Thursday, November 6, 2025 Governing Board Regular Meeting

001Whatever that was really strong. Okay. Yeah, they are. There you go. Hi, it is 6:30 and I'd like to call the meeting to order to help reach everybody in front of the pledge of alleg. and to the power for which it stands, one nation under power into this world with liberty and justice. So while they are exiting, could you stand up? So we say you Thank you. That was an amazing performance. Have a good one. >> Congrats to your kids. >> Uh, next on the agenda is approval agenda, Dr. Force. >> Thank you, President Greenberg. Items approved by consent will not come up for discussion during the meeting, but will be approved when the agenda is adopted. This is possible since members of the governing board receive the agenda following the backup materials at least

00224 hours prior to the meeting and have had time to review and consider all items prior to the agenda being adopted. Members of the governing board may ask that an item be removed from the consent agenda and brought to the board for discussion. Any member of the facility followed to start will be recognized on that agenda items. I'd like to offer a team to ask. Thank you. Prior to the start of the meeting, we received no public cards and does any member of the governing board wish to meeting item seven. Okay, that's um seven resolution that will move to um G6 Mrs. Christies. Yes, I would like F8. Okay, so F6 will become G7. Um F8 will become G8 and F elsei. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Any extensions? Motion

003questions. >> Um our agenda. Next on the agenda are statements. I will also be here today and I would like to especially Yes. Nobody did the last fun kindergarten. Great thing to do. These kids get to come in. They give a whole bag of books for their families and then the children themselves get to go take out 10 more books. Great positive way together. There are many people there. Great. I was also at the show at the time. Every year I get my basketball or not very difficult but again one will watch all these kids they become for a good cause. the last thing involved with that challenge again for the we were there too for their PBIS award school reminded me of the time I was part of the district back in 78 we

004did a transaction that's where the kids got to pick we worked together positive and negative we also um I don't know whether you might you should know this about reported justice. I did an NA micro condensment class on reported justice. Again, it's about being accountable but being able to come back to your school at your classroom is what respect people even though you're being held accountable. So, try to avoid the shame and this is the same kind of thing where it's a positive intervention and support. give these kids for I believe by the way let you keep your self-esteem and build and teach each other how to be great doing this my whole but I think I'm done >> all right given that our microphones aren't working I will also keep it very brief and

005just welcome everyone to this meeting I know it's been a busy school year and I can't believe we're already in November and Before we know it, it's going to be a winter break. So, let's enjoy this meeting and get on to the rest of our semester. Austral Now shadow. Foreign speech. So this time I'd like to work for Good evening, President Greenberg, governing board members, Dr. Corson, members of cabinet, and attendees both in person and virtual. Tonight, we have several recognitions to share with you this evening. We'll be inviting our honores to the front of the room for the recognition and photo. Please make your way up to the front of your room or front of the room when we call your name. Our first honory tonight was the state finalist and candidate for the

0062024 presidential award for excellence in math and science teaching. This esteemed award recognizes K12 teachers who demonstrate outstanding teaching skills and commitment to their students success in STEM fields, innovative approaches, and fostering a love of learning. Furthermore, this achievement highlights the commitment and dedication to academic excellence. Please help me in Please join me in congratulating from Paradise Valley High School, Michelle Landerville. Next is the recipient of the Paradise Valley Education Association's recognition of professional standards award for teachers. The honory this evening will be introduced by Josh Atkins, PVEA vice president. President, Dr. Governing Board and Cabinet. My name is Josh Atkins and I'm the proud RSI education association high school. Once a month, we get to recognize certified employee of DNM, which stands for professionals recognizing professional assistance. This evening I'm honored to recognize Tammy

007Fish, fifth grade teacher at DAB as the recipient of November 2025 EDA. Miss Fish was nominated by three. Here's a brief summary of the many shared. Tammy Fish is an extraordinary educator and invaluable asset to our field. Her colleagues describe her as a phenomenal teacher who is both warm and student dedicated herself fully to the success of every student. She consistently goes above and beyond always maintaining ways to help public behavior and motivate them to testing. Her ability to inspire academic achievement is particularly the way Tammy can get students who require involved essay. She makes she passionate and invaluable presence and positively impact. Tammy is a national leader and true team player who supports the entire campus. She takes on many additional roles including the demanding position of council where she plans and oversees the

008entire program dedicating countless hours beyond the command she. She also serves students life coordinator and a member of public. Her exceptional communication will both ensure her success as she has a unique ability to be quarantined collaboration. As one collectly stated her dedication to our school community, thank you for letting us serving recipient. Oops. You guys, please. The last this evening, but certainly not least, is the Paradise Valley Education Support Professional of the Month. Mr. Sean Webster, PBSA president, is here to make the presentation. Okay, I'll talk loud and this way so if it works. Uh, good evening, President Greenberg, governing board, Dr. Corson, cabinet, and guests. Uh, my name is Sean Webster, BBSCA president, and tonight we are excited to present the November ESP of the month award to Maria Garcia, IT database engineer. Every

009single nomination we received for Maria was filled with genuine admiration not just for her quality of work but for the quality of her character. While many of us know her as an IT database engineer, Maria is much more. Maria is a person who makes the magic behind the scenes happen. She turn she's the unsung hero working tirelessly in the IT department ensuring that the systems we rely on every day to run smoothly. Her work is often unseen but is absolutely essential and it makes all of our jobs easier. Her colleagues describe her as someone who is consistent who consistently goes above and beyond. She is she has a rare combination of skills and an incredible attention to detail. Her far-reaching vision and remarkable ability to identify and solve problems before they even become an issue

010for the rest of us. She does not just complete projects, she tackles them from every angle, thinking outside the box to deliver the best solutions for our schools. Perhaps the most important impactful uh testament to Maria's dedication is her work to developing critical tools that save staff time, improving and improving accuracy. Whether it's creating streamlined queries for Infinite Campus or developing a fantastic new Friday data poke, which helps our elementary and middle schools easily tracked perfect attendance, Maria's uh direct support is impeccable for our students and staff. While and beyond her technical skills, Maria is simply a delight to work with. She is truly a natural mentor and an excellent co-orker and a true team player. Her kindnesses and positive attitude and willingness to help no matter how busy she is inspires everyone around her.

011As one nominator put it, she treats you as if you're the most important person she is dealing with. Maria, thank you for being an invaluable part of PB Schools and is my honor to recognize you tonight as an ESP of the month. And all we had to do to fix the microphone was talk about Sam from it. And that, President Greenberg, concludes this evening's awards and recognitions. >> Thank you. Okay, let's Is it working? >> All right, next on the agenda is superintendent comments. Dr. Corson. >> Thank you, President Greenberg. And first of all, thank you to our IT team who has been troubleshooting this for the past half hour. Thank you so much for your work uh on our issues tonight. Well, in PB schools, we engage, inspire, and nurture students through high quality

012instruction, meaningful educational opportunities, and dynamic learning experiences. And one of those experiences is our district initiative, PBIS. Positive behavioral interventions and supports is an evidencebased tiered framework designed to support students behavioral and academic needs. While several of our schools received PBIS honors, tonight I want to recognize Desert Shadows Elementary School, which was recently recognized as the 2425 PBIS model school. This award highlights the dedication and collaboration of Desert Shadows Elementary students, staff, and community as they have worked to foster a positive, supportive school environment for all. So, congratulations, Sand Sharks, and we wish you to keep up the great work. This week, we also proudly recognize National School Psychologist Week and celebrate the essential role our school psychologists play in supporting student learning across PB schools. Through their expertise in assessment, intervention, and data-driven problem

013solving, they help identify student needs and remove barriers to academic success. By collaborating with teachers, families, and support teams, our school psychologists ensure that every student has the opportunity to achieve their fullest academic potential. We are grateful for their dedication to helping students learn, grow, and succeed every day. And congratulations to our governing board member Tony Pantera for earning both the associate of boardsmanship and master of boardsmanship recognitions from the Arizona School Boards Associations this year, completing an impressive total of 84 continuing education hours. These achievements reflect his continued dedication to professional growth and effective school board governance. And additionally, we want to congratulate governing board member Jessica Wani for completing ASBA's new board member orientation program, a foundational milestone toward advancing her leadership in service to our students and community. Thank you both for

014your commitment to PB schools. And next, I'd like to congratulate our elementary and schools that have been recognized as some of the best public schools in the nation by US News and World Report. The rankings are based on student performance on standardized tests. These rankings highlight the exceptional efforts of students, staff, and our supportive community as we work together toward continued academic achievement. So congratulations go to our elementary schools. Boulder Creek, Copper Canyon, Desert Shadows, Desert Trails, Fireside, Greyhawk, Liberty, Mercury Mine, North Ranch, Pinnacle Peak Preparatory, Quail Run, Sandpiper, Sky Crossing, Soran Sky, and Wildfire. And not to be left out, our middle schools at Desert Shadows, Explorer, Mountain Trail, Pinnacle Peak Preparatory, and Sunrise. Congratulations to all of our elementary and middle schools for that earned distinction. And that, President Greenberg, concludes my comments

015for this evening. Thank you very much, Dr. Corin. Is it working? I can't tell. Okay. Next on the agenda, we have items for approval. So, first up is consideration approval of administrative employment personnel actions. Um, Dr. Holmes is not with us, so I will turn it over to Miss Copen. >> Um, President Oh, is my good looking. Okay. Uh, President Greenberrook, members of the board, Michaelina Ardan Arden is currently retired. She worked in our purchasing department from 1999 to 2021 and was a buyer three when she retired. She earned her associates degree uh in business from Paradise Valley Community College. If approved, she will receive salary benefits in accordance with the COA bargaining agreement. We recommend you approve Miss Ardenzone to be the next purchasing supervisor. >> Thank you, Miss Wani. May I please have

016a motion to approve the administrative employment personnel actions as presented? Does any board member wish to make a comment? Have a question? Seeing none, all those in favor, please say I. I. >> Any opposed say nay. Any abstensions? Motion passes unanimously. Lena, are you here? >> Yes. Yes. Stand up. Stand up so we Hey. Thank you. Uh, next on the agenda is consideration and approval of proposed new courses and revisions for the 2026 2027 high school catalog. This is our second read. Um, I will turn it over to Miss Copen. >> President Greenberg, governing board members, Dr. Cors. Tonight is the second reading of the high school course recommendations, additions, and revisions for the 2026 2027 school year. Uh there was a slight correction on our backup materials. All internship classes noted in our presentation

017should indicate that there's a required prerequisite since these courses are a culmination of the program. Um there were three internship courses that stated no on the prerequisite and that has been corrected. Uh we thank you for your consideration of these courses and we request approval from you this evening. We're happy to provide any additional information or answer any questions. Uh, Miss Wani, may I please have a motion to approve the proposed new courses and revisions for the 2026 2027 high school catalog as presented? >> So moved. >> Does any board member have any questions or comments? Nope. Seeing none, all those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Any opposed say nay. Any abstensions? The motion passes unanimously. Uh, next on the agenda is uh consideration to approve purchase from current district contract 2214P

018JSC for HVAC central upgrades at Horizon High School. Um, Dr. Corson, I will turn it over to you. Thank you, President Greenberg, members of the governing board, cabinet, and guests. PBlo Mechanical has been selected to provide central plant upgrades utilizing cooperative job order contracting for mechanical services. The Horizon chiller plant is the heart of the school's HVAC system providing cooling for the entire classroom building and auditorium. Excuse [clears throat] me. Age, equipment failure, and compromised efficiency have caused the chiller plan to be unreliable on excessively hot days. Unfortunately, this has adversely impacted the learning environment on several occasions this summer. The plant is original to the building and the chillers are 20 years old and critical parts to repair are now unavailable. The scope of work includes the removal of the two existing chillers, pumps,

019and control systems, followed by the installation of two new water cooled chillers, variable frequency drives, and upgraded electrical panels. Supporting infrastructure such as piping, concrete pads, insulation, and ventilation largely original to the 1980 construction will be rebuilt or replaced to ensure a durable, watertight, and efficient installation. We will also upgrade plant components, including the electrical system, pumps, and piping to improve efficiency. In summary, this project will modernize the chiller plant to code requirements and support reliable cooling for the facility for decades to come. This, of course, would not be possible without the support of our voters and bond dollars that we receive for critical projects such as these. Dr. Davis, director of facilities, is here to answer any specific questions about this project, and we are recommending approval. >> Thank you. Miss Wani, may I

020please have a motion to approve the purchase from current district contract 2214 PBJC for HVAC central upgrades at Horizon High School as presented? >> So moved. >> Does any board member have any comments or questions for Dr. Davis? Dr. Pson. Yeah. Yes. Dr. Lim. So, I know we had a couple notices of these going down over the summer, which was not fun for Horizon, but what is the length of time that or when is this going to happen? Is it going to be a summer project? Is this going to be during the school year? And will it will it take our heating, which is now becoming the important part, away from that school, >> right? No, it will be a summer project. >> Perfect. Thank you for the clarity. >> Does anybody else? Mrs. Christensen,

021she kind of alluded to my question. Are there is concerns with with heating in that school and are students going to be affected with preheat? >> Excellent question and no. The heating system at this point is fully operational. >> No. >> Sorry to go off of that question. Is it in a separate location or are they coll-locized together in the same? >> They are in a separate location. The uh Horizon heating system is a boiler system. Okay. Yeah, my last question. Um, I know that this is a must because if you don't have proper heating and cooling, it's very difficult to learn. I'm just wondering about that um nearly $3 million price tag. Is that typical? Did we get multiple quotes? I know we don't normally because of job order contracts, but how did we

022come up with that figure? >> Yeah, so we uh we we are procuring this through the job order contract. Um this is a major renovation. Um certainly the largest renovation of an HVAC plant that has occurred in in my my role. Uh we are from um the pipes to the foundation to the ceiling to the electrical uh to the components. uh it is it is going to uh it's it's going to completely modernize the facility and take uh and and make it much more reliable than its current state >> and what is the what would the life cycle be of or the lifetime um I'm not sure what the question is but how long will this last >> yeah when do we have to do this again hopefully not for a very long time uh

023but uh on the short end 15 years on the the upper end 20 25 years. >> Can do you anticipate any cost savings and electricity? >> Absolutely. This is uh this is replacing a a two decade old system and there have been incredible advancements in efficiencies. Uh in fact uh we qual we will qualify for some APS rebates on this project uh because of uh some of the efficiency uh additions to the the project >> and also potentially um uh opportunity for um even improved ventilation I would imagine with fil air filters and those kinds of things and better air quality for our students. So >> great. Thank you. >> Anybody else have any other Dr. I do have one more. Can you again clarify what buildings will be affected and then that might change

024my question. >> Yeah, so it's the classroom building which is the biggest building on that campus and the auditorium. >> Okay, so I guess my question is I know Horizon is heavily used towards the end of the summer by our community as well as over the summer for different things. So have we thought through and began to engage those community partners to let them know there are other spaces hopefully around our campus that can help? >> Absolutely. Absolutely. in fact had a discussion with principal Sophus today about that very fact and uh so yeah we'll be planning um planning to be without AC for a portion of the the summer. >> Okay. And are we actively then reaching out to those partners that are used to working with us? And >> yes, at the uh

025kind of mid December, we sit down with our community ed stakeholders, uh our our parent groups, uh really anyone who's kind of a consistent member of our consist consistent renter of our facilities and uh yeah, give them kind of the the lay of the land as to what our uh summer projects are going to be. So great can find good places for >> thinking about that a little further just for reference for myself. What are the other campuses that would be able to hold the capacity for the same as Horizon? >> So we would probably refer to another high school. >> Okay. So >> going to be at EV this year. >> Yeah. >> Anybody else? >> I just very thankful for the district voters who you know made this bond money possible. I can't

026imagine how this system would go even two, three more years down the road. It's just not going to happen. But without the support of our communities, we wouldn't have this great great and a very needed upgrade. Thank you, voters, sir. >> Anybody else? No, I just want to uh I was going to say exactly what Mr. Pantara said. I mean, um you know, Tuesday was election day and there were several bond and override measures for districts throughout Arizona. Many passed, many didn't. Um, and you know, we remain very grateful to our voters for supporting us in this way because this is one of those projects we must do no matter what happens. And, um, it is, you know, it's just great that we are able to tap on funds to be able to do it.

027Anybody else? Are we ready to vote? Okay. Thank you, Dr. Davis. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. I. Any oppose? Say nay. Any abstensions. The motion passes unanimously. Um, next on the agenda, uh, the board will discuss, consider, and give direction on voting on the bylaw change proposal from the Arizona School Boards Association. uh the proposal which came through the governance committee of the of ASBA and the board of directors um also recommends must be approved by twothirds of the ASBA member boards to become effective. Um and after discussion we will vote and give direction um to our board secretary uh to vote in the matter we've approved. So, Miss Wadi, may I please have a motion to approve the bylaw change proposal from the Amazon School Boards Association as discussed and

028provide direction to the board secretary to vote in the manner be approved? >> So, moved. >> Does any board member wish to make any comments? >> Well, I would um this this particular bylaws is big one big package. Okay. And uh maybe some of the parts on it are not as perfect as we would like them, but to consider consider that leaving it the way it is now before any changes are made um I don't think is a good idea. I like some of these positive forward thinking steps that they're taking in this in this uh package. I hate to throw the whole thing out. There's a couple things we don't maybe agree on. >> Thank you, Mr. Panta. Anybody else? Miss one. >> Sure. Um so we did have an opportunity to discuss and

029review um these proposed changes in much greater detail during a study session. Is that correct? Right. Um and I believe some of the things that we identified as either we needed some clarifications or you know we just really weren't sure why the change was being proposed in the first place. Some of it's pretty I think evident but some of it wasn't so much. Um and I I believe was there was there an opportunity to get any insight clarification on some of the things we talked about? Um yeah I had you know based on the conversation we had I had sent um Ellen who's the executive director sorry of ASBA a pretty long um you know summary of questions we had and she responded back um so I don't know do you want me to just

030go through >> I mean I don't well I'll just be speak candidly I am not in favor of these changes Um, so I don't really want unless anybody else wants to go through them. I don't feel like I want I want to be the person to waste anyone's time unless they want to go through them. Um, I think the biggest thing that's problematic for me um has to do with the the and I'm trying to find the exact spot so I can make sure I'm not speaking in code and I can speak out loud about the actual provision that I think is incredibly problematic. Um, okay. So section 9 um they've added under vacancies and removal from office. It's 93 which would be an entirely new um subprovision to the section and I'm just going

031to read it out loud. Any officer or director may be removed by a twothirds vote board of directors and in consultation with the county school board members for actions deemed contrary to the code of conduct in the asbis bylaws or conduct deemed detrimental to the association after a hearing in due process. Um, a couple of things that I think are problematic with this provision is number one, nowhere within the bylaws or even referenced in the bylaw bylaws is this code of conduct that they're referring to. So, we don't know what that means that it could be anything truly. Um, so I find that problematic. And and a second thing that I think is is problematic. Um, well, I mean also or conduct deemed detrimental to the association. That's an incredibly vague and broad, very subjective

032um I think term to put in there. It's not defined anywhere. And also a hearing and due process. That's great. I love those words. But what does that mean? Who who's overseeing this hearing? What does this due process look like? What is the timeline for this due process? Um so, you know, officers and directors, it's my understanding they or at least the officers, right, are they are voted on statewide by all members. And so those individuals have been voted in by that body. And then this new provision gives not those individuals the right to uh remove them, but twothirds of the board of directors with really how whatever they want to do. And so that in and of itself, I think for me is problematic enough that I'm going to be voting that. >> Anything

033else? Because I can jump. Nobody else has any questions or comments. Um I agreed. I was a little disappointed um with the response we received and I think it was really more coming from a place of we have to get these out to the membership. Um so that you know many of the comments we brought up were kind of like yeah no you know fix it and post type of thing and that's not going to happen with bylaws. Um, so I was I was concerned. There were some things that um the comments were, well, we do have that in policy, but I don't know that the ASBA policy manuals available to everybody, so it's hard to know exactly what's there. I appreciate I think we all do that they they you know really tried to

034um move a lot of things forward with these. The piece that um this money just brought up is incredibly problematic to me. I do not believe I don't care what you know how an organization is put together an ASBA is a 501c3 but I strongly believe that somebody who is voted in by a portion of the membership whatever that is whether it's statewide or countywide um if if you're putting them to uh consideration for a new they should be removed in some way by the body that brought them in. Um I I think it's you know it's one to say if we vote on say a secretary um and somebody just doesn't like the job they're doing to say that the officers are you know given the authority to remove that person when the body

035itself wouldn't and there certainly could be provisions in here that allow the membership in total to to do that. Um, there's a few other things in here that um I I they they work to a point, but I think they could work better. Um, and so I do feel that uh these haven't quite hit prime time for me yet. So I again I I really wish they had given this to us article by article. I I really do. I think so much of this we'd all be fine with. Um but I think there's just pieces here that are that remain problematic and um I have a fear, you know, 9.3 particularly, but I have a concern that for some of these others, they might not hold up legally and I don't think that's wise to

036put something in bylaws of an organization that could be challenged. Um, I think the due diligence should have been maybe a little bit earlier. >> They might consider adding into their uh next bylaw revision that their bylaw revisions will be approved or put forth to members uh article by article and not as a full package if any to us. Well, and that I mean the the way it's done uh currently um is that um the bylaws may be amended or repealed under adopted by a two a vote of two-thirds in the member boards using an electronic vote of a membership using a procedure adopted by the board of directors. So this decision to do it as an all or nothing according to this came from the board. Those are my thoughts. I again I I

037really really wish they done it that way. >> And as it stands now then um if a director or uh well somebody that needs to be removed um is there any process to get rid of a a person that's really harming the uh the organization? What's the remedy for that then? This at least would be a remedy for and it does talk about consulting the counties these people come from. It's not just the two-thirds of the board, but they have to consult with the with the their county representatives. >> Well, I think the counties make sense if you're talking about the county directors. I'm not sure county consulting with the members of the county of a statewide. I mean, you know, if somebody's elected and they happen to be a board member in Puma, according

038provision, they're only going to go back to board members in Puma for that person. Um, you know, I I do think there needs to be a provision. I I don't disagree with that. I think any organization needs to have a provision in its bylaws um to you know, in essence recall or revoke or or you know, however that needs to work. I just don't agree with this process and I am concerned that that there are some holes in this that if this were this were to happen, if it plays out, it's approved and it happens, um I'm not sure uh wouldn't be challenged on it. I don't know. Those are my thoughts. As a as an attorney, >> I I that is I mean, that's a good point. I mean, truly, I I I don't

039think that this could withstand muster, honestly, if somebody were to be removed and they wanted to challenge it. Um it's what I mean what is their code of we don't even know if we believe in a code I mean right like I don't know what their code of conduct is like I it just to me it's this that's a this is a big I think and look if if if we're mistaken and there is a code of conduct somewhere written in this these four pages and we're missing it. I mean but I mean I scoured it. I don't see it anywhere. And I I I think that in and of itself would call into question the legality of any of that provision. If anybody wanted to challenge it, I think I don't know that they

040would I don't know that this ASBO policy would would hold up honestly. Does anybody else have any other comments or questions? Okay, it has been moved. Um so a vote I means we would approve a vote. All those in say I please. Any extensions? The motion fails. I guess it would be one of four nays. Um so that would be directing the board secretary to um not vote in however it's coming up on their website but to not approve the >> Yeah. who the secretary is. Yeah. >> Our secretary, right? >> Well yeah but but the direction would be no to however no vote appears on the ASBA website. Okay. Um thank you. Next on the agenda is gifts and donations. We had several um I'd like to highlight the some folks giving to multiple

041schools. Echo partners gave $1,000 for their rewards for students. Uh interest PTA gave two donations on cash. uh 20,185 for turf or under solar panel structure and just over 15,000 for the shade structure by the lawn jump area at um Greenway Middle School as well as at Sunrise Middle School. Valley Guardians gave each school $1,000 for PBIS um initiatives and incentives. Um, Greenway also received $15,000 from Northstar Foundation and North Canyon received $10,000 from Northstar Foundation. At Greenway, it was a donation for students and staff and at Northridge. If I did, I meant North Canyon. It was for teacher incentives and recognitions. Um, Horizon High School, the Studo Booster Group gave 6,700 for transportation from the Studo Studio Leadership Conference. Horizon High School, Kitty High School, Pinnacle High School, and Shadow Mountain High School also

042received $2,000 each from Jaw Stones for faculty appreciation and staff recognition. Night Trails Middle School, Annie McCaffry gave $5,000 for scholarships for sports, clubs, and field trips. Ki High School received, excuse me, um just over $1,60 from A for playing football grant. Um, our Paradise Valley Unif School District Festival Sports um received just over two $29,826 in non-cash donations from BSN Sports Custom Basketball Uniforms for our middle school and high school basketball sports programs. Um, right school received a name cash donation of $90,000 from Smash, which is Shadow Mountain area sports home for LED school work for the baseball field of the installation. And that's our large donations. Um, we thank all of the donors. Um, and Miss Wani, may I have a motion to accept to give some donations, please? So moved. >> Does

043anybody member wish to make a comment? That was quite a lot. Thank you to any donor who's here. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. Any oppos say nay. Any abstensions? The motion passes unanimously. Uh next on the agenda, we have items that were moved from the consent agenda. So first will be what was F7 and now is G6. This is consideration approval. Resolution 593, an amended affiliation agreement between Mayo Clinic and Paradise Valley Unified School District. Dr. Corson, I'm going to throw all of these to you and if you need to throw them elsewhere, I'm going to give that to you. >> All right, President Greenberg, thank you so much. And governing board members. So this uh resolution is an agreement, an amended agreement between Mayo Clinic and Paradise Valley Schools uh

044regarding the health careers education certified nursing assistant program within the district's career and technical education program. Under the new terms of this agreement, Mayo Clinic will provide clinical opportunities and access to its hospital for approved students to gain handson experience in patient centered care. The previous agreement that we had with Mayo Clinic only allowed for observation. So, uh, this provides a wonderful opportunity for our students to gain hands-on experiences in this environment. And we are recommending approval. Thank you, Dr. Carson. And Miss Wing, I have a motion to approve resolution 593, an amended affiliation agreement between Mayo Clinic and Paradise Valley Unified School District. >> So moved. >> Does any board member wish to make a comment? Dr. Wooden. So I remember at the end of my undergraduate my biotech professor told me you most

045of you in the room will change your career seven times and I thought dear goodness that was never going to happen. I had just started my hands-on research experience and the company I would get hired in and I thought there was no way I was ever leaving this job. This was exactly what I wanted to do working in genomics handle hands-on doing research. Just a few years in, I already started thinking to the next part of my career, knowing I wanted to step away from the bench and realized he was absolutely correct. That that hands-on experience told me I loved science, but there were other ways I could give back in science and work in the field that I was in. I transitioned to education and now work in the administrative space. Um, so it

046was valuable to hear that, but not believe it. That hands-on experience is invaluable and I I truly stand behind this. But the employer that is part of this um that's been named is also my employer and so I'll have to not vote on such action because um I am in conflict with such an amazing thing. But I am happy that PV is continuing to support something like this and transition to the hands-on aspect of it which I think is invaluable for students really trying to figure out where in the career they're going and what path they're going to head on even if they do go on to nursing where they want to go in it. >> Thank you Dr. Lynn. Does anybody else have any questions or comments? Seeing none, all those in favor, please

047say I. >> I. >> Any oppose say nay. Any abstensions? >> I abstain. >> Thank you. The motion passes 4 with one abstension. Next on the agenda um was former item F6, now G7. This is consideration approval of leadership um secondary administration/certified employee travel request. Dr. Corson. Uh President Grieberg, we are seeking approval to send Carly Shank, a certified staff member from North Canyon High School to the International Balorate Visual Arts Conference in Los Angeles, California from January 17th through the 19th in 2026. This professional learning experience will connect Miss Shank with IB educators from around the world to explore best practices in visual arts instruction, assessment, and integration of technology to enhance student engagement and creativity. The conference's emphasis on inquirybased learning and authentic assessment directly supports IB program goals and is expected to

048strengthen instructional quality leading to improve student outcomes such as higher achievement on IB visual arts assessments and increase student success in meeting IB diploma requirements. The transfer of innovative instructional strategies and assessment techniques into the classroom contributes to improved teaching effectiveness, deeper student understanding, and stronger performance on both internal and external evaluations. The total estimated cost of just over $2,000 covering registration, travel, meals, lodging, and substitute coverage will be paid from North Canyon High School's International Balorate Fund. This will be Mrs. Shanks first time attending the IB visual arts conference and we are recommending approval this evening. Thank you Dr. Carson and Miss Monty. May I have a motion to approve the secondary travel request as presented? >> So moved. >> Does any board member wish to make any comments? Mrs. Christensen? >> Yes. >>

049Thank you, Dr. Carson, for the explanation. While it does sound like an amazing opportunity, um I would like to understand a little bit better how it will directly affect student achievement and what data shows that this particular conference will will increase student outcomes. Um since it seems this employees never been to this conference, do we have data in the that shows this has helped in the past? Uh, Miss Christensen, thank you so much for your question. We don't have direct data on whether or not this particular conference has impacted uh uh specifically past uh instructors in the arts. What we do know is conferences like this are sponsored by and run by international balorate which is the courses that she does teach and students are required to take take IB uh exams as part of

050this courses and so we're confident that the instruction that IB and the professional development that IB institute is providing their instructors will directly align to improve her her teaching practices and then ultimately impact student achievement. Mrs. Christensen. >> Yes. Um, thank you, Dr. Carson. While it does sound like an amazing program, I will continue to pull things such as out ofstate travel out of consent because we do have declining enrollment, meaning declining revenue. And while these sound like wonderful opportunities and I love continuing education, I would really ask the district to start looking at things where we can bring people they're in. I I do understand that this is a special program and um for for the IB because not not everybody um not everybody is participates in this program. So it is very specialized

051and I do get that. But we keep thanking our taxpayers but we need to thank our taxpayers by being fiscally responsible and and limit the amount of out of state travel we do. >> Anybody else? Mr. Per. >> Yes. You said these funds come from their inner baloria budget right? >> Uh Mr. Pantera funds are provided for North Canyon for everything from international balora registration fees which we are required to pay in order to have that program as well as IB as part of their uh part of their platform does require us to provide professional development uh for teachers and so funds are allocated specifically to North Canyon High School for professional development relative to international blog. Well, I thought and and it's the only high school in the district of course because you're only

052allowed one high school that's in a baloria. Correct. >> That is correct. Mr. Pantara, >> do you think that a lot of people come from other outside the district and other places to come to that school because of the IB program? We do receive some open enrollments uh both in district students that attend North Kenyon from our in-house high schools as well as uh other high schools in the valley oftentimes come for the international balorate. uh it is a fairly competitive program to get in. So not all students uh want to participate in an international balorate and we do find that neighboring uh school districts do have international balora programs as well. So we don't receive a lot of open enrollments from other districts but internally we do receive students that wish to participate in

053that program and decide to leave their home school for North Canyon. And there what's the success rate of people who've gone through this program and when they go to college and and and beyond is that pretty high success after they go through this program successful you know without having that number in the back of my head most students who've been through through our international balora program are destined to uh uh colleges university uh and programs uh some of the most elite colleges and universities >> yeah I've know some students that you know because I used to teach right at eco ridge and some of them went to the program and they said after they gone through the program, those first three years of college were like no big deal because the program is so um

054uh said so much uh rigor to it. Yeah, Mr. Panchera, you know, the foundation for that program is for college preparation. It's one of the most rigorous programs that you'll find uh and it does uh prepare students for that university college experience. >> Thank you. Is anybody else Mr. Christensen? >> Yeah. So the method of payment says North Canyon's High School International Balorette M fund will cover all the costs. Are are based on Mr. Panta's question, does that mean there are no taxpayer dollars going in to this? Because maintenance and operation tends to be taxpayer funded. >> Uh I would need to verify the funding source uh from Miss Baragan. Unfortunately, she's not here, but I do think it's probably fair to say that we do allocate M dollars to support the IB program. So,

055uh, so you would be correct in that, Miss Christian. >> Yeah, because it does say M here. Um, I just have a request for future that we start when I I know we've approved a lot of people to go out of town. would love to see some metrics and to start really getting some measures on these because it I think it's wonderful and when I was you know working for Fortune 100 companies we would send people out of state all the time for things like this but not when we had declining revenues we brought things inhouse and we I just want to be certain that we are being very responsible with taxpayer funds but thank you for answering all my questions. Miss Warning. >> So to that to kind of follow up um on um

056Miss Christensen's questions, I'm would I be correct in assuming that there are like the professional development for um the Boret program is sort of specialized. Um and maybe I would imagine there's not like a one-sizefits-all that would be used, you know, professional development that would satisfy sort of the requirements. Is that kind of fair to say? >> Yeah, you are correct, Miss Swanie. This because it is sponsored by the international baloria conference. The professional development that they're delivering is very specific and tailored to teachers who teach IB courses. So, it's not the general professional development that you might find elsewhere that covers general strategies. This is very tailored to the specific teachers who teach this course. And um do you have do you know if other um like some of our neighboring districts that also

057ha house this program in one of their high schools? Do you know if this is a a conference that that they send uh their professionals to? >> Miss I don't know whether or not they sent to this specific conference. I do know though that other IB conferences uh of other subject areas are frequented by other district teachers who attend these conferences just to keep themselves professionally up to date uh to be able to be most effective they can in IB but to this specific conference I don't have that information >> and to your knowledge is there is is would there be an option to bring inhouse that would be less expensive I mean is that even something that we would be able to vet out or potentially look into in the future. >> Miss Fony,

058uh certainly we can always explore those options. What's challenging is that uh this is a particular conference that brings together people from across across the country and really a number of experts across the field in this case arts and so it's very challenging to replicate that at the cost. So we could potentially bring in a single individual to provide professional development, but it would not be the same kind of experience that they would get with a network of correct >> and learning and um and all of that. And so um if if we do approve this um this evening this um this travel, would is there an opportunity for us to maybe get a little bit bit of feedback and and to hear about what this experience was like? So, you know, again, just in

059thinking about future um travel requests, we we can get that feedback. Is that something we need to >> certainly be happy to provide that that's of interest to us as well. We always like to check in with the people who attend various workshops and conferences to see how that information is going to be used productively. We make an effort to also think about how we uh replicate that experience for others who have not been able to attend that conference. So it's not just about one person receiving the expertise, but how we can share that among others. And so our interest in that is yours as well. So we'll be happy to provide that information to the governing board. >> Thank you. That would be great. And just my last question, um, so going back to

060the the funding. So when you set and I know Joel's not here, but to your knowledge, is there there's a budget I like presumably set every year for this specific purpose? Uh, Miss one, the the budget is set to for North Canyon specifically, and that budget for the most part goes to pay for registration as well as professional development. So, it doesn't necessarily go to pay for this specific conference, but >> there's a bucket of funds allocated for professional development that meets these requirements and and we are within our budget. >> You are correct. >> Thank you, >> Dr. Lib. So, I wanted to get back to one of Miss Christensen's comments about kind of keeping track. So, so obviously, you know, have we have PTO's and PTAs that support people also going to conferences

061as well. And we've obviously seen at least at my daughter's school, people come go to conferences and then they may leave and go to another district. And so that knowledge is sometimes kind of lost other than the word of mouth that might be told. are we or do we have any metrics in place to track maybe what sessions people went to and kind of feedback on those different sessions so that when we send people to the same conference in a different year that may have some reoccurring sessions, we have had people already attend that session so they may attend a different session either as a new individual going or is the same person maybe regoing another year or a few years out. Are we keeping track of that or are the schools kind of having

062summaries of that? I know we do it at our level professionally and keep track of what sessions we're going to and try not to overlap when multiple of us are at the same conference in the same session even though we all really want to go to the same session we will you know rock paper scissors and go to a different session do we keep those metrics and if we don't can we start doing so >> yeah so Dr. limb. Oftentimes what happens when multiple people are attending the same conference in the same year. Uh they will oftentimes look at the needs of their school or needs of the department in that case and they will kind of divvy up the different sessions that exist to make sure that they get as wide of a span

063as possible into the uh conference sessions that are going to be most applicable to uh that particular school or department. We don't have a mechanism in place to track that over time. oftentimes the conference sessions change from one year to the next uh depending on the topic of the year or the emphasis of that year and so we have not tracked that but I would be very interested to hear how you might do that in another industry. >> Yeah, I think it's just keeping track of you know so AI is the hot topic and it has been for about three years in our industry. So we're very conscious of trying to maybe go to sessions that are something other than AI given that AI is a constantly reoccurring topic right now. So we may choose

064to visit a less popular session though still very interesting in our field um to get a sense of what's happening outside the field because so many people are say playing in the same pool right now in the research space. So we may visit other research spaces to see what they're doing and how they're engaging and how we might cross-pollinate with the work we do in one space to the work they're doing in that other space and have conversations about these sessions and kind of begin to plan our research in that space. So, I'm just wondering if we're we're keeping track or people just writing summaries of what they're doing just so those can be passed on, especially if we have a teacher move on to a leadership role and no longer be at that school

065or move on to a different district. That knowledge is just lost when that happens. if they haven't written it down or telling someone is not the same as putting it down on paper. And while I don't want to add a burden to our teachers, it would be great to keep at least some of that knowledge in some capacity in a written form for us to either not replicate in future years if there are repeat sessions or just for someone to pick it up and be like, what what were they focusing on before I took over this role in this particular position because this teacher has left this particular role. So what what was the teacher's focus? And I think it gives us a sense, especially in these specialty programs, where those teachers kind of had

066their focus and kind of where the students coming into them at. >> So, thank you for that suggestion. >> Does anybody else have any other questions, comments? >> Mrs. Christensen, >> just one comment. Um, having worked for small and very large companies, what we tend to do is, um, to minimize cost is to seek out conferences that have online versions. And I know everybody likes to go in person because it's much more fun. And I do and I have heard, oh, you get more out of it. You can still get a lot of information out on the online versions of some of these conferences. While some of them may not offer that, I know some of the larger conferences do and I really think we should consider we have declining revenue in our district that

067we should start considering those options as well. >> Miss Christensen, I I do appreciate that we do u make every effort to prioritize online uh conferences first. That is our first go-to when those are available. >> This is visual. This is like arts visual arts, right? This is this particular one is yes. >> Anybody else? Dr. Lyn, >> I just want to add to that for Miss Christensen. So, a lot of the conferences did go virtual and unfortunately many are reverting back to fully in person. It's just a part of at least my field. Very few are are virtual in any capacity. Um, and there's reasons for that to get people together, network conversations. Um, so I wish I could say virtual options were still very available out there, but besides webinars and things like

068that that are often free from different spaces, the actual big conferences are reenouraging people to come in person, picking sometimes very expensive cities, which many of us are constantly making very obvious. I I appreciate that this one is actually just local to us in California. So that will hopefully reduce the cost um given it's it's a closer venue than maybe Boston or New York. Does anybody else have any other questions or comments? Seeing none, all those in favor, please say I. I. >> All those opposed say nay. >> Nay. >> Any abstensions? The motion passes 4 to one. Next on the agenda is uh former F8 now G8 uh consideration approval curriculum and instruction certified uh travel requests. Miss Copen. Um, >> President Gver, this item is requesting approval of out of state travel for

069two of our certified art staff from Horizon High School to attend the NAEA National [clears throat] Convention in Chicago, Illinois on March 5th through the 7th, 2026. Uh the NAE um annual event is recognized as the largest gathering of visual arts education professionals in the world and it provides an unparalleled opportunity for um these teachers professional growth, collaboration and innovation in teaching. Um this the cost of this um travel is a little over approximate $5,000 and is being funded with Horizon's dual enrollment budget. These funds are often used to fund efforts that improve our CCRI indicators. Um these two particular teachers that are requesting to go, one is the fine arts uh department uh chair or leader and the other teacher is also u one of our AP teachers and advanced arts teachers. So um

070two of the metrics that we're looking at closely for these two particular instructors um both of them would be involved in our um AP exams that were always trying to increase passing rates um for for those two uh for that indicator in our CCR points for their uh high school. And um they would also both be very involved in improving or increasing excuse me the art seals um for uh graduates. And so both of these teachers would be involved in uh the capstone projects that those students have to exhibit that warrant the um the uh credential with the state. So we're hoping that those are two metrics that we can look at um as as partially being influenced by their what they bring home. And um Director Ry has worked with both instructors because this

071is a national conference. There's lots of options to choose from. And so, Director Wright has worked with both teachers to um pre-seelelect things they'll be attending um that directly align with those um those initiatives. I'm happy to answer any questions. >> Thank you, Miss Cop. And um Miss Wani, may I please Sorry, having this electronically was interested. Um uh may I please have a motion to approve the curriculum and instruction certified travel request as presented. So moved. Does any board member wish to make a comment? Miss Christensen, >> when we go to these out of state conferences, do we um do we have a cap on p do we have prediums like corporates corporate um individuals do or how does that work? because sometimes we pick the expensive um hotels that they're given at and

072I know that's always ideal because then you don't have to walk as far and like that but sometimes there are less expensive options for lodging and things like that. How how does that work? Do do you have a cap and is it based on the city? >> Yes, Miss Christensen. Um so we are very frugal and we look for the options that are going to of course um not cost as much as others. Um often the um where the conference is being held sometimes they will offer a reduced rate in the hotels. So we're always looking for that if those uh fill up and we don't we miss out on that option. They often have overflow hotels that often uh give us a better rate than than a tourist. Um yes, but like food has

073a pdeium by city um per day and so this would fall under that as well. Um travel where uh us well this one will be by air. So we look for um and we we're bringing this to the board early um it was Mar it's in March but that allows us to take um advantage of early bird special registrations and then often if we can get airline um booked at a time it reduces costs than waiting till the date. So, it gives us we try to um get these approved as far as we can in advance so we can get better pricing on things like that that give us um a little bit of cost relief if we're we book them in advance. Um just looking at my costs here. And then of course for

074these the teachers substitute costs are set per day by district. Um, and then we have to estimate things like ground travel and things like that, but um, not necessarily a cap, but we do try to do all of those things to mitigate cost. >> Typically, when you come to the board and and ask for these things, there there is a dollar amount associated with that. What happens if they over they go over that? Do they have to pay out of their own pocket or does the district because it's been approved by the governing board, we just cover it. What what if they go like a thousand over the budget? Could be eat up the finest steakhouse. I'm just I'm just wondering how that works. Processes um for if it's way over the amount that we

075approved for. >> Absolutely. Mrs. Christensen in an example like that for food. No, it is a per day per DM. And so if they choose to go over that, then that is at their own cost. We cannot reimburse over the the PDM. Does anybody else have any of that? Dr. Lynn, >> I do just want to make a comment on the way we got this one. So, it says how the conference is essential for their role, which is important, but the second one already starts to outline how they plan to disseminate this information, including using Google Drive and things like that. I would love to see more of that and us actually tracking that in a more formal way, even if it's just at the school site, to have that and have that retained memory

076in a written form. I think one seeing it here and knowing why they're going and how they're going to disseminate it really makes a difference on knowing what impact it's going to have and how they're going to bring it back to our district. I know the last one is a one-off program in our district, but obviously even the things coming out of that may be helpful to some of our other top tier programs. So, the knowledge even gained from the last one we discussed might be able to help some of our our high achieving schools and all of our schools with honors programs and things like that throughout the district just by disseminating that knowledge. and uh insight that comes from it. So I would love to see more of that formally in both this

077information and have us capture that in long term. >> Um there's one you're Mrs. Christensen. >> Yeah. Um [clears throat] question for either Dr. Corson or Miss Copen. Do we have a formal train the trainer program in PB schools? I that's what we typically use in in the business world. Is is there something like like that? So, as Dr. Lim has been alluding to that we that we can absolutely take this information that we're getting and then pass it on to others. I know it's difficult, but I mean if you're going to go out of state travel and we're tax on the taxpayers's dime, um it many teachers should be benefit fitting. Yes, Miss Christensen, that that's a wonderful question and that is a concern with us. If we're investing in these teachers, how can

078they benefit the organization at a bigger level or greater level? Um, so these teachers and it's kind of catered to what conference they're going to to what teachers they would work with. But for this particular travel, we would be using our PLC um kind of structures to help uh and they have a department. So the department leader would be attending and so they're they create those agendas and um for their departments. Um we're hoping uh they they mentioned working with director Ry to um ask what other ways could they talk to other teachers from other schools because they often get together as a fine arts department and then they would also be willing to work with any teacher that took particular interest. They would work with them one-on-one. So those are our plans right now

079to to spread the knowledge um and just widen out uh you know what we're getting out of that cost. >> Mr. I'd like to add on to that. I've been to some of these conferences like AVID conferences or summit conferences and one of the requirements when you go to the conference is you come back and you have to teach so many workshops at your school or for your uh department that's built right into the whole process. So I've done that many times. I've seen it done many times. It's not uncommon that we do that here. >> Does anybody else have any other questions or comments? Um, seeing none, all those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> All those opposed say nay. >> Nay. >> Any abstensions? The motion passes 41. Uh, last on

080our agenda was uh former item F13, now G9. This is consideration to approve purchase from current IGPA cooperative contract 21106PJC for roofing upgrades at Shadow Mountain. That's the right one. Okay. Um and I will >> ask I'm happy to take that on. >> Thank you, President Greenberg. Uh Progressive Ruth Bean has been selected to provide roof upgrades at Shadow Mountain High School. Services will be procured through a one GPA cooperative contract. The roof on Shadow Mountain High School's academic building, which is over 20 years old, is out of warranty. Has numerous leaks despite our best preventative maintenance efforts. Many of these leaks were exposed after the last rainstorms. Unfortunately, a tear down or replacement of the current roof is not an option as solar panels are installed throughout and cannot be removed without significant additional

081cost. In lie of a full replacement, the emulsion and fabric solution will repair and seal the roof to address current leaks, repair damage, and protect the roof from further water intrusion for many years. A 5-year warranty is included. This again, of course, would not be possible without the support of our voters and bond dollars that we receive for critical projects such as these when they arise. Dr. Davis, director of facilities, is here again to answer any questions about this specific project and we are requesting approval. Thank you, Dr. Cors and Miss Wani. May I have a motion to consider approve approval of purchase from current 1GPA cooperative contract 21106P JOCC for roofing upgrades at Shadow Mountain High School. >> So moved. I'm so glad I have that. >> Does any member of the board have

082any questions or comments? Mrs. Christensen. Yes. I'll wait a moment so you can get to the mic. Um, my question is, do we have any other roofers in one GPA? >> The answer that to that question is yes. It seems as though we always select progressive roofing and um given that job order contracts don't require multiple bids, is there a reason why we are always selecting progressive roofing at nearly a million dollars a pop each time? We have a lot of roofs and PV. So, we did engage two contractors on this project um because we do want to work with a variety of contractors uh that we have available both through our job order contracts and uh in in the um in the public market. >> [snorts] >> Um that all being said, we did

083uh discuss uh engage and and and tour the project with with two contractors. Um this particular project because of its um complications with the solar um the uh only one company um decided to engage with us on the project. And how does one participate in um if if they're not part of one GPA, how does a roofing company get involved and um be able to be selected for roofing jobs at PV because there's a lot of roofing companies. I've been interviewing a lot of them at my job because I've got to work with a lot of different vendors. So, um I'm just curious if you can explain that for us. >> So, that's more of a procurement question and so I would uh like to get back to you on that after consulting with the

084uh director of procurement as to how uh we would engage with a variety of of contractors uh both in and out of of 1GPA. >> Okay. And so I I do I've been on the one GPA website and I know that they do um they do seek lots of different vendors and you know I know that that's one avenue but I was just wondering if we only go through one GPA because it seems like this name comes up quite frequently and um yes I well I the work definitely needs to be done um at a million dollars every time they have to fix a roof or more. It's, you know, it's a lot of money that goes to one contractor with the no bid. >> And again, we we make effort to engage with a

085variety of contractors in this particular job. Um, Progressive Roofing was the recommended vendor for for service. >> Thank you. Does anybody else? Dr. Lynn, >> I just want to clarify. We've had roofing conversations before. This is not the first roof we've talked about. And I think this if I want to clarify, is this the same roofing company that we recently used at North Canyon and Pavey High School? And I remember the reason for them was these are such large complicated projects on very old buildings that these individuals have experience working in this space continuously. And that was my understanding why they often are willing to take on our very complicated roofs that would be easier if we were just replacing it. But we've obviously invested in solar panels and have to go a different route.

086>> Yeah. And that is a factor in the decision-m process. Um Progressive has experience with roofs with the exact same situation that we're in at Shadow Mountain. um perhaps not to the scale of solar that that uh that we have at Shadow Mountain, but uh they have had successful projects navigating those solar sleds. >> Thank you. Anybody else have any other questions for Mrs. Christensen? >> Do other diff districts have roofing concerns? >> Do other districts have roofing concerns? Yes, they do. >> And do other districts use other contractors besides Progressive Roofing? >> Although I don't know personally, I would imagine given the variety of vendors out there that different districts use different vendors. I think um competition makes us all better and in the future I would really like to see different roofing companies

087come through um if possible because then we get better quotes even if it is a job order contract. Um I would encourage maybe somebody like a a large company like maybe Alliance Roofing or there's several different large roofing companies through the valley. um because maybe maybe we can save some tax dollars that way. >> And again, we did engage uh another company unfortunat or fortunately uh we have a very um you know competent and successful um company doing this current job but if if approved but we are always looking for other successful vendors to to come and join us for the very reasons that you state. Miss, >> so what I I what I kind of feel like I hear you're saying is um >> there aren't a lot of uh vendors, roofers out there

088who want to touch this project. Is that kind of fair to say? >> This is a complicated project. the complicated and um >> I don't know maybe it would be it might be helpful not again not to create more work for anybody but it might be helpful to help us have an understanding of um you know how what vendors are even sort of out there that can that are the appropriate right companies who even can do this scale of work um because I would imagine that's you know if I have a roofing issue which that's not a thing I have to look into I'm not going to call the same folks that you do. And I think it, you know, and and given the complexities of our of some of the roofing situations that we're

089talking about, I think it make make it more sort of tangible for us to understand like why you're engaging with certain vendors and not others. Certainly >> and maybe that because I I have no idea. I guess maybe that number is much smaller, right? Just options out there than than we would even know of, I would guess. But I don't know. That's why I'm asking. >> As I recall, in the the one GPA contract, there's a number of vendors listed, but I believe as you you've mentioned previously, they're kind of grouped in different categories of what they are able to provide. Some of them may just be sun shades and some etc. So, um you know, we do have a long list. It's just not and it's comprehensive, but it's not every one of them

090can do everything we need. And so, but yeah, it seems it sounds to me that, you know, we're trying to find as as, you know, cast as wide a net as we can. Um, and perhaps, you know, the next time the one GPA contract itself is up, it will be even wider. Who knows? Does anybody else have any questions or comments? Seeing none, all those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> All those opposed say nay. Nay. >> Any extensions? The motion passes 41. Um, that brings us to call to the public. Do we have a video that can be played? >> Call to the public is about to convene. This portion of today's meeting allows the public the opportunity to address the governing board. Although state law does not require that the governing

091board hold a call to the public, the Paradise Valley Unified School District and its board have chosen to do so because we believe it's important to hear about concerns and issues from our community. While call to the public is not designed to be a discussion, the board is here to listen. Due to Arizona open meeting law, the governing board cannot respond to, discuss, or take any action on items brought up during this time. However, staff members may be directed to get back to you and address individual concerns. As a reminder, the point of this and every board meeting is to accomplish the business at hand and to be able to do so in an open and collaborative way. All in attendance are expected to observe meeting rules as well as rules of politeness and decorum

092so that we may serve as an example to our students that issues can be discussed in a respectful and civil manner. Thank you. Tonight we've had one person who submitted a comment card prior to the start of the meeting and he will have three minutes for remarks. As a reminder, we ask that you please direct your comments to the board. Um, in case I miss it, please state your first and last name when you come to the podium. And our speaker is Jeff Lante. >> Hi, thank you, President Greenberg, and thank you everyone. and I really do appreciate the opportunity to speak. My name is Jeff Lande and I have two children in the district. I'm a sophomore and a senior at Pinnacle High School. And uh I'd like to speak about a couple of

093concerns that I have regarding parent teacher conferences specifically at that school. I'm grateful for the chance to get engaged with my kids amazing teachers, but I'm a little concerned in a couple of areas. First, as everybody knows, Pinnacle is a very large high school and trying to fit all the conferences into an hour and a half is very challenging, especially when you have more than one kid at the school. Oftentimes, we are only able to fit in meeting with about half my kids teachers and there was one conference last year when we were able to do three. I wonder if somehow we could allow for more time for this event or given the continued growth of this school, split it into more than one session or something like that. Second, I don't quite understand why

094more emphasis is not placed on all teachers being present at parent teacher conferences, which are a very important tool for them and parents to engage about education and their only help twice per year. I work in a support position uh that supports a large retail organization uh that has a very large sale once per quarter. Our teams in the field are 100% all hands on deck for these events, which aren't nearly half as important as education of our kids. And yes, I do understand that uh most teachers are willing to set up separate meetings with the parents, but it's way more convenient and it's easier for everyone to get all this done at conferences when we're all there. And I do understand that things come up, but this last session that my wife and I

095were at at conferences, it seemed like a third of the seats were vacant and the teachers weren't there. I'd like to see the district and Pinnacle take a more all hands on deck approach as well to something as important as engaging parents and our kids education. And just one other side topic I'd like to mention. Is there any reason why we can't shop around as a district for our senior photo company? Everybody uses grads photography. It's the only choice and they're absolutely outrageous. My family and I are able to get something set up privately for a fraction of the cost. Uh so that's another thing. Once again, I thank you very much always for the opportunity to come up here and speak and raise these concerns and I hope the board and administration might take

096my suggestions into consideration. Thank you. >> Thank you. Next on the agenda are items for discussion. Um we have a number of first reads or uh recommended revisions to governing board policies. Uh the first one is uh consideration of revisions governing board policy EB environmental and safety program. Again these are all first reads and I will turn it over to Dr. Porson, President Greenberg, members of the board, cabinet and guests. As a reminder, the Arizona School Boards Association periodically issues policy updates for participating districts across the state. These updates typically serve to align local board policy with changes to Arizona revised statutes, clarifying existing language or improve the organization and readability of policy documents. Cabinet members have reviewed the ASBA updates and are presenting the proposed revisions to the governing board tonight as part of

097the first reading. Miss Copen will share the policies she reviewed, including those on behalf of Dr. Holmes, who is unable to be here this evening. Dr. Lindsay and I will present several additional policies. Following tonight's review, we will bring these policies back to the December meeting for approval. I'll begin with policy EB, environmental and safety program. House Bill 2074 amended ARS regarding expansion of purchasing options for school safety programs, expansion of program proposals supporting school officers, expansion of definition for school resource officer, and inclusion of a new term school safety officer. HB 2074 also added ARS language to include requirements for school districts to develop an emergency response plan and conduct a safety assessment every 5 years. I'm happy to answer any questions you might have regarding this policy recommendation. >> Thank you. Does any

098board member have any questions or comments? Miss Wing? >> Yes. Thank you. Um so I appreciate um the incorporation of all of that information um into our policy. So, thank you. Um, one thing I do want to note is, um, in addition to those additions, uh, per the new legislative, um, updates, our the recommendation, um, before us is to within the beginning part of this, um, policy is to remove indoor air quality under the, um, facet of instructional plan of the district by virtue of educational programs. Um and I guess I would as a very strong advocate of indoor air quality especially in our schools I would really like to understand a little bit more about why that would be taken out. >> Uh thank you for your question. I believe by the very nature

099of this particular policy uh safety program that most of the information regarding specific safety uh programs uh relative to schools and probably did not include indoor air quality. it probably was a fit issue with this particular one. We also know that the school facilities division has guidelines that address indoor quality standards in schools. The Arizona Department of Health, Maricopa County Air Quality Department, and AD uh Arizona Department of Occupational Safety and Health also play a role in setting and regulating air quality standards. So I'm thinking that be that air quality is addressed through those particular standards as opposed to this specific governing board policy. >> So and correct me if I'm wrong, but the way I read this is that there's when we when I see the word educational programs to me that means there's

100a instructional intent. So it goes it seems it would go beyond um monitoring, right? or or the or standardizing or or having information about what those standards are standards are. So uh so read so I guess my question is why and there the other the other um topics in there fire prevention driver education pedestrian safety I mean these are these are also other areas that involve students and safety that we're not looking to remove and that also have policy and standards elsewhere. So again I'm just I'm concerned. I think I think we don't I don't think we do enough education around indoor air quality, especially in our schools. If you look at the statistics and the research, there's more and more evidence that we we really should be looking at these things more. So, I'm

101just I'm concerned about removing this in particular. Um especially within the context of of an educational program, it's actually a tremendous opportunity to engage students in like real world problem thinking, problem solving, steam, STEM. Um, and I don't know that we were really really doing those things before necessarily, but I um, it seems that there's also again like that educational piece to this policy. >> Does anybody else I I've got a comment. Um, and I apologize because this sort of just hit me. Um we are the recommendation is also to remove environmental from the the title but not to remove the section we added on energy conservation. So it feels like we probably need to retain the word environmental. Um and if we do I think keeping the the you know this piece about indoor

102air quality might make sense. Um or we need to consider where we would want to put something about energy conservation. I'll keep it here. But it feels like we you know we remove the reason for keeping it here if we remove the word environment. [clears throat] So maybe just consistency we might not. >> Yeah, we appreciate that feedback. We're happy to take a look at that uh in preparation for our second. Does anybody else have any questions about EB? All right. Next on the agenda is discussion item I2 and this is um consideration of revisions to governing board policy GCQF which is discipline suspension and dismissal of professional staff members. And I will turn it over to Miss Copen. President Greenberg, members of the board, this is the first reading for revisions to governing board

103policy GCQF, discipline suspension and dismissal of professional staff members. Uh the revision includes additional language to define that the superintendent has the right to request information from the Arizona Department of Education regarding allegations of unprofessional conduct against a current or prospective employee. Happy to answer any questions that I can or pass those on to Dr. Holmes for followup. Does any member of the board have any questions or comments regarding the recommended changes? All right. Going once, going twice. All right. Um, no comments here. Next on the agenda is I3, which is consideration of revisions to governing board policy GDFA support staff qualifications and recommend, excuse me, requirements. and I will turn it over to Miss Copen. >> Um, President Mary, members of the board, this is first reading for revision to govern board policy GDFA

104support staff qualifications and requirements. The recommendation recommended revision updates the policy to align to current minimum requirements as to who is required to maintain a level one IVP fingerprint clearance uh card per statute. It additionally removes language about the requirement of bus drivers to maintain a level one IBP fingerprint clearance card as that language exists in governing board policy EA bus driver requirements training and responsibilities. I'm happy to answer any questions that I can't. >> Thank you. Does any member of the board have excuse me any questions for Miss Copen on this policy? Dr. Lim, >> I do have a question. units around this policy and probably around the identification card more generally because I know this will be a change districtwide to who has to have these cards overall. Where does the cost who

105who's paying for those cards? Are the employees paying for them or is we a district supporting the cost of people having these identification cards and going through the process of getting them? >> Dr. Lim, I believe that we take on the cost as a district, but I want to check that with uh Dr. Corson. Is that correct? or is there no cost? There is I assume there's a cost. There's a cost for food handlers card. There's a cost for almost every of these certifications. >> Yeah, Dr. Lim, there is a cost for for these. And I do believe Dr. Holmes is exploring options for us as a district to support the payment of those, >> but we'll get some additional information from Dr. Holmes on that. >> Yeah, I asked just for clarity because it

106sounds like we're going to move this down to our certified staff who are already often underpaid for the work that they're doing. And so asking them to then put that bill I think would be a challenge for many of the staff we may be asking to now have these clearance cards. So it would be nice to obviously see us working through not losing staff because they simply have to have this card that they now have to pay for. >> Dr. Holmes, Dr. Lynn, that is our interest and I know that's something that Dr. Holmes is working on. >> Perfect. Thank you, >> Mrs. Christensen. So, it's my understanding that as part of the certification process when a teacher wants to be certified and they contact the Arizona Department of Education that that is part of

107it because they have to pay they have to pay them for the certification um and for the fingerprint CL at least when I worked there not too long ago. So, I I the districts do not pay for that when they're getting certifi at least the first time. So, that that was my understanding. So maybe we can get clarification on that. >> Miss Christ, I'm happy to take that note and I will get clarification and talk to >> Okay. And why was school bus drivers stricken from this? Is it because we're having a hard time getting school bus? >> So I actually u Mr. Christensen have a note on this. So we as a district, so Dr. Holmes had sent out some communication on November 3rd that we are requiring level one IBP fingerprint clearance cards

108for all employees in Paradise Valley. Um and this aligns with many of our what our peer districts are requiring. This policy represents the legal minimum but we do um have the latitude to um increase those requirements. Um we are maintaining the flexibility to revert to this minimum if needed if we have a reason to do that but right now we are going to require this of all employees including bus drivers. So, I guess I'm confused as to why the language is stricken. Maybe I'm on the wrong policy. Is that >> Didn't you say that it it's stricken from here because it appears in a different policy? >> Bus driver policy. >> Yeah. Specific. >> Previously, yes, previously it was in the other policy. So, that had been stricken because now the legal minimum is this

109current policy that you're reviewing. >> Okay. I just want to make sure that all drivers are included in this because our neighboring district, Scottsdale Unified, had an issue with um Hop, Skip, Jump, a [clears throat] outsourced um organization that provided transportation and there was yes, there was some assault there that happened and it was a very vulnerable child. Well, all children are vulnerable, but I believe it was a special needs kid. So, I just want to make sure that everybody is vetted. Everybody that works with or is around children in our district, whether they're driving them to and from, even washing dishes, whatever. I just want to make sure that children here are safe. >> Does anybody else Mr. Panta? >> Well, I'm just going to speak to the cost. I remember when I first

110got my first card, when it first happened that I had to pay out of pocket for that. I I don't know if that's changed or not, but um it seems to me employees have always had to pick up the cost of that and I I never liked it, but there it is. It's required by law. Anybody else on this particular one? Okay. Next on the agenda is discussion item I4, consideration of revisions to governing board policy IHA, basic instructional program. And I will turn it back over to Miss Copen. President Gver, members of the board, Dr. Corson, the revisions to policy AH, basic instructional program, align the policy language with recent changes in Arizona revised statutes. Changes worth noting include policy IHA has been revised to reflect the emergency measure approved by the governor in

111March 2025 which amended ARS15710.02 regarding 911 education day by specifying that schools serving students in grades 7 through 12 must dedicate a portion of the day to age appropriate instruction on the events of September 11th 2011. I'm happy to answer any questions. >> Thank you. Does any member of the board have any questions or comments on the recommended revisions to IHA? Seeing none, let me go to I5. This is consideration of revisions to governing board policy JNDB, use of technology resources in instruction. And back to you, Miss Copen. >> President Grey, members of the board, revision to policy JNDB, use of technology resources in uh instruction. align the policy with current statute and update expectations for te technology use in schools. Changes worth noting include addition of new statutory language limiting student use of cell

112phones and uh social media during the school day with exceptions for educational use, emergencies, and medical need. um addition of new policy language on the use of artificial intelligence emphasizing that AI must be teacherdirected, actively monitored and aligned with instructional expectations and used responsibly to ensure privacy and student safety. Uh this policy also includes a new regulation just to note that that that would be a new regulation. I'm happy to answer any questions. Does any member of the board have any questions or comments about JNBB recommendations? Miss White, >> thank you. Um I have I have I think two questions mainly. Um one is regarding the new new legislation about the limiting, you know, student use of wireless communication on campuses. I know that a lot of our campuses were doing that before that was

113even law, which I applaud and I'm grateful for. Um I guess my question is now that it is um now that it is the law are is there like guidance or like any recommendations for how how teachers and sites manage that and do that or is it kind of more left to like the principles to sort of determine on a on a siteby-sight basis? >> Um Mrs. Wy. Yes. So um we have guidelines that we provide the high schools but they are all using different and even before this law we were um we had strategies in place to limit that because it could be a distraction to learning. Um now that it is law each high school has um adapted their own strategies for for when kids enter the classroom and how to put those

114things away. >> Okay. So there's not like every there's not a one-sizefits-all. It's kind of different strategies being utilized in different classrooms. >> Correct. That's one. Yeah. Um I don't know about different color they've taken a pretty unified approach as a school. >> Okay. >> To keep it consistent for students. Um but there was latitude between schools of how they they wanted to address that. >> Okay. And I know and so you mentioned specifically high schools but this is K through 12. So middle school everybody. >> Yes. >> Okay. And say was so same kind of answer for everybody. >> Yes. Correct. >> Okay. Um if a if if a teacher or site was having challenges with managing some of this, they would just they would I would imagine the direction would be they would

115seek discussion with the principal and they could work different ideas about how to >> Absolutely. Miss if Yes. And that that needed more a thought partner around it um we would they would turn to their supervisor the principles. >> Okay. Um thank you. Um and then so we've talked about AI quite a bit. um here and there. And I appreciate um kind of having all of this uh really important information including the AI provision within this one policy. And I recognize um right AI is new and continuously changing and we need to sort of be nimble and and flexible so that we can be responsive and it might not always make sense to have an incredibly like detailed and specific robust governing board policy because that wouldn't really be very efficient right for us to

116as a district right um so I guess all of that to say recognizing that you know I think this is meant to sort of be very broad intentionally and I appreciate that and I understand that um are like I guess where are we in terms of you know building out guidelines frameworks right that really get into sort sort of more of the like you know PD or how right how to use it best and again I recognize this is like an everchanging topic like probably tomorrow there's something new or something different that's come out right or just embedding different AI I know I know you guys are do you do a great job I know I know um I'm going I was gonna say Jeff. Thank you. I was like Mr. Billings I know does

117such a great job of of vetting that stuff and making sure that you know we're not putting any of our students at risk right or our data infrastructure and all that. But I just it seems like there's so much work in a you know not specific to our district but just to be done in this space to make sure that you know teachers and students are really being supported in this crazy time we're living in with all the stuff that's coming out like every day. That's why thank you for that question. Um I'll highlight a couple of things that we're doing. Um, in speaking of like uh largecale like district guidance across all of our schools, um we do have a standing committee called the ITC, instructional technology committee um that convenes every year and

118that is our committee that includes parents and all of our stakeholder groups. And so that is uh facilitated by uh Mr. Billings and then um his assistant director also. uh so their theme this year is AI because it is such a complex multi-levelled um topic they have tackled that and they will be recommending um the guidelines and expectations uh so they have begun working on that uh and basically best practices in the district to keep AI very aligned to instruction and because it it can get going multiple ways but we want to keep it as tied to our instructional standards and things that the the students have to do in the classroom. Um we've also done some things like partner uh with UPC uh working on a upcoming project where we're looking particularly at our

119high schools because these are our students that are um preparing for post-secary opportunities and we know that's going to be a critical part of what they need when they graduate. Um so we're starting with high schools um developing a thing we're calling student AI ambassadors. So they would be working with the IT department and um directly and their campus leadership to provide um kind of a student layer of helping us navigate AI. Um often these students are bringing knowledge to us on a daily basis. So we're going to formalize that into an ambassador position. Um, another way that we're focusing on kind of at another layer is we know that our leaders that have to lead this, our principles at uh these school sites have to have a level of understanding as well. So, we've

120dedicated our all admin meetings to the theme of AI. Um, what's exciting is we've been trying to bring in keynote speakers to kick off those all admin meetings um experts in the field. So, we just had one in September where um Dr. Getson and uh Dr. Lindsay who work with NAU um brought in a keynote called AI in the education space and NAU is actually one of the frameworks we're using um for our district guidance and we're looking forward to this month we're going to have Dr. Mashira who is director of innovative learning at Marylu Fton College uh and he's doing a keynote for ASU education in the a generative AI. So, um, what they're bringing to our leaders is, um, I loved the first one because they were kind of saying, "Let's not be

121fearful of it. There's it's actually bringing a lot of opportunity and let us show you what that looks like." And I think our second speaker will bring that, too. This is just going to help our leaders embrace it and then be able to lead better, you know, the the people that they lead. Um, and as you know, we've talked about this, I think, previously, the KIGO pilot that we are um doing through AD, and we have 2400 students that are working with KIGO in grades fifth through 8th grade. And this allowed us to bring AI into a younger age range. Um, and uh, it is a partnership with um, Khan Academy. So, we felt very confident because we already have that going on. And we have been in the pilot for about a year and

122this uh and then this year as well. And so, um we're studying that to to see if that's going to be a possible um option for us going forward after the the pilot after um AD is no longer funding it. We'll probably need to make that decision if that's an AI tool. But that's brought us a lot of insight on on what is needed in those younger grades with younger students who are just learning how to prompt AI to help them in a productive way. Um and the other thing I might just uh highlight here too is along with our AI development and all our plans this idea of dig digital citizenship. And so this year we did because we're trying to build up understanding of um how to use AI um with uh you

123know keeping in keeping it safe for kids and then also just being um ethical about using it and you know avoiding plagiarism and giving it proper credit when we do use it. And so um our students K12 had uh digital lessons that were developed by the IT department. They're unrolling those with their students throughout the the year. Um AI really kicks in heavily again in the 10th grade. So our 10th, 11th, and 12th grade teachers will address um AI and how it's incorporated in instruction and how we should be using it. So those are just a couple of layers that we've working on. That's wonderful. And so is the idea that some of this work that the ITC committee is is working on like will be will some of that be public facing? Right? Because

124I know like as a parent if I'm trying to kind of figure out well what is the district's policy or you know how are we utilizing AI or how are we how are teachers ensuring that students understand what an expectation is for example on a particular assignment right like right the expectation might be you're not going to you know engage with AI at all or it might be right okay I want you to use it to research but I want you to tell me how you do it now or maybe I want you to do it without it and then with it and I want you to right whatever that is like how are those expectations I being shared with students and is there a way for a parent because I don't think there is

125now but is there a goal to get to a place where like a parent can go on our go on the PB website and have a clear understanding about how what our AI guidelines are >> that is one of the goals of the um the team uh one of the parents on the um committee has brought uh the Scottdale example to us so we have been looking at u what they have brought public facing and we hope to have something very soon that that we're comfortable posting That's exciting. Thank you. And also my kiddo, I knew about the con academy because he was piloting it and um I definitely had to have some conversations with him about don't get into fights with the chatbot. It's not really going to help you solve your math problems

126when he got frustrated. So >> Mrs. Christensen >> and yes um thank you for the explanations. I am currently taking some classes in artificial intelligence do not just through my own company but through um on my own continuous learning and I am doing webinars so I can do it from my own home. I don't have to go out of state to I'm sorry I couldn't resist that. Um however I I do have concerns with AI and I know that um Mr. Billings had indicated that it's AI with guard rails. There are no guardrails right now. And the more I learn, um AI is is growing and living and the prompts can be done. It can take on my um my way of writing and do it in seconds. It can take I can say please

127write this um governing board statement in in terms of Mark Twain take on the Mark Twain persona and write it. And there there are no guard rails right now. And it's it's exciting. And yes, um those that don't know AI will maybe replaced with people that do. Right now, it's not to the point where we're replacing people, but there are staffing thing. People are now starting to staff down and replacing a lot of tedious jobs with with this. But, um, the more I learn, the more I'm thinking, and I'm not fearful. I I do not live in fear. I'm pretty fearless. But what I'm concerned about with students is critical thinking, critical thinking skills because I can just plot things in and I'm you and I'm past chat GPT now. I've graduated um a little

128bit past that. But it's it's incredible. It's exciting. It's also very frightening in to see it in the education setting. So cavalier, you know, in so it's not careless. I I don't even know the words that maybe maybe the chatbot can help me with the words that I'm trying to c. What my concern is is we are we're removing critical thinking skills and because the bots now can think like us, they can think faster than us and move a lot more quickly than we ever can. Um, one of the tasks during my training, I had to take very large documents and download or put it into the chat and then it just condensed it in summarized bullet and it it was exciting. But in K through 12, h how do you test for that? You

129can't you can't test for that in terms of um, you know, cheating and things like that. So, I don't I don't see I don't see the guardrails. So, I'm sorry to be a downer, but I'm concerned. I am concerned. >> Miss Christensen, if I could um address some of your concerns, those are our concerns as well. Um and so, we want AI to be an extension of the human, right? Not the other way around that we're like the sidekick to that. Um in talking to Mr. Billings and having lengthy conversations about the position we're going to take and and how we're going to do this. Um the guard rails we have taken so far is in up until recent Gemini has not recommended AI in the classroom under age 13. So we have embraced that

130um as far as right now uh the only thing authorized with our our younger students is KIGO in the official pilot. Um not to say that students aren't using that outside of school. We know they are. But as far as um it's go but this would be considered a definite disruptor in instruction. If you remember back when we got the internet for those of us that were when that came along I'm like I have email now. Um yes and that was a disruptor back in the day. Um this is definitely a disruptor which means that instruction will have to change and that is a slower process to maintain that we understand that kids are critically thinking and they're not leaning on the tool too much. Um, so we are uh finding that harmony of what

131that's going to look like and what teachers ask students to do and are there things that we could incorporate AI thinking where we're being critical about what AI because that's really um it's how you prompt AI. It's not all accurate. Nothing can replace um expertise and um sometimes it does not have the multiple perspectives we might be looking for. So teaching kids to be critical of what it's telling you as well or how it's helping you is going to be a skill we're going to have to develop too. >> In my testing, it's definitely spitting out inaccuracies and um information that is untrue. I do have a question on filtering and internet safety. I know we're not making any changes to that. Um because we did have a concern that came in from a a

132district parent about a approved website, but with the something extension I think was changed and students were able to access pornographic material from our district devices. And I'm very concerned how we could close the loop on that with is that part of this, you know, filtering and internet safety concerns. I I just am concerned, you know, you give a child a device from a school and you think it's pretty clean and locked down. So, >> yes, M. Christ, we we make every effort to um have that not happen. I was directly involved with that that concern coming from that parent and we um had that locked down in about 15 minutes after he recorded it to me. So um in fact we take those try to respond as quickly as possible. Um and we are

133uh the vendor that they like mimicked we are bringing it to their attention as well because um the parent is also pretty tech-savvy and had brought um a situation uh where they had done the same thing to the white house um site like I like white house.com whitehouse.gov that they had taken that site and done something similar. I forget what the technical name is some typo setting or something like that but it's how things like that get hacked. So we're notifying the vendor as well just for the safety of all the clients that they work with and the children that they work with. Um and then we are going to meet with a parent to to get gain his insights if he has any to share with us. But um we try to mitigate that

134as much as we have our filters set very high um as required also by our insurance. They dictate what we have to set things at and we have those all in place. But unfortunately sometimes this hacking takes place and um we're particularly concerned that this was a um resource used by students and children and so whoever's doing that we're worried about that as well. So >> thank you. >> We're taking those those measures >> Dr. Lib. >> So I'm going to take us back to the devices though the AI conversation is always fascinating. Um, so I know our school day is classified as including meals, passing period during recess. And I know the biggest hurdles have been getting students to keep their devices in their backpacks during that time. Um, and obviously we know devices

135and the things like social media are built to want us to be on them. Like that's the entire issue with the current technology devices. They're they're built for us to want to engage with them. How are we using say our digital citizenship to start training kids early on appropriate uses for devices and how to engage with devices so that they reach a point where they're in high school and passing periods that they don't always go to their device because they've learned the skills to cope with not having their device and being present in the world without having a phone in their face all the time. But if you walk go past the high school every time at the end of the day they come out and they're straight glued to their phone. So, how can

136we help start early with that education process and how are we already doing that? Because I think we're already doing that to a capacity in the district. >> Yes. Um, Dr. Lim, great question. And so, I think our schools are taking multiple approaches to that. Um, and part of the digital citizenship, uh, that I, you know, as I'm recalling all of the the different lessons, um, some of the safety pieces are not putting your identity and all that. Social media would be included in that because things are tracked through social media, making sure kids understand that. We've talked about everything online is traceable. They think they might be invisible, but everything at the end of the day probably can. So, let's not talk to each other online that we wouldn't talk to each other in

137person. Lessons like that. um or chat bots. Yes. So um those are valuable lessons for kids in the AI generation to to definitely learn and the tech generation. So um those are and then of course in just instruction um strategies like in our new reading curriculum for Ksix we use Socratic seminars. Those are sitting in a circle and talking to each other, eye contact, presentation, all of those skills that they need to be developing um on the human side of everything. Those are all being emphasized through like curriculum and strategies like that. Um we have um building thinking classrooms that's all gallery walks, talking at posters, writing things down. So those strategies are still alive and well in our our instruction and vital because they're evidence-based and they're going to pull out all those critical

138skills that might disappear when we're using technology. I think my question just is that it's obviously I want those skills and those are important skills. How much are we helping tie the students to the like growing need? So, I'll give you for example, my kids don't use devices at home. Like, it's it's just I have a nine-year-old who is the only kid in our class that probably doesn't have an iPad and have access to an iPad or any technology. So, my kids have learned that devices are are not our go-to use technology. We either use the big TV or we get out a book or we talk to each other to the degree that I've actually been lectured for being on my phone. even if I'm doing work while at a family-like activity. My kids

139are now teaching me to the things I taught them. So, how are we tying these things to the technology that they're using and helping them understand that the the the devices all sitting up here being used are great tools and great things, but they're not always necessary for our lives. these lessons of sitting in these talking circles are not just teaching us good skills but good skills for us to step away from the things that we see everyone else doing and engaging with um and that we have made a central part of our life but maybe don't need to be as central as we've made them. >> Um Dr. Lyn, just for clarification, are you asking how we like work with parents to kind of communicate those messages for at home? I think that might

140be even my case is because it sounds like all we're doing is sending home a single sheet of paper and I'll be 100% honest I get a million sheets of paper that come home from the school and to be able to read every single one in detail. So how are we then say communicating with parents or communicating in the classroom these these novel thought processes that you don't always need to be on your device which then percolate into them being in high school and then always wanting to be on their device which is is a big challenge for everyone. >> Yeah Dr. them that is a very big challenge and we have worked with our parents in different ways um to from the limitations of screen time um some organizations have done like what's like

141in the normal range or what would be you know considered per age you know what they should be doing um I know different PTO organizations at the schools have taken some different approaches and they've had some uh different methods of communicating with their communities um and then ITC I'm sorry not ITC um UPC our you know IT department works closely with them. We just did a presentation on the digital citizenship and then that is shared with with all the PTO's um and they have asked for uh the materials um to access and so we are working on making those same lessons that teachers are using in the classroom available for our parents so that they can use them at home to help them talk to their students. and some of those will be on the

142screens and and using technology and not letting it dominate their time, you know, like you being present and things like that. So, we're making that available to our parents, give them the language and the resources to be able to talk to kids to home. >> Great. I I would love to see as these policies happen see that coupled work happening to help get this information out to parents because it seems like oh now we're saying they can't use devices in this way like working but there are rationale underlying this and reasons why these are happening and helping educate the parents I think is really important too because sometimes we're not always knowledgeable as to why something is happening but that information coming to us through multiple venues helps us understand and grow as well as

143parents so because I'm a parent and I'm not perfect So, does anybody else have Okay, I've got a general comment for Miss Copen, but um under we had a recommendation is to change for example parent notification to just notification which makes sense because we're expanding um who will be notified and I would just in in generals I would like to see us if we can expand beyond parents because certainly we have legal guardians that um you know we we need to acknowledge that that we that there are legal guardians beyond parents and so just in general and I'm just seeing it here right now so it's like I'm remembering that I sent this note to Dr. Corson um that you know if we can work on these things as policies come through to ensure that

144we're we're doing things like that. Another piece um several years ago when we overhauled went through every policy by policy uh at the time um we sort of talked about as a board the decision to make policies our own where we could where it made sense to you know bring this into this is what we do in PBUSD. It's not, you know, when when ASBA sends these out, it's it's very much it's generic because it needs to be generic. Um, and so where there's places where we might rather than just say the district, um, bring it into language that says the Paradise Valley Unified School District and if there's anything beyond that because it's the Paradise Valley Unified School District, that we can do that. Um, you know, often times a policy from ASBA that

145mentions charter schools. Sometimes I think it makes sense to to keep that in there as an educational piece that that people looking at our policies may understand that this is extensive that all districts and all charters may have to do that. But there are times where that, you know, why would we mention charter schools in the policies of ours? So, um, that's just a general comment. it just it you know tweaked my memory because this one specifically is is removing the word parent in one place for good reason. Um but I just think you know in general as as policies come to us if we can sort of start adopting that um I'd like to see that. So that's that's just my general comment. Does anybody else have anything on uh which one is this

146again? JD. Seeing none, thank you. We move to consideration of revisions to governing a board policy IKF uh graduation requirements and that again is M Miss Copen. >> President Grey, members of the board, Dr. Corson, the revisions to policy IKF graduation requirements uh bring the policy into alignment with recent changes in Arizona revised statutes. Changes worth noting including adding statutory language, describing the procedure uh when a student already has an official score from a state board approved test, a nationally recognized assessment such as ACT or SAT, how the poly policy explains how the district must document and report that score. uh clarification that the statewide assessment may be administered in a written format only in specific situations permitted by statute and requires statutory language regarding uh county operated accommodation schools and their ability to provide

147high school equivalency preparation um alongside a CT program. Um we have also updated reference five in this policy to recognize uh the AD allowable embedded credit uh for the.5 economics uh credit uh that we that you approved earlier tonight. Um and I am happy to answer any questions. >> Thank you Miss Copen. Does anybody have any questions or comments on the re proposed revisions to IKF? >> I would just echo your comments. um, President Greenberg about personalizing this um, for us. It looks like this one's got a lot of more just generic um, you know, district district or charter. So, just seems like I'm just highlighting it as a followup to what you just said. Does anybody else have any questions or comments? Awesome. Seeing none, we move on to I'm sorry, open a page.

148I7. This is considerations of revisions to governing board policy JLC, student health services and requirements. And I will turn over to Dr. >> Lindsay. Greenberg members of the board JLC for the health services trying to adjust myself here. Um policy JLC student health services and requirements Senate Bill 1383 amended ARS title 15 chapter 1 article 5 by adding ARS 15-160.0 03 which requires schools that provide routine health care services to students provide health care credentials and to schools to provide emergency response training information upon requests of a parent or guardian in PB schools. This would include our school nurses. ARS 15-160.03 does not require schools to release personally identifi identifiable information of school employees or healthcare providers. happy to answer any questions. >> Thank you. Does anybody have any questions on JLC? >> Is this

149Miss >> Oh, sorry, >> Miss Money. Well, I guess I just and I might just be getting tired admittedly, but um so for I for example, is there a reason why we feel like we would need to include that in the policy if I mean we know that it's law, but I mean is that is if if if a parent or someone was asking for that information, it seems like it would just be appropriate to say, you know, under the law like that is not something that would be appropriately shared with you. Um, is there a reason to actually explicitly I guess state that particular provision within within this policy? >> I I think it comes right from the statute and >> does it is it but does it have to be in our policy?

150>> Well, the ASPA takes the statute and then applies it to the policy. So, I think that's why it's in there. >> I don't know. Just something to think about is I I don't know. I I it seems like if we have updates in in the law, there updates in the law, we're going to follow the law. And I guess just in thinking about in terms of obviously that's how we would respond if it came up. But I guess I just wonder do we need to explicitly include it in as an update in our policy even though that you know that's the law. Well, let me go to Mr. I think it's nice to >> Well, yeah. On H they can request the type of training staff has had the required trainings that like include

151that video on bloodborne pathogens all the stuff all the teachers take in the district that's included in that too. Our lead nurses uh maintain a spreadsheet of all of the required emergency response training and so if a parent requested that information we would be able to provide that to them. >> I see. Thank you. Mrs. Christensen, >> I have similar concerns as Miss Wanie did with I um because it states here, a school district or charter is not required to release the personal personally identifiable information of a school employee or an individual who provides routine health care services to students, including the employees or individuals address, salary, social security. While I agree that information is not, you know, especially the bottom one, I'm concerned that um we have one of the strongest parent parental rights

152bills in Arizona and parents are the ones that have the right to direct the education, education, health, mental health of their own children. And so why are parents why is the district not required to release information about who is treating their child? the the way it's worded just bothers me. Um, individual who provides routine healthc care services to students. Are they is a parent or guardian allowed to know that because they have to have parental consent, correct, to be able to treat? Yes. >> Or am I incorrect? >> Yes. And we would provide there it's directory information so they would know who the individual is and and they can request their credentials. Um we're talking about more specifics about the individual employee, >> right? Because that stuff is private. I don't know how that >>

153it's kind of confusing. >> The wording is not clear. >> Okay, we'll take a look at that. Thank you. Does anybody else have Okay, since we're talking about I I actually think it is appropriate to keep information in, but I think if um you know, as Mrs. Christensen just pointed out, it may not necessarily be clear that we probably should take a look at it so that it's understandable that this is information we are not giving out because it's personally identifiable as opposed to the information we can. I mean, I didn't personally have that that issue, but it's obvious that that we might need to make this a little stronger in terms of what we can is what we can't. Anybody else on JLC? So I would just my my suggestion would be if you

154look at the statute the statute says on request by a student's parent or guardian each school district or charter that provides routine healthcare services to students in the school's health office shall provide the healthcare credentials. To me I think that's all we need. I don't think we need to say but we're not going to tell you their salary. Right? That's just the law. We're not we're not going to do that and we can cite the law if it's requested. Otherwise, it just is feels like it's not really appropriate, right, to be in our colony. >> I looked at it as more of anformational piece, which is if you ask for information, this is the information you can get. This is information you can't get. So, it's more of a don't ask because it's not you're

155not going to get it. That That's the way I looked at it. Not not that the you know just a yes for this no for this but I don't I I can understand it not being there >> just because if you look if we look at what it what the topic is right which is it's not just like for for requesting information right about employees if it specifically relates to and I can't because I have so many tabs open even find what it is but think student health services right so the information should I think relate to student health services and then the the additional guidance right and that's now well not guidance the law I think is appropriate but I don't know that it seems appropriate to me that it would be under this

156policy I think it creates some confusion and it's a little strange to me >> don't disagree that Dr. I just have one clarifying question um just to understand in more detail. So are all of our nurses um on site are they direct employees or do we have any nurses that are contract workers that are working for us because this seems directly to employees and if we have contract workers as nurses that seems like there's question there. >> Yes. Um thank you Dr. Lim. do have nurses, some that are contracted when we aren't able to fill those positions. And so our expectation would be those contract agencies work within our policies as well. >> Okay. Because it seems like we we then don't have the clarity here because it says specifically employees and does not account

157for contract workers. And I'm glad you clarified because my understanding was yes that we had contract nurses and that this would only apply to and it'd be good to know does this only apply to our employees? So contract workers are on a different set of regulations or does this policy apply to any nurse that's in our school? If so, we need to clarify that contract workers, contracted nurses may be on site providing healthcare as well. >> Thank you. >> Actually, I don't think it does say only employees because it does say credentials of each individual who provides routine health care, etc. Got it. >> And then the third one, if we keep it >> um still says school employee or an individual who provides routine. So I think I think that it's in there. >>

158Mr. Panta. >> Well, yeah. I have a different concern with I. It says this school district is not required to release the information. It implies that they may do that, which I don't think we should be allowed to do it period. >> Right? So, this is where I think this is kind this should be sort of a case- by case basis and the law exists to allow districts to make I think have to some discernment to make an appropriate decision here. That's why I think it it's again sort of oddly placed within this policy and I would agree that it's it's like just it's it's it's just and it's to your point too. It's confusing. Well, it sounds like this one's going to get another go around before we say anything. >> Yes, it will.

159>> Does anybody else have any comments about JS, but I'll make it soon. >> All right. Next is I8 and this is consideration revisions to governing board policy JLCD medicines and administering medicines to students. And back to Dr. Lindson. >> Thank you. Yes, Senate Bill 1440 amended all of those um AR statutes that you have in front of you to replace the term epinephrine auto injectors with Epinephrine delivery systems include the auto injectors but also now include manual injections which are either in vials or syringes or in nasal spray often to referred to as necking. There is an accompanying regulation that operationalizes this policy and I'm happy to answer any questions. >> Does anybody have any questions on this just a comment? I I think it it it adds clarity to that because it's updating

160old language. And so I I approve of this type of change because it makes it more concise. Anybody else on this one? All right. Next is I9. This is consideration revisions to governing board policy JLF reporting child abuse, child protection. And turn it over to Dr. Corson. Thank you, President Greenberg. Senate Bill 1437 amends ARS language relating to mandatory reporting. Although policy JLF already requires board members to report conduct involving minors subject to mandatory reporting, additional language has been included to ensure alignment with Senate Bill 1437. Definitions and headings were added to also improve the clarity to this policy. In addition, ARS15-160.03 03 provides guidelines on required identification from the department of child safety co case worker at a school visit. Happy to answer any questions you might have. Does anybody have any questions on

161JL? Is everybody looking? Nope. All right. Next is Oh, Mrs. Christensen. just in general. Um, I know that the district employees as well as the governing board members took took some mandatory classes online for mandatory reporting and I'm I'm concerned that people are district employees are fearful to report incidences and I'm wondering if there's a way for us for us to make sure that it that they know that it's safe and that it's not only safe to report if a child is getting harmed, but it's their duty and by law they have to do it because it seems we've had a number of whistleblowers that have I need to be very careful with my words here. We we have had concerns of students being harmed in one way or another. Um some of them sped

162children, some of them other children inappropriate things that would cons fall under the heading of child abuse and child protection. So, how can we instill in all of our educators that they not only should report but they have have a duty and they must report if they see any or suspect so that it can be investigated. Um my my concern is coming from being a mom and hearing things time you know over and over again and being on this governing board for the past three years. There's been a number of things that have been reported and then that individual may go away. But we need to ensure that that these individuals are being reported to law enforcement and the state board of education if they in fact are harmony children or if somebody suspects because

163that way somebody outside of the district can investigate and either clear their name or ensure that this doesn't happen again to another child in another district or another school. So this one's kind of near and dear to me and um I just I just want to ensure that we are following this and h how can we help the teach help any employee understand that how how important this is to to report. >> Miss Christensen I I certainly appreciate that advocacy. Student safety is absolutely our number one priority and we take uh incidences that are reported to us allegations very seriously because a child is our number one priority and so uh I uh appreciate that concern and uh we do follow all processes required in terms of reporting to uh agencies as well as AD

164when situations arise and they certainly are unfortunate. We never like when they happen and we take those very seriously when they do and we work to prevent those at uh every opportunity that we can including providing training to our staff. So thank you for that advocacy. >> Yeah, I would just like to say that every year that my 43 years here teaching one of the requirements is child safety mandatory workshop uh and presentations you have to go through. I even taught uh I was a charge of a summer school gift to summer school at Eagle Ridge at one time something something happened on the playground and I had the training abilities to make sure that was reported correctly to the police first etc etc all the way down the line and that child was safe.

165Um it's never been a situation where we've never looked at that or had the training for it. And I don't never know a teacher who's been afraid to step up and say, "Hey, I think something wrong with this kid." And and they made sure it happened without the proper procedures. >> Thank you, Mr. Panta. Does anybody have anybody else have any comments or questions on JL? Seeing none, next on the agenda is item one, uh, excuse me, I 10, consideration of revisions to governing board policy JLF, sex offender notification. First train, Dr. B. Policy JLF has been revised to include revisions to ARS 13-3825, including the addition of level one sex offender information and an additional notification requirement. I'm happy to answer any questions you might ask. >> Thank you. Does anybody have any questions

166or comments on JLI if straightforward? Okay, seeing none, we are at the end of our consideration with I1 uh the consideration of revisions to governing board policy JR student records. Dr. Corson. Uh thank you, President Greenberg. Under this recommendation, House Bill 2514 amends ARS language relating to parental involvement in schools and student directory information. Policy JR and also regulation JR have been updated to ensure compliance with the new requirements. Subheadings were added to the regulation to also support clarity and organization. I'm happy to answer any questions. >> Thank you. Does anybody have any questions on the proposed revisions to JR Miss Wani? >> Um, so under the new language for the directory information, um, I'm assum So I'm assuming that this is like sitebased typically directory information >> uh, in uh, can you expand on

167that question? in this one >> like is this are we talking about like at a at a like an elementary school and they have a directory and they this is where this is that what we're talk we're not talking about like a district we're talking about each school that has its own directory. >> Well Missy directory information is collected through each school through what we call an annual update which gives parents typically at the very beginning of the school year an opportunity to update uh information regarding directory information. Although that information or that ability to update that information is all year long, we do certainly make a push at the beginning of the year to do that and that push is made at each school level. We do at the district level have access to

168that information but it is >> okay >> graded at the elementary or middle or high school levels. >> Okay. And so if a and so in A2 where it discusses the right of a I guess again here I should say right the right of a guardian or or eligible student to refuse um the school's designate and where so where how would a parent indicate their refusal >> at the point of that annual update that I spoke about that oftent times is pushed out at the beginning of the year. it's in that uh time frame that they indicate uh that particular uh request. >> Is that the same like the there's like a check box and is that the same checkbox as like the media checkbox? >> That's correct. >> Okay. Um I I kind I

169would like to circle back to that. But if there are any other that check box, but if there are other questions about this, I will pause >> about directory information >> or any any of the policy. >> Well, yeah. I mean, if I'm if I don't want my students my child my students information shared with anybody, I check that off. That that protects it from being the government can't request that information about my my child, right? >> That's correct. We do not release that information as a district if that is checked. >> Okay. If I decides to come and want to get all the names of all these students and I've got that checked off, they won't get my information about my child. Right. Correct. Right. Thank you. So, in essence, um, you know, I'm

170I I've had kids who were here a while ago where we would have physical directories, right? >> And I don't know if schools still do that or classrooms still do that, but this encompasses everything, not just a physical directory, but a virtual directory. Correct. >> That's correct. >> Okay. So, if somebody says no, that applies across the board. >> That does. if you are correct, such as >> Okay, so that kind of goes a little bit to just where I wanted to dig in a little bit. Um, and correct me if I'm wrong and it's been a while since I've paid super attention to those little boxes, but there seems to be like a lot that is encompassed under that check box, right? So like if you don't want your child to be on districts,

171right, or like social media, right, or things like that. Um, and it also seems like this is encompassed in that as well. And we're if we're thinking about um you know sitebased sorts of uh sharing of either like photos or names or it's it's the kid's birthday versus you know like a districtwide awesome you know photos on social media. Is there a way for a parent to differentiate but and make different choices because I you know I could see reasonably a parent saying I want to be in the site directory. I want to be, you know, I want to be able to be contacted, right? I'm good with that. I don't want my child on or photos in any of the of like district or school social media, but I do want I do want

172my child's like photo to be able to be in the yearbook, right? So, I is there a way we can help parents in a way that is not, you know, confusing or burdensome, right? Because I understand we're trying to sort of streamline some of this stuff and make sure we're not mess because these are, you know, these are serious implications, right? a parent is trusting us to ensure that their data and their child is protected. But is there a way for for parents to make different choices there so that they can still feel like if they want to be more involved and give more um relief at the site, right, but limit it to that. Uh Missy, I do understand the interest in that and we would need to look at how we collect that

173information to see what the implications of that would be for us to manage that particular system uh in terms of being able to differentiate between different requests like that to ensure that we don't make a mistake in that >> because because I mean corre is that correct? Right now it's it's like kind of like the one box and it's like >> I believe so we currently differentiate Mr. Drogeek is that something you might have information on? >> I have limited uh knowledge because our department does use two of those boxes. I I believe there are four. One is in district advertising uh essentially the other iss one is the release of directory information to educational institutions and one is the release of directory information to uh like the military. >> So it just seems like

174maybe maybe there just could be a a sitebased sort of differentiation because I I would imagine most I mean most parents I sort of know or talk to that are making the decision that they don't want the release. It's it's not they don't not want their child to have you know their photo in the yearbook or photo right or photo in the you know media center at the school right or be in a directory. Usually it's it's those it's most of the other bigger things and they don't necessarily realize the implication I think of checking those boxes and there can be some kiddo disappointment especially in the elementary school level. We'll be happy to gather some additional information on that. >> Does anybody else have any Dr. W? >> Sorry, just like a clarifying question.

175So on uh A3, um it says a period of time within which a parent or eligible student must notify the school in writing. Is that this checkbox that we're referring to? And if it is the checks box after we've done that and don't remember how to get back to that form, do we have a place where parents can go to to engage the district without literally having to write something down formally and submit it to be able to change that during the school year? >> Yeah, that annual update can be updated at any point in the school year. We do call it an annual update because we do make a push at the beginning of the year to try to do that within the first couple weeks of the school year, but that's actually accessible

176all year long to parents. So when parents want to make a change, the school will often direct them to back to that same site where they can make that change. >> Okay? So if they were to approach their school site and say, "Hey, this policy says I have to get it in writing." They can point you back to that checkbox and be like, "You don't actually have to submit a written letter to me. You can actually return to that checkbox." and our employees, at least our staff, our front office employees would be able to assist with that. Right. >> That's correct. >> Perfect. Thank you for the clarity, >> Mrs. Christensen. >> To Dr. Limb's point, um, when we're cleaning up the the parent having guardian information, must notify the school in writing or online.

177Can we make can we clarify? Because writing to me is a cursive writing >> like the the way I read it. older than dirt. So that's what I when I read writing. Um but it does not imply online checkbox. So just to make it accurate, right? Anybody else on this last one? Seeing none, thank you and thank you everybody who stayed for that. Um, before we adjourn, I would like to remind you the next regular board meeting will be held on December 11, at 6:30 p.m. Miss Wani, may I have a motion to adjourn. >> So moved. >> All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> All those opposed say nay. Motion passes unanimously. We are ajourned. Thank you.