meeting agenda item during board consideration of that item. Please note that if you wish to address the board of trustees on an agenda item, you should do so when that specific item is called for by the board president. In order to do so, in order to comment in person, uh fill out a request to be heard card and give it to the board clerk. Uh your name will be called during the public comment during public comment on that agenda item or during the specific or during the public comment agenda item or during the specific agenda item. Comments are limited to two minutes. To submit a comment online via Assembly Gamut meetings, uh, enter your name and email address and the board assistant will provide your your comment

005to the board. To submit a comment via YouTube, uh, simply comment in the live chat and the board assistant will share your comment with the board as appropriate. Now is a time for individuals to address the board on items that are not on the agenda. Please note that because it is not an agendaized item, we cannot take action on that item and we likely won't necessarily comment on that item. But note that we are listening and at the appropriate time we will do whatever we can and take whatever measures are necessary in order to address your concerns. I do see that we have a number of folks here who are interested in commenting. So we'll go ahead and go from the top. I will apologize in advance for any names that I may butcher. All

006right. First we have Kevin Hancock. Good evening. Uh my name is Kevin Hancock. Um I've got some notes here. Uh uh thank you for allowing me to speak this evening. And uh I just want to say first and foremost, our family loves our school, Taylor Street. Love this district. It's it's been amazing. Um we have two daughters that go to the school. One in fifth grade and one in third grade. Always have loved the teachers there. Everybody there does an amazing job. We couldn't be happier uh with this school. Um we've always felt safe at Taylor Street. Uh we always feel safe that our daughter's there at school. And when I my wife and I first moved our family up here back in 2017, we were tickled the fact that our school was literally kitty

007corner from the school. Didn't have to take a school bus. Didn't have to drive forever to go to school. We could walk them to school. All that stuff. And it was great. Um we loved being that close. Uh however, on May 24th of 2022, we all know what happened uh with the deadly school shooting at Rob Elementary in Uvaldi, Texas. Um that was horrible. I remember I was going to pick up the girls that day and I heard it on the radio and it was just awful. Um our heart sank that day and we never we've never once worried that there would be a situation like that at at Taylor Street or up until that point we hadn't. Um it sounded like it was pretty easy to get onto that campus and uh that that

008shooter could do the damage that he did in as little time or as long a time as it took. Um it made us think rethink living here in the United States at that point. We had even taken steps to perhaps move to another country. We were looking at Great Britain where they have stricter gun laws. Um and we were getting ready to move. We were close. Uh all we had to do left was sell our house and we'd be out of here. Um, one thing that really made us not want to move was that school. We loved where our daughters went to that school. We love they know everybody there. All the teachers, not just their own teachers. Everybody knows who our kids are. They know all the kids. Um, we So, we decided to

009stay. We weren't going to cut and run and leave everybody just hanging. Um, she my wife mentioned that she did not want to get that call that any parent teacher dreads that there was a shooting at the school. and I reminded her that we live so close we would hear it before we got a call. Um when uh when we decided to stay, we just thought, you know, we'll be there. We do as much as we can for the school. I drop my kids off every day. I pick them up every day. I make sure that there's contact there. I try and help out at the school when I can. Um but it would be nice to know that there's real good safety measures there. I know during the school day there is one gate

010you can just open up, walk right in. Um, and it takes a while to get back to where the office is, where anybody sees you. Um, that's kind of a kind of a red flag. I know the other gates are closed, but there's some other ones that seem like they're pretty easy to get into. Um, so just if we can get some more security there. Um, not necessarily a guard or anything, but like maybe a more secure gate, more secure cameras, that kind of thing, we would really appreciate it. So, uh, that's my time and, uh, thank you very much for listening. >> Thank you. Thank you. Ali Klene. >> Good evening, President Doo, board members, and Superintendent Chen. We are the teachers and staff at Taylor Street Elementary School, and we are united here

011tonight as concerned members of the Roba community to speak about the urgent need for improved safety and security measures at Taylor Street Elementary School. We want to acknowledge that Taylor has a strong leadership team and dedicated staff who work incredibly hard every single day to keep students safe. They consistently do everything within their power to monitor campus, respond to incidents, and support families. The concerns being raised tonight are not a reflection of or lack of e effort from site administration or staff. The reality is that because of the physical arrangement of the campus and the lack of proper infrastructure, it is simply impossible for them to fully secure the campus under the current conditions. Taylor has an exposed open campus and this has created ongoing safety concerns for years. Unlike every other district site, including

012the district office, Taylor does not have a secured entry point that directs visitors to a staff member for check-in before entering campus. It is 202 feet from the side parking lot gate to the main office. It is 142 feet from the unlocked main gate to the front office door. Every other site has recognized the importance of controlled access and campus security. Our students and staff deser deserve the same level of protection. Unfortunately, the concerns being raised tonight are not hypothetical. These are real incidents that have happened on our campus. Bullet holes were found in classroom windows in both 2019 and 2023. A stepfather came onto campus with a knife attempting attempting to kidnap his stepdaughter and broke down the office door. A knife was pulled on a parent on campus while kindergarten students witnessed the

013incident and police had to be called. Dogs regularly access campus through broken fencing along Bell Avenue and Jesse Avenue. Parents frequently bring dogs on a campus throughout the school day. Upset parents have have entered campus to yell at staff, teachers, and even other children during school hours, including cursing, cursing, threatening behavior, and physical aggression. Intoxicated parents have had to be removed from campus. Unhoused individuals have repeatedly needed to be escorted off campus multiple times every year. An unhoused man entered campus before school and exposed himself to teachers and a parent. Amazon and Door Dash delivery workers enter and wander around campus daily looking for the office. People in the neighborhood have walked onto campus to engage and interact with students and staff. Almost daily incidences or I'm sorry, incidents of parents or former students coming

014on a campus unannounced without checking into the office. These are not isolated incidents. They demonstrate a long-standing pattern of safety vulnerabilities that place students and staff at risk. Teachers should not have to wonder who may walk into campus during the school day. Parents should not have to question. >> That was brief. Stephanie, >> parents should not have to question whether school grounds are secure. Most importantly, children should not have to witness violence, violence, threats, or dangerous situations while at school. We are not here tonight to simply point out problems. We are here asking for action. As a short-term solution, we are asking the district to install a secure locked entry gate with a buzzer system that requires visitors to be physically buzzed onto campus by staff through a video or and audio monitoring system. This

015is a basic safety measure already used successfully at the other schools in our district, including our district office. Long-term, we believe Taylor needs a campus redesign that places the main office at the front of the school near the parking lot, making it the primary point of entry for all visitors. Whether through constructing a new office space or reconfiguring classrooms 11 and 12 into a secure front office with a locked entrance, the district must prioritize infrastructure that allows campus staff to efficiently monitor and control access to school grounds. In addition, we are asking the district to prioritize immediate repairs to broken perimeter fencing, expand camera coverage around vulnerable access points, and develop a clear timeline for implementing additional campus security improvements. We are also requesting a formal safety assessment of the Taylor campus along with a

016transparent action plan so staff and families understand what steps will be taken and when improvements can realistically be expected. Even temporary measures would help reduce many of the daily safety concerns currently faced by students and staff. We are also inviting each board member to come visit Taylor before the end of May. So you can see firsthand the immediate attention these safety concerns require >> Laura. >> We believe it is important for district leadership to personally experience the campus layout and understand the daily challenges our students and staff face. This issue is about equity, dignity, and safety. Every child in Robbo School District deserves a safe learning environment. We appreciate the conversations that have already begun, but our community needs to see meaningful follow through and urgency moving forward. Thank you for your time, your attention,

017and your commitment to the students, staff, and families of Taylor Street Elementary School. So, we have brought pictures just to share with you each of the uh schools in the district, including the district office. I'll just step over here. Um here at Roba, here's the parking lot. You enter up before you enter campus. There's a door where you come right into the office where there's two staff members sitting. You check in with them before you can enter door and for avenue at Main Avenue. Their office is back a little office. The front fac doesn't have windows. They have a buzzer system. You're immediately in the office. Here is the front of the district office. You enter through there's somebody checking you in and then there's a secondary lock to enter. And um I'm going to

018end on here. on what street currently looks like. This right here is our side gate. Um right here are this is where children enter. Um during that time there are cars for our children. Our main should be our unlock is what's happening regularly entering they are not already come through here go to her daughter's classroom there's a do not disturb sign on the knocked on the door, kept knocking. Um, so although not an unsafe situation that time, you can see we have a office sign. So by the time someone's walking through this, they sign they cafeteria, they hit classrooms first to ask where's the office? So they don't even know and they're just of our boards here. There are >> real quick if I might ask, I know that you had because there were there

019was a list of incidents that you had included. Is it possible because I know you had the you had the whole presentation written. Is it possible to get a copy of that? >> Excellent. Thank you. I would like to commend all of you for working together. I have never seen a close session come together like that or not come together like that and it was wonderfully done. Thank you for sharing everything. >> That's great. >> Yes, >> I think I'm on there. Allora, um I just Yeah, I just actually wanted to end I just wanted to thank you guys for hearing us out and listening to our statement. Um I did bring copies of all the statements and then for everybody and then I have photos as well. Um and just to reiterate this reflects

020the experience of staff, all the educators who really value the safe and supportive learning environment at >> I I will just make I want to make sure to note we do have an upcoming uh facilities master plan workshop and we hope that you will attend because the this is the sort of information that we need as we as we work on that master plan update. Uh, Ramon, can you confirm the date for that? >> All right. It's going to be Tuesday the 26 at 5:30. Everyone's welcome. >> Right. >> What's Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> And I do want to recognize I know that is your open house and your open house is 4:30 to 6, but the workshop is 5:30 to 7:30. So, come on afterwards. Do we have any comments

021online? >> We do. Okay. So, let's start off with YouTube. So, Taylor Street needs a new parking lot as well as uh sorry, teachers need a new parking lot as well as these teachers deserve better. Um continues, however, how every other school gets upgraded and Taylor gets a little soccer field. I stand with Taylor Street uh time for an upgrade. the community needs it. Glenwood has upgraded and Bell Avenue. Why not Taylor Street? They said the other school went over budget and what that had to do with Taylor Street. Another comment says this is I apologize if I mess this up. Kana, thank you teachers for advocating for a safer campus of the students. It's terrible trying to pick up children in the evening. Great job, Miss S. And that is the end of comment

022online. Thank you so much once again. Thank you so much for coming and sharing your like I said I know that it's an a it's not an act because it's not an action item. We can't do anything about it this evening but do know that you were heard. Okay, we're going to move on now to reports. I'm going to start with the Robbo Education Foundation. Good evening. Not too much to report, but however, we did have an organizational meeting uh about a week and a half ago where I acquired a new foundation boss. That's not you. >> Any Okay. Anyways, I consulted with the new president who happens to be here this evening somewhere's hiding in the back. >> Oh, she is there. Okay. >> Sabrina. >> Yes. >> The person who actually put together

023the flyers that you received for the fireworks. She also takes on a lot of shifts and coordinates for the Glenwood PTC to work the booth. So, she's been a great help in the last two years to me as far as the fireworks go in the foundation. So, now she's Madame President by everybody's desire. Uh the other thing the report because of the flyer that she designed and that the district printed for me which by the way I'm still awaiting my invoice haven't received it but uh because we're paying we are paying for it and as a result of it being handed out to the at the school sites we've had a few more signups more so than we've had in past years. So, it's looking real good, but you're still working every night from 6:00

024until we load the truck, >> right? And since I know one of my people is online and as you and the others that have already volunteered for the booth know that I've already sent out the email. I believe you got it a couple of days ago that showed the schedule in its current form and so that people know what's available for them to uh sign up for it. Good response. I've actually had to email a few people and say, "Sorry, I don't need any more people on the nine o'clock shift." >> Any questions? >> No. >> Hearing none, the rest of them are as short as mine. >> I concur. >> Okay, now we're going to move on to the Rob Teachers Association. Good evening. >> That's not us. >> No, not yet. >> Not

025yet. >> RTA about classified school employees association, CSCA superintendent report. >> Good evening. I'm going to take a little bit more time than Mr. Raven. Um, sorry. >> We won't hold it against you. So, I I do want to acknowledge all the great um events that have happened at the school sites and in the district within the last couple weeks. So, Maine had flapjacks with families and that was a really good, you know, event for the first time on a Saturday that was colder than expected, right? So, but great, I think, first event for the families to to do that. Belle in PreK had a very huge successful tree planting, so I'm excited to see what that is going to look like. Um, and then I also popped over to um, Belle's paint night and

026I popped in at the end and I was told I looked at all the pictures that was packed and I think um, they probably had more signups but um, they were I I was heard they were happy a few did not show up because the room the cafeteria was packed but all the examples that I saw they were gorgeous and it looked like the the parents really had a good time. Um, Glennwood's multicultural assembly was also another well- attended event. And I do want to give a shout out to um our social workers, our community site liaison, our custodial staff, um Ramon and Denise and um Robless staff, right? We had a district health resource fair last Thursday and it was a great event. I want to thank all our community partners. um who supported

027that event. We gave so much, right? And this is in partnership with um Skoey, our Skoey mental health commission. So, I want to thank everyone. We gave out cinch bags of stuff and then every school we raffled a bike and I will say it got pretty spicy at the end because um the parents were like, "Hey, if they're not here, they need to pick another child that was here." And we're like, "No, we hear their name. We're going to tell the family." So, that was a good um a really good event. Thank you. Um, terrific 10. We had Trusty Divine as our guest. Um, and then soccer. I have to congratulate Glennwood. Um, I don't Dr. Dre is going to mention this in our SPA SPSA presentation, but she I want her to know that

028I know that they are four-time champions. Um, and that they actually are our attendance challenge winner. Um, beating Taylor by a little bit, but you know, got acknowledged that they are attendance challenge winners. But we do have we did have two school two teachers at every school also in right we did it by grades span. So we wanted to um recognize that um we're in the thick of cast testing. So parents if you're listening please make sure that they get good sleep and um breakfast in the morning. And I do want to take a little bit of time um because Mr. Martin will go more in depth about the budget at next board meeting when he does the budget presentation and along with the LCAP with Miss Lion. But I want to say that the

029governor's May revise was um released today and as everybody is um trying to figure it out. I just want to do some highlights. It really is good. I say good and with asterk because you know we know it's not approved. This his proposal um Prop 98 funding you know is upward of 6.4 4 billion over three years. Um while the governor is holding 3.9 billion, I know this is all technical, but it's really good stuff. Um he's holding 3.9 billion. Last year he held 1.9 billion, but he's holding 3.9 billion billion, which is equivalent of about 605 um dollars per ADA that we hope to get later on, right? Um but it's still it's reduced. He he said he was going to hold 5.6. So, you know, I guess I'm going to be happy that

030it went down to 3.9. Um, the cola is very interesting. He's proposing a super cola. The statutory cola is 2.87 and it was projected to be 2.41. So, that is an increase. The but the super part of it, they call it the super cola, is an additional 1.44%. And this is to offset his proposal of a 14-week paid maternity leave. Right. So um he is recommending that 14week paid maternity leave and how districts are to pay that is to add another 1.44 um into cola um special ed funding bases increase it he added another 2.4 four billion which is exciting. Um there is a one-time discretionary block grant of5 billion dollars. So this year when I said he held 1.9 million and we get it later on. So we are getting that back. The only

031challenge is it's one time and it has restrictions. We don't know what the restrictions are. So if you're ever out there advocating, we want to advocate for just fully full fully fund the cola. Um and then we are excited that he added 1 billion for community schools. Um this year ROA district um was approved for the for the last round and we weren't sure what would happen afterwards. So we're excited that the current schools and possibly us in in five years from now that he continues to add um more funding into this program. So we're excited about that. So what is next in the next couple weeks? intense negotiations between the governor and the legislature to see what it, you know, what will be the final step. So, I'm excited, right? I'm excited. Hey, any

032more money is exciting for our our families and our students. And then Oh, go ahead. >> I was just going to say it's interesting though that he's deferring money that will need to be paid out when he's no longer governor. >> Okay. Okay. So, parent empowerment dinner is next Thursday, um May 21st. And then, as uh uh President Doo says, our facilities master plan workshop will be Tuesday, May 26 at 5:30. >> That's the end of my report. >> Okay. Thank you. All right. Now, we'll move on to board member reports. Trusty Cardona, >> I was uh kind of physical uh wasn't here physical, but I was online. I have some family issues. Uh they have to take care. Uh but I'm here. Mr. uh Revans, I got to check the open schedule. It was

033available and that's it. Thank you, >> Trusty Divine. Um, as Miss Chen had or Superintendent Chen had mentioned, I had the opportunity to go to Terrific 10 a couple weeks ago. It was absolutely amazing. The kids were so sweet. Uh, we watched the the Disney video about Table Manners. I've seen it a few times. I always get a It's just so funny. You should definitely find it and watch it. And the kids were all so well behaved and they all tried new food. We had great discussions and it was a privilege to be able to have lunch with your children >> and uh I had a chance to attend the mental health fair here at Roba. It was phenomenal how many families showed up. It was really really good turnout. Uh really once again want

034to thank the staff uh and the counselors, everybody who who was a part of organizing it. It was a phenomenal event. The community really seemed to enjoy it. And that will be the end of our reports. We will now move on to a public hearing uh where we will sunshine the sunshine proposal from the Robla Teachers Association to the Rob School District 2026 27 collective bargaining article 34 early learning programs. That hearing is now open. If there are no comments, I will entertain a motion to close the hearing. Move >> second. It's >> been moved and seconded. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Abstensions. Motion carries unanimously. Now we'll move on to presentations and information. We'll start off with item A, the 2627 school plan for student achievement or SIPA

035update. You're back. >> Hello everybody. Good evening. So tonight um as a as a team we are going to be presenting our five goals that are written in our SIPA or our school site plan. Um and we we'll try to be succinct and thorough which can be a little challenging sometimes but we'll I'm going to do my best. So if you look at the first slide up here it is um goal one. We're going to increase performance in English language arts. Um actions here would be to prioritize for us next year prioritize training for new teachers and coordination of supports between PLSTs and our NorCal GLAD trainers for peer observations. Um, the data presented at the right hand side of the slide is from the California dashboard. And you might notice that the one in

036the middle, the the graph in the middle there, um, is something that you've all seen before, but the the two columns on the right hand side are new this year. And those two columns are representative of all students progress on CASP. So, um, many times when we talk about CAST testing, we talk about the kids that are at or above grade level. So, for example, um, at Bell Avenue, 33% of our kids are at or above grade level in English language arts. But if you look at our um, middle section there and then the section on the side, you can see that it's also referring to all students. So it says the top one in the middle says that all students are 80 I think I can't read that because my eyes are not that

037great but 85.5% of students did improve on the CASP. So though they may not have been in that 33%, we have a large um majority of our students that are showing gross gross on the um CAST testing. Um and then on the um far right hand side, you can see that um we've broken it down by English only, current English learners, and recently classified English learners. And I won't go through all of that, but it's just something new this year on the dashboard and definitely something worth taking a look at. Um, this year, probably a big difference in our SPSet bell is that in the past um, we've been funding Lexia Learning, which is a reading intervention program. And, um, we are not going to fund it this year because we are going to look

038to see what Amplify offers as far as in reading interventions for our students. we don't want to double um pay for things. So, we want to see what the new um platform offers before we look for alternatives in interventions. So, we're very interested in seeing um what that's going to look like. One thing that we kind of have um consideration for is um with with star reading and renaissance kind of going away, all of our library is um organized by um it's like the accelerated reader levels and our kids at Bell are very actively participating in accelerated readers. So that's going to kind of go away next year. So, we have to figure out how we're going to keep that going because that's something that's been really effective at our school. Okay. The second goal

039is increase performance in math. Um so for us in mathematics I think the big focus this year is making sure that we are looking at our instructional engagement strategies and that's um been in tandem with our training that we're um going through as a district um learning about Marzano and um the strategies. I'm not sure why that keeps happening, but um that we've talked about all through the entire school year as a district and then we're talking about them during our PLC at um Bell Avenue and um conducting walkthroughs and having lots of great um support from our PLSTs and um then just support amongst the staff in the um a colleague to colleague talking about what's working in their classrooms. Um, and so we're really working to apply that to mathematics. Um, in mathematics

040at Bell, you can see that 74% of our kids made growth in um, on their CAST testing last year. Um, and um, overall 31% of our kids are at or above grade level. Okay, for English language learners, um we are focusing our like heavily focused on writing for our English language learners um this year because that is the area in the ELPAC that our kids were struggling the most with. So, all of our designated EEL classes at Bell this year, um especially third grade, but all of them were highly focused on writing. That was that's probably the biggest change for us this year. Okay, next. Parent involvement. Um, one of the biggest the probably the thing that we're most proud of in parent involvement is that our parents are using parent square and I think

041currently I have two parents two families not connected to parent square. Um, the next step is training the parents to use the app because currently what they're doing is they're using parent square through their email which is fairly efficient but it's not as efficient as if they were using it through their through the app. So we're working on that. um trying to figure out how to get people to um um be more willing to to use the app because then they get updates a lot faster. Um but currently Parent Square has been very very successful at Bell Avenue School. Um this year we we have to mention that we are um very much benefiting from our community schools identification um our community schools liaison and then of course the grant money that came with that.

042We've had quite a few family events this year. We actually were able to host the ELA van. I know that's been on the other campuses but this year Bell Avenue was able to host Elica. Um food literacy. We our garden is finally up and running again because the construction is finally done between Bell and preschool. Um we've had some big events hosted our by our Bell Community Club this year. Um, so we have a we have a lot going on. And um, and in the bottom kind of middle picture, you'll see that's a picture of a family planting a tree between Belle and preschool on Saturday or last Saturday, May 2nd. We planted I think it was 30 trees. Was it 30 trees? It was a huge undertaking, but it went really, really well and

043it was a lot of fun. Lastly, um, school climate and pupil engagement. I did not put a dashboard slide up there for attendance because last year our attendance was not accurate on the dashboard. Um, so I didn't want to post that, but um I Bell Avenue is at about 93% attendance rate, but we also have a rate of 23% chronically absent. And so that's something that we've been really aware of and working really hard on. Yesterday we had 97% attendance at Belle. We were pretty excited about that. Um so some of the things we're doing to to help kids feel connected to our school site and want to be there every day is um making sure that they're seen at school. Um our staff are visible, they're personable, um they are greeting kids, they when

044kids are absent, the kids know that we've noticed that they were absent. Um, we have a therapy dog on campus once a week. Um, our afterchool programs are up and running and very successful. Lots and lots of field trips this year. Um, all of the things that are offered at the other school sites too, the RMP enrichment are very important as far as kids feeling connected and engaged in what's happening at school. Um, we have a pretty strong tutoring program going on in grades four through six. Um, Pro Youth is on campus, lots of assemblies, our community garden, PBIS. So, we've got a lot going on at Bell. And there's a couple of um, uh, pictures up there to kind of show what's happening. I'd invite you to come over to the campus. It looks

045really great right now. um between the the beautiful soccer field and all of the murals, there's lots of new murals at Bell that are student um painted um with the support of our art teacher, Miss Kelsey Burke. Um so, we have a lot going on there. So, I'd invite you to come over and take a look. >> Really quick, was the mur were all the murals painted by the same person or multiple? Well, the the murals are being painted by the students, but the art teacher is kind of directing directing the traffic, so to speak. >> The way you said it, I thought it was one student. >> No, the art teacher, Miss Kelsey Burke, is um kind of spearheading our um key points. We're focusing on GLAD training as always. Um I did budget

046for three um teachers to be glad trained next year. I don't know who I have three openings at my site. I don't know who's coming, but if they're coming, we're going to they're going to get glad trained. Um we are we're continuing to focus on writing. We are progress monitoring our subgroups that are not making appropriate progress um including our ELTEL students, but also um some of our our students with disabilities. There's uh some very specific groups of students that we've been um very focused on. We are excited to try Amplify for ELA and math. Um we are very excited to um continue to work on engaging students academically and with enrichment activities and looking to see what types of new activities we can bring to campus to help meet everybody's interests and needs. Um

047our parent club is up and running and we've got like a strong and mighty about 12 parents that come every other Thursday. Um, and we're working to increase that. And we are working again on increasing communication between school and teachers and parents. And the big focus next year is going to be that app because I think that's a that's going to be a key to um more parent involvement at our school. And then future site conversations. And actually we started um this past PLC. We are talking about science instruction and educational technology at Bell. That's going to be a big focus for us next year for >> Bel you right Glenwood. >> Questions you guys. >> Oh, do you have any questions? >> Hi everyone. Good evening. >> Okay, so for Glenwood Elementary, we are

048looking at goal one to increasing our ELA. Um we're going to continue our work with AVID and AVID again encompasses your instructional and your engagement strategies as long as as well as your school culture. So um a strong emphasis on career and college. Um so we're aligning that across the board and we've allocated funding to get additional teachers trained and they do the summer institute every June. Um we're also increasing our foundational phonics work. So this year we adopted um a lot of our sites use UFly for English but we adopted Ola books which is the equivalent but in Spanish and then as a site I mentioned this in our SISA update and something that we're continuing to do is the seven mighty moves book study which talks you about foundational phonics work and how

049it's needed past K through K2 and we're taking that into our intermediate classes as well. And then our school librarian is doing a wonderful job in bringing in supplemental literacy material in multiple languages be beyond Spanish as well. So just increasing that for our newcomers and our diverse population on our campus. And with that we're also funding our scholastic subscriptions which are in multiple languages and also available to students online. We're also going to continue the implementation of amplify where students are doing 40 minutes a week at minimum which is also incre increasing their reading levels. So the images you can see here are our hallway displays of AVID. Our AVID team is leading different displays showing different strategies that kids are utilizing on a day-to-day basis, a weekly basis, and they do it by

050grade level. And we're also noticing kids using this independently, especially during CAS testing. So we're really excited to see how that's going to trickle down into their independent work. Um below is Ola Books. Over on the right side is our usage and the growth for students from the beginning of the year to midyear um through amplify. And then we saw that what Lisa had pointed out um my favorite new component of the dashboard is talking about the overall growth as a site. So we saw about an 80% increase of all of our students from the previous year which we're really really excited about. For goal two, our performance and math were most excited about this. Um, we brought on Dibbles through Amplify, which is an intervention component. We're familiar with Amplify, but with an intervention

051component for ELA. And now we're introducing it as math. Our students have already started um spearheading this. We're also increasing our community access to make sure that everything that they're using at school is also available available through Clevver at home. So kids um whatever they're using at school, they can also get that support with their families at home. And then we're adopting and implementing. We've allocated funding for the California math festival for two times a year. It's something that um I went to part of the math coalition through Skoey and so I attended a conference and found this resource that provides PD to students, staff and parents and they bring a festival that the whole community can be a part of. They do 12 different um stations that families can interact with. They take home

052kits and it's available in both languages. So we'll be adopting that. And then we're also looking to collaborate with Silicon Valley math initiative. Um it's a math PD focus that also focuses with um training your staff and then doing um small group instruction by going to classrooms breaking down your common core seat standards with math and making sure that we are backwards mapping to meet grade level goals. So just a stronger emphasis in math overall because although we're performing on average as you can see here with some kids improving um we really want our dashboard to move out of orange because it's maintained there for the last two years. So we we're trying to get out of the orange area. Um we've increased our backwards mapping for math with end of year goals maintaining a

053focus on reading comprehension because we know it's also affecting our math scores. And then um we've also been able to increase the deal DLI piloting teachers um for the upcoming math adoption and implementing morning math questions that's going with our daily routine. So that's a new initiative that we're going to do campuswide where the do now as they come in are just having morning math questions. And then down at the bottom on the right hand side is one of the math evenings we had this year where we partnered with Skoey to come do nine interactive um sessions with our families and we saw a big increase um with parent participation. So the increase for performance with our English learners, we actually saw a dip the year before and then with this year's um dashboard we

054shot right back up and that's a big thank you to our ELST Miss Sue Karma who did a lot of work and offered PD. So since we saw that that worked, we want to continue that. We offer PD sessions once a semester and then staff can um come if they like. That's something that we allocated funding for. Um we're also attending an IAB training over the summer that was offered through Scobby. So the admin team along with their ELST will be attending that. We're doing supplemental resources for EL minutes and refocusing our intervention schedule right now to make it uh more conducive for the scheduling instead of more switching. We're trying to put grade bands together um with the integrative integration of curriculum. Um we're setting goals with our ELPAC kiddos. So we met individually

055with every kid that was on the cusp in the ELPAC score. We helped them set goals. They set those goals home. We did test taking strategies and then we're looking to see what that did um for their overall ELPAC scores that we'll get by the end of May. um for our LTEL focus group that's actually being spearheaded along with Miss Lion and we've learned a lot through that. But with the third grade writing um that they've been doing on a daily basis and with the digital implementation at least once a week, we've seen a huge impact. So we'll be focusing and continuing that initiative aligning supplemental material and then increasing access to computers and internet for our newcomer families. So, we've allocated fundies to funding to bring additional Chromebooks into our library for our public

056library time and then offering that to our newcomer families with hotspots because we know that that is an area of need that we working with our community liaison. Um, and then for our English learners, our current English learners saw an increase of 72%. Our Englishonly kiddos saw close to 80% and then our recently reclassified were the highest improvement at 82%. So, we're heading in the right direction for our increase in performance and parent involvement. Um, we've been really leaning hard on our community leaison, although we did see a shift and we had a couple months without a community liaison. Um, that gap wasn't too hard of a hit because she had done a lot of great work and then our new community leazison hit the ground running and she's doing a lot of um community

057work in regards to finding resources and making those connections with her families. Um so we since we're seeing an increase in parent involvement in the interactive evenings we're changing that approach instead of informational it's more of coming interacting with the parents um giving them workshops feeding them providing child care and then sending them home with something that they can utilize later. Um instead of coffee in the morning with principles we're doing math in the mornings. So myself and the community leazison will have math questions of the day and it would show based on their grade level with their kiddo um and talk to them about how to do that to make it more interactive and something they can talk about with their student when they get home. Um we're doing in-person parent surveys and sending

058home paper um like Lisa was talking about. We have a large percentage on parent square 99%. Um I love her idea of diving deeper of how they're interacting because we know a lot of people are signed up but we are not getting the responses that we're looking for. So, how do we get them to read it? Um, and so the parent survey on paper is how we're trying to reach that need and find a better way to communicate home with them. Um, and then we're devising a new incentive for our families by opening the first parent PBIS store. um where parents if they show up to these events, they interact, they respond to surveys, they respond to forms online, then they can um allocate their points in the PBIS store that might get them a

059VIP section for the winter performance or additional tickets for the sixth grade promotion or um Glennwood swag. So things that just keep them more involved or maybe a free ticket for a food truck at multicultural night. So um just incentivize them and thank them for being part of our community and maybe a little boost for that interaction. Um, we're also focusing on actionable steps to implement at home. So, report home, um, reports that go home, they're called home connect. It's available through amplify that just talk about individually what your student can do based on their areas of need in academics. And then support for students and families to learn together. So, those workshops, um, the literacy night over on the left, that was actually put on by community school leaison we just hosted. So, they

060put everything. And it was actually a lot of staff from Taylor Street came over and manned the booths and we got a lot of great resources for free books home for families. Um that was our tree planning event that happened earlier in the fall. Up top in the middle is our um current multicultural night that just happened last month. Down below is a screenshot of the upcoming math festival that we're looking to implement. And then over on the right side were the custom Lia cards that we had for Loia night with families. And then we'll be having a paint night that's coming up um the end of this month which we have to rebook because the facilities meeting is on the same night. So, but it's another way to interact with families and get them

061to learn along their child. And for gold five, um I know that we talked about some of the great wins that we had this year, but what we want to do is increase clubs on campus. This year we started a video club with my Ramos. It's doing great. He actually made the cast ready logo and um and talked about test taking strategies um getting kids really excited and he does announcements that way. Um like Miss Chen had announced, we are the quad squad, so we are fourtime soccer district champions. Um and we're really excited of it. We got a very humble trophy for the front of our school if you want to come check that out. Um and then we get to take our whole school photo tomorrow for winning the best attendance challenge. Finally,

062for once, our efforts were made. I know it was by a small margin, but a lot of that has to do with our staff, um, our PBIS team and Miss Tran. They got really, really inventive with getting kids to school and strategizing, um, spirit days and incentivizing kids to just be present. Um, I also want to shout out our teacher of the year, our site teacher of the year, is now also our robot teacher of the year. So, Miss Jel, our TK teacher, um, was another great point to celebrate. and um we're really really excited of her and very proud of her. Um for campus um clubs, we also have hand sewing club that was this year, writing club, homework club, but we want to bring in English and Spanish club. So for kids who

063aren't in the DI program or in the DI program, they need more help. Um a restorative justice club, a gardening club, and culturally focused club so that when we have our multicultural night, it's our students performing and showcasing the pride in their home culture. And then we want to provide more sport options. And the top ones that were asked for were basketball, track and field because of our new field and um surprisingly ping pong. So we're looking to bring um those different options which will be staffled onto our campus next year. So in summary, we are at the end of as of May 22nd, we will um officially become an AVID certified school, which is really exciting. U we'll be one of the very few bilingual schools in the state to um be an AVID

064certified school. And then we're hoping within the next few years two years we be a showcase school where other schools in the dish um um in the Sacramento area city Elkrove can come visit our site and see how we're implementing AVID strategies. Um we've also become PBIS certified. We've increased parent involvement through different workshops and then we are doing creative approaches in math and ELA through festivals and community involvement supplemental programs to help with math and phonics. um parent educational opportunities. Um we actually just had a meeting with CASA Despanol, which is a program in Midtown to bring um parent educational nights and workshops and courses to them on our site to help parents learn Spanish and also English, which has been a big ask of the Glenwood community for multiple years. And then through

065it all, um we are very community school focused and we're very excited for what that's going to do for our site. >> Any questions? Thank you. >> On to me. >> Good evening. >> Um so for ELA for our first goal, the biggest shift that we're making here is that we're going to move into GLAD professional development. Um this is something that we've discussed as a staff and we've made the determination that as a whole team we're moving forward with this. It is a multi-year endeavor because it is an expensive one. Um, so a good chunk of our title one dollars will be going towards this. So for next year, our kinder and first grade teachers as well as our academic intervention specialists will be attending the training. And then the following year, we'll move

066into second, third grade, another specialist. And then the third year, fourth, fifth, and sixth grade. And then any remaining specialists. So that's just a big piece that we feel that will help um kind of move forward with some just kind of really give a a boost into our instructional strategies and also support our work in science because it envelops science so much and sometimes that's a hard subject to to delve into deeply and so we feel that this is another way to to address multiple um areas of need. That means we're going to have fewer purchases in Scholastic News and we won't have ourou with Skoey, but the work that we've been doing with them in tier one instruction for phonics and phmic awareness and vocab, we feel like we are building enough capacity at

067the site that we can continue that work ourselves and grow with that. Um, we are really enjoying the use of Amplify for K2 for the screener and we're excited that the district is going to go districtwide and at all grade levels because we've had some really good data discussions and teachers have been able to glean a lot of good information and strategies to use in their instruction. Um, we continue our Marzano work and we have liked the peer observations that the PLSTs have done with every site, but we as a site want to delve into that more and not just going and observing your grade level partner, but also observing the grade level below you and the grade level above you so that you as a teacher can get an understanding of where the students

068are coming from and then what they need for where you will be sending them to the next year. So, we want to continue the work with the PLSTs, but we're going to make this more of an ongoing um activity at Maine. And then we schedule IABS um that we wrap throughout our instruction throughout the year, but we want to make sure that we've got that completely and very in-depthly laid out so that way from the get-go, we can make sure that we've got a good plan in place and that we're revisiting it throughout the year and how students are progressing on that because they can really dig into those performance tasks um and use it for instructional purposes as well. And then Battle of the Books, we've started this year. We're in full battle mode

069right now with our grades three through six and they're reading all of their books and we spent a good chunk of money on that as well to get that going again after so many years being dormant. Um, but we want to continue to add more titles to it. So, we've got a a chunk of money set aside to continue to build that library. for math. Um, we've sent a a group of teachers to building thinking classrooms training and they've been implementing that throughout this year. They had training last year and then they've been implementing it this year. And in those classrooms that have BTC, we've seen an in an an increase in student engagement that the children are really taking on the onus of learning and putting the thinking back on them and their um

070collaboration with their uh peers uh is much higher as well. So we want to continue to send more teachers to that training um to build capacity in that area as well. At the end of each trimester, we take um one of our site PLC's and we focus in on our math data. And we have found that to be helpful in our conversations across K through six. And so we're going to continue that work, but again, we want to make sure we do that vertical articulation where we're they're meeting with the grade level below and the grade level above so we have continuity in our instruction. Um, and we don't and since we're moving into Amplify, we think that we're going to be able to get more data to use than just the benchmark data that

071we've been looking at. And then that way we can get a a better picture of how a student has progressed at the end of the trimester and making sure that we're doing really well-rounded decisions based on multiple data points, not just one data point. And again, we want to continue with that tier one work with Marzano and the PLST. So that wouldn't just be for ELA peer observations, but we would also do it for math as well. We did a lot more um intervention math focus with our tier 2 groups this year and we used some of our monies to buy some supplemental materials and we have found those to be useful. Um, so we're looking forward to seeing how things look on our CASP scores in the fall because we also restructured how we

072did our intervention groups this last trimester and took those students who were just below where they needed to be and did like a six-week intensive academy um on specific areas of instruction to help boost them um up to where they need to be in their CASP scores. for our English learners. You can see with that graph there that we've made some really nice progress over the years. Um we increased 8.6% with a total of 58.6% of our EL students making progress. Um and we have a really strong win time at Main Avenue and have had for many years and that's addressing that designated instruction, but we're having more conversations about the integrated piece. So, that's what's happening throughout the entire day. And how are we addressing our EL students throughout the entire day? Making sure

073that we're using a lot of visuals, kinesesthetics, um how are we making sure that they're engaged all the time, not just during that designated time. And we also think that that GLAD training that we'll have that will help as well uh with our EL students. Something new is we're going to have our um English learner teacher. She's going to meet with every e student in the fall to discuss their summitive ELPAC score and set goals with them and then circle back throughout the year to see how they're progressing. Um this way the students have buyin to creating their own goal and not just being told you need to improve in writing, but let's talk about why you need to improve in writing and what can you do to make that growth. And you've heard um

074my other colleagues talk about the ELTEL work for long-term English learners for third grade. And we as a site think that's great, but we want to do it K6 because we want to have continuity again across all the grade levels. And I gave an example of what's happening in third grade because that's where the area of focus has been. And they've been working on animal reports this year. And so I have a the actual piece if you want to take a look at it because it can give you a sense of what students have been working on with their writing and this is an informational report and so and it's very gladesque because it involves science and writing and reading and the level of engagement that has increased and they're so excited to do these

075reports. Um they just the teacher only created the template and they've been doing all the work putting in all the graphics typing in all the information. And so it's also touching upon um technology as well for them. So that's something that we want to bring um the intensity to all of our grade levels. For parent involvement, we're going to have our third year in a row in the fall of having back to school night before the school year starts. We feel like this is a great way to ensure that our students and our parents and our staff are very comfortable and ready for the first day of school. uh first year of community schools has been great. Our liaison Monnique Benjamin has been fantastic and she's helped bring a lot of things to the school

076site. So when you're over at Maine in a couple weeks for the board dinner, you're going to see our school garden flower beds. Um they should be fully put together um by that time and they're right out the front of the school. She's been working with a lot of our parents and just community um groups like Home Depot and Three Sisters to get this going. Um we have some parents who have come on campus. You can see the picture there. They did all the staining of the word wood uh putting together the flower beds. I have another parent who's connecting us with UC Davis and their garden program. So, we're ready to get some dirt in those things in the fall and have have our kiddos um start planting and then again that can add

077to that science uh growth. Um we connected with the Rivercats for attendance assemblies. We did send four classes to a game this year. Unfortunately, they got rained out, but they gave us a lot of extra tickets for future games. And then because our library was closed this year due to construction, even though Miss Mashurn and she pushed that cart of books around campus come rain or shine all year, we wanted to make sure we connected students with um the public library to ensure that they had more books in hand. We've also connected with several local and state leaders and they um donated three buddy benches. You can see a picture of it there and then the unveiling that we had because all of our bunny benches were just worn out. So, we have three now

078on campus that are new and looking to add some more. And then we did have our tree planting. Thank you, Trustee Cardona, for coming and getting your hands dirty. When we had ours, we planted 17 trees with the SAC uh tree organization. But we're looking to try to have some more events before the school day for families like coming in for breakfast or coffee or different events also during the school day because a lot of our activities happen after the school day and that might not work for some parents. And so some parents it might be better for them to just stop in for 20 minutes and have coffee and have a meet and greet or maybe there's something during the school day coming in for the garden and working with a class. So we're

079trying to increase that as well. And then our PTC is up and running. Um they've had a couple of really great events and that's the glow dance right there. And then for goal five for engagement, we are finishing up our first year of work with Sam Drezen and inclusive practices. We as a staff decided to focus on calming corners. You can see a picture of one there. This is where a student might go to help regulate themselves and use some of their SEAL strategies they've been taught. We're building a digital resource library. And we've been a zones of regulation school since about 2021, but we really needed to update the curriculum. So, we spent some money this year and have set aside money for next year because now it's a digital curriculum and we have

080to make sure we have funds for the license licensing agreement every year. But um we just did a gallery walk of it at a staff meeting and feel like there's a lot of great updates and resources to this. But we're also wanting to make sure that not only do we continue the SouthCal support for our kids, but that we're setting aside time and money to train our teachers in a new curriculum because we don't want to hand it to them and say go. We want to make sure that they feel good delivering it to our students. We are a platinum PBIS school. Um, we just completed our our uh paperwork for this next year. Thank you, Miss Janowitz, for doing that. Um, we are probably going to be a platinum again this year and we

081got a banner for it next year or for No, not next year. We got it for this past year. We didn't hedge our bets to get one for this year, but but it's looking pretty good. We're going to look like the Lakers. We're going to hand them hang them out in the cafeteria. So, um, we're just really proud of that of that status. Um, but we still have to revitalize some things with PBIS. So, we're looking towards maybe digitizing maybe piloting digitizing our Panther Paws that they earn. Um, and making it uh a digital system to earn their points and then having that connect to a student store. So, we're starting discussions about that as a staff and then also digitizing um our behavior referrals so that we're just streamlining that process. And you can

082see right there, that's our TFI, our tiered fidelity inventory. And you can see that over a couple of years and just how we've progressed in all three of those areas. So to summarize, GLAD is our really big endeavor. Um, again, a multi-year and they know that we've committed to that for the next three years. We'll continue that building, thinking classrooms, professional development and instruction, our tier one instruction, and our Marzano work. Year two for Sam Drezen. We'll continue the three things that we worked on this year, but then we're going to delve into things like accommodations versus modifications. Again, that PBIS platinum status, we're hoping for year two, the training for zones of regulation. Um, second year of community schools work. We want to continue all of the things that we did this year, but

083Miss Benjamin and I met the other day and we kind of listed out a whole bunch of other things that we want to um get going for next year and then just continue our work with PBIS and revitalizing some things. >> Any questions? >> Okay. Thank you so much. Hey, good evening Robla School Board and Superintendent Chen. Thank you for this opportunity to uh update you on what's happening at RobAla. This presentation is called Mustangs on the Move. Okay, so as I go through my slides, I hope you see commitment from our staff for the well-being and improvement of what's happening at Robo. I hope you see collaboration with other schools and um I hope you see celebration of like great things happening. So um goal number one increase performance in ELA. Um we went

084up six percentage points and and if I can connect with Bell and um Glennwood the new dashboard states that 80% of roadless students that took the CASP improved their score. If you do research, a good school in California shows 70% improvement. So 80%. We were really excited about that. I'm really u proud of our team though. We have 10 teachers that are going to be working this summer for our students training in UFly. They're going to do 15 hours and get certified in UFly. So we have all every teacher K through two. Um we're going to have three new teachers train in GLAAD um this summer on their own time. And um we are very honored to be in the shadow of Fisa Hall and everything that's great thing that's happening at Bell and Glad

085and it's really helped our engagement there. So we're excited to do a Glad kickoff with Bell Avenue School. We've done it before and it just really gets the teachers very excited and that energy goes into the classroom. I will tell you uh this year our big initiative was step up to writing and like another principal mentioned here we have proof from third grade students that have written every day and if you were with me proctoring and seeing third grade CASP you had students that had never done a paragraph before um writing multiple paragraphs so we're really excited to see what happens with that so we're going to continue if the one thing I will say about that if you can imagine all of us in this classroom teaching step up to writing and it kind

086of overlaps and so we're really excited to kind of articulate and and see where we're overlapping and kind of clarify um what each teacher's responsibility is. We're very excited about Amplify. We are uh Alexia School. We are letting that go. Um I would like to also say thank you to Mr. John Raven. We are in year two of a $25,000 grant supported by Golden One where we have 30 families that have a computer at home doing Lexia and can access all curriculum at home. So, thank you, Mr. Raven. Okay. In math, um, we showed a 2% increase. Um, we had 79.2% of our students that did better on their math score and cast than last year, which is terrific. So, um, I want to say thank you to, uh, Dr. Benjamin over there. We want

087to follow in the footsteps of Taylor. Taylor's done an amazing job with peer observation with support of the PLST. We're going to do that in math next year. So, um, we know we have to improve our tier one instruction. And, um, we want to do a better job looking at the data and and planning. We were excited with Amplify Math that that's going to give us a better way to do datadriven instruction instead of following our current curriculum that's not um this old. Okay. Um we also know we we have to do a better job teaching academic language and right now we're using a program and doing uh tutoring with EL students. I'll talk about in a little bit. Um, we have students doing daily rigorous math problems now with academics language support. Um, we

088have after school tutoring that's been going on and so we're really excited about that. Our teachers, we asked the teachers what they wanted. They want math manipulatives. They know there's 25% of their students in every class that don't touch anything. They don't touch anything at home. And so the teachers are saying we had counting collections before. Uh we still have it, but there are teachers that want more math manipulative. So I know there's some old teachers in the room. If you have any, we'll take them. Um we are we are um in in honor of Mr. Pinman. He was terrific about this as a principal at Robla. Um we we identified early this year tutoring students who nearly met. And so Miss Hansen out there, thank you Miss Gunter. And right now we have three

089IAS supported by Karen Cook who are tutoring students in math that are nearly met that need more support. Increased performance English learners. U the big celebration in this area is we um last year our reclassification was 7%. This year it's 9%. So we were at El School. We've been tutoring these students and you'll see a picture in a second. We had a Hispanic literature night. We had over 40 families show up and Mr. Cap showed them how to do um get a tutor anytime they wanted 24/7 and they said no thank you. They wanted in-person tutoring. So we been providing that for them. Um we I'm going to show you a slide here about parent communication that talks about parent square but we know we have to do a better job u improving our communication.

090Um we next year we want to have specific nights for EL literacy and mathematics. Uh we're hearing about a lot of crazy things happening at Glenwood at night fun events and uh we want to learn from Glenwood. So um we know we can do a better job with our some of our evening events and and we want to know about the food trucks. So um collaboration with Skoey we are we're having a regional meeting. We're doing a really good job collaborating with Skoey and community schools. So, we have a regional meeting coming up with Skoey and the like um we really appreciate their support. And then our win time, we had a meeting recently and we looked at all the data and we were surprised when the teachers we were talking about maybe possibly changing

091the time because at Roba when happens first thing in the morning, it is the number one priority that every student gets what they need. And so uh this the the teachers we had this big discussion. We're committed to writing. So every student if you come next year to our school from 9:10 to 9:40 uh we will be full writing explaining their thinking um working on writing. This is a picture from our Hispanic heritage night that is our largest ethnicity at our school site. This is Miss Chavez. um I'll talk about here in a second, but uh she was really helping us with students that are very social and having them um enjoy more academics. But this is a slide I wanted to show you. Similar to every school, we have 98% of our families that

092are signed up. I looked at the list, the ones that we that that don't receive the information, they're opt out. But if you look at this, there's 43% of our parents, 43% are opening up the email. And I was kind of like, what? 43%. Well, that night that Mrs. Chin was there and at the night, um, the families were telling us, the 40 families were telling us that Parent Square wasn't working great for them. And so, um, thank you. Did I do that? So, so anyway, we just have a a place for improvement, a place for growth. If I talk too long about Magda Chavez, Community Schools, we are so thankful and so excited to have her. She uh garnished uh community relations with community health works. We had five families on Wednesday at our

093site get health insurance. We are um available 8 to 5:00 for any family in the district or any family that lives in this neighborhood. Uh they can come on our campus and get free health insurance through community health works. So thank you Miss Chavis for that. Um we want to have more like we talked about more monthly events. We've had for the last two years we have coffee and collaborations. We had one um today and we have that monthly and have families come in and they they're really honest with us and we appreciate that. We are like uh Miss New House was talking about we are moving our golden tickets to digital. So we really feel like our staff and our team we can do a better job. We have awesome students but we have

094to do a better job texting families. Families are not checking their emails. We want to text families with their permission and celebrate through a different app that's really easy for the teachers. We will still be using parent square but we are going to pilot fivestar app. Um so we have uh we also learned from superintendent Chin support when we went to CASA that the best parent education classes are the ones taught by your parents. That's what research shows. So we want to next year train some parents to teach those classes because research shows that's what's best not from so from someone from their own community teaching the classes. In goal five talking about school climate we had 89% of our students uh feel like a sense of belonging. uh we know we can do a

095better job involving a more diverse group of students and student council and also a more diverse group in school or school site counsel more diverse group of adults we want to continue uh we feel inspired by Main Avenue the platinum school we're silver this year so we don't feel bad we just feel excited about getting to where you guys are at and we know we can learn from them um we we want to talk about the um fivestar student app. We mentioned that but but uh the other thing that we learned at CASA is never before have students needed a voice to feel heard. So we're sampling student surveys right now that ask what students want after school, what kind of clubs they want, and what students want for school lunches. Um and and we

096really know that with students have a choice, they'll eat more. That's what research shows. Um, so, uh, this is Mr. Cap's report card. I can't be prouder of our team. We have 97% of our families that appreciate what's happening at the school climate. And I just wish this was my report card at my community college because it's a lot of 90s, right? But we don't want to pull that up. Okay, so to wrap up, Mustangs, we're on the move. We have 80% of our students that improved in ELA last year, 79.2 in math. We want to continue our focus on step up to writing. Our teachers are excited to teach that. We have 10 teachers and staff members that are committed to working this summer on their what they know about phonics. We're excited to

097collaborate with Bell and and learn more from Bell and what they're doing with GLAAD. Lindsay Halls working on a district thing to share to help main us have different units with GLAD. We we uh with Mr. Pinman's advice and tutoring, we've learned a lot about instead of just tutoring students that show up, be more intentional with tutoring. We got our silver award for PBIS. We want to pilot Wayfinder. Sinuli has been terrific with us supporting us through our secondstep journey, but we're ready for a more comprehensive SEO program. So, we're going to pilot Wayfinder next year to help with students in trauma and everybody will have the same kind of curriculum and training. We want to we want to work more with Miss Chavez and we want to have monthly multicultural nights and do what

098Glenwood's been doing a terrific job with. And then we're looking forward to and we appreciate uh Mr. Penman all you work with amplify. >> Thank you. Thank you very much. Any questions? >> Thank you. >> Actually, I would just like to say that it was wonderful how you were talking about every other school fight and how you admired what they have lifted up and how you were inspired by. >> Well, thank you. Thank you. Good evening. Last but not least, Taylor Street. Um so again, similar to my colleagues, um we are our first goal is to increase performance in ELA. Um some of the actions we have, um we have all but four of our teachers that are GLAD trained. Um we're going to continue Freckle. This is a program our gate students were using

099um just for our third through sixth around science and social studies teachers got together and looked at it and really thought that that was a good use of that program for our particular students. U we're going to continue amplify like our other the other schools. Um SCOE this year we're going to um touch back touch back touch and base back base with oo touch back in with them. Thank you. Um with Skoey for training around writing, we got a literacy grant this year and so we're figuring out how to best use that um grant around literacy and writing and so we are going to reach back out to Skoey and then this year we did a lot of literacy based field trips um and so we're going to continue that as well. Um the graph

100on the side shows that we did increase in ELA last year. Um and then similar with the other schools um we had about 74% that also increased overall which is great. Um I did mention the literacy grant that we're going to get this year and we're thinking about um bringing in a literacy coach to work with students and teachers around the writing and the reading. And then this year we had a Saturday school which connected our ELA as the first ever at Taylor around ELA and math and some test prep and I'll talk a little bit more about that later. And then we're going to continue our partnership with CASA and CCE um where the focus was on African-American students but we learned that it also impacted all the students. Uh goal number two is

101to increase performance in math. Again, we increased by a point, but 74% of the students increased overall, which is great. Our intervention focus this year, we shifted. It used to be just ELA. Now, we also do math. There's a math focus with that. And so, our intervention teacher is also helping with the math um and with the tier one small groups. Counting collections. We've noticed our students foundationally are struggling with math. and in the past having county collections and just the basic math manipulatives around that. We're going to continue that as well. And then PDS um and then our um math peer observations. We started that three years ago um with our PLST, shout out to John and Lindsay um around that and we're going to really up that again kind of reimplement that around

102the math piece of it. Um and then teachers did mention they wanted additional PDS opportunities around math and then again our CASA and CCE connection keeping that going. Goal three increase for our ELS. Um again win is up there. We've had that. Um shout out to Maine because that's where that came from. Um and we're going to continue that. What we are going to do is change the focus a little bit. um with win in general for our whole site, but the ELD um writing came up a lot and with our literacy grant, we're thinking we can connect that as well. Our EL teacher does a second dose, so she takes students twice. Um and then our EL curriculum, we're looking at that. Currently we're through wonders but teachers have given in like a little

103input around that and they would like to spice that up and then see what else we can do with that and then also continue our glad emphasis that we have. We're in the green this year so we had a little over 51 52% um meaning progress which is great and there was an increase of 10%. Um so good things are happening over there with our um students, our EL students. Our goal four um parent involvement that's been a huge uh thing at Taylor and um even tonight you saw we have parents here. So in addition to that our events are really great which I like um I really love and then also getting parents on site um during school as well academically. But we have traditionally had our open house before school started. So it's

104I think the Friday before um the first day of school and it's been very successful. Parents really really like that. That's the feedback. We're having our back to school night or I mean I'm sorry not open house, our back to school night. That's why you're laughing. Our back to school night before school starts and then our open house is going to be next week or the 26th um in conjunction with our multiculture day. Um which has been the both of those are really huge huge turns out along with our harvest festival. Um, I want to give a shout out also to our community school liaison, Mr. Jay, is doing an amazing job. Lots of community connections this year with the food literacy. We've had parents and students cooking on our site throughout the day. Uh,

105we have walk with friends every Thursday. Um, when it gets cold, they come in on in our cafeteria and they're doing Zumba. Food is being given away. We've had our first ever academic information night um through our community schools um liaison. We had our first ever literacy night. Uh we've had town hall meetings with congressmen and women. Um and then just community parent meetings as well. So lots of just community the connection. Those pictures show um I think the first one is our academic night. And then below is we've also planted trees. We love trees here in Roba. Lots of trees. Um and then our last goal would be um to build school climate which is what we are constantly doing. Um we've had a year first. We had our first ever school play Alice

106in Wonderland and if I could give an Emmy they would have got it. Amazing. They did really great. Thank you for coming. Um and then those are our little flowers down there. We also have student council. Our student council we give lots of agency over at Taylor. That picture below. They're doing the morning announcements. They um facilitate the fac the assemblies and then they're also running our student store. So they have a lot of agency and we're giving them that on purpose so that they know they're the leaders on site and role models for our little ones. We've also had our very first Saturday school and that's that picture up there and that's where we have um in the back are banners as well. There's a PBIS there. I see some attendants but we um

107and we gave certificates. We had at least 30 students in our first ever Saturday school and it really focused on um the addition of learning they did throughout the week um me ALA math and then a lot of the test prep piece of it um which was really great. It it was really successful. We had four teachers um and 30 students. It was really really great. And then again I mentioned our community trees. We have a garden as well. We are gold status for PBIS. our store this year. We have um a recess team, Olivio on. They come three days a week and they've been helping our students kind of with play out on recess during the recess time. More attendance incentives. We want to start that really early, probably day one. Um and then

108continue our restorative practices. And we're trying to figure out really what that looks like this year because our spacing, we didn't have a restorative room per se. So, just really kind of continuing those practices in addition to um possibly getting a restorative room back. Uh that is just our suspensions. We're in the green, so we have not had many suspensions. >> One thing I wanted to I I noticed the the the blue and gold banners in the background kind of in a warrioresque feel. >> Yeah. Sensing a bit of a rivalry here. >> Yeah. So, those are up. No, I'm joking. >> There's that attendance one. Yeah. So, those are up. And that was this year I I saw and I said, "You know what? We're going to do it." Um, and we needed a

109little color on our wall as well until we get our murals. Um, so to sum it up, uh, we're going to continue our glad training. Um, again, shout out to Bill because I know we heard um, similar to what Mr. Calf was saying just about using our colleagues and what's working at other sites and just kind of going in with that to see how it works with us. We have our literacy grant which we're very excited about and see where we go with that. Continue our math PD and peer observations really our tier one focus with classroom instructional um our instructional model um parent engagement and involvement. I want to add that with that um continue our community schools. We have really great connections with the community um this year. And then um we are

110I think headed towards gold status again this year. So, that would be another banner up there on the wall. I'm joking. But that's all we have for Taylor. Any questions? Nope. >> I have a comment for all the principles. Um, it looks like all of your testing scores have gone up as well as your community at your school sites have all grown and vastly improved. and I wanted to say thank you and please let your staff and your students know that we see you and we appreciate all the hard work you're doing. >> Um I couple of things. One I just wanted to I wanted to wait till the end to to comment on all them together because one of the things I noticed was there was a common theme. Number one was uh the

111use of data. how each and every one of you noted how as you were making your plans, as you were looking at the things that you were doing, how it was influenced by the data that you saw and and what you saw you needed to be done and and that your solution it wasn't just okay well we going to do something. It was they were it was something that was specific having to do with students meeting the direct need of students. uh and that's why we saw you know different different solutions and in some in some cases similar solutions and in some cases solutions that you learn from one of your colleagues and from one of the other sites. Uh that was that was impressive to me. I just wanted you to know that we

112that I I recognize that. Um I heard a lot about programs that things that you were doing that worked. I heard a lot about new things that you're going to be trying. I'm curious, were there any was there anything that you've tried that you realized didn't work and therefore you have you're you're not going that direction anymore? And does anyone have any examples of that maybe? Just curious. >> Wonders, right? Yeah. So the folks at home can hear. I'm sorry. >> No, I I think my comment from previously teaching wonders as a teacher and watching um the curriculum doesn't engage these students that it's it's not a bad curriculum, but for our students, it's not a good fit. I think >> two things. One is that it doesn't live and it's not in a context

113that the kids get excited about it. That's where Lisa's figured out the glad she figured that out. Like it kids are so excited to come and do glad. The next part is it's too high for our students. >> It's not instructionally what they need. It's it's up here and they can't access it. So it's not equitable to continuously give someone a third grade when they really need something that's different levels. So people that do glide really well scaffold it so more students can access the curriculum. >> Okay. >> So thank you. >> You know it it's important to look at the things and even sometimes the things that don't work. Uh it it's not a failure but what it is is sometimes it's important to look at what doesn't work. figure out why it didn't

114work so that number one you don't make the same mistake again or the someone else doesn't make that same mistake again or someone else at another site doesn't make that same mistake but it also help once again it helps you to understand so I always say everything even if it doesn't work the way we would like it's uh it's a learning opportunity the other thing is is we're switching over to amplified and we're going to have you're going to have access to more data than you're going to know what to do with you're going to have the opportunity to to segment your classrooms and your students and you're going to able to look at what it students involved in this intervention versus this intervention, this program versus that program. And you're going to have the

115ability to really be able to determine not just what's working because clearly what you guys are doing is working because we're see we're starting to see we're seeing results. But then it's not just a question of what's working, but it's going to also be a question of what's working best. And uh I like that you're already thinking that way. You're already going that way. And I think once again, I just think that Amplified is going to help take uh take the work that you're doing and the work that your staff doing uh to the next level. So anyway, very much appreciate all of the presentations. Uh it's it's very inspiring. It's very very positive. I like I said, I I know there was a time here a couple of years ago where we were uh

116>> we were concerned, just put it that way. But uh you know we recognize that uh we recognize that there's a lot of work ahead and we appreciate all the the leadership that you're providing at each of your school sites. So once again thank you for the work that you're doing. >> Craig, can I say something? >> Yes. >> Um talking the last kind of take all the excitement because they already say a lot of the stuff that I want to say. I've been taking numbers and writing things up and as Craig said uh for many years seeing the data seeing the reports that you guys offered to us is was kind of it was kind of disappointing at some point and and it was sad. I'm really excited about this one. I think it's

117a lot of changes and been has been happening. Uh I am excited for every of the schools. I see the optimism positivity of the the the uh uh principles. I can't wait to see uh the next result because uh I I see the is changing happening and sometimes we had to change things to give other result and whatever doesn't work and I I also excited about the see each one is helping each other and everybody has the the the target in the other school to get better and it's is a it's a competition it's a good positive competitions to see happening. that I am like to give a kudos to all the principles and I appreciate it. It's excited to see all these um improvement in the test for the students because that's is what

118we here for to to guide our teachers and our kiddos and and and see a good result. I really for my bottom heart and for the board we like to appreciate what you guys doing it and we uh excited to see what's coming. Okay, we're going to go ahead and move on now to item B, the 2526 district maintenance and operations update. >> Good evening. I'm Mark Langley. I'm director of maintenance and operations and this is our custo update. We'll be talking about the custodian team and what they clean and what is happening now and what is to come. So team, what do they clean? There are 13 full-time custodians. Six day custodians, six night custodians. We have one midday custodian plus we have nine bus drivers/custodians that help clean the schools mid morning to

119around noon if they're not driving around on a field trip. Each day the custodian um cleans over 171,000 square feet of facilities within the school district. Now, a fun fact. The average three-bedroom, two bath house here in Sacramento is around 1800 square ft. 171,000 square feet is equivalent to 95 houses that this team, this small team cleans every day. Just let that sink in a little bit. That's a lot of area to clean with a small group. what's happening now and later to come. This last professional training day, we trained the custodians to do uh first aid, CPR, and our new AED machines that we have multiple ones around the school sites. Now, with this specialized training, we have now we have staff members here at the beginning of the day and at the evening.

120So, there's a custodian at the school site at 5:30 in the morning until 9:00 at night, and they're there to help out with emergencies. The custo team over the spring break did a semide deep cleaning of the school sites and now we're getting ready to clean the um the schools over summer break which entails eight weeks of deep cleaning at the school sites plus supporting the school programs for um Robla and Bell that's happening over summer. Our district, I'm happy to say, is sending two custodians, Chantel from Robla School and Maria from Glenwood to become certified custodial trainers on June 25th and 26. This train a trainer seminar provides hands-on training for them to train other custodians on proper use of um tools, chemicals, equipment, techniques needed to clean the restrooms, offices, classrooms, and other

121areas found in within the school district. Upon completion of their training, they will assist with ongoing training of all the casural staff over over all the time we went training. So, we're going to actually have certified casurial trainers training our staff. These are people that's in the trenches that that's doing this day in day out that can be better um trainers than what we can bring in that can just give us a theory. questions. >> Any questions? >> No, but she just made me feel bad for not doing my dishes before coming. >> Um, just a couple of quick questions. Um, so I know a couple of years back we actually brought in a consultant who kind of took a look at how we did things and helped us develop kind of a game plan

122to be really kind of efficient and effective. one. Did you find that to be helpful? And are are you still utilizing a lot of the the techniques and whatnot that you learned from back then? >> That was 11 years ago. >> Yeah. >> So, um yes, it's it's helpful. Um at that time, um we could do um the team cleaning at one school site, then move them to the next school site and move them to the next site. Mhm. >> Since the pandemic, I want to say around u 2019 2020, we stopped doing the large team cleaning concept within the school district. One, because of all the construction that was going on, and two, we're we are using uh more summer school programs that we have to keep um civilians at that school site for

123that support. So what we do is we do a a modified team cleaning. We have the um the school sites that's not doing um summer um programs keep their teams there and then when the school programs are over with before the teachers come back. Then we do a modified team cleaning to get the one, two or three um school sites clean before the teachers come back. >> I know. Do you think I know that especially considering that we're add we're adding more more ELOP we're having more after school programs do you feel like the the the the staffing that we have is adequate enough to to be able to do all of the work that they have to do. That is a good question. Um it is my belief that we probably need um more

124night custodians on for several reasons. One is what you just heard um this um this evening about safety. Um I've been here 17 years or going on 17 years and there's been incidents over the years where we had people come on campus and our night custo. So they're they're by themselves from 6:00 or 6:30 when when the school programs actually finally leave until 9:00 when they lock up. The other um problems is because of our policy of having um breakfast in the classroom, the the classrooms are getting more dirtier. Um so it needs more attention and so the se the the service level that we have right now could be improved on because we're at a we're we can say we're cleaning and we are >> but at what level? you know, we I feel

125that we are probably at a lower level than what we could if we had more staff to help out. And the um other um observation that you brought up is the after school programs. When I first started here, we had after school programs, but they stayed in the MP room and the custodian night custodians had access to all the classrooms throughout the campus. Now, some of the um school sites, I believe um Glenwood, Bell, I'm not sure about Main Avenue, they have up to maybe three programs at their sites and they're using classrooms where the where the custodians cannot get access to clean those. >> So, they're limited to clean maybe a um twothirds or maybe only a third of the classrooms up until 600 6:30. and they have to clean the rest of the

126campus which is being occupied by and we need the support for new students. You know these programs are are necessary but when we bring on programs we should think about what it entails for more staffing for other support. So safety breakfast in the in the classroom and after school programs is driving a need for possibly more night custodians. >> Okay. I' I'd be interested just to know in the future, you know, what you feel like that what that might might need to look like. >> Okay. >> Right. >> Thanks. >> Any additional questions or comments? >> I agree with everything you just said. >> Thank you so much. Okay. Okay, now we're going to move on to charter school update. We're going to start with Maronei Learning Academy. Uh, good evening members of the Robas

127School Board. On behalf of everyone at Maronei Learning Academy, I want to thank you for the opportunity to be here and present this evening. We truly appreciate the partnership and support that Robla has shown our school throughout the years. Um, your collaboration and commitment to students and families in our community have helped create meaningful opportunities for student success and we are grateful for the relationships u between our organizations. We look forward to sharing more about our program and the work we are doing to support our students. I'm I am my name is Melissa Chase and I'm the learning center coordinator at um Mark Marone Learning Academy. And good evening. My name is Kathy Obach. I am the community leazison um for Marone Learning Academy. Um, at Maronei Learning Academy, we provide a personalized learning models

128designed to meet students where they are academically and personally. Throughout our one-on-one support with teachers, flexible scheduling, and access to wraparound services, we are able to create an environment where students feel supported and empowered to succeed. Because we are a year-round program serving students ages 14 through 24, we are able to offer students the flexibility and additional time they may need to stay on track towards their goals. In addition to earning their diploma, students also have the opportunities to prepare for life after high school through dual enrollment opportunities and workforce partnerships that provide work readiness training and career exposure. Our goal is to ensure students leave Maronei not only with credits towards graduation but with the skills, confidence, and opportunities needed for long-term success. As of May 1st, our enrollment, our current enrollment stands at

129480 students. The green bar in the bottom right illustrates our month-to-month enrollment reflecting our year- round enrollment model, while the blue bars represent enrollment data from the previous year. The slight decrease we are experiencing um appears to align with enrollment trends being observed across uh other schools as well. Uh when this report was pulled, our grad rate was at 59%. But as of uh May 13th, our grad grad rate is now at 66.7% and we anticipate that growing as it is the end of this year. Uh our average ADA is 80%. And our staff continues to focus on working with our students um on completing more core credits. Uh we're collectively communicating weekly credit expectations to students and families. um encouraging students to complete one-on-one credits each week to stay on track towards their academic

130goals. Uh we are having parent teacher conferences this this week. Um on the left is a visual of our school population. Um 30% reel um which is a 7% increase compared to last year. Our foster youth population is at 2%. 5% were identified as homeless and 87% are of low socioeconomic status and our sped population is at 19 19%. As shown on the left is a visual representation of our school demographics. Our largest student populations are Hispanic and African-American students. Uh this is a visual of our core credits and our graduation rate. We're continuing to focus on engaging our students to complete more core credits. Many of our students come to us credit deficient and many of that many of those deficits are in core. Um they come to us with many elective credits. So

131it's really important that our students are increasing that core credit completion to get closer to graduation. Um, our core credit completion rate is currently 1.6, reflecting a decrease compared to this time last year. We are actively reviewing our internal systems and processes to identify areas for improvement and implement strategies to support increased student credit completion. We continue to actively engage and re-engage our students pro by providing ongoing support and re resources that help reduce or remove barriers that may impact their ability to focus on their academic success. Um, as I previously mentioned, our graduation rate is currently 66.7%. Um, we had 31 students graduate in the winter and anticipate more in spring. Our graduation is coming up in the 29th. Can I ask you a quick question? Um, I recently read something. It was like

132after the age of 19, graduation rates dropped to 20% or something. Is that the correct number? So, you having 66% compared to the 20% average since your children go up to 24. It sounds very impressive. >> Yeah. So, so we do have a lot of adult students coming to us. um they may have taken some time off after high school or they've been you know they've done working or not sure what they're doing. So they come back to us and then we yes they are able to stay with us until they are 24. So our graduation rate is um is higher especially with those adult students which is great to see because many of them you know drop out. It's sometimes it's very hard to re-engage them but um like we have a lot of

133different resources for them as well. It's not just the academics which they need at that, you know, young adult age. >> I I just wanted to to make that comment that your graduation rate seems remarkable from the data I know. >> Yeah, we're we're doing really well. I think there's been a lot of different of changes um schoolwide that you know really are our our grad team is focusing on getting those kids graduated. So yeah, >> thank you. >> Um so we currently let's see Um we are currently have 42 staff members. We current we are looking now we currently have um a science teacher and a history teacher position open. Um our students participate in NWA testing twice a year, once in the fall and again in the spring. Um and this helps us

134measure academic growth and identify areas where additional support may be needed. Our spring testing window is currently taking place from April 20th to May 17th. Um we are courage we are encouraged by the progress of our students demonstrated during the fall testing cycle with students showing 43 43.8% growth in reading and 38.8% growth in math. These results reflect the hard work of our students and staff as well as the impact of the personalized uh support and instructional model we provide at Marone County Learning Academy. Uh for ELPAC testing we are currently at 82% completion. excuse me, 92% completion and are continuing to work towards our goal of reaching 100% uh before the close of the testing window. Uh because we are a year-round school, this percentage also includes uh newly enrolled English learners uh who

135may enter the program during this testing window. Um and for our CASP uh testing so far we have 90% uh 96% who have completed the test and for CAST we have 100% uh that have completed the CAST. Um this year we are um excited to offer a digital photography class that provides students with hands-on experience using professional cameras um while learning photography and photo editing skills. We also launched a pilot guard card training program for students who are 18 and are nearing graduation. Um this program um it allows students to complete the required training and earn a certification that prepares them for employment in the security field after high school. These opportunities help students build practical career focused skills while completing their education at Maronei. Um, and these are just a handful of the field

136trips um that we have listed here in our past events um that uh we've been fortunate enough to attend and offer to our students. And then as we approach the end of the school year, we're excited to prepare for our final field trip of the year to Italy as well as our graduation ceremony near the end of this month. um in the community. Um so we continue to seek opportunities to strengthen our presence and visibility within the community. Um throughout this past year um our county has participated in a variety of community events aimed at uh fostering meaningful connections and engagement. Uh we remain committed to involving students in both academic and enrichment activities that support academic progress, retention and overall student engagement. Um through the new partnerships we have cultivated this year. We believe

137we are making strong and positive strides forward. And these are just a couple of photos of highlights from our family nights um and events we've um hosted throughout the year. We typically host these themed events quarterly and typically pair it with a food and diaper distribution um so our families can take home resources or we'll invite um partners or organizations to also come and host workshops at these events. And yes, we have our own Santa Claus. Um, and these are just a few pictures from our SoCal College tour. Um, during this college tour, we um put the photo the photo taking um uh for the students. They were in charge of the photo taking. So, these were the two best ones that I could take and the rest were all selfies. Oh, I didn't think

138you guys those. Um, and then just some more photos from the multiple field trips we've been able to send our students on. Um, as listed in the previous slides, um, the fire station, um, a couple of trade schools, um, as well, and then the zoo. I have a quick clip from last year's graduation I'd love to show the board. It specifically features some of our graduates who navigated a lot of personal adversity to get the to the finish line. Um, it's a really joyful moment and we thought it was a perfect example of the impact our school community has on our students lives. Oh, let's see if it plays. Do not >> I found a school tailored for students like me. Oh, which is really low. >> You raise the volume. >> Marone has been

139the foundation of endless opportunity. >> It was here at Marone where I was able to get one-on-one help from teachers and But as many schools I've been to, I can truly say I felt the best. >> That was just a quick 30 second clip. Sorry if you guys didn't hear that. Um but um the voice in that video was one of our um our student speakers. So our um and this student was a a student who had an IEP and uh and a speech disability. Um and if you watch the whole video on YouTube, you'll see that in the middle of his speech, he kind of starts to get choked up. And his brother, who also graduated um with him um in that class, uh was kind enough to come on the stage and provide

140him water. So, it's a really heartwarming moment. Um, but as you just saw in that clip, graduation is always the best time of the year and truly the best part of our work. Seeing our students, especially those who have overcome so much adversity, finally cross that stage is why we do what we do. Our upcoming ceremony will be held on Friday, May 29th at 12:30 p.m. We'll be gathering at the Mac Powell Event Center, and we would be honored to have you join us in celebrating our next group of graduates. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> That concludes our presentation for this evening. Again, we want to sincerely thank the Robbo School Board for your time and for the opportunity to share this update with you. We hope the information provided was both helpful and

141insightful. Um, and at this time, we're happy to address any questions or comments you may have. >> Any questions? >> I'd just like to say that I am very happy that a school like yours exists. I am the mother of a special education student and he has fallen behind in school. He was looking at seven years to graduate but really pulled it together and he'll be graduating only six months late and um I'm just really happy there are programs for for students who are struggling. So, thank you. >> I just want to say thank you for the partnership. We know starting at the next school year, your authorizer will be um San Juan Unified School District. So, thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you so very much. Uh just one other thing and I'm assuming

142this I guess this should be actually for any of our charter schools. Um appreciate the information regarding the program and the successes but also part of the thing is being an authorizing district is the with also fiscal agents. So so future presentations including some sort of a some sort of information just on how the budgeting is going would be really helpful. >> Thank you. >> All right. Okay, moving forward. We're now on item D, the 202526 charter school update for PO Grande. >> Good evening and thank you. Uh we're excited to Well, we I there's only one of me sitting here. I am excited. I'm getting delirious because it's so late. Um, I'm excited to do an update presentation for PO Grande. I knew you guys had a big agenda tonight, so I'm going to

143try to keep this short. I'm also a fast talker, so if you want me to slow down, let me know. Um, the mission and vision of uh, PO Grande Charter School is to ready all graduates for post-secondary success by pro providing a flexible, equitable, highquality, and personalized virtual program. Our vision includes the acronym grit. We want students to and staff to experience growth, resilience, independence, and transformation. A little bit just a reminder about our program. Unlike Maronei, which is a sister school of ours, we are a 100% online virtual program. Uh our students do qualify for dashboard alternative school status and we do host an in-person graduation ceremony twice per year. Um, our students currently use the Canvas learning management system. Uh, and we utilize a curriculum called Strongmind. You can see a little snapshot

144of what that looks like in the righth hand corner. Uh, as of when I ran this data a couple of days ago, we had 382 students. We've had significant growth. That's 125% growth since the same time last year. So, um, there's an explosion of students who are selecting online programs for flexibility and other reasons. We have 11 credentialed teachers, four sped case managers, one school counselor, uh three tutors, and two pair professionals. So, our staff is growing along with our students. Um our students by grade level, you can see the bulk of our students are in 9th, 10th, and 11th grade. We have a small amount of students in 12th grade. And we do have a small middle school program uh of sixth, seventh, and eighth graders. Uh enrollment by special population. So we have

1457% of our students are unsheltered, 19% are English learners, 18% are special education and 60% are so socioeconomically uh disadvantaged. And our students by age the as you can see the big black piece of the pie is 14 to 18 year olds. So the bulk of our students are in that age range. like Maronei, we do have a small population of older students that we serve up to the age of 24 and then we 10% of our students are 11 to 13 enrollment growth. So as you can see um this chart actually doesn't do it justice to where we are right now uh because this when we run this data it's always in a rear. So we have 382 students not 310. Um so for our LCAP our goal number one is to increase academic

146progress um which includes some of the highlights are uh based on our internal test uh using NWA MAP testing we've seen an increase in Lexile and quantile scores we're seeing similar to Maroneian an increase in credit completion um and we have a high graduation rate so so far to date Po Grande has graduated 282 total graduates and we thank you your partnership for allowing allowing us to help those kids meet their graduation goals. Uh like Marone, many of our students have had not had success in their previous schooling experiences for whatever reason. And we're thankful that flexible programs like ours exist to offer them an alternative pathway to graduation rather than just having them drop out. Our second goal is college and career readiness. We are seeing an increase in our college and career indicator

147CASP proficiency. Um, and we did achieve a 95% participation rate. We actually had last school year uh like a 99% participation rate, but our goal is 95. Goal number three is student retention. Um, as you know, we serve a challenging population of students. Mobility is really high. So therefore, it's really important to us to have strategies to retain students. We have um student retention support officers that do outreach to students to find out what are the barriers to learning. Why aren't they logging on every day? Maybe they need to meet with one of our tutors. Maybe they need to talk to a counselor. Maybe there's a mental health situation going on. Maybe we need to help them find local resources for food or shelter. There's could be a variety of reasons. So, that is a

148focus of ours. um our attendance rate is increasing and same thing with our synchronous instruction rate and we have no suspensions or expulsions. And then finally, ed partner engagement. I think this is a theme. I noticed it with um your SIPA presentation earlier from the principles. We're always trying to find different ways to engage our parents. It is more challenging in an online environment. We don't get to have these cool community fair days. I I loved seeing all the pictures from your principles. Um but we find other ways to have engagement. So we um one thing we're doing with the art funds that we got the prop 28 funds, we're holding virtual paint nights with families and everyone can participate. So we ship them the kits of art supplies and then we do art like

149virtual art nights or we might have like a virtual workshop that's high interest. We're just trying to find different ways that we can that parents are going to be incentivized to log on virtually. But so bit by bit um we have high participation in our annual LCAP survey and parents uh mentioned that they're they feel and their students feel a strong sense of safety, connectedness and engagement. Um so for in terms of student engagement, our teachers hold open office hours daily and provide synchronous instruction weekly for high school and daily for middle school. We have one-on-one academic advising video calls. Um, we offer college and career and workshops along with wraparound support. We have live tutor access from 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. that and they utilize interactive whiteboards while they're presenting. Um, and then

150we also have booking appointments for teachers, tutors, and support staff if parents ever need to get connected with us or if students need additional support. And then we also have received trauma resilient educational communities accreditation. And that's it. Thank you. That was from our most recent grad ceremony. So it is fun to see the kids in person even though normally they're just on little boxes on the screen. Are there any questions for the board? Thank you again. >> Thank you so much for waiting. >> Thank you. >> Absolutely. It was my pleasure. Thank you again. I hope you guys all have a great rest of the school year. >> All right. Thank you. Thank you. >> I have one question just for your asynchronous um is it no synchronous instruction for middle school, right? Because

151it's daily. So I'm assuming that's six, seventh, and eighth grade. Is that correct? So do you cover um each um each subject on a daily basis or does it work like a block schedule that they do English, math, and then two subjects another day as long as there's synchronous instruction? >> The main thing is that we just have to offer that that daily engagement. So, it's honestly more like um a support session, if you will, like group support. So, kids drop in and it's whatever subject they're currently working on is what we're focusing on because they do one subject at a time. So, even in middle school, so whatever subject they're working on that that day, um the teacher will hold open office hours and whoever pops in pops in and they can stay as

152long as they want and it's offered every single day and students are encouraged to come. as I'm sure all schools experience, they don't come every day like they're supposed to and we have to chase them and find out what's going on, but we do offer it and encourage engagement. >> Are there any other questions? >> Okay, thank you. Have a good evening. >> Okay, we'll now move on to the approval of the consent agenda. I'll entertain a motion to approve. >> So second moved and second. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Opposed extensions. Motion carries unanimously. Now we'll move on to action items. We'll start with item A. Approved service agreement with Rainey Technolog Ah Geotechnical Inc. for specialized materials testing and safety inspections for the upcoming shade structure installations. >>

153Good evening everyone. What we are bringing to you for your approval tonight is the service agreement with Rainy Geotechnical. This is to, as you just said, provide specialized testing and inspection services for the upcoming shade structure project. You'll remember last month we approved the service agreement for the inspector of record. This is another type of inspector that is required. Um difference being that inspector the inspector of record is there to ensure that everything is being built according to the DSA approved plans. This inspector does specialized testing such as soil compaction uh thickness and strength I guess of concrete uh ensure that the steel structures are safe or meet safety standards um excuse me the bolting of the steel structures meet safety standards. Both inspectors are required and and that is the difference between the two.

154One focuses on the plans and the other focuses on specialized testing. those of you who wonder why these projects cost so much money requirements like this. Anyway, with that, I'll entertain a motion to approve. >> Second. >> Been moved and second. Is there any discussion or debate? Hearing none, we'll move forward to a vote. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Opposed? Abstensions? Motion carries unanimously. Item B, approve contract extension agreement with BH Inspection Management. That's for Glenwood. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Moved to second in discussion. >> So this is related to the Glenwood emergency portable project. Um this is an extension of the contract that was already in place as the project was going on. There were some changes that needed to be made that took the timeline outside

155the scope of the original project. This is just to extend the current contract to cover that extra time. Any additional discussion or debate? Marina will move forward to a vote. All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Opposed, abstensions. Motion carries unanimously. >> Item C, approve uh f furniture purchase for new transitional kindergarten TK at Maine Avenue Elementary School. >> So moved. Second. >> Been moved and second in discussion. So this is this is the um purchase of the furniture for the new TK classrooms at Maine. It is the same furniture uh that has been used in other TK classrooms. So we'll provide consistency across the district. It is developmentally age appropriate and it meets all the safety standards and educational standards for the students of that age group. >> Any additional discussion or

156debate? Hearing now we'll move forward to a vote. All in favor please say I. I I >> opposed extensions. Motion carries unanimously. Item D, approve equipment replacement for front row systems at Main Avenue Elementary School. >> So move second. >> Moved and seconded. Uh thank you very much board. This equipment is the audiovisisual equipment that is used for instruction and the TK classroom portables in the main project. Um it's in alignment with the other uh front row systems at Maine and we'll use this to like I said for instruction but also for communication and paging systems. Any additional discussion or debate hearing? None. We'll move forward to a vote. All in favor please say I. >> I. >> Opposed extensions. Motion carries unanimously. Now move on to board member requests for future agenda items and

157reports. Trusty Cardona, >> nothing to request. >> Uh, Trustee Divine, >> nothing to request. >> Um, two things. One, uh, for our charter schools for future, I'd like for their presentation to also include some fiscal information, just some of their budget, just so we know how they're doing financially since we're accountable for that that as well. And secondly, when was the last time we had a preschool update? I'm trying to remember. Oh, it's next month. See, I'm a man ahead of my time. Unfortunately, only about a month. Okay, then with that, I have nothing to request. And this meeting is adjourned.