001good evening everyone and welcome to the Orange County school board's regular meeting scheduled for today Tuesday March 11th 2025 thank you all so much for joining us I would take roll call but I think everyone is here at the dis so we will go ahead and get started as a reminder board members will not be engaging in outside electronic communication while we're in the meeting so that we can focus our full attention on the matters before us to my fellow board members District staff and anyone who may from the public who may be speaking into one of our mics please make sure the mic is turned on and speak directly into it so that our YouTube and orange TV viewers can hear you clearly and we will begin with a moment of silence followed by
002the Pledge of Allegiance if you'll join us and now for the pledge IED Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible libery and justice for all all right before we get started with the recognition portion of the program let me ask Dr vascas if there's any changes to the published agenda no Madam chair there are no changes all right thank you so I will then entertain a motion to adopt the agenda as published we have a motion motion by Vice chairs there a second second second by member Salam monka all in favor please say I opposed motion carries unanimously well tonight we are joined by a group of students from East River High School they're going to share some school
003highlights and their idea for a program they hope could help students improve organizational skills I will be paying close attention because I certainly could use a little help in that area so I see that we have some guests here from Falcon friends Farms as well it just warms my heart to see you guys here just two weeks after we mourned the loss of Bobby beagles he was a legend of agricultural education and we wouldn't have Falcon friends farm without him and his wife Vicki so thank you so much for both of you being here let me see if we can get a photo op with the students from East River High I go ahead Dr Vasa as you recognized thank you madam chair I am so excited we have members of my advisory Council that
004are here today and so I'd like to welcome Jasmine Allan Julianne Jacob Kendall Alexander and Leila Kelly welcome you want yes good morning oh good afternoon everyone good afternoon you're recognized my name is Jasmine Allen and I am the junior class president hello everybody my name is Julian Jacob and I am the student body vice president hi my name is Kendall Alexander and I'm the senior class president hello everybody my name is Leila Kelly and I'm the student body president and we're all here on behalf of again East River High School today we will be discussing our initiative titled project home room okay our table of context include our school introduction our statistics our initiative and the impact East River High School is located in a rural in rural East Orlando according to US News
005and World Report at East River total minority enrollment is 65% and 45% of the students are economically disadvantaged these stats would like to bring our home room initiative to your attention a few observations of stressors we have been we have seen among other among our students have to do with our mental health like anxiety and depression some factors are due to students involvement in sports and extracurricular activities as well as students having to work after school to help support support their families and all this can take away from students ability to focus on academics many students use extracurricular activities as an escape or Outlet that's why we feel our initiative will help reduce the mental health stressors for our students for our student body since it will give our students time to focus on studying
006completing assignments and allowing time for collaboration with other students so our following slides are going to show the statistics of depression within teens in Orange County in comparison to the state and National averages according to health news Florida the increase as we Center focus into the Orlando area is an indicator that mental health initiatives need to be reinforced and re-evaluated a large contributor to Health struggles within students is the lack of time preparation and resources for standardized exams like the SAT and ACT as I'm sure many of you guys also had felt back then this is further reinforced as the average SAT score at East River is also below the district State and National averages which is why it had come to our attention if you want to click that so although our school already
007has and provides after school resources and tutoring not all students are able to access it you know like we said prior students have to take the bus they have after school jobs or extracurriculars so they are unable to attend these resources which is why we came up with our initiative project home room so as Leila said our initiative is called project home room and our goal is to implement a Home Room class in all ocbs schools for students to have on their schedules each year the class would progress to depending on the grade level of the student the class would the class would give kids opportunities to study and have a class set aside for organization and management we have seen other schools have this in place and it helps them tremendously this class is
008attended to give students the opportunity to reduce stress and mental health challenges in this Home Room class students will still be learning resiliency topics that we've seen and we've done previously but this would be every day and year round students who were just starting off high school would benefit from this as they would be able to learn skills that they can take with them throughout their High School career and life career freshman students would learn time management skills and how to identify triggers that may lead to mental health breaks sophomores would learn about branching out of their comfort zone and how to prioritize their mental health Juniors would focus on sat and a prep and how to apply for colleges trade schools or transferable skills to help help them if they need to go directly
009into the workforce post High School seniors would focus on submitting college applications or job applications they'd also work on resume building and doing interview strategies we believe this class would be helpful for all students as it would be a time for them to learn to get in tune with their mental health and they would still receive educational benefits with that being said having these H room classes will benefit students in many ways students will now be able to release the stress that affects their mental health and other factors to begin with students will Foster a sense of community and belonging among their peers giving them the opportunity to form a stronger connection including with their home room teachers creating a support system when in need of someone to provide guidance in addition regular checkups with
010these Home Room teachers can help identify struggling students to provide the necessary intervention providing time and support for other classwork and college preparation helping students stay organize reduce stress and improve their Readiness for the future opport unities last but not least Home Room provide a predicted and organized school day reducing stress and promoting a wellestablished routine having these Home Room classes will introduce and provide a range of benefits that can positively impact students academic social and well-being by creating a structured and supportive environment Home Room classes can serve as a Cornerstone for mental health and Student Success thank you for listening to our project we would now like to go into our School show case so the first sorry the first thing we're getting into is our school so this is our campus it was
011East over opened up in 2009 said yes and we're located in East Orlando more specifically bio Florida yeah I don't like go all right so here's our football team we're super proud of them they've been doing great this year and we've had a bunch of students transfer to our school this past semester for our spring season we're really excited to see the future of our program so yeah okay so this is our chorus program we're proud of all the programs that we have of our school because they're all very very successful but in this presentation we've highlighted the ones that really truly go above and beyond in what they do because these programs have students that literally dedicate so much time to stay after school and make sure whatever they do turns out well so
012this is our chor program we have a boys choir team that is phenomenal and goes on to different events and does a great job but the entire program just does a really good job so we wanted to highlight them so next up is our thespians so AR thespians is our drama team they go to different competitions like district and state they are currently practicing for their spring musical Little Shop of Horrors this upcoming I think March yeah very soon so yeah next we're going into bowling our girls bowling team has won States the past two years and I think District district I'm sorry guys and then our boys team and girls team both have a very successful like program I think that it's one of our most Su successful programs in our school or Sports
013in our school and yeah we just wanted to highlight them and let you guys know so next up is our JROTC our JROTC is also very successful they have gone a States or I guess I should say our Raiders team has gone to States multiple times they've been State runner up and they're doing great next up is our Student Government Association and here are some of our photos we currently were or I guess we currently hosted the state conference this past two weekends ago I'd say yeah was the 21st to the 23rd we held the state position of treasur we had a state conference of over 1,600 attendees it was a great experience we are now currently holding the district president title so we'll be hosting our district conference this upcoming October and it's something
014we're super passionate about and that we love next we have our First Responders Academy magnet program so this is a basic class where students really that want to go into the for of firefighter they take standardized stuff okay so they take standardized exams and it's a magnet program that overall prepares them for the workforce so all of our students who graduate from the fire academy end up either a going into their force and B have an accelerated path so they don't have to take all of their fire academy classes once they go on to graduate next we have our law studies program in our law studies program we also have a few classes that also do law enforcement as well so not only do we talk about not only do we talk about going into
015being like lawyers and working in the court office or doing things just like the school board does we have actual police officers that work at our school that train with students to who would wish to go that far cool so next up is our Future Farmers of America program also known as FFA you want to go sure I can go so here are some pictures depicting that we have some of our animals today from our Falcon Farm friends that are going to come and we'll you guys will see shortly they have done a great job at the state conferences that they attend yeah and now this is a perfect segue into our Falcon friends farm so at our school we just recently won an award for Special Olympics and hi Sebastian yeah David David David
016you can go so everyone this is I know look at him dude oh so he doesn't poop everywhere yeah he won't poop so oh okay so this is Sebastian he is one of our few goats that we have at our school and in our program Falcon friends farm we have we have our friends like David and other students at our school that we go down to the barn every day and we clean their pens we give them food we give them water we clean up all of their business and we make sure they all have treats and good food so these are some pictures of our friends that went to the county fair that were showing animals and there's David in that photo you can see him twice and we have a friend with us
017today his name is Hulk and he's a guinea pig in the backpack and he loves it in there it's super cozy but now I'm going to introduce you to Miss Jackie and Mr beagle in the next slide too perfect hold on did you guys already share your portions we were going it's fine perfect ladies I'm gonna lose good evening everyone my name ladies I am so sorry you are being completely shown up right now and we all really we all really want to hear your presentation and I got to tell you it has been just fun listening to you guys so we'll get back to in a minute but your enthusiasm and your com roty up there it's just it's just tangible and Priceless so thank you yeah and listen a little bit of flubbing
018up there is nothing compared to what I did trying to introduce you okay and I've only been at this 20s something years so blow it off all right I promise we're going to get the attention back on you but it's your fault cuz you brought these precious things different so I thought I was going to be in trouble everybody want to go down to Huger I'm good okay Melissa Melissa let me see come here here Melissa hold on me good luck getting control yeah I know all right ladies I know I didn't even get to hold that one all right okay all right ladies am I going to have to call a all right so just for the record maybe a here we go wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute I got
019this i got this there we go all right so over the years I have chaired a lot of meetings a lot a lot a lot of meetings and some of them have been very rough and very difficult to control especially in these Chambers but I will tell you that this has been the most difficult to control and doesn't have anything to do with any of you guys it's entirely our fault so again if you want attention don't bring animals okay but I'm going to go back to wherever you were when they came in back up cuz we all missed that and I'm so enjoying your presentation so back to to you guys good evening everyone my name is Jackie Bishop I'm the teacher for East of our high school's Falcon friends farm and the facilitator
020of the Central Florida Fair fairb buddies divisions agriculture is a diverse and inclusive field that offers multiple career Pathways our goal for both organizations is to introduce our ESC students at East R high school and throughout the district to these opportunities Falcon friends farm was designed to provide students with disabilities handson real world application of the agriculture industry helping them develop critical employment and life skills through this program students engage in Daily Farm operations animal husbandry horiculture and equipment maintenance while learning essential job skills that will prepare them for future employment opportunities directly correlating community-based vocational education with curriculum being reviewed across content areas a key component of our initiative is our campus flight crew program this variation of the peers as partners framework promotes further peer mentorship inclusion skill building collaboration and meaningful connections
021by placing students in our IND units on campus students that select my class assist peers with their daily Barn their daily tasks in the barn additionally our students have the unique opportunity to participate in Fair buddies an inclusive division orchestrated through the central Florida Fair this division pairs our students with disabilities alongside experienced exhibitors throughout the district allowing them to participate in livestock shows and experience that Fosters confidence teamwork and Community engagement Fair buddies not only introduces our students to the world of agricultural Showmanship but also ensures that they are welcomed supported and fully included in a space that has long been a Cornerstone of Florida's agricultural Heritage Falcon front's Farm supported by the flight crew class and the fair buddies program is more than just an agricultural education initiative it is a model of
022inclusion empowerment and Hands-On learning with this in mind I would like to thank everyone that has supported our efforts Mr Bobby beagles played a pivotal role in the upbringing of this framework and he will surely be missed thank you oh thank you so much David do you want to say anything well I know he is smiling down on us right now and this really could not be more perfect timing Dr vasque has are we in a position to take a couple comments from board members absolutely I just got to tell you guys are so amazing all right yeah yes I was at the school was it last week the days were running together and you had some amazing ideas that you shared of how we can make the high school experience better and today's presentation
023was just superb so thank you so much we're so proud of you yeah absolutely and yeah I just realized I probably owe the board a little apology for the scolding cuz I had a flashback and come to think of it I'm the one who went down to see the goat yeah yeah I forgot that part okay but if I don't fess up there's a picture of it so all right member Gallow thank you madam chair thank you ladies and gentlemen for coming this evening and tell us telling us all about the wonderful things that are happening happening at East River High I have very fond memories of East River as both my children graduated from that High School and it was the best four years of my youngest daughter's life my oldest well you know
024you know you she wasn't much of a school person but I just I just you know East River is such a little gym that's located in the about as East as you can go in East Orange County without getting to The Bard line and it they just there's so many great things happening there with all the things you highlighted today with the farm with the contributions from Mr beagles like I'm just so proud of East River and I'm so proud of y'all and everything that you've accomplished I think that District 1 is by far the coolest District in Orange County and I think that was evidenced by the goat that just walked through the boardroom and the guinea pigs that we got to hold so I just want to thank you it was a great
025job y'all y'all not only did a great job but you had fun doing it and as a board member it is so fun for me to watch you enjoying what you're doing and enjoying being here because a lot of times people are really scared to speak to us and clearly y'all were just happy to be here and showcasing your school and having a good time so it's good to see most of you again because I was just us for not too long ago but thank you for everything and we really enjoyed the goat I want the baby goat and I want I is it the sheep or the lamb is it a sheep the lamb it's a lamb I was really thinking I'd get to see the lamb tonight so see that's that's the other
026great things about about district one it's just it's very rural parts of it and I just I love that about my community so thank you thank you m Gallo VI chair bird thank you chair and for the record we have special Hearts Farm in district 7 and we have ffas at all of our schools too so we have lots of baby goats in district 7 leg up on her yeah so I just wanted to thank you so much for the presentation that you did today I am blown away by the idea of project home room I really really hope that we could figure out a way to somehow make this happen I realize that you know we have schedul in trouble but Mr Martinez I'm just I see you're right here in front right just
027so I could tell you this no I just think it is such an important thing to do you know you've heard us talk a lot up here about mental health struggles and you guys just really highlighted it you know we talk a lot about how if kids are struggling with thinking about other things or they're emotionally at a at a super high level I can't even think now it's it's just it was just such good information that they're not going to learn we can the teacher can stand up there and talk all she wants but if that child is coming to school with trauma or stress or anxiety or depression which if they're lucky they can get to school when they're going through that they're not going to hear a thing that teach saying so
028the learning's never going to happen so we have to take time to do this and this is what why I think it's so important that we realize that our job in our schools is so much bigger than just teaching all of the basics because we can't do that if our kids aren't able to process it all because of what they're going through so I think having a time a homebased time for them to learn learn how to deal with that have a space and a time where they can talk to their friends and their teacher about it I think is also super valuable at waka high school they just did a they do this thing every year called PS I love you which is around Valentine's Day and they meet after school and they were
029there till like 6 o' and on a Friday is she getting an animal really oh she was holding it public service I didn't either so anyway so these the kids were after school and when I talked to the CH to the kids and my daughter afterwards some of the things that they got out of that time that they had where they were just talking to their peers about their issues and trouble and things they're stressed out about was the most information I've gotten from many of those teens my daughter and her friends in a long time so it had a huge impact on them just having that time with their peers so that and I love the idea of giving them time to get organized help them teach them how to get organized how to
030even do do a calendar and keep up with their emails and all those Basics that we just assume they know how to do that some of them we just they just don't and so I think that being able to give them that time every day is so valuable I think it is a fantastic idea I am so excited that you brought it to us and shared it all with us and then my last comment is just I love that you highlighted all the different cool things that you have going on at East River because let's just say it I mean there there is no better place with more choices and more options for our kids than our Public Schools I mean come on I don't there look at all those choices and options that we
031offer kids at this one high school and this is just one high school it's really phenomenal so thank you so much for highlighting all that for us good job girls thank you great yeah well said all right member Fant you're recognized thank you madam chair okay this was really we see a lot of these come through we you know students that are coming through and share again Dr Vasquez excellent idea to have your each High School come and share and so you guys take the cake we don't try to you know be competitive up here but member Gallow you're winning right now I got to say the excellent excellent presentation I love just your authenticity and your giggles and just being you your high school kids and I love that sometimes you know as adults
032we can almost expect students to behave like adults and you're really your kids and you're having fun and to me it shows me that you enjoy working together you enjoy your school that this whole project you probably laughed over and you know had so much fun over creating it or stressed about but really your entire presentation your slides everything that you talked about and then to just piggyback on what member bird said about your grade breakdown just the project home room and then the grade breakdown by each grade and what you would like to see I think that is excellent an excellent idea something I think we should all just talk and see how we can make that feasible I know we have some different Logistics and to work out but maybe it is something
033that we can start implementing I'd love to see this even in middle school where one of the one of our electives would be a you know project Home Room type class where you're having to learn some different life skills and I think it aligns beautifully with what we're going to be presenting here for the U portrait of a graduate which is what we're kind of gearing towards and so thank you again I really appreciate it bud you did amazing I love your backpack I love your little your buddy in there you do an excellent job and just knowing that we can you know have something like this at a public school where kids can all integrate and be United and learn how to work with each other and you know whether we look like each
034other or we don't or we act like each other or not we all can unite and all for one purpose and with a smile on our face so thank you so much I appreciate it and I didn't catch your name Miss what's your last name Miss okay Miss Jackie I honestly I thought you were one of the students and so when you said you're the teacher I look at Miss Al and I was like wait okay awesome you're amazing I love it I think you would be I mean just hearing from you and your expertise like I would love to have you as one of my kids teachers so thank you so much for all that you do and you pour in and ideas that you bring I really appreciate it m thank you so
035much well said member Vanos I Echo many of the comments that my fellow board members have said so I will not repeat them in the interest of time but I just want to say you did a wonderful job and I really do want to highlight what you I really want to highlight what you said about project home room and that idea and I want you to know that you being here and sharing that and putting in all of that time and sharing it with us has made a difference because I know many of us are going to pick up on this and bring this up and our superintendent's going to have to try to figure out how we can fit this into the day so but I you know when it comes to things and
036I and remember bird said a lot about mental health which I completely agree with but even just with studying and organization and calendaring you know I I think of it kind of like reading right like some kids just kind of one day they can't read and then one day they can read and it's just sort of a magical thing but then other kids you have to explicitly teach them how to read just like you have to explicitly teach students how to study and how to stay or organized and how to calendar and I say this having a 16-year-old daughter who we're learning all that right now so it what you said is really important and I also want to highlight another thing about the project home room that I really like is that our councilors
037right now are just have a lot on their plate and I know we have at least one counselor here today at our meeting but they just have so much on their plate and having a home room would take some of the burden off of them because students would be able to address some of those things that they might see their counselor about in a home room so you all had just great ideas and really appreciate you being here and sharing it thank you thank you member gell I yeah okay me again sorry I forgot to mention the home room project I that was the first thing in my mind and then I got excited with the goats and with your presentation but I do that was a great that was a great idea I had
038home room when I was in high school I think and even in junior high school so that's a great idea and I'm looking forward to exploring that I don't know if we have a course code for it but that's a Dr Vasquez problem but I think that is a great idea it's so Innovative so thank you so much okay member Douglas I just want to say that you know I am District 4 where we always expect more okay and we do have some great things in District 4 however I just want to say that your initiative is really remarkable thank you so much for even thinking about mental health okay that is amazing to me that you thought about you know you took that problem into your own hands and tried to solve it and
039that's really remarkable it's amazing thank you so much and I can't wait to see it being a at all the schools and seeing your you know you seem so happy you it seems like you took this project and you had fun with it and it you can really see it on your face thank you so much it was wonderful thank you thank you yeah my mental health is better just listening to you all and how many goats exactly do you have in District 4 oh a whole lot all right all right if you all will come up we actually do want to get a picture with you and yes ma'am please I just have a quick thing I'd want to say I just want you guys to know on behalf of all of us we
040appreciate all your sweet kind messages and comments something we had thought of while we were creating this is not to disregard or diminish our current extended periods with the mental health but we know it's not as engaging for students as we'd like it to be which is what kind of kickstarted this in the first place and which is why we kind of took it into our own hands to create a project that kind of didn't seem feasible at the moment so yeah we just we thought about the main points that really I guess impact our mental health struggles you know like test prep organization skills building connections and relationships with your peers and we made it all into this course so well and you know that's that is what works and believe it or not
041we actually kind of know that but we have the way we're supposed to do things and a lot of it is handed down from the state and some of it frankly is just on on us that as adults we sometimes we might know things you don't know but we don't know how you need to learn it and how you'll best understand it so you're your best teachers and you're doing a phenomenal job so thank you let's get a picture okay features in good hands yeah problem kiding right start peeing again oh Sebastian oh yesan I wonder what would happen if we brought Coco oh no yeah that might not be good upap wor and everybody what the goats say what do they say do I take the flash drive or what I go away I'm
042not die to cuz I don't know if there's another I don't know no they do the same okay good good d David member Gallow you're back up do you know that all right I'm taking her down okay well I was a little premature now now we're going to celebrate some recognitions I feel like we've been celebrating absolutely quite a bit all right I am going to ask I haven't done this before but if possible if you all could stay with us those of you who are here for the recognition portion if you're able to stay with us to the end I will let you know when the end is so that you know when to go but just so that everybody feels the same degree of of support support and recognition if you're able to
043stay it would be nice okay so first we're delighted to have special guests from additions addition financial and can so can the representa from addition Financial just stand up so we can it's just you well come come on out come on out so just really really well I tell you what take it away you know I'm not quite sure how to follow that act so I will do my very best to be brief concise and yet impactful all right so thank you so much for having me my name is Nora Rodriguez Patterson I am the chief Communications officer at addition financial and I just really want to extend my gratitude to the Orange County Superintendent and the entire School Board really for welcoming us today as many of you may or may not know our
044relationship with Orange County Public School dates back to our Inception nearly 90 years ago it was a handful of Orange County Educators that founded OUR Credit Union in 1937 and the school district has really been a foundational partner ever since even as our credit union has grown and expanded our membership the passion and support for education is coded into the DNA at addition Financial from our renovate to educate program to sponsoring Mondays with Maria addition Financial is proud to support ocps students and teachers we launched our school deit district debit card program back in 2009 co-branding ocps debit cards for each of the high schools where members could use it to show school pride and last year we actually added a new card for Innovation high school so that's new to our roster woohoo every
045transaction with those cards triggers a three cent donation from addition Financial to the foundation of Orange County Public Schools and today we are proud to present our contribution last year nearly 2 million transactions amounted to a total donation of almost $60,000 since the Inception of our debit card program addition Financial has donated over $180 50,000 back to the foundation we are looking forward to the continuation of this partnership as we really remain truly committed to Our Roots thank you for everything that you do for our students and our County thank you so much you want to bring the team up and we would love to take a check get real check look at that thank you thank you we are really so lucky to have so many partners here in Orange County and addition financialist
046is certainly one of our big partners and we're so lucky to have our foundation too and the hard work and the wonderful work they do and the great spirit and attitude that they bring with their work is something that I know everyone on this board enjoys so thank you and I won't tell you how many goats we're going to buy okay oh it's my turn you think I've been talking all night so I have but but school board members have been taking turns throughout the year honoring exceptional employees in their District so tonight is my night so the chosen employees or the employ that I'm recognizing have shown dedication and contributed to the success of our students we appreciate all the hardworking employees we have here in Orange County there's close to 25,000 of them
047and they're they're amazing and they come to work with such a great attitude and they change lives every day but tonight I have the privilege of recognizing one who I know very well and we're all so thrilled to work with and that's Allison kiy where's Allison there you are so Allison is our director of instructional technology and library media so Allison you want to stand so everybody can see you thank you so miss kiby is she's an innovator she's a leader and she's a lifelong learner and she has a smile on her face like 24 hours a day at least every second I'm around her she's always smiling and it makes me smile back she consistently demonstrates a forward-looking mindset focused on student learning through technology literacy and life library media and over the years
048Miss Kibby has become a leader in instructional technology and library media not just within Orange County but across the state she is a Pioneer who helped Kickstart our onetoone digital device program showing teachers and students how to use technology like laptops to improve learning she designs professional learning opportunities and resources for all of our teachers and she's also The Mastermind behind making let's read ocps a district wide and countywide Challenge and success in Allison's work you'll see a focus on Hands-On learning and a love of literacy I don't know who has that little one but it's it's hers okay it's yours I was going to say it's the yeah the Babbling is welcome it's enjoyable too so don't feel like you have to quiet that little one we love them Allison's work you'll see focused
049on Hands-On learning and a love literacy and she doesn't lose sight of the importance of high expect ations and curriculum alignment she also has been elected the president of the Florida Association of Supervisors of media and in 2024 the Florida Association of media and education awarded her the administrator advocacy award so please join me now in celebrating Allison kibby's outstanding contribution and dedication to our Miss and James if you'll come up let him come up let that baby get up here let him come see his mommy I can't believe how big he is I feel like she was just pregnant I known right yesterday hi there W's adorable I was once asked what the perks were to be an elected official and at the time I said lot of free t-shirts oh wait wait get
050up don't go okay M Gallow thank you madam chair first off I want to say great pick right for recognition I don't know that there has been anybody who has worked as hard as Miss Kibby these last couple of years with everything that you've had done so I just want to personally say thank you I know that there's been a lot he is so cute and so fine there's there's been a lot and it's it's rested on your shoulders and you had to coordinate it throughout the district and I just saw the list of things that goes into every single book review and I'm not certain how you're still standing not and a mom of such a cute little toddler it's so sweet so I just want to say I appreciate you and I appreciate
051everything that you do for our district thank you and I appreciate your husband too member Bird yeah I was just going to say you know I had Allison down for my recognition but I was told no because the chair is already doing her for her recognition and you too who else yeah see so anyway the point to that is I just wanted to say thank you for all of your hard work we value you so much and it is not lost on us it's he's totally fine it is not it is not lost on us how your job title and your job responsibilities over the last few years have drastically changed and the amount of extra work and extra stress on you has been unbelievable and it's unfortunate really to be quite honest but you
052have really handled it with Grace and you've done such an amazing job with the organization of all of all that has gone into implementing those new laws and are and so anyway we are just so grateful for you and we I don't know what we would do without it all so thank you for all of your hard work and thank you for helping being so on board and ready besides all that jumping right on let's read o CPS so thank you absolutely all right me member salamona Hey listen it this he can't do anything compared to what was that we had was that a guinea pig what did we have the the thing that had the little accident over there guinea guinea pig okay I also was going to add you to my recognition list
053U Miss Ki you just been so incredible and ever since I got on this board I think we've we've talked about books at least every other school board meeting and it's it's been something that you have been so gracious at balancing the different points of views and as you know there there are a variety point of views and different stakeholders and different very valid concerns across very different parts of this book back and forth that we continue to have and you just so gracious about taking all of them into account and making sure that folks feel heard that the process is fair that the process is as transparent as we can make it and so it's you definitely go above and beyond in in the best way possible to your do your job to follow
054the new rules to follow the new laws to follow the new requirements and as member Gallow said it is a long list of requirements and I think also you do a really incredible job of balancing the time of the impact that this has on our media Specialists and the downstream effects that it has in our schools because it is a lot of time it's important work and so I just want to say thank you because it definitely does not go on notice and we really appreciate all the work you put into it thank you member Salam it was a full-time job before books became a topic of so much attention but again thank you thanks for sharing the little one he I may have actually given the goats a run or the goat a run
055for his money I don't know okay all right thanks Alison I know I know okay so now for those of you who are parents you're probably familiar with KH Academy it's an online research research start up again it's an online resource offering clear explanation viig go oh what happened to my mouth for challenging academic subjects and for sat preparations thanks Jose for getting on Deck so quick but what you may not know is that KH Academy has begun offering Nationwide contest challenges for students to level up their skills in key academic areas facing stiff challenges from around the country five of our high schools ranked in the top five Nationwide in either financial literacy or sat preparation for reading and writing so I was going to ask them to stand up but host Dr Martinez
056I'll turn it over to you great good evening chair Jacob esteem Schoolboard members and superintendent Vasquez this evening we are delighted con Athlon you got it got it you we're back okay head driver nice so this Nationwide contest challenged students to enhance their skills in key areas such as math SAT prep and Reading Writing and math financial literacy and Constitution 101 so at this time I'd like to invite Elizabeth Hadley District success manager and Betsy lease professional learning specialist from Khan Academy so the contest ran from December 2nd to January 17th requiring students to work diligently over winter break to maintain their rankings all 23 high schools participated in this contest which provided opportunities for all students to strive for Mastery while having fun whether they were solving complex equations preparing for college entric exams
057understanding personal finance are diving into the foundations of democracy every student had the chance to grow and thrive in this academic adventure to qualify each school had to have at least 25 students working on one of the five courses with students required to work on a minimum of two skills per week schools were ranked nationally by the highest percentage of skills leveled up to proficient or mastered in the courses despite facing formidable compe ition from schools Nationwide our students Rose to the challenge and we are incredibly proud of all of their success please join us in celebrating their achievements and acknowledging their hard work and dedication when your school is called please step forward to receive your recognition and remain at the front for a group picture in the category of sat preparation reading and
058writing Innovation high school ranked fourth in the country doing them doing them one at a time are we doing one at a time or all together all together all together yep okay okay Lake Nona high school ranked fifth in the country open your RS there go in financial literacy Edgewater High School ranked first in the country oh wow thank you thank you w ranked second in the country Evans High School and ranked fifth in the country Freedom High School wow yeah wow wow unbelievable right wow great job shingle get a little bit tighter that's turning sideways for the non make sure your and straight I didn't want to go only one so be quiet all right congratulations right that is really really incredible it is impressive and it all starts with great leadership at the
059top Dr Vasquez great job okay ah all right so now I'd like to recognize a group of our custodians who've committed their time three days a week for seven weeks to take their work to the next level level I know I can speak for the whole board but whenever I visit schools I am I can't help but notice how clean they are and I'm not just talking about our new schools I'm talking about all of our schools and our my fellow board members and I we see the pride that you take in your work and how and we know that it makes a difference the kids being in a clean environment says tells them that they're respected and it also tells them that they need to respect the environment and it's a subtle thing but
060it makes a huge difference and that's just one of the ways our custodians make a big difference I know from my own kids in school they can still tell me names of custodians at their school and how a hello and a smile and a quick conversation how impactful that was that they are now in their okay I don't want admit it but they're in their 30s and they can still remember their custodians so it's pretty Priceless is all I can say so in a moment our custodian Services director will tell us about the Florida school plant management association certificate that a group of air custodians custodian have earned so tonight we're going to honor 42 of them and another group will here at our next board meeting can the custodians who are here tonight can
061you just rise for a moment so we can recognize you all right wait a minute we are going to test the talents of our photographer to see if he can figure out how to coordinate a group picture out of this so okay there yes there you go Okay can I'd like to invite custodial Services director Carlos mafus mafus to the podium so he's going to do a better job than I could do of explaining the outstanding accomplishments of the team with us tonight thank you Madame shair thank you good evening every good afternoon everybody fpma is a state certification it's a it's a seven week three days three hours per day the good thing about fpma certification it doesn't only talk or teach about cleaning and operation process there's a portion about the leadership how
062to deal with people because we want to create this growing opportunity with our staff I'm very happy and very proud to have you guys part of of my team very proud of the commitment that you have to ocps and the students I'm proud of that you have been able to complete this certification every time that a student graduate you guys are part of that achievement because you help them providing them a clean environment and you should be proud of that of that great job guys and congratulations thank you all right before we bring the group up I've got a member Gallow wants to speak go ahead thank you madam chair I just want to say thank you to all the custodians out there I was I was PTA president elementary middle and high school and
063we did a lot of functions so if anybody understands the work and the care that you take I feel like if you're a PTA president and you're holding dances and doing Valentine's gifts and all that we understand how much work you do you stay late you're kind you're patient and I wouldn't have been able to do none of the ptas or PTO would be able to do what we do without your support and your grace and your guidance I just want to say thank you some of my favorite people were the custodians from my school one of them is still there at my elementary school that my kids went to and so I just have such a fondness and so I just wanted to personally say thank you thank you member Gallow member Salam Mona
064thank you so much chair I want to say thank you so much for everything you do and congratulations on this so some some of the board know I've said this before my two parents were custodial workers the entire time that since they moved here to the US and so there were our UCF and I you know they raised three kids being and they just taught me so much about hard work and about the importance of doing whatever you do as your job and doing it well and loving what you do and I learned so much respect from them about how hard this job was and how they would go out of their way to make sure that the little things that were taken care of and that different it made such a world of of
065a difference for the student and the staff because of the work that they did and the students were always so appreciative and I always appreciated so much when different professors or different students would go out of their way to appreciate the work that they did and so I'm I'm glad that we are recognizing the hard work that you do I hope that our school leadership continues to recognize the hard work that you do because it is we would not run our schools and they would not be clean and organized in the way they are if you do not do the amazing job that you do every day so thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything you do for our students and our school so thank you thank you member Salam Monica member
066Felder thank you chair I'd like to especially thank the custodians both of my times at Dr Phillips and Edge Water I was only EV a year but the custodians at those two schools I got to know person personally and I watched custodians know everything everything that is going on at the school they see everything nothing is hidden from them I need you to know that you might not know they may not say but nothing is hidden from them and I would watch how some of the students that I had in my class were encourageable but I could watch a custodian talk to that student and get them to do what they were supposed to do that did something for me all these degrees I got and all the psychology classes I've taken about dealing with
067children that custodian spent about 15 minutes with them and it was different so and my room was always clean always and I was I just want to tell you guys thank you and I'm sure that there are people administrators I've had some administrators that say that certain custodians they wanted them to always stay because they knew things were going to get done they could trust them but I teachers would appreciate you but I I just need to let you know I know and I tell you if you're you know becoming a new principal or whatever those in there understand again nothing nothing gets past custodians they see it all and I'm so appreciative and I'm glad that this District we have done this more than twice talked about the appreciation that we have of our
068custodial workers and we do so much appreciate you thank you thank you so very much all right member Douglas oh okay you're up all right I know I switched order I just want to to say something about custodians you are instrumental in learning in the teach in the student learn at for the student learning because without the environment the clean environment that you gave us we take all pride pride in just teaching our student making sure that they know their lessons because the classroom is clean okay we don't have to worry about anything else than teaching the students and also the student take pride in the in their schools and their environment so you definitely make a huge difference in the way learning is happening in schools huge difference and I cannot thank you enough
069for all that you do we don't give you enough accolades but truly we appreciate you every minute when we are in a classroom thank you again I just wanted to really restate that you are very very important and we see you and we appreciate you thank you again thank you member Douglas superintendent you're recognized thank you madam chair I Echo the comments that have been made by all of our board members and I want to add I just admire how humble you work I I Marvel at the relationships the things that you do that are above and beyond your job description how much you really care about the children in in our schools about the people in the school like they are part of your own family and so I am so grateful that you
070are part of our ocps family thank you Dr vasas now the challenge is for Frank to organize us would you all all come forward congratulations good job congratulations thank you yeah so Frank a proud father is standing to your right uhhuh so after the proud father gets a picture can we get the proud father in the picture yeah okay right me look happy one two and there hold on look super happy all right don't anybody leave Mr Po come in there come on everybody inh smile thank you guys congratulations thank you good job okay I promised you I would let you know when you're free to go you're free to go have a good evening thank you guys you thank you and thanks for staying you be safe behave fut leaders of name go absolutely
071yeah all right so who's feeling good about our future yes yeah right oh okay so at this time I'm going to call on Amy mccale president President elect of the Orange County Association of school administrators to give us an update good evening sorry I was excited my one of my old custodians was here I had to say oh nice good evening chair Jacobs board members superintendent Vasquez Deputy superintendent arm Brewster and Williams staff and community members I'm Amy male the Orange County Association of school administrators president and proud principal of Sunridge Middle School which is in wintergarten I appreciate the opportunity to speak with you tonight about a pressing topic for our principles at this time which is the budget I heard some Snickers as we enter the budget season we must address the financial
072challenges we face and more importantly how can we collaborate to ensure our students continue receiving a high quality education despite the limitations in front of us budget shortfalls are never easy they bring difficult decisions impact essential programs and create understandable concerns among our among our staff students and families as principles we see firsthand the effects of these Financial constraints for some examples larger class sizes fewer resources and tough choices about which programs we can sustain these challenges are real but they do not Define us and what defines us is how we respond to these challenges our priority must remain clear maintaining the quality of education for every student even with budget limitations we must find ways to provide engaging rigorous learning experiences support our teachers and ensure our students have the resources that they need
073to succeed this requires creativity efficiency and above all collaboration I want to acknowledge the anxiety that budget challenges is creating for our Educators staff and families change is difficult and uncertainty can be overwhelming that is why transparency and teamwork is critical by working closely with District administration and school leadership we can make informed decisions that balance fiscal responsibility with the needs of our students and teachers I ask for your partnership in this effort whether it's identifying alternative funding sources prioritizing the most impactful programs or finding innovative ways to stretch our resources we must move forward together when we support one another teachers parents administ ators and board members we create solutions that serve our students even in difficult times Financial limitations will challenge us but they will not weaken our commitment to Quality education okasa
074is here to support our members during this budget season and looks forward to working as a team keeping our focus on students and ensuring that every decision reflects our shared mission of excellence and education thank you for dealing with this cold this afternoon thank you so much for having me here this evening and just kind of sharing what's on the minds of principles right now and re reassuring them that we're working together and we can get through this thank you absolutely thank you and we hope you get through your cold soon than I will just in time for spring the exactly better huh all right next I'd like to call in Ron Pard president of the orange educ no wave it off okay I'm glad you're here though all right next I'd like to call
075on Clinton McCracken president of the classroom Teachers Association welcome Clinton thanks for sticking it out through this whole meeting Absolut and pre- aggenda it's always great to have you in in our well our public comment meeting because I always look for the thumbs up it's good to know your thoughts y happy to be there good afternoon chair Jacobs members of the board and Dr Vasquez first I wanted to share that last week on March 4th we joined over 2,000 other events across the country and wearing red for public education we were honored to have aft's vice president Evelyn De Jesus in town for our events and it was inspiring to see hundreds of teachers sharing photos and voicing the importance of public education and the Department of Education for our students and our community second
076I want to bring up teacher morale again because it remains such a pressing issue a recent education week article ask Educators other than a pay raise What would most improve your morale the top responses included less micromanagement and better communication support with student discipline and unreasonable parent demands fair treatment and acknowledgment of hard work and opportunities to be involved in decisionmaking teacher morale isn't just a national issue of of course it's an issue here and I'm sharing to suggest that we work together and be the leaders our teachers need to make improvements so that ocps becomes the place where every teacher wants to work as mentioned one of the key concerns is teachers being involved in decisionmaking a prime example is the class dojo decision an app teachers relied on for parent communication and behavior
077management it was eliminated eliminated without teacher input replaced by talking points and now this summer we will change yet again to parent square and all this without addressing the missing behavior management components teachers loved in class dojo we have a lot of teachers sharing their concerns about this and that these rapid unilateral changes frustrate them and lower morale we're discussing these concerns with the district but this should have been a conversation to have before announcing the change and to flip this we also know that what truly boosts morale is leadership that Fosters respect support and collaboration recently a teacher asked colleagues for recommendations on schools with great administrators there were a ton of inspiring responses including most wonderful admin team I've ever worked for and another I haven't been this happy in teaching in years
078and another I love my school and my admin however we also know that in some schools teachers feel beaten down by poor leadership High teacher turn turnover and mass non- reappointments are red flags that we should be looking at to retain teachers we need to pay them better and treat them better we need to listen to them respect their voices and their expertise thank you and I'd also like to wish everyone a wonderful and well-deserved coming spring break so likewise Clinton thank you for being here and thanks for sharing that with us okay we are on item 2.04 celebrations and observations all proclam all proclamations were adopted by vote of the board on August 27th the 2024 board meeting as either celebrations or observations and the list will remain on our agenda for the entire
079school year Mr pal Marini before we take up the consent agenda do we have any speakers no Madam chair okay okay we have no changes to the consent agenda are there any comments questions or concerns if not I'll entertain a motion motion to approve the consent agenda member Salam monka is there a second second by member Douglas all in favor please say I oppos motion carries unanimously do we have anything for non-consent all right thank you then we are on to informational items and we'll hear from the superintendent thank you madam chair I just have a couple of updates we are wrapping up the student town halls I think I have a handful left and we'll be providing a summary of the student Town Halls to the board so you can hear what our students
080are saying I know many of you have actually participated and that has really meant a lot that you were able to hear firsthand what our students are saying I believe that it has been one of the most valuable things I've done as a superintendent and that's why I am going to ask that this is something that our principles due next year first maybe one time in the first semester and once in the second semester I had administrators in all of them and many of them there were things that they had not heard and so I think it helps to foster a more positive relationship between admin and students but it also helps them hear firsthand some of the things that they may be experiencing both the positive and things that we can work on so
081very exciting very excited and we'll also present to you some of the things that we are moving forward with that have come from the students and yes Mary Bridget has already texted me about the East River proposal and we will have some conversations about that Second I wanted to say that yes Amy we are in budget season and it is a stressful time for all of us the board has made it very clear that we are looking for all dollars possible for raises for our employees and so the first thing that we've done and all of my Chiefs are aware each of the Departments will look at a 2% cut in their in their budgets we are also taking a hard look at all of the areas that we are over spending allocations we'll be
082bringing that to the board to have a discussion about what things do we want to keep and which things do we believe are important but we are we need to make decisions about where we're going to find additional dollars so I feel I feel the pain and the stress third I do want to say Happy Spring Break this is like my one of my favorite times of year cuz I see the light at the end of the tunnel and I know that our seniors are excited our teachers are excited for the break and also to be able to see the fruits of their of their Labor at the end of the year and then my last comment is related to our reading initiative I can't believe it but we've already reached our 20 million minutes
083yeah in under seven weeks and so we're we're so thankful for everyone one that has participated that has promoted this initiative just some highlights we have 21.8 million minutes as of the end of week six School Board member salaman had all around growth in the number of readers who logged and the total minutes logged in her District since the week before school board member Douglas and member bird LED over all participation with 18% Elementary Cadre 6 with principal leita verono LED with the highest increase in percent participation Elementary Cadre 9 with principal leader carero continues to lead in minutes logged and overall participation and schools that had over 70% participation last week include Princeton Elementary Universal Ed Center Village Park Elementary Wheatley Elementary Bay Meadows Elementary and Timber Lakes Elementary best and so I have
084the parallel page Turners award is presented to Schoolboard member bird and to Schoolboard member Fant so congratulations dark a dark horse congratulations that concludes my report Madam chair thank you all right Mr pomini top that so just very briefly members of the board member Felder has gotten we believe we're working to get one of the citizen appointees to the value adjustment board so thank you to member Felder we're working that through so we still need an alternate so if you all have somebody that magically appears and wants to serve and remember they have to own a business in Orange County I'm looking at you member bird yes yes yes just reminding yeah understand I understand so if you all could get me a name that would be great and then I just want to take
085a personal moment I have a son who's turning 18 on Thursday so I want to say happy birthday to my son Rob and you know know it's oh right it's a it's weird to have a kid who's going to be an adult I it happens very fast and I'm barely an adult myself so there's that but I wanted to say happy birthday to my son all right John thank you all right member Gallow you're recognized thank you madam chair I just wanted to do a report there was several several of us that went to Atlanta last week to visit the a school up in Atlanta near decor and to really look at the purpose built Community like a purpose built community and I was just blown away by the results that I saw there it
086was it was years in the making Drew Charter was the charter that we visited and it was the first Charter in Georgia and it wasn't always easy for them but they actually have a great working relationship now with Atlanta Public School District so we're happy about that but I just wanted to tell you a little bit about about the school and what we learned it was just phenomenal the way they were able to lift up that Community because there the Atlanta public schools had shut down the school and basically said it's it's shut down we're moving people and this organ gation came in and said no that's unacceptable this community needs and they deserve a school and so they built what was called The Charles Drew Elementary and then they surrounded it with a purpose-built
087community so there's affordable housing they're sliding scale housing there's houses that belong to Land Trust so you can own the home but when you sell it all you get is your equity in it and then the land trust sells it to keep the houses affordable because the surrounding area in in a large part due to the school has become quite expensive and they're trying to keep it to where everybody can live in the community the charter school really does function as a school for that Community those residents in The Villages in the surrounding areas gets first priority to be in that school it's a steam school it's a Project based learning school they started out as a prek I think or maybe a K through five and then they went prek through eight and then
088they built this really gorgeous high school and I don't know the how the funding in Georgia is done and I don't know how they support like Capital Improvements the thing is gone that little that's why you're like I'm hearing a feedback and so they it was all through fundraising and different efforts that they did to to build this high school they didn't get any funding for the high school at all from the state but this school goes to school 8 to 4 they have five more days on the end of their school year for their students to learn they have five more school days their teachers now Clinton you're going to love this their teachers get 90 minutes of planning time every day every day they do one PLC a week and then they have
089one period where it's kind of like the common planning time where instructors will come in and help them review but the out out comes for the this student is just it was it was phenomenal just the amount of time and effort that they put in it they have an all black golf team that's winning Awards all over one of their major major fundraisers is the tournament that happens in that Community the East Lake Golf Club it's I guess part of the FedEx Cup and that's how they get the majority of their their money for the foundation but I was just really impressed with the level of commitment between the community the school and Atlanta public schools because we got to speak to the board of the charter school and we spoke to the board members
090of the Atlantic public school so anyways it was a great visit I've I have never had the opportunity to visit or witness a purpose-built community before and I'm just in love with the concept I know that Dr Williams is doing a fabulous job with looking at at affordable housing for our teachers and our educational professionals so that we can help retain them and give them an affordable home and I know that it would be better to pay them more I I would if we could pay them what they were worth we absolutely would but so much of it is dependent on the funding that we receive from Tallahassee but anything that we can do to help the lives of our teachers the board is committed to do that and I think that Dr Williams has
091has spent an num just an a lot of time looking at ways that we could build these affordable homes not because we think we're paying teachers enough but because teachers and our educational professionals deserve it they deserve to live work and play where they are and if we could play a small part and that to buy a by providing them an affordable home even though we're not in the housing business that's what we're going to do because in Orange County we take care of our own at least we try to so I just wanted to say that it was a great trip I cannot wait to go to the Harlem Zone Bridget I'm looking at you where is she to see the great work that they're doing up here and I'm I'm encourag to see
092how we could incorporate that in Orange County it may not look the same it may not be a charter it could be something different but I'm I'm looking forward to figuring out how we could build something that is mutually beneficial to not orange not only Orange County Public Schools but to our schools and to our teachers and to our community so thank you all right thank you for that update we're not done here but Let me let me just one thing I want to clarify we still need somebody for the budget committee and Communications okay okay so we need to appoint a board member member for budget and Communications yeah you got a board member you can think I will nominate Maria salamona for that budget committee because she loves numbers I was thought she
093was already there but I realize she's I'm not I gratefully accept though I'm happy to you gratefully I do wonderful because it seemed to me like intuitive obvious thank you I'm happy to do okay all all in favor it's a nomination we don't need a second all in favor of m m Salam Mona serving as the chair of the I Communications I will nominate Melissa bird all right we have a nomination from Melissa bird all in favor please say I I oppos I opposed there we go all right thank you I next thing I was going to ask and then I'm going to go to member Douglas if there are any policy level issues that any board member has that they would like us to schedule a discussion not a work session or workshops but
094just a discussion over first member member Gallow thank you U Madam chair so two things all related to legislative so not so much policy changes but I am trying to schedule a legislative meeting Nancy is working on finding a time for us all just so that we can kind of get an update of what's going on in Tallahasse right now just to get a little bit more information then we are provided by Maris via email kind of that nitty-gritty like what you're hearing on the streets and the meetings he has with fell what we should be worried about as board members how can we help so I'm looking forward to doing that I also not for this year but I would really like to work on a joint Endeavor where we have Orange County day
095in the capital they do it for Broward County they do it for Hillsboro County they have Miami day days which is fabulous and the food is just phenomenal so I would like to work with Orange County government if we can and do a Orange County day in the legislature where we could go up the Orange County folks would go up municipalities could go up and we could have it at the capital so that we could highlight the great things happening in our great and they might have stopped doing it but Orange County is not having the Orange County day oh okay I didn't know that I cuz I thought oh maybe we're just not a part of it and we could be a part of it and when asked they said no yeah I think
096it would be a great idea for us to do that together and I'm going to call on member Douglas in in just a minute but one thing I realized for new board members at the end of the meetings I will generally ask if there's any policy level issues that you want to discuss so to clarify if there's a policy level issue and you want to discuss it we're generally not going to like discuss it then I'm asking if it's something you want us to put on the agenda to discuss so that we can all kind of be prepared but we also don't schedule like a full-blown two four six hours you know how our work sessions can be unless we have the majority of the board that are interested in that subject and we did
097the same I mean I inherited this here but we did the same thing at the county if you if you had one board member that you know really wanted to tackle an issue and nobody else had any interest in it at all and we scheduled a block of time it really we wouldn't be getting anywhere so that's the purpose of me asking that at the end of the meeting so if anybody comes like I want to discuss the code of student conduct and how the decimation of the flag obviously we don't need to deal with that we have codes but if I wanted to do something like that and have a discussion I would bring that up and if there was enough interest to have that discussion then the superintendent and I would look for
098an opportunity on the calendar so anyway just wanted to get that out cuz the first time somebody does want to discuss something and you get shot down because nobody else wants to it's not personal and it and honestly I don't think since the six years I've been here I think there's may only been like maybe one time that somebody has wanted to talk about something that there was an interest in so with that let me call in member Douglas because she has been waiting her turn to speak and then I'll go to member Vanos member Douglas you're recognize I just wanted to say that I was one of the members that went to the Atlanta trip and I just want to thank Dr Williams it was a mind altering experience truly I saw students working
099Steam and pbl Project based learning they were doing hands-on experience they took control of learning they were actually making their own experience solving problems like how to save the ocean using math using using math science and all this team and you know what else do we have yeah reading just they took control of the learning and that was absolutely amazing all the classroom that we visited student were engaged there was there were no problems of classroom management at all they were engaged and I think that's a great great experience at pbl for me was absolutely amazing okay so if we can you know replicate this in our schools that will be fantastic because that will be giving the students a purpose we are solving problems in the world and that make a whole difference in
100the way they view learning and that's my say it was fantastic thank you Dr Williams thank you member dless and thank you for going on the trip member Vanos you're recognized Vanos did go too and just wanted to also thank Dr Williams for organizing the trip and left Orlando for sort of being our tour it was it was interesting and definitely enlightening so I appreciate being included on the trip but I did want to answer your question about or ask if we could schedule a work session and I asked knowing that we're already scheduling out into May and June if we can put Eatonville on on the schedule so that we can talk about that property I know it'll take a while to get on the schedule anyway and we're having conversations but I would
101love to have a work session on that thank you okay and Dr Vasquez is that I know sorry is that something that you were planning on having or do we need to discuss that now no no actually it's perfect timing we actually had Mr Presley the city manager that reached out for a follow-up meeting and so we were working on a date for that and so we'll be able to start having some more conversations about enville at that time so we'll get a date on the on the calendar okay anything else all right thank you member Vanos member Douglas everybody it's been a great meeting great job everybody really yeah highlight had to be those kids though oh my gosh well and their and their an animal and the little accident over there was rather
102amusing too thank you all that are stuck with us to the very end and with that this is the last time we'll come together as a group before spring break so happy spring break and I'm going to go FaceTime my son just facetimed me at the end of this meeting cool huh my daughter facetimed me my n n he a n a no I a he oh oh oh oh he oh oh n n n n n oh down a okay la oh n n nah n la a oh la a I the oh n he n a n he aah a hey he hey he hey yeah oh oh yeah o oh w a n n a n n w he h oh oh oh oh he no oh a n n n oh
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