001and we'll start with the pledge of allegiance soon as it's summer we just don't have kids at schools to come meet us so i'll i'll go ahead and do it so please stand your right hand over your heart ready to begin of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands by the nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all the next is the approval of the minutes from our previous meeting make a motion to approve previous minutes okay questions all in favor say aye aye opposed okay those have been approved and next is the approval of tonight's board agenda second needs questions all right all in favor say of aye that has been approved moving on to communications um item 4a other staff communications so we have the
002dashboard local indicators included in here do we need to no it's just information yeah okay okay um item 4b is a report of the action taken in closed session right in closed session the board voted unanimously to report to appoint robert cochran director of business services slash chief safety officer the board voted unanimously to appoint melinda zone principal highlands elementary school um congratulations melinda the board also voted unanimously to appoint eric bennett banatau principal of steam academy did i say your last name right right okay and did i say your name your last name okay great thank you so congratulations to both of you in addition to that the board also voted unanimously to reject and refer a claim to the san diego county office of education jpa okay next item for c the public
003hearing increase level one statutory school facilities fees did we receive any cards for public hearing no no okay um next we go to i'm going to turn on the air conditioning really quick because i heard it turn off okay okay next matters item 4d our public comment each public comment is limited to three minutes which will be a timer on both of the screens and public comment is also a time for us to hear from the public it's not a dialogue time between uh public and board members so we're here to listen to your comments um kathy do you have more comment cards i also wanted to share that we can take comment um via zoom people that are participating via zoom and we will wait to take those comments until after we take the
004in-person comments if you're interested in making a comment you can use the raise hand feature um within zoom and we will see it in order of hands that are raised okay so my first public comment is asea would it be okay if i read because assad is one of my former students and she just is a little nervous could i read it for her i'm fine okay then would it be okay if i read my statement first and then hers in a second that's fine retired teacher of the year well good evening everyone my name is of june 17th i officially retired from teaching thirty-one years ago my dream came true when i was hired to teach the old oasis school district in my youth i attended libman avenue blue mesa junior high helix high
005school queen mecca and primeka and rosemont college and san diego state so you can see that i'm a local boy who received an excellent education from local educational institutions during my career i was blessed to provide subs during my career i was blessed to provide the same solid education to hundreds of my students as they developed into young men and women ready to take on the world with purpose there have been many lessons that i've learned along the way and i would like to share just one of them one of them is developing relationships is crucial for the well-being of our society i witnessed this first hand when some of my most challenging students that i had throughout the years would not put their trust in me until they realized that they could really count
006on and that my love for them was real and sincere it was only then when education and learning began to thrive this truth prompted me to volunteer for a non-profit called cast hope its mission is to develop meaningful relationships with mentors and mentees as they learn how to fly fish my students at bancroft and along with a mentor partnered up with a professional fishing guide where they learn all about fish habitats and developing fishing skills forging strong relationships and of course catching lots of fish while out on the water we discussed coveted fears problems at school and at home and also um mourning the loss of loved ones while i could have continued to teach for a few more years i decided to put my time and energy into providing more opportunities through castile this
007next step would occur after the riots of war mesa i thought to myself how can i men help men relationships that tense relationship between community and law enforcement and it dawned on me why don't i we invite a police officer on our trips if relationship building helps foster trust because you really get to know the person then why not give it a try and to date six members of mesa police department have participated in fishing and they began that crucial development of relationships i have one of my students is here today and she saw just joining into hers um and she was a little bit nervous and i asked her you know why did you want to join cass tobe and she said i joined cassel because it gives me an opportunity to create a
008bond with my fellow peers outside of school and to help develop great leadership skills and even teach me lifestyle for example someone told me if you can teach a man how to fish they'll never go hungry for that lifestyle of having food in tough situations now i told you about having police officers join us well lieutenant katie lynch is one of those police officers that joined us and she's gone fishing a couple times with uh assaya so i asked her what what do you like about this he says i like fishing with katie lynch because she's very kind supportive intelligent and very thoughtful i also like the fact that she's very adventurous and she's inquisitive i consider miss katie a positive female role model providing proof that women can do anything miss katie is definitely
009one amazing person who i'd love to go fishing and so in closing i'm just saying right now developing relationships along among our students among our community members and being able to get to know somebody and not judge them you know i'm thinking old school judge not by the uh by the content of your color character not by the color of your skin and so i'm excited that we're going this is just the beginning and i'm hoping i'll come and continue sharing some positive stories as we continue on with thank you very much thank you um next we have deborah childers good evening board members and district cabinet and community members i'm speaking on behalf of concerned science teachers in our district at the last board meeting several community members spoke out against recommended by a
010committee of science teachers to meet the state requirements for the healthy youth act the healthy youth act's purpose is to provide every student the knowledge and skills necessary to project for sexually reproductive health unintended pregnancy human immune deficiency virus hiv and sexually transmitted infections guys our current curriculum is years out date violates many of the new regulations and requirements as mandated by it veteran science teachers reviewed the improved curriculum in order to meet the state standards after careful consideration and piloting the ventricles with students in their classrooms the committee selected the positive prevention plus curriculum as the best program to meet the needs of our students to teach the required standards in the last board meeting community members share concerns about the material being too graphic that our 11 year old students do yet if
011we look at the california statistics we find that 11 out of every 1 000 teenagers between the ages 15 and 19 gave birth to a child in 2020. we have an educational and state banded duty to ensure that our students with accurate information in order to protect themselves from sexual activity that may result in pregnancy the curriculum teaches great terminology emphasizes strategies for saying no and also provides accurate information on preventing pregnancy another statistic is that one in four teens contract a sexually transmitted infection every year it is estimated that although young people ages 15 to 24 make up 13 percent of the u.s population they represent about 25 of the sexually active population and account for almost 50 percent of all new sti cases every year in 2018 49 64 72 cases of chlamydia
012and gonorrhea were reported among youths ages 10 to 19 statewide yes that statistic says ages 10 to 19. we have an obligation to inform our students about these diseases that if left untreated can cause permanent damage or even be life-threatening we have an obligation to ensure that our children have accurate information on how these diseases are spread via oral anal and vaginal sexual activity and how to prevent them they are also need to know that they can access medical treatment without current consent this curriculum addresses this need finally as teachers and parents we would love to believe that all of our students have amazing and safe lives but statistically we know that one in nine girls and one in 53 boys under the age of 18 experience sexual abuse or assault at the hands of
013an adult this program also provides information about inappropriate interactions and how to access resources if a child is not safe parents have the right to preview the materials and parents feel this information is not appropriate for the child they also have the right to result their child receiving this information our district however cannot exempt our children from the curriculum and needs to comply with state standards more importantly we have a duty to educate our students on how safe now and in the future we need to ensure that they have the tools to make informed choices about their sexuality and receive correct and accurate information not from youtube not from tick tock we are asking the board to adopt this curriculum so that our science teachers can be trained on the new standards and career thank
014you um andy aceves good evening i am andreas davis president and retired educator i'm trying to attend these meetings more regularly because i recognize how important it is to understand the discussions and the decisions viewers aboard are making i'm also here because i believe it's important that you hear the community's perspective regarding issues that affect our children and our area as a parent and grandparent i understand the responsibility that schools have to educate our children and know that you as a board hold a lot of power to implement change for good or bad at the last board meeting i was pleased to hear the comments some of you native amber meeting mentioning how nice it was to hear the diversity of speakers engaged in respectful comments i agree with you but as i left that
015meeting i was shocked to see the terrible graffiti plan getting the parking lot left by the same group that claimed a law enforcement agent at each campus would strike clearance students staff and others and that the police presence promotes the school-to-prison pipeline as i read the terrible groupies statements such as antique believes you unless your cop on the release of tdr races [Music] fear being promoted was surrounded by these people actually children are not born national haters but surrounded by adults who spew hate towards others especially a single group and use fear as a weapon kiss alert to hate too this is exactly what our students don't eat just because the words written in chalk does not mean they were any less hateful or cool as a second grade teacher i always taught my students
016that words matter finally i want to voice my sadness and dissent regarding the adolescent counselors about the curriculum choices i also feel that a lot of those statistics that were 15 year olds around 11 and 12 years need more basic understanding of what's going on with their body this agenda promotes the agenda it promotes is insidious and unhealthy for children and i hope parents exercise their due right to often children jackson kelly and john kelly turn so this provides us opportunities i might not be able to afford and you're not having to worry about certain things we just get to go out of the water and enjoy our time plus some of the guys jackson so it's very educational and helps them thank you okay and kathy do you have any other cards okay so
017that is online we do have one comment on zoom uh diedra maholic and diesera i'm about to click allow to talk and it will need to come through your speakers all right dj you should be able to speak now great hi can you hear me yep all right thank you all for hearing are taking my comments uh just like andy i have to share with you that i was also shocked when i reviewed the adolescent health and development proposed curriculum between the critical race theory and the lgbtq agenda i don't understand why schools are now vilifying traditional family values for this new oak agenda you talk about inclusivity but where is the inclusivity for my heterosexual kid we should be teaching facts about the reproductive system the biological human as it relates to sexual education
018biology has nothing to do with sexual preferences taking taking something as simple as where babies come from and making it as complex as possible to further put in jeopardy are already struggling education system this is a conversation that needs to be had between parents and their own children teachers do not co-parent my child thank you right and that's the only comment and that's the only one okay so we're moving on to section five report so we have an update on the adopted state budget and the district all right so uh both jennifer and deanne are coming up and i just want to preface probably take away jennifer's thunder by sharing this but um the state's adopted budget this year was very different from our may revision budget our may revision budget is actually what the
019district's adopted budget is based on based on state law so we will be doing a 45-day budget revision and presentation so the presentation that jennifer is doing tonight it's a little different than we would typically do at this meeting it's just an update on the state's adopted budget and then um at our i think either our next meeting or the meeting after that we'll do the 45 budget yeah and then deann's going to present on the extended line he had two of us tonight and david just did my job um as you know the budget was approved and enacted into law for the july 1st fiscal year and as david said it is significantly different than the may revision and that's not usually the case um but under governor newsome it's been the case uh
020under governor brown largely the neighbor vision is very similar to what the state ultimately adopted as their final budget um but in the last several years obviously a lot's been happening last couple of years as well but it has been remarkably different so while tonight on the board agenda the board will be approving our 22-23 budget it is almost irrelevant because it's based on the sessions from the may revision not just about the budget so i'm just going to give you an overview of the main themes of the student adopted budget not really specific effects to our district 181 is the trailerville language you always but basically it provides for really big games on our local control funding formula nearly 13 increase over the 21-22 school year um due to a six and a half
021percent increased ebola and about a six and a quarter increase on the base grant itself that's ongoing so it's a really robust increase to the lcf that we haven't seen in a while it also provides for three and a half million dollars of one-time money to be spent on arts music and instructional materials and so there are some very uses for that but generally speaking the title tells us all that we can use it for um allocations at this point for our district as i said they're still unclear we have more information coming to us from school services at a workshop that will be held on thursday so those details again will be provided in august and dm's going to talk about the expanded learning opportunities program otherwise known as elop as we have been
022calling it here but that program has been increased over what the current year levels are by about 2.3 also something new this year that was brought up in the budget is money for home to school transportation the lcff funding formula has a provision in there that's kind of is allocated towards municipal transportation based on where we were before lcff was in place but that stays down all this time and so what this proposal is outlining is that it can be reimbursed up to 60 of our prior year costs for homeless transportation this study's ongoing so it's something new and it will require hey jennifer one thing that i was thinking after we talked about some of the slides was that there was a rationale for the gains in the local control funding formula and they
023were two-fold right it was one to account for declining enrollment statewide and minimize the impact of that because less students means less revenue and then second was to help with the fiscal cliff that districts are facing just um because all of the covid funds are expiring right and this last bullet is kind of what you're hinting at right is that um there are provisions in the lcf david's mentioning for that cost a three-year rolling average for our ada and we are determining and calculating what that is and also because of the unprecedented absentee rate in the 21-22 school year because of foreign requirements and such we are being we are allowed to use our 1920 tenants rate so this year it's been more around 90 whereas in prior years it's 95.96 so we will be
024allowed to use that higher rate and calculate our allocations under the lcs app that's an important thing because those of you that were on with csba when we did the pledge action week that was the big thing that we were advocating for was saying that we needed some way to make up for declines in attendance this year because of students being out with right and you know even though we're planning an enrollment um fiscal services director when we were kind of going through some of the calculations he's like yeah you're not going to believe it but even with declining enrollment before this provision was put into place we would actually be doing better next year because our ada rate is so low this year so it is it's really helping a lot um to soften
025that that clip for us so going back to the top um we do also have more funds available to expand tk and money for um you know complying with that 12 to 1 student adult ratio there's also money that's being provided for planning and implementation of tk it's a whole new grade level it's requiring a services team and a couple other well one other main point on bb 181 is the 500 million dollar increase to the special education base rate to increase that face rate for people their capital and 8182 is the other piece to the trailer language and this really just details the learning recovery emergency block grant and it provides 7.9 billion dollars to be spent on specified purposes kind of still figuring out what those are they seem somewhat general for our
026use but those initiatives can be um ongoing through 2020 through the 27-28 year and they'll be uh allocated for free and that's just the big picture high level overview and i'm looking forward to sharing more information with you all when we come back in august and um as i said we will be trying to keep track of all the plans required by the state and we have a lot of planning to do for um you know how we will use these new um this funds for different initiatives in the district while we continue to monitor our fiscal health as always speaking of plans um the last time i think the last time i presented on tk and talked about the year of the pandemic so there's another one for you um so as jennifer mentioned
027that extended learning opportunities programmer elof as we refer to it is one of the initiatives especially some funding that we've received this year but in a much smaller amount and is expanding greatly over the next five years and it is an initiative coming from the state to really think about the best way i can frame it is to think about kind of responding to the impact of the pandemic in lost learning time to think about how we provide additional learning intensive to the students who may have been most impacted but it's really thinking about before and after school care and in most districts i would say i can say from experience uh they don't have the kind of before and after school career program that we provide for our ess our program as a model
028program in the county and um what we have to do is take a look at our social media sometime and see some of the amazing resources and supports that are in our programs that many programs are really just facing before and after full and so really the intent of this is to try to think about how can we hack from a state perspective how can school districts expand those kinds of programs so they're not just child care but are really providing learning opportunities for kids and since we've done a lot of that already we've been really trying to think very strategically about how to use this money to target the needs of our students so what is epoch well the definition is that expanded learning means before school after school summer school or intersession learning
029programs 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 extended learning programs are people-centered results-driven include community partners and compliments that do not replicate learning activities in the regular school day school year that's about the extent of the direction but what we know is that it's about thinking how do we get our students engaged and how do we maximize what we have and as i share it thankfully we have a really robust program in our ess so some of the things we've been thinking about is and how do we maximize what we're doing to create um more supports for our students so there's some requirements of e-lab first of all e-lock is a targeted program and
030it sprays tk through six so if you work in a district that doesn't start tk or sixth grade you will not receive any of this funding um so the other requirement is that we target and serve what the state calls unduplicated students so essentially those are students who might be eligible for free radius lunch foster our house dude or any english learners by definition under this bill those are the unduplicated students and the requirement right now for us because of the percentage of students in our district is that we must offer some of these support to all students who fall under those umbrellas and we must serve at least half of them so we have to come to a particular number and meet that threshold in order to receive the full fund um then we
031are thinking about well who else might benefit of course from academic support social emotional support so we're thinking about students who are academically agreeable and then students who are disconnected from school maybe behaviorally or social emotionally you've heard me share about our in this spn program those are programs that we've developed to really try to target students who might need to be connected so in our district what we've tried to do is really think about how do we take the funding that will come through these standard learning opportunities plan to kind of move freely over our tables the first is access to before and after school care so we want to make sure that we continue to provide our model program for our students and our families and that we expand wherever we're able to
032stand there's staffing implications and there's space implications um and certainly we're working very closely with hr make has hosted yes only job fairs um so that we can recruit and retain staff to get his own student center to provide ess for the eligible students that i mentioned on the previous slide free of charge and that's one of the requirements to be able to attend without any cost to the family and that then we think about additional students who might be in need of an intervention program that we offer through ess but one of the stumbling blocks often with ess or with intervention i should say is well i need to take the bus or i can't come for 30 minutes and they get picked up later so if there's a way to say it's okay
033because we you can cover all of the assets and we'll have you for 30 minutes for an intervention group and then we get to stay for all of us it doesn't cost money or dad any money we're going to provide after school care for you and provide the intervention while you're there then it eliminates the issue for many families of access or being able to access interventions so we're hoping that by doing that we can expand the access so our second goal is one as you know that we've been working on before um elot became a thing but we've been thinking about how do we really think about social emotional kindness how do we find things that motivate kids to want to be at school because sometimes doing well in school isn't the motivation so
034what can we expand that focus on social emotional connectiveness to all of our school sites so um i talked earlier this year about our contracts with arts for learning we had um arts for learning how to do some sessions with our students who are experienced homes experiencing homelessness and some other students and they were doing different art experiences and doing trauma and arm therapy through art and we're going to expand some of those contracts and have access to all of our school sites and we're going to increase our academic competitions because for some kids those are very motivating and exciting for them we have um expert relationships and contracts with some robotics companies that can come and build and do things and experiences with kids for a period of time with robotics and we're going
035to expand our esspn program so that it serves all sites this last year we haven't been able to do it in all schools so we want to increase our staffing so that we can serve all of our school sites and um so that's kind of the sports side but also the social emotional side we're gonna hire some social workers dedicated just for our ess program and then can support that work um as you know a critical part of our esspn program is that they're learning sports but also having a session on learning teamwork self-regulation and all of assistance with social workers so having social workers whose job it is to do that work and yes at pss and then help with our staff training and parent training and all those other pieces we're really excited
036about and then of course enhance the staffing and ess to support those programs so that we can give those prices and then finally our third goal and this is maybe one i don't want to stay most excited about what i'm excited to create it um is how do we target academic intervention so what we are proposing to do is to hire after-school intervention teachers now when the governor first sent out his proposal we were looking at a lot more money than actually came out on the trailer so we're gonna have to probably look at allocating out similarly that we do with social workers for a certain number of days to certain sites and looking at student needs and things like that but our idea is to hire actually credential teachers who are intervention teachers who
037will work after school and provide targeted intervention and we're looking at the sips program which is systematic intervention and sonic spinning for us sight words we want to start with kids who are not reading it right this is a program that will do intervention for children all the way up through sixth grade so we can do the targeted grade spans that we need and we'll centrally coordinate much like we do with our ideas teachers or training and supporting but they have a systematic intervention program for grouping and providing the students we also know that if you work till 6 pm retiring teachers to work a full 8 hour day in their contract and they're going to have to start a little before school so we're going to be able to back backwards now their end
038of day we've talked to our association a little bit so they're gonna have to be here before the day ends so we can also get some of those kids before they go home and work strategically with our school sites on the girls or kids who need intervention before they leave so that it's not all intended for after school but really think about intensive intervention and i'll tell you like philosophically intervention teachers can be hard like that can be a hard sell because we really want to think about not being contingent and we want to provide the resources and support and as a response to pandemic we know that we've got kids that really need this intensive support and we're excited about finding a way to do that creatively and we want to build capacity and
039so this is something we're going to have for a short while because it's it's money that's funding from the state to do this work and we're going to be able to do this for a while and that's going to be really beneficial to the kids that need it but we want to catch them early we want to build systems so that kids don't all behind and we want to teach our teachers and give our teachers the same resources and skills and supports that they need early to be able to intervene and so we're going to talk to any k1 teacher we're going to start with k1 because i feel like we're fighting elements right now so we'll take a little bit of time and we're going to start with k1 and say they've got to
040do about three hours of after school tutoring for me because this is after school and has to be principally directed to after school and if you want to give me three hours of time i'll train you on the new materials will support you do three groups and then we'll pay you to be able to do this work and have the tools and resources to move forward and start building on your own capacity for that for teachers and hopefully through the years then we can continue to build the past potentially look at math et cetera as we build another grade um but this idea of really targeted academic intervention for our students that need it in response to by the way something that our staff really feels like our kids need and support that our staff
041and our parents you know feel like our kids need so we were really excited to be able to find a way to do this with this learning in a way that we think will maximize no questions i just think it's so wonderful that creative to find interventions for after school because i know there are only so many hours in a day and it's hard for teachers to get to everyone really needs it so so good to see you thank you been awesome that the funding is there to offer the before and after care without a charge to the families because um i think just the kids some kids go home after school but they don't necessarily have like something they're looking forward to doing and to be able to stay after school and get interventions
042and the other fun activities that provide is there snacks provided free of charge at ess yeah we do they provide a snack and in the summer there's a meal it's not um because if that's part of why we want to keep them as part of ess so for example if i'm in after school running an after school intervention program as a teacher i might run five or six groups but i'm just the kids would attend vss and so then they're at ess for the whole time they come out for their group they go back to this it's not going to grow and that way um because it would be kind of this revolving issue of supervision but it would allow not contingent on mom or dad i mean certainly they could just pick him up
043whenever after the third right that happens with success but otherwise they have the ability to stay till six when mom or dad get off work i wanted to provide also a little context around going back to the advocacy with csba and really pushing sacramento for local control with these extended school supports for funds to make up for lost learning time and this is actually one where we were really advocating for a lack of restrictions because we felt like the funds could be best used during the school day um while it's great to provide the supports after school it there are going to be groups of students who need the support that don't stay after school to receive it um now we kind of have like a partial victory because part of those funds actually went
044into that increase of the base grant lcff and part of the funds ended up going to extended learning grant not to downplay at all the wonderful things that we will do with these funds and being able to serve our kids in ess is is wonderful but one of the things i i just wanted to point out is that this is one of those areas where there are res this is a new thing where there are restricted funds coming to the district from the state when governor brown was in office he was very much about local control and so he felt like school districts could make the best decisions on how best to serve their students with that whatever funds they received and that has changed largely the philosophy in sacramento so that now the funds
045that we receive oftentimes are very restricted which is the case here with with the elon funds so it is one of the things i wanted to point out is that you know i i know in the next few years we will have people come to board meetings or send us emails or like if you can afford to have social workers in your ess program why can't you you know have less students in a classroom or whatever and the the thing that we want to make sure that people understand is that we are we have to use these funds in this way um it doesn't mean it shouldn't suggest to people that um and we have everything else taken care of everywhere else and so these this is the nice extra things we want to do
046this is the targeted money and the restrictions around this which what deanne shared in terms of those intervention teachers that will work um after school hours is really us looking at like okay how can we get supports also during the school day because we know that intervention during the school day is going to be critical for those students that can't stay for ess so that's really what that's all about and we're excited about what we'll be able to do here definitely though it is becoming way more category in terms of the funding that we're receiving said it's a blessing it's also a little bit of you know art it's a little harder because it's about compliance making sure we're sending it exactly as it's been dedicated so it does make it tricky but we're nonetheless
047very pro do you know just oh go ahead do the those elab funds help with the programs we run during the weeks off like the there's the speech cam or a breakthrough english like can those funds be used with those programs yeah i think um so any kind of intercession program that we felt was maximizing or adding value um speech camp is more um oriented towards making up services for students with disabilities so we use a different pocket called restricted funds from that um but i think any um of those services that aren't required but are supplemental so um if we for example decided that we needed to run a smaller version of summer learning academy for some students it wouldn't fund that extended school year that we run for students with disabilities whose ieps
048require it but it could run some kind of intercession program but um at this point and again going back to kind of the the input that we've heard from our staff that we've heard from our parents um part of it is then like that's great now but actually what i really like to see is like can i get some help during the week on a regular basis can i get some tutoring we get a lot of phone calls often about like what about tutoring is that you know so this is kind of that how do we help support that need and how do we meet the needs where our teachers are really walking in their classrooms and seeing such a very intense need right now and really wanting to help mediate and address that and
049support that and support our children and we're not looking at contracting out those supports so we're wanting to use our own staff and we're wanting to employ teachers to work for us potential teachers to provide us is this gonna affect the kids who are getting pulled during the day like if they have ieps like is this gonna affect those kids or are they just it's just gonna add to the additional help that they're going to get so if you're talking about like an individual i would tell you you know my classic answer is it depends but my my answer to that would be like part of our work when i say centrally coordinated is to really work with our staff and be intentional about um who are we who are the children for how long
050for so for example it might be a sixth week for certain recruited when students so some students we may say like look they're already getting x y or z so we might want to ask them to come after school because pulling an additional piece during the day is going to be destructive and what's the goal right we've got to make sure that we have access to general curriculum and rigorous standards so sometimes more intervention is more detrimental so we want to be really careful with those decisions but that's part of why we want to be centrally coordinated about what's the supportive support so when i say for example k1 teachers if i tell you i'm going to have a sai teacher saying can i help and i'm going to say absolutely i mean like so
051maybe it's just another tool and toolbox that other teachers also it's this is not a special education service it's a service pending child plan you see but we need it i would have loved it any other questions [Music] related expenses since the 80s right so as the state funding has gone down a lot of districts only plus the students that need it through their iud that's retired so that access piece which we're talking about having to be able to stay in the parents that's great that's it yeah it's going to be interesting i mean 637 million sounds like a lot of money but when you look at the big picture for california it's not yeah we'll still be in a deficit when it comes to transfer we won't be receiving you know the funds to
052pay completely for our transportation program but um it it is good that we're getting something the other thing i can just say because i like to haven't had that is we have a lot of work to do to get this launched and ready so for sure we're excited and we're going to be able to do our expansion of social emotional and get kids enrolled and getting the access those are things we're already doing really fast and then we're going to start doing the intentional planning and supporting and hiring to launch the academic work this year so it's not going to be ready in august and i just want to say that out loud that i'm you know we're really hoping for i'm i'm hoping that's all right if we can get those pieces so we
053should wish dr we've been posting and we've had so many interested teachers already which is exciting to be able to give the green light well thank you okay moving on item 7a nope 6a is approval of legal services agreements so i'll need it okay yeah i'll make a motion to approve any questions regarding these legal service agreements okay all in favor say aye opposed okay now we're 7a approval of consent items any questions regarding any of the consent items okay all in favor say i i opposed those have been approved 7b approval of the 2022-2023 district budget any questions regarding the district budget sounds like we're just going to hear about it again that's the required action okay um all in favor say i resolution for education protection account and this is a rule called
054vote any questions before we go okay kathy great hi justin hi okay um next item 7d resolution for temporary interfund transfers district governmental funds to approve resolution any questions or discussion regarding this okay kathy aye all right item 7e resolution temporary transfer of funds and agreement county treasury make a motion to approve item 22 2304 a second any questions or discussion regarding an assignment okay cathy again hi okay item seven f resolution increase in level one statutory school fees to improve the resolution to increase the level 1 any questions or discussion okay item 7g is a resolution emergency waiver public project motion to approve the emergency labor project and if i could just explain this one real quick so this is work that we're having done at the school sites fencing and also i believe
055security camera systems and so in order to do the project without having to go through the lengthy bid process um this is an emergency waiver and i saw pictures of fencing already going in at highlands which is wonderful any other questions okay go ahead cathy okay item 7h resolution award of lease leaseback agreement question to approve uh obviously agreement any questions regarding this okay um okay item eight new business educational services a a is approval of consent items i will make a question number eight okay any questions regarding these consent items um i know one thing i meant to point out not that it affects anything but just that with that approval rolando elementary will be a part of our title one school okay item 8b approval of 2022 2023 local control accountability plan question
056to approve 22-23 okay okay any questions regarding this it was about your e-lock that you just made presentations i just wanted to clarify it set in here no funding for the breakthrough english that might fall under ela so it's currently funded under title three and um it's been funded through title iii funds largely because we've had quite a extensive carryover year after year and so we don't have the budget to maintain it and it's existing through title three so if we decide to continue in this these last two years because we've done sla then we moved it to fall break we're not planning to do it during fall break this year and it's getting harder to staff right now our staff needs a little break and so we may look at doing it next summer
057depending on the needs of our students um but if if that's so then we would shift it to e-lot funding instead of out of the title three funding and so it doesn't need to be included as an lcap item because it doesn't reflect el cap it reflects federal funding so that was why it's an action item we had to change any other questions um okay all in favor of the 2022 2023 local control encounter ability plan say i i opposed okay item 8c approval of the 2022-2023 lcap federal addendum any questions regarding this okay all in favor say aye opposed has been approved next is the approval of school plans for student achievement i'll make a motion to approve item number 80. a second any questions regarding the school plans for student achievement okay all
058in favor say i i oppose next approval expanded learning opportunities program that was just presented um do we have any additional questions with the elop fan i feel like okay all in favor say aye opposed it's been approved next is item eight f approval of the transitional kindergarten curriculum and this was presented at the media june sorry i should just leave any questions regarding this approval okay all in favor say aye opposed i meet you sorry opposed all right that has been approved um item 8g approval of adolescent health and development curriculum i'll second it um any questions discussion around this item i don't have any questions i do have just some comments um and i do agree with a lot of the feedback that much the material i've reviewed it very extensively for hours
059and hours that the material is just beyond the purveyor of our education system that it doesn't it's not restricted to biological type of health related matters for instance in the middle of school curriculum there's a lot of really good things about media and peer pressure some goal study things there's a worksheet about setting goals and there's a contract to protect my sexual health worksheet fabulous those are great um but then in lesson seven in teen pregnancy um i don't feel that it's free from bias it's very decidedly pro-abortion and anti-adoption for instance it quote that abortion is very safe procedures with proper medical care but i personally know many friends and family have suffered long-term that's one of the emotional issues due to the decision to abort at a young age it also says that
060the decision you place an infant for adoption is not easy but i have many adopted friends and family and i just don't think that those particular things in lesson seven present the truth um there's also a decision-making worksheet about how and when to have sexual relations with an hiv-positive person and i believe that goes way beyond the scope of our education yes children should know what hiv is repercussions how to get it but should we be teaching them how and when to have sex with an hiv positive person at 11 years old that's not appropriate um a lot of the discussions that go forth in this curriculum and we have at the family level and much of that curriculum out there is way beyond 11 year olds i have a lot of other notes obviously
061i'm very emotional as a parent of four daughters we talk about this very often i am in contact with many many many different families through community organizations and we have all these conversations i just believe that this curriculum is and i know stay mandated i know many of these things are required okay any other comments regarding like you i've spent many hours and i've come to the same conclusions that you have anybody else want to share i don't i think some of the material was kind of traffic especially if uh um some of the kids have been but in those positions of being sexually abused and they could be freelancing traumas and i think that should be dealt with a therapist or within a family yeah that was my concern too somebody could get triggered
062um and you know and then especially you know we're trying to teach inclusivity and the kids that opt out are going to hear everything second hand from the other kids that weren't opt-out so that was my other that you know kind of like telephone they're gonna hear things differently of course and a kid's perception of what they hear and what they do it's it's just even though there is that often sound though yeah i just feel concerned for families that don't have those conversations with their kids about any of those topics and that's a huge disservice to those students and you know to communities when we do have teens getting pregnant that didn't learn didn't just didn't know and understand what the decisions they were making and what the repercussions are and so i think
063it's important that there's a reason it is in that code there's a reason that there's standards around it in education and i think that the kids we need a curriculum for our kids to learn this and to be compliant with edcode and what's required for schools to provide information i wonder if it would be helpful in any way to provide some information about what the state requirements are around this curriculum and um and including like the the requirement to provide an opt-out provision um i know dan could speak to us you i feel like when the curriculum was presented it went over what was required to be taught in schools in your presentation um which was a couple meetings ago there's some background information in the board item itself um so most of this is
064required as part of the california healthy it is all required it's partly called california healthy you get feedback and the requirement is once in middle school it is the recommendation of our our teaching community as they abbreviated materials that they felt and it's um the requirement is once a middle school once in high school and that it can be taught to other grades as long as the curriculum meets the requirements of the california healthy effect so there are certain things that are required for seventh and eighth grade particular to hiv prevention for seventh grade and above i should say that are not required below that but the um that's why there's an intermediate curriculum in the middle school curriculum um i know the things you're referencing are primarily from you're speaking to more of the
065intermediate the lessons that you're talking about um the lessons that would be in seventh grade not in sixth grade no actually i think some of the things sarah's referencing are from the sixth grade but some are from the seventh grade like the hiv particular ones are from seventh grade um and so the the requirements are pretty specific in the law we're required to have a curriculum um and i would defer to kara but i would say i know that this committee has worked quite a extensively to review many resources out there um to find one and in fact has gone through some and felt they were quite inappropriate and to try to find the one that would be most age-appropriate developmentally appropriate and meet the requirements of the law and that's why this is being
066brought forward to you and is in fact i believe the same curriculum that's used throughout our just uh neighbor districts in east county um in addition to it's the same curriculum that was adopted by grossmont so they would have the same sort of pattern program or curriculum matriculation through to their high school district i know that deanna and i both looked at like the exercise that you were talking about i'm sorry was one example of the um you know when it would be permissible or safe you know to um engage in sexual relations with that hiv positive person and i'm i'm just wondering if maybe you could say something about what we would expect of our educators in terms of how they would frame things in context because there were some things that we did
067feel like oh well i wouldn't i could see how it would be seen one way and you kind of have to read closely to ensure that it's being taught in that particular way so one of the important pieces that comes with curriculum and is is the training that comes behind it and so part of our pausing this year was that we had planned to have actual training for the teachers um but since we've been unable to adopt this previously our training would happen for them at the beginning of the year so that we can do it well but we want to make sure that our teachers are well educated on the california healthy youth act and the requirements of it and to be able to speak and help it gives them actually tools for carefully
068navigating conversations and um tools for responding and we have um in in a lot of cases we have schools where we have certain teachers who are very comfortable um with navigating the conversations and maybe more so than others and have higher level of training and they do some team teaching and supporting of each other and that delivery of curriculum but when we look at lessons um much like honestly when we look at any lesson and that comes in a an adopted curriculum um we don't use every lesson every time um teachers use their judgment and say we had this conversation about the science curriculum when we were adopting it um this is maybe not the way that i would deliver this or this is not the way i would deliver this activity this is the
069objective and the standard to cover and maybe not this activity in this way and so there's some of that um and especially because if i can say we have at least one middle school teacher here who i think would agree with me they can be really silly about things like this so they want to be careful about the delivery so that it doesn't turn into like giggles and silliness but they can deliver the message and content appropriately and so that's part of the training and execution and i don't i think that when there's a content concern i can understand and and say the content comes from the requirements in the law that are not things that we have created or decided they are provided to us and required of us and so part of our
070work is to find the most appropriate way to deliver that and and is why the provision exists in the law that says to families from the state we recognize and respect the fact that you may not be comfortable with those conversations happening at school and so please know that you don't need to have your child be part of that you can review you can opt out at any time we notify them at the beginning of the year and then we notify 14 days before it begins so that families know that they can opt out and their children will be provided so that there's an ability for people not to have their children engaged in those conversations as they choose otherwise so in in my i guess i would my my humble response would be that
071in you know something that is quite difficult to navigate i think that we have a committee of very skilled professionals do the best they could to find the best and most appropriate curriculum that would meet this need and do that work to best and most broadly meet the needs of all families knowing that unlike anything else that we teach this has an opportunity for somebody to say no thank you for them to opt out all they have to do is send an email make a phone call send a note you know text the teacher whatever you know communication yeah are they able to do some days and all of them as well like based on the curriculum that a parent was reading through it he's like i don't want them to participate in this day
072but i i to be honest with you chardonnay i'm not sure of the answer to that i think it would be harder to manage um if i'm being really honest so as a like i said but i think that we would work through that like if i was the principal and i got that note i think i'd just work with that work through that with you as a parent on an individual basis one of the other things i wanted to point out too is that all curriculum that we adopt has um and let me just preface this by saying i'm not at all trying to equate the family health or sexual health curriculum to you know a math exercise i understand that this as a father of a 12 year old i understand like this
073the stakes and the concerns um but with any curriculum that we adopt there are always lessons within that curriculum that we don't like and that we feel are particularly problematic just in how they are shared the standard is the standard right so we know the lesson exists to address a particular standard throughout this the lessons exist to to address a particular standard but we may not feel that it is a instructionally sound lesson and i'll give you one example just sarah you and i talked about it was the red light green light exercise that's in the curriculum part of our training process and part of the work that we do with our teachers is um you could pull aside any of our teachers and say tell me about your math quick where is it and
074they would be able to tell you like well in this particular area we have to supplement because this is worded in this way it makes no sense to kids that don't get algebra blah blah blah that will absolutely be the case here where something i mean i'm looking at i'm not an educator looking then at the red lock green light exercising going like this should not be delivered in the way that it is just vanilla the way you would read it off the page and so that would absolutely be part of the training that we would do with our teachers and not only that but we have our staff shares um we have staff that would have concerns about those same things and so part of and i'm sure i know it was the case
075actually with the committee that ultimately decided to recommend this um that i don't think anyone on that committee would say i felt good about every piece of every of this curriculum i think all of them would say it was the best of the ones that are available that we reviewed and um and so that will be the case going forward if we were to adopt it there is going to be training and knowledge around like the red light green light exercise is problematic if that's done it needs to be done in this way in this context and that's just the case with any how many other curriculums are available oh goodness so meg i'm gonna i i think there were probably five or six that were started with in 2019 kara five or six and
076then when it that's like the paper review process of looking at and and some of it to be honest you can start like a lot of you can search and see that many of them are quite problematic and so then um just in the just the paper standards of the things that are important and the requirements then they whittle down and ultimately to the what do we want to actually practice teaching we got to do and and one of them the committee felt was not at all appropriate to even pilot for sixth grade so i think it's i think it's important that you know that it started big and kept going smaller and smaller to like we didn't even want to we got to two but we don't even want to pilot this one with
077sixth grade because we don't think it's appropriate so they piloted two for seventh and one for six and wouldn't have made a recommendation that we felt like it's appropriate but the concern from the committee was children going to middle school without having any knowledge was was concerning because of i would defer the statistics that that deborah shared when she gave her public comment today does anybody want to share anything else discussions i don't think i think it's like legislation going wrong you know like your defensive intent and when it comes into it it's problematic and it just it aims to normalize sexual behaviors and that comes direct from community member email to us i agree with you that's what it is what happens if this does not get adopted so um we would have to
078go back to the drawing board with our committee and i have to be really honest with you and tell you i'm not sure where we could go from there our current curriculum is not compliant um and it has not been since we began this process we are quite out of compliance so um we have been teaching because we're required to teach from materials that are outdated so we would need to reconvene a committee and go back out to see what else is there and i'm not sure that there is anything else there that we haven't already reviewed um and or i'm not i i don't know um potentially edit what exists but or write our own or you know and so i get back in the business of i don't know where we go from
079there except to tell you that what we are using is non-compliant and we would be not complying with the law and then we have to regroup and come up with a plan okay are we ready to go okay all in favor of approval of adolescent health and development curriculum say i opposed i just want to say thanks for the research and time that you all spent in reviewing the curriculum and um okay moving on new business human resources we have approval of consent items the standard recommendations um to approve the consent items second the discussion questions regarding these recommendations okay all in favor say i i opposed those are approved next is the approval of mou paraprofessional hiring incentive and retention stipend number nine any questions regarding this emma young i hope it helps thanks
080thanks for the creativity okay all in favor of the approval of the mou for paraprofessional hiring incentive and retention stipend say i i opposed okay moving on to closing communications announcements reports and communication from the board and superintendent anyone have any i just really enjoyed parkway's promotion it was really neat and then we all got to go to see a different promotion very well done and it was a really cool feeling being back amongst people and getting to see the kids and very well organized so david do you have anything you'd like to share uh same thing with me i was at steam's promotion and really enjoyed it really struck me that this is the first promotion that we've done in however many years but three years i think and that's pretty incredible um so
081it really felt like an achievement and a lot of joy a lot of excitement there i also just want to share that um we have been out visiting our summer learning academies and our esy programs and ess it's just so incredible you know the work that's out there i mean i was on um at rancho last week and it felt like a typical school day you know the school was filled with kids and so it was a neat experience and just appreciate everyone that's given up their summer to be here and support our kiddos that's all from me okay so at 7 21 pm we can adjourn the meeting