001welcome everybody to tonight's meeting uh we have a forum sorry we're actually a few minutes late we do have AUM with all board members present so I would like to begin by United States stand questions to comments regarding tonight's agenda agenda approval you the motion to approve the agenda items 5 a 7 a discussion so I would like to say something the Board of Education would like to take a moment to recognize an item on tonight's agenda which is contract agreement for Dr SoDo as a superintendent of schools commencing July 1st 2025 Dr SoDo took the role of intern superintendent of schools on August 6 2024 and over the last seven months the board worked closely with him and witnessed his determination leadership and genuine commitment to the community We Believe Dr stto is a
002person of integrity and truly wants the best for our children additionally the board conducted a formal evaluation of Dr stto this year and determined that he possesses the necessary leadership traits and passion to bring about positive change and move the district forward also as an employee of the district for the past 21 years Dr stto has built solid relationships and granted the support of the leadership of each unit in the district we are very confident that these relationships will continue to grow to generate a continued commitment toward Excellence um for our students it is for these reasons that we welcome Dr Ricardo SoDo as our superintendent of schools affected July 2025 we look forward to exciting District happenings and student achievements under fa leadership yes congratulations thank you thank conratulations um I can I I'd
003like to thank the Board of Education for bestowing this trust upon me I know that um this is something that we have worked collectively with in terms of looking at ways that we can improve the district things that we can do collectively to ensure that the district moves forward I'm very excited and humbled to continue the work for the district and it is my home so it is I sort of that added plus three I got to know all of you over the last seven months some of you longer and I think that we have all the ingredients to move the district in a very positive way moving forward I I see great things happening for the C School District so thank you again for once again having the trust public comment comment members of
004the public desire to address or question the board on any topic related to board work are welcome to do so at this time speakers are requested to sign up with District cler prior to approaching the board indicate your topic of comment keep comments brief and to speak for no longer than three minutes to appoint a spokesperson if the concern is a group concern and to supplement verbal presentations with written reports if necessary or desire conratulations I just have I know tomorrow's committing but this is just in regards to the star assessment at the um Elementary School um I'm just a little um unsatisfied how we um put the star been out there for our youngers to take and it seems like many parents don't know a what it is and B the result of them
005um I inquired and I got the result for my children um I don't feel like it's a true depiction of their actual abilities um discussion so I just kind of put upon you to kind of further look into the star assessment is there a better way that we can use some sort of for formative assessment other than computer based now we have smaller class sizes so can our teachers give a better assessment than a computer um and just things like that just something to kind keep in mind sure okay I would like to address a couple things that you mentioned one is that you are correct in terms of getting the information out to parents we are going to be sent something out something out in terms of a correspondence explaining what the score assessment
006is how teachers utilize it and how we utilize it to kind of for inform our instruction in addition to that we will be sending out the assessment that is uh built from the Star Sy from students so that is the two components that will go out sometime I want to say within the next month or so we all prepping for that right now and in terms of looking at it for data to inform our instruction it's only one data point it's one item that we feel is research based that teachers can utilize to just get a sample of what's how students are performing it doesn't necessarily is the only indicator to show students progress because there's a lot of anecdotal material that teachers collect a lot of internal assessments but it's just one data point
007so we are making a concerted effort this year to communicate with parents to inform them what it is and how we utilize okay I guess it's just more the financial application like program we for I also we know how much it cost per year I want to say in the 20s like around 20 something thousand I think off the top of my head so again just to kind of look into like is it I know it's one piece but is it a piece that's being used to really entail like what our students are receiving and that $20,000 can use it for additional resources is right there kids who are struggling and kids so how are we those kids are exceeding we have resources to challenge them so just to think about $20,000 is a lot
008of money that we have a computer looking at our kids and I think now it's more class size is our teachers give a lot more insight than thatr so and sorry and we will definitely consider that moving into next year's budget yes is there anybody else okay our next Board of Education meeting is Wednesday March 12 2025 um exective session at 6 pm and the Action meeting will be approximately 7.m in the C meres High School library we are going to adjourn the public session for now and we're going to go into executive session so when the board convenes from executive session no action motion toj of [Music] meeting okay motion to move into executive session to discuss negotiations conducted pursuant to the law involving the cmaa and cmta un second yes