001Okay, let's go ahead and call this meeting to order. Please rise and join me in the pledge to our flag to the flag of the United States of Americ [Music] show that all board members are present and accounted for. And at this moment, we'll I'll entertain a motion to adopt the agenda. Move. Second, moved and second. All those in favor, please say I. Opposed. Abstensions. Motion carries unanimously. Now we'll move on to communications. Uh members of the public may address the board of trustees regarding any 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 by the board president. Uh in order to do so, uh if you are here personally,
002uh you can submit a comment. If you want to submit a comment in person, please complete a public comment card and uh you can hand it uh to the board assistant. Uh you can also if you are watching and you want to comment via simply gamut, just do so. Uh you can comment there or you can comment if you're watching on YouTube, comment via live chat and your comments will be read once again by the board assistant. All remarks are limited in duration to two minutes. All right. Is there anyone who'd like to address the board on an item that is not on the agenda? Seeing no comments, uh we will move on to uh reports and we'll start with the Global Education Foundation. Good evening. Some good news to report. The last uh batch
003of the terrific 10 Scholastic books were delivered this morning to the sites. So unless the kids didn't come to school today, everybody is my obligation has been fulfilled. There you go. Now for the bad news. Yes, I'm going to throw a dagger. As you know, you some of you got an email within the last hour. I'm still looking for people and I need them desperately. So, if uh I appreciate all of you jumping on social media because I know you're better at it than I am and just bombard it. And we I need you know you know that I'm not supposed to be out there in the heat of the day, but if that means keeping the place open, guess where I'll be. So anyways, encourage as many people as possible. I need that 3:00
004shift bill. That's all. All right. Yeah, folks. Just so you understand that uh the the all of the resources, all of the money that goes into the fireworks group all goes to classrooms. And when you go and you volunteer, you get to dictate where those where that money goes. Um we all know that we're dealing in tough times right now. So, every little scent, every little additional dollar to help to help our students can make a big difference. So, uh it's not hard. It it may be a little hot, but it's but it but it's not hard. Trust me, go and give of your time and it will be a blessing to our students. So, please reach out to Mr. Mr. Raven. Uh let him know that you'll be there. Even if you're thinking about
005it, just go ahead and do it. You're welcome. All right. Uh, now we'll move on to Roba Teachers Association CSEA Superintendent Report. Good evening. Just a couple announcements. Um, we are at the end of year activities. Last Friday, I attended preK promotion and great cute performances from each of the class um classes. So, I'm looking forward um to majority of them enrolling in our TK or K classrooms for next year. Um today we had Belle's sixth grade promotion while the other schools had their kinder promotion and then tomorrow um we have all the other schools sixth grade promotion and then Belle's kinder celebration. Um Vice President Barnes and I attended the Sacramento convening for advancing expanded learning in our region. So, it was really good to hear about what other districts are doing with their
006expanded learning. We've successfully concluded negotiations with both RTA and CSEA. So, I would like to thank all the teams with RTA, CTA, as well as our district teams working in collaboration to get this done before the school year ends. So, I'm super excited about that. And lastly, I just want to congratulate all our teachers, our site and district office staff, but especially our students and families for another successful year. I'm super excited to see those students who will be joining us this summer. Um, but I wish everyone a fun and relaxing summer and the first day of school for next year will be Wednesday, August 13th. Thank you. All right, now we'll move on to board member reports. Trustee Divine, nothing at this time. Trustee Cardona. Hi, good afternoon. I just uh was pleasant to
007be in um Bell Avenue sixth grade today. It was really really uh fun to be around. It was real personal with the kids. There's a lot of uh videos about each other and it was a fun time. I really appreciate to Trusty Hamilton starts. Second report. Trusty Barnes. Just real quick that I um as Superintendent Chin said, I attended the uh ELOP uh session with uh Council Member Katie Maple and um it was really nice being amongst people and learning more about um ELP and those who are really interested across the city. and I had a chance to attend the sixth grade graduation and the kindergarten graduation here at uh or at Robla Elementary School. Um it was phenomenal. It was really good. The only thing I'm going to put a pitch in for either
008a repair of or a a new sound system for the for the folks here in Rob because it was kind of going in and out. We uh Rob deserves better. Thank you. You're welcome. I agree. Okay. And that will be the conclusion of reports. And now we'll move on to public hearings. We'll start with a public hearing for the 2526 local control and accountability plan, LCAP. With that, the hearing is open. There's no presentation as Miss Lion presented it at the last board meeting. Is there any input from online? I move that we close the hearing. I second. Been moved and seconded. All in favor, please say I. I. Opposed. Abstensions. Motion carries unanimously. Now move on to item B, public hearing 202526, proposed annual budget. This hearing is now open. Well, we should probably
009wait so that folks online can hear I think we may need to adopt a board policy that when we have pauses like this, board members need to be ready on hand with with bad jokes. [Music] Go for it. Go for it. Okay. Why don't cows have shorter legs? Why? It would lead to their utter destruction. That may be a top tier bad dad joke. It's one of my favorite bad dad jokes. President Louis um Superintendent Chen. I think it's working. Yeah, it's working. Um um today we're presenting the 2025 um adopted budget. The our package is 132 pages has been submitted to the county office of education and that is included in your package. Today we will present a summary keeping our our mission statement in mind. You can just do it over there. Do
010you want to do it for next slide? Okay, we're keeping our um there is seven presentations after mine. So I will be go right to the point. Uh we will cover all these items. We will keep an emphasis in the um multi-year multi-year projection. Next slide. Our budget assumptions. The next four slice is our value assumptions our local control funding formula of which 93% are unrestricted general fund is based on a cola 2.3 2.3% for 202526 and 302 for 2627 and we are assuming an average daily attendance of about 1,782. included in our in our budget is a one-time fund. Um there is three packets of uh from the governor's budget from one-time funds. We include one of the three because we have more detail and that is about $34 uh per ADA. Um including
011our exchange is our lottery fund. Lottery is very volatile. It depends on the sales but based on the projections we're assuming $191 per ADA. This funds we could use for any purposes. A roles district we use to fund all our libraries at each our school and we have a proposition 20. This is lally could be only used for instructional materials. Our pension cost that are about the same for 25 26 as this year. Next um as superintendent chain mentioned um our all our terments when I also want to give thanks to our bargain partners we have many many meetings we are zero for 2025 at 2.5 and 2026 at 2%. It is um we know also what panel expenditures we have since the majority of the expenditures are salaries and benefits. I want to point
012it out uh Daness that our health benefits uh for many years are we have not been competitive with our bargaining part partners and and benefits we increase our benefits from uh about 48% so our monthly contribution from the district about it's one $1,000 all our assumptions in in including the budget are based on the main revise and what it is that it's two times times or one time funds once they are called ongoing for instance the ELO ELO fund that are going arts and music proposition 28 the lottery those I assume we're using the carryover and also all the one time funds we're using the fund balance they're also included as a as the the latest information available that we have our district also receives what we call mandated block grant those these funds we
013use those for uh field trips. It's about 50 $50 uh $57 per ADA. Our general fund, this is our total general fund. Um we receive about 90% of revenue comes from from the state, 70% from our average daily attendance and other funds 20% such as um a lottery special. So 90 90% is directly from from the state. Uh federal revenues is 4% and local revenues is um 6% the majority of which is uh is in interest. So this this slide is the this number is is in numbers. The other one was uh empowered in um pie chart. If you look at the unrestricted portion I started 93% of our our our revenue that $28 million comes directly from our average daily daily attendance. So students is good for them to attend a school and not
014to help us um financially as a total budget is um a total revenue we expect um 40 million 40 million. Now let's talk about our expenditures portion. Um 70 70 77% of our total budget is related for salaries and benefits. Um certificated salaries includes anybody who has a that's the actual legal definition. Anybody who has a teaching credation from teachers, principals, vice assistant principles, all the support staff in the district office including the superintendent goes into the certificated salaries. Classified salaries are anybody who doesn't have teaching credential. So um HR um business technology custodians instructional aids secretaries bus driver and benefits includes it's not just health benefits includes all the statuto benefits such as pairs workers come social security number the operating expenditures includes all the the contract but the biggest portion of that is
015the utilities that's included in the in the out um restricted expenditures. So um 80 85% of restricted budget goes for salaries and benefits. So there's a graph where for every dollar 85 cents goes to salaries and benefits. We have 50 cents left to do everything else. So this is in summary. This is our budget. Um so our the same thing this is just on numbers what in the in the in the pie chart. Um next this is just the same as a pie chart. So next next slide other funds everything up to this point has been all a general fund. We also have other funds uh we all have a posited um and then fund balance. I want to touch bases in two funds today. Um there is a lot of numbers behind this. the
016the building fund that is what is the bond fund. We just have um reserve the fund balance we expect to have a $1.4 million and we expected to to spend it. If we don't then that will carry carry over and then the county school facility funds that is fun 35 we will start with $131,000 we will end with $1.4 million. We expect to receive um $15.7 million in that fund. That is the money that we will do for the construction on main avenue and after reimbursement from projects on Robla, Glenwood and Bell Avenue. And then the expenditures again if we don't spend the fund balance will will will continue the child development and the cafeteria fund. um those are um def spending but we are we have a um bigger fund balance to be required
017by by last so we are working and reduce uh those those is planned defic spending slide our school budget our school budget um this is um what our school principles see I there's several here this is their allocation for them the amount per student is the same for all of these uh these activities is but of course it changes it's allocated based on the projected uh projected enrollment um move to your projections um this is the item where I want to spend the most the most most time on emphasis we we are want to be very clear we are in a deficit spending example what what happens when you use your um your savings or your um your your piggy bank to pay your rent or your mortgage. When you use it one time, you
018can do it one month. What happens for the next month? You either have to find additional revenue or potentially move out of the house, you know. So that's the situation that we are fortunately during the last um six years we have increased our fund balance and we have enough support to go for the for the next year. But but we need to make adjustments. We were having very transparent with all our uh stakeholder. We had to make uh adjustments because when you keep using your savings to co to pay for cost, you eventually go bankrupt. You cannot do that. So we had to make adjustments for fiscal year 26 27. there's no cash for this coming year but for the following there is unless you know we have more additional ADA or additional funding from
019the state but this is our current situation that actually this $2.5 million that is a total the unrestricted portion where is it's actually $3 million is greater I'm presenting it here as a total for for the general fund want to be um uh very transparent that includes use our settlements that we have with a with our with our balcon and we will um we have what I call the gift of time to plan for 26 um 20 27 and next slide um our challenging opportunities I think is very clear I will just say the previous slide the biggest challenge is our defic spending our enrollment in ADA um has been um has been declining we had to we improved that area and the other one is I don't have it here but yes is it
020was p since during the last week our federal funding is very volatile you know it's I didn't include any any reductions in that we say prepared for about between 15 and 17% in that uh in the federal federal funding so we have planned for that at this point of time is u we recommend that the board approves the the budget board meeting. This is and I'm available to answer any question. I have a quick question. So, I've been hearing a lot about Prop 98. Is that going to affect us? So, Prop 98. Um, so there is a a big discussion of that. So, so, so yes, but we are not as um but what I'm presenting to you is pretty safe. So, okay. It affect us. It will affect us either. But it says that
021there is some manipulation that the state where we get more revenue and the states keeping that that that's what you're you are hearing that we keeping on. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Because I see it says all assumptions based on governors may revise. So these numbers even if they get rid of prop 98 will still be the same or it will not it will not go away. Yes. But we they call it we call it the manipulation of proposition 88. By law we are entitled to about 40% of the state revenue for um I'm simplifying it for you but about 40% goes to go to um K K um K um it's actually K14 education community college and there is they want to they're doing some manipulation to cover all their needs that state have the state
022has other priorities. Okay. Thank you. If you um look at the the final budget, he has a summary in there about Prop 98. Where it's in the um the Okay, [Music] let me pull that up and I will you first like 10 pages of my report. Hold on. I'm trying to figure out what tab it is on my link. The positive news is it could be in our in our positive because we could potentially get more money that the manipulation. Okay, I got it. Thank you. I can just encourage board members to pull the microphone a little bit closer to them when they speak so the folks online folks here may be able to hear but but we want to make sure the folks or that are watching online are able to hear as well.
023Um I had a quick question regarding uh you talk about percentage like uh salaries and benefits. Ours is at about 85%. What's the range usually that is for school districts and where do we kind of fall in that range in terms of are we above average, below average, at average? Yeah. Um well it's almost it's always like a year behind. Um but uh but the average is between 85 and and 90% you know you want to be uh you don't want to be in the 90s you know that's kind of like that. So that so we are like in the and it's different they have it like for elementary school districts versus unified school district. So um we are like we right on the uh on the on the lower the on the lower side.
024Okay. Because we receive significant in um um funds for like ELOP right additional um revenue then your your percentage kind of goes down a little bit. That's kind of Okay. Any other questions or comments? Just um comments. I I I I heard your warnings very very clearly. We are deficit spending. We are are in declining enrollment. We need to make changes. I heard that very clearly. So, thank you. Yeah. Yeah. you know that that that's vitally important and you know it's it that's why it's so important that you that we build that we built a healthy reserve so that we can be able to weather times like this where we are looking at at uh at at reduced revenues so that we can mitigate it. But the idea is is that, as you said, we
025can't keep deficit spending forever. And eventually, we've got to be able to make we've got to be able to make the sorts of adjustments that will hopefully not impact the classroom um or at least have a reduced impact on the classroom and on the staff. And and I think having a healthy reserve allows us to do that. So, I just want to thank you and the rest of our fiscal staff and administrative staff for helping us to be able to to do that, put us in that position. All right. Any other questions or comments? Okay. No online comments. With that, I'll entertain a motion to close the hearing. So move it. Second. Been moved and second. All in favor, please say I. I. Opposed. Abstensions. Motion carries unanimously. Thank you. Thank you. We'll now move
026on to uh school plan for student achievement update. Good evening, Rob School Board. Superintendent Chin. Good evening. Um I'm here representing Robla Mustangs and I would like to say that um the plan I'm about to present in front of you starts with the students. We showed um the students some of our data and um showed them kind of the reason for the direction we're going. That's our student council. Um Mr. Raven has also support us with school site council and then um with our staff. So I wanted to let you know um for the school board the theme of this is how do we increase instructional minutes? So the theme is how do we increase instructional minutes? So I'm going to come back to that at the end and ask you a couple questions during
027the presentation. Okay. Thank you for the warning about the test. So um let's start with celebrations. Um, we have a big improvement in our school climate. Research shows that um, if you want to see a 10% gain in your your scores at school, you improve your school climate. So, I I want to say um, we'll go into some of the reasons, but today we had a um, a day chosen by students for doing well on their um, CASP and showing effort. the students. We had a club at our school. It's African-American leadership club. They ran the whole event and we had a room disco party in one classroom with dance party that was glow and we had disco ball and we had students and students chose all this stuff. So um but it it was
028stu student leadership students choosing what they wanted and the teachers to provide. So, um I think the other part of the school climate is the data. Looking at our data and proving that our school climate and the cafeteria is different. The uh playground is safer and students are happier. The next thing I would like to celebrate is our collaboration with Skoey. We were recognized regionally for um having successful parent nights and parent engagement. I would like to also say thank you to Mr. Raven over there. We had one night. We've had six parent engagement nights. We've learned a lot. We've listened to parents and families, but u Mr. Raven um and myself, we got a golden one grant. So, we have um 25 families right now that have an extended classroom and um that night
029was a collaboration with Skyway. So, if you can imagine us having all these families, we were talking about substance abuse. And then 25 of those families took home a new Chromebook thanks to Mr. Lopez that already has Wi-Fi and they can use all the platforms at home, learning platforms. And John and I, John sending me reports. You guys can imagine this weekly reports on student progress. Every Monday I get a report from John and so we show that it is working. The next part um is thank you to Miss Horowitz. We have a a grant through um Sutter Health. We have a team that went through six days of extensive training that was with Miss Coyle who's our leader for PBIS and TSS. So we had six days where we had like six staff members
030there learning about how to better support um students, every kind of student. So our our areas of focus for improvement um we know we have to improve our ELA and math scores. We want to do it through step up to writing. Mr. Pitman in 20 2017 2018 was doing a lot of work in writing at Global. We make a lot of progress and then co hit. So we the data shows we had 25% of our students that didn't pay enough writing to school. So you can imagine when we got the the report, we looked and it said that they hadn't really put something down. So we woke up to that this year on the back. It tells you how close they were to passing, but it also shows us the writing score specifically. So um
031we know that um our students through every grade level needs key room. So um we're looking to adopt step. So um the next thing to talk about is our ELB and wind time. Right now if you can imagine we have four different circles going throughout the day that um work on wind time. That's what every student needs. I wanted this job to better support students and students of color. And um we have a lot of work to do in both of those areas. Um, right now we have different times where one meal will cancel and the students won't get a day or two at the end because we have absences. We're going to do one giant meal or if you guys come to 9 and 10 at bowl next year um they will be able
032to walk through classrooms. We see that different students are getting updated. So some student might be doing that. These students will get very um LD student that's behind writing can get differentiated instruction writing. We also know we need to improve their we have spotty secondstep instruction. We know um school is doing great things with second steps regulation and probably inspired by their house and our team. So we have to do a better job there. Parent engagement. We know that Costa that having parents show up is not enough. Um research shows that if you can get the parents to teach classes to other parents, so that's our goal next year is to try to train parents to train other parents on different things like parenting or how to get to school and stuff like that. Okay,
033our new actions, I kind of stole the show and talked about a couple of them. Our whole school one time, that's when every school will shut down at Robot from 9:10 to 9:40. Every student will be differentiated for what they need specifically step up to writing. There's a program that goes K through 6. You imagine um if you're wondering, you had a kinder student this year. Next year, the kind student at Robo is going to see how to do a paragraph, color-coded paragraph multiple times throughout the year. So, they're going to see what it looks like in the first grade. They're going to start having to do it and the rigor just increases from there. And so, it puts rigor in front of the teacher and in front of the students. Our PLC time, you
034guys heard me talk about this before, research shows that PLC time is better when it's focused. So the last two years our PLC team has been specific on math. Uh the next couple years will be specific on writing. So the data that two teachers come together and they look at will only be writing. We will only try to sharpen that sword in writing and continually talking about the data looking at student samples. Um so some of the evidence-based strategies we know we talked about our MTSS team. We know that uh we've made improvements but we still have a ways to go to support those different tiers of students. We need more cultural responsive teaching. Uh that means in the library we need to have more uh diverse books. That means um teachers need to find
035different stories that students can connect with and feel inspired by. We also need different uh people of color leaders assembly. uh family engagement and two-way communication. That's something we're learning about. Uh I mentioned listening, but but uh our staff and um their leader needs to do a better job just listen to the two-way communication is is us listening to what families need and us providing it. I talked about our consistent SEO with fidelity and then instruction. Um, we need to have data at every staff meeting and and I think that's something we can do. We have areas at Robo that are additional target support for improvement. So, if you look at me, that's the portfolio you see on my face. It's what I don't want to talk about, but it's right there. So, I want
036to give you some specific numbers. So we the two areas that we need to do u make some drastic changes and suspensions uh for chronic and chronic absenteeism for students that are homeless and qualify as homeless at our school. So out of the approximate 370 students we have 81 that qualify to be considered homeless or to be doubled up. um 12 of those families or 12 of those students some qualified us for chronic absenteeism. Of those 81 students, three of them um were suspended. So the evidence-based interventions, the strategies we we need to build trust through consistent communication. We have to do a better job at CASA. We learned that a time square might be good but the best form of communication is important and so we need to build the bridge there to foster
037family engagement and academics we're talking to about having more fun nights and I think I talked about culturally responsive practices. The one thing I want to talk about just lastly is um I need you all every person in this room to know we're going into the world of community schools. Um our your team at Robot is really excited about that. Um Dr. Hel and I started it at the district and we brainstormed the whole idea of looking at chronic abst. Can you imagine if we just had a on our website this number that families could call you a ride to school just ride just to tell you that if if you're principal and you know how many times families had car trouble I feel like um we as a team can do a better job
038supporting so I just think that uh that's our future just uh phone number anyway anywhere um we can get on here for right so we can get the ADA and support that family so okay are you ready for your questions um I just actually a few questions no more actually more comments okay um first I I really do appreciate your emphasis on writing. When people talk a lot about literacy, everyone focus about on focuses on reading and they really leave out the idea of of of writing. For me, I K through 12, I never got higher than a C in English. And it wasn't until I took a creative writing class in college when I understood the importance of okay, how to communicate what it is that was in here and in here and how
039to be effective in doing that. And then learning how to be an more effective writer made me a more effective reader. And I know that when we've done emphasis on writing in the past throughout the district, I know that we've we've actually improved our our our number our ELA numbers when it comes to testing. So, I really appreciate that. I don't hear that enough. So, I just wanted to let you know that I recognize that and I appreciate that. Yeah. Thank you. I think if you if you were watching the CASP math test and you you see how optimic they explain, I think you'd be excited about that like in a couple years. the whole idea, but explain how they got the answer. They're going to be more confident and able to type more, too.
040The last thing I wanted to comment on was the the the your comment on community schools. It's a hot button issue in a lot of districts, and I'm glad that it's not here because I think that there are those who utilize community schools to push political agendas on whatever side of the aisle. And I really appreciate that that the concept that we're using here in Robin, the concept that you've kind of helped bring to this is it's all about helping the student be at school, helping them to be able to be successful, giving them what it is that they need in order to be successful scholars. So once again, that's another area where I just wanted to say how much I I appreciate your your emphasis. Well, well, thank you so much. So my one
041question is what number what should we expect our percentage to go up if we did school climate correct this school year? What percentage was it? 17% 4% or 10%. 10%. So that's what we're expecting next year to report to you is at least a 10% gain if we did what we were supposed to. So thank you very much for your time. Looking forward to that success. Can can you what can you tell say about the um you mentioned suspension rate what can you say about that or can you explain me you mentioned the suspension rate and you mentioned the three uh students can students suspended yes so um my mentor is Mrs. Hall out here and I think like those those suspensions have to do with physical violence and that's kind of a thing Mr.
042as I can hear him telling you right now, there's not one suspension that ever supported a student. But I think for us, the suspension is is started communication with the family to let them know there's a significant thing that we we as a team, us, and then we need our help with. So, it's just a a communication. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. [Music] Good evening. Good evening. Principal at Main Avenue. Okay. Well, we'll start with some celebrations. Um we've increased our student attendance. Uh one of the things we started a year ago was meeting with families of our highest um chronically absent students. And so at the end of um the first trimester this year, just to give you some data, we met with the parents of 32 students and we chose the
043students who had the um highest chronic absenteeism. And of those 32, we had 25 of them um decreased their rate by 6.3% and then about 40% of them are no longer chronically absent. So we feel like connecting with families in this manner has been a good move forward for us. Um we started um building thinking classrooms. I sent a t a team of four teachers to afford training at Skully and this focuses on work in math and our math instruction and we just um deepen the mathematical thinking of our students. We started our parent teacher club up again. I actually have one of our members here. I didn't plan that but we're very excited to get that going. uh our kinder students um when it comes to their funological race, we've seen some nice growth
044there um looking at the end of trimester 2 about 75% of them who are where they need to be on our phonics school survey. And then our MTSS process at has always been um pretty strong. We have a very strong team. Um so we continue to build upon that and improve. And what we've done this year is we applied for PBIS platinum certification. Um we were going to apply for gold but we found that through the process of our fidelity checks uh with our tier 3 work we could apply for platinum. So we've done so that application is with um plaster county office of education and we should find out uh in August what we're awarded. So we're hoping for platinum, gold would be great, but our team has worked very hard over the years
045um to improve in this process. Areas of focus areas in just a minute, but continuing to um grow and math scores, parent engagement is always something that we're working to improve, continuing our student attendance work, and then continuing our professional development for our staff. So some of our interactions um we want to make sure that we establish good tidings practices from the very beginning with our TK and K students and their families. So we're looking at having an attendance night towards the beginning of the year. Think of it as a daily life of the kindergarten students where we'll have families come in and they're actually going to do activities that their child would be doing every day. So they can really get a sense of there's some um standards that we have to address and
046some pretty intense learning happens at TK and so they want parents to experience that rather than us just standing around talking about these things. What does this look like for their child? Our building classrooms team is going to continue their work um on a regular basis and talk about that instruction, look at data and then also share out with the staff um so that they can see how this pilot piece is going. Um and we did purchase books um there are two books that built up this program and we purchased both of them for all of the teachers so that they can start to build into that as well. And then we're very excited about community schools. um getting we just had a meeting about a week or so ago and the team is very
047excited. Uh just the the amount of um ideas that are being brainstormed and things that people are bringing to the table. So we have parents and classified staff and certificated staff is very excit exciting because we want to continue to support our families and stay connected with them. Not just connected but staying connected with them. Um and then we're going to continue to improve our PLC practices. Um each site will now have a PLC committee. Um that will have a balanced um of upper grade, lower grade, and uh specialist with the um principal and we'll sit and plan for the year what we should look like so that the work that we're doing as a site PLC can carry on through their weekly PLC meetings as a grade level team. So some of the actions
048that we have, we're going to continue with our parent outreach and our meetings to improve attendance. We have incentives that we do and we also have a number of start contracts that we'll continue to monitor. First teaching is the best teaching. So we have to continue to look at those practices um districtwide. We are all looking at um training for Arizona's art and science of teaching. And so we've learned that our building thinking classrooms work with math will tie in very nicely to that. And then we're also starting another with scholar and I believe that's on the agenda tonight for you to approve and the staff we had a lot of conversation about what do we want this to focus on this year and we work and phological awareness. So, um, looking at that K2
049and really building those foundational skills. And then at grades 3 through six, really working at verb work and morphology and suffixes and prefixes and just all those pieces of vocabulary um, that they're working on. And then lastly, um, just like Roa and Taylor this past year, main Avenue is starting next year with san and changing perspectives to, um, work on our inclusion practices. And then we do not have an ATSI slide because we have graduated out of ATSI. Um and that was um for our students who are chronically absent and for suspension for our homeless students. So we've graduated out of that. Yeah. Any questions? Questions or comments? Can you talk more about your parent teacher club? Um so we got that started up again. We have a group of um parents and teachers. Um
050we had our really our our first big event this year um was a glorified dance party and it was just a really great um family event where we had people coming out and the whole cafeteria was filled. Um, and so that was it was not just a fundraiser and it wasn't meant to be a fundraiser, but that's helpful because it gets our PTC going with funds, but it was just another way to have community come to campus. And so we're certainly just building our our our club and what we can do next. How how often does it meet? Um, we've had several meetings um this year. Um, so we really just got going probably mid this year. What are the what are the times that they meet? Um after school typically anywhere between 3:00 we've
051had meetings at 4:00. Okay. But that's something that we can talk as a team and adjust because we want to make sure that it's at a time where parents can come. That's why I asked that. I um when my my my kids were in school the I found that there were very few things actually actually participated. One was side council, the other was coming to schoolboard meetings because they all they were the only things that met late enough for working parents. So, I was curious about that. What about the demographics of of the club? Um, I feel like we have pretty uh solid representation. Um, we have um some uh Hispanic parents, African-American, Caucasian. Um, same with the staff. It's a similar makeup. Thank you. Um, wanted to note uh I really do appreciate the
052TK K uh attendance night. It's important to establish those sorts of habits very early in particular with parents. As the parent of a K parent uh I I I understand that and sometimes you think, oh well, they're just going to school play. No, they need to understand that these are these are they're building foundations and to let them know and understand and see the the the day in the life of a kindergartener. Then they get a chance to understand, yeah, you know, if it's a choice between sending them to school, getting them to school, and not getting them to school, I need to make sure I get them to school. So, I think I I really really like that. I would have liked to have seen the areas of focus be a little more specific.
053I noticed for others it was a little more specific, but I do appreciate that your new actions were very very specific. Um, I especially like the first teaching practices. So, uh, I very much appreciate your presentation and, uh, looking forward to seeing you be successful next year. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Good evening, Superintendent Chen, Robo Schoolboard members, members of the audience. Um, for those of you that don't know me, I'm Lisa Hall. I'm the principal at Bell Avenue School. We'll start with celebrations. Um, overall, our attendance has improved. Um we have um currently we're uh our attendance rate is a little above 93%. And of course we're striving for u 95% or higher. So that's our goal for next year. Our data says that our student teacher relationships according to the Kelvin survey um
054that most of our students participated in are currently very strong. I think it was close to 88% of the students said that their teachers they feel like their teachers um genuinely care about them and genuinely want to help them. And for example, when they say how was your day, the students, you know, the students feel that when they answer their their they give their teachers an answer, the teachers are genuinely interested in what they have to say. Um and as Mr. calf referenced when you have a strong school climate on campus, you're not only are your um your students more likely to come to school, but your academic scores grow. So, we're really happy to see that um that particular piece of data was um had gone up this past year. According to our cast
055data, we showed positive growth in math and MLA and a significant growth in science in a 20point year last year. Now, I will say that we had a teacher specifically teaching science last year um at Bellary School and it was quite evident um in our our student scores. Our kindergarten and first grade student academic data is very strong. Um most of our uh kindergarten and first grade students our kindergarten students are at 75% or higher. Um meeting with our goals on the phonics survey and our first grade students are pretty close behind. Um and then lastly in celebrations we reclassified um almost or actually we reclassified 14 students last year during the 23 24 school year which is pretty high. Um we have um it kind of depends on your you know your English language
056population at the time. Um we were not reclassified that many this year but last year we had a huge reclassification rate which was great. Um for our areas of focus um we are in ATSI for homeless students um and chronic absenteeism. Homeless students that are chronically absent. Um overall again our attend our school attendance rate is about not it's just under 94% but our homeless population rate is um below that it's at 93%. Um, one of the things that we feel that we can over one of the ways that we feel we can improve our overall student ac academic achievement is by working on improvement improving our student engagement and their learning. And some of the ways that we are going to be um targeting that is looking at specific classroom strategies uh behavior management
057systems and I think uh so for next year we're going to work as a typically teachers have their own kind of management system that they work on but next year our teachers will have a few requirements within the management system um for every classroom at Bell Avenue and then teachers and make it their own personal assistant after that. Um and then the other thing that we're going to be more focused on is our um cell education. We are not doing such a great job with second step. Um and so that's something that we will work on for next year. for our EL students. We've um been really looking at our long-term English language learners and one of the um specific skills that we see that are really preventing them from increasing their ELPAC scores are
058the writing skills. And we've heard that a couple of times tonight. So, that's something that we've been working on already this year at the home, but we're going to continue to work on it um in the future. and we're working with a group of um our our English language support teacher, myself and several other um e teachers and coordinator is a part of it meet pretty regularly to talk about our long-term English language learners and writing is the focus of that group. Um and then lastly, areas of focus. We um too have had parent family workshops at the end this year. And we are again as as Mr. Gloria has mentioned, we're struggling to find um a time where a lot of our parents can participate um at Bell and many of our parents actually
059work at night. So when we talk about the working parent, it's always during the day. And so we have tried a diff couple of different times and we're still trying to find the sweet spot for that because um I know parents want to participate but it is it is a challenge when you're working um whether or not you're you know what people think of as their typical working hours and um or juggling one one job. Your hours aren't always the same. That's that's also a challenge. Um and then the second thing um is that our site council um met pretty regularly this year and then from that group we have a couple of parents on site council that are spinning off to do the parent teacher organization because they want to do more fun things.
060I guess site council wasn't as much fun as they were imagining and so so they're starting their parent teacher organization for next year and they've already met once. And it's it's kind of exciting for them and for all of us cuz I think um the whole school will really benefit from that new actions as um as it's been mentioned um we are we are starting our community schools implementation in you know we're doing these steps right now meeting generating ideas and um coming up trying to come up with the best um plan for our at at Bell, but we are quite excited about community schools and we think it's going to really help um improve some things that we already have going at the school and allow us to implement more supports for our students
061and um which again in you know the goal is to help our students be stronger stronger students and our families um feel as connected to the school as possible. So, we are also looking at um we're going to focus on building up the parent community at the K and TK level. So, um in our parent volunteer groups and things like that, we found that it's hard to keep them because the kids come out and they're no longer at the school site. So, we've talked a lot about building up parent involvement within the low the the lower grades so that um the parents can continue to be involved for longer and um help to build capacity within our parent organizations. We've also talked about um a really focus on GLAD. I know you guys hear about
062GLAD from me all the time, but um we kind of need like a maybe like a pump up or a revamp of GLAD. I think our teachers um they they use the GLAD strategies and it's just a it's definitely a big part of our school, but I think um that we're going to revisit some training next year with Jocelyn and Regina and try to connect it to the instructional model. um using um the Marzano's book. I've already sent them the name of the book and said please start helping you know try to integrate this into your training with us and how does that connect how can we connect that with glad strategies and a shared focus um for plan of action a shared focus related to the Mars handbook um which leads into um a
063tier being more focused on um first teaching and tune in. We would also like to promote our mental health resources. Now, mind you, our both of our mental health clinicians on campus have full case loads. Um, so they are jam-packed. However, we still when we talk with parents, we're we still come across um parents that are um there's still that stigma of mental health and receiving support from them. So, we would like to continue to try to um to to sorry um we'd like to continue to try to promote our mental health um clinicians the services that they provide. um we have one school and then of course one that is um funded by our school district on campus and then possibly through our community schools going to um add more supports in our area.
064We're going to continue the practice of peer observations and peer observations they keep student teachers engaged and motivated and um we didn't have any teachers at least at this year I don't think in the district that didn't really enjoy that process. So, um I think that's something that we're really looking forward to next year. This year we're really focused on reading comprehension. Um and we'll be in discussion for next year. What what is the focus and um what do we want to learn more from each other? And then the last thing u under ashes is working with our California grad trainers. Again, I've already mentioned this to keep our strategies sharp and help help us connect to the robot instructional model. We are in ATSI as I've already mentioned for homeless students and chronic absenteeism.
065We had um various various um was presented when we entered this process. We had 67 homeless students and 24 of them were chronically absent which meant that 24 of them were missing more than 10% of their um of the days that they had enrolled at B school. These are the interventions and strategies we use for any student that's absent. If a student's absent, they receive a personal phone call on the day of the absence. I know that we have a robocall uh service in our district, but we believe that a personal phone call is the best. If somebody does not pick up their phone, they may receive a text. Um students with close to 10-year absences work with um our assistant principal to set up a calendar with incentives and regular check-ins. Um our assistant
066principal myself school social worker reach out to parents to find out what the barriers are. Um social worker builds a strong relation working relationship with parent and student to support positive attendance. If you don't have that strong relationship, they're not going to tell you what the barriers and what the problems are and then you won't be able to help them. So it's really important to have that strong connection with the families so that um we can we know what what are the problems and and then how can we help. And then lastly teachers ensuring that their classrooms and lessons are engaging to encourage attendance because you know when kids love their teachers and love to come to school they they don't miss. Um so that's a key part of attendance. That's it. Do you guys
067have any questions for me? Um what are the barriers that you have uh encountered? The barriers our honor students um well many of them actually don't live very close to the school. So that's a big huge barrier. Um gas um working transportation things like that. So, um, our district provides sometimes they provide gas cards, but that gets pretty expensive. Um, and so we're providing mileage, but some but even that can be really challenging. So, um I think part of the problem for at least at Bell Avenue, part of the problem for the students that are homeless and really trans, you know, transit moving from house to house or um living in a motel is that they don't actually live very close to our school and so it makes it really difficult for them to get
068to school. That's just one barrier. There's many barriers, but that's probably the biggest barrier because it's not something that like a school bus can solve. Any other questions? No. Thank you. Okay. The next pres. Yeah. Do you want me to stand? Okay. So, um so our next presentation will be from the six new potential um ELOP providers. I want to thank all six of them because we had a quick meeting last week and um you are all here today to present. So I appreciate that. Um and I want to be clear to the audience these are all presentation only. Um and my goal in the next after today um would be to create the master schedule for our ELOP programs and present contracts at the June 26 meeting. So I believe our first provider is
069uh right at school. [Music] One second. Right. think we're waiting for the presentation to come up, but I can always start. Um, while it is coming up, I can just thank you guys so much for allowing us to be here. My name is Cindy Lawson. I am the vice president of school partnerships with Right at School. I have the privilege of working with school districts across the country, but primarily on the western part of the United States. And I live right down the road. So, this was a really easy drive for me um being part of this community. So, thank you for allowing me to be here to talk to you about right at school and how we can support Robas School District. Um, first and foremost, it's really important to talk about our mission.
070Um, our mission is to inspire love of learning, support schools, and give parents peace of mind. And to give you a quick story of how Ride at School started, our founder, Dr. Mark Rothschild, walked into his own daughter's afterchool program, saw her eating Doritos and watching a video and having his doctor in education. He just knew he can do better. And after doing the math, you realize that elementary school students spend just as much time in after school as they do in school. If you add before school, after school, winter break, spring break, summer, early release, all of that out of school time equipped for the same amount of hours. So he knew we can make a transformative impact and really maximize that time we have with kids. So, um, what began with that initial
071aha moment turned into, uh, 15 years of really making a powerful impact nationally. And you can see here in California right now, we are servicing more than 17,500 ELOP students in over 36 districts. And I'll specifically highlight our partnerships with center joint which is here in Sacramento County. Um Fairfield Cissoon which is in Solano County and Mount Diablo which is Contraosta County. These districts represent um extremely diverse and multicultural communities which are ve very similar here to Roba. And so we work closely with the districts and the schools um to ensure that our programs are not only aligned with local strategic initiatives but also being culturally responsive. And on here you can read a few sto a few statements from what our Northern Cal families are saying from our most recent spring survey. We truly
072value input from our families and our parents because that's what matters most is what they have to say. So twice a year we will survey our family. We'll take that feedback and make a positive impact in the lives of kids. So here's just a few of our stories. And now I get to talk about my favorite part which is the impact that we're making and our disguise learning approach. You know, our focus is really on building children up. We're here for the long game of education. So everything we do is about empowering students with these attributes that we all know as educators will continue to unfold throughout their lives from positive values to feeling empowered to feeling safe and to having a positive impact um and positive identity. Um you could see here the impact
073that we're making at right at school. And we know the last thing a child wants to hear at 3 p.m. is like who wants to learn some more right? They've been in school all day. They're like, "No, we don't want to learn some more." Um, so we know that after school programs should look and feel very different than the school day, right? Studies show. So we still want to incorporate learning, but we want to disguise it. We want to make it fun where kids can learn, play, and grow. So every day students get to enjoy fresh new curriculum. So 180 days that have been written by curriculum experts, many who are former teachers and administrators. And these activities are fun, hands-on, engaging, and focus on areas ranging from art to science to music to math.
074And this year, an additional offer that we're doing, if the district is interested, we incorporated in summer and we're incorporating in fall is some discovery clubs. We have Lego builders, um, art makers, and soccer stars. That's an additional thing that could be added in uh as a discovery club in the afterchool program. So here in Loba, we know that your commitment to providing equitable experiences for all students and fostering purposeful innovation that deepens and develops critical thinkers is really important. That's why we have an approach that is flexible and it's never a one-sizefits-all. We want to make sure that we work with you and your community to build an afterchool program that meets the need for your school by school. So you can see here we start off real quick. We once everybody's accounted for
075and everybody's safe and in our program we start with our town hall. That's our family time. I know family is important here in Rob. It's our family time. It's a chance to have a conversation, sit down with the kids, talk about special events, celebrations, service projects that may be that we might be working on is that chance to build community. Um, then we go into light moves. That's just 10 to 15 minutes to get that excess energy out. They've been in school all day, so they want to get those wiggles out. And then we go into our language block, and that's again 10 to 15 minutes of language. And right now, this year, we are focusing on American Sign Language and Spanish. So, our younger kids are doing 10 to 15 minutes of Spanish. Older
076kids are doing American Sign Language. And it's so fun when you go into programs and see it. It's so exciting. They come up and they talk to you in Spanish and they do their sign language and it's really exciting to see. My daughter works for the program so I get to see it all the time. Um, and this is the area. It's called flexible enrichment block. This is where we will work with each of you individual principles. I don't know if they're still here. Um, but I know there's a lot of conversation around MTSS and some other things. So, there are some districts who don't have homework, some schools. We will do more disguise learning and hands-on project-based disguise learning during that time. There are some schools who have homework, so we'll continue to do
077homework and then we'll do our disguise learning. But there are some schools that might be struggling with those MTSS minutes. And so we will work with you in whatever device you have whether it's I Ready, Air Station, AirTutors. So we will use those times to help increase those minutes in the after school program. I think the biggest thing for us is we want to make sure that we are there for you and that we are meeting the needs of each school community. Um we also have a a new partnership with LEAR. They're a national tutoring company. Um, so they do 1:1, 1:2 or 1:3 tutoring that focuses on reading, math, and uh, English language acquisition. So that's another option that we can bring in if that's something that is um that you would like to
078have in the in the in the schools. And then by the time this is all done, parents are usually picking the kids up. So sometimes we'll have some activities out almost like a maker station, self-creation table, or kids can just hang out with their friends. Um, they also do get to go outside for about 45 minutes. We always have a self-directed activity going on. Those kids who just want to hang out, they can do that as well. So, this is a little look into our day. So, we know it's important to hire the best people. Our programs are not great unless we have the best people. So, we do hire from three um sources. So, um, everyone is hired from your local community. Um, we hire a lot of PAR professionals. Um, they already know
079the community. they already know the kids. So, it's a win-win. We can hire them and they get to be in our programs and they get our trainings that they can bring back in the school day. So, um we also hire a lot of teachers who are going into education. So, we'll work with the local colleges. Um and we will try to work with the education department to get with somebody who wants to go who has that passion who might end up working for you eventually, start their building block into our programs and then come work with you. or it could be a high school student who's already in the community, is going to school to go in education, comes worked with us, and goes back and works with you. Um, so that's really exciting. Um,
080and the nice thing is we're really proud of some of the retention that we've had. Um, we think that has a lot to do with our training. We have our proprietary training. Um, that's blended training of both online inerson. So, they go through of 32 hours of online training. um after an extensive background check once they're cleared then they go into training and then they go into in-person training. It's really a day in the life of right at school really talks to them about scenario based and walks them through situations that they might see going on in the after school program. Um so the other thing that you will see is with our staff is we are asking them and we've had them attend board meetings. So you will get to know our local leaders
081because it's really important that we know what's going on in the district. What strategic initiatives are you rolling out? I saw PBIS, you know, that might be something that we need our staff to to to train on as well. We'll pay them to attend those trainings because we're servicing the same kids. So it's really important that that continuity of care is happening. Um, also I saw something about I just want to make sure I mentioned I saw something about absenteeism chronic I don't know if you're aware but you can use some of your EWOP dollars now to help with that. I'm working with the school district today. We got the email um with Sanorita and Selenus and we're going to do Saturday through EWOP to help get credits back for absenteeism. So that's something we
082can help you with as well. Um, but you'll also see myself and my colleague Kate Vincent, who is going through her hooded ceremony this evening. She just defended her dissertation or she'd be here with me tonight. And um, you'll see us out there. Um, we are, it's important that you and your administration see us, whether it be a CSBA, coast to coast, ledge action day, soup symposium, we want to be there. We want to see there. We want to be present and hear what's going on in your community and how we can help grow it. Um, but our promise is to you, we know that nothing is more important than trust. When you bring us into a district and when parents sign their kids up into our program, they have to trust us. And so
083our promise is to the students, to the families, and to our partners that we'll deliver a highquality program. And that's what we do. This is all we do. We don't try to do a hundred things really well or okay. We do one thing really well. We focus on before and after school programs for TK through 8th grade 365 days a year. So we're willing to be here for before school, after school, winter break, spring break, summer, and those 39 instructional days. So that is it. And I'm here to answer any questions if you have any additional ones. Questions? Thank you. What uh real quick, what percentage of your staff would you say are hired from within the communities or within the district? I would say probably about 65% within the district, 80% within the county,
084Sacramento County. You said you tried to hire teachers from from local um colleges. Can you talk a little bit more about that? Yeah, so it's really people who are going into education. So like my daughter is getting right now her credential to work with speced kids and so she's working in our ride at school program and then she's hopefully get a good job back into the community that she's working at as a teacher in elementary school. So we work with a lot of students who are currently in college who might want to be whether it's an art major, elementary ed major, math major who might want to be an elementary, high school or middle school teacher someday. And so we will try to target those families so we can set them up for success in
085our program because we know first year teachers struggle with curriculum implementation and classroom management and then get a hone in on those skills in our program. So try to set them up for success so that you can get them next. And you said you also focus on pair of professionals, people who are already working within the district in case they want to earn extra and and get additional training and experience working with the kids. Absolutely. We have a lot of pair of professionals working because they some of them have been here 30 years. They know all the kids. They know the community. I mean, what a win-win is that. I was going to say you had some pamphlets. Oh, I do. Yes. I was just going to I see some parents in the audience and
086I was just going to see if there's an opportunity for parents to maybe absolutely from you. So, if absolutely raise your hand if you want some, I will absolutely hand them to you. We have an audience member who would like to know if they can ask a question. Speaker, I'm sorry. Just for clarity, do we have a Are you saying there's a public comment? I was just audience. Oh, absolutely. This is all presentation. So, this is all information. So, if you want to submit a public comment for questions, absolutely. If you could do me a favor afterwards, I know you probably haven't filled out a speaker card yet, but if you could afterwards just so that we have you for our record. All right. Ask questions before I fill out the card and we can
087ask our question before if you haven't filled it out yet. Yeah. Go ahead. Yeah. Has your program in the past or willing to work with continue the current programs that are currently in our school? folks explain to me how to work like just coordinate with you with space or working with the kids. So they come to our program, check in, go to Girl Scouts, maybe come back. Provider has a Girl Scouts group at our school. Okay. And they run the site director runs the Girl Scouts group and it's a multi-level group. So there's the Brownies, the Daisies, the Cadets, and the four levels. We have a multi level community troop and they I mean they coordinate with coordinate with the local Girl Scouts regional office to host our trip or host our troop. They I
088mean they do everything for it and our children love it. This teaches them very valuable skills and if you're selected would you be willing to continue that partnership or have you had a Girl Scouts group like you have experience like I mean I was a Girl Scout number one cookie seller so that's something that we can definitely explore and look into. I know we work closely with the PTAs um and so it's something that we'd definitely be open to talking to with. I don't know of any of our programs that runs a Girl Scout program, but hey, something to look into. I think we're absolutely open to the idea of having a discussion. Any other questions? Um, what is there anything specifically that your program does that kids Yeah, I mean, you know, we have
089actually quite a few inclusion specialists who work with us who work closely with yourself and our team to help educate them on the specific need of the child. So, there are some areas that may need certain sensory blocks. So, we'll get headphones. So, we'll work with you. oftentimes we'll also if we get your approval and the district school approval listed in on IEP meetings really work with you to work out a plan to make sure your child's as successful as possible in the after school program. So, it's in coordination with you and our inclusion specialist and our team. Program staff can vary. You know, I think what we're seeing and and I probably can speak for all of us. I think what we're seeing postco is um there's a lot of staff who come in
090and they interview really really well and they get in our program and it might not be the right fit for them and so we definitely don't want to keep them if it's not the right fit for them. So probably about anywhere from 15 to 30% but that just depends until you get stable. That's usually the first few months and then we usually stable out from there. You just got to leave them out. I always say my son, I have a son who's severely mentally ill and he interviews very, very, very well and gets every single job, but I know he won't last. He is schizophrenic, so he won't last in a job very long, but he gets hired at every single one. So, you know, we're seeing a lot of, you know, some of those
091mental illnesses that are coming in that it might not be the right fit. And so we want to make sure our staff are safe and that they feel like they can, you know, really prosper in our programs as well. Any additional questions or comments? If we could get you go ahead and fill out a speaker card for us just so we have it for our records, that'd be great. Thank you. Okay. Thank you so much. Very much appreciate the presentation. And our next presentation is Alphabest. And if I can ask you to speak not so close to the microphone. Um, what we're hearing, we're hearing feedback from online is if you're speaking too close, it goes in and out. So, I'm going to test it with you and see what feedback we get online. Is
092this better? Not quite as close or is there still some feedback? We don't know yet. Okay. All right. Well, good evening and thank you for having us. I'm Judy Nay. I'm with Alphabest Education and with me I have Don Hosny and Favian Savalawa. So this is our team to really focus on uh this project here and and other projects uh nearby. We love this uh kind of mantra for us which is innovate your after school. Uh it was such uh a pleasure and an advantage to be here tonight to listen to the principles and hear about their needs and their goals so that we can really work together to help them meet those goals. Um, and we're all about being innovative and new and with some flexibility in these out of school times. There's lots
093of things that we can do. So, next slide. Okay. So, why Alphabest? As you heard from our friends at Right at School and you'll hear from lots of us tonight, you've got some really great choices in this room and everybody will abide by all the requirements of ELOP, right? All of the um ratios and program components, etc. So, for the sake of time, I think let's talk about why Alpha Best, what's different and unique about each of us here. Uh, we have exclusive enrichment partnerships, which I'm going to show you in a moment. We do not write our own curriculum. We go out there and partner with the best of the best all around the country, so that through your program, your ELOT program, you can expose students to any number of opportunities, which we'll
094show you in a moment. We are also part of the Kaplan Early Learning family. So, not Kaplan Test Prep, that that big company, but Kaplan Early Learning, which is the company that supplies uh all of your preK, early childhood, Head Start programs around the country with materials and supplies and curriculums, etc. And so, we are a family-owned company, and Kaplan is here to support um us and the districts we work with in any number of ways. They've given gift cards to elementary schools for materials. They've refernished pre-K rooms. So, uh, we like to work closely with them. Again, familyowned. Uh, 86% of our parents surveyed this year said they would recommend us to another parent. So, it's that net promoter score you're always looking for. So, we were thrilled uh to see that. And of
095course, I mentioned our innovative approach, which I'm going to get to in a moment. But, I'm going to let Don and Favian here talk for a minute about our California partnerships and where we're working in similar communities. The microphone is cutting out. Is it good everyone? Um well, and they're they're up there on the screen so everybody who who can see this slide can see where we're working in this state where we're in 20 states including California and um Favian is actually our regional manager here in California. So he could probably speak to each of the districts and their their unique demographics. Um we work with some large districts, some small districts. I think that Oxnard were in six of their schools. Um so that's probably a very similar um demographic and size. Um and
096we're loving that relationship. Um we were just awarded LMPoke. They have nine schools. Um and um we're right here in the area in Nomus and Twin Rivers as well doing some enrichment. Um you know a lot about Alhhamra and what you're doing down there. Yeah, Alhamra. I'm taking care of Alhamra at the moment that's in LA area. So, it's literally maybe five minutes, 10 minutes away to East LA. Uh, Newport Mesa is also another school site that I oversee that's out in Newport/ Huntington Beach area. Oxnard, it was uh interesting to go out there. I didn't realize how much of a farm field Oxnard was. And it's been nice to travel and see these different communities and demographics and stuff like that. Westminister is also another one that I I oversee that's primarily Asian/ Latinos
097who are out there and then we've got Bua Park which is near and dear to my heart cuz I live there now as well. So I'm taking over I'm overseeing that as well. So we have a great community, great demographics of it all. So those are the ones that I'm looking at. Um I know we just got up north so I have a little bit of hands-on with UPN North stuff. Not too much just yet, but yeah. So, you don't know what schools you're in in Ntois and in Twin Rivers? And we're gonna be providing Sorry, we're going to be providing enrichment to um a lot of their schools, but they haven't assigned us yet for the coming school year. So, we won't be full service in a school from Bell to 6 p.m. taking
098care of the whole program, but the the enrichment that we're about to share with you, they're having us come in and just do those pieces. So it it's it's going to depend on how many schools that changes year to year. So one of the fabulous things about the eop program is the flexibility. So to Don's point about providing enrichment and to the question about Girl Scouts, absolutely right. I mean we want we want students to have every opportunity they can and EWOP allows you to either come in and present a full program from bell to dismissal or in partnership with others or pieces and parts. And we are absolutely open to doing any of that which is how we've designed our content so that it can be flexible. These are the five strands within which
099we work in our content. Arts and entertainment as you see STEM maker spaces world languages and culture and fitness and wellness. And this is my favorite slide of all. I say this everywhere we go. These are our curriculum partners. So everything that you're seeing up here would come to your students uh here in any schools that we work with. I think you probably will quickly see second step up there. We heard a lot about that from your principles today. We use the second step after school curriculum. And so it's by the very same organization, Committee for the Children. Uh they did a lot of research. They noted how different after school environments are, but the importance the importance of connecting with what's happening during the school day. So we use Second Step in every one
100of our programs for SEAL uh curriculum. And so certainly hearing how uh the schools and the principles want to uh advance in that area, we think we can help there as well. The other one I want to point out is Alive Studios and you're going to see that in a moment on a TK prek slide. Uh we heard a lot about phenemic awareness. That's exactly what Alive Studios is. It's an augmented reality prek TK program that gets kids very excited about learning the letters of the alphabet, etc. So lots of fun with that. I want to point out one of our newest partnerships, ARIT. That is an architectural design program for elementary students. It's out of Ireland. We're the first really large scale um group to adopt this. Our students are doing it right now
101as the year closes out. And while it feels and looks, you'll see some photos in a moment, um like kind of a Lego building kit. They learn about angles and measurement and perspective, etc. Uh so that's a really good one. And uh lastly, I'd say Global Language Project. This was a group out of New York City, a nonprofit, and what they did was language learning after school. So, in a very enrichment uh oriented way. They're not conjugating verbs and going fluent, but they're certainly getting exposed. And so through that work, we focus on Spanish, Mandarin, we also do American Sign Language, and then a culture unit every year. So, here's some photos. I'm going to let Don speak to those. Thank you. So, this is a page out of my scrapbook. I've got dozens of
102these, but I was told to keep this short, so I'm trying to honor that and leave it to just a couple. Um, so the this was from this year, and these are actual kids in the program that I just grabbed off of our internal site. Um, Sparro is one that we've been bringing into our programs for a couple of years now. Um, for those of you who don't know what Sphero is, we've got the Sphero Indie, which on the left hand side of that slide, you see the little car. That's for the younger kids. And then we've got the Sphero Bolt, which is a big round ball. And they're both teaching coding. So, the little guys with the Sphero Indie are using they're they're not using it's no tech and they're using the um colored
103squares and learning the concepts of of directional coding. The older kids use the ball and iPads. We supply one iPad for every three students for our technology courses that require it. Um, and they're coding a ball to do all kinds of things. There's, you know, they're either going through a maze or having a race and and they love it. Um, we also do stopotion animation. We do u video game design. There's quite a few things. Like I said, I don't have every slide here. Um, Arc Kit, which Judy just talked about, is on the bottom center there. And um that has been a bigger hit than I think even we thought it would be. The kids are loving it. And like Judy said, they're they're learning scale. Um they're building cities. They're learning about um
104eco-friendly. We are partnering with another group next year who is working with them. And the other group is doing circuits circuitry. And combined, we're going to be powering ceiling fans in their little art kit homes and turning lights on and programming those to come on at certain times. And it's all very kid-friendly, very accessible, um to all to all students. um our art um we use art in action who's in Menlo Park um California a nonprofit that's been around for I think 40 years um that developed an art program for volunteer dosens to go into the schools when the art programs were taken out at the schools in California. We partnered with them at least 10 or 12 years ago and love it. Every year kids are doing visual arts programs and we work with
105the American Coaching Academy for all of our um daily physical activities. In that picture, kids are doing ultimate frisbee relays. Oh, um Judy mentioned TK and K. It's a whole different animal, so we don't bring the exact same curriculum into that um into down to that level. Um Alive Studios is really incredible. And on the left there, that's a picture of it. It's not only language, we're adopting also the math. So, it's numbers and letters. Um, it's appropriate for TK and it's appropriate for Kay. The augmented reality, that's Amos the alligator in the middle of the screen and he pops out and talks to the kids and they go absolutely crazy. So, week one might be a and they talk to Amos and they they eventually start building words with the letters once they're learning
106the letters. And let's say they want to spell the word ant, they would put a TN and Amos would say no. No. And they they just, you know, they go nuts. So, it's very very engaging um content. And we do that for our TKK groups. We work with um Engineering is Elementary out of Museum of Science in Boston um with their Wii engineer program. You see the bees up top there? That's coding for little guys. um Lego Education and then action mats to make sure there's some kinesthetics going on. We use these action mats and build a circuit and and kids work through those. Anything you want to add to that? Ah staffing. Do you want to talk about it or I start then? So um obviously yes, all our staff would come from the
107local community here. Again, PAR professionals have always been fabulous staff in after school programs for obvious reasons. They work with the kids and families during the day. They know that the students students know them. Um that is really ideal. We also bring in again college students or students who are finishing uh their programs. While I'm talking about that, I'm going to jump to the bottom for a moment. You'll see that little AB ascend um moment there. It's a retention strategy. I heard a question over here about turnover. Um, we did a study and found that the majority of our folks, particularly at the site leadership level, leave after, let me rephrase it, the the highest percentage of those who leave leave after the first year. Not unlike teaching, right? Early in their career, unless you
108get it to stick. And so once we get them to the second year and third year, they stay longer. So what we're doing now is a career launchpad saying, "Let us be your best first job. come in, work with us. You're going to learn leadership skills. You're going to talk with parents. You're going to be shoulder-to-shoulder with teachers in the in the building um and working with kids and learning lots about, you know, presenting information and sharing and public speaking. And whether you stay with us or whether you take that somewhere else in your career journey or in your community, you've had a really good experience here. So, we're adding in an internship for those who are selected for that, who are in that first year that we're trying to hang on to. Uh and
109some other things as well. We've got a partnership with an organization called Guild where we there's no charge to our employee. They will get they can earn a certificate in digital design, graphic design or anything else they're interested in. There's a whole catalog of that. Um so Fabian is going to talk very quickly and then we're going to wrap it up about your recruiting and Yeah. So I'm pretty hands-on with recruiting as well. Um I do have a recruiter. So the process of that is for me is the recruiter picks them out. I do the interview right after. Not just that, it's also our site directors. It's also going to be our area managers, myself, people that have been in the field, people that know the reality of what's going on in the classrooms, uh,
110in the after school classrooms because kids don't treat it the same. Um, they treat it differently. So um, we try to be very hands-on. What I came to realize and what keeps the retention of people is how welcoming it is, how much support we have, how many people and staff members can be out there to support like myself. Um, so yeah, I'm a big believer of continuing to bring the community together. I'm a big believer of a great healthy work environment, especially in education. In education, that just means we're all here to help each other out. We're really, really here to um give a hand, lend a hand, and go from there from the recruiting aspect of it. Um because retention is hard. It is hard, but it's doable when you have the right people
111plugged in and the people that that really care and want to be there for the kiddos. Thank you. I guess the last the last comment then would be um obviously about training. We've got all the background checks, clearances, etc. And we do a combination of inperson and online training. And we also have a catalog of uh an LMS system with online training so that when we see a staff who needs a little addition additional training and something we can kind of assign them to that to that coursework. So that's who we are. We'd love to um work with you and and bring some of these great programs into your schools. Thank you. Questions or comments? How often Do your site directors leave after one year director? I mean not often. Let me clarify that it's
112we probably I think our last was about a 70% retention 73% retention which in a part-time business um you know is is pretty strong uh better than the industry standard. But when we look at those who leave, we found that if you can keep them after the first year, they stay longer. So it's building the skills in that first year. Does that help? No. You want to know how many I want to know how many leave after the first year. That's an important practice. Okay. So 70% stay. So about 30%. Yes. Are your interns paid or are they unpaid? They're not they're not interns per se, but if you're a site director and you're in our ascend program in it, they are paid in addition to your work. Say you're really interested in graphic design
113and you want to design flyers with our marketing team, we will allow you some extra hours to do that as well that you'll be paid for to develop another set of skills. How many of your employees refer back [Music] your employees to their friends or family members? How many question? Yeah, so we have quite a bit of that. We have over 3,000 staff around the country. Um, so we have staff at at the field level that have been with us since the beginning, 20 years. We have I mean to think about a part-time job in after school and we have more than a more than 15 or 20 of them. Oh yeah. That have been here for 20 years. Um, and we have a lot of family members who work, you know, together and refer
114we pay a referral bonus. Um, and our employees love that. So if they refer someone in and they get the job, they get a little bump there. So I think I mean it's the nature of the job that there's going to be some turnover because you you can't give everybody the amount of hours that they want. But if we're bringing in college kids and we're helping them grow their career path, it's not really that disruptive if they're good while they're there and we're bringing in good people. Do you have any relationships with the local university? We always do. Yes. Well, here we have to start that. So, definitely here. But I mean in whatever area we come into, we develop those. We work with their um career and and their teaching college if they have
115one, their job fairs. We will our recruiters will go in and do all of that. I personally don't do the recruiting. So, I don't know in California who we're working with, but we will. My next question is um so you guys mentioned that you're like, how do you target the community to make sure that the information. Well, indeed's part of it. We also will do local job fairs. We'll work with the school district to see if we can send flyers out throughout the community through par through the parent communications through um like we want paras parah educators to come and work for us. So, we put a flyer together and hope that the district will help us promote those jobs. Yeah. to add on to that as well. People that we currently have right now
116staff members which I'm navigating get a little closer to the microphone so folks online can hear. Um yeah, so something to navigate about about that is um word of mouth. Word of mouth is really really important. And of course I don't just you know I take the recommendations but I also there's that interview process right? Have you worked with kids before? Tell me a little bit about yourself. um where what kind of care, curiosity, and and care that you want to bring to the community and the kids, you really need a really strong staff member that really does care. So, that's that's basically what I'm looking for. But word of mouth is another one. As a parent, what I directly communities that look like my family process, but I wanted to 100% agree. Um I
117I come from a Latino background and I didn't have that growing up as often. So that was super important to me. So now I want to be that role model as well for them. But just to be clear, one of the things is due to Proposition 209, it is illegal to hire based on race. So it's important to note that we're doing that. But we definitely want to encourage as we do recruitment for whatever programs, whatever hiring we're doing, we want to make sure that all people's know about the opportunities to work with Robas and Robas partners. But I think it's important to note and and I understand what you're saying, but it's important to note that we do have some legal things we have to make sure that we're compliant with. One thing to
118add to that is that of course when you're going into the interview process, you can't say we're able to say like this is the type of skill set. We're looking for X Y and Z. still look for your community. Absolutely. And and I think just to to wrap that up because this is it's a really important discussion for all of us to hear. Whoever works in the ELOP program and after school, we're all recruiting from the same population and the same community, right? We're all going to be looking for those great people. Obviously, anyone who's been working in this program or program like this, if they get recommended by the the building principal and and others, parents would absolutely be welcomed back. We're not coming in to try to find some whole new different workforce.
119We want to build on what you have here. So, absolutely, it's an important conversation. Thank you for bringing Yes, ma'am. Two quick questions. He showed all the various organizations we work with, but I didn't really in terms of a daily schedule or outline of a daily schedule for students, any types of homework assistance and then also I'm guessing it's going to be a trend of all the programs and same community members I guess. So my question is what what happens when you're all competing for the same I don't know 10 15 for the same program. Well let me take your question about the schedule. Absolutely. If when I started out one of the things I said is that EOP is very flexible and we know from the meeting that we all had there could be
120any number of ways that we work together in this program. So, we didn't focus in on this is how it has to go every day. But everyone in our business knows that a good strong after school program has a combination of snack, homework time, outdoor and indoor recreation, and high quality enrichment. So you would get that same kind of we could show you a schedule from any other program where they would come in and they would have their snack and some time to unwind and do some homework if they have it or tutoring if we bring that in and then go into an enrichment program and then flexible clubs later in the day before they go home. So absolutely there would be that sort of schedule if we were in charge of the entire program
121to set it up that way. Absolutely. um about how are we all going to get the staff. I think whether you have what you know you have x number of students in schools and so whether you have one provider looking for all those um employees or whether you have four or five looking for a piece of them, we're all looking at the end of the day for really the same number um of employees based on ratio and enrollment. Um, and we're just we're going to have to work together and I think it would be reasonable to set um compensation ranges and all collaboratively if we can to a certain extent so that it isn't like one is outpaying another or pulling from each other. Uh if you do have multiple partners does that help? I'm
122sorry. I just wanted to clarify that um our district provides supper for all our students. So that's part of um our responsibility. One of the things I want to note I appreciate about you when you talked about the flexibility because the reality is, you know, we're not going to have just one organization that we're working with with our ELOP programs. It's going to be multiple and because we realize that for for different students needs are different for different parents. Desires for what they want in the program are going to be different. And and the real opportunity we're having here is for people to hear about the different opportunities. And obviously the more willing you are to be flexible, the easier it is for you to work with some of the other partners to be able
123to have a program. Once again, that meets that meets the needs of all of our of all of our scholars. So, uh, very just want to let you all really appreciate that part of your presentation. Okay. Thank you. Our next presentation is dream enrichment classes. So when I came here, my staff trained me properly on this. They said I was being way too modest cuz we are the largest after school company in Sacramento. And all of a sudden I come here and I see that I'm in the company of giants and I'm like an ant here. So thank you for thank you for including us. I'm going to I'm technologically I'm Okay, there you go. All right. So, those are the topics we had for today, right? And and there were several great questions. I
124hope you ask me all those questions. We've been doing after school enrichment at Sacramento for a very long time, almost 19 years at this point, right? We have worked with all the districts in Sacramento that I would think uh we have 5,000 plus enrollments each year. That's a huge number for me. And I'm looking at your numbers. I'm like, "Yeah." Right now, we we we're very involved with the districts. We go and saying, "Hey, we'll do enrichment." And very soon it grows into, "Hey, can you do this interession camp here? Could you do that summer school there?" And so we do all day, we did all all day Thanksgiving camps, winter camps, spring and summer camps. Right now we are doing our camps for Twin Rivers Unified and we're also doing it at HLN height
125where they're doing their uh summer school. So the morning half is summer school and the afternoon half is our enrichment and in the month of July it's all us the when when the school is done right uh we we provide quite a few programs now all those programs you see in the bottom early engineers firefly art chess academy right uh these are like you go to the schools out there and you talk to the principles and and and you will see these are very popular programs here in Sacramento, right? All the curriculum is is built inhouse. We don't we don't believe in how some vendors would actually get their teachers, get their team leads like an hour before class, they Google an art project, print it out, and have kids color the whole day. We
126don't do that, right? We are our curriculum is standardized. It follows the state curriculum. So, and it and we have a 5-year rolling schedule. So we early engineers, for example, it's a 5-year curriculum. If your kid joins in the first grade with us and they work on a project, they'll never ever see that project all their school life cuz there is new project every week, right? Same thing with art. You draw a turkey for a Thanksgiving, you will never ever see that same turkey come home for the remaining Thanksgivings for the elementary school. It'll be a whole new project every time. Right? Again, let's go back one step. Uh, chess academy. We don't just play chess, right? We learn chess the right way. We learn the tactics, the techniques and everything. We have inter school
127tournaments. In fact, before co the largest we have had with SAK City Unified School District was called the Tiger Trophy where we did it at John Still Elementary with about 17 schools participating, right? And our software was all developed in house to pair kids up. I run the following chess academy and I've been doing this for a very long time. So chess is very close to me. Yeah. Minecraft, right? We all know Minecraft. I was looking at I was looking at your I wanted to ask about the incentives that you provide for for tuency and stuff. And and my my point is it's very simple. Give kids a laptop and have them play Minecraft. You attend a whole day school and you play Minecraft. It's that simple, right? But then our Minecraft is not playing
128cuz we we do coding with it. There isn't there is so when Microsoft when Microsoft purchased Minecraft, they they also created an educational component. It's education.minecraft.net, right? And that's what we use. So our Minecraft is not the regular Minecraft where you're destroying, building, no guns, right? Obviously, it's it's the education side, but kids don't know that. They think it's the same Minecraft. They they see the same familiar stuff there right now. We do podcast for older grades. We do junior robotics. Go to the next one. Similar demographics. So my definition of similar demographics is very simple. You see that yellow square there that the red yellow rectangle that's robot right? And everything around it we you see that we have like twin rivers. You have twin river you're flanked on both sides by twin rivers
129right? And and somebody asked about how many schools do you teach in Nutas? Well, how many schools do we teach in Twin Diverse? I think all of them. How many schools do we teach in Nutonus? I think all of them. Right. There are 11 schools. And in this next school year, uh we we're probably going to go exceed what we were planning on doing for Nummus. Anyways, uh SAK City Unified, we are one of their preferred vendors. Elgroveve, I have my notes here for Elgrove. I should be doing my notes, too. Hold on. Sorry. Yeah. Uh, see, I'm I'm not a professional at this. So, when CO hit, when when we had shelter in place and when everybody shut down, we were the only provider in Sacramento who evolved overnight and we did online classes.
130So, there were kids in classrooms even doing shelter in place if you know, right? and we were working with them using our online using everything everything went online all of a sudden. uh some districts we work with, right? And these are exactly the same demographics more or less if like when you say roadluck I'm not talking about I'm not talking about the the falsome corridor or the elder hills which you where you can't compare apples to apples. These are the schools that we teach at these are the schools that I attended to when I was little. These is this is what I relate to. So these are the schools we have over there like the nine schools in Fam Cordova. I'm not talking of Empire Oaks Elementary, Russell Ranch Elementary, Mangini Ranch, the the $85
131million school, right? We're not talking those schools here. We're talking of the title one schools in Rancho Cordova. Similar demographics like Roblang, I gave you some examples over there. Now, we're very sensitive to the cultural demographics. What I mean is again, we can't say that we'll pick from a particular fill in the blank, right? It's an it's an equal opportunity employment. But when we in when we recruit, we we enforce certain rules in our in our stuff. Like for example, the teacher that we hire has to be within a 2 to three mile radius of the school you teach at right. I mean that for example if you if you have to teach if you have to teach at a school in the we can't hire a teacher from Falsam or or Elorado Hills and
132have them come teach in in the Thomas. So our definition for local hire is very simple. Hiring from the community, right? Our definition is you have to be in that neighborhood. You have your cell phones. I whip up cell phones. We hook up your browser. Now go to Indeed and look at what the pay scales are. One of the questions I heard was how do you how do you retain employees? Simple. We pay the highest. Right? It's very simple. It's a nonprofit. We pay the highest. So stuff like that. we we we don't we don't want to we don't want to make a long dime and so that's what we've been doing for a very long time. It's very common for us to see employees from all the other companies come to us just because
133of that. Right now there was this other question about local school partnerships. If we've been in Sacramento for 18 plus years, we wouldn't survive if we wouldn't have a strong stake in CSU, Cal State, SAK State, right? So in SAK State, we we target all the majors where the teachers are where the students are going to teaching and we have a program called the TTP, the teacher training program. The idea there is that kids who come to us to become teachers in future will actually it's it's like an internship to them, right? It's a paid internship. They they're here not only for the job sake, but they also get a letter of referral. The very last course where they do their uh outdoor work or field experience, we we offer that to them. Right now,
134you asked about you asked about the question about uh retention. Our turnover rate our turnover rate for the last school year was 18%. Right now it's a small school. It's a small company. We just sac we just serve Sacramento area and we hire predominantly from majors where so we hire from majors where the students want to go into teaching but we also want to hire from the local community as well. Right? In both those cases you come like another example right now we have this we have a summer camp going on so far and it's been what 5 weeks we've had zero people quit on us right now yesterday ratios is another thing mark today's date because yesterday the the number of kids who attended that camp was 145 146 and the staff we had
135there was 15 so it's not 1 is to 20 for us right we didn't go by those ratios. We don't stick to the ratios. If there if you if there are fewer kids, we didn't send teachers home, right? We want to have smaller ratios as a general rule. We have camps all over Sacramento right now and all our ratios are about 1 is to 10, 1 is to 12, 15, that ballpark. It's very rare that you'll see one teacher with 20 students. Regional partnerships. I was looking at regional partnerships and I was like, what do we write here? And then every company I talked to, I'm like, how can I get them to help our students here? For example, I went to Davis. I'm a I'm a Davis graduate. I knocked on Davis and said,
136what can you give me so I can take back to my students to my schools that will guarantee that our scores would improve? And they took me to this program they had called the CEM, right? The UC Davis program has a cem program. It's called cem.youucdavis.edu. And right there they have they have two programs. They have computer science with robotics and math with robotics. And it's UC program. It's it's to the standards. If if a TK kid comes there, they have curriculum for a TK kid. If a if an eighth grade or nth grader comes, they have curriculum for those grade levels. It's it's it's perfect. Right. At Robertson Community Center a few miles from here, right? You know where it is. Uh we do our summer camps there for all the Twin River students
137and it doesn't cost them anything. And this is during the inter session breaks. Parents drop off their kids at 8:00 a.m. pick them up at 5:00 p.m. They're with us the whole time. And we are not daycare. We don't have it's not like a pool where you drop the kids off and and and there's water and then there's sun and it's them. We don't do that. It's all enrichment based. We also partner with Greater Sacramento Urban League. They have this new pilot program they call they call it Cal Kids. And here I'm trying to advocate for cal kids here too. So now you know what it is. I want to talk more about the cell later on because I I see that you guys have your own cell program second step. I we evaluated second
138step and we chose not to go with it for the same reason that if you if you're learning math at school, you don't learn the same math in an after school program. It should be different. Right? So what we saw was we saw second step is very academically oriented curriculum and this and that and we wanted oursel to be more of a wholesome thing. So when we go in as I have an example that I wrote somewhere here the example was we have this cool we have this class in our not too much camp again very recent example the second graders are a rowdy bunch oh I love them right they have so much energy so what do we do what we did was we said let's do heartfulness meditation so we sit down and
139we do positive affirmations we we speak good about what we can what we think we want to achieve in that one class and then we go into some deep breaths we get those we calm ourselves down and we move forward. This wholesomeness does not come with second step which is more more structured. So if you it's like learning math if you if you're learning a multiplication tables you do want to have that that sense of understanding which is what math is about these days right where you read a word problem and you're trying to implement it there and that's what we do that's why we chose like when when the school does second step we would do something different now here is an example of what we're doing with other school districts right that's what
140we're doing with customers right now and during the day if you look at the other vendors this is all public knowledge too there are three other there are two other vendors besides us the other vendors give two enrichment programs for the life of it from 7:30 to 4:30 you spend 2 hours on enrichment our teachers can't handle that that stress of handling rowdy kids for the rest of the time we are more enrichment right uh twin rivers same thing we've been doing it with twin rivers for a very long time Somebody asked about do you provide food? The answer is yes, we also provide food. The district provides food, but the nutrition department in Twin Diverse, as an example, it's done with its job on July 27th this year. Our camps go all the way
141to August 15th. And during that time, we provide food as well, right? And and it's very easy to provide food. You just go to Costco, order boxes of pizza. Kids love Costco pizza and we love them, too. go to Panda Express and they have nice buffies, right? I'm not talking about like I'm not talking about like packaged foods, right? I'm not talking packaged foods that you would buy because I need to be able to feed that to my kids. If I can't, I won't feed it to your kids. It's that simple, right? Our ties with Robla. Well, why look at all those districts out there? We've actually worked with Robla from 2015 to 2020 when you had the Sacramento start program. We were here with Sacramento start program in your schools actively working in all
142your schools where we gave we did Firefly art with them. We did early engineers. We did honey code video game coding classes and and yeah so back then we were primarily a start vendor and and we expanded our role since then and now we want to come back to Robla on a much larger scale. our scope of services I guess what do we do right we we don't believe we don't think that after school should be daycare and in and I I would I would probably ask you to just go ask around and see what the other daycarees are what the other after schools are like kids come in at a at a certain time and you guys probably have this experience too kids come in from from their day from their school into the
143daycare the first thing they do is they spend some time checking in And then they have supper and then that's it. Teachers don't give homework. Kids don't get to do homework. If teachers give any homework and if the kids want to do that homework, yes, there is homework help, right? What we do is slightly different, right? Uh we have some of our programs, but so we do Firefly art. What we do is slightly different. Let me finish the talk cuz the slides a little off here from my flow. We believe that we can actually influence the homework part and and we also think that the homework should not be exactly what the teachers do in school for that. And we also believe in incentivization. We have a very strong incentive. It's called Minecraft, right? If
144you don't like Minecraft, guess what? We have a Roblox or we have Roblox. Sorry. If you don't like Roblox, we'll get you Fortnite. But you'd only get them if you do something for us. And that's for us. That's something for us is obviously going to be something with academics and studies and and games, educational games, right? We also had a question about do you partner with sped? My daughter was a sped, right? So when I'll give you an example. I was I was I was in this nothingness camp again for all I I keep going back to the same thing cuz this is still so fresh in my mind. There was a kid there who was was being very talkative, not listening and all. And I'm like, "Hey, you know what? I'll call your mom
145now. And the kid said the kid said, "You can't. My mom died." Was he kidding? He was like a fourth grader. He was a big kid. Was he kidding? I didn't know. As it so happens, kids make lots of your mama jokes. And that hits him really hard. We see this all the time. Our staff is trained to step in. Our staff is trained to not let that happen. If we feel that there is a kid who needs our help, our staff is specially told to step in and we also get feedback from parents, right? And so we we believe in that close family connections cuz we have to we don't have a choice. I've seen how it is with my daughter too. And so I enforce that here as well. Uh I think yeah,
146we do all these programs. Everybody does programs. The only difference between our programs perhaps is that while we're doing this, we also ensure that there is some kind of an incentive at the end. You do this and you get something else and that something else better be worth it, right? The these are what we started for the older schools this year. We do cooking champs. We do podcast pros. Kids actually get microphones and and they do podcasts. We have a tie up with NPR that if you can come up with a really good podcast, they'll they'll do it for us. They they'll host it. Well, can we come up with a really good podcast? Good question. What's new this year? We're always coming up with new curriculum. This year, we thought we should do hydroponics.
147It's a good thing to have in spring. We want to do esports. We saw how Matis was doing esports with their district. So, we tied up with their leap academy and and Mr. Justin was very kind. He he showed us he invited me to his esports that they did. This is something we can do everywhere, right? programs. Now what do we do? So typically an after school program is about 3 three and a half hours. About 20 minutes goes to supper break, right? 30 minutes is homework time. If there is no school homework, we come up with our own curriculum. We we have we'll extend your ID if you have one. If not, we have our own licenses for that. And about 1 to one and 1/2 hours is all about enrichment activities. The last
1481 hour is outdoor races. We don't we don't believe we should play right away. We do the play part in the very end. We finish all our other activities and then it's play time. This seems to work really well too. Our enrichment activities, we want to change them every every trimester cuz you can't have the same enrichment activity for the whole year, right? And we believe that every day should be a different enrichment activity. And so it's more repetitive. It's more kids would like it this way. They know that every Friday is going to be Minecraft day. They'll know that every Tuesday, every Tuesday we have their own chess day, but they know that, right? We give them that exact repetitiveness. All our curriculum is developed in house. We're always counting to see what the
149next one could be and if and we pull the parents to ask if it's a good one. That's how the hydroponics came about. We believe that after school is an extension of the school and not daycare. I and I strongly believe that every kid has to has the ability to to to grow to get to get decent scores only if you have the opportunity there and and it should be it should be interesting right I think together we can make a difference questions for me any questions comments uh how much of your program would you say is computer based talking about Minecraft and Roblox. So on a typical day, how much would you say a student is spending online versus communicating with people? About 20%. So on a 5day basis. Okay. On a 5day basis,
150they do this computer stuff one day a week. Okay. When they do chess, it's it's computer free. When they do art, it's computer free. When they do cooking, computer free. So it's about one day a week. But that emphasis in computers was for the incentivization piece. That's it. So that was my concern because I don't know if you are serious or joking how you were putting some of that information and that was those two programs as correct not either there are kids believe it or not who are not interested in either I know a kid comes back I'm not interested We first ask them what they like if they want to have a reading time for themselves all to themselves like my daughter would yeah she they'll get the reading time that last part is
151for them as an incentive whatever whatever gets them the most whatever like what's what's closer to them right and then you also again I don't know I know the district provides but outside I was serious there so when the district provides food the district provides food in camps where we go beyond the district's availability like in in twin rivers right now right the the nutrition department is is clo it closes its doors on on July 27th 26th or 27th and after that our camps go all the way to August 15th and during that time instead of having the parents do the food, we do the food. So, just real quick, go going forward, what I what I really want to try and do is is as we're going through each of the presentations, I like
152to have the board members ask questions and then and that's I I understand we're we're kind of loose here in terms of those, but I really want to make sure that uh that we have that kind of uh back and forth. So, we make sure that the board members get their questions and then we'll ask the audience if they have if you have any questions and then that way we make sure that we're uh getting through things as quickly and expeditely organized as possible. Uh Mr. Castile, you had a a question or comment. Can I just clarify that um our nutrition services department does not close for the whole program. Let me be clear. We provide all nutrition within the nutrition guidelines for the support program. Yes. Yes. Perfect. That's that's what Thank you. That's
153very very important. All right. Any any other questions or comments? I just want to thank our parents who are in the audience for asking. Thank you for showing up tonight and joining us. Your mic is off. Your mic is off. I'm sorry. I just want to say your input is appreciated and valued and thank you for being a part of this. Yes, most definitely. We do appreciate the questions. We do appreciate the comments and the input and we encourage you to do so very much. So any other questions or comments specifically about the program? So one, are you currently implementing that and how does that work? Like is Is CE giving you a curriculum or they providing your staff training and then it's like some of the activities that the students go through? So we
154saw CEM we saw one of our districts try to do CEM. The way they did system was they called CA system and they had the program managers I guess they're called they had their program managers get trained in system. Well guess what there's attrition. the program manager leaves and when the program manager leaves system goes away with the program manager and that school would have no one after that in our case it's slight it's slightly different in our case as the as a as the person in the company I got trained in system when my staff leaves and a new person comes in I train them right away on system so the system program can continue is new to us we're implementing it this current year but as of last as of this past year
155the few months ago right I I got trained and see them buy them and we want to go live with them this year. All grades to participate in it when it goes live then yes all grades with oh you talk about curriculum too they provide curriculum and they provide grade sensitive curriculum so if it's a TK they get a different set of curriculum different grades get different sets of curriculum and it's super fun cuz it's it doesn't look like education at all and it's all education I worked at engineering office I'm a little familiar with it but I haven't seen it from this perspective. So, I'm really excited to see that system.youucdavis.edu. I actually had a question. Now, I noticed you had a lot of academic and and a little bit of arts in terms
156of uh I forget what the term is anyway, but I noticed I didn't see a lot or anything in regards to uh physical activity, sports, or uh or performance art. Is there is there is that not something that you guys do or is there is there something that that just you do but it's not included in this presentation? So we don't do sports but we do hire people in our in our staff who help the kids with say flag football. Okay. But when you're talking about like professional sport coaching like soccer coaching or something that needs more of this, we would defer that to like an expert. Okay. Right. The other question you had was about is it do you do something beyond we have a program called spotlight stars sometimes during Christmas is when
157we focus on theater and that's a good time to do that but after that we go to another program okay any other questions or comments I have a question for superintendent Chen um how much time was each person given for their presentation about 7 to 10 minutes 7 to 10 minutes okay Okay. Any other questions or comments? All right. Thank you so much. Thank you. Our next presentation is from Edna. Hi, good evening board. U my name is Eduardo Cawto and I am the executive director and co-founder of EdMo. And my name is Kendra Watkins and I'm the director of partnerships for EdMo. And we'll we'll try to keep this one a little briefer. We're going to keep try to keep that seven to or five to seven minutes. Um, a little bit about EdMo.
158We've been we've been around for 21 years. Uh, we are a nonprofit. We are based right here in Cal Northern California and um, we uh, work with about 10,000 kids every day across all of our our 52 different schools that we work with. And uh our specialty is co-designing with our school district partners to create um programs that leverage their strengths and and the things that they want to work on their community and then combine those with what our strengths are uh in the community. And we are great at working with our school district partners as well as other agencies as well. We have a lot of different collaborative models that we work in. Um we uh a little bit about uh what we do like I said we have that co-design model. Um I
159know when when the when the principles were talking earlier there was a few things they brought up. Community schools social emotional learning writing parent engagement and attendance. Those seem to be some recurring themes through all of those presentations. So it was awesome to get a chance to sit here and hear those. Uh those are all of those those are all things that we partner with our principles and our school districts to help them move the needle in in all of those different areas. Um I'll actually mention like actually one of our school one of the one of our board members on our governing board of the nonprofit actually wrote the book on community schools before it was even called community schools. Uh Dr. Raymond Isola and he's a fantastic resource both for our organization and
160for our district and community partners. uh with social emotional learning, we actually partnered with the UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center and designed our social emotional learning framework uh that's also culturally culturally relevant. Uh but even though we have that inhouse and it's a fantastic tool, we also work with our partners. If you have anal framework that you want to use and and incorporate into the afterchool program, that's great. We're actually okay with continuity between the school day and the afterchool program. uh we've made a very intentional effort to incorporate writing uh into all of our curriculum as well. Like I mentioned, we are a steam, but we actually will weave in literacy and writing into all of our uh components. And uh parent engagement, uh Kendra's going to talk to you a little bit
161more about our our model of how we do our curriculum. Uh but we have a ton of parent engagement we do through uh monthly community events at our schools. Uh and lastly, attendance. We've seen from our partners uh that kids who are in our programs actually have better attendance than those who are not in uh the expanded learning programs that we're in. So we've seen some great success there. Uh I will lastly mention some things that kind of stand out about us. Uh we've won uh na we've been nationally recognized. We've won the excellence in summer learning award from the national summer learning association. It's only about 60 organizations in the country that have won that award. Uh and we are recognized for that in 20 21. Okay. Um, oh, I know we talked about
162Oh, here we go. Yeah, a little more about the codeesign model. So, we start right with right from the beginning with that community voice. Get that ga gather that community um uh impact like what again what are those things that you want to move? What are those uh metrics that you want to move? Let's start there. Make sure that we're aligned with our values. uh design that program again to to meet those goals and then implement the program and do continuous uh improvement plan. So, we're surveying our parents, our kids, our staff, uh your your uh your administrations to hear how that program is going towards those goals that we co-create together. Um local partnerships. We've been working in the Sacramento area for 10 years and here's some of the different locations uh where we've
163been at. Um we also the closest one is the growth public schools. We welcome you to come by and see some of the programs. It's a fantastic uh example of collaboration between the principal and uh an afterchool program. A lot of alignment there between our programs and the school day. Our community data and demographics like I mentioned we have about 10,000 kids that we serve uh currently. And this is our student demographics. Very similar to the Robola school demographics and because we hire in the local community like we all do here. Uh our staff demographics uh mirror a lot of our our student population. Uh and then a little bit about our partnerships. Like I mentioned those 10,000 kids uh over 50 partner schools. I will mention on the staff too um because I know
164that's come up a lot. We have such an intentional um approach to our staff with recruiting, with hiring and retention. Our retention rate, believe it or not, 94% from the 2020 uh 324 school year to the 2024 25 school year. And that's due to uh several different factors. Yes, we have competitive pay. Um in fact, that's one of the first questions we ask our partners is, hey, what are you what are your pair of professionals making? We want to make sure that we at least reach that amount, if not exceed it. Um, we also have that focus on the teacher pathways. We have a partnership with the BU County Office of Education that has a statewide teacher pathway program and staff in our in our programs get college credits towards community college for working at
165EdMo. Uh, and they're they're able to do that because of the level of the curriculum that we have. We have an in-house team of curriculum writers who design a curriculum that's aligned with the national uh uh the next generation science standards. Uh and all the training that we do on the front end, which Kendra will talk more about. Um but we're actually helping our staff get their AA degrees and hopefully their uh four-year credentials and eventually get their teaching credentials, which definitely shows that shows them that we care about them and their pathways. Uh and then in return, they stay. Um I'm going to step out and let you step in. Thank you so much. Um and thank you all for being here tonight. I'm going to talk a little bit just about our program
166structure um and our curriculum as well. So uh we are a comprehensive program provider. We do the homework support, academic time, outdoor um movement and the enrichment activities. And we put a very big focus on being community first and custom designing. So we really love working with current pro providers in the area um and integrating with the programs they're doing and h finding ways that we can elevate them together. Um so this is an overview of our steam curriculum um as Eduardo mentioned it is all created inhouse by our team of curriculum writers and we do monthly themes. So we rotate through monthly themes um and we break down by age group. So this was our past school year here. And then um the other thing that we really build throughout our entire program is
167social emotional learning development. So um we have developed what we call the EDMO method. It is our full framework of SEAL and it includes not just the kids but also our staff and um the way we do hiring practices. It really goes throughout the entire organization. Um and we focus on with the kids specifically um our uh space skills and helping them develop those um as well as the staff so that they can go out into the world and be curious, courageous and kind leaders. And um with our it is interwoven into all aspects of the day as well. So outdoor time has intentional organized games that incorporate social emotional learning. Our steam curriculum incorporates it and then we also incorporate that into our academic time too. And then one of our other big pieces
168that we really um put a focus on in our program is celebrating communities and engaging our families. So each month our staff and students have the opportunity to design a week of the program. So they work together. They pick maybe something the kids are really interested in, something a staff member is really interested in, and they co-design it together. So, it's really our opportunity to elevate the student choice and voice in the program. Um, some examples of things we've done with community week is, uh, one week the kids did a custodial appreciation. Um, so they did a whole week just celebrating custodians. We've done family festivals, multicultural celebration, lights on after school. Um, and here in Sacramento at our growth public schools program, we host a yearly multicultural festival and we bring together. There's a
169video there, but it's not going. But, uh, we bring together local high school clubs and groups, um, local vendors, as well as the, uh, students and families in our community to do performances that highlight the various cultures around Sacramento. Um, and that is open to the full community. So, it's not just to the afterchool program kids. All of our community week events are open to everyone. So, it's also a wonderful time to um, highlight our uh, program for families. So, if we're looking to enroll, get attendance, we have families coming out and engaging in the program. And finally, um just wanted to give a little overview of some of the feedback for EdMo. Um so here you can see we have uh 92% of our families have reported that kids really love going to Edmo.
170Um and 90% of our families would refer and have their friends their kids come back to EdMo as well. And then we have some feedback from our kiddos um that they are really developing those skills. Um they're developing confidence in STEAM and they feel more excited about going to school because of the after school program. Um so want to thank you all for your time today. I do want to highlight one piece which is just we are very excited for this opportunity. We would love to find ways to collaborate with what you already all do. um we are not here to come in and do it all and we would be happy to do one site, multiple sites, any way we can really help um expand access to expanded learning in this community. We'd love
171to be part of it. So, thank you all for your time. Okay, questions, comments? Uh you said you had a 92% retention rate for employee. Uh 94% 94 year. Um and Oh, go ahead. Oh, I Oh, I was just going to reiterate the questions that have been coming from everybody to fill off the paper for every single one. So, um, what was I going to ask? Oh, yeah. Um, I forgot to ask the last person, but well, you work alongside with the Girl Scouts part of the Marathon and are you capable of doing that? Yes, absolutely. We have collaborative partnerships at multiple school sites. Um we collaborate with local dance teams, um performance studios, everything to kind of like really build that community for each school. So um we would be happy to do that
172and collaborate with what's already in place as well. The list of school sites that you are those all sites that you have worked with or you are currently working with? Those have all been in the past 10 years that we've worked in. So we moved from a mo we used to have a feebased model and now we've transitioned to only working with school districts and elo pasis 21st century funding in the past three years. So okay we had a larger footprint in and when we had the febased programs but we are completely equity program focused now um as of the last day. So what school sites are you what schools are you in currently in in the Sacramento area? Public schools is where we're currently at. Okay. With that with the ELO uh program. Okay.
173Any other questions? Any community members have questions? We'll go right here first. How did you guys find the ability to get 94%? [Music] I can talk a little bit to that. Um, a big piece of that is just investing in our staff. Um, so our staff receive monthly professional development and curriculum training. So we train them on a month-to-month basis to deliver the next round of curriculum. And we have gotten a lot of feedback from staff that that support helps them stay because they don't get as frustrated, overwhelmed. They're really having a team that supports them throughout the whole process. Um and then as Eduardo mentioned and competitive pay, we also have a pay scale that pays uh people for their skill set. So um we really focus on hiring bilingual staff and we pay
174more if you are bilingual. So you also get um those skill development pieces are rewarded in their actual compensation. I'll also add there's a there's a very clear professional development track within EdMo. So even so if you start as an instructor you you know that you can grow into director then you can grow into the site director then you can grow into the senior program manager who oversees their site plus a couple other sites and then you grow into the area program manager. So there's a very clear career path too. For those who want to stay in expanded learning, you can see your growth within the organization. And then for those who want to pursue other careers, we're going to support you in your education towards whatever that might be. And and getting a teaching
175credential takes years. So you know, a lot of folks will stay with us. Um and they're getting those credits and they're getting a paid um opportunities to do those teacher pathways as well. Okay. Yes, ma'am. So you bring in programs you guys. Yes, that's right. We worked with the UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center, their education director, Vicky Sakrowski, actually worked with us for several years to develop the framework. And then we actually have an in-house uh culture manager who also supports our staff as well. much more. Yeah. And um the other piece here too is we collaborate with the school day to have that continuity. So um for growth public schools here, we have our framework and they had their own. So we actually sat down with them and created one that worked together.
176So kids weren't having completely two different experiences in the school day and then the afterchool space. Um and then our uh program culture manager works with each site to develop and support their community weeks to ensure number one they're culturally relevant to the population that the staff is working with and that they're also you know aligned with what is going on in the social emotional learning development. Um and we have four um curriculum writers who write all of our social emotional learning activities as well. Any other questions or comments? Yeah, great. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Uh thank you. Our next vendor is stay after school. Good evening everyone. I especially especially want to thank you the parents who are in this audience. I'm Huh Sha. I'm the founder CEO of Stay
177After School. And 9 years ago, I was exactly where you guys are at at Fremont Unified School District, 200 miles from here, where there was no ELO program. There was no after school program and um I didn't like the YMCA where the kids were being babysat. Just going to be honest. Nothing against them, everybody involved. But I can appreciate and understand why these families are here and why um Dr. Chen and Roman wanted us vendors to come. Raone, I made that mistake before. um wanted us to come and present to this community because there's a big change in how things are about to happen and we want to assure that collectively we want to we want to work with your students, your families and answer questions because this is about you and not us about
178any of us over here. So I just want to address that and I will only take 5 minutes. I promise. Um stay after school provides your year-round learning opportunities. Uh beyond regular school day, we focus on academics, social, emotional, and physical needs and preparing students for college career and life. Um at difference, we've moved beyond the traditional supervision and transformed after school hours into meaningful learning experience. Um I'm the founder. I started the company in 2016 and we have reached over 100,000 students um since we started 9 years ago and um we provide everything that the school has ever asked for um before and after school program specializing traditional summer camps recess programs um and enrichment electives. Yes, we've done it all. At the end of the day, um, we're really good at staffing. So,
179when a school says, "We need these hours, um, fulfilled with talented staff," we are able to provide them that support. Um, this would be our first part partnership with Rob School District. Um, but in 2022, we started working with Twin Rivers. Um the first three schools that we work with was work with were Coler, North Lake and Dry Creek. And then um as we did well in the subsequent year, we added eight more school district eight more schools in the school district and now we're at year three. So, we know um Twin Rivers, we were learn, but we understand the demographics being within the 15 milei radius of the school district. And to um iterate on our experience with similar communities, Bakersfield City School District, McFarland School District, and Harris County, these school districts have
180about 90% um type one students who are on free and reduced lunch who match the demographics that we understand. and we know what those communities need, what families look like over there, and what kind of staff they're looking for. Um, the program that we will be working with um have um EOP EOP objectives assigned to them. So we know that we're working with state and federal dollars and we have we have to align with those objectives and those four objectives for us are providing academic support, embedding social emotional learning activities, making sure that kids are um focused on physical activity and wellness um and create engagement through STEM and arts and sports programs. And our success speaks to that. um school year which ended two weeks ago. Um we had 85% attendance from students. We
181track student enrollment every day. We have a sheet that is collected from um our instructors on students that came in. By ELOB standard, the students have to be in the program at least for 90 minutes to be marked as participating. So we mark we make sure that when kiddos stay in our program for 90 minutes that's the one am I you're fine sorry um we that's the time when we mark attendance um not if they leave early so 85% is a high number and the way we understand that students will stay in our program is when they have instructors that they see every day we pair instructor s 20 to $25 an hour. Most companies provide anywhere from 18 to 19. We knew that we had to be competitive and pay a little bit more,
182but also make sure that there is an opportunity for growth. So, instructor retention is critical. Every 3 months that they are with us, they see a 10% increment. So, by the end of the term of the of the 180 days of school year, they find themselves in the $25 range. And that's what makes us um gives us the ability to keep that retention on show up because when you show up our kiddos see the same face and there's a retention in program in your ability to come back to work. Um in return we see student engagement. Um student engagement is measured in metrics of as we as it was pointed out if a child is interested in doing sports program they're they're allowed to go do that. If they want to finish uh robotics class
183they're able to finish that. We um collect those student engagement reports based on how which which activity the student was enrolled in and did they finish and stay till the end of the class. And of course compliance and safety. I know we can all agree that background checks, mandate um training, CPR training is critical for every person that shows up um to work in the space and we are fully compliant. Um in fact um with Alejandro school district, we have background check done by our company and the school district cuz that's what how they mandated it. So so they get to see the same report as we do. So that was very unique and also critical for the school district to know the instructors who are coming in were uh met the same standard. Um
184two case studies um and it and we'll wrap up. Um as I mentioned we started in 2223 with three schools. Um we we did well. So Twin awarded additional seven schools and then we grew to 11 schools. So overall we have serviced um over 1,300 students. Um we are local. Um we use a company called Handshake that allows us to connect with Handshake and Ed Join that allows us to connect with teachers who have 48 hours um of credentials already done. That's how we post our jobs and then they are allowed to come and interview with us. Um we have we have programs where um teachers are already in school districts. Um for example, um at Bakersfield, all the staff that we've hired came from the school district themselves. So we focus on hiring local.
185In the Sacramento area, we have about 400 instructors on our platform. About 38 of them are employed full-time, but we have a vast pool for substitutes. when callouts happen, when people are no, we have to deploy those substitutes. So, we keep a rather large pool in every community that we work with, um, every teacher is trained on um, SEAL, STEM, and um, they meet the ELAB standards. They have to make sure that the kids are engaged, that they are finishing the activity, and um, they understand the ELAB objectives of the school district and the company. Every staff goes through 40 hours of professional development and we make sure that we track those um on our end. Um McFarland is another example of 90 plus% students um who are tier one. Um this is a great
186example um where the school district had paper computers, not the same as the boys and um the Girl Scout, but they wanted a specialized camp where they would use the computers that the the the school district had brought and they asked us to realtime um computers with the students um over winter break and and the students loved it. So this is a great example of a collaboration where the school district will tell us here's what we have. Can we bring those those activities on we dance or piper computers. So this just shows that we work very close with the school district to make sure that their community gets what they want and we're able to serve that. Um that's it. Thank you. Questions or comments? Any community questions? Hearing that? Thank you so much. Thank
187you. And our final presentation um Alo. [Music] All right. Hello everybody. Um thank you Superintendent uh Chen. Thank you board members and thank you for the community members as well who have uh joined us here today both in person and watching online. Um I'm my name is Chris K. I'm the director of district partnerships here at Albo. Joined by Ela Mua as well. She's on our operations team here that helps oversee the success of our programs that we roll out and implement. So let's see here. Um, first I just want to acknowledge um, you know, we've had a lot of great presentations here, a lot of great vendors um, and partners. Um, I also note that there's a very long-standing uh, partnership with the current main provider here at the district and um, we've actually
188been fortunate enough to partner with them as well here uh, in Rob School District. So, I'll be touching a little bit about that. Um but yeah, hopefully today I'll be able to give you some uh insights into our organization and ultimately give you some confidence that um you know with change uh that you know by partnering with OEO that your community uh and your students are in very good hands. Um so we uh the stat that I really want to focus on here is 137,000 students that we serve each year. Um we focus solely here in California as well. So uh we are not a national provider. We really lean into you know our area of specialization which is providing really good programming for districts in California. Um to me that that number 137,000 students
189that's not just a stat on a page to us. That's 137,000 individual students with unique needs that we are able to adapt to and be able to support. Uh if any of you had the opportunity to go to the boost conference, uh it's the largest um conference in the expanded learning space. We were able to host several workshops, three-hour workshops with focused on supporting students with special needs in expanded learning. I know that was a question that had been asked. Um, so we're really proud of that. Um, related to that, uh, I did want to read one quote, um, specifically the, uh, what's bolded there in red that, um, a label engages students of all backgrounds, creating an inclusive environment that promotes teamwork, confidence, and leadership skills. Um, that comes from one of our partner
190districts up north, uh, in Yuba City Unified. Um so as I alluded to uh we've been partnering with uh Rob school district um through a partnership with start um this year we've provided um programming at all five elementary schools um primarily we've been providing our supplemental enrichment we call it EQ um that's essentially SEAL infused physical activities um we also had the opportunity to partner with the district during spring inter session where we provided our sports programming um specifically that included tennis and golf. So um I'll touch on this in just a little bit. We really have a a super strong sports curriculum. Um we provide all of the gear, all the equipment. Um and we're able to provide um you know your common sports like soccer and basketball all the way to some more
191niche sports like tennis, golf, pickle ball, uh and so on. going to skip over a few slides for the sake of time. Um I wanted to touch on a few of our regional partnerships. Uh we have a very long-standing and strong partnership with Twin Rivers Unified. We um we currently support 21 of their schools. Um we are their largest after school sports provider. Um we do um a lot of uh support throughout the year and one thing that we like to highlight is uh Saturday sports tournaments. We do a lot of culminating events where we bring the community together um board members uh and really get everyone out there. We know that um you know competitive sports can be very costly for families and so we're really proud of our ability to be able to
192provide that um within the afterchool uh expanded learning space for schools. Uh we also have a partnership with a few schools in Sacramento City um where we provide provide supplemental enrichment and looking into next year uh we have a few partnerships uh where we'll be providing uh some full service um partnerships as well. Um to that end um we are really flexible as it sounds like some of the other vendors and partners here are as well in terms of how we support the district. Um you know currently we are providing supplemental enrichment to all five elementary schools. Uh but we are also um we have the ability to provide full service um programs where we help out with things from or you know manage enrollment and attendance. Um provide snack distribution. I know that's been
193uh a question that's come up a few times. Um we can take on all of the marketing efforts required to really bring in the community and and drive enrollment. Uh family engagement and ultimately compliance support as well for any reporting needs that you might have. Um, and we're able to partner uh with other vendors as well um as we're currently doing with start. Uh, so I want to touch on just some quick bullet points of some of the enrichment that we provide. Um, our curriculum is all accredited. Um, I'll be touching on that a little bit more uh in a few more slides for now, but uh we have a really strong partnership with LEGO as part of our STEM curriculum. Uh we have a really robust visual and performing arts curriculum as well. Uh
194ranging from dance to music, theater, visual arts. Um we uh we support with academics. Um I know uh you know academic achievement is a huge priority of course of the district. Um we are able to support with homework coaching um for any students that might not have homework. we're able to provide um you know enrichment there to to support that and all of our curriculum is differentiated. We're able to provide you know support specific for like TKK versus um grades 1 through six and so on and be really targeted in that capacity. Uh I know I touched on sports as being a really strong suit I think for Alo. Uh we offer 12 sports. Um, so again, your more common ones, basketball, soccer, flag football, um, all the way to those more niche sports that
195students might not otherwise always get access to. So, cheerleading, tennis, golf, pickle ball. Um, and as I mentioned earlier, we love to build up to culminating events with jamberee, sports tournaments, and really making it a strong community event. our EQ curriculum. Again, this is our SEAL infused uh physical activity. This is a great option for, you know, really bringing in students who might not necessarily want to jump in and participate in your traditional organized sports. Um, still gets them moving, still gets, you know, the physical activity component. Um, and ties back with anal theme of the week. Here's some examples of some of the uh you know student and family engagements that we put together for some of our partner districts. And really the last main piece that I wanted to touch on here is
196um that again our curriculum is accredited and we we tie it to California state standards. Um our VP of curriculum and training is Dr. Kristen Henry and she is a member of the expanded learning research and evaluation strategy committee um for the CDE. And so she oversees our team of uh our curriculum team of seven individuals uh and growing um as well as the the training of our staff as well. Uh this is a quick snapshot of our district team. Um like the other providers here, we we hire from the community. Uh but we have also a really strong team here locally um that helps oversee um and kind of manage our we call our coaches that are out there ultimately the ones interfacing and working with the students. And just to to emphasize we're
197we're really here to help. So with any needs that the the schools or district may have um we're able to support um really in in many different capacities. Uh thank you very much. Any questions? Great. Thank you so much. Thank you. Um I just um want to say thank you to all the providers for coming out, but I do um have a call to action for all of the parents and all of the families. Um, I do ask that you call a neighbor, call a classmate, parents, and ask them to go back and watch the videos and see the information that's being presented and then share your feedback with the um share your feedback with the superintendent and with and with her staff. Um, your voices do matter in this space. And so my plea
198to you, my call to action is that you I I know the presentations are really long. Um but if you you know call call a friend, text a friend, text a classmate and just encourage people to see what feels good to them. Um you are all parents. I have a parents spidey sense and we've heard some really great things today, but we heard some things that might not make you feel so great. Um and so if that's the case, we want to make sure that the superintendent and her staff um know. So that is my plea and my call to action to all the families out there tonight. Just a comment to that. I would say that the the district could you also perhaps use parent square to notify parents that this is on YouTube.
199We can rewatch it. It starts at this minute this second some of the beginning stuff. I think that also might help, right? If you want the feedback, you could also in your announcement catch survey, right? If you want that feedback, you can definitely like I can definitely tell the people that I know about really small circle use much bigger access than I do. I know it is more less faithful, but you know, some of us will still get those notifications and things like that. And that's just something that like would really help me if I forgot about it, right? if I watched it, I attended it, I forget to email her something, you know, I don't know who to give my feedback to, that's something that I think would help at least increase, maybe even
20010%. I love that. I love that. Yeah, it's a great That is an excellent suggestion. Yeah, that's fantastic. Yeah, thank you. I also would like to thank all the providers for coming out tonight. What I really appreciated was it seemed like as each presentation went on, people were listening and they heard and they made sure to include answers to questions that had already been previously asked. So, I very much appreciate that. And with that, we're going to go ahead and move on to our action items. We're going to start off with item A, approve AB 1200 for RTA, CSEA, and certificated and classified administration. moved. Second. Been moved and second. And would you like to explain AB 1200 just real quick for those who don't are unaware? I'm looking for Mr. Castillo. Um the AB1200
201is a document that we provide to the uh Sacramento County Office of Education to ensure that the district has is financially um stable enough to award to honor the contracts with RTA, CSEA, and administrative. Great. All right. Any additional discussion or debate hearing? None. We'll move forward to a vote. All in favor, please say I. I. opposed abstensions. Motion carries unanimously. Item B, approve tenant agreement between Rob School District and Roba Teachers Association for the 2526 and 2627 and school years. So moved. Second. Moved and second in discussion. Um, I think I'd just like to say that I very much appreciate the folks at RTA. I know that CTA regionally especially has really been pushing a lot of their member groups to to to ask for a lot and ask for what I think many
202districts would agree is probably unreasonable. And uh what I appreciate is is that uh our teachers understood they sat down they they negotiated in good faith. They they they took a look at where we were at. They took a look at the situation we're at and uh and and and they were we're were reasonable and firm and and I I think from what I my understanding of what uh many of the other school districts are are are discussing right now in negotiations that uh uh that we did pretty good. I think we did right by them and they did right by us and I very much appreciate them understanding and all of their work. they've sacrificed a lot over these over these years and I just appreciate that we were able to uh to help
203them both in in in health and welfare benefits which is something that we have always wanted to to improve. Uh but we were able to also come to a multi-year agreement uh when it came to uh when it came to a pay increase. So anyway, I just want to say thank you to uh both collected by winning teams in this particular case. Uh and uh I'll leave it at that. Uh there's no additional discussion or debate. Uh all those in favor please say I. I. All those opposed abstensions. Motion carries unanimously. Item C approve tenative agreement between Robla School District and the California School Employees Association chapter 285 for 2025 26 26 27 and 2728 school years. So moved. Second. Been moved and seconded. discussion. Uh I will say this just same exact thing what
204I just said for the teachers. I want to extend to the classified uh classified employees. Uh I will though however because I do have a family member who is a member of the classified unit. I will be abstaining from this vote. If there's no additional discussion or debate hearing none for further to a vote. All those in favor please say I. I. Opposed one abstension. So it'll be 41. All right. Item D, approve 2526 school or I'm sorry, student calendar. So moved. Second. Been moved and seconded. Is there anything in particular of note that we need to Yes. I just want to emphasize um that our spring break falls in alignment with Easter holiday. That's a good one. Any additional discussion or debate? Any none favor to a vote? All in favor, please say I.
205I. Opposed? Abstensions? Motion carries unanimously. Item E, approve loan restructure request for New Hope Charter School on District temporary portables. So moved. Second. It's been moved and seconded. Discussion, anything to discuss on this one? Any discussion or debate? If I can just say, um, we are, um, we are proposing to, um, I'm sorry, I'm on the wrong one. I apologize. Okay. Um I I'll just say this and we very much appreciate our partnership with New Hope Charter Schools and we look forward to that uh to that that relationship continuing. It's important as we consider this uh that we make sure basically what we've got to have is we've got to make sure that that whatever whatever we do going forward we've got to make sure that both our requirements in this agreement are fulfilled and
206and New Hope Charter's uh requirements in this are being filled. Uh and I'm hoping at least in regards to the to the the payments that it's done to at a better rate than it's been done in the past. Okay. Uh, any additional discussion or debate? We'll see. Move further to a vote. All in favor, please say I. I. Opposed. Abstensions. Motion carries unanimously. Item item F. U, uh, disposal of six portables declared sur, uh, declared surplus property at Main Avenue. So moved. Sec. Second. It's been moved. and seconded discussion. This is what I wanted to say. I apologize. Um, we are recommending to dispose um, six portables from Maine. Um, there could have been an option to include them in the demolition, but it's more costefficient for us to have them disposed. What's the difference
207between the demol demolishing them and getting rid of them and just disposing them of them? So they went out many approved to be demolished but there was a send somebody like a nonprofit organization they can still use it so to pay for the demolish so that will be like a potential saving cost and we will sell it a very reasonable price. So instead of us destroying it has value for somebody else who who could repair and work to it except for our library that we're keeping and we're moving to um to to Glenour. So we want to be transparent. So say we have to the board approval because we did not include that. We thought we going to destroy it, but there's an opportunity for somebody else to use it and recycle and and and
208value for them. Okay, that's a great clarification. I I appreciate that. Disposal does not necessarily mean that you're dispo that you're demolishing them, destroying them. Okay, I get it. So, not only are we not are we not paying for demolishing it, we're also making money off of it. Yeah. But but the price the selling price will be be very reasonable, very very cheap. So I don't want to say that we'll solve our budget problem. All right. You have me at solving budget problem. Uh, so when the people who purchase each one come to remove it, uh, how much will it cost us or will we have to pay to re? We will not pay anything. They would pay for talking about like re what's the word remediating like making sure the ground underneath is like
209safe for the kids. Oh, that would be part of the construction cost where those portables are that will be our new six portables will be there. Sorry, I so so so it will be very safe. It will be very it will not be like an empty lot. It will be okay. Okay. Okay. Any additional discussion debate? And they are removing as is right. Yes. Yes. As it is. We will make sure and they're paying to remove it. They're paying for removing. Yeah. Good. As is. Okay. Any additional discussion or debate? Not a great question. Okay. Hearing now we move forward to a vote. All in favor, please say I. I. Opposed. Abstensions. Motion carries unanimously. Item G, approve. 202526 Sacramento County Office of Education, MOU for Instructional Support at Maine Avenue Elementary. The move. Second.
210Moved and seconded. Discussion. As Miss House mentioned in her presentation, she wants to continue the partnership with Skully Pr for professional development. Okay. Any discuss additional discussion or debate? Hearing none, we move forward to approval. All in favor, please say I. I. Opposed extensions. Motion carries unanimously. Item H, approve the 202526 service contract for Glad Teacher Training at Bell Avenue, Taylor Street, and Robba Elementary. So moved. Second. It's been moved and seconded. Discussion. As miss as Miss Hall mentioned, um her school will continue to work um to work with Glad and uh more teachers from Taylor Street and Robo Elementary will be included in the training. Okay. Any reason why we don't have Maine and Glennwood's instructional practice um instructional cornerstone instructional practice is AVID. Okay. And then we will identify one for Maine. Got
211it. Okay. Any additional discussion or debate? Hearing no refer to a vote. All in fe favor, please say I. I. Opposed. Abstensions. Motion carries unanimously. Item I, approve agreement between the city of Sacramento and Robusta school district regarding after school education and safety expanded learning opportunity program. So moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Discussion. This is a contract um where uh city of Sacramento start program will continue um servicing the ASUS contract. So, um, in our conversations with the city of Sacramento, they mentioned that they secured the contract for the next two years, and we would like to fulfill that grant. Um, and this is a recommendation to, um, for them to fulfill it for the next two years, and it will be for 100 students per site. Okay. Discussion or debate? Well, I I'm just
212going to say this and this this is going to been kind of a challenge in dealing with the the whole ELOP program that we've been doing. The the the the future of ELOP in in uh in the school district uh has been an eye openening experience. Um I can't say going into it that I had strong feelings about Start one way or the other. Um I will say that I was very impressed by the parents who came and advocated for the Start program. Uh I I was concerned when once again as a current and existing provider that they didn't make the top six that they were so significantly that their proposal did not meet to the same qualifications and after seeing those six providers today I have to say I was very impressed with all
213that they had to to present today. Um I was very concerned that um you know other providers who were not included uh reached out to board members and and and expressed their concerns. And by the way, I I can tell you at least I know that I myself as a board member and I think from communications that we've had during board meetings, all the board members were concerned that existing uh providers uh were not included among the the these six uh recommended approved providers initially. Um having said that uh start was not one that reached out to the board. uh start instead decided to uh communicate to parents uh well I'll just say information that was not wholly accurate that was not wholly true uh sent them to sent them to the board meeting and
214and unfortunately I wasn't at that board meeting but I did see that board meeting uh and parents were angry and they were upset and they were frustrated and I think uh I don't want to say rightfully so but if I had had the information that they had been given or the information that they communicated to us that they were given I would have been just just as angry and just as frustrated. Uh having said that, I think uh we went out of our way to to listen to the community and and improve them as a provider. Uh one because we realized that they were valued so much and they did have a we did have a long-standing relationship with Start. Then you add to that the fact that that at a later meeting starts comes
215and they say well we heard and and we already communicated this that basically started said well if we don't have a contract going into next year we're not going to provide summer school so there's not going to be any summer school. This was once again information that was given to the community, given to parents by start [Music] and I once again sent here to the board meeting angry and fresh wondering what is going on. I for one don't appreciate and don't like doing business with people who do business that way. I I just don't I mean I get it. you know, there's a degree of politics to to all of the stuff that we do, but there's a way in which you go about conducting business, and this is not it. I've expressed that to
216both of the city council members uh who represent this district and and anyone over at the city who will listen, I I have made it a point to let them know I'm very angry and very frustrated about that. Now, I realize once again, Start has been a valued organization, a valued partner in this community. So, I'm not willing to let that anger and that frustration get in the way of continuing that partnership to finish off the grant that admittedly they secured. I'm hoping that we can use this opportunity to fix that relationship and how we do business because if this is happening, one of the things I like about as we go forward is now we are the contracting agency and the start and the city of Sacramento uh wishes to continue doing business this
217way. I I all I can say is this is that should this item be approved tonight and I have no reason to believe that it will not uh should this item be approved tonight if if it continues to do business and communicate and work with the same way in which it has uh in these last few months uh I can guarantee you I personally if I'm on this board will not vote to approve any more contracts with Stark or with the city of Sacramento because I am highly offended highly offended with the way in which they conducted business. They they conducted their their business with the local school district and uh it's not the way the city of Sacramento should work with us and should work with any of their partners. Uh I I think
218uh the city of Sacramento owes the members of this board uh and the parents who they miscommunicated to, the community members that they miscommunicated to, they owe them an apology. I firmly believe that. uh and and and I believe as we go forward, I am hoping that that apology does come. That's why I'm very disappointed that they are not here tonight uh to to uh uh to at least respond to my concerns. So anyway, with that, if there's no additional discussion, I just I just want to say um thank you for your comments. Um but I want to say those are the comments of President Deloo and not the not the um feelings of me. I personally believe that there was a lot of miscommunications on everybody's part. I think everybody had some missteps that
219happened with the with the proposal, with the grants, with the I I think everybody had some communication missteps and I think we all have to take responsibility for our part and our role in it. Um and so um I thank you Mr. Doo for your comments, but those I just want to make it clear that those are his feelings and his comments and not the comments of the entire board. Thank you for that. Appreciate that. Yes, ma'am. Kind of in the same vein, I would say that I think parents are also owed an apology for not being notified in advance that this is happening as much as start may not have provided misinformation. At least they provided some notification, but I think you can see that it it worked in the sense that like people
220listened and they responded. And I just wish that the had done that from the beginning as well that they had reached out. You have literally everybody's information at your fingertips through Parent Square. It feels like there's no reason to not communicate that to us and I really appreciate that this meeting was communicated through Parent Square. Um I was so happy when I saw that in there. I know there's not that many people that like do a little heart or whatever like in social media, but like just personally I felt like that was a positive change that has come from some of the last few meetings and like I really appreciated that. I know that this situation has fired up, not fired up I should say, but like has opened the eyes of our parent teacher
221club and we really want to be more involved in the the board and things like that. And um I I but I do want to reiterate that like there was more communication from start about what's been going on than from the the district and the board. And so you know that's also really frustrating as a parent. And I it's hard to make us feel satisfied like when you know to some extent we don't have to send our kids to school right like we could move we can transfer them like we can request these things our students don't always have to be here they don't have to go to start and things like that to some extent you know I have a parent that has a privilege that you know I can make arrangements um and
222I think part of it also that kind of not really been in some of the presentations that art fulfills is this this care for our children. You know, it's hard to see that in a presentation. And I think it's similar if you have someone watching your children for a long time. You know, to make that change, it's really hard to change that practice. And a lot of parents at least are secure in what we receive from start. And it's really scary to think about making when you know I personally know my my child has a very um very strong bond probably too strong of a pond with the director site for special reasons and you know it's really scary to think that like if a new provider came in would my child still be successful
223because the director she left the other day from start you know after a Girl Scout event that they had and she Hollywood is the best school in the world. I never want to leave. I really love Start. And she just like spent the whole car ride home talking about how much this was the greatest thing in her world and she didn't want to like graduate sixth grade in several years and like all these things. So, you know, it there you can't put that on paper and you can't um you know, there there directors and things like that that are going to be on the site here and it's hard when you do have someone here and we we so I'll say like as a parent, yeah, it's hard to hard to watch, right? I think
224you guys can all appreciate when you find something you really like, whether that's, you know, a restaurant or or you know, wherever you're going, your favorite meal or something. I know that's what a lot of the parents are emotionally. I I very much appreciate that and once again I think in my frustration in no way do I is my frustration with the parents. Um it it is because once again when you provide misinformation and like I said there were people who came and they were very very aggressive uh not very positive towards board members who actually were are are strong advocates for start and you know the parents didn't know they were came as if they were told like well this is just going to be done and that was very frustrating and then on
225top of all that after all of that the well we're not going to provide so school if we don't have a contract for next year. That's extortion. I want to say it's extortion. It's not, but I mean it's it feels like that. That's not how I want to choose to do business with anybody. Now, that may not be how they intended it. That I fully I acknowledge that may not be the case, but I think we need to be uh I think our our relationship needs a a a restart, a refresh, whatever you want. And I want to see this, if this item is approved, I want to see this as an opportunity for that restart and the rebuilding of that relationship and that trust between the school district, between the board and with start
226in particular, the administrators cuz uh most of the staff and the site staff have been phenomenal. We no issues, no concerns. So I just wanted to to express that no, I in no way is my frustration with the parents who came in. In fact, I'm very happy and I'm very proud because most of the folks who came were that yes, they were angry, yes, they were professional, but they were professional, they were passionate advocates for their children and the sort of parents uh that I know are going to to to to fight for their kids and and and and have kids that are going to have an opportunity at success. So, thank you for saying that, by the way. Okay. And um you know I I I I want to show a little appreciation for
227my fellow board members for feeling u comfortable enough to express their opinions and um and thoughts cuz that that's not always um the easiest thing to do. And I want to really thank the parents. Um, I want to reiterate what what what um, Trusty D just said about um, the parents and their contributions because it uh, we rarely get parents um, coming to our meetings and um, they did come and they um, like like Craig said they were professional and they were passionate and we really appreciate that. Um, this was definitely a learning curve. Um, and we we have a lot to use to go forth. Um, I really enjoy being on this board. We don't always get everything right, but we try and we try really hard. We're passionate people and I know that
228we would have um, if given the opportunity arrived at a very similar point um, where we are and still and provided the best service for our our our kids. So, um I just want to show um appreciation to our parents for uh coming out and um contributing the way they did, especially based on the information that they had and and I hope that we continue to see them. Um and um yeah, I'm I'm going to leave it at that. Thank you. Any additional discussion or debate? Hearing none move forward to a vote. All in favor, please say I. I. opposed abstensions. Motion carries unanimously. Item section six, board member requests for future agenda items or reports. Trusty Divine. Um, so I would like to get an update from all of our after school programs. Even
229if it's just a piece of paper on like what they've been doing, their progress, any new ideas they have like once a year. It doesn't have to be a presentation, just something given to the board. It would be great if it was a presentation, but we don't really know exactly what's going in on in the after school programs because those are separate companies or entities. So, I think that we should be aware of what's going on there as well. If I could just make a quick comment that we usually do a um presentation in the beginning of the year, so it summarizes the summer I mean that summarizes the previous year, but we can do it before I mean during the school year. It seems like those ones just cover summer school though, not the
230whole program. Am I remembering correctly? Does it seem to just be about summer school board members? I I recall presentations that summarize summer and the academic academic part. I just remember a summer school. I remember them covering both. Oh, do you? Okay. Maybe I'm just forgetting. Yeah. No, it's okay. It's okay. Yeah. Just so that way we know what's going on. Yeah, trusty Cardono. I know nothing. Trusty Hamilton Starks. Um, just a reminder to put the the notification in parent square. I think that'd be really great for families to go in and watch the video and if there's time to create a little survey, that would be helpful, too. Second that. third that Justy Barnes and just a reminder that um we have a wonderful report section that includes RTA and CSA CSEA and is
231there for a reason and we would love to hear from them. Um and yeah, I like that. It's a good point. Uh and once again, a reminder, if you have not already done so, please reach out to Mr. uh Raven. We need volunteers for the fireworks booth. Once again, you get to dictate where the money goes, what's the class down to the classroom where the money goes. So that you help earn that day. So anyway, so we want to encourage that. And with that, this meeting is adjourned. [Music] Thank you so much.