001for e e for oh yes I already checked theen just to be safe come on e will you please rise and join me in a pledge to our flag pled alance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for stand One Nation God indivisible with liy and justice for all okay uh let the record show that all board members are President the cter the exception of trustee Divine uh in terms of action taken in closed session uh the board voted to approve one special education due process hearing settlement uh with trustees delus Barnes Hamilton Stark uh and Cardona voting in the affirmative no one voting in the negative oh read I'll read that one more time uh in close session the board voted to approve one special education due process
002hearing settlement with trustees Delo truste Barnes trusty Hamilton Stark and trusty Cardona voting in the affirmative uh and then at this moment I will entertain a motion to adopt the agenda so moved second it's been moved in second it all in favor please say I I opposed extensions motion carries unanimously now move on to public comment uh members of the public May address the Board of Trustees regarding any special board meeting agenda item during the 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 uh in order to speak uh we'll ask that uh in person to comment in person you fill out a request to be her card and you give it to
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004but that we are paying attention and that uh we will do our best to try and resolve uh whatever your issue is at the appropriate time at that moment is there anyone who'd like to address the board on an item that is not on the agenda you don't see anyone present anyone online okay then we'll go ahead and we'll move forward to reports and we'll start with the Robla Education Foundation turn after I got coun to come up here anduse this and you don't turn it on ah there will be there will be a penalty for that as you guys can tell I was counseled at the last meeting I took the counseling well and here I am anyways we haven't been doing that much but I am going to make a request of the
005superintendent that at the next cabinet meeting if you may address the principles and have them solicit amongst their staff at their staff meeting meetings that hey we have funding that we can do matching grants a matching Grant up to $500 so they can provide their classes with extracurricular activities maybe it'll give them the opportunity maybe the district's funding them for three field trips this will give them the opportunity maybe fund four field trips so it's it's a matter of getting the word out to the to the sites and maybe I involved the principles and the District staff that maybe we'll get more response because the big thing is I want and I've talked to people over here at roet today the people that work in the booth and so getting them to say hey just
006because you you know you worked in the booth so please take advantage of the situation and the rest of them can too so so far we've had about three grants one I got to still cut to check on but you know we need to we should have more okay that is all thank you thank you okay do we have a report from the Roa Teachers Association uh from csca we'll move on to a superintendent report good evening just a couple things um I last week I attended Glenn Wood's parent night um the topic was attendance and PBIS really great presentation facilitated by uh Dr Rodriguez and Miss Tran um parents left with strategies to support their students so it was great and then last night I was at Robla who had their first scoy family
007night so the evening introduced parents to opportunities that were offered through our um scoy mental health team that's on site they also had Del Paso Library um representative there to give out free books and share um strategies on how to to engage your students when they're reading so that was really good um Main and Taylor had their lunchtime concerts this week um it was really good I'm super excited the next concert oh there's my notes is on actually tomorrow Friday at Robo Elementary so I know you know trusty cordona was there with me dancing a little bit so they the kids really really enjoyed the concert um our Latin Heritage parent empowerment dinner is next Thursday October 3rd at Main Avenue um I need to do a public service announcement to anyone that's listening online
008if you haven't submitted your educational benefits form please do so right we recognize that there was a little glitch but we have um just a few maybe a little over 100 to complete so if you've received an email or a text please go online and um complete it and if you can't do it online we will have staff available um tomorrow as well as next week to assist you um this Saturday is a Roa family festival at Taylor Street and finally our first attendance challenge is underway and as of yesterday Bell Avenue is our leader that's the end of my report okay all right now we'll move on to board member reports trusty Cardona oh I don't have nothing to report okay trusty Hamilton start nothing to report trusty Barnes nothing to report and I
009have nothing to report moving right along we'll now move on to presentations and information uh and uh we will start with the 20232 24 C results update good evening board members superintendent Chen and audience members I'm Mario Penman the director of curriculum and assessment I'm here to give you a little bit of an update for your Casp years's 22 23 and 24 um CP data presentation objectives going to go over the glossery of terms student score reports 2024 district schools comparison district and schools threeyear comparisons by subject grade level cohorts and by student groups glossery of terms for Casp Ela elel NS WD SED are here for you to reference as we go through the presentation if you need so here's a a uh an example of a new student score report that the families
010receive the these are new they're more robust with information for our families they have a big summary of the what the Casp is the levels and all the years of tested areas in English language arts Math and Science for all of the families to look at so let's take a look at the school comparisons we see in the area of vaa which is Green Bell Avenue was the highest and everyone else was on or near 25% and the area of math which is blue um Bell was the highest Robel and Taylor in the middle and Glenwood and Main with a decrease in math in science with his orange Bell was the highest with roblet and the others ranging from 16 to 19% as I did last year I'm going to let you um look at
011it for a couple seconds before I go on to the next slide looking at a three-year comparison in Roa District as you can see they have been very similar skores since we started testing back in 2022 this slide gives us a breakdown of where our students are in the levels 1 2 3 and four the last three years as you can also see here the levels are pretty similar throughout the years of course we want more blue and greens and less of the orange in the area of math you can also see that there is not too much change in the levels here as well within our district grade levels we can see a three-year comparison here in ela it tends to follow the trend of close scores with a little dip in most grade
012levels in 2024 in math we see the highest scores in third grade and sixth grade over time looking at grade level cohorts we see in ela that our current sixth graders which is on the left side went up in upwards in ela and downwards in math our now seventh graders in ela was an upward Trend and in Matthew went up and down and back up again looking at Roa District student groups our highlights are Asian at the high of 30% African-American with a 6% jump and students with disabilities with a 2% move upwards taking a look at our math student groups are highlights our Asian at 30% with African-American socioeconomically disadvantaged and students with with disabilities show gains in the area of science highlights are the Asian Hispanic and white as the highest and also
013gains from socioeconomically disadvantaged in students with disabilities now we will take a brief look at how our Robo schools did over overall in ela Math and Science the past three years starting with Bell Avenue we see an increase in ela with 5% a 3% gain in math and a 21% gain in science looking at cohorts their current sixth graders trended up over time as well as their math now seventh graders show that they started up high and then went down to 25% and stayed there for two years in the area of math they started at 29% went down and went back up again here's a look of student groups in ela for RO um for I'm sorry yeah for Bell Avenue the highlights of Trends are Asian Hispanic and students um socioeconomically disadvantaged they went
014upwards in the area of math there are also some trends of student groups moving upwards at Glennwood school they had a decrease of 5% in ela a decrease of 2% in math and a 3% decrease in science looking at current sixth graders and the cohorts they went up and back down and mat they stayed fairly consistent as for the now seventh graders in ela they trended down and the area of ela and in math they started up pretty um well they started at 20% went down to 10% and back up to 18% looking at student groups a highlight was that African-American students made a large jump of 19% and the area of math scores tended to Trend down at Main Avenue School there was a decrease of 3% in ela a decrease of 4% in
015math and a decrease in 5% in science looking at cohorts that sixth graders Ela trended upwards and downwards in math then now 7th graders went up and down in ela and trended downwards in math looking at Main student groups you can see overall each group stayed fairly close to their own scores over time in ela in math overall scores trended downwards over time at robless school there was a small decrease of 1% in ela 5% increase in math and the same score in science roess six grade cohorts trended in ela upwards and and in math as well the now seventh graders trended up in ela and uh went down in math and back up again looking at student groups the highlights are African-American and Asians as he and Hispanic and eel training up in math
016africanamerican Asian e students with disabil e students with disab students with disabilities and students economically disadvantaged all trended up and lastly at Taylor school there was a decrease of 4% in ela a decrease of 2% in math and a decrease of 6% in science looking at sixth grade cohorts they have stayed very close in ela and in math they trended down for seventh graders now they trended up in both Ela and in math looking at student groups in ela highlights are that African-American students and students with disabilities went upwards and in the area of math for student groups the highlights are 10% increase with African-American students El students with 2% increase and a 9% increase with students with disabilities and that is it um a lot of data that we uh could have given you
017I think that we went up about 15 slides this year to just give you a better picture of the schools the cohorts that were we were asked for from board member Hamilton and so we hope that we gave you some sense of where we are as a district and schools any comments questions thank you um for putting all this information together super helpful um one thing I I do have a question is um I'm assuming that all of the ethnic groups are included in this in the numbers for students with disabilities and the low-income students okay yes one encouraging Trend that I noticed and with the except C of one School site uh scores for our African-American students seem to be up across the board um it it's a challenge that they're still the lowest
018but they're trending in the right direction that's that's good to see I also noticed that pretty much across the board our scores for our white students had gone down significantly um any and any sort of assessment been done just I mean in terms of AOSS Ross the board uh what some of the challenges were why it appears that across the board our scores tended to be trending down this last year um we have not uh gotten to lots of conversations about that we're putting this presentation together we're going over results with all the principles and making goals for this coming school year so those conversations still need to happen I mean I have some thoughts about why we're we're sort of leveled out um some of it is that we have had 11 new teachers
019last year uh that alone in the grades three through six um I was actually worried that our scores were going to go down because of that so I was like sort of happy that we were at the same level because of 11 new teachers um we've had an escalation of behaviors that disrupts the learning environment here and there and um believe me you I want to forget the pandemic but the reality is our fifth and sixth graders are the K and ones from that time zone so we're still not there with those students coming through um and there's a lot of other variables I mean I could go on for days about what has happened and what we should be thinking about in the future but um just know everybody's working hard we're having lots
020of conversations about data and we're always trying to say let's try to think outside the box now um what we've been doing hasn't been working for us sometimes so let's try to do some things differently and I think principles are very receptive to that what percentage of students opt out taking the test um we were I think um over I think we were at 98% so not much it was um we're always very high here we push for every child to be tested um and if they're not we're asking why they're not being tested um some of it's just families saying you know what it's too stressful their their anxiety is too high or um second language students they don't want them to be tested um but overall the message here is we test all
021our children and we've always been around 98% or more what grade levels are tested for science a grade level five okay thought what's uh Belle has clearly figured something out um I have done some thinking about that too um they have a very stable staff least um has been doing a great job of one being a good leader and number two she has had a stable staff and with that comes experience and knowing how to you know structure your lessons and look at assessments and do all of those things teachers do um she has kept a good base with her and um they're all solid teachers uh because they've been there for a longevity and so that kind of keeps her scores at a higher level and Belle is a glad school they're a glad
022school and they've been a glad school for years now which other schools are getting into for people who may be watching it glad is um guided language acquisition and design got it right any additional comments or questions thank you thank you so much you're welcome all right now we're going to have a presentation for expanded learning update and uh we're going to start with Sacramento start good evening uh my name is Joyce swinger Johnson I am the recreation superintendent uh over our start uh program here that we have at ro oh this is my cler okay um so start stand for students today receiving uh achieving results for tomorrow um and so we're dedicated to strengthening our relationships between the schools and the families offering Hands-On enrichment activities and clubs providing fun safe enrichment environments
023for every student enrolled enhancing and linking learning experiences to the regular school day and also providing staff that are well trained um our staff go through various trainings uh through the school year we do a one week training uh once kind of school ends and we have a transition between school and summer we really focus on a onewe training uh that we do team building we do CPR first aid uh we contract with Cal saac uh which does trainings for our area uh they go over Behavior Uh it goes over um various different kind of topics that we do we also through the school year we do some online trainings with them uh our uh city has Acumen which provides online trainings that our staff go through on a regular basis um and then we
024also do our calsac trainings throughout the school year kind of along with our um start coordinators do uh individual site trainings so kind of we Encompass our uh day around right all of these great things and relationships and environment that our kids are going to strive for uh our program is funded by two resources one is our Aces Grant the city of Sacramento is the aces Grant holder through the Department of Education and then our other stream of funding is uh elop through Robla this extra funding allows us to provide our uh intercession camps during spring break and during the summer it also allows us to increase our numbers from our Asus Grant uh trying to achieve a maximum enrollment that we can of 200 at each site so those are our two stream of
025our funding sources currently these are August numbers and October will hit our peak of kind of where we'll kind of see um so this is still kind of figuring out where we are in terms of our numbers um our Aces numbers we try to keep at 103 of enrolled um and then it balances uh we have to have an 83 daily average for our Aces Grant to meet our maximum funding uh and then our elop numbers are above and beyond that so as we kind of uh enroll students we kind of even out where we are in terms of our Aces and elop numbers at the site our daily curriculum uh when the students come in uh we provide supper for them uh we do homework time every day students have their Chromebooks um we
026do help with our staff of doing making sure that they get their homework in we have enrichment providers uh this year we have five enrichment contractors that we uh have supported through our elop funding little Scholars they do uh each site gets to kind of pick but uh little Scholars is doing like building steam type uh enrichment activities uh alivo is our uh Sports they come in three days a week and they do Sports kind of secl curriculum with our students our next floor they do a couple different things uh they do our karate martial arts program so these are our young kids uh that were doing uh karate martial arts the little girl on the floor I could not get a picture without her like rolling around so this is like the true kind
027of craziness that Sensei deals with but he so he's super good uh and they also do Zumba at our sites uh we have I cook that comes in and they do cooking nutrition uh mixed in with Steam on measurement and uh those kind of facts uh we have work e they come in and they do CLE career exploration so what are you interested in and how do you get there like they come up with little companies uh that they want to work towards so they make up I want to become I don't know a cook right and so then they do this development plan of what does it take to become a cook or I want to be an engineer what does it take to be an engineer what does that look like for schooling
028so we're really trying to get them to think of what their future might look like and how do they get to that and what comes with kind of that career exploration uh food literacy uh we work with Robo unified and they come in and do food literacy we do tutoring um through the county we have virtual tutoring uh program that we do they do those on their Chromebooks throughout the um school year we do social emotional learning um this plays a big part in making sure that we kind of control any type of um insecurities that our students might have or if we have students that maybe that they're acting out we want to make sure that it's a great safe environment for them uh so really making sure that you know if they are
029not having good days we really kind of come back on a strong uhal Foundation to making sure that our students that are enrolled we want to keep them there we don't want to disenroll students for acting out or having bad behavior so we really make sure we try to focus on a really strong seal component for that we have science um and then our wellness and then our academic alignment coaches our academic alignment coaches at each of the school is a teacher through robot they are there to kind of streamline what the school does during the day and bring that into our after school program so they'll do academic enrichment uh they'll do some they'll go over um any kind of connections that we need to to make our program kind of one with the
030school uh they do meetings once a month with their site coordinators and then every other month they meet together as a group to make making sure that our uh our outcome at each of the schools has that same Focus um and enrichment our intercession camps we do the two week spring break this is all under our elop funding and then in summer we did a five-week camp uh encompasses field trips kind of to our local area uh it includes science cooking physical fitness Arts crafts games Multicultural seal guest speakers uh we had somebody come in and bring animals um Farmers Market uh Joanne worked she is our program supervisor worked hard to make sure she had a farmers market so providing fresh fruits and vegetables and then we also worked with the food bank in
031providing food boxes so during the summer every week they got fresh fruits and vegetables and an opportunity to have the food box as long as during the school year they have that as well and then really important of kind of making new friends during our Spring Break and summer camp we combine School locations so they are meeting people from other schools um right making those those connections um that's kind of our quick little rundown of our program what we do kind of during the school year what we do during the summer um and so I'm here to see if you guys have any questions that I can answer for you um Joyce part of the board request was also to identify how the program recruits students as well as um disciplinary uh criteria and any
032policy of um you have that would exclude students can you comment on that thank you sorry we recruit through Flyers uh at the schools uh word of mouth is really big making sure that we stay a presence on the campus our site coordinators work with the School principles uh to make sure that we have the word out whether it's in the school newsletter whether it's Flyers um and then it's posted on kind of our school websites and trying to get it on the uh our city of Sacramento website and then terms of the discipline we do have a discipline policy and procedure like I said we really try to really support that social emotional learning so that we don't disenroll students um I don't have that step by step but typically it would be if
033we have a student that's acting out our site coordinator and our staff really work with them to kind of find out what is the underlying concern that they have right there's always something why students are acting out and really trying to break that down of what that underlying cause is uh working them with them working with the AAC and the teacher during the school day to making sure we are on the same path of why those students might be acting out whatever that discipline or redirection might be is really key that we're together in unity of doing those same redirection um meeting with parents and then if you know we're still having those continual issues is we might talk about maybe this program isn't the right foot for them but we haven't had that this
034year what's your exclusion policy in terms of what students do you not take into your program we don't have an exclusion policy so title two um is on our registration form so if they have needs that they need to make or need to meet um that is something that we do we have an inclusion specialist with the city of Sacramento so if they Mark title two on that we'll meet with her kind of find out what are some of those needs um that the person might have and how can we accommodate those needs and whether they have an aid during the day I mean if they have an aid during the day can they come over to our program and help TR with that transition of making right that student um be able to handle
035the program can you provide an update um on students who were not potty trained I think earlier in the year there was a concern that students uh transitional kindergarten and kindergarten students were not potty trained um were not eligible to enroll can you give us an update on that I don't have an update on that I could double check with Joan I don't want to speak for her cuz I wasn't sure if what that might be um but typically I think uh student is coming in they we don't handle inside restroom um right that's part of the city of Sacramento that's not one of our our allowable things is to go into a restroom to help somebody our our staff are not trained um and so that might be if there was an issue with
036somebody needing assistance in the restroom we would not be eligible to be doing that I have a question U I guess it's for you I um how many like what's the what what percentage of our students need after school care on average like are we at the 200 Mark are there more spaces than there are students are there more students than there are spaces we definitely have room for more kids to be enrolled yes so um by law based on our student population we really should be providing um access access and opportunities to anybody so um truly the fact that they have space um and then Helen has space we have the opportunity to provide more um we have we have the opportunity to serve the families who have reached out to us if there
037were more I would be here to either talk to start if or any of our vendors if they can increase or bring another vendor we are not there yet but I am very mindful that we meet the needs of all our families whether it's 3 hours you know I have some families I believe start has a couple where you have two younger students and then you have a um Upper Grade Student and there's a 40 minute differential of when they get out so if they just go to one of the programs for 40 minutes that's okay because that's what they need so I just one more clarifying question you mentioned virtual tutoring right um who's the company that provides that through the county um it used to be called um can't remember off the top
038of my head now that you ask me it used to be called booknook and so uh booknook changed into it's through the county and so we have a contract within through the county to provide that and just to clarify because this is one of the things that I know is knew a few years ago any individual who's providing tutoring to students in California has have to be clear to to provide support in California do you know if all of booknook teachers are in California I believe they through through the county yes but you can have online tutors that tutor from New York I see right yeah um if you're not sure can you get that information just to make sure that all the students excuse me all the tutors that provide tutoring to our students
039are clear to tutor California students thank you any additional questions or just a clar a clarifying is that um you mentioned before that all of the folks who are actually in the after school programs working with our kids are trained by the city of Sacramento and they get continue training after the school year is over and then all throughout the year correct yep any additional questions or comments thank you so much much all right next we're going to have expanded learning update for Roberts family Development Center all right good evening uh my name is Blake cudworth uh I'm here on behalf of the Roberts family Development Center for our freedom Schools summer and after school programs here in the r School District um I'll start by talking a bit about uh the summer program that
040we had at Robla Elementary this summer um and then move on to the current after school year where we'll be at Taylor Street and where we are currently so the 2024 Roo Freedom School summer program served 147 Scholars with 16 uh servant leader interns and two site coordinators myself and Mr Orosco um who is in this picture here with our Scholars with the um State when they got a chance to actually have um the I believe State superintendent uh was there for them to receive Awards when it came to educational um Equity over the summer so that was awesome that was our sixth and seventh graders uh the one of the huge components when it comes to our summer program for Freedom schools is the integrated reading curriculum often abbreviated as IRC uh and this
041is something where we get a chance to encourage Scholars to find their love of reading um outside of an academic sense but just for for the enjoyment of it and the ability to um you know become a lifelong learner just you know not just in the school day but throughout uh the rest of their lives so we have six weeks um that we have this Freedom School program and each week focuses on a theme of I can make a difference starting in the very local sense of yourself expanding to your family your community your country your world and then that last week how you can make a difference with hope education and action uh we talk a lot about self-esteem respect working well with other students um finding our commonalities rather than our differences when
042it comes to the IRC uh and the activities that the scholars do after they read these different stories really give them a chance to explore those things working in groups of three or four uh not just within one grade level but up to three grade levels all working collaboratively um and they get to make life and self to text connections um when reading these stories so we have a few of them up here I'm every good thing um you know my te the teacher who has tattoos When the Beat was born um these are all you know stories that some of our Scholars may see themselves in the protagonists uh and that's something that's huge for us because many of the books that they read during the school year uh focus on stories that may
043not really connect to who they are as a an individual um and you also see one of our classrooms that was an Under the Sea theme from this summer um highlighted with our younger Scholars Kinder through second grade there as well um um another way that we can make a difference and we want to show the scholars that they can make a difference is through social action um I'm wearing a shirt that we actually had over the summer here today um focusing on the theme of protecting the freedom to read um and cutting down on book Banning across the country here in California we don't see book bands in the same way that we do across a lot of the rest of the country however uh our staff um and I'll get into the training
044a bit later but our staff actually traveled to Knoxville Tennessee for a training before the summer started um which is state where there's a lot of book Banning going on currently um and this really hurts the ability for students to see all different perspectives and to learn about things regardless of race or gender or uh sexual orientation or religious Identity or any of these other things that are protected classes um and so with that over the summer each week we talked about a different component of book Banning how that you know is impacting other communities who has the decisions to do this in different areas including um you know school boards in a lot of places as well uh and then with that culminated with a bringing together of all of our sites across four
045different school districts uh in West Sacramento where there were student speeches uh you know Flyers that were made banners um and a March around um a high school campus where the scholars got to really show off what they had learned over the course of the summer uh over every Friday of the free schools uh program we had a field trip to somewhere in the Sacramento Community that our Scholars may or may not have heard of but there are great experiences um academically and then socially and uh you know the social emotional seal space as well we went to the Aerospace Museum UC Davis uh the Oki pool which was a swimming pool um Urban Air bounce house uh the Department of Education and then uh the national day of social action was at Riverbank High
046School in West Sacramento um it all of these were fantastic opportunities for our Scholars to really see something that they may not see every single day um it amazes me when we do these field trips how many scholars haven't seen things that are you know five minutes away from where they live and so just putting a shine and a highlight on something that they could go you know check out another time fantastic especially that Aerospace Museum seeing the kids get into a giant decommissioned plane it was just it was a really cool experience um kind of shifting a little bit to the after school space um we are trying really hard this year to you know blend what we do over the summer with a traditional after school setting and so with that um we
047are providing academic support uh enrichment and making sure that we have a safe environment for our Scholars uh while doing that we're implementing you know the things that you have to have in an after school program we're going to serve Seer every single day we're going to get homework help for the scholars um but then also implementing things from Freedom schools so harambe um harambe is a key Swahili word meaning pull together and it's a chance for us to to uh sort of have like a pep rally for the scholars to feed into their confidence to have them you know sing songs and dance with their peers um and to teach themselves our favorite song Something Inside So Strong to know that you have something inside of yourself that is Meaningful that is strong um
048that has value um no matter where you come from no matter where you are at at whatever point in your life you are at um we Implement that every Tuesday and Thursday with the scholars and then we also do our integrated reading curriculum um during the summer the integrated read curriculum is over 2 hours it's very intensive uh we can't provide exactly that during the after school day um but we do spend about an hour hour and 15 minutes each day reading a story and then doing a couple of activities about that story again on Tuesdays and Thursdays bringing those in um enrichments are kind of one of the other main uh parts of the freedom schools day uh that we call afternoon activities that are brought into the after school space at Taylor uh
049with our different staff members leading things like science self-care art dance uh and they will be bringing in new topics when we switch to the new calendar year in 2025 um each staff member will bring in a different enrichment so the scholars have a number of different opportunities to what they get to experience this year um a few other things that we're bringing into the after school space uh field trips we actually went to the foothill Skate Inn on Auburn Boulevard today just got back from that about two hours ago uh it was a lot of fun having the kids go um roller skating we are going to actually train our staff to be dosent to go to the Sacramento um History Museum in Old Sacramento uh and they will be guiding a tour for
050all of our Scholars later this school year um you know we will also be doing things like uh since we're at Taylor Street we have the community park right across the street there we'll have a couple of walking field trips there um and then we're still deciding what else we can do in 2025 when it comes to field trips um tutoring as well we have one staff member with us every single day who is a tutoring specialist um and then we also will be using sack State students that have connected with our organization who are Early Childhood or education Majors um who are able to uh come in twice a week again focusing on English uh Ela and math um when it comes to tutoring and then Girl Scouts is new to our program this
051year uh every other Sunday we will have uh a two-hour meeting at our main Center uh for family for girls that are in the after school program they would like to also you know start to learn about Girl Scouts and the great things that come with that um when it comes to enrolling with the rfdc after school program um if families are interested they can pick up a form either from myself and our staff at Taylor Street during the after school day um or at our main office at 770 derina Avenue across from Grocery Outlet um at this time we are about at our capacity with uh a couple of students on our wait list um we have 65 enrolled in the after school program um our goal for our 90% um you know the
052the upper echelon of the funding is to have at least 54 students attending daily our average so far this school year has been been about 6061 um when a family does want to apply to the program given uh that we are on a small weight list at the moment uh I will take that application put into our system and then give them a call when their scholar is able to enroll with us um with a start date uh when it comes to disciplinary procedures for the program uh we uh we do not have any restrictions on who can participate in our program uh and so all children are welcome uh as long as they're a robless school district scholar it is at Taylor Street but we do uh have about 15 Scholars from the other
053four schools in the robo School District enrolled that are K through six um and then about 50 of our Scholars do come from Taylor Street uh when we do see behaviors that um you know do not align with what the the program is intending for the scholars uh day-to-day or when children are put in an unsafe position um we have a few steps that we like to follow when it comes to that uh we usually will start with something called a think sheet if we see um you know student having some difficulties and that is uh something that they can fill out which gives them a chance to Think Through the decisions that they've made um how they were feeling at the moment that they made that decision how it might have impacted other people
054uh what the next steps are to write any wrongs that might have been done uh after that point if we continue to see those same behaviors we will contact parents get them involved see if they might know what's going on what might be leading to those behaviors um and typically we will use that as a chance to really bring the family in to the situation so that we know what they would like the next steps to be um we always uh make cooperate cooperation contracts with our Scholars both in the summer and during the school year where as a class they sit down and they decide what expectations they want to be held to throughout the year um and then they all sign off on that so it's not you know them having rules placed
055down upon them but them getting the chance to say this is how I'm going to show up and make sure that I'm doing what's right for myself and the students around me um and so we will often refer back to that when we see challenges in the classroom or uh you know during common area times um that you know this is the expectation that you agreed to follow to so how do we make sure that we're going back to following that expectation um if we continue to have challenges after this point we'll discuss a suspension with the um parents we obious viously do not want to have suspensions in the after school space but especially for things involving violence or you know making the space unsafe for others that is a step that may need
056to happen after you know there have been these previous steps followed um and after you know one or more suspensions if the same behaviors continue um then we will discuss with the family um whether the program is right for them and they may be expelled from the program at that point we have not had that at all this school year um I don't believe we had any last school year either um but that is where we would get to if we got to um you know continuing to have those challenges after a suspension and being brought back in when Scholars do return to the program from the uh a suspension if they were to have one um we sit down with them and their parent and discuss what it looks like to re-enter the program
057safely um in a way that they will feel supported and know that they can you know not be either looked at differently or blamed for anything when they return but how they can be successful in that return to the program um so that you know we don't have that same conversation coming back up later um when it comes to training opportunities for our staff every staff member that we have this school year at Taylor Street also served as a servant leader intern over the summer at one of our freedom School sites they all received weeks a few weeks of Freedom schools training both locally here in Sacramento um with Saturday and Sunday full day trainings and then a um 5-day uh you know intensive El Baker training in Knoxville Tennessee um in order to learn
058the components of Freedom schools uh along with that um there was a lot of IRC training when we were in Tennessee um we also got stuck in the airport for about three days in Tennessee which was wild um if anyone wants to know about that I'd be happy to tell you about that later but um they received all of that training over in Tennessee then we did some post trainings when we got back here to make sure that they felt good about the things that don't get covered over there a little bit more of the social emotional um you know work uh how to connect with parents and families um and just bridging you know technological divides and maybe some gaps that we might have with language barriers um you know classroom management leadership training
059mentor training restorative justice training are also things that came about over the summer um and then into the school year uh when we have the different breaks that come about throughout the school year we also UTI utilize those times to have further trainings for our staff um along with weekly uh meetings where we can go over some of the things that are going on in the after school program and how to best support the scholars um plans for this year I talked a little bit about some of these already um the Latin Heritage celebration we do have the dinner next week which uh superintendent Chen mentioned which our staff will be uh you know working with uh we'll be leading some of the the child care opportunities for the scholars that do come to that
060but on top of that we also will have a Latin Heritage celebration at the Roberts family Development Center on October 12th um welcome to all families that may or may not be involved in our program we really want to include all of Northern Sacramento um in this opportunity uh the Girl Scouts which I mentioned um is starting the end of this month and going into November um again with two days a week where they can come to our main Center um and learn a little bit more about Girl Scouts uh we also do an honor rooll for our Scholars so uh each trimester when they get their grade reports if they are above uh 3.0 they get uh like the first ring of our honor roll and then a 3.5 I believe would be the
061second ring they don't technically have GPA in the same way that like middle schoolers high schoolers might but we're able to use the scores that we get from the teachers in order to honor them for those uh honoral uh plaques that we'll give out at each of those trimesters um the partnership with the Sacramento History Museum I did mention as well I think that's really cool that we were able to do that this year so they will be training all of our after school staff uh over the fall break this year in um the the history of that museum the history of Sacramento itself um and as residents we think that this is really beneficial to our staff um and it will give them a chance to engage the students further because sometimes when a
062scholar hears history they don't want to hear anything else they're like I'm good and so for us this is a chance to really show them that there's Beauty to the history of Sacramento and there's a long history here um and then they'll be dosant for that actual trip uh probably in November um and then we'll also be you know supporting the African-American history celebration that happen in February throughout the district as well as the aapi Asian-American Pacific Islander history celebration in May um and then we have monthly parent workshops for our families at Taylor Street uh the third Wednesday of each month uh that will not be the case next month as that'll be during our fall break but typically the third Wednesday of each month um where they'll get you know uh meals distributed
063they'll learn a little bit about what's going on in the after school program as well as other opportunities um to really you know bring as many resources to themselves and their Scholars as possible that is all I can take any questions or comments you may have I just want to make one comment because you mentioned a waiting list and I want to be clear we don't have a waiting list for any of our programs so it's important that those families on your waiting list that they are aware that they have choices in the other programs at your site and if they choose to wait that's okay but we need to make sure that we document that there are um other programs that can meet their needs until you have an opportunity for space absolutely thank
064you I was gonna ask a question about double dipping because I would assume that a parent could potentially enroll in start and in Robert's family development which would mean that they would take up two spots we do not have anyone that's enrolled in both programs um I I try to work closely with Miss Lily over at Taylor Street to make sure that um Scholars are getting supported by one program or another to the point of the um wait list uh we always try to let them know uh that start may have spaces available she's told me that they do have up to 200 slots I know they're not at that right now um and so for me it's most important that the scholars who need Services get them so we do share that with them
065um and that uh you know when it comes to Taylor streets specifically um there are no Scholars that are enrolled in both at the beginning of the year one family did try to enroll in both and we both of us talked to that parent to let them know that they had both options and then they chose the one or the other um so we do not have any that enrolled in both and we will make sure that if anyone does try to do so that they get into one pro program or the other they both are full day so we can't um you know have them actually participate in both uh and keep the Fidelity of the program uh big fan of Robert's family Development Center and all the work that you do the one
066thing that I did have a question about had to do with the issue of uh of advocacy and I know that you said you talk about you encourage advocacy I'm very concerned about how you go about choosing and deciding what issue going to Advocate on what information is provided and and I'm just going to use the example that you used this year where you talked about quote unquote book Banning there's a lot of misinformation and disinformation surrounding that particular topic and if our kids are encouraged to to Advocate uh I want them to know that there on on all issues there are multiple multiple sides of that issue or different perspectives my understanding at least from what i' I've seen so far is that that level of uh objectivity is not provided or not offered
067in terms of advocacy and I'm concerned because I want to make sure that our kids aren't being let's put this way if you're given one side and not the other you're not being educated you're being indoctrinated and I want to make sure that that's not taking place with our kids when it comes to advocacy yeah so um each summer the topic that is covered when it comes to our social action component is decided by the children's defense fund National Organization they choose a topic that they believe is impacting youth across the country and they highlight it they provide uh you know resources on how to speak about these topics um in order to shed light on general information um they do their very best to make sure that that is not telling you to do
068things one way or to do the other but simply to know that you can make a difference and so whatever way you see this topic um impacting your life you should fight for how that will make your life better or how to change the way the system is to make your life better if you so feel that is not the way that aligns with you when it comes to um the way that it was covered for our staff this summer I do know that uh we used some of the uh the resources that were brought along by children's defense fund um and then external research as well on to how we saw this impacting Sacramento students like we said book Banning isn't happening in the roess school district or in Sacramento California however what we
069wanted to focus on was if you think that this is something that you do not appreciate or if you feel a certain way about book Banning in other states here's how you speak to people from other states here's how you get involved in that topic um when it comes to ultimately choosing One Direction or another for a scholar we will never make that decision for them we also do want families to have the information before the scholars uh actually learn about it so at the beginning of the summer we told all of our families the topic this year is book Banning they were required to um attend a meeting where we discussed generally what to expect over the Freedom School 6 weeks um and they were told during that time if uh you may or
070may not have any qualms with this topic we are happy to provide you with all of the topics that we will cover before we actually do cover them and if that's not something you want your child to participate in you're more than welcome to have them either sit out from that activity and we'll give them something else to do or to have them not attend um during the portion when that's going on you know what I'd like if if you could do me a favor I'd like to get a copy of the presentation the information that was provided regarding book Banning because my experience with the child's defense defense fund yeah is that no they they are they definitely are biased they definitely have a direction and they don't present the entire the entire picture
071so I'd like to see what was presented to parents because of course they're not going to have an objection if only one side of the information is being provided to them because they're at that point on that particular issue they're being indoctrinated just like their kids would be being indoctrinated I I once again I'm not advocating whether it's an issue that I agree age with or an issue that I disagree with I always want to make sure that we are providing all the information uh and that we're we're we're not encouraging encouraging our students our Scholars to be advocating uh with only half of the information certainly yeah I can get that to you thank you well I I um I actually see this as as as differently um I I think um I I
072applaud you for taking something that is uh very timely and something that um I think a family can have a discussion about whether you know one side or the other I don't believe there is um taking um CDF or or or um or so um I don't believe there is any indoctrination going on so I want to get that clear but what I think it's cool is um that you take a topic and you introduce it to a family and you say you know whether you you are for or against this that's up to you to decide but we're going to give you some tools for advocacy and it seems like you you take that and give them that those tools and they can take that and apply that to anything else that want to
073do absolutely and it's a different topic each summer so um last year we talked about uh gun violence and how that impacts communities um we did environmental justice the year before that um and ultimately with each topic that we cover um we want to make sure that they're not having limited information but that they're understanding there are a lot of different places that you can learn about these things um and that what we're going to provide in these six weeks is not the end all be all but can be a starting point for you to start to learn more about what you think when it comes to book Banning in particular that is a direct limitation of information and so that's why it's something that I believe very deeply is a problem in this country
074um and so for myself regardless of this program I know that's something I advocate for outside of when I'm working I'll well then I'll I'll just give you an example when we talk about misinformation or disinformation did you know that 97% of the books that are actually challenged are done so because they contain sexually explicit non non-age appropriate content that's 93 % of the books that are challenged love to see that information I have not seen the particular figures that you're referring to I would love to see provide that information for you I would love to see information to because I think it is very subjective those are the numbers well the top 10 the top 10 books from the American Library Association all 10 of them were challenged because they contained sexually sexually explicit
075content well with all due respect the Bible contains sexually you can go to you can go to the American Library association's website and check it out but thank you so much but by the way just just to say this um this is the reason why I want to make sure they have all the information uh because I want to make sure that we have an opportunity to have a robust public discussion about policy it seems to be the thing that we've gotten away from in today Society it seems like one side wants to present their side and doesn't want the other side to hear their side and vice versa we ought to be able to have conversations about this like this to be able to bring up this sort of information be able to bring
076up the data and have those sorts of conversations that that's how how Mr Barnes and trusty Barnes and I have become very good friends because we have very good very robust conversations about these topics but in the end well we may not always have agreement we do develop understanding of other people's perspectives and that's what I want our Scholars to get out of these discussions yeah absolutely I think that all of our Scholars deserve to make their own decisions and while they are still children and there are some restrictions around exactly what they can do um again being able to self- Advocate and being able to stand up for yourself is something that a lot of them um sometimes at home are not encouraged to do and so we want to just give them that
077opportunity to understand that regardless of what topic you're talking about whether it's the stuff we cover this year whether it's whatever you become interested in as you get older um you know fight for what you believe in and don't worry about what other people are telling you amen thank you thank you appreciate your time all right next we have expanded learning update uh Helen Institute good evening good evening start I like to pass out a book that will be discussed my presentation I was not able to attach to the presentation expanded learning opportunities program our motto is inspiring the advancement of the human Spirit uh the Helen Institute is actually a national Think Tank what is our mission Brilliant Minds will engage the worldclass leaders in a culturally and socially diverse learning environment to develop
078the intellectual capacities and cogn cognitive skills skills required to expand learning opportunities focus on first mitigating learning loss and then moving to accelerate learning our mission is global minded bold and student- centered we educate students who will one day make decisions that will transform the world what is expanded learning expanded learning means before school after school summer and intercession learning programs that focus on developing the academic social emotional and physical needs and interests of pupils through Hands-On engaging learning experiences it is the intent of the legislature that expanded learning programs are pupil centered results driven include Community Partners and complement but do not replicate learning activities in the regular school day and school year I put that definition up and it's directly from uh California Department of Education as we go into more of the
079what the Helen program is about we have built a comprehensive program through our think tank and the fellows who have developed the program that we feel meets the needs to the intent that this legislature developed this grant in the first place it's a Federal grant that was a result of Education dilemas that we discovered during Co the first need was learning loss mitigation and the second need was learning acceleration once we mitigated the learning loss what can we do as a community then to accelerate learning because there was a recognition nationally that uh students had suffered to some degree as a result of covid and their normal education process been interrupted this next slide is directly from the Department of California Department of Education as well and our focus is on that third paragraph offer
080and access and so uh our contractors are fifth and sixth graders and we do not uh deny anyone access to our programs um we also enroll fourth graders if there's a need during the summer we even had a second grader because the parent decided that she wanted her second grade student to to enjoy the summer camp with her fifth and sixth grade brothers and sisters so our program does not deny any student access to the Lop program how does a student get enrolled into the Helen Institute there two processes last year when we first came on board the superintendent and the board asked us to be a parallel program with start so they enroll directly through start and then start with transferred fifth and sixth graders to US based on their own criteria some of
081it had to do with capacity so we became an additional capacity for the program so that the school district could meet the needs required to provide the program to all unduplicated students this year is a combination some at some sites they have signed up through start as a parallel program and then we have also engaged direct enrollment through our own marketing advertising our own consent form uh application process as well but again uh we say no to uh no students as we go into the classrooms and introduce ourselves to students and families who are not familiar with with us many students will raise their hand and ask if they can switch programs and my my comment is always if your parent has decided that this program fits the needs of the family you should stay
082in the program but our answer is not no through a conversation with your parents if they decide otherwise we're open to all students but we do not encourage students to switch it's a decision that we encourage them to have with their parents and and the parents decide that uh they want to have the the students engaged the academic enrichment programs that we provide then we make that opportunity available to the families this summer uh we were asked to hold a summer count for fifth and sixth graders again we did have one second grader uh very brilliant second grader I will add we had approximately 80 students fifth and sixth grade we started the week out with d d the clown every day to get the students all excited we have snow comes every day throughout
083the summer uh we have athletic programs myself and a good friend of mine Patrick Willis uh ex-49er just was inducted into the Hall of Fame and a current uh 49er Jason verret we developed a athletic program for kids and that's the program that we implemented over the summer Jason Verrett's brother uh Trey was the lead instructor for that program that we are created along with a group of uh professional athletes and so that was on Tuesday Wednesdays and Thursdays uh all summer except for the days where the the heat was too extreme and so we canceled the programs if we remember uh the month of July was pretty hot temperature temperature- wise so there was one week we did not do anything outside uh except for early in the morning uh when the temperature allowed
084we also had a focus on uh classroom instruction around writing and one of the Key Programs key parts of our program is writing our students write every single day whether it's a summer program or the after school program we know that writing had impacts the entire curriculum as students gets older and get into Middle School we know that students struggle with math because many of the math problems you have to read it first one of the things that the superintendent asked me to do when uh when I was asked to bring forth this program was also engaged the students in Middle School transition and so because of that piece part of our program focuses on what writing will look like in Middle School how to stand up and and present what you have written so
085they do that daily we teach them uh public speaking skills confidence in their writing uh some some of the kids even know the fifth and sixth graders they struggle with a four and five letter four and five letter words one of the ways we help them do that is with the game Scrabble we have games that they play for fun but it also teaches them something else a social skill and emotional skill or skill that we see that they may be lacking academically so Scrabble is used for those students who struggle to spell four and felter words you know the words like went uh there they spell a variety of ways and we've learned over time that the reason why students typically can't spell four and five letter words if they just don't read enough
086they don't see the word often enough and so by help them write they're not only writing what they're going to read but they have to practice it so now that they know that they're going to have to get up and read it they take the writing exercise more more seriously it's interesting you have some phenomenal students in this District many of them are just excited about the writing their stories are elaborate very uh imaginative there's a second there's there's a sixth grader now at Bale is one of the most phenomenal writers of her age I have ever met I've been writing my entire adult life I'm a publisher and we get into the book earlier that's in front of later that's in front of you and um she was writing everything down on on just
087notebooks and so the program purchased her a computer so that she could use it at home to start the write and I encourage her with her writing the entire team did and we're hoping that at some point uh we see her published and I've encourage her uh to seek me out if she decides to publish I spoke with her parents and so you have that kind of talent in the district that when we see it we encourage it and we enhance it and we do what we can to uh to encourage them encourage them to do to do more the program also focused on stem we did an introduction to drones and we did uh projects with Legos here's what's interesting about the the Legos projects while we have fifth and sixth graders again it's
088about learning loss mitigation learning acceleration so how much brain activity can we create in the student mind and so Legos sets are they have our age recommendation the sets that I purchased for the program were for 18 and older so let's see how the fifth and sixth graders are going to do and and the first one we did was a very intricate Star Wars project it was six of them excited just brilliant students you have in the district it took them three weeks but they did it and one day Miss chin came to the uh the camp and they were just so excited to showed her how it was not just a Lego SE it was also robotic as well and they went through the process I've shown her everything that the project did and
089and and it did something for us because I did not know how they would respond at that age to those type of sophisticated projects as a result we have carried on into the after school programs to give you an example there's a a student at robler who struggles academically I gave him the same sophisticated challenging 18 plus age group Lego set he did it in three days six of them it took him three weeks this kid who struggles academically has demonstrated when giv the right activities there's a part of his brain that excels at other things and that and that's the goals of our program to find out what else do kids excel at as a result we've had a conversation with the superintendent and also with uh Mr weeks who's in Co who's in
090charge of the science programs but how do we do a more comprehensive stem program for the district and there Austin Sports all summer uh and we all know that during the summer all bills were served by the district that's our summer program our after school program is a mirror of that with the exception of we focus on teaching the kids 19 habits those 19 habits comes from the book in front of you that I I wrote and published a few years ago so for an example the first habit is amazing you wake up every day and tell yourself I'm going to have an amazing day I'm going to have an amazing week I'm going to have an amazing month an amazing year and like a plant that grows toward the light when you tell yourself
091that you're going to have an amazing day you grow toward that light so you may ask how do we teach filth and sixth graders that habit we have them right now if you go to any any of the the sites they're doing the vision boards the vision boards are divided up into six sections plus your dream job dream house dream car dream College dream vacation and we have them find cutouts and and they create their vision boards it's amazing to see fifth and sixth graders think about what do I want to be when I grow up and and we have them build vision boards and they take them home so every day they can look at that vision board and say I'm going to have an amazing day and we remind them and we remind
092them that to have an amazing day at school it starts with having done your homework having gotten proper amount of rest been prepared for school so your amazing day at school starts with do you do your homework which is one thing we also help them with in after school program we helped them with their homework uh as well all the other things we do uh mirror the summer program and right now we're under the contract for 40 students at each site uh Maine we're close to 40 some schools uh we're not enrollment is not impacted we're going to the school classrooms now having a personal conversation with the students giving them the consent forms and our goal is to uh reach enrollment of 200 for the school district within our program next is our disciplinary
093policy students and parents have to agree to a code of conduct that's that's the consent form there's some rules and policies that have to follow it's in alignment with the rules and policies of the district when students uh repeatedly violate those policies there's a process uh in which we the students is asked to make sure the parent contacts us we make an attempt to contact the parents and we have a conversation with with the parents we partner with the parents we tell the parents what the needs are what the issues are so that the students can remain in the program we don't have a policy where students are put out of our program but if there is repetitive violations of the codes the agreements then there is a conversation with the parents that if you
094intend for your students to remain in this program we need your assistance they need to follow the rules and so there's a constant open door policy open communication between us and the parents to make sure that the kids are getting what they need the future of the program we talked about stem and I apologize I did not get to show it this is actually one one of the stem projects so I dropped it but there's uh two young students at Bale it took them maybe about three weeks it's over 2,000 pieces these kids love these projects and so this is something that we're going to continue on and there may be uh a need to discuss how do we further EX projects and after school and summer summer program District some of these kids I
095think they need this because or they may not be excelling in other parts of academics we know that they Excel instead uh next thing we need to do is increase un enrollment so we're right now we're engaged in direct parent contact we're uh planning a parent event to showcase after school programs we're partnering with the District staff to increase effectiveness of programs uh I mentioned Mr weeks earlier uh I mean Mr weeks he and I met because I knew that he had some concerns he wanted to communicate with me concerning the program we spoke for about three hours one day very robust conversation uh he he has agreed to assist in the ways that his skill set lenss especially with the stem parts and there other part also the program where we feel that some
096of our staff our staff re receive a minimum of 30 hours of training a week I mean a year but there's some other training in terms of classroom management the skills that Mr weeks and some of the other uh members of the district has and some in most school districts we have teachers certificated staff on board and after school program we have not been as fortunate here to have teachers because they provide a value that is very difficult to learn for some for college students or someone who may not be in this profession so it's really critical to get the certificated staff uh engaged and due and as a result of the conversation I had with with Mr weeks he and I Now understand that we want the same thing he's very engaged we're going
097we're going to engage him that's be some assistance because I I I I asked him that when you identify a need also be willing to help me make the program better because all we want to do is make the program better for the students correct and so he's willing we're willing so we're going going forward we're going to work together and that's going to be that District staff uh uh uh engagement in in the partnership um and it's about developing better relationships with other providers in the district you know start has a great program the Roberts family Development Center has has a right program I think we the relationships can get better so that we can serve the students and the families uh uh in a greater Manner and it's up to to the adults
098to make sure that those relationships are built understanding the needs of the family our program align alignment with District education specifications um and creating access to all district unduplicated students is the goal that's the end of my presentation any questions I want make a comment thank you for um working with the teachers at AT main said you think that is um it sounds like it was very critical that um we did that and I would just like to learn a little bit more about exactly what the training looks like for the staff um who are working with and overseeing our kids okay I can speak on it or I I can also give you document but but give an example last week I think it was Monday or Tuesday uh two hours before the shift
099we met at Maine and I'm a leadership development consultant uh I've been uh I'm a retired assistant superintendent sex city UniFi School District I've been in education for for most of my adult life and so my training is focused on leadership skills management skills of the of of of the uh the classroom and the students when students behave how you respond and there is uh there's a curriculum that I work through throughout the year one of the things I I've learned if I if I give them 30 hours of training as an and as an example in the summer as a year goes on that training is not effective so I have broken it up into two-hour increments where we do it on a recurring basis but I'd be glad to provide uh the board
100uh that entire training in curriculum okay and you know one of the conversations I've had with staff and I told them you know you know be patient let me know when when they do identify issue but also recognize that there's a big difference between a certificated teacher that's been in the classroom for 15 16 17 years and a college student that this may be his or her first job and so we all need to be aware of there's going to be a difference but we're all going to help out and engage in a positive way to make that more more positive and I think that's the climate that we now have at Maine and I told uh the staff that I spoke with uh I take responsibility for that because last year I could have
101communicated better but as I came in as a parallel program I was not quite sure what that line was this year that line has dissipated and so those connections are made we'll make sure that those relationships uh uh continue to flourish can you clarify the the folks in start in Robert fing development they're not certified teachers there are the Start program has a teacher on the side that helps but the folks Who oversee the after school program are not teachers correct that is correct um start has academic alignment coaches is that what they're called okay so they have um they have a staff member I don't want to say on their payroll with their program that meets um with their they provide the academic piece but you are correct they are not certificated yes want
102to make sure that I understood that correctly yeah that none of the staff working with our school programs are teachers correct correct any additional questions or comments I have clarify um when in disciplinary policies with all these three programs since we provide the programs do we have a record when kid get kicked out or or disciplines and what really happened what to bring to that issue do we have anything to I will have to get back with you it they might report um concerns to the site but um the way we would know is if based on enrollment and when we do attendance but we haven't um documented whether they are not in the program due to discipline or just they choose to drop so I can look at that you know that actually brings
103up an additional question do we have sort of a something in writing kind of for lack of a better term best practices or rules of the role rules of the road for our after school programs or those that we work with that provide uh additional uh after school enrichment that is a great opportunity for us there you go I like that I like that it won't just be helpful for us it'll definitely be helpful for the for our teachers and the schools who are very concerned about our kids so and our and our parents as well you know I will add if there's an issue with a student or one of my staff members and that's brought to my attention I do a very very thorough investigation I write a report and and I and
104I give that report to the superintendent so that's that's how I document well I just think the reason why I brought it up is because I think it would be really good for both providers and for our staff to and and for families to know all right well if something happens this is kind of the process and how it's How It Should be handled or at least these are the expectations and I think that that that if we had had something like that then in particular for as a new provider when there are challenges you know exactly what the expectations are as opposed to you know you doing it the way you see you you the way you think is appropriate not that there's anything wrong with that but the main thing is is that
105we all understand expectations and a lot of times when there is disappointment it's usually because there are either they're usually because it's un because of uncommunicated expectations I agree I agree I just want to thank you for meeting uh with Mr weeks and um I know that he has some concerns that he represent others that has some concerns in three hours sounds like a very long meeting but also you know a good start uh so just want to say thank you for for that Comm thank you and it was a great meeting all his concerns were legit and so and I told him they were they were uh legit and I told him I take responsibility for not having a Channel of communication where he could have felt comfortable coming directly with me because some
106of the things he identified occurred last year and we could corrected those things last year we would have been a better uh organization this year but to uh Mr Del's um comments sometimes it is is it an issue around expectations how we're expected to behave and so uh many times when certain staff members bring up an issue I don't know the district's protocol on what direction that communication should go in so last year I I chose not to engage not knowing the policies but this year after us speaking uh with the superintendent on several issues we felt it was the best that I took the initiative to engage and it worked out extremely well uh with Mr uh uh Mr weeks and so uh we both learned that we we both want the same things
107for the kids and that's always a plus any additional comments or questions thank you thank you thank you thank you to all of our uh our expanded learning providers for coming out and sharing with us we appreciate the work that you do with our kids all right we're going to move on to the consent agenda I will entertain a motion to approve so moved second it's been moved and second it all those in favor please say I I opposed abstentions motion carries unanimously now move on to action items uh item a approve certificated assignments under a provisional internship permit for the 2024 25 school year moved second move to second is there any discussion so at the early August board meeting we approved some additional individuals that were under a provisional internship permit and then
108we hired someone past that date who will also require the same permit it's for the same reasons um they have everything except a teacher professional um preparation program and they're working towards getting into to one of those um but other than that they come to us highly qualified um and this allows us to keep them in a teaching role thank you any further discussion here now we'll move forward to a vote all those in favor please say I I opposed extensions motion carries unanimously uh Item B approve official pest prevention and an anti-semitic I don't know I don't know if I pronounced that right company contract don't move second it moved and second it any discussion issues with our press control we um interview three companies and we select this company actually they s they
109work with um Twin Rivers and um in a thas school district and um this we select I mean reason we select this company because they will be able to do work after um school hours like in very in the morning on on the weekends so the pest controls um issues are solved and so this is is more we will have a contract for each this is a total but we will have a contract for for the c um school size each school plus preschool so that way we we track the work very specific what is done school did I from pronounce yeah antix right that's how that's how know yeah so okay thank you yeah that sounds right for me so yeah thank you so much all right with that uh any further discussion or
110debate move on to V in favor please say I I opposed extensions let's say pass 301 one exstension or do you want to take a do you want to wait we'll wait we're just going to do 301 and we'll move on to the next item uh approve service agreement with Pro youth at Bell Avenue Elementary so moved second been moved and second a discussion there's actually no cost but we like to have all contracts come to the board um this is a once a week program at Bell Avenue um for about an hour I think an hour to two hours for 12 weeks so um the C Miss Collins will oversee the weekly sessions any additional discussion no cost I like no cost and they and they pay the students right when they finish the
111thing awesome yeah okay any further discussion or debate he n we'll move forward to a vote all in favor please say I I opposed abstentions motion carries unanimously second section seven board member requests for future agenda items or reports trusty Cardona nothing trusty Hamilton start um I do want to ask a question about our cell phone policies knowing that the governor has um probably going to be putting on a ban on cell phones in schools and so what's our policies around cell phones in schools I'm going to guess that csba will probably be putting out a sample policy here relatively sometime relatively soon that'll be consistent with the governor's uh is it the with the with the new law so I would be looking for it be my guess uh trusty Barnes okay and I
112have nothing and so with that this meeting is adjourned