Capo USD Regular Board Meeting 5-15-2024

001e e e president ciano's live stream is now in progress you may turn on your mic and start the meeting good evening and welcome to the May 15 2024 regular board meeting of the cistron Unified School District the meeting is now in session and the time is 510m Miss Hayes please call the roll trusty buus is absent trusty Davis trusty Jones here trusty Pritchard is absent trusty hanich here trusty Parham is absent trusty castanos here Miss Hayes before the board recesses close session is there anyone that would like to speak on a Clos agenda item there are none okay the board will now recess to close session to address the following agenda items A student expulsions two cases B student student readmission one case conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation significant exposure litigation one case

002conference with labor negotiators CUA CA Teamsters Kuma unrepresented employees conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation significant exposure to ation three cases conference with legal counsel existing litigation significant exposure litigation one case public employment and evaluation of performance superintendent liability claim significant exposure litigation one case board will now recess to close session thank you e e e president ctios the live stream is now in progress you may turn on your mic and open the meeting good evening and welcome to the May 15 2024 regular board meeting of cupano Unified School District the meeting is now in session and the time is 7 o' as a reminder per board policy 9323 meeting conduct request to address the Board of Trustees will be accepted only until 30 minutes after the start of Open Session please also note we

003have Spanish interpreters attending this evening's board meeting and they are available in the back of the room also if you if we have any students registered to speak on an agenda item we will hear them before any adult speaker oral Communications is an opportunity for the public to comment on issues that are not on tonight's agenda her board policy the total time allotted for oral Communications is 20 minutes with a maximum of three minutes per speaker the per speaker time may be less if there's a large number of speakers under California law board members cannot respond to non-agenda oral communication comments we would also like to note that while the public has the right to speak the district does not condone speech that may be perceived as hateful or discriminatory the purpose of a school

004or a school district is to teach in addition to typical academic subjects we want to teach young people appropriate behavior and respect for other points of view our students are watching and listening to all of us we appreciate your support tonight in modeling respectful and productive public discourse for our students and our community okay Miss say we please call the role student board member Pierce here trusty bullus here trusty Davis here trusty Jones trusty Pritchard has it trusty hanich here trusty Parham here L casanis here all right for the Pledge of Allegiance tonight uh student board member Pierce would you like to lead us in in the pledge thank you United States I have a motion to adopt the agenda moved okay moved by truste Davis seconded by truste Parham Miss hes please call the

005student board member Pierce hi trusty bullus hi trusty Davis Hi trusty Jones hi trusty Pritchard trusty hanich hi trusty Parham hi trusty casan I motion carries 70 by a roll call vote to adopt the agenda with a preferential vote of I from student board member Pierce all right at this time is will you please read the report from post on agenda item 3A student expulsions trustees voted 502 to approve staff recommendation on the following cases case number 202 424 case number 2024 026 on agenda item 3B student readmission trustees voted 52 to approve staff recommendation on the following case case number 202 through 039 on agenda item 3 SE Conference of legal council anticipated litigation no reportable action on agenda item 3D conference with labor negotiators no reportable action I please strike that from the

006record on agenda item 3D conference with labor negotiators trustees gave direction to sta on agenda item 3E conference with legal council anticipated litigation trustees voted 70 to approve staff recommendation on the following cases ADR case number 22449 case number 2024 0417 case number 2024 0422 on agenda item 3F conference with legal council existing litigation trustees voted 70 to approve staff recommendation on the following case oah case number 20231 100097 on agenda item 3G public employment and evaluation of performance no reportable action on agenda item 3H liability claim trustees voted 70 to approve staff recommendation on the following case government claim number 231982 that concludes my report thank you Miss Hayes at this time I'd like to recognize superintendent Dr Chris Brown good evening everyone and welcome to the May 15th board meeting board meeting you

007know may is deep into the season of celebrations senior award we're getting ready for graduation um it's a really fun time of year to go see everything that our students were accomplished and it's my favorite time of year as I get to go and celebrate with them one of the things we do in May is we conduct an annual survey of our cusd seniors to see where they're planning to attend in the fall and and I just wanted to share with you some of the amazing places that we've heard so uh we have students with acceptance letters from Brown Cornell Harvard BYU rice Notre Dame Stanford Pepperdine John Hopkins per USC Chapman uh local community colleges universities across the country including uh overseas the University of zadar in Croatia is where one of our seniors

008will be attending next year um we have students attending military cies we have students going to West Point the Naval Academy the Air Force Academy we have students who will be going directly into trade schools and Technical Schools starting their careers preparing for Independent Living which as we know is the dream of all parents to have their kids successfully living independently um and really it's our incredible teachers and our classified staff who work tirelessly for our students many of them have been with us for 13 years uh to help them achieve all this success along the way and it's a lot of success as we've shared in in previous board presentations in last month if you look at the California state dashboard it shows that uh cusd students on average are 47 points above the

009state standards for the grade level of EA students are really doing FR and there are 17.2 points above standard in math and as we all know math is in crisis across the country and in Capo our students are outscoring the standards um if you look at school rankings we know that on the California dashboard blue and green are the schools that are ranked very high and high uh cap has 47 schools in those rankings in ela and 42 schools in math that's more than most districts have schools period um the district has more than 30 schools that are categorized by the state as increased or significantly increased so not only are students in kappo scoring very high they're also growing they're increasing their scores at a rate that is not seen elsewhere um and and

010as you've heard me say before we're one of the first districts to to get our scores to back to pre-co levels in ela and math in a lot of our schools uh so that really the dashboard data is clear the California state data is clear Califor or Capo has high standards of achievement the trend is to improve those standards so we're not satisfied at high standards we're going to keep going um we also want to cele the fact that many of our students have choices here that don't exist elsewhere choices like the CCA College and Career Advantage Program where they can take technical education courses they can take uh certificate courses they can take things that add some relevance to the the high academic rigor classes that they're taking so they understand the why I

011have to learn this question right because they can see it in practice um and these are things that help them with their post-secondary Journey gives our students the knowledge of what they can or maybe don't want to do when they leave some of those classes Maybe yeah I'm not interested in that as much um and and really when you look at CTE courses our students are excelling at those as well and they're scoring uh near the top of the state so I just wanted to close the May meeting or the May regular meeting I should say by saying congratulations to our students who are wherever they are moving from one grade to another or moving out of our system and into their post-secondary options you guys have done a phenomenal job in the last 13

012years um and thank you to our teachers and our staff for making that happen so good job students thank you um trustees any comments this evening okay go ahead trusty had a check while I figure out technical problems okay maybe I should put my on too okay I scripted myself out so I'd stay on task um every year at this time I reflect and frankly Marvel that we have a student board representative sitting alongside of us when that student applies they have no idea what the upcoming School District issues might be it could be one Year young lady found out from Dana we were going to change the calendar whereupon she was accosted out in the parking lot that calendar was not very popular um but each of the student leaders brings their own level

013of Engagement and diligence but most importantly they bring their in the trenches student view and experience which is imperative it's reminder of the why and what we do and who we serve Tyler you have been Grace Under Fire and I appreciate your professional demeanor Clarity and how you have rendered that important student voice and I can't thank you enough so best of luck wish you the best thank you other trustees sorry I don't have my systems not oh thank you trusty b b well a super Brown said this is a very exciting time of year and we're coming off of a very exceptional learning year um so like all the rest of the trustees looking forward to the senior Awards the graduations and all and um it's only 11 days left of school and yet

014the board continues to meet during the summer and uh trustee Jones is going to share a little bit of more detail but uh as delegates on the California School Board Association we're headed to Sacramento this weekend um because if you're probably reading in the newspapers there is a real California budget crisis we have a governor governor Nome who would like to borrow from prop 98 to help backfill um some of the problems that we have the problem with that is constitutionally that funding is guaranteed for education and when you start going back into a prior school year of 2020 2 2023 to borrow from the past to pay for the future it sets a precedence and um our California School Board Association is really working hard legislatively um to point out the wrongs in that

015and so our big topic this weekend is all about the budget um that our superintendent has been talking about and trying to share with you all um in Prior months so with a little further explanation trusty Jones will tell you about prop 98 and what we're headed for this weekend um to talk about our school district and funding so that we can continue the exceptional programs uh and all that we have to offer those are my comments thank you trusty John so I actually want to start with the good news instead of the bad news but I do have good news and bad news so each year the state of California Awards a California distinguished School recognition to Public Schools including charter schools and um that have made significant gains in closing the achievement gap

016for their students this is important for all students because when the achievement Gap is narrowed every student has access to more challenging academic work than they had before schools don't apply to be California distinguished schools the state finds you it's not a beauty contest it's not about who can complete the most impressive application it's based on a school's actual achievement data this year secondary schools were the ones recognized and six CD had six awardees bams hanky Middle School asenia Middle School Los Flores Middle School Marco Forester and Niguel Hills a lot of charter schools and other districts were recognized at distinguished schools but no CD Charters were recognized I am honestly really proud of all these schools but I'm going to talk tonight about Marco because it's my own neighborhood School California has over 7,100

017middle schools and Marco is now ranked number 738 placing it just outside the top 10% it hasn't always been like this at Marco many schools struggle with the changing needs of a changing student population and frankly a changing world but I think Marco's staff has actually found a sweet spot several years ago this board established a the CD vision of an unwavering commitment to Student Success and the Marco staff exemplifies that commitment the growth in student learning outcomes at Marco has been tremendous the teachers and other staff operate on the unwavering belief that they can help more students students achieve at high levels by working cooperatively together than they can do each alone I think Marco principal cat Thompson Mark cat would you raise your hand um uh said it best so I'll just quote

018what she said when the S on Capon city council recognized the work of her staff cat said raise your hand again I think they want to see who you are okay okay well let me let me read her quote First this is a huge honor but really the honor is in seeing what we get to see every day in our students our driving force in the work we do is what we believe students can do and our Collective beliefs about how we meet their needs is ultimately what's going to determine the levels of achievement they reach do stand up cat I didn't know cat was going to be here thank you and and I really appreciate what the staffs of all these schools did I'm a little per clim but it's it's really an honor

019that we have so many schools that got this award and uh Dr Brown said very well this is an impressive district and anybody who hasn't doesn't know that needs to get on board so now for uh the bad news that I also uh trusty bullus mentioned you may have heard in the past about prop 998 which established a constitutionally required percentage of the state budget go to schools nearly all the funding that comes to Public Schools including charter schools and community colleges is prop 98 funding that's pretty much all the money we get you may have also heard that governor Governor Newsome is proposing what many are calling a prop 98 funding maneuver to close his budget deficit this maneuver is pretty complicated Judy explained a little bit of it but in the simplest terms

020it's a violation of the prop 98 funding guarantee if the legislature accepts the governor's proposal it's up to them it will be financially disastrous for California schools including charter schools and community colleges for years to come this is not a one-year thing this is not just next year this is going to be years into the future I want to urge everyone listening parents students and staff members to call or write their state SE Senator and State Assembly member to urge them to reject the governor's crop 98 funding maneuver he needs to find other ways to close his budget deficit please do this immediately don't wait because the legislature begins budget hearings next week if you don't know how to contact your members of the the legislate legislature please email me and I'll tell you what

021to do just tell me what city you live in because different areas have different members my email address is really easy if you haven't heard it before it's GI Jones at capitalusd.org or you can find on the district website please do not let the state legislature and the governor take away this critical funding source and don't assume that your members of the Senate and assembly will stand up for Education if you don't speak up gii Jones at capitalusd.org I will explain to you what to do thanks very much chy Davis thank you um with that lead in I'll I'll move right on over GI jnes thank you had an opportunity to be a part of the CCE job shadow program um and attended it was able to job shadow Lisa verella The Fabulous office manager

022at Marco and um loved learning from her and what happens there at Marco again perfect lead into that highlight there so grateful for that opportunity and loved hearing um as we heard from um those that were able to be a part of that program yesterday afternoon um along with trusty bullus and president cosos um the eat real tour trusty Jones attended and I attended the capistrana school lunch tour where we met with a lot of partners that we partner with and um learned from some of the things that we're doing and and cappo is kind of leading the charge in helping to get better food um into to our schools at lunches and um and our team there has just been fabulous and worked tirelessly with each of um the each of the partners that

023we partner with and and pushing back on things that needed to be pushed back on so that we can um have better food um so that was just an incredible opportunity um s money High School um on Saturday night uh had the Wonder l the D the spring dance concert where they invite teams from across Southern California and it was a great night to to celebrate dancers from from different areas from LA and from Orange County and Riverside county and San frino County the spirit assembly at San CL high school it's just such a great time to wrap up all the wonderful things as you see what's happening and it is just a month of celebrations few up in houses Legally Blonde at soney high school if any of you missed if you uh miss

024that opportunity make sure you attend next year it's a again opportunity to see incredible performers incredible um the s High School senior Awards we recognize 300 seniors 300 it's amazing super impressive in every way um the I also wanted to kind of talk about the Partnerships we have with our cities I was able to attend the state of the city uh for St Clemy at beautiful Cina and appreciate those Partnerships that we continue to build and grow that we need um to provide opportunities for excellent schools um can't help but recognize the retirement of so many great great teachers and staff and I'm Greatful for that reception to value and um just honor um those that have served our students for decades many many decades it's just incredible um and looking forward to graduation and

025wrapping up this year and moving on to the next so congratulations to all our seniors and what that looks for thank you um I just have a few comments this evening I um first of all I kind of want to extend or continue the conversation that Dr Brown started about how we perform um we have high academic performance in this District but he also mentioned the many opportunities that that our students have in in this district and I got to experience that opportunity um trusty bolus and trusty Davis also participated in castano appreciates classified employees otherwise known as case and it was a shadowing program where I got to go out and Shadow an employee at Toro high school and um I was shadowing Miss Michaela Feldman who is is an instructional music assistant and

026when I got my assignment I was like wow okay Toro the choir here I go I was excited I've never I don't get to go out to Toro much so um exciting things are happening out there but I walked on campus and M Miss Michaela met me in the office and and took me into the choir room I mean I I often speak how when I'm in spaces with students that I wish you all could be there I I wish the public could see what I see and what I get to observe because some of the amazing things that you see in classrooms that kids get to experience is it just blow blows me away and you walk into a room where the walls are lined with photos and the photos are 4 by six

027so I asked the choir teacher wow how many how many photos do you have in this room and he's like 6,000 I'm like wow and then in the back of the room room and these big letters it says we are family and you're sitting there and I'm watching these students perform their musical Talent which is their voice and it's just amazing and then miss Michaela's job during tutorial she also offers private voice lessons for students who sign up and she'll go over anything they want with them if they have an audition or they're preparing for whatever is coming up that day or they're they work about a performance or whatever and spends one-on-one time just working on her Talent which is she's a vocal um graduate from Chapman so just amazing things that are happening

028in our schools and I got to witness just one of them and so I wanted to share that with you tonight on a second note on behalf of the Board of Trustees I'd like to take a moment to recognize our student board member Tyler Pierce this is his last board meeting of the Year Tyler has a very difficult job of representing over 42,000 students that's a very large district and so I have some things to say about Tyler Tyler academically has demonstrated exceptional commitment while challenging himself with a rigorous apib curriculum and earning a grade point average of 4. for that's the C he has made significant contributions to his school Community founding the Model United Nation club and representing San Clemy High School in the model Congress travel team he is also a valedictorian

029a member of the National Honor Society the California scholarship Federation and California technical education completer for design and visual media arts amazing additionally he is the head editor and writer for the San clementy High School newspaper next year Tyler's academic Journey will continue at Boston College where he will pursue a major at oh I'm sorry Boston University thank you he will major in international relations and political science so congratulations Tyler thank you for all your service to co we appre appreciate you so much so thank you we do a picture now let's do it in the boxing sorry for you guys go take to if you want okay student board member pece would do you have some comments this evening yes um can't believe it's my last meeting it's crazy but um I my last

030time sitting here but um I tried to condense all of my thoughts and experiences into one statement so is and I just like to start off by just words can't express how thankful I am and honored to be able to be sitting here this year and this opportunity over the last nine months have been eye open and an amazing team that I never thought I'd be able to have and I'd like to thank the board and staff who made it possible for me to sit here and thank you for everyone for providing me with opportunities beyond what I even imagin possible this year um I'd also want to thank those who possibly challenged me and opposed My Views this year because they've taught me tolerance and how to respectfully engage in different perspectives even though

031they may be contrary to my own beliefs and I like to just say that we live in a society where diverse thoughts and ideas are essential for Progress here on this board the most local and effective form of government for students parents and those involved in the education system I have learned the the valuable lesson of respecting and coexisting with viewpoints that I both agree and disagree with even those that make myself the through leadership and speaking up I found Liberation not just for myself but for roughly 42,000 students in this District each of our voices is powerful and unique and something that can't be replicated measured by ability or categorized it is important that we use our voices here especially if you're a student I'll never forget the emotions passion and dedication that came

032with showing up for students not just for personal agendas but for the students because this is our education reflecting on my time here I remember moments that have left a lasting impact I was in the seat when I heard that being part of the lgbtq community as a form of quote undiagnosed autism I was also here when I was called a leftist pond by Congressman Bill s but I was also here when hundreds of students showed up in support of their future and those students from all walks of lives were vulnerable to believe that their rights and autonomy were at risk and we as a board we listened I was in the seat when I was singled out for advocating for student rights but I was also complimented while in this exact seat for those

033exact efforts a lot has happened in this the seat but most importantly I was Brave and I put 100% into every single meeting to ensure that students of cap USD have the best representation possible as I leave here there are three issues that I am passionate about sharing that remain a part of conversation one being shutting down book Banning discussions ensuring that parental right notification or homophobic outing policies stay away making sure that everyone realizes how fortunate we are to receive a worldclass education a public education and have the freedom to voice our individuals it's shocking that I sof to address this issue on book bands but not because of the books but that are being questioned but because of the impact of the online opinion opinionated Instagram accounts that have broing alienation of minority

034groups in Instagram accounts that Pride themselves in religious and political beliefs among others spread misinformation and hate speech that affects the student body I represent although I am blocked from the social media accounts I can still see how they influence the conversation surrounding the acceptance of the lgbtq plus community and the movement of banning bsh books according to these Niche groups to promote that promote quote transgenderism career Liberation or probably anything under gender identity or frankly any idea that goes against these social media groups mess prioritizing traditional ideologies the teachers are concerned that their profession their professional credentials and Authority are subject to areas are being undermined by external influences they they feel uh they feel patronized both teachers and students teachers are the experts in the field and they should have the final say

035in the content that is taught so they believe that students are being treated as incapable of Eng and engaging in challenging texts which undermines their intellectual development I was also um I would also like to know or to I like to throw in that I would uh it would be good for the individuals who push for Banning books to also realize that 42,000 individual educational experiences are at risk for book benefit for for the belief of your individual beliefs for the Banning The Bookies so let's also look at history and reflect on a time where Banning books or limitation of General speech has provided U positive change in society I over heard classmates talking about the book my shadow is pink and how according to these online groups they deem were deemed dangerous for children

036along with somehow or along with something that shouldn't be read in class I would like to personally address this because when I was younger I wor and I were trans material like this at an age where I was alienated for expressing this part of myself would have saved me a lot of mental struggles being told that I was not normal and had issues did not help me develop and that these were actually that U and that were actually worried about me but shockingly enough that is not the main concern these groups pushing against books have said nothing but empty remarks and Homo homophobic hate speech both online in this room the idea that I someone who relate to in in relative to this book had a pink Shadow and being told uh Again by these

037people Banning this book trying to because of what it teaches is far from the truth nobody is converting children's sexualities rather promoting healthy open-mindedness and normalization of marginalized communities that do exist no matter what your personal beliefs are to prove this uh to prove that these communities existed that already isn't clear I remember hundreds of students who spoke up at the outing policy meeting in October 18th their voices were loud and clear a perfect example of what our generation can do through Collective efforts the fact that these individuals still come up today and bring back bring this policy back shocks me worries me but mostly ensures that the future Generations will understand the importance of using their voices this brings me to my final point which is the profound appreciation for um for the for

038the education many students are privileged to receive when we look around the globe it is clear that level of Education isn't accessible to everyone especially in times like these it is imperative to recognize the privilege that we hold being here In This Very Room having the freedom to use our voices equally is important to the responsibility of not not abusing this privilege today Children and Families around the world are being killed stripped of their freedoms separated censored and worse children are hungry sleeping on streets being trafficked and dehumanized education is the last thing on their Minds when their P when their primary concern is survival the parents of these children aren't worried about upholding dated Traditional Values textbooks and reading books their focuses on their children's safety and ability to simply survive these children would

039give anything to be in our school I'm concerned with the issues that seem trivial in comparison to their struggles it's time for us to adopt a more holistic and Global Perspective to bring it closer to home let me emphasize the fact that these struggles aren't just happening around the globe but also within our very District the specifics May differ but the narrative stays the same I know kids at my school who who can't attend every day uh can't School can't attend school every day because they have to work to support their families or watch over their siblings while their parents go to work to pay the bills not everyone in our district has the has has the access or privilege to attend these meetings on every on Wednesday evenings the reality is that although we

040may all come from the same schools the opportunities and privileges that we experiences are not unifor uniformly distributed but we must acknowledge that these disparities and strive for more Equitable understanding to support the system forever unfortunately these are issues that can be fixed on the board during the board meeting or conversations but acknowledge but acknowledgement of the issues are the first step this is the very reason reason um of not this very reason not being able to identify the solution is what motivates me to study political science and international relations next year at Boston University I aim to use that education to deepen my understanding of how to be a helpful member of society by providing a voice for those who are incapable although this is my last statement on this board I doubt this

041is the last time you'll hear me speaking about speaking up about these issues and ways to collectively resolve them so with that goodbye for now and thank you to everyone who gave me the opportunity to realize how deep this pass is thank thank you okay we are now moving on to oral Communications the total time for oral communication shall be 20 minutes individual presentations are limited to a maximum of three minutes per individual but could be less with a larger number of speakers complaints regarding District employees should be addressed by completing the district's formal complaint form available on the district website this case we have how many speakers how many speakers do we have this evening we have 16 speakers so per board policy it'll be one minute I'll start calling the names okay thank

042you Shireen Smith please line up in this order Shireen Smith Jen I have Jen mroy and then Jen M please forgive me if I mispronounce your name Anette grubs Renee Sanchez Pam Amy Baxter Rocky Sarah and Candace our first 10 speakers Shireen please go ahead thank you Dr Shireen Smith former teacher Marco Forester uh Middle School principal lisoo Middle School principal Capal Valley high school and superintendent of lagona Beach Unified wow Tyler what an impressive uh oration that you shared with us tonight I'm so proud of you I'm sure your parents are Beyond proud so congratulations you're going to be an asset to Boston University uh I just want to note that cppo has so much to celebrate Across The District High schools are organizing their graduations and these are momentous occasions that celebrate the

043hard work and achievement of our students and i' especially like to note the accomplishments of our Avid students Avid students are often the first in their families to go to college and they take an additional elective to help them succeed in their school's most rigorous courses and It prepares them for their next step be it college careers or the military I would also like to commend because it couldn't happen without them the outstanding teacher staff and administrators of capistran unified thank you our next speaker JY Monroy hi uh my name is Jen mua I a library media technician at San Clemen high school and a parent of a 10th grader who's really enjoying her High School experience there I wanted to thank you all for uh your support of reviewing the library job descriptions uh

044Library staff has been working for the last four years out of class on Chromebook needs for all the students in the district uh because the district they they cannot um reach their curriculum without these devices and so they've needed a lot of support we've been working with HR for two years and the union people and people from Ed services on creating a system to approach the Chromebooks and um now it's time for them to formally be part of our job description so thank you for your support of that uh School library staff have Circ C ated 100,000 Chromebooks this year and submitted 15,000 radar tickets they are integral to student life thank you our next speaker is Jen mundle good evening my name is Jen mundle and I've been an elementary library mediatech at Vista

045delmare for eight years and I'm also the parent of three students in the district I've seen firsthand the impact the district's one to1 Chromebook program has had on our library staff Chrome Chromebooks have become a significant part of our daily job I personally help up to 30 students a day with Chromebooks in the library and because of the work Library techs are doing we have the ability to fix Chromebooks on site which is essential as it allows students to be able to immediately participate in testing or Chromebook Les or uh classroom lessons using Chromebooks instead of having to send out a Chromebook to TI for repairs Excuse me while like many of our texts I enjoy being able to provide such important on-site technical support for our school Community I am thankful the district and

046board are reviewing our outdated job descriptions which currently have no reference to com books I want to thank the board for your interest in supporting our library texts and the important work they're doing Anette Annette grubs uh good evening board members my name is Annette orag grubs and I have been with the district for 22 years and have been at Los Flores Middle School for 19 years as a library media Tech since the return from distance learning I have helped my students with troubleshooting their own Chromebooks sometimes due to maturity intellectual or language differences I troubleshoot their Chromebooks for them there have been several uh instances where I have talked to parents on the phone and helped them troubleshoot Chromebooks over the phone so that their student who's at home ill or on vacation um

047can you know can get get their Chromebook up and working uh please consider approving um the library um sorry the revised uh library media text job description and compensation to reflect the work we are doing with Chromebooks thank you our next speaker is Renee Sanchez good evening board members my name is Renee Sanchez I'm the library mediate Tech at new har Middle School um going on my 25th year there um for the past four years Chromebooks have made their way into our libraries and not only become a key component in our students education but an essential piece of the overall classroom experience the library is the only place on campus where students staff and parents can go to for prompt Chromebook assistance students enter the Library frustrated um in a panic that their Chromebook is

048not working and we do our best to get them back to class with a working Chromebook without missing um valuable instruction time we are also responsible for placing radar tickets collecting fines inventory packing receiving uh the list goes on our next speaker is Pam judge not lest you be judged Tyler respectfully and others today who believe that a stance against transgenderism is a voice of judgment I want to assure you that for the majority of people it is not instead it's a form of a stance for love compassion and concern we believe these students are most often confused being groomed or mislabeled we we see futures for these children that they're not presently able to see we see good health not a lifelong dependency on medications we see for them babies and families not a

049denial of motherhood if they so choose we see the family Union strengthened and the foundation of our society not parents denied their rights there is no judgment of transgender students instead there is concern concern for their future lives our next speaker is Amy backer hi I'm Amy Baxter um cusd parent and San Clemy resident I had the privilege of attending two of our District's senior Awards ceremonies at Dana Hills and San Clemen as a presenter of a community scholarship at each School congratulations to the administrations and asbs of these schools for an organized well-run and joyful event it was so amazing to see this year's seniors recognized for their hard work and perseverance whether the kids enter the job Force go to vocational or technical school a four-year university community college or their military service

050they are ready the breadth and depth the caliber of student in this district is remarkable and enviable congratulations to the families and students of the class of 2024 cistron unified has fulfilled its mission statement to prepare students to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing world world thank you our next speaker is Rocky good evening members of the board my name is Dr Rocky sehon I'm the uh parent of a cusd student and a former Community College educator last month I attended an event at Capal Valley High School called together for teens igniting your authenticity uh did you know that the typical American Teenager spends more time rolling on their mobile device than walking over their lifetime today's teens and college students will spend approximately 30 years behind a screen the impacts of today's digital

051landscape on our young people is like nothing we've ever seen before the together for teens event took place over a half day on April 13th and included workshops and breakout sessions to help teens and parents navigate today's New Normal the keynote speaker of the day was Lissa May and she and her organization had the story have been rallying advocacy for California Senate Bill 1504 the cyber bullying protection act for more information you can Google hash halfth story our next speaker is Sarah Phillips good evening I'm Sarah Phillips I'm a mom in the district I want to thank our board and our uh superintendent for keeping things sane and student centered this year um I asked my two girls their favorite things about school this year my 7-year-old next to me she said that she gets

052to do I ready that she gets to play and that she gets to have free recesses those were her favorite things this year my 14-year-old at bams um her favorite things were uh a full year of art this year it's a school um choir and Mrs Calhoun are awesome and the eighth grade trip to DC in New York those were her highlights um I'd like to also add some of my favorite things uh Mrs Baker um and her math Joy attitude at bams is wonderful and I'll give a shout out to miss Campo and the Paris in her class at truman Benedict um kappo really has so many wonderful teachers support staff and administrators and a big thank you to Tyler hi next speaker Miss Candace hi I'm Candace borne PTA president at Marblehead Elementary

053where we just finished up Teacher Appreciation Week our classes took turns stalking the Teachers Lounge with special Family Recipes every day we recognized our teachers at our end of year event with handmade gifts from our talented parents and the students Drew pictures wrote notes and wore their teachers favorite colors it was a welcomed opportunity for our school Community to celebrate our wonderful teachers and show our kids the importance of giving back to the people who do so much for us and it doesn't take a lot of money to do that just a little work and a lot of love as I'm wrapping up my term I want to thank the superintendent and District staff for their support of our school and to those trustees who have supported us thank you we think of our Mighty

054Marblehead as the little school that could and I'm so grateful to have had the opportunity to lead this community of amazing families also a huge thanks to our cappo Council PTSA Michelle plel Campbell Jessica Guyer and Luca greku who fight tirelessly for our schools and our kids day in and day out we truly appreciate all you do thanks our next group of speakers please line up as I call your name Trudy Jean Mary ien and Lisa and Eva hello there I'm Trudy pedus from s Clemy thank you Tyler Pierce for being such an extraordinary cusd student board up this year we and S Clemen are so very proud of you for being the voice of cusd students the senior award night um last week Tyler was one of six and one of many students honored

055with scholarships you six were a perfect representation of students from the AVID program all the way through the IB Program three of these students were like Tyler whose parent is a teacher in cusd and the parents of the other three are all very active PTA members in our community Through the PTA in the classroom your parents were there already from the first day you entered kindergarten your achievements are a testament to the extraordinary educational opportunities provided by cusd I commend the administrators in this room as well as all the ones at the school sites for the and the especially the outstanding teachers of cusd for all they do each day congratulations to all of you our next speaker is Jean hello Bor um later in the agenda this of this meeting uh you're amending a

056bullying and student Internet safety policy to address the inappropriate use of AI technology to deceive shame or in any other way harm or victimize people to this I applaud um it's an appropriate response to the terrible testimonies we had heard last month but I come also to ask whatat are you doing to protect our children from a state that pushes gender ideology through its sex education curriculum a curriculum that deceives children to believe they can become any sex they choose a state sponsored healthy kids survey promotes the belief that sex is assigned at Birth as though someone can decide willy-nilly that you're a boy or a girl if cusd cares cares about the students well wellbeing student safety CSD must push back thank you as an educator I have many concerns about the National Education

057Association Bob Channon who was their legal counsel for 41 years says that they are effective not because of their creative ideas not because of the Merit of their position not because they care about children or have a vision of great public education for each child it's affected because we have power and we have power because there're 3.25 3.2 million people who are willing to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in our dues those hundreds of millions of dollars 87% of them go for Lial liberal causes and we're concerned how this affects our children from the sex ed curriculum to all of the liberal Char um uh causes only 50% of those teachers are liberal and they're not being represented properly and there when we talk about bullying they have bullying 1 in the CTA why

058don't they practice what they preach and not bully the teachers to join an organization just for the money thank you our next speaker is Eileen good evening my name is H mcdermit and I'm here as a servant of God the undeniable truth God is the same then now and forever the Creator does not change he does not make mistakes God the Creator made two genders men and women stop confusing and indoctrination of the children also please call your state senators and governers to support SB 1414 to make child trafficking for sex a felony for two to four years in prison this will they will have a hearing tomorrow so call tonight or call tomorrow morning thank you our next speaker is Lisa good evening have you read this book yet please please read this book

059especially you especially you um the quering of the American child explains that the American Education right now is in the grip of a religious cult with what started in the 1990s with a small group of weird anyway it's it's it's a religion it's a religion and um boy I just pray that you would take a whole year off and not go to college right away so that you could really see the real world please God bless you all our next speaker is Eva Harrison hello I wanted to address the identity support document advising Capo USD staff how to socially transition students by changing names pronouns and with that bathrooms locker rooms and sports teams No Parental notification or signature required for this while you've been directed by the California Department of Education to keep social

060transitioning a secret from parents this is a guideline not a law attorney general Rob Bon threw School dist districts under the bus a little bit by admitting that I quote those are non-enforceable guidelines so there's no one on the states who's actually going to enforce those guidelines and to the extent that eusd believed it had to follow those guidelines as a mandate of state law is just an incorrect assumption so these guidelines are unenforceable and illegal I'm asking you for a clear parental notification policy thank you okay we are now going to public hearings at this time I'd like to open the public hearing regarding 2024 2025 local control accountability plan and update the time is now 7:55 Miss Hayes do we have any speakers for the public hearing okay seeing none the public hearing

061is now closed and The Time Is Now 7:55 we also have a public hearing 2024 25 proposed budget adoption I'd like to open public hearing regarding the proposed budget adoption the time is now o'cl M do we have is public okay at this time seeing none the public hearing is now closed and the time is gosh it okay thank you all right we are now at this time I'd like to um open public hearing regarding resolution number 232 24-30 approving an increase in statutory school fees imposed on new residential and commercial industrial construction pursuant to Ed code 17620 and government code 65995 time is now 8 o'clock Miss Hayes do you have any speaker cards on this there are none okay seeing none the public hearing is now closed and the time is 8 o'clock

062all right we are now moving on to discussion action and information items we're going to start with at this time I'd like to recognize uh Greg mwin associate superintendent of Ed and Sport services to present the item thank you very much president ciano St presents item 13A 2024 202 local control accountability plan and update executive director Michael Gomez will briefly frame the item for you and then we are available for any questions please remember this is information item only uh and no board action is requested this evening because we will return with the final plan for your consideration of June 12th for you so Dr Gomez uh good evening uh members of the board it's uh my privilege to share with you um our proposed 2425 lcap uh you'll notice that that we are moving

063from a three uh goal plan to a five goal part of that's intentional uh our state has updated the template so we're closing out our three-year cycle uh for the this school year and next year we'll start a new three-year cycle for the lcap our lcap goals stay very similar but you'll see that we've intentionally uh embedded our vision of a cusd graduate we've talked with different stakeholders our parent and u educational Partners we talked about this is what's driving everything we do in this District that vision of those students walking across those stages and what that means for our district and the work that we put into everything we do as a district so it is very intentional that our first two goals incorporate those parts uh goal four you'll see is uh also

064a required goal for us because we have to address uh aspects of our the California dashboard uh that were not uh any student group that's not performing uh at par with everybody else and so we have to be very intentional about the system of support that we put in place to close those achievement gaps goal five is unique to Capistrano Union High School in it it's our only School in the district that receives lcff Equity multiplier funds and that's due to a increase in instability rate because they have students coming in and out on top of the fact that there's a high percentage of students that are socioeconomically disadvantage uh so a number of schools across the state became eligible because those two numbers are very high and for us in our district that's for

065capona Union High School District so goal five is directed exclusively at the spending of those particular funds uh that we've worked in partnership with Capistrano Union High School team over there uh in developing those particular things so those are kind of how we frame uh everything around the lcap this year what we're proposing for on top of that we are going to be making some adjustments to that we're receiving technical feedback from the orange count Department of Education and as you know we've just received the May Revis so there's probably going to be some adjustments that we make due to those uh particular assumptions that we have to build into the budget um but we'll bring back that final document for you at your June board meeting thank you thank you go ahead I don't

066know if we have anything do we well there wasn't five goals the five goals were around there is yes if you click on the attachment the uh exhibit to those have the the goals on that okay are we waiting thank you I just would like the public to be able to see it's coming up while on thank you will be available uh it will also be available on the website as well as accessible through the uh the board talks okay Miss hay we have any speaker cards okay thank you trustees questions comments somebody okay this was informational only item so we are now moving on we are going to 13B 2024 25 proposed budget adoption at this time I'd like to recognize Clark Hampton Deputy superintendent of business support services present the item thank you

067president castanos so this is a preview of our uh bo uh budget to be adopted in June I'd like to introduce Philipa Townsen assistant superintendent for fiscal services to present this item thank you good evening this is an initial look at the proposed budget for 20242 before it is adopted next month on June 12th the format of the budget in your agenda looks different than normal because the official state software was not ready at the time the item was prepared so an alternate format was used the adopted budget in June will use the normal State software that you're used to after this PowerPoint was created the May revise was released there are no significant changes that would change this budget but there is a proposal to delay the implementation date of the attendance recovery program

068to the 2025 26 school year and limit the amount of ADA that could be generated through attendance recovery next slide please this budget incorporates the final cost of living adjustment or Cola of 1.07% in the May in the may rebis this is fully funded negotiated salary increases for 2023 24 and 20 2425 for all employees are incorporated into this budget enrollment declines are projected to slow down for 20242 and level off in future years however because the local control funding formula uses the three prior year averaging for adaa because the cola is so low the funding declines the local control funding formula in 2024 25 it's still pretty large all Co money will be spent as of June 30th of this year next slide please enrollment has declined by over 133% in The Last 5

069Years but Staffing numbers have increased because of this decline in enrollment increase in Staffing and because of the end of the covid grant funding budget reductions will need to be made next month a solvency statement will be included in the adopted budget agenda item stating that the district plans to make1 15 million dollar in reductions in 2025 26 to address the impacts of declining enrollment and lower Revenue those reductions will be identified in December with the first interim budget next slide please there was one before that this graph compares the unrestricted fund balance of second interim in blue with the unrestricted fund balance at budget adoption in red as you can see in the third year of the multi-year projection without action we will be below our required 2% Reserve next slide please the passage

070of ab218 the childhood sexual assault bill in 2019 impacted the liability insurance Market almost 40 years into the past since the law allowed for an open statute of limitations for three and a half years which ended on June 30th last year all districts are receiving retrospective liability Premium Adjustments to cover the years in which claims have been been made against member districts these onetime payments are necessary because these claims were never anticipated or funded with the or original member contributions in those years currently there are claims against member districts for all years from 1985 to 2020 so far Capistrano share of this cost is $4 million with additional annual assessments likely until all the ab218 planes have been fully resolved next slide please the final state budget will be signed by the governor at the

071end of June any changes will be incorporated into the revised budget which will be presented in August next slide please the final adoptive budget will be brought for approval and adoption at the June 12th board meeting I will be happy to answer any questions that trustees may have say do we have any speaker questions okay trustees any questions comments no oh no I have a question um I know today they came up came out with some guidance or some some detail can you at least comment on it um just for for my understanding of where that looks or where you expect the numbers to shake out so I don't see any anything significant that impacts the budget you have currently see in front of you um it may affect future years um that we don't

072have in the budget in the three years of the multi-year projection um but at the moment the only thing that appears significant to me is the delay in the attendance recovery okay what wasn't there also something about charter school funding I mean which wouldn't help us but it it actually a cash flow issue because the ER funding at the currently the ER funding is outside of the Charter net shift but they would move it into that net shift so it would decrease our cash balance but it doesn't actually impact our budget staff and I will be attending multiple workshops next week to dive really into the details that may Revis to make sure that we have a deep understanding of all right thank you this was um information only so we are now moving on

073to 13c cusd cares wellbeing update at this time I'd like to go back to Greg mwin associate superintendent of EDS for services to present the item thank you very much president costano staff presents item 13c C cares wellbeing update this is an informational item this evening where we're returning uh to provide you with updates regarding the five key components of cusd cares the successes this past year and also Lessons Learned and then we'll conclude with next steps so I am joined tonight by some very special guests in the audience uh who will support some of the components with their own experiences and then we'll be available to answer questions as well so if you would please join me in welcoming principal of Kos Elementary School Jackie Campbell principal of Marco Forester Middle School Kat Thompson

074teacher in intermural coordinator of Marco Forester edro Chavez 8th grade student at Marco forcer Nathan shady and executive director of The Wellness prevention center Susan Army so thank you all for joining us this evening next slide please so just jumping right into it here in order to support uh the well-being of our students you can see the the main components of CD cares on the left hand side connections positive connections building a sense of community and belonging and then providing opportunity for educate for celebration and while CD cares focuses primarily on student well-being the well-being of our staff and our families are recognized as well next slide please you may remember this slide from last may we when we first presented the concept of cstd cares we shared this with you and the importance of

075this visual is the it shows the relationship between CD cares and our system of support so the graphic there is of our m M system of Support also known as mtss and so the question is how does CPS fit into that so if you think of our system as supporting every single student in the areas as they're listed below uh at the base student well-being teaching and learning and positive behavior we figure that our system supports all students in different levels of support the student well-being portion the red highlighted area is C cares C cares gives the actual components and strategies inside of that system so that all students get support at that tier one level some students get additional support for tier two level and then a few need intensive support in tier three

076so again C cares is the student well-being portion of our multi-tier system support next slide please so with that in mind you can see then the five key components that we're going to be sharing with this with this with you this even evening are again the well-being um support plan within our system of support and those components we're going to talk about this evening are Wellness rooms Middle School intermural sports mindfulness moments staff training and well behs next slide so we we start with our first component which is our V Wellness rooms and uh over the next several years through a partnership with the Cal with the child Children's Hospital Orange County and ocde we are providing every middle school and Kaa with a wellness room our first Wellness room was opened in January 2023

077at Miguel Hills Middle School and it has been renamed as shark cod in honor of the mascot the shark mascot at Miguel Hills as you can see on the data on this slide shark Cod has been open all year and supported approximately 25% of the student popul visiting at least once so we also wanted to understand for students that visited more than once and needed more support we wanted to to Really study those students and so you can see that this table but for students who visited shco for three or more visits between January and March you can see that of those students 25% of them experienced a decrease in office recuits over more than 30 more than a third saw an increase in their attendance and 41% improved their grades from 42 to 4

078three I point that out again that the key point the key focus of the wellness room is not to improve their GPA and their discipline but really to support mental health which really the driving data for that is attendance to understand are they coming to school more they feel supportive at school and so we we really focused on the attendance data but we wanted to include the discipline and the academic data because that's of course what's on our dashboard so we thought that would be important to be including that data as well next slide please moving on to our second component that is our Middle School intermural sports program so this was our first year where we launched the CSD cares intermural Sports and you know the goal here again is providing more students with

079uh connections to school and to each other and to build a sense of belonging in community at their school side and then of course provide opportunities to celebrate so we had some impressive numbers of students participating this year they are not on the slide but I would like to share with you just some general General numbers in the fall we started with basketball we had about a thousand students participate in the winter we we had soccer 1,500 students participated currently this spring we have volleyball 1,600 students participating so each time time we've had more students uh participating and in fact with the volleyball currently going on and the uh playoffs are coming up soon in the next uh next two weeks between schools at at some schools there's a significant number of students participating for

080example Los Flores Middle School Middle School component of Los Flores 50% of their students are participating in volleyball 50% so I also want to mention too that there was a fourth sport this year year that was not one of the formal threee that we offered and it was flag football so there was a there was a huge uh interest expressed by the school sites so we didn't organize a districtwide uh playoffs or competition but we supported the schools doing the flag football and that and we had 1,200 students participate in that so these are these are very exciting numbers because as many kids as possible to start to be connected to school uh is the goal so then looking at the data that you have on this on uh the slide I do want to

081point out the data that I'm going to briefly explain was revised from the original um slide that we presented to the public so we reran the numbers and confirm that they are correct so the numbers and the percentages I'm sharing with you are accurate and as it states this data came from 1,130 students who participated in the basketball and soccer inter murals and it was there we then took the those students and then looked at their data from 2022 to 2023 to the to for our school year to compare to get these numbers so what you see here from the student survey again over a thousand discipline decreased number of referrals decreased number of the number of suspensions decreased the there was a decrease in total number of days of suspension and there was a

082modest slight increase in attendance uh so we're we're pleased with these numbers but really we don't want we don't want to bore with numbers we rather hear from the people that actually experienced the inter mural zone so I'm very excited to uh to bring up are some of our outstanding road runners to the podium and so we have of course principal Thompson uh Mr Chavez and Nathan who are here to share their thoughts about the interner miral so please welcome them to the thank you Dr Merwin um we were very grateful and excited to participate in the intermural program this year and um grateful for the initiative the cusd cares initiative and um so I just kind of want to speak to a couple of the components and and our experience at Marco and so

083the first component being uh connection um and so one one story that I have in relation to that that con connection is is students feeling connected back to the school site and ultimately when students feel more connected they want to be there more and so these numbers with attendance um we we had students that had things come up outside in in their lives they had events going on with their family and they convinced their parents I have to be at school this day we have the next game in our competition and so there's definitely L that sense of of wanting to be present and there for their team um which brings us to that second point with Community um the sense of community that we all got to experience um we we had an inter

084mural program on campus but there the previously but it has definitely increased massively as students learned more and more about the opportunities to get to go and uh represent the School site outside of our our school um and not only within the the chance to come together and play as a team there were opportunities to learn lessons about sportsmanship and um and how to interact and how to win with class and how to lose with class and and engage in some really important conversations as as we know that middle school is a time where they're starting to um practi practice and exercise their social muscles um um as well as their physical muscles um and so then the last component which you might think in this case is competition but it's actually celebration and uh

085we had many opportunities to to celebrate um our students and I think one one memory for me that stands out the most was not winning any of the winning any of the games you know the wins and the losses come and go but really getting the chance to see our students um thrive in a different setting and many of the students at Marco had not had the opportunity to engage in um competitive Sports in a more structured format and so we were really excited to see that students were challenging themselves and engaging in sports that they had never played and now many of them have expressed an interest to go on and pursue um Athletics as they as they transition into high school and we know how important it is for our students um at

086every school to have an idea as to what they want to do so that they maintain that connection to school as they they move on to the next leg of the journey so we have been um very grateful um very appreciative of the opportunities for growth and development um but I think it'd be better for you to hear from those who actually were you know really out there organizing and and playing in the game and I must note uh Nathan Shady does have a broken arm and that was not related to the Middle School inter mural program yes so I'd like to to introduce you our amazing um inter mural coordinator and somebody who is deeply involved in um the program and has massively increased our student involvement this year and so I'd like to

087introduce you Mr Chavez all right good evening I'm Pedro Chavez and being honest I thought I was speaking in front of all of you kep me up all night um I prefer being the uh the behind the behind the scenes guy but this is truly uh but this is truly an honor and pleasure to be here today uh as one of the PE teachers students students from La coaches and Sports Coordinator at Marco I had the opportunity to witness the impact of inal sports had on students um first and foremost I want to thank Miss cat Thompson for the opportunity to serve as a Sports Coordinator you trusted me with this role from the beginning and I will forever be grateful it allowed me to make connections with hundreds of students this has been my

088favorite year teaching um of my teaching career and I and I owe it all and I owe it all to you however this is not about me this is about our students Greg thank you for your outstanding work in organizing the district tournaments the excitement and joy our students experience during these events were truly remarkable uh this year this year's intermural Sports has been nothing short of amazing it has provided our students with a chance to make new friends compete and a sense of belonging for many of our students this was their first time being part of a team and whether that was scoring a goal making a basket playing a flag or and teammate um was sorry they discovered the power of teamwork and unity has also taught our students valuable life skills they

089learn the importance of discipline perseverance and resilience they they experienced both wins and losses but as we all know there's no such thing as losing in sports as every loss can be a learning experience or Learning lesson so in the end we're all winning it has given it has given some struggling students a reason to engage during lunch it's encouraging to see how I motivated them to make better choices it has allowed our students to build connections with beers outside the classroom which is something we strive for at Marco the relationships and connections formed through this program has been invaluable in creating a sense of belonging and Community among our our students but perhaps most importantly inal SP inal Sports has brought joy and excitement into the lives of our students I invite you this

090Tuesday May 21st to our district volleyball tournament at Marco so you're uh so you can see this joy and excitement firsthand I also can to be prouder of our students for consistently demonstrating our core values throughout each sport the sportsmanship and respect exceeded all expect all expectations with that being said I want to thank the C the cusd cares program for their unwavering support and allowing our students to create memories that will stay with them for the rest of their lives I'm excited to see how this program will continue to grow and flourish in the years to come thank you now I would like to introduce one of my current students a rising Soccer Star a student that experienced both The Winning Side and losing side of inal sports Nathan Shady uh good evening my

091name is Nathan shady and I'm just going to give you a couple reasons why I like um playing in the intermural sports during lunch um intermural gives us students the opportunity to um have friendly connections amongst our friends or amongst my friends um it breaks up the day and allows us to get our energy out to be more focused during class time um interal also allows everyone to be included whether they are experienced or not um I like because I'd like to represent my school at District tournaments and finally my favorite experience of inter Murs is when the students finally beat the teachers in flag football this year thank you okay thank you so much to our road runners for coming and sharing their stories thank you next slide please but wait there's more we're

092just getting warmed up here this is our third component and that's uh mindfulness moments so this is a strategy that we introduced uh to provide students with a brief activity to help them calm uh themselves and self-regulate through breathing and visualization so this was a a pilot year and you can see the schools uh that piloted there were select teachers at each school it wasn't a schoolwide pilot it was just teachers that were interested in being involved we also piloted it piloted this at all of our elementary PE programs so every single school had their PE teachers using the mindfulness moments so as it states there on the slide uh there were definitely uh examples the teachers shared in the testimonials of how the activities calmed students and supported them but the the majority of

093pilot teachers did not see this moving forward as a districtwide pilot or scaling out um across the district and and really it was because of a a concern of in inconsistent buyin just because it depends on the teaching style of the of the educator to connect with this strategy so while many found value to it and the PE teachers found uh value to it in the PE program it wasn't something that was uh universally supported by our pilot teachers and I do want to point out too that this is exactly why we pilot because we want to you know the idea looks great on paper and it's it's supported by research and yet we want to get you know try it in our in our classrooms in our schools and then we we learn from

094our teachers to see what works districtwide and what doesn't next slide please so the fourth component is Staff training and you'll recall that CD cares has a focus on middle school but of course supports all levels so with that middle school focus we um are very excited to announce that certificated classified employees on every Middle School campus were trained over the past two years by the wellness intervention Center this is as it says on the slide 750 Middle School teachers and classified staff trained over a 2-year period uh what's not listed on this slide are our counselors also receive training every single counselor was trained by W prevention center uh in this concept of this mental health toolkit which is really about how to identify and then support students who are in need so there

095are a couple of statements here about the feedback that was received uh from the training and it was overwhelmingly positive next slide please and then our final component this evening is the weekly student well-being check-in so the schools on this slide have piloted a program called sound to grow and this allowed students to complete a brief one minute check-in online every week uh while where teachers counselors and principles could then be able to monitor their responses be able to connect with them and then also uh get help for them if there were any concerns in their check-ins uh you'll see on this slide again the the data of the number of students participated in the pilot you can see the schools that were part of the pilot uh the number of student well-being check-ins over

096the course of the year and then the number of teachers teachers who gave feedback back to the student within the program so student collected with a well-being check-in teacher responded through the program so of course there were many more teacher interactions they just weren't through the program therefore I walked over the kid and said hey can next slide please so the well-being check-in program was very well received uh and the majority of teachers as you can see over 70% supported future use uh we did include several statements here so teacher testimonials counselor testimonials and administrator testimonials about what they liked about this concept with student well-being checkin but enough of that let's hear directly from one of our experts and so kosha principal Jackie Campbell is here this evening to provide a few additional insights

097into how the well-being check-ins were utilized at her school Miss Campbell would you please join us thank you so much I'm glad a student was here before me because I am little microphone's at the right level um superintendent Board of Trustees so nice to see you this evening and I'm really happy to share with you that son grow was really a change agent at our school we knew we needed something to know how our students were feeling on a regular basis so last year when I met with Brad Sherer he's my go-to I said we really need something and he said guess what sewn to grow said what is sewn to grow so we I talked to my staff we dove in and it has been a real eye openening experience for everybody the teachers

098see the weekly check-ins our counselor sees them and I see them so the students know this we told them in our first PBIS training that when they put their information and it was confidential but it was going to be seen by teachers the counselor and myself immediately we started to see more connection with students with their teachers teachers were meeting with the students if they saw something if there was a deeper concern they would go to our counselor or the counselor would already be calling the students up the counselor would be coming to me and saying we need to meet with this student can you work with me to talk to the student this was a way for us to not have those gaps because we were so concerned the year prior students did not

099feel comfortable talking about their feelings it would take a month or two months to find out that something was going on with a student and it was manifesting itself in behaviors sadness now we know so much more we know so much more and the immediate ability for us to work with our students has really allowed for our students to know number one their feelings count we want to know we are there to support them and they feel so much more connected so that connected peace definitely has been present and also we can learn more quickly we can intervene more quickly and we can prevent the progression of some of the students who are truly sad they really do need more help so we have connected more and more students to therapy outside therapy and really

100leveraged a lot of the resources we have within CD to be able to serve our students so it has definitely met our needs um and we are looking forward to the continuation of the pilot if that's something that we're going to do um but we are we definitely see the value thank you very much Mr Jackie Campbell thank you next slide please so I mentioned previously about the data and how do we measure certain components of C cares which again is the well-being portion of our system support so the data that I am presenting with you here is more global data to say how effective is CD cares in general I share with you the data from the California healthy kids survey and there are specific questions on chicks uh asked of students in grades

1015 seven and N around the concepts of connectedness and caring relationships and those are additional data to help us understand the effectiveness of cstd cares so as you look at the data though I do want to preface with the fact that the components of cstd cares were started this fall and the chick survey was given in February so we had only a few months of implementation so I really uh we see this as our Baseline here this is the Baseline to say where are we starting what's our starting point with uh with cusd cares and with student well-being and that being said then the results really underscore the need for support for well-being for our students so as you knowe there some of these Trends the three years that you're seeing before you there's we

102seeeing slight declines and only minimal improvements in grades five and nine and then there's a significant de decrease in the school connectedness for grade seven so we recog this is this is again underscores the importance of having a a a concerted effort toward student well-being and then making this our starting point and then we would return with data to show the effectiveness when we come back next year with our data next slide please so we conclude with our next steps for year two and uh starting first and foremost again based on the data and the experiences from this year we present our work as Staff first for the wellness rooms very excited to Ann announce and it's amazing Marco Forester has has all sorts of connections to tonight's uh board meeting but Marco Forester opened

103their Wellness room earlier this month and they named it Rocky's calm room in honor of Rocky the Rand their mascot so they are up and running short Cliffs is going to be open this summer and then we are are scheduled to again work with shock and ocde to open three new Middle School wless rooms next year during the course of 24 and 25 for our intermural Sports uh we are officially adding flag football so there will be four Sports offered next year uh we also want to explore Community Partnerships so work with the community organizations have bring them in so they can be a part of these experiences and to support them as well we want to further uh implement festar program so that we can monitor which students are participating we did that sporadically

104across the district this year we want to do a concered effort next year so that we can go to the students that are not participating because we'll know who's not connecting with the inter murals reach out to them and try to connect them to the experiences and then of course those that don't want Sports continue to build up opportunities for those students U as well and it's not mentioned on the slide but we are exploring ways to provide more structured recess for our elementary schools we have heard from uh the community what about elementary this this is great for middle but what are you doing for elementary schools so we're looking at different ways to provide more structured recess uh opportunities for them we'll share more next year but that would then allow more students

105to be connected at the elementary level uh and then finally for the uh the student well-being check-ins yes we are wanting to continue the pilot uh next year and then we also want to compare it with other vendors so we want to see we have seen what some bro has to offer we want to understand what else is out there uh that in integrates with our current platforms and also cost so that we can sustain program long term next slide and then our final U next steps for 2425 uh we do want to continue the training with the wellness prevention center for any new Middle School staff that join us uh we want to bring on our high school campus super visors and have all of them trained in the mental health toolkit we are

106customizing a training for all of our administrators so they have the basics and then we want to make sure that this is an optional training for any staff member that wants it during our professional Learning Academy for mindfulness moments again that was a little more mixed as far as the response from our pilot but we do recognize some teachers were very interested in uh developing mindfulness moments we would continue to offer that as an optional uh uh training for our teachers in the summer and then we want to explore a parent Workshop so provide a parent Workshop in mindfulness in the fall and then see what kind of feedback and interest we get uh with that before we would consider spanning on that concept and then finally uh we recognize we want a strong data

107system U as you know with Dr Brown's leadership we want to make sure that we our investment is having a return so we want to continue to develop a really strong uh system of data where we can measure climates we can measure a school climate feelings of wellbeing and feelings of safety for our students staff and parents we will build that out and bring that next year as well next slide please and that does conclude the presentation this evening so our steamed guests I know are still in the audience and and I are happy to answer any questions you thank you Miss speak okay trusty questions trusty bar yeah um I have a question on the addictions that you maybe address um I want to make sure that we're considering kind of a sneaky one

108which is the kind of online social um uh you know Facebook type addictions that are out there so is that something that is also contemplated actually this might be a good time to ask uh Susan Pary to come back and come up and explain a little bit more about what that training is and how it connects to the addictions and you know what they're looking for in students as so thank you for being here Susan hello trustees thank you for letting me be here tonight um so in terms of social media addiction that's not really in that training this training is um is the youth Mental Health First Aid training which is done worldwide um certainly the our trainers are there and they can answer questions we've been approaching those kind of issues um with

109social media more with parent Ed nights with um the news articles we send out through our website um and you know one-on-one with some families so um that's really not not something that's part of that one um and there we have to this one because of the certification we have to really stick to the program yeah you I understand that and I mentioned it's kind of a sneaky one because it leads to other things like body dysmorphia and a lot of external factors that can you know affect a kid at an impressionable age so I would uh you know support digging into that a little bit Yeah so the gentleman who brought up together for teens that was actually our event um and that speaker did address that straight on and a bunch of the

110kids and the adults went to um some workshops that talked about some of the Fallout that can happen from that so um I agree maybe it shouldn't be one-offs here and there um and there's so much that we could teach and present about um we'd like parents to show up when we want to teach about it um so um we're always looking for other ways to partner on those kind of activities trusty pram we' be happy to to build that component because that's an absolute need districtwide and then only one other comment which is you mentioned elementary school activities that are not necessarily as structured um and I would just say a girls kickball is Hardcore and it's it's really awesome because you see third graders fourth graders fifth graders really getting along on the

111playground and as the fifth graders are moving up to sixth grade then the fourth graders become the leader of the school and it's I get to see it firsthand at the school that my daughters go to and um you get kids that would never otherwise hang out all of a sudden they're connected because of kickball so I really love what you're doing thank you trusty H thank you um so there's hold on trusty H if you want sorry to stay here or you um I think you could I know where to find you yeah thank you Susan she's my mentor um so there's an NYU Professor running around who's written the book The anxious generation right so I feel like he needs to maybe we need to get in touch with him so there's all

112these components one of them being of course students um born after 95 and the cell phone addiction so that's coming back around to your addiction there um so what he also talked about this that children our CH children currently know have have any sense of play so what we're doing is creating that sense of play we had to organize it but I can I'm hearing the benefits are children that don't probably know how to play um so that is something that you know they never have gotten a chance to do so I really um appreciate that and on uh playing we have to we do have to be mindful of those children who don't want to have a kickball in the face okay so I do want want that um traumatized all through Elementary um

113but I know I was over at the Noble paath Foundation another new partnership that I'm very grateful for this District who is reaching out uh to the work that they are doing in conjunction with the wellness prevention center when you go to their uh their Clubhouse if you will they always have uh paper butcher paper simple just put over the tables so you meet even I walk in and I start doodling so and everybody's doodling and then we were doodling over each other's things so something as simple that I know there's a cost to all of these things when we want to have you know free art time or things like that so um all doable um couple things too I'm a little concerned so the teacher feedback about the well-being checkin and I think

114that was um to help with behaviors in the classroom correct so I'm I'm confused because anecdotally I hear a lot right that oh my goodness you give us no tools to help um Corral or or bring or help the kids with their behavior so I'm hoping we don't just totally give up on that I think you mentioned you were going to still look at that because in one hand I'm like excuse me you're telling me that children are out of control that even your AP kids are shering and not not not understanding the diligence so I'm I'm hoping that we can kind of under maybe they don't understand what's happening because I'm I'm really tired of hearing ing you give us no tools we're hamstrung we have no ability to correct young people and and

115so on so forth so I'm sure if you give the child the autonomy to self-correct versus somebody you know doing that so I was just kind of thinking on that one um and then I think already I was just double checking with uh the training so when we do rotate through you're going to do another round for folks um do you have sustainable modules or um tutorials that you know we do kind of cycle through some of our folks that might miss this training will there be an online uh tutorial or something that you could you could go to if you're new and I missed your training yeah I'll J but I think that there are there's a purpose for it's always in person okay got it because of the the um I understand the

116nature of the training but that we do offer at several times we're working with them to make sure we have multiple opportunities to try to catch those employees okay excellent and then um thank you for your presentation on so to grow I feel like I want my kids to do elementary again they might be better balanced now as adults um so we're GNA continue to pil extend the pilot with the hope of adopting again I'm sure there's a cost component uh but at this stage will you be adding next year some more elementary schools so we will continue to Pilot Z to grow where it exists okay uh son gr is very expensive but we are also looking at a current platform for actually another purpose that has this module in it um and so

117we will also pilot that next year as well to see how they compare um because if it does the same thing or very similar thing um it's far more sustainable for our system in a time of of as you saw um earlier fiscal austerity so we're going to look at both of them next year so there will be more schools that get to experience it but it won't necessarily be just sewn to grow because we want to see how they work side by side because one's far more expensive than the other excellent okay so on that austerity measure and you you bring up partnership so um this would take Manpower so I I kind of think all the time about um an opportunity for a more Global CD Foundation type of thing so as you

118get your data as you look at your programs and how successful this is every company has a component in their giving right um that hits on this right we we have our Partnerships with grip for example this Taco Bell and and Ford um so as we as you hone this and we get the data to support it I'm kind of seeing where this could be the thing everybody loves to love so um what that might look like because we cannot fund all this ourselves but the opportunity for creating that Global citizen that Workforce that ability of that student um success uh coming into then um from from our programs like this I just feel like there's something there uh we would need of course the data and to keep going so that they can understand

119the investment uh with it but um just as I sit here thinking that's the that's what we might be missing that one key thing that they can all jump in I keep thinking of Workforce but I think ultimately this is the building blocks to the type of Citizen that that we need to produce and um struggle to uh with some of the children uh being very disenfranchised so just circling back I I am concerned about I I know that there are students very checked out very defiant I we need to still look at that I think I'm thinking more of that High School level so um you know as we we look at this more because I I feel that teachers want a tool or tools but well how can we we're trying right to

120give them things so that that's it for now thank you so much for the presentation presy Jones did you want to speak yes um sorry so I had a question this may not be such a good question about the teachers not being too interested in the mindfulness Mo moments so I did see this um in action and it looked quite interesting to me but I do certainly understand that it's just kind of not some teachers thing uh on the other hand maybe you know this a teacher who teaches yoga after school or whatever and maybe they are more into it and I'm just wondering if there were could be some you know non non-subscription tools that we might be able to provide to certain teachers who want to do this in their classroom because you

121know almost like you know you buy a CD and and you've got the music on it maybe there would be my my recollection and I wasn't I didn't take mental notes of this but it was you know images and Bubbles getting bigger and coming around things like that that um could be something that you could just I would assume buy anyway I'm just mentioning that that that maybe teachers who wanted to do it could be provided with the tools that it wouldn't be a a seat-based thing a subscription which is I think what we now have with the mindfulness moments my vague recollection is that we bought seats um whereas if you bought you know a CD of these things then you can just play it in your classroom um then I wanted to ask

122about sewn to grow um and first of all there was 132 pilot teacher survey responses and my sense is that a lot more than 132 teachers had to be involved in it just looking in the at the schools here now maybe I'm wrong um but I'm that kind of makes me wonder um I I I do like the um the idea of these well-being check-ins and I appreciate what uh principal uh Campbell said that it worked well for them but those of us who know K kosa know that it is a school where the teachers are very much a team they're working together they talk they are extraordinarily committed to their students and you know because I've been to schools where I don't see that commitment um um so I'm just wondering how much of

123that is going to transfer to schools that don't really have kind of the the whole PLC thing going so much I also wonder whether it's as effective in high schools and even larger middle schools it's one thing to have a an elementary school of say 500 students and kind of be watching all this it's another thing to have a middle school of maybe a thousand or a high school of I don't even know how many thousand um and and though it's just a few classes still it just seems like it would become a large number that you could really keep track of I can see it in you know kosha is a not a small but a not a big Elementary School um so I can see how it's used as a tool there do

124you have any thoughts about that Dr M share a little bit okay all right let's hear from Mrs champ well I don't know I don't know as collaborative as my staff is we really do operate as a professional Learning Community I had to work with the staff for them to understand the value of this and really work together to what we call go slow to go fast because it is one more thing right yes so it's like how do we integrate this how do we support you how do we make it something that you can embed into what you do and the reality is when we're looking at the number of children that come up is really kind of that red flag on a weekly basis it's three and now that the students know that

125we're checking in they're actually also regulating their own emotions a little better because they know if there's something small the teacher is going to lean in and go hey I noticed that you look like you're not that good can you talk to me about that so it actually brought them closer together so it could very well be depending on how we roll it out right it could be integrated but it's also elementary students who are a little more easily convinced than middle school and high school students and and I can just see them going yeah right trusty be I would offer though Niguel Hills Middle School did pilot it right schoolwide and there was a positive it was received positively okay gel Hills did the mindfulness moments the well-being check-in and the wellness R did

126the whole did the trifect it and it was well received but to your point we need to learn from princi Campell principal Jones like how do you support your staff your counselor counseling team how do you manage it as an admin team um there we did not received reports that was an outrageous number of red flags where students were um crying out for help in the check-ins and it became overwhelming we didn't hear that anywhere that was not feedback so all right want to add piece you know one of the reasons we pilot is for impact and effectivness the other reason we pilot is and and you've all heard me say this right like there is nothing that we can really mandate from this dis that will instantly be perfectly implemented across all of our

127classrooms right away we're we're huge we're the ninth largest District in the state of California we have um nearly 3,000 teachers right so anything we do like this we have to do it in an iterative implementation cycle so piloting a allows us to roll it out slowly but the other thing that allows us to do is to get feedback from the teachers about how we can implement it to make it not seem like one more thing right so there's a lot of examples where I'm sure principal Campbell could tell you it it didn't have one meeting and then boom it was in our classrooms right it took time it took discussion and so one of the things I will we say is even if it's a great program it's going to take us a while

128to get it interated into our system because we're a big system and everybody's going to approach it differently and so that's the other reason for piloting it and it's fine not to have the same system at all levels so I would never say that just because something worked at elementary we're going to mandate that it goes all the way through k12 and suddenly at the high schools they're going to be doing this thing because high school students who are 17 18 years old are very different than 16 seven-year old students and so it did work at the middle school um but that doesn't mean we'll roll it out so that's the one of the reasons we continue to Pilot and look at it going forward is to make sure that we don't try and put

129a round peg into a square hole so to speak and that we don't force it onto kids and teachers that it's just not going to work for them we find another toolkit for them we find some other way for them to address that need well potentially we could uh roll this out any number of these things at this school here might say we're going to go with this we think it's great in another school you would maybe have only 10% of teachers who were interested and it would just not not work out you can do it right and so if the data was really compelling we would continue to work to get them all in but if the data was kind of like the mindfulness moments we believe in it we're going to keep it

130as an option we're not pulling it back but we're not going to continue to push to get it into every classroom because the feedback was mixed right and so we're going to leave it there as a toolkit so those teachers who want it who can weave it into their system we have it for them for those who it's not going to work work for there was not any compelling data that means that we're going to really train you until you get this right so that's another reason we would do that all right thank youus Dr M I was just going to add you know chrisy Curtis um who helped you in the beginning on this and during covid she is uh or was the yoga teacher at CA Valley high school and um she developed

131this program and she had teachers that really loved it and then principal John lustin um found a little extra monies and said you can build this program it's a little touchy feely and not it's you know it's not for everybody but the bulk of the teachers at Capo Valley High School were really participating um in part of this so in that when you help teachers um they're learning in terms of just having the calm in their room and how to um overcome certain situations and all and in turn I think they will then learn how they could use that with with their students um and again I just want to say I would really like to see that we've got some system where we utilize what we have um in our data um Mano um

132has his Doctorate in transformational learning and change School Of Consciousness so did Dr Diane Horton we have people on staff who um have great knowledge in this and um those people that we know are very successful in classroom management and what they do um and so I would like to say I'd like to keep it going for Teacher and then you know it may spring board more people catch on for how it helps them with the with students and you know work it into classroom management training um that's being done I have a simple question we've had grand openings for our health centers at the middle schools and with short Cliffs opening in June when it's summer so in the fall will we be having a typical ribbon cutting like yes we've done okay we

133will have a grand opening as Roby school okay thank you and I would I would like to point out too I appreciate that trusty boiss and U actually at I think at all levels and it kind of trickles down this concept of of being calm and mindful and and the big joke in our team is like I have brought this to our leadership team meetings and started with mindfulness it works for some and it doesn't work for other others like Dave Stewart wher he is right now um but so to to because then the impact does trickle down and and as we support our teachers you know as principal support their teachers and uh as at leadership we we learn more about it we can then continue to build on it uh but your point

134is well taken as teachers learn it then it might then trickle down into the classrooms trusty Davis so I I love the work that we're doing in this area right and I super appreciate the sports in middle school as we know that's been an area that we've been discussing for the last four years and I appreciate the the strengthening in those areas and as far as the swn to grow and looking at another option are we looking at um kosida to Pilot being that you it was so successful there are we looking to have kosida pilot a the different program so that we can compare and make sure that that's something that's moving forward on that we haven't made those decisions yet or looked at the logistics on that that would be something that I

135would I would defer to principal Campbell once we had the other platform in our hands and we could show it to her then that'd be something that she could think about how that would impact her staff might be nice to be able to compare the two being that it was successful to be done there and um and then I also want to Echo the um idea to remind us to utilize the strength that we have within cusd to um with our experts we have many experts within our district in certain areas that we need to really glean from um I was sharing with the superintendent the other day on some that someone that everyone is asking to hear more from and um so I'd like us to continue to look at our own experts and

136utilize who we have thank you I just have a couple comments can we go back to the graph um data connective and caring Rel yes that one um looking at school connectiveness and just is looking we can look at the current year 23 24 feeling like how that data speaks to me you're an elementary school kid and you're in a small town right and everybody knows your name and then you move to a little bit bigger city and you don't know so many people and you start to feel a little lost and then you move to the big the big city and you're completely lost and not many people know your name and you can't find your group and I think I know in my own family I I could put a name here that

137this happened I identically in to my own child how I could see her in elementary and all happy and skipping to school and then Middle School got a little bit different and then now completely disconnected in high school so I I I know it happens all around the district and I I see things in in in lots of schools that we do amazing things and I and I wish we could do amazing things everywhere and kind of a couple of things that have stuck out to me over the years is changing our old sometimes I feel like schools are slow to change and kids are changing faster so old school libraries well kids don't kids aren't don't want to go into a library and check out books anymore right they want to go into centers

138where they can play and engage and what trusty Hanah just said that well I didn't want to play kickball but maybe there was a there maybe there's a spot on campus where you know there's board games and interaction happening but it's that library has changed to a different area that engages students and some schools are there and some schools aren't there right um and then Elementary I think when you walk onto a campus and you walk out to recess I've seen custodians outplaying basketball with kids I mean that's that's the power of that kid wanting to come to school that day because he knows he gets to shoot hoops with Mr John or whatever or the school supervisors the recess monitors are out there playing games and engaging not just standing and watching and observing

139so I think changing just the role that that the adults that are on that campus it's not really costing us any different in money but the value what what we put on that campus and and and the adults that are in in those kids' lives matter every moment that they're there um I'm super excited about intermurals I've been talking about it for a long time so excited it's finally launched and super excited to hear how year two goes because I think the more we engage more kids it'll be even more beneficial so fabulous I love that um I oh parent Ed nights I I I want to just say what um Susan paraly had Echo what what she had commented on and it is about how do you engage parents especially at night we're all

140busy we're all working and then getting them to come back to our schools and having those conversations like that's really the hard piece and I go to a lot of events and hear a lot of information so I feel like I I sometimes I'm like oh I'm sure I know what's going then I go and I learn something new right so there's um the Aliso schools just hosted Dr weman from the wieman clinic I I found that to be phenomenal information directly speaking to parents and um giving them a lot of tools that night so that was a phenomenal night again maybe a 100 parents in the room for you know seven schools so that's where it's like how do we connect parents to get them the information um I I think that's it but

141great presentation I appreciate it thank you thank you okay we are now moving on to 13d University of California subject area requirement eligibility a through G and again we are now going to Greg mwin associate superintendent Ed and Sport Services present this item so I do want to frame this just a little bit this will be part one of eventually two parts of an A through G um a through G data comes in late because kids have to graduate and transcri be checked so so we turn about talk about Baseline a3g data later in the fall of next year so we can kind of establish where we are right now um we wanted to make sure we had done some work on on prefacing what is a3g and sort of demystifying it because people say

142a through G but we find that our students don't even necessarily know what a through G is so this is sort of the the primer part of it with some data so that when we get into the the meat potatoes data so to speak in the fall it makes a little more sense because there's been some some backup some some sort of prefer preface so that I just wanted to frame that before we jumped in and then take it away perfect opening thank you so much superintendent Brown president ctios staff presents item 13d University of California subject area requirements so assistant superintendent krie Johnson executive director Meg irvis and coordinator Eric Gardner and our outstanding futurology counselors are here this evening they're going to support this item and do a brief presentation providing you an

143in-depth look at a through G and how we support our students with this requirement eligibility so Dr Johnson will kick it off all right thank you Dr mwin yes we have an excellent team here excited to present about college readiness in CD um in California the standard for college readiness is set by the two Public University Systems the University of California and the California state universities and it is defined by the UC subject area or a through G requirements next slide please and as you'll see throughout the presentation that a through G really aligns well with the vision of a CD graduate um making sure we're uh developing graduates that are Innovative problem solvers and critical thinkers inspired leaders skilled communicators engaged citizens and continuous Learners with that I'll will turn over to Dr irvis

144thank you so tonight our amazing team if you wouldn't mind forwarding the slide uh from futurology will be sharing the a through G requirements why a3g completion truly matters for all students our data on the class of 2023 and our work to increase a through G completion rates for future graduation cohorts hi good evening everyone I'm Dr Heidi Davila and I am one of the futurology counselors I am at Capal Valley high school and uh what are the a3g requirements well the a3g requirements are minimum eligibility requirements that students must take in order to meet the uh admission requirements for CAL States and 's they are a series of 15E long courses that must be completed with a C or higher in order to meet that minimum eligibility to apply to a Cal State or

145UC and students are encouraged to complete at least 11 of those courses prior to the last year of high school and uh a through G courses are College Prep courses that will help students prepare for any postsecondary uh option not just for your College admission but Community College trade school military and for any student who wants to go directly into the workforce as well and here you are seeing a side by side of our cboy Unified School District graduation requirements along with our a through G requirements again this is for UC and Cal State admission and uh I do want to point out that for graduation students can meet a graduation requirement and earn five credits if they earn a d or higher however for our a through G requirements students must pass with a

146C or higher and the higher the grade the better uh students uh are encouraged to take four years of math although the threeyear uh there is a threeyear math requirement for four for uh UC and Cal State admission however they're highly recommended to take that fourth year and not going an entire year without taking a math and these are the minimum requirements to apply to a UC and calate however depending on the major depending on what Cal State what you see they're applying we really want them to exceed these minimum requirements so going beyond the two-year science requirement going beyond that two-year language requirement is strongly encouraged in order for the student to be as competitive as possible and uh we do offer our CCA and our CTE courses that are all 100% a through

147G approved many of which are also uh honors at courses they do get the additional uh weighted GPA point when students take this and so why does this matter well a through G courses are not are not just for calate UC admission our privates out of out of state schools also like that students are taking those College Prep courses that they are exceeding uh the minimum uh a through G requirements uh and uh they are also uh when students take College Prep courses when they are taking those honors in AP classes while they're in high school uh that does show rigor and and that students are willing to challenge themselves and rigor and grades are the top two factors that are considered in the admissions review process uh a through G uh taking a through

148G courses shows that students are prepared again for any option Beyond uh High School regardless of where they choose to go and so they are encouraged uh to uh take them uh and go beyond them uh students are more likely to complete their college and math courses at the community college level if they have taken those College Prep courses while in high school so again taking those a through GS will open up options for students After High School and that is what we always encourage our students to do go above the minimum so that you have all the those doors open and available to you at the moment that you become a senior and why does this matter well the a through G uh was mentioned 35 times in our l cap so that goes

149to show that our community does see the value in a through G uh they contribute positively to our student outcomes and this is not just for college uh for four-year College it is to provide access and Equity to all students who provide that Foundation that strong foundation for all student regardless of where they choose to go to it encourages us to set those high expectations for all students so that when they get to that senior year they are able to apply to fouryear colleges or if they decide they change their mind and we all know our teenagers change their minds quite a bit so by by the time they get to their senior year if they have stuck to that pathway they have that option to go to a fouryear or pursue that trade if

150that's what they want to do and um a student who is socioeconomically challenged who has uh completed those a through G requirements may also be able to apply to their local Cal State reing a yes admission and also qualify for the pel and the Cal grant and get their tuition completely paid for and so there we go providing access to a student that wouldn't have otherwise had access to a four-year college degree good evening my name is Erica Garner I'm the coordinator of College and Career guidance and we get to go into my favorite part the data so I want to quickly cover what the combined four and five year cohort a through G rate is this is the students who graduated within four or five years and with a traditional high school diploma so

151as you can see our district a through G rates for the past three years have been above the state average hovering kind of back and forth the 61 to 60% next slide perfect and then when we look at our a through G rates by student groups we see that our student groups some of them are earning a through G at a lower rate with our English Learners students with disabilities and homeless youth earning a through G at 29% or lower next slide please here is the data when we break our a3g rates down by ethnicity and rapes cusd in the lighter blue color outperforming the state averages however our africanamerican and Hispanic Latino students are earning a through G again at a lower rate now Myra is going to go over um and discuss on

152ways we're working to improve good evening my name is Myra Luna I'm the futurologist college counselor at San Hills High School um we want to showcase our team here of College counselors we are all credential school counselors with expertise in college admissions many of our members have been UC admissions readers and we are all datadriven while each of our high schools operate a little bit differently we all serve cusd students in various forms because each of us is at one high school fulltime we are able to serve students through here one lessons workshops parent webinars and through even bigger events like our annual college fair here and with some images you can see some of the services that we are providing to all cusd high school students and most recently even our middle school and

153Elementary School students as the data has shown e the eel population or English learner population is not at the same a through G completion rate as the rest of our students so because because of this we have created targeted interventions for these for this group we have intentionally outreached to e students through various classroom lessons and through one-on-one supports with College counseling to ensure that they are College and Career ready these targeted interventions allow us to deliver to our students so they can understand High School requirements as well as the a through G requirements so that they are competitive for college application or even post-secondary goals we have also been more involved with the community Through elac meetings delac meetings and other community events you can see that our oneon-one appointments meaning our College counseling

154appointments are representative of our overall eel population in our district another way that we are reaching our Target populations is by meeting with our first generation college students and socioeconomically disadvantaged students through a cultor model in our College Prep Academy we purposely meet with these students various times throughout the school year to ensure that they are in track with their High School requirements as well as meeting their a through G requirements we know that post-secondary options can be challenging to navigate and so that is why we are meeting with these students individually to look more closely at their grades and ensure that they have a deeper understanding about postsecondary goals we most uh recently actually took a group of about 40 students to an over night College field trip to expose them to various campuses

155at the Cal State level UC level as well as a private school this will ensured with this in lines with our elop goal of showcasing postsecondary options for all of us students and so they get better understanding and grasp about the options that are there beyond their current circumstances good evening my name is be and I'm the furology counselor at Alisa Miguel High School um so I'd like to talk to you about some of the tools that we're utilizing to help our students monitor their a through G eligibility um monitoring a through G eligibility is a team effort right everybody is involved uh school counselors us parents and students and so one of the tools that we're using as a district is California colleges.edu which is a phenomenal platform that students can utilize to um

156search for careers search for colleges and of course track their a through G eligibility you'll see here a snap SN shot of what it looks like on the student end and it's a very clear visual representation of their a through G eligibility this is an excellent way for students to be able to Simply log in and see where they stand and maybe will spark a conversation between the student and their counselor when they see something in bright red that's indicates maybe they're not um a through G eligible in a certain area so uh a valuable tool that we're currently using and we're hoping to increase engagement uh in this platform going into next year so another piece of data that we wanted to share with you is some information from the national student Clearing House

157this is a an educational nonprofit that provides educational reporting so the data that you see on the screen is not self-reported data it is indeed um postsecondary enrollment data from the national student Clearing House and this is where the uh class of 2023 is attending you'll see the top 25 schools that our students are attending after after graduating from cusd and uh as you can see the majority of them are CAL States and uc's and California institutions um this in one part is a testament to the work that we're doing to make sure that our students are a3g eligible but it's also a reminder to us that these instate schools are incredibly popular among our students and it's imperative that we continue to increase the a through G eligibility among all students to ensure that

158they're able to go to the schools that they wish to go to so how are we sharing this information uh with families and how are we getting the message out right um as was mentioned earlier a through G is a bit of an enigma to a lot of people I had this conversation just last night with our PTSA at at Lisa Mel high school with president castan's present um but how are we sharing this information with families first of all uh we're present at all of our um freshman sophomore junior senior orientations we actually host grade level orientations as a team through futurology for every single grade level and it's mentioned in these presentations uh we are infiltrating middle schools slowly but surely and um had a very valuable conversation again last night about this

159but we will be working towards being more intentional with our work especially with eighth grade families entering into nth grade about the a3g requirements so that they have the information they need to equip them to choose schedules that will be conducive to a student um who's going to be successful postsecondary um we're at back to high or back to school nights at the high school level um we are providing parent education through not only schoolwide events but targeted parent um groups such as the Native American families our PTSA our daac meetings CAC so we're trying to really get to those Target populations as well to get this message across um and we're making sure that we're present during advisement we're providing webinars as I mentioned earlier and all of this information is in our district

160catalog so um we are working towards increasing a through G um eligibility especially among those targeted populations that you saw earlier um we're trying to make sure that all students are succeeding when they graduate from Capistrano so we're doing that um by utilizing funding from the a3g completion Improvement Grant which is providing professional development to staff members and counselors It's paying for things like that overnight College field trip that Myra mentioned earlier um it's just allowing us to provide additional support to students to ensure that they are going to be a3g eligible especially those Target populations um we're utilizing um uh outof country transcript services to ensure that our newcomer students um are afforded you know every credit that they can possibly get for their outof country cours workk right uh and we're ensuring that

161our credit recover courses are a through G um as well so that students have an A through G remediation option um we're making sure that our portal um there's a portal that we maintain that has all of our a through G approved courses that that is accurate every single year so that when students apply the coursework reflected on their application is reflective of what's being maintained in that portal we're presenting to the staff at the schools to make sure that they are aware of what a3g requirements are and the importance of them and of course we getting into classrooms um and as M mentioned earlier working with Target populations such as English language Learners so our next steps are a little bit more of the same and some new things as well next year we

162are hosting our first ever California colleges.edu webinar to spread the word so that families begin to utilize this tool more um that's definitely a huge goal for our team is to increase engagement on that platform um grade level orientations as always and additional webinars to support the effort of spreading the message of a through G we will continue supporting our specific student groups um through transcript audits for our English language Learners to see who is a3g eligible and then getting out into classrooms to work with them and to Target interventions to ensure that more of our English language Learners and other Target populations are becoming a3g eligible by the time they graduate um we'll be working with uh counselors to implement the academic for your plan to ensure that students are choosing courses that are

163a through G so that they have that option of applying to a fouryear um and we'll make sure to continue professional development um you know as a Counseling Group to ensure that counselors are able to support students in this effort as well and with that I'd like to thank you for um your time tonight and welcome any questions that you might have thank you we have any speaker cards this pH okay trustees trusty partner I got lots of questions tonight um but on this one you know a student does everything right they they do everything they get their a through G they they cover it perfectly and then they still don't get into any of the schools that they want to I've got to believe that there's a huge growing frustration and I know we

164can't affect the admissions process but how are we coping with that because that will start affecting you know the attitude really of of these students who are hearing about this the younger ones you know nth grade 10th grade when their friends who did everything right still didn't get in so can you address that is there a way to address that absolutely I think that's a great question and that's um a huge part of our work at the schools is spreading College knowledge and um increasing students understanding of college admissions that's another part of our work that's a little separate from a through G um and part of that is helping students to understand that building a well-balanced college list and choosing schools that have a wide range of acceptance rates is is going to be

165best practice for any student so that they have positive outcomes I think right now students are obsessed with about 10 schools that they know about UCLA USC UCI right and so part of our work is increasing their knowledge of how College admissions works so one they can try to be more competitive but also two to find schools that are more appropriate for them um on an academic social and financial level right um but of course being a3g eligible will also make students competitive for all post secondary institutions so it's if it's not the uc's they're still going to be competitive for plenty of other um institution options as well yeah I mean it seems like the whole model is upside down from what it used to be and you're more competitive going to a school

166outside of California than inside and the students need to feel that that's that's a success absolutely and you know shame on the state of California for not handling this but um we've got a pivot so that those students don't get disenfranchised um and again you know I'm happy to see Saddleback at the top of the list but you know I'd like to see you know other out of state schools out there as well I think saddleback's a good point if you want to go back to that slide actually that has the the uh National Clearing House data um I think the other part too is is helping them understand that there's multiple ways to get a four-year degree from their dream school right that there's a lot of Pathways from um Community College two years

167into the back so if you go back to the clearing slide one more y that one um not only is sat at the top but look at the numbers it's 134 out of our 3900 kids who went to sleach 107 is the next right so there's a lot of kids who are going there and who are going to do great there and then transfer on to UCLA UCI Cal State Fullerton Cal State Long Beach or an out of state school so helping kids understand that you can still get it done in four or five years you don't have to go straight there I think um you've heard me say it from this Das before you know having our kids uh well informed about all their options and that the two-year University trade school technical school

168are great options and can still lead them to that dream school that they wanted to go to that they don't have to start their um you know helping them understand that that you don't have to go to an Ivy League school to be a successful student you can be a successful student it might be helpful to even break out that Saddleback number of how many of those students went on to which schools yeah that would be interesting that kind of shows the trajectory that they're looking truste Jones well the the California master plan for higher education never anticipated that that or or desired that every High School grad who did well would go to a UC or even a CSU that uh I believe was the top 11% were to go to the uc's and

169I forget what under under that but say the top 20% and then the rest were to start their first two years at the California community colleges that was always the state master plan for higher education um and I think we went away from that unfortunately and um they started letting people like me go straight to the the uc's um anyway um I wanted to go back to page 15 if we could um and there was a reference yes um and um The Counselor from Aliso said that we want to increase use of this tool what what is this tool I guess I missed that so this was um this was approved by trustees I think it was two years ago so this is the only official Clearing House for the uc's in Cal States and

170so as opposed to in the past when a student went to apply for calate apply or something like that they would always have to send the transcript in after then the UCO CAL States would assess the transcript what this does is this is pre verifying those courses so when it's green that means it's already been verified and so when they apply for a UC or Cal State it's accepted at its face value I think the other thing that's important is that parents can also have access to this and see the progress of their students so is this it's free too by way so this is through California colleges.edu is that it is okay all right that's so it's a service that's part of the Cradle to Career um funding for the state of good good

171good do our stud no no go ahead okay do our students have access to this at right direction in our portal so that okay thank you yes and it and it live updates from our Data Systems so students have access counselors have a portal they can check on the students um and the parents can access so we have three three entry points so um yeah so I wanted to I had some other things I wanted to talk about so back in the February board meeting when we found let's see what was it we talked about exactly I guess it was the reclassification data and this started getting me interested as many people in the know um and um I I really basically I I I bring did bring this to the attention of some people

172they did the work it wasn't me uh it was Dr Johnson and his staff Dr Gomez and his staff and of course Dr Brown um looking at uh our re how we reclassify kids because if you looked at the data and you can go back to it if You' like of um which uh students complete 8 through G the English Learners are very very low well why is that one of the reasons is that if you're an English learner you um are taking an extra class so you have less room for electives um I mean there's other reasons but that's part of it that you one elective year after year after year is taken up by this ELD class so one of the things the staff was that we had two periods and I I'm

173partly telling this for the benefit of the trustees and anybody else on staff who doesn't know this we just um approved a new reclassification method I would say and we didn't change the numbers it's not like you have to have a 500 on dibles or whatever uh and now it used to be 500 now it's 400 still 500 or whatever the number is but instead of having two periods per year when you could reclassify um now the a advisor can recommend a student to for consideration for reclassification any day of the week we used to have just two windows that were for five days long and that didn't allow us to consider every single test every single CIA every single I ready every single dible um so that meant that if you got the right

174score but the window had already passed you might not be able to reclassify this here it's I know way more about this than I ever wanted to know but I really want to thank again Dr Johnson Dr Gomez Dr Brown and their staffs for digging into this and making the change I think that it is going to allow some students who did meet the criteria but were off from those windows to reclassify and I think this will help with ability of those students to uh to complete a through G thanks Hanah thank you um I don't know if I really have a question on this something that I'm concerned about and get continue to be a little bit confused I don't know about how many years ago it was we took the concept of our

175academic advisors and flipped it all and and added and now they are a counselor I'm still confused right in what capacity that they function and with a lot of students um each one you know it has to carry a lot of case loads so it's just something that I want to make sure that this is amazing that that's your effective partner right that's the one that has to do it on the day-to-day basis or the child along with from what I guess too we added to their and had them get their masters uh their social emotional so I'm not really um going negative or any one way or the other I just want to make sure that we are Mindful and we understand understand that important component because when I go on to school I

176see them with all the kids lined up you know they they'll go through it and just make sure that they are supported you you mention the training for them um and just because we switch that and I've always been kind of confused ever since we made the switch okay any other Tres no okay yes oh go ahead so um kind what Tristy H was saying is it reduce the amount of time that you spend with each student when you give them academic advising that you have this community California colleges.edu because you're not looking through a paper transcript or trying to figure out okay what am I seeing here it's always there it's uploaded and then your discussion gets pretty quick I would imag academic advice as far as 11 12th grade that's part of yeah

177the other part of it is the more we can get students to self-monitor the more we can guide the questions they ask when they're in acemic ad advisement to be efficient with the support they need where is the class they're going to need to take are they enrolled in the right class if they had to make up a credit because they got the D and we need to get them to C they know what that class is they know what to ask for for summer school or for credit recovery so all of those things help so the more we can get them and their parents monitoring that that real time a through G it helps guide the questions to ask which means we can be more efficient with them right and the other thing with

178the Clearing House data one of the things we looked at a number of years back was sort of throughput right how long does it take a student graduating from this institution to actually get a degree and I think a lot of Trustees at the time were kind of um concerned that it wasn't really a foure degree but it's more like a six or sevene degree on average so yes we do a lot of a through G but then it just takes a long time to actually get them into the workforce and that's part of that you know institutionalizing an idea of cradle to career right that it you're out in a reasonable amount of time through that one ofart break the college systems uh or the educational master plan however you want to look at

179that sort of thing you as you're looking at all of these things uh do you sort of also in the background of this kind conversation have that noise constantly humming well even if we do all this stuff it's more likely that you're not going to take one of these degrees in four years it'll be more like six years yeah so um the student Clearing House actually has really good reports you can run to see ours this not just self-reporting as I said it's our students where they enroll and how they persevere and actually receive a degree and so we actually looked at that data with High School principles and we're we continue to um look at the data do training uh kind of just awareness I think the other part about reports and why California

180colleges.edu is very helpful is counselors can run reports for students on their case load and and kind of really Target and be efficient about finding those students who maybe are not on track um and actually do additional counseling that another students already on track and and being successful can do I don't know if anyone else wants to speak to that exactly and um one of the benefits of that platform as well is previous L uh counselors needed to rely on student reporting as to how they were doing on their college applications now they can see in real time okay they've started an application they' finished it they've uh submitted it and I don't think we mentioned but through that same platform students can submit applications directly to CAL States uc's and community colleges and so

181it takes out that piece of students unintentionally perhaps selecting the wrong course other small mistakes that can have a huge impact on the student's ability to enter College seamlessly so it's really a huge Equity tool for students who are doing this work with varied backgrounds and needs and levels of support at home by providing additional tools within the schools the other thing that it has for students in the student impair portal is it has times to degrees it has Pathways to degrees it has the the expected course sequences at the colleges so it has a lot of resources for the family to help understand yeah yeah you probably don't need a budget for four years you got a budget for six right or five or 4.7 or you know it goes through all that so

182that's the other point of using a tool like this is it helps to educate our families that four is no longer the average yeah and that that's a very good point and I know that in the system we're seeing the sort of bottlenecking is the math and English apparently even with all this good education they're getting they can't pass college algebra they can't do computational at a higher level of what we and you know we're trying to refigure that as well do you split you know algebra one and two over three years and bookends or you try to concentrate it towards the last part of it some of the Community College kind of fiddling with this you contextualize math and all this other stuff but it is an odd problem to have all of these

183well High achieving students who aren't actually achieving when you really put them the test in the way that we say and in English as well this is you know it's kind of like why do pixel on while you keep failing or dropping out or removing yourself from an English and math course that's that's part of the story you do find in your major craft that you don't do well in education which is supposed to be the compliment to the I'd like to add also that it does have a college search component as well as a career search component and so students are able to take career assessment so that they can better understand what their future career goals are so that they then they can backwards planned uh do I even need to go to

184a four-year college for that type of career or is the trade school more appropriate and so those are really tools that are embedded that help the student better understand themselves so that that can really guide the conversation during our counseling session so those are also some awesome tools that are embedded in there are college Search tool a career search tool as well as career assessments that the students can take thank Dr P I also want to address the concern about getting through in a timely manner that's one reasons we're really pushing for more dual enrollment classes right at gety courses so that they can get ahead of the game before they even graduate so go ahead trust Park you raised an interesting point about trade schools is there an abbreviated version of this that on

185the dashboard could guide the student about you know showing nice green you know um squares that they're on track for a certain trade school and how many students are going to trade schools instead of two year or four year schools probably not I'm I'm not saying it's it should be there I'm just I think we we focus so much on a through G in college right and we don't give as much Credence to the trade Sports great points I mean uh so to separate the two things we've got California colleges.edu which is aligned specifically for a through G but then there's the student Clearing House which does provide us data on where our students go and I agree with you we want to prepare students for as many opportunities as possible just because we're preparing

186them for a four-year University we want them to have that leverage to go into whatever option they want After High School and that'll be another data presentation on CTE completions and a few other things because college readiness is not just a3g yeah but the focus tonight was specifically the a through G part got it okay well can I let me I have a couple questions and a couple of comments um one was the other options and as you're speaking to students about ather G this is an ather G um trade schools military what are you know are we talking about career paths outside of that as well so so thank you thank you covered some of that and um how does Stu how do our students know what schools they're not getting into is that

187on there is that something that you're we talked about the ones that they're getting into back on that slide that school maybe they've applied to that are not getting into yes we don't oh go ahead yeah we don't have data of that I mean students kind of self-report and um part of the conversation was what happens when a student doesn't get in who that's where we come in College counseling postsecondary options with alternative Pathways but but there's no legal data since the students are just informed directly um if they haven't been accepted to that University confidential data so there's no there's no yeah if you applied to school and didn't get in that's confidential between you and that school the Clearing House is actual enrollment so once you enroll there's a record of you enrolling

188the school that's why the clearing data uses that so we actually don't even necessarily know all places they rejected either right they might have gotten into 10 schools gotten not into 10 schools and rejected nine and kept one we only know the one that go to sure okay go ahead have a question Jessy B so how do we have a sense these trustees that are saying that you know we've got these brilliant kids but they're not getting into colleges is that happening a lot do we have a number to know that this is an issue for us yeah yeah I mean they're getting into colleges it's I think there's a perception that that they're not getting into the highest level colleges they're not all getting into UCLA and even even actually you guys can give

189me the Cal State Long Beach is now one of the hardest schools in the state to get into um it used to be a backup School in the 90s now it's you know you don't get into it but I think you know if we look at our a through G rate so if a through G is the minimum to get into a Cal State or UC see and 60% of our kids are a through G 60% of our kids are going to Saddleback right so so maybe they're all applying to Saddleback which is great U but the reality is 60% aren't getting into CAL States and uc's they're they're just not and uh Tristy Jones was exactly right the California master plan for higher education was never built to accept that many so uh K12

190agencies have done a really good job of getting far more kids through a through G than California ever anticipated we would get through a through G um and so yes back in the day where they would let someone like me into a fouryear University um with a scholarship I would never even get accepted now because of the fact that that you know back then 25% of the students were getting a through G and now 60% in districts like ours so so there's a a bigger issue there which is why um the the Community College funding the Community College support uh and and like Dr Johnson said dual enrollment and some of those other things are are becoming much more critical for us so that we can have other Pathways for our students that are not

191just a through g means cow state right a good point because I don't think parents understand the R1 designation schools like a UCLA or Bally is an institution of research and graduate study for the most part they just happen to have an undergraduate program and unless you're comfortable in a 500 seat lecture class from a professor who's kind of somewhat interested in that uh and a bunch of Tas deployed uh to teach you things my my money is on what you're saying is either Cal State or or uh or Community College just because that's what we do as undergraduate education you's they they are yeah they Research Institute well and the reality is the UCS have undergrads to create alumni who will donate them that is the purpose of being an undergrad at a UC

192and I I think to your point that you had mentioned about how that there's certain schools think that that's their best school and and I appreciate that you're working on helping them understand the right fit for each individual student because there is the right fit for everyone um and and that you're speaking on the academic the social and the financial right because there's all those pieces that come together as you choose which is the best fit for your University and um and helping them build that well balanced College list and I appreciate that that's something that's of value to each of you and and um spreading College knowledge so those are some of the key points that I appreciate you sharing and I I appreciate you all being here tonight and sounds like you're a

193super cohesive group that work together within the district so thank you thank you for your presentation yes thank you thank and be I'm going to be an expert on a through G requirements here by the end of at the end of my journey through high school with my with my own children but we had talked about just engaging more at the middle school level I think when you get to high school you're already overwhelmed so then we throw a through G at them but then at that point they don't know how to navigate because they're already just they're trying to focus now on high schools they're freshmen so getting parents that information eighth grade is just why it's vital because then it becomes something they can absorb where when they get to high school they're

194they're completely overwhelmed at that point so but thank you thank you that was great tonight thanks okay we are now moving on to um 13e resolution 23 24-31 auth authorization of temporary interfund transfers may have motion to adopt the resolution number 2324 D31 author of temporary inter fund transfers move moved by trusty Jones seconded by truste Parham and at this point I'd like to recognize Clark Hampton Deputy superintendent business and support services to present the item thank you president ctios this is simply a shortterm a resolution to allow for short-term borrowing uh from other funds for cash flow purposes okay thank you Miss Hayes any speaker cards trustees any discussion no okay Miss hay will you please call the role student board member Pierce has left for the evening trusty Bas hi Tristy Davis Tristy

195Davis stepped away Tristy Jones hi Tristy Pritchard Tristy hanich hi trusty Paran hi trusty casianos I motion carries 601 by a roll call vote all right um we are now moving on to 13f resolution number 23 24-32 resolution in order of banial trustee election specifications of the election order may have a motion to adopt resolution number 232 24-32 resolution and Order of by annual trustee election specifications of the election order motion okay moved by trusty Parham second seconded by trusty hanich at this time I'd like to recognize Dr Chris Brown superintendent to present the item was a recurring item during election years that's it that was a big presentation okay I any speakers no I don't no any speaker cards no okay trustees we're ready to vote all right uh Miss hce please call the

196RO truste uh student board member Pierce is absent trusty bulas I vote no I'm just kidding everybody's funny tonight Davis stepped away trusty Jones hi trusty Pritchard trusty H hi trusty parhan hi trusty casanas I motion carry 601 by a roll call vote okay we are now moving on to 13g First read in board policy 61 163.5 student use of technology and Internet safety I have a motion to adopt board policy 616 3.5 student use of technology and Internet safety on the first raing and wave a second raing okay moved by trusty Hanah seconded by trusty bolus at this time I'd like to recognize superintendent Chris Brown to present the item and actually I'm going to ask Clark Hampton to present this uh thank you Dr Brown so this item simply adds uh the use

197of AI and using it inappropriately as part of our technology and internet use by students so it's adding into the policy okay Miss say any speakers no okay trustees discussion no all right we can we can do it oh go ahead sorry I just wanted to note that I'd love to see that we keep it bolded for both of the policies on the website did we already did sorry if I missed that but I'd love to keep the paragraphs that we added bolded on our website we did it bolded on one policy and we didn't on the other and so it it kind of calls it out that it's signicant I'd like it bolded on both if that if we could agree on that I'd like it I mean that's a presentation thing we can

198leave it bolded especially it's change and then eventually it'll become normal and we'll just put it back to normal but that's not a substantive change to the policy so that's fine okay we can do a voice vote that okay all those in favor I I any oppose okay motion carries 70 okay we're now moving on to 13h First reading board policy 513 1.2 bullying I have a motion to adopt board policy 513 1.2 bullying on the first read and wave the second can I have a motion moved by trustee bullus seconded by second uh trusty Jones at this time superintendent so similar to the previous policy um the reality is our bowling policy probably already covered this um but calling out the fact that AI is a new tool allows parents to be aware that

199that AI can be used in this manner so similar to the previous policy this calls out the specific use of AI to be a bullying or harassing or really to any way harm another student as as something that we prohibit by board policy okay Miss Hayes any speaker cards okay trustees discussion I have a brief brief and that is whether we need anything in our uh staff policy not necessarily this specifically but just letting staff know that that inappropriate use of AI is no good either so two things will happen so obviously for this it'll go into ARS but um the staff acceptable use policy will also be updated that's coming at a later board meeting okay thank you okay trusty Dave yeah trusty Davis thank you um I appreciate that we took like Ryan's

200initial letter out to ran bis's initial letter out to Comm our community and our families and then that the reminder that we're not tolerating any bullying if your child's being bullied there's steps in place that we need to make sure that these changes happen so it's and this moved right directly from from that communication so I appreciate the steps that we taken thank you uh Tracy baram yeah I would I would say that the policy as written is is spoton the problem is I don't think we are as successful as we think we are at counteracting bullying and and that's where I I think the superintendent has talked a little bit about potentially doing um a discussion with parents in the fall to maybe clarify what we are doing and what we can do and

201maybe add some uh additional measures so that we're more effectively protecting victims communicating properly to parents and helping those bullies not become bullies anymore because a lot of them are repeat offenders and I think we do have a problem that's not being addressed we have a great policy it's just not 100% being followed and I think um we're successful in some ways but we're not as successful as we need to be so um I look forward to that discussion after the summer okay um all in favor may I I okay any oppos okay motion carry 70 um with a Voice vote all right we are now moving on to consent Calendar please not board per I'm not even going to be able to read anymore 9323 in accordance with the La the public has the

202right to comment on any consent item at the request of any member of the board any item on the consent agenda shall be removed and given an individual consideration for Action as a regular agenda item each speaker is allotted between one and three minutes per item depending on the number of individuals requested speak so Mrs haste we have speakers on from second we have one speaker Emily C okay good evening superintendent and board of es in the past month ptas across Capo unified has donated financially 1 $142,900 fifth grades pair educator salaries materials for math departments student supervisor salaries School assemblies variety folders and student planners reminder binders meet the Masters traveling naturalist program walk through the American Revolution walk through California security campers and kindergarten assemblies our ptas are pleased to help enrich the

203curriculum and services to our school sites our volunteers contribute both financially and their time to make Capistrano Unified the best it can be we work as partners with our teachers and site administrators if you have not joined your P local PTA and would like to for the next 10 days there is still time to join this for this school year visit totem.of Joy thank you thank you okay any trustees have consent items they wish to pull I'd like to pull 15D and 17 C okay 15 D and 17 C yes get that correct okay any other trustee okay so can okay so trusty hanich moved to um make a motion for the rest except 15D and 17 C okay seconded by trusty Parham all right Miss hay will you call the RO student board member

204Pierce is absent trusty buus hi trusty Davis trusty Jones hi trusty Pritchard trusty hich trusty parhan hi trusty casanis hi motion carries 70 by roll call vote to approve the consent calendar except 15D and 17 C so at this time let's go to 15D um trusty Davis would you like to go over that item I just wanted to I just wanted to have staff kind of just explain because um we had it in an update for us and I can share that or if staff would like to better explain I just had a few questions from community members and I just wanted to share an allow staff to be able to better explain the process and how this is approved before and the will process I'm happy to I'm happy to share so basically this

205is just an agreement for the essenia K8 portable classroom project it was approved back in August 16th of 2023 and it was built to house 1,200 permanent K8 students and adding the Portables to asencia as part of the mitigation agreement with RSB to temporarily house up to four 400 resend of planning Area 3 students and two and until the new um Randa sorry Randa K8 student school is built and the new school is expected to open 2728 school year and this report this specific report to the state is to maintain our eligibility for State maning money yes on the project thank you okay um okay go ahead yeah I also want to highlight that obviously this school is quite impacted with rapid growth and concerns about traffic and and things like that and my understanding

206is that the superintendent um will be speaking with the community again sometime in the fall to really address that impact and potential mitigation measures if any that can be implemented obviously putting in a lot of Portables is is the the the only solution right now but there might be some other mitigating measures that can be discussed so that's something that the community can look forward to in the fall okay thank you and 17 C 17c I just wanted to kind of highlight it really I mean this has a potential to be an incredibly Dynamic program and I just want to keep keep our eyes on it I want staff to keep their eyes on it and and I hope that we're going to use it as a tool and model it across the district um

207my husband served in the United States Marine Corps he's a fireman in the Marine served in the first goal Corp um we're huge advocates for armed forces and appreciate the service of all of our Armed Forces um and I look forward to strengthening the our our RC program and look at the data from what we glean from it and um that will help determine the success of this program and we had our first inaugural jrc promotion and award ceremony last Friday and so I just really wanted to highlight it and um let let our communities know about what we're doing this this on theem so thank you keep our eyes on it okay thank you can I have a motion to pass 15D and 17 C then moved okay moved by truste Davis seconded by

208trusty Parham all those in favor um no you do not they're not resolutions no she said we could Voice vote could Voice vote all those in favor any oppos okay carries seven zero at this time there being no further business of the board may I have a motion to adour okay don't do that I moved or second whatever moved by trusty Hanah seconded by who who was the second I'm sorry I missed it okay trusty Davis all those in favor say I any oppos no motion carries 70 to adjourn the meeting and the time is now