001flag United States [Music] America welcome welcome welcome to the meeting uh as we begin I want to welcome you we have a we are uh as want to say thank you for coming we lot ofs over the last few weeks and we're looking forward to some more great celebrations um at this point I'm going to move it over to the superintendent school for the present dat thank you Mr and just before we begin our presentation tonight I wanted to share some happy news with the community um tonight the board interviewed C to succeed Mr Myers principal of w high school and we're very happy to announce that we have off accepted our new principal will be Dr Andie [Applause] Smith tonight we're I'm really excited about our U our showcase that is just spot like
002here science and coding as a te through 12 continu we really grown a lot in this area over the past few years I know that we see our high school robotics team which is kind of the P resistance of our cing program but in truth we start cing in the very Elementary grades we introduce our students science and to the world of analysis of code even as they process through um Elementary in middle school so I'll handed over to are St thank you so much hi everyone my name is Christy tery and I'm the director of science for Long Beach Public Schools I'm delighted to be here tonight with the director of Technology Mr P Harvey the director of mathematics miss Monica Martin and student representatives from all grade levels in our elementary and secondary
003schools for my portion I have the absolute pleasure of working with student representatives from all four Elementary buildings and they are each going to go through some of the things that they love about coding that they get to experience in stem lar and spirit in all programs student enjoy plugged and unplugged activities and they learn Concepts and algorithms related to programs such as scratch blle and python the world of coding enables students to integrate across all different discipline areas from stem literacy art and physical education even thank you so much to the entire team that makes all this possible I'm going to pass the mic very shortly over to the students who are going to explain it way better than I ever could but I have to give a huge shout out to Dr Caitlyn
004King who's here in the audience tonight who used to be um a teacher in the area of spirit I believe and did a lot of ccul writing in the world of spirit but now Dr he works in other areas our entire stem team and the librarian Spirit teachers Miss Lori harfield Miss Tera Salvador Miss Hannah Gallow Miss Kylie Nichols Mr Matthew Jones and Miss H conin and without further Ado I'm gonna start with Emma who's going to talk about her experience in hi my name is Emma and I go to E school I love coding because you can explore many ways to create an interesting project I love using my creativity do many animations in my code coding is so much fun hi I'm Jackson and I School C has been interesting because I have
005been able to expore various projects to see complex codes then put them into my projects to make them better this helps inspire me and then complex things myself I other hi my [Music] name sorry Kay hi my name is Kaye Don and I goo and I love coding because it allows me to put critical thinking and creative thinking together to build a good project I have learned learn from failing at first is okay because I learned to learn from my mistakes and it will make my code even better and I grow from these programing challenges hi my name is Jackson lead School uh one big challenge I baseball cing that my I overcame it by using save to identify issues for example if I'm trying to get a value from Z to 21 by adding
006three each time and it's not working I can just put a save lock in the thing and by the time I press run and it a save lock if the value was over 21 then I'll know that I have too much code I also checked on variables after every event to determine which what was wrong this complex process involves many steps to achieve my goal and I also learned from fixing the bugs so if I ever ENC the same issue again on hi I'm har and I go to L school and I love coding because it allows me to create anything I desire and it opens the door to Endless Possibilities my favorite thing about coding is either working with a team or to perfect the code and hide the Imp Perfections when I oh
007no okay when I C I feel it say because I know there are no limits to what I can do I'm my name is Cole bar and I go to West Elementary School I love coding because it allows me to create my own world and bring it to life and it makes me be free to do anything and I feel like I'm the god of my own little world and anything is possible because of coding I learned that failing is okay because it helped me to do better next time and improve until my code Works hello my name is Patrick and I go to elementary school I hope because it allow me to be Crea Li reason why I like C is because I can make beyond what is a can life my bigger Cod
008Cho is flat L because it allows me to draw upload my characters with flaps back and hello my name is arinio and I love coding because when I'm coding I know that I can make mistakes and sometimes it's they're easy to fix but most of the time they're not and it gets frustrating but you learn a lot from the process and you can learn things that you don't forget from doing this and making mistakes is actually a good thing because it can make your code a lot better and it can help you not make as many mistakes in future codes hi my name is Gia and I go to Leo school I I enjoyed working on the international robotics competition in L because I really love coding and it's interesting to be able to code
009a robot to St challenge T the mission to the competition has been so challenging and it's been so fun to work to be able to work with the team to figure out how to solve all these difficult problems it has been so much fun challenging my brain in this competition thank you so much to our elementary Representatives we're going to pass the mic to Mr hard evening ladies and gentlemen of the board next up we have the Middle School presentation U of how we are presented coding to our students at the middle school through the technology department uh middle school students have an opportunity to take four different technology courses three of which have been coding to the as well as the Rob club which students participate in here tonight we have the S and
010some of her students to talk about uh the design research curriculum and how they're work with coding at the six level hi everyone I'm AER I'm a six grade Tech Teacher here at the middle school so over here I just have a quick overview of the topics that we focus on in our class um but for today's presentation we're going to be focusing on what we do for coding um we do primarily use the code.org application and on the next slide you can see some of the coding skills that they get to work on and some of the activity that they actually get to do in class so a lot of the coding skills they focus on is composing and decomposing sequencing debugging Loops events and functions and they do that with a bunch of
011different activities we do blog coding with Minecraft we do text based python coding with code combat and we also do code your own games and like a coding arcade with the option between block coding or text based JavaScript coding um on the next slide you can see some of the real world application skills that they actually learn while they're doing this coding on.org so they're working on problem solving critical thinking creativity communication and collaboration all at the same time um our first guest speaker we have for today is going to be cin he's going to be teaching you about the game that he created hi everyone my name is k and the game I created is a sport game I like to walk you through the steps I follow to make it first I started
012by setting up the scene and choosing the characters for my game I use block based coding to set the scene including the player the background and the ball next I program the controls using events so players can move the character around with the characters I also personalized my game changing by changing the type of score each time a goal is scored finally I tested my game multiple times to debug any errors and made sure everything works smoothly once it was ready I was able to share the game with my friends and Rel play also thanks for letting me share my game we have going to share her game hi everyone I created a flappy bir game called on cod. and I'd like to explain how I made it first I set up the game by
013choosing the same player obstacles and I programmed the bird to clap and play a s whenever the screen is clipped one I added logic using conditionals if the first hits the ground or an obstacle the game ends and the score sets to zero to make the game more challenging I use the loop to create gaps in the obstacle and program the game to randomly change the same player and obstacle every time you pass the R I also included a scoring system so players can earn points when they pass obstacles finally assessed out and adjusted the game to make sure it's fun and work smoothly thanks for checking out my andol we have hudon so hi I'm Hudson so I did a Star Wars game where the main character is to and you have to go
014around the map and collect the puff pick but every time you collect a character there's a chance of new puff pick spawns so once the puff pick spawns you have to pick all you have to collect them all and once you collect them all the game ends and you get a score and time about like how fast how manys you collected and how many more spawn than at the [Applause] beginning thank you very much so I have to six grade there are two more courses this multimedia and stem at the middle school in seventh and eth grade where the students are primarily focusing on programing language scratch which is again is a continuation of block coding with students have a little bit more of an opportunity to be creative with design designing their own characters
015and their own backgrounds and setting the logic and the variable as our students discussing here um throughout all these projects the students are going through the design cycle to make the changes as elementary students were saying to improve upon their mistakes as the design of the games and uh here next we have with us virtually is one of our eighth grade students talking and showing a little bit about what that again great student at Long Beach Middle School let me tell you about my coding project in Mr Santoro's class hi everyone I'm excited to share my Frogger game which I created in scratch the goal is to get the Frog safely across the road to the pond without getting hit by a car I program I program the arrow keys to move the Frog up
016down left and right I use the variables to track lives you start with three and if you lose them all it's game over but if you touch the spitting frog you earn a bonus life I also used Loops to keep The Cars Moving and conditionals to detect collisions broadcast messages help reset the Frog's position when needed these Cod and principles make the game interactive fun and challenging hope you enjoy playing and then of course as we presented last month with the robotics public middle school as well what you saw last month was the team very excited about the tele operative robotics that we're working with in all of these courses in the technology program we're trying to show the students not only what stem means but what it means in the sense of science technology
017engineering and math all can be connected to one another and the relationship they have to create unique fields of study by combining these different fields of science technology engineering ma become unique fields of study like robotic engineering for the students who introduced to computer science physics uh algebra and so what they worked with last month was a teleoperated robot where the students had to design a robot and program a remote control to control it and what they're very excited to be working with this month robotics Ste which is very similar to how the high school team has in their competitions are autonomous robots which means that they'll design a robot not knowing what the challenge is so when they show up some competition day there'll be an obstacle and there'll be a problem that they
018need to solve which they'll have to go write out the code program the robot and then it will run autonomously based on the information that they provide in the coding as well as receiving information through sensors like um touch sensors rotational sensors proximity sensors and color sensors where they will then program run robots actually run run and that feeds wonderfully into the high school robot program which we to present both last Mon's meeting next up we have this smart you the high school activities coures good evening my name is mon Martin I am the director of math 3 to2 and this is my fabulous math team I have two wonderful Math teachers who are running our um our coding classes that are here we have Miss Johnson and Miss ganc she was here last year
019showing us about our AP Computer Science class and Miss Johnson is new for our coding class so I'm gonna just throw it over to that uh thank you so much for all being here um I do teach the intro to coding uh intro to computer science based on coding class um I do have one of my students here he's going to introduce himself and cover a couple of the topics along with some of the projects one of um one of which he designed up on the board so I'm gonna pass it over hello my name is j Hudson and I in as we said inter the coding class for M high school and we went through a lot of topics like the history of computing introduction of BL programming Scrat like others for overview like
020of how like how the computer is like made like what type of software uses what like what's the hardware like what's I CP and all that stuff and then game development and cod HS along with programming for Carol do which is a mascot for learning like how to code how to move like around it's basically just learning understanding how it works and how it beats it out how the fundamentals of web development HML CSS websites overall and then we learn about like the different systems that different like how how it reach like different languages I all that and decimal binary and systems conversions applications cyber security fundamentals data en and ciphers from the future and the past and introduction to artificial intelligence this is one of the activities we did just to get used to
021like how cing works and you have to make it's like a go you have to make the ball the B to the back introduction screen to the game and and you move the [Music] M was talking before like a put down like some somewhere start have to make start like what it teaches you like how to move and there was like a there was like a thing where you could only move like left or right and you have to and you can um you have to like learn how to like think outside the box and learn how to do something when you're limited to it's like trying to bring up like critical thinking skills like when you have a situation that you can't exactly do got to like work arounds to do it and we
022as said we learn HTML CSS we learn like the basics of it like we learn how tables work how lists work headings paragraphs images and links and then this is one of the activities we did where game and it's like show how guess the development Works sense and you have to make it all like Ma and you have to like make a exit and this is the one I did with my um space and awesome it and we also learn about cyber security how to on the internet and like how to make a good password what a good password test offici M all all this stuff like we learn how to make like how to make a good password how like to stay safe on the internet then we also learn about like how they
023used to do it in the past and how they used to hide their information so anyone can just read it or if they're like play some something like that they didn't want they don't want the government know something like that so they they made they made like their own like types of code so that guys you had to decipher de code and and we also learned about some this we're going to this right now actually we're learning about like all the smarter assistants like how sear Works AI works like how they integrated into it and how like AI integration Works overall like how how does when I put my use my voice how does it understand what I'm saying how does it like how does it put into like text how does it understand that
024that's what we're getting into right now [Applause] hi everybody my name isov and I teach a computer science at the high school um in that class what's nice about that class is that it's desired for students who may not have backgrounded cing so anybody can go and learn about it um and that's designed to develop a foundation and build some underlying process with that so we have two students here Kona and is Cera okay so I use PlayOn to code this Waffle and I use I put in all the rectangles and circles so all the rectangles that you see and I put in all the dimensions and positions and then as you can see I use white circles and I put that when you click on the waffle it will make it look like you're
025eating a waffle and what's cool about it is that when I made it I put all the dimensions so that when we change the proportions so when you take you see waffle WID and Waffle height when you change those numbers it will make it so that the whole waffle changes proportionally and gets smaller so when I change to 100 it makes it smaller and I change it to 200 it get bigger [Applause] all right I'm Lou cab I'm in in LEL three and what I personally did was I built a hangman a website pretty much you can use friend wordss or customer let's say music for example what we basically do is just play H like um it uses a bunch of if statement a bunch of cles it also uses a lot so you
026have to kind of correlate the actual images to the amount of mistakes there are U for input and I know this all sounds super challenging for example I didn't know about cling until I was 14 I think 15 I think to this country at 11 and a half so I had no idea what this was and I know it can look super challenging for T like K previously all this words all this random stuff you don't understand about but really it's mainly logic and as you fall this steps you can I love coding you can build whatever you want pretty much so that's the main step and then for the class in high school I don't know if any of you are looking to join um It's a Wonderful class it's very much self-paced so
027there's no one like holding you back or no pushing you for example I decided to kind of Go My Own route actually I'm I'm looking to do engineering so I decided to go my own rout so I'm currently learning like python on my own CSS and all these other like learning all all these other languages so yeah if anyone wants to join I really recommend it and also for you guys there's so many resources out there in YouTube for free just start learning you are so much ahead of the curve like you start learning from now especially to engineering his understanding and so yeah that's pry much [Applause] it thank you all very much that's our presentation on coding [Applause] so I don't know if the board wants to say anything before our students out
028so above my head I remember many years ago I was in a meeting with Mr Harvey so so long long ago and he was telling me that they were going to be having some elected classes in the middle school about Co and I think what is coding who said don't worry that the kids know and he was absolutely right and and it's gone so far it's just so impressive I love the work that you all doing thanks want to reiterate what Bel you said we we're very happy to see that we're starting quoting at younger ages Tu it's going to be part of the future um I'm looking up there and I see M sweeper I see duck on pretty much I see Frogger I see all the games that I grew up on but
029I see you guys building them and I never thought that's possible and I know that coming in the next few years there's going to be so many Transitions and transformations of how much this is going to be used in everyday work whether it's building computer drawings for for architecture or um anything actually AI is pretty much going to be part of everything we deal with in the future and it's nice the kids are learning that now because people like me will not be able to figure it out um so keep up all the great work and stay focused and I'm very happy to see that part of this learning process includes failure and dealing with frustration because we all know how hard it is to be frustrated with something and this seems extremely frustrating it
030has a very small circumstance making a big impact so working through those frustration to us is is extremely valuable in the whole learning process so thanks and great job everyone yeah I have to say something you still have one of my young ladies who presented here today and you did a magnificent job AB two of you yes that's right I'm sorry both of you did the way you both spoke on top of that stage was amazing I loved hearing about how you're okay making mistakes that you learn from your failures and how much fun you had working with your coding you really did a wonderful job thank you so much for coming down and sharing [Applause] for the move on to the next not as exciting presentation but just as important all right with that
031being said Mr dito the floor is yours thank you this evening we're going to talk about the elementary program and when we're talking about the elementary program for the purposes of this presentation we're talking about our general education kindergarten Supply a couple of weeks you'll see we're going to talk about PPS and that will include our special education um and we're not going to be talking about prek during this and during this presentation so we talk about our elementary program P to five we're talking about four different function areas in the budget and see on the left is the function code a2020 and then a211 a 2610 a 2810 and those are supervision teaching and learning library and guidance you see the bulk of the expenditure are in teaching and learning and that's pretty much
032our teachers our classroom teachers AIS enl um specials all of that are incorporated into the a2110 this is districtwide so it also includes all of our locations whether it's west lindell's east or Leo you see in the third column from the left that's what we're proposing for next year 2025 26 our actual budget in the current year the dollar variance which is the change between what we're proposed and what the actual budget is and then the percentage variance in terms of what it is over the actual budget what is driving the increases and you see that there is a range of increases here um there are some decreases that are offset by some of the increases and here is the reason why we have step increases for staff on our new salary schedule so next
033year is new salary schedule with new rates and then for those staff members who are eligible to move down that salary schedule it is that step increase on the new schedule for that staff member we are also requesting an additional AIS reading teacher AIS stands for academic intervention services at East Elementary School an additional AIS math teacher at Leo Elementary School and an additional Wings teacher at Lindell Elementary School and wings as you know the acronym for what I need to grow as a student so you see here besides the salary increases for our existing staff we are asking for three new staff members at three of our elementary schools um we're also looking to reduce one general education class at East Elementary School based on the number of students that are moving from one
034grade to the next and and as we plan to do that you will see no class size above 24 students so we think that we can still have that reduction at e School in one of the grades for next year without having any class size above 24 further we have some adjustments throughout various line items in the budget you know we have about I think it's you know 36 pages of very very small print of actual line items in terms of our budget and some of those adjustments have to do with looking at fiveyear averages for example for our substitute coverages where it's difficult to really determine a trend because it fluctuates we try to do a 5year average so in some instances we reduce a budget line a line item but in some instances
035we increase based on that fiveyear average to try to approximate what next year's cost is going to be we also had some updates to supply line items to reflect the decrease enrollment because that's based on the enrollment in our schools we give each student certain dollar figure $87 for basic supplies classroom supplies and u based on some decreases you'll see some changes in some of the codes some may increase the supplies some may decrease based on the change in enrollment U we also increased our field trip allotment we used to do $36 per student based on the increase in costs we increased that to $40 per student and that may increase or decrease based on our projected enrollment at each Elementary scho School some important upcoming dates so today we're talking about elementary as you
036see March 11th in two weeks we'll talk about our secondary program that is our middle school and our high school April 8th we'll talk about special education and PPS that should really put PPS up there as well on the 23rd after our break the board will adopt their final budget which will then go before the community on May 20th which is our budget vote at trustee election and then by law the week before the budget vote is our budget hearing which is an opportunity for anybody to come up and speak and talk about the budget but it doesn't change the budget since it's adopted on the 23rd and that's the difference between budget adoption budget heing budget vote is the board actually adopts its Budget on the 23rd There's an opportunity for the public to
037weigh in on that budget on the 13th and then there's the final Community vote on the 20th of May now's an opportunity for the board members ask any questions about this evening's Elementary program presentation thank you Mr Theo uh once again I just want to thank you for putting together a budget that represents what we're trying to provide for the upcoming year thank you for explaining now it corelates to a function obviously the budget is is the associated costs and um fin Financial associated um needs based on the function of what we're trying to produce so uh thank you for the presentation and I open up to other board members thank you hi thank you so much for your presentation and I know that the budget tells the story what's important to our students so
038I really appreciate the fact that you was so willing to explain to ask everything so clearly bl by line um my question is I know everything has just become so so expensive um and and I see it here reflected in pretty much everything um but I also know that we've all discussed a decrease in so can you kind of explain how our increases are still so high even though we're saying see decreas in sure so for example um field trips right we know that our teachers are experiencing increas in cost in field trips um years ago you know the average field trip at the elementary level that $10 you know some of it was free and some of it was you know significantly more but we did some research on on average it's about $10
039a trip we say what we're comfortable with in terms of students being out of the classroom is no more than three so we allotted for three trips at $10 few years back we raised that to $12 now we're raising it to really just $40 and they're just going to give them that lump sum whether they want to go on one trip per student or a few trips and break it up it's up to them but because there's a decrease in enrollment right depending on school that line item May fluctuate you know so for example some of the schools between current year and next year that line on with kill chips may actually go up or go down depending on what we're projecting the enrollment to be so there's an example of how cost the individual
040cost of an item like going on a field trip is going up but the overall cost depending on how many students are in a particular Elementary School may go up and down to on a particular school's enrollment um utility costs that's an example not necessarily in this budget but in the facilities budget it costs a certain amount of money to run a building whether you have 300 students in an elementary school or 400 students it cost money to turn the lights on to keep the heat at a certain level those costs have been going up regardless of the number of actual students who are actually occupying that building so there's another example of the actual cost going up the unit cost going up regardless of what's happening with en so examples of that so since
041we've also been talking en why are we saying that we need to me positions well good question so let's first start with wng so at Lindell Elementary School based on the class configuration and we're talking about some of the special education classes you know we have some students in those classes that can integrate with their years of the Great level and some who are unable to do so and need a special class what they needed is that additional Wings teacher because of the Elementary schedule in order to make sure that you know the students get exactly the support through the teachers that they needed that they could do it based on just the two Wings teachers because of the number of students and also there number of students that are in the special classes similarly
042um at Leo I believe it has to do with and Dr G I think it has to do with the the students who are eligible for AIS but also the special classes there as well it's the same situation division of students so the wings period is both our intervention period and period and in both and Leo because their stent population is higher when they split those classes they're not necessarily splitting three onade level weot teach building we realiz we really needed an additional teacher and then the third one has requested additional reading support so and really what it based on this Conway it has to do with student needs which may differ based on enrollment so it's not always a correlation to the actual number of kids in a building it has to do with
043the needs of those particular students but at times does have to do with class composition and the number of kids but it also has to do with the need so there are three different ways in which we look at determining what's needed in terms of these increases then the decrease has to do with the fact that you know we have class sizes that are very very small um coming up and moving to the next grade that really are able to be served by two sections instead of three because the class that's aging out that's moving up to the middle school is larger number class that's coming in in terms of the way that those classes are moving along school thank you and again it doesn't have to do with pre you just else just thank
044you for your hard work explaining really break it down and make thank you covered Board of Education comments now student organization how are you class Olympics just happened now two weeks ago and unfortunately while the seniors didn't win everybody had a great time and it turned out fantastic this year we had more participation than ever in the highest turnout we've had in years now that class Olympics who finished we we're discussing changes and additions that can be made for the following years one of the additions we're discussing at the moment is the introduction of sports challenges throughout the year for class Olympics points moving on from class Olympics we're now focusing on fundraisers for the rest of the year as well as pushing for our final blood drive which will be on April 25th finally
045I just wanted to say congratulations to the sophomores for winning class Olympics and I'm so proud of all the grad and on a side note as someone who's going to be going to school for computer science in the fall I'm very happy to see coding being introduced to me as early as the elementary schools thank you um I just have one quick question for the blood a are you going to encourage Community involvement or you just for the high school Community uh we looked into it and unfortunately we're unable for we're unable to do community involvement it's just available for students and teachers okay thank you thank you so much for the presentation on your involvement it's always great seeing your presentation of students uh now we're up to questions and comments from the public
046on tonight's agenda only any item from tonight's agenda would you like to make a public comment see a very quiet group we will move on quiet group is a little bit skewed this the sea you see a blank blank aori just stage right stage left in your case seems I guess for obvious reason I think holding out their comments for later on not sure Smiles in there head figures um Treasures report for January 2025 has been posted uh looking for approval of minutes for executive session of the regular meeting of February 11 2025 and ex session work session from February 25th 2025 back have a motion motion second second B yes M Conway yes Ryan Yes M Cas yes and I vote yes thank you so much uh now moving on to presentations of the
047superintendent thank you mrto I'd like to present consideration to the board cated personel including my recation for ten Christoper [Applause] you didn't vote yet guys though is there a motion motion motion second second Miss how do you vote I vote Yes yes sorry yes Dr Brian I yes M case yes and I vote yes thank you I apologize through a little discussion to our vote but I'm off bring the floor to the board on the topic that is s okay Mr weel I had the pleasure of working with you at the high schools and also on Saturdays when we would proor SATs and acts together um I just want to express to you my sincere appreciation for your hard work your dedication all of the achievements you have made for this district and for our
048children here um I offer you my continued support for your future endeavors and I wish you all the best for a very long run here at Long Beach I just want to say I I have your speech I just want to say that you know congratulations when a school district does Grant tenure it's a very serious charge to give somebody a lifetime appointment in terms of the position we don't take that Authority or that power that we have that responsibility lightly so I want to Echo this said is based on your performance obviously you had quite a fan club as the PLO and I'm sure on on your work ethic and ter of your your responsibility to the building and to the children and to the parents of the school so on behalf of what
049I congratulate you I say it's part of the 10 year speech that in granting tenure I'm hoping that 20 years from now that you're still as responsible you're still as enthusiastic you're still as popular with those with whom you work because obviously you create an impression and it's our hope that that impression will only get stronger the years to come so congratulations and good luck to you I Echo the sentiments of both missel and Dr Ryan and I just want to keep it brief congratulations Chris well deserved great keep up the great work great fan club I'll add um first of all it's so nice to see everybody here and we do bring me quite a crowd um but also thank you for your dedication to multiple roles in this District you know I I'm
050married to a teacher who's been in the same role and is never going to give up that role because part of having that role and having your tenure you don't want to give it up you never know what's going to happen especially nowadays with budget you've been through it with us you have been through it the last three years so thank you thanks for sticking with us and um we appreciate you I Echo everyone's sentiments and just thank you for all you've already done and you will continue to do um in your long long for here so so congratulations I think you have a club here Mr but I also remember meeting you and I remember feeling that you were somebody who really cared about relationships and about the students I this is just gr
051of all of that and all of the parents who speak so highly of you so thank you so much for focusing on the relationships for building the relationships and for putting our students first and I look forward to continuing wonderful things congratulations and I ask the consider item two motion by Dr Ryan is there a second second any discussion I just want to congratulate all the um administrative staff that have completed a probationary appointment for the new roles titles andse vote I vote Yes yesc Yes M yes and I vote Yes is there motion second by any discussion um oh I I I just really want to I really appreciate um the donation of the aeds we need they from the foundation so I really want to give a big shout out to them thank
052you so much we really appreciate it um also speaking to that point these uh this donation Eads is something that we've been working very uh it's a very important movement for us in the district if you can tell if you look around all the schools and all the fields we've actually updated all the locations with easily accessible s um even this week it was a high school referee had a heart back medical condition and the ad was used to revive them um so it's definitely a focus of us on the board to make sure that we keep the district and the students and the staff and the visitors as safe as possible uh and the increase of these accessibility uh and function functional ads uh really STS to that point uh getting them donated is
053is a huge thing uh because they are costly and I'm just really happy to see that we're moving forward with this thank you so much for the donation and and I also want to give Mr Pinto a big shout out with this because Mr pinto and Mr Este have really done a lot of work in this area they really took it to heart to make sure that we would have the ad to help keep all of our students safe so than thank you that as well also very helpful so you yes Miss yes Ryan yes and I'm sorry Case yes and I vote yes thank you um so at this point we're going to move on to Board of Education comments new and old business just wonderful thank you so much it's so wonderful to
054see all of our students so excited about um coding I was just wondering when were saying oh it's wonderful that we brought to our Elementary grades but there are a plethora of activities that are available to children who we were younger like second grade first grade fifth grade that are more handson to help introduce the students to the voting do we have such activities now in place or are we looking to put such activities in place yes have um we didn't have the younger students come and present we kind of thank you I don't normally stand here um we do have um a lot of Hands-On activities at the Young grou we had a lot of students that wanted to talk about their experiences ining so we really just chose the fourth and fifth graders
055to talk about their like Capstone experiences at the elementary level but one of the things that I have learned in this role is that there is so much to do not in front of the computer even though computer science is great um and we see it w throughout so many things there's a lot of learn building blocks that take place with a lot of mules and Hands-On activities that's not with the screen it's one of the things that we're actually really proud of that thank you um anyone else I just want to say uh we have some great celebrations and exciting news in the district uh some of our sports teams and one of our business teams did really well they moving on National so along with our wrestlers are doing great our om team
056is moving States we found out that our um DEA Club is moving on to Nationals and our high school game is moving on to Nationals too so that's all a lot of excitement they all fundraising efforts going on online so if you see them oh sorry High School hockey I apologize High School hockey um they all fundraising efforts out there if you want to help support them it' be great to get them over there um and one more thing um just when was that PSA put out about the road safety was that prior to the last meeting they were just putting it up that meeting right so um just to introduce something that Miss con was working on she's been really taking the forfront on us trying to improve safe boots to school specifically in
057Leal Boulevard it's not exactly our students that are operating in an Upstate manner it's actually drivers going to work or commuting that have created an environment that's feeding uh in that area so they get a great PSA if you haven't seen it go look online it just brings a little more attention to focus for safe practices on Le Boulevard and I want want to thank Miss Conway and all the students and teachers and staff they were involved in making this PSA it was a great collaborative experience and hopefully the message gets out to make sure it's safe for our kids especially as the warm warm warmer days are ahead and they can be taking their bikes and walking to school more often i' would like to thank the support of the board thank you so
058much for helping me with this endeavor and to the City of Long Beach was really very very welcoming to us and allowing students to post their on their social media any other comments for sir I just want to ask the superintendent of Dr want to feel the question that the new state had an article today in terms of AP among different school districts from as County they broke it down in terms of districts that received the Platinum that received the gold that received the silver or bronze designations for through participation in AP exams somehow I didn't see the long be listing in the paper you among the 54 55 very well may have been my eyes in terms of missing it but where do we stand and terms of APS school yeah so doc we
059don't um qualify for that because we while we offer some AP classes we offer mostly ID classes I think you've noticed Rock the center and lo Valley are not in the list either so you know AP has their own qualifications for certain Awards and part of the qualification is that you have to walk B AP classes if you look at our AP and IV participation in total though we actually have a very high level participation and a very diverse level of participation we're really proud of thank you any questions or comments from the public on any topic hi Daniel for this East Street um I was going to say thank you again for the opportunity for the kids to come up and speak uh my fifth grader was up there and he was very proud
060and my second grader um actually came from his coding enrichment today and sat during the meeting and was so excited to say I use that oh I do that you know just so it's it is definitely starting young and he's very excited uh by it um I had a question about um it was about the presentation um earlier but what grade is getting the reduction at e School fth fourth going into fourth going into fifth what determines that is that just the class SI yeah pretty much so there's three classes right now that are very small that we didn't class this year to of all the other um controversy at East but um one of them is actually class also so there's a very low students easily it's okay and then um the uh I
061I I don't know if it's determined here but the prek parent tourist who what where does the timing for those get determined you know and I know that you know going later or earlier in the day it was based on the nuan there okay because I I just found out that um uh e school is at 8:30 and there's no children in the school then I know we have um student um uh Advocates right you know um because the little boy that's on the stage will also be a school early to show parents around and uh which I felt that was such a responsibility for him because when I tour e school they all the the uh administrators walked around saying hi Johnny hi Susie hi you know and they knew all of the kids'
062names and that was so um powerful to me and that was one of the reasons I chose echool and I feel like with no children in the school when parents are touring that's a you know a a limiting factor I feel like it doesn't um allow eSchool to Showcase all of you know what they have to offer with no one there yeah I know that we um a couple years ago moved to doing all the visitations on one day after Fe feedback for parents they didn't want have to take more than one day off from work um so someone has to take an early slot but and I believe that thep there which they want I believe that that was a preference versus a for so I think it could be a conversation and it's
063not and I appreciate that okay thank you so much um anyone else from the public would like to speak on any items great thank you um announcements long te Association hello everybody Karen CTA uh thank you to Mr Harvey M and Miss Martin for the presentation with all the kids as you all said coding is great and I can't believe how much is going on with the younger kids um a huge congratulations to Mr webel who we are very happy for and excited and another huge one which we'll celebrate I guess at the last next board meeting but to Dr spent who we are all very excited and thank you administrative supervisor PBS Mr how are you good evening hepg thanks M Mr Harvey and Miss Martin for the presentation along with the teachers and
064students coding a wonderful on the classrooms thanks also Mr for your Elementary budget presentation and on behalf of as PPG we'd like to congratulate Mr webble on as well serve 10 years as assistant principal of Leo Elementary this is a significant Milestone his career was Testament to dedication leadership unwavering the students staff School Community I was going to give them flowers I thought get a plant so I got them [Applause] both thank you Mr sea speak no comment okay sounds gooder Association come on down okay um first off congratulations to Mr amazing working years and I you all look forward to working with you and you're just amazing with the students and we all really enjoy um also congratulations TOA odyy of the m and theey team anding and thank you so much to Dr
065gager Dr Dr Ry for showing up to the Odyssey of Mind Regional but um be on the lookout for plant information question are there a lot of like PPA nights coming up like fising nights in general or theing night going on I know my was last night com yes I West we were just talking about doing something night out I'm not sure what going on but we're all going to be doing different things I don't think the Middle School is but I know that something theel for well great thank you so much um with that motion forour motion second anyone second have a great night St thank you again