{"date":"2025-05-14","type":"Board Meeting","videoId":"6qHkEM3tahc","audioDuration":4650,"speakers":{"A":{"name":"Evelyn Sanchez","role":"Executive Assistant to Superintendent / Board Secretary"},"B":{"name":"Mike Wells","role":"Board President"},"C":{"name":"Cecilia I. 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Here."},{"start":15919,"end":138290,"speaker":"E","text":"All right, I'll start with the report out on closed session from today, May 14, 2025. The board discussed the performance evaluation of the superintendent, and no action was taken. Good evening. Welcome to May 14, 2025. It's our regular meeting of the Redwood City School Board. Buenas noches. Sise une a la reunion online y ne sicite interpretacion en espanol. Por fava yama al nueve siete, ocho, nueve, nueve, cerro, cinco uno, tres, siete y presione ocho, tres, siete, siete, cerro, quatro uno I al signo de numero sie assiste alla reognion and Persona solicita and transmissor situada al fondo de la sala. This is our first regular meeting in May, which is a month of appreciation. So before we get going, I wanted to start. Start by sharing appreciation for our principals for Principals of Appreciation Day. Our teachers who had Teacher Appreciation Week last week, our classified staff. Their appreciation week is next week, Executive Assistant Day, which I think was a celebration that was here, and really appreciation for all of our staff. It's, you know, a month of appreciation, and I don't think we can take enough time to be able to say how much we, you know, are thankful and appreciate the work that's done, and then thank you, everyone that's here tonight, online or in person, you're really joining us as our partners in education. And the board does encourage all members of the public to participate and provide comments on issues of concern, regardless of whether they are on the agenda. To speak, please complete one of the speaker's cards that's located in the back of the room, or you can fill one out online if you're online. And if you do fill it out in person, just grab the card in the back and then fill it out and bring it up to Evelyn. And if you're addressing a subject listed on the agenda, you'll be called at the time of that item that when we're about to consider it. And if it's not on the agenda, we'll call you shortly during oral communication, which comes right after the board approves the agenda. So with that, do we have any changes to the agenda?"},{"start":140290,"end":140650,"speaker":"F","text":"All right."},{"start":140650,"end":141890,"speaker":"E","text":"Can I get a motion to approve it?"},{"start":142290,"end":145490,"speaker":"G","text":"I move to approve the agenda second."},{"start":145980,"end":146860,"speaker":"E","text":"Okay. All in favor?"},{"start":147580,"end":148060,"speaker":"B","text":"Perfect."},{"start":148460,"end":176280,"speaker":"E","text":"All right, now we're on to oral communication, and we do have a few speakers cards. So we will start with. Is this amica on Amica Geom Kyom. Hey, sorry. There's a. Yeah. Microphone to turn on. And then I want to mention that just to be fair to all our speakers, we do limit public comment time to three minutes per speaker. And there's a clock that'll be on the front. You can probably see it once you start talking."},{"start":176360,"end":176720,"speaker":"C","text":"Yeah."},{"start":176720,"end":178520,"speaker":"E","text":"It'll show up on the big screen when you start talking."},{"start":178600,"end":179320,"speaker":"H","text":"Okay, perfect."},{"start":179320,"end":179800,"speaker":"E","text":"Thank you."},{"start":180360,"end":359210,"speaker":"C","text":"Good evening. Amika Guillaume. I was once the principal at Sequoia Union High School District. But this year I am COO for Peninsula Bridge. I just wanted to spend a moment in the spirit of celebration to update you all on what we've been able to do for 35 years. We were only a middle school program for the last few years. We expanded our program to be 13 years and Redwood City knocked it out of the park. You all had 87 students nominated. I wish we had more money and more space. We're only allowed 20 from Redwood City. But I did want you to know what those 20 have to look forward to. And in the very back I put some names of our college scholars. I've had two principals cry from pride because they recognize some of their former students and they couldn't believe how far they've gone. Typically we're 100% four year universities because of the FAFSA debacle last year, if I may call it that. Some did have to go to community college last year, but you can see here all the colleges they get into. Our goal is they graduate with less than 30,000 in debt. And so we have all these partners all across the country who are providing first gen low income students with access to four year university degrees and almost zero debt in many instances. So we do start in fourth grade, inspiring them that they can go out of state if they feel comfortable and we will be there to help them. We actually have one colleague in Connecticut so she can jump on the train and make sure families feel safe about where their students are. I also wanted to share that as we know, this is actually what brought me to Peninsula Bridge as a staff member. I've been on their board for 11 years. As a principal, I was so proud of all of our college persistence. We got it up to 87% in my old high school, but they were coming back without jobs. And as many of you know, first gen low income students, 70% future trust has said that they are not using their degrees. First gen low income students are underemployed. 92% of our kids graduated and are now employed Full time because of partners such as those that you see here. We start in fourth grade talking about the trajectory. They need to know in fourth grade that if you want to go to a STEM field or you want to be a math teacher or a science teacher, you need to have geometry by ninth grade. We start that in fourth grade. Then what we do is we start the career piece because they all say they want to be an engineer. Do you know the difference between an electrical engineer and a mechanical engineer? That's what they do in fourth grade. We do all of that work then starting in 11th grade. Actually, in 9th grade, they do career awareness, but internships start in 11th grade. Our goal is that they graduate with three internships under their belt because. To close the gap for social capital. So I just wanted to thank you all. We've been partners for decades, and I just really appreciate. We had great success this year, and I thought some good news is in order, and there's much to be proud of. So thank you all for your support, and we continue to have beautiful Redwood City students in our group. Thank you."},{"start":359770,"end":384360,"speaker":"E","text":"Thank you, amica. Thank you for sharing the successes that Peninsula Bridge is having and, of course, the students that are going through the program. Okay, our next speakers are Saoirse, Maya and Nia. I'm assuming they're all coming together. Is that right? Okay. And I know you're experienced speakers, but I'll remind you that there's a time limit of three minutes, and you'll have the clock that you can see on the tv."},{"start":392520,"end":394200,"speaker":"A","text":"Hello, my name is Maya."},{"start":394920,"end":396840,"speaker":"B","text":"I am here today to show my"},{"start":396840,"end":407580,"speaker":"A","text":"gratitude for the board for allowing advanced English classes in Kennedy. Hello, my name is Saoirse Rafferty, and"},{"start":407580,"end":409540,"speaker":"B","text":"I'm here to deeply appreciate."},{"start":409860,"end":411980,"speaker":"A","text":"And I'm here to say that I"},{"start":411980,"end":414900,"speaker":"B","text":"deeply appreciate all that the board has done for this."},{"start":415860,"end":425180,"speaker":"A","text":"Done for the Redwood City School District students, and that I deep. We, as a Class of 2025 at"},{"start":425180,"end":429870,"speaker":"B","text":"the Mandarin Immersion Orion, we deeply appreciate"},{"start":429870,"end":433270,"speaker":"A","text":"all that you've done for us, and we are very happy that you have"},{"start":433270,"end":434070,"speaker":"B","text":"implemented"},{"start":435830,"end":444630,"speaker":"A","text":"advanced classes at Kennedy and so that we can fulfill our dreams as whatever we become as adults."},{"start":444950,"end":447910,"speaker":"B","text":"And in my experience, I think that"},{"start":447910,"end":452230,"speaker":"A","text":"advanced ELA will help us get on that track."},{"start":455040,"end":461360,"speaker":"B","text":"Thank you so much for doing the advanced ELA because I'm really excited to"},{"start":461360,"end":464480,"speaker":"E","text":"learn more about English and learn more."},{"start":464800,"end":469440,"speaker":"B","text":"More advanced vocabulary that can help me achieve my dreams."},{"start":471120,"end":471760,"speaker":"A","text":"Thank you."},{"start":473680,"end":474080,"speaker":"G","text":"All right."},{"start":474080,"end":483110,"speaker":"E","text":"Thank you, Saoirse, Maya and Nia. It's great to. Nia. It was great to hear about what you're excited about. Glad you could share that with us. Okay, our next speaker is Finbar."},{"start":492140,"end":492620,"speaker":"A","text":"Thank you."},{"start":493100,"end":498860,"speaker":"B","text":"Thank you for having advanced Ela and thank you."},{"start":500860,"end":508460,"speaker":"E","text":"Great job. Thank you. Fenbar directing to the point. I appreciate it. And our next speaker is Megan."},{"start":511830,"end":547570,"speaker":"C","text":"I wanted to second the kids comments and also just express my appreciation for all of you. It definitely takes a huge team in this district and I know there was a lot of emails, a lot of research articles you guys were sent tomes of research and I know that you guys really considered this issue deeply and carefully and I, I think it's the right decision for all of us. And I, I just brought some little gifts for everybody who had to read all of my emails and petitions in the past month. Little salad dressing, oil and vinegar from Sigona's, which we all know and love. But I just wanted to say thank you guys so much."},{"start":547570,"end":548290,"speaker":"B","text":"I, I."},{"start":549330,"end":555730,"speaker":"C","text":"You guys did a lot for the district. I know it was hard to consider this night. Thanks for all the extra time you wanted that went into it. Thank you."},{"start":556609,"end":566050,"speaker":"E","text":"All right, thank you, Megan. All right, let's move on. We have our approval of the bond consent items. There are a couple items here that will pass with one motion. And I get a motion to approve."},{"start":573050,"end":575130,"speaker":"A","text":"I move to approve the bond items."},{"start":575370,"end":576090,"speaker":"G","text":"Seconded."},{"start":576330,"end":577050,"speaker":"E","text":"All in favor?"},{"start":577050,"end":577370,"speaker":"B","text":"Aye."},{"start":577370,"end":577770,"speaker":"G","text":"Aye."},{"start":577930,"end":578330,"speaker":"B","text":"Great."},{"start":578490,"end":588730,"speaker":"E","text":"Now we're on to bond program action items. The first one is 10.1. It's the adoption of resolution 24, which are going to be leaseback agreement with block construction for the H Vac projects."},{"start":591780,"end":595860,"speaker":"B","text":"Yeah. Yeah. Thank you, President Wells."},{"start":596180,"end":598340,"speaker":"F","text":"Joining us tonight are Martin Cervantes, our"},{"start":598580,"end":616500,"speaker":"B","text":"interim bond director and director of facilities, as well as Nick Olson from vpcs, our bond program manager. And joining us via Zoom is Eric Van Pelt, vice president at VPCS who works on our account as well. So that I will turn it over to them to discuss item 10.1."},{"start":617860,"end":818610,"speaker":"F","text":"Rick, thanks for the introduction. Good evening members of the board, Dr. Baker and staff. I'm happy to be here with Martin to present 10.1, the adoption of resolution 24 and the least spec agreements with block construction for the H. Vac projects at Adelante, Selby, Hoover, Roosevelt and Taft schools for the summer. So I just wanted to start with a little bit of process for this selection. We did a request for qualifications and proposals at the beginning of March to start start off proposals. We received proposals on March 26. Part of the lease lease back process is once we get those proposals and it says in the resolution we score those based on several things. Their technical Expertise, price point of course, management and staffing approach, their history of meeting project schedules, their history of claims and litigation, and then an interview is the last scoring criteria. So we decided to interview all three firms that proposed on April 7th. And after those interviews, the interview committee and scoring committee, which was composed of the construction management team, the district and our design team, scored all three firms and Block was the one that came out ahead for the best overall proposal. And part of that was based on their robust pre construction services that they were offering. So one of the advantages of lease leaseback is that we can do pre construction services with a contractor. And for a fast track project like this for the summer, we know that we have to order equipment in advance. The board thankfully already approved the order of the H vac mechanical equipment, but there's also electrical equipment that's long lead time, controls equipment that's long lead time, and then some labor and equipment to actually accept the large mechanical equipment that we already ordered and securely store it until we can install it. So that is all included in their lease leaseback agreement that's on the board agenda tonight. And then the process is this will kick off the subcontractor bidding period and we'll come back to the board in early June to approve guaranteed maximum price. So that bidding process per contract, it's what we call open book bidding process. We'll get to see all the bids that they get from subcontractors and negotiate and negotiate allowances in that contract as well. So we'll, you know, it's a bid but also a negotiation as part of that. So as part of the night, the bond team is recommending that we approve the resolution and the lease leaseback agreement for this project."},{"start":820450,"end":823970,"speaker":"E","text":"All right, thank you. Do, does anyone have questions, comments?"},{"start":824130,"end":827810,"speaker":"B","text":"Yeah, Jen, it was just more for my own clarity."},{"start":827810,"end":832690,"speaker":"C","text":"I saw that there was like a school time stipulation document. Is construction happening in the summer or"},{"start":832690,"end":836690,"speaker":"B","text":"is it running into the school year? This during the summer."},{"start":836690,"end":838210,"speaker":"C","text":"Okay, so it's just in case there"},{"start":838210,"end":840690,"speaker":"B","text":"was maintenance or things that needed to happen during this."},{"start":841330,"end":853040,"speaker":"F","text":"Yes, the, the construction schedule is to happen during the summer. That's a standard in our contract. Just in case we have schedule schedule overrun and we need to work around school."},{"start":854560,"end":855160,"speaker":"H","text":"Thank you."},{"start":855160,"end":862360,"speaker":"B","text":"Yep. Anything?"},{"start":862360,"end":928710,"speaker":"E","text":"No. Okay, I'm, I know. I support this lease leaseback agreement and I want to thank the bond program team for, you know, and our partners at Venpal for, you know, bringing forward this thoughtful presentation. Yeah, I personally particularly appreciate the, you know, the competitive best value selection process that was Used here. I think it's really good to have, you know, our community sees that we're committed to strong stewardship of bond dollars. And I think that's really, really helps with it. The open book. Thanks for explaining the open book contract because, you know, as we move towards guaranteed maximum price, we kind of want to make sure that it's really transparent also and that, you know, we can do whatever we can to make sure we stay disciplined about the spending. And finally, we've talked about this extensively as a board, but it probably is worth repeating. You know, better temperature control and cleaner air in our classrooms is directly going to contribute, support, contribute to student well being and readiness to learn. And so it's a really practical investment. It's, it's beyond practical. It's really essential. And so I think if nobody else has comments, we can take it to a vote, then someone would make a motion."},{"start":930160,"end":932320,"speaker":"H","text":"I'll make a motion to approve Resolution 24."},{"start":932960,"end":933520,"speaker":"G","text":"I'll second."},{"start":933920,"end":935040,"speaker":"E","text":"All right, all in favor?"},{"start":935440,"end":935920,"speaker":"G","text":"Aye."},{"start":936720,"end":937080,"speaker":"B","text":"Great."},{"start":937080,"end":946960,"speaker":"E","text":"Thank you. But don't go far because we're going to move on to 10.2, which is the approval of the agreement for purchase of the mobile air conditioning units for the charter school sites."},{"start":948320,"end":974500,"speaker":"F","text":"Yes. So again, happy to be here to present 10.2, which is an agreement to purchase mobile air conditionings from Spot Cooler for the charter schools. These are the same mobile units that the board approved previous to spring break and were delivered during spring break. So these match those units. And this order will be for the"},{"start":974500,"end":976340,"speaker":"B","text":"charter school class classrooms."},{"start":980180,"end":981300,"speaker":"E","text":"Questions or comments?"},{"start":983700,"end":987940,"speaker":"D","text":"And the charter schools have been read in on these plans, so they know what to expect when."},{"start":989590,"end":999190,"speaker":"F","text":"Yes or we. There is not a delivery schedule yet. I believe they know that we are ordering temporary mobile air conditioning units."},{"start":999270,"end":1006230,"speaker":"D","text":"Okay. Because I toured KIPP this last week and they were pretty fuzzy on the details. So let's make sure that we close the loop with all of our charters."},{"start":1006470,"end":1007590,"speaker":"B","text":"Yep, we'll do."},{"start":1009670,"end":1015990,"speaker":"E","text":"And I recall that they were here at a meeting when, when I think Dr. Baker had told them that, yes, this is happening and put that in."},{"start":1016150,"end":1016640,"speaker":"D","text":"This happened."},{"start":1016790,"end":1043510,"speaker":"E","text":"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah, this is another one. I support it. We, you know, in the past we did that evaluation already between leasing and purchasing. So I think we already know the, the decision making and the criteria that goes into that, you know, and this does make a reasonable follow through on the promises of measure S, which, you know, the chartered communities were very helpful in making sure that got passed. And so, you know, I think if nobody has questions or comments, is there a motion to approve."},{"start":1046860,"end":1048220,"speaker":"D","text":"I move we approve this."},{"start":1048460,"end":1049900,"speaker":"G","text":"10.2 second."},{"start":1050300,"end":1051100,"speaker":"E","text":"All in favor?"},{"start":1051100,"end":1051420,"speaker":"G","text":"Aye."},{"start":1051420,"end":1053740,"speaker":"B","text":"Aye. Great. Thank you."},{"start":1053900,"end":1062660,"speaker":"E","text":"Yeah, thank you. All right, we'll move on to the consent Items. There are 10 of them and we're going to approve them all in one vote."},{"start":1062660,"end":1065020,"speaker":"D","text":"I move we approve the consent item."},{"start":1065340,"end":1068860,"speaker":"E","text":"Is there a second? All those in favor?"},{"start":1068860,"end":1069220,"speaker":"G","text":"Aye."},{"start":1069220,"end":1070730,"speaker":"B","text":"Aye. Excellent."},{"start":1070730,"end":1083370,"speaker":"E","text":"Onto the action items. So this is now 12.1, which is the approval of the pilot of Benchmark 2022 English, Spanish language arts curriculum at Taft and Garfield elementary schools for next school year. Ana is this to you?"},{"start":1083530,"end":1244180,"speaker":"A","text":"This is me. All right, so we are. We are having this opportunity. I know there's a lot of questions in terms of the benchmark. So we currently have it. We know both our curriculums for elementary and middle school are expiring. Their license expired this year at the end of 20. We have to renew them. And so when we wanted started looking into renewal for benchmark, they brought in the new curriculum. Some of the adaptations they've done which actually align more to the science of reading of what we're doing now versus 2017. Our focus next year for K8 is going to be reading comprehension. So we decided before we purchased because what would happen is if we adopt this, we have to adopt the entire curriculum. So we wanted to try to pilot it first to see where we're at, especially the way the changes were in the K2, which were very powerful. The teachers that got to see it from Taft and Garfield were very excited, like, oh, these are some great changes that have been made and they really wanted to try it. So we gave them an. We thought what a great opportunity to have our bilingual schools pilot both English and Spanish so that they can help us make a decision moving forward if we adopt the new curriculum for the next four years because when we'll be up to 28 up again for a new adoption. So this would be. We wanted to make sure that we're giving them opportunities and it's in align with what we're doing next year with reading comprehension. So they've actually updated a number of the reading comprehension for upper grade as well with more poetry, which was something that we're lacking. And so one of the things the teachers are asking for, we would like to have more analysis work on poetry. So they've definitely made some adaptations on that. So we're lucky they've made changes to how they actually roll out. So they'll be coaching some of our teachers. They'll be hands on to help support our teachers, go through some of the Things that weren't available before in. In the. When we adopted. So they definitely made some change. So we're excited that we have two schools that actually 100% of teachers said, let's do it. Usually we only say a group, right. And they were all, let's just do it as a school site. So we're. Instead of doing it for two months, we decided we're just going to do it for the year. They'll have the materials, they get to use it, they get to really explore and have some more input as to how we move forward in the district. So we're looking forward to hopefully get our schools back on track with using. And a lot of them do are starting to use more of it now. But we want to make sure they have the resources for this pilot at R2's target sites. So our motion is if you guys can approve that tonight, that would be great. So, any questions?"},{"start":1245140,"end":1245700,"speaker":"E","text":"Anyone?"},{"start":1245700,"end":1246020,"speaker":"D","text":"Question?"},{"start":1246020,"end":1263660,"speaker":"G","text":"David, I just want to clear knowing that this is a pilot, understand that we're probably tracking similar sort of metrics on the efficacy. Are there any sort of concrete goals that we're looking at to determine whether or not this specific version of the curriculum is something that we want to pursue, or are we more going with"},{"start":1263660,"end":1339780,"speaker":"A","text":"qualitative feedback based on probably a lot of qualitative feedback. And looking at. One of the things we're also looking at is how do we approach the assessments in here that we haven't used in the past. So having the. The benchmark current measure has a lot of assessments. We have certain sites that use those assessments regularly and we have other sites we don't. So with one of the. With one of our goals is how can we embed those assessments better to be used specifically around reading comprehension that we haven't been using in the past? So we want to try to streamline those across the district next year for reading because that's the area that we have found on our iReady that reading comprehension is lacking. And so because of that, we already have this. We're bringing this on. So for our all of the school sites, we're having a reading comprehension training. K2 will focus on benchmark on the other site. And then we have a reading comprehension 3.8 with CRLP on a specific protocol that we're going to be implementing, 3.8. So our whole focus is that. But part of our goal is embedding the benchmark as our reading comprehension and moving that forward through their assessments and then trying to track how we can see their efficacy of the programs."},{"start":1340180,"end":1341140,"speaker":"B","text":"Okay. Thank you."},{"start":1345540,"end":1347140,"speaker":"E","text":"Any other. Any other questions?"},{"start":1348990,"end":1367310,"speaker":"H","text":"I don't have questions. I just want to say, you know, I appreciate the fact that everyone at the school sites wanted to do instead of, like you said, a group. So I appreciate the teachers to be, you know, I don't want to say brave, but just put all their efforts to try something new. So I appreciate that. Thank. Thanks to your team."},{"start":1367470,"end":1375840,"speaker":"A","text":"Thank you. Yeah. On top of that, this is their third thing, that fourth thing that they have done in three years. So, yes, I appreciate that they're taking this on. Yeah."},{"start":1375840,"end":1401080,"speaker":"E","text":"It seems a lot more than just a materials refresh. And looking at the comparison, it looked like a much more deeper shift in there. The diverse authors, poetry in every unit, culturally responsive material, text tied to sel. It just seemed like a lot of really good changes in there. Is that kind of what everybody's. Is that what got people excited about it?"},{"start":1401240,"end":1461800,"speaker":"A","text":"I think what they were looking at. So the teachers got to see Garfield specifically. They even got to have, you know, they were looking at all of the materials. I had all the materials available to them. We didn't have the upper grade, but third grade was like, if this is third grade, what's gonna be in fourth grade? So they were just really excited to go through the manual and see what was laid out for them. Like I said, a lot of changes in K2. They actually have. We're looking forward to see how their writing program really expands because that's something we don't have quite pulled out. And this has something. So we're looking at, does this writing really provide what we need for our students in a robust way? And so both these sites have a lot of. Garfield will be creating those systems. At Garfield, Taft has a lot of things that are put in place, but Taft does use already current benchmark much more. And so we were hoping to see the differences for them. What are they finding in the differences and how they are looking at the resources. So, yeah, there's a lot that changed."},{"start":1461880,"end":1462360,"speaker":"E","text":"Yeah."},{"start":1462360,"end":1462800,"speaker":"G","text":"Yeah."},{"start":1462800,"end":1513600,"speaker":"E","text":"And then I know that it'll be like first year of implementation. And you said there's new assessments and everything in there, but I hope that we can be very intentional about how we do measure success. We have I ready. Of course we'll get that. But. And I don't think everything's going to be just an academic measure. I think it's. How engaged are they? Like, does it. You know, I think there's other things that are not just academics that I hope that we're able to. And maybe that's what. The qualitative part that you were talking about. But are they engaged, enjoying the texts? What's it like having poetry in every unit? I have no idea. It'll be interesting to see how we measure the success of it. Yeah. And how they react to it. Yeah. So the academics are important. I don't want to diminish those, but I think there's so much more that's changing here that it would be neat if there were a way to say, like, yeah, we're seeing the progress from those things too."},{"start":1513910,"end":1514230,"speaker":"H","text":"Yeah."},{"start":1514230,"end":1518230,"speaker":"A","text":"So I think it goes hand in hand with our focuses next year of reading comprehension."},{"start":1518230,"end":1518630,"speaker":"B","text":"Yeah."},{"start":1518630,"end":1523110,"speaker":"D","text":"This feels pretty low. Regrets. It's all moving in the direction we'd hope."},{"start":1523110,"end":1523710,"speaker":"E","text":"Yeah, totally."},{"start":1523710,"end":1527270,"speaker":"D","text":"Curriculum, we're familiar with not blowing things up like this. Sounds great."},{"start":1527510,"end":1527910,"speaker":"G","text":"So."},{"start":1528070,"end":1534070,"speaker":"E","text":"Yeah. Do you want to make a motion to approve? I move we approve. All right. Is there a second?"},{"start":1534470,"end":1535030,"speaker":"G","text":"I'll second."},{"start":1535190,"end":1536150,"speaker":"E","text":"All in favor?"},{"start":1536390,"end":1536870,"speaker":"G","text":"Aye."},{"start":1539280,"end":1546400,"speaker":"E","text":"That's still me. So next is 12.2. These are the CPS for Adelante, Selby, Roosevelt, and Clifford."},{"start":1547840,"end":1565680,"speaker":"A","text":"So again, these are our next three of our CPSAs. You guys had the chance opportunity to read through any questions on any of the SPSAs on these full slides. Very familiar to you guys by now. And the last five come next."},{"start":1565890,"end":1566770,"speaker":"H","text":"The next board meeting."},{"start":1572290,"end":1573450,"speaker":"E","text":"Go ahead. Did you have questions?"},{"start":1573450,"end":1591370,"speaker":"G","text":"Yeah, no question. I'll just say that I. I do appreciate it because I know that there's been a lot of questions the past round. So I. I really appreciate that you guys are. All the district staff are. Are focused on incorporating that and adjusting, and it's a long process, but super important for. For me, I think probably for the rest of the board. So I just want to say that I appreciate the going with the flow."},{"start":1591370,"end":1591600,"speaker":"B","text":"That."},{"start":1591990,"end":1610630,"speaker":"E","text":"Thank you. Anyone else? Yeah, I appreciate the work that goes into them as well. I didn't have any questions coming out of it either. So if everyone's on board, let's make a motion to approve. Can someone make a motion to approve?"},{"start":1611350,"end":1613910,"speaker":"H","text":"Sure. I will make a motion to approve. 12.2."},{"start":1613990,"end":1615350,"speaker":"E","text":"All right. Is there a second?"},{"start":1616070,"end":1616710,"speaker":"C","text":"I second."},{"start":1616790,"end":1617990,"speaker":"E","text":"Okay. All in favor?"},{"start":1620020,"end":1620340,"speaker":"G","text":"Perfect."},{"start":1622020,"end":1624140,"speaker":"E","text":"Was that on All. All in favor? Yeah. Okay."},{"start":1624140,"end":1624780,"speaker":"B","text":"Just making sure."},{"start":1624780,"end":1633060,"speaker":"E","text":"All right, next is on to 12.3. And that is the approval of the Orion Grace plan growth plan. Dr. Baker?"},{"start":1633060,"end":1638420,"speaker":"B","text":"Yeah. Okay, Anna, if you could put the slides up and then we'll."},{"start":1642900,"end":1644060,"speaker":"E","text":"Oh, and do you want to."},{"start":1644060,"end":1644380,"speaker":"B","text":"We have."},{"start":1644380,"end":1652800,"speaker":"E","text":"We do have one speak. I don't see the speaker here. Okay, well, if they come back, I'll Yeah. Okay, we'll do it after the presentation."},{"start":1655520,"end":3231170,"speaker":"B","text":"So tonight the, the Orion growth plan. And what we are going to do is if you go to the evening presentation, the next slide. Oh, come on up. He didn't give you the, the, the, I'm going to give you the page. Okay, now right after that, there we go. So this evening we're going to go over the Orion story, the Orion growth plan progress, and then the recommendation that I'm going to bring forth to you. The memo was quite lengthy, very lengthy, and I apologize for that. But Jorge and I had discussions about length and going back and forth, back and forth. But it, I, I think if you read it, there was a lot of information that was presented to the committee. The committee had a lot of time to give input. We also did a survey which I'll give you a little bit of information on this. But I believe it was a really good process. And we had between 20 and 25 committee members there, not maybe all at one time. Sometimes it was all 25, sometimes it was 23, sometimes it was 18. But it was a good process and everybody really had a feeling that they were able to contribute and be heard. Okay, next slide. And I'm just gonna follow you and continue on to the next one. All right, so let me give you a little background. So, and we did this with the team, with the whole committee. Here you see 1932 Jefferson Grammar School and later John Gill Elementary School opens there at 55 Avenue Del Ora. And then in 1947 Monroe School opens at 8:15 Allerton. And that's important to remember. And then in 1969 Monroe School closes. 1984 Orion Alternative Elementary School, a parent co op, opens at a former Monroe school site at 8 hours, 15 minutes and 84 seconds. But prior to them going to that 8:15 Allerton site, they were up on Granger Way where the old Adelante used to be. And there were two schools on one site while Orion, the 815 Allerton site was getting refurbished because 815 Allerton used to be the district office. That's where I started at the district office in a little closet. And it was a closet, right Martin? It was a little closet, but, but it had a great windows and I had a door that I go out to a patio and Liz Wolf was right next door to me in the other closet and a very thin wall was between us. So that's the history about where Orion has been. And just wanted to make sure that you were all aware of that. Next slide please. Anna so. Is it going? There you go. Orion Alternative story. So let's back up a little bit about this in regard to the Mandarin immersion piece. Yes, it opened 2015 16, when I became the superintendent, the Mandarin immersion program opens. But there was some heavy lifting that took place two years prior to this. There were a group of parents, and they were not necessarily our parents that brought this to the superintendent at that time. At that time, I had changed from HR and gone into curriculum and instruction. And during that meeting, these parents had gone to another district, a neighboring district, where a very good friend of mine is right now as the assistant superintendent, to ask them if they would have a Mandarin immersion program. The superintendent that was there at the time said, absolutely not. Our superintendent was interested, but concerned in regard to having the number of participants bringing in another program into the district, which was entirely different, which none of us had experience with except for the dual immersion Spanish program that we had in place already. So 2013 14, Linda Montes was at the district office with me, and she was not here full time either. It was part time that she was here. And she was also at Adelante full time as a principal. So I had her, the superintendent at the time of the board said, yes, she could do this if she wanted to be at Adelante halftime and be working at the district office halftime, not only working with me and at that time called English Language Development Department, but also helping out in special projects. And this turned out to be a special project. So Linda and I did a lot of research on Mandarin immersion and what other districts had put into place a Mandarin immersion program. That that time there was one in San Mateo, and the one in San Mateo is on Ana is called. It was College park and then College park, and now it's College Park. Right. And so we visited College park, but we also went to Cupertino because Cupertino started many, many years ago with a Mandarin immersion program. We also brought into play a consultant who started that program in Cupertino. She showed us different other school districts throughout the Bay Area that had a Mandarin immersion program. Some were really great and some really poor. We could see what we would like to have and what we didn't want to have. We also went to Case, which is in San Francisco Chinese American school, which is a very good program, very, very expensive. Know that because of family members. And we. We're really excited about what they could deliver. We definitely will not be able to deliver it in the manner that they were delivering because of the extra resources that they had in play. But really gave us some really good ideas of how to create a program to start it small, similar like we did with Adelante Selby at the time was Adelante. When Liz started very small, it started as a kindergarten classroom, then it went to a kindergarten, moved to first, another and so forth. So we felt that we had that experience and we could start it in that manner. The other piece that was brought into play was with the consult consultant that we had. She had a lot of information from Taiwan at that time and had a direct connection with Taiwan, and so was able to give us different types of materials that we would be able to explore. And she would help us with that exploration. She would, if we went in the direction of creating this program, would also be at the school site several days a week to help our kindergarten students and of course, the teachers that we would be hiring with that program. So after several discussions with the board of education at that time, and neither of you were on the board at that time, it was a lot of deliberation back and forth. The board was concerned that we didn't have enough knowledge, we didn't have enough experience or the expertise. We had the expertise in Spanish, myself, Linda, of course, and of course, Liz at the time when that program was put together. So that was not an issue for us. But to find that expertise in Mandarin, they were very concerned about it. The consultant we had at the time was very good at saying, don't worry, I can get that for you. So she was on contract to find our teachers to. And I give Katherine a lot of credit because Katherine sat in those interviews. Linda sat in those interviews. I went in and I didn't know what was going on. You know, neither did Linda and. But our consultant was there and could select the teacher that we thought would be the best to help us out and provide. She also provided a lot of the training for us. And then we started out small and we are where we are today. It was an experience that the board. The board understood school of choice. The board understood being a district that was innovative and would try something new. Knew. But then I was reminded when I became the superintendent, because I became the superintendent, the 15, 16 that they said, you need to make these dipsticks, these checks and making sure that we are progressing. If it's not, then we're not going to continue the resources in this program. So we did. Linda and I came up with how we would do this with our consultant. And it showed progress over the first couple years and people were interested. Now, remember this point in time, as we moved into this program, we became community funded and that meant no more interdistrict transfers. The board said no more due to the fact we had. We need to utilize our finances for our students who were here in the Redwood City School District. So that could have brought a bit of angst to the program. But as we continued on and as you see in the next slide, go to slide 6. Here is our enrollment numbers as of May 9, 2025. This is what the board was concerned about all along. And knowing that the program was doing very well. How are you going to make sure that you're going to maintain this program for the school district? And it's not going to be resources that were going to be utilized in a manner that could be utilized at some other school site. So Jorge and his enrollment team have done a very good job of making sure that the word is getting out there that we do have this program. What we also want to do is do something similar to what Northstar does. And Winnie has agreed to do this to go to different school sites and do, I'm going to say, take her show on the road. We used to do this many years ago and we had the magnet schools and it would be. I'll never forget the first time it was the parking lot still exists where Sam Trans is. We had tents, these big circuit circuits, tents. And each school was there to display their school and to solicit more parents and kids to come to them. We're not going to go down that road. But what we're doing now for Northstar is Northstar goes out and it starts meeting with other schools and meeting with other parents in those schools who may have an interest. So I know that Winnie wants to do the same thing coming up next fall because she understands the numbers and how the numbers are playing out. We also heard that, you know, this evening you heard from the students that we'll have a different language arts experience. We're not calling it advance, we're just going to come up with another term for it. But it is going to be, there is going to be criterion that Wendy has been working on very closely with a teacher that we have a special teacher for that for those students and I believe hopefully two classes. I'm hoping that this criteria is going to be that something that they have to adhere to before they even get in. And we're having a parent night to understand that. And if your child cannot keep up, then we have to have another meeting with the parent. It's not working. So with that being said, that road to Kennedy with that experience and you've got advanced math at Kennedy already and we have it at our other six, eight schools too. We should have parents who will become more interested in making sure they maintain the Mandarin Immersion program and continue it at Kennedy. And then after they're done with Kennedy, that's up to the Sequoia High School District to determine what they're going to do. But now I think it makes them more at ease, even though I believe Kennedy is a great program. And once they get there and they start seeing the electives, that's what's going to. I give credit to Chandra, who's doing this master schedule at this point in time to get that in there and to make sure that you're going to be taking this and then you may not have as many options for electives because you're taking this course. But I'm hoping that when you see these numbers and you see the numbers for the Mandarin Immersion program and you see those, how small that they are at the upper grades, that those, they'll stay knowing that this program, you've got the Mandarin Immersion program plus you have this enrichment or what, however the title is going to be for that program for these students who are basically high achieving students in the area. So here are the numbers now and I'm hoping that they grow. Let's go ahead and go on to the. You can go on to reasons for the Orion growth plans. So enrollment shifts over time between Orion's two programs, Parent Co Op and Mandarin Immersion. That's been going on for several years now. It was going on when it was just Orion. When it was just Orion by itself, numbers would go up, numbers would go down. Regarding enrollment, it, it has always gone in that manner. The number of classrooms at Orion campus to keep both programs. And that is if, when you read the memo, that is really what people wanted. They wanted both programs and if they were going to go to a different school, they wanted to both go to the same school. But you needed to have 29 classrooms in total to come up with the number of classrooms we wanted for each, each program. I already have addressed the growing concerns about the mid upper grade attrition and the community cohesion. Hopefully that'll dissipate with what we're providing at Kennedy. Because at Kennedy when we looked at the numbers of students who at this point in time have the criteria that we were looking at, we had what, 65 students, 55, 55 at that criteria, that our students fit not only, not only talking Orion students but we're talking students that feed into Kennedy. So there's a total of 55 that fit the criteria at this point in time. So I'm hoping with that model that we can continue the number of students so that we can continue the program. And as I said previously, I'm hoping also that parents will see here is something for them at Kennedy. We should stay here at Orion in the Mandarin immersion and in co op because there's something to meet the needs of those students. The next slide I'll let you read this. This was the committee objective. And the next slide on the the priorities and the parameters. Orion Alternative Alternative will remain one school. And it's very important to understand when Orion came to John Gill it was very important that Orion kept its CDE school code that identifies each school. We had many, many meetings about this code and so that it would be one school and it's not two schools on one campus which each having their own code. So we it'll continue with that CDE code. Additional costs to the Redwood City need to be minimal. And here's where we had a lot of discussion with the Orion Committee. Two separate schools with anywhere from 300 to 350 students is not cost effective for the district. And as we move forward and other information that will be coming to you in a few weeks regarding the enrollment of where we are for next year, you'll probably start to looking at what I just said on this slide and probably be asking questions of me. What's happening in the future? Redwood City school should have at least 500 students to make it cost effective. And a Redwood City school requires a minimum number of staffing. So regardless of program families, we really want to express to them to commit to the Tk5 grade span knowing that there is a pathway at the middle school not to be concerned about that. And then of course we know that inter district transfers are not allowed. Next slide. ANA so for the Orion Growth Plan process we had five meetings between May 2024 and April 2025. This is what we reviewed with the committee the school's current and projected enrollment. And we did enrollment. What the demographer has pointed out to us where we will be in the next 10 years as far as enrollment is concerned. Enrollment, school choice process and wait list at all Redwood City schools. They wanted to see that what the enrollment was at that point in time, what wait lists were for each school site and also wanted to know off that wait list how many students are leaving and going to their school of choice or have left the district. They also wanted to see the school capacity and classroom use at all Redwood City School District schools. And Martin and his team were really great about getting those out to each of them. And so we had a discussion about that. The committee also wanted to understand and to ask that that if they were both going to remain on the school site and it were to grow, that there would be additional staff coverage and budget implications. And I'll go into what that means in another slide. One of them was recess. Another one was recess and lunch logistics. Because having X amount of kids, it's going to create additional yard duty, it's going to create additional custodial staff. And as we continue on with any type of after school program at the school site where classrooms are being utilized after students leave, it would have to have additional custodial service, programmatic needs and priorities. They really wanted to keep those in the forefront and they wanted feedbacks from family and staff. There was a survey that went out, but we only got 79 participants that participated in it. We kept pushing and pushing. We got 79. So we used that. It was each parent at the school site received it and each staff member. So I can get that number for you. I don't have it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So the recommendation is as, as you know, at this point in time is I the recommendation for the 25, 26 school year, if you go to the next slide, ANA is both programs on the co. Op. Both programs, co op and Mandarin immersion, remain at the Avenue Dollar site. We're going to start out with three MITKs. And the reason why for three. I've got numbers for three. I have numbers for two. Actually it's one point, probably 75 for the co op. They're not having three. And they understood that. There was questions that came out about that and I said the numbers don't warrant it. So 3mitk will be in the former technology lab that's behind the library. And Martin has already confirmed with not only myself and site administrator but also with the committee that the library can accommodate those 20 students. But it's bathroom accommodations that are going to occur. Right. So that's happening and it'll be happening. It'll. It'll take place before the kids even get here. The other thing is additional office hours for the office assistant. The parents on the committee and the staff are on the committee along with Winnie said there has to be additional office assistance hours. And so we're raising it, I believe to another hour for, for next year. We're going to See if, if it continues to grow, then we'll have to look at it again. And custodial staff. Custodial staff is going to be extra too. The SLC class has moved already. I should not say that has not moved yet, but is moving and it's moving to Henry Ford. And Maeve has had all those meetings with those parents at this point in time. So this is where we'll be for 25, 26. And as we continue to move forward, what I want to really make sure is that we look at enrollment every year and that's what we agree to. We're going to look at it every year to see where we are, just as we did in January, because January, by that cutoff date, January, people start enrolling. And I know Winnie said, is there a way that we could start doing it earlier? And I know the enrollment staff is trying to think if they can do it a bit earlier than they were they're doing now and, and start her tours earlier. So we're going to see how we can accommodate that and then the, oh, you've got the next slide. So this is just, you know, knowing that there's the possibility of adding a third Mi kinder. We're already doing it for the 25, 26. No possibility. And all of the programs, there are other programs that are on that school site that in order to accommodate them all staying there and use of all 29 rooms. I need to move the CDC. I'll need to move Odyssey and Catalyst. We haven't started those discussions yet. We will start them early, early, early in the fall because there are other school sites where they can go where there are empty classrooms. And the parents and the staff really want to make sure that Odyssey and Catalyst have somewhere to go that it's not so far away. So that's where we are with this recommendation, moving it forward. I think it's a win, win for all that work on the committee. There were a lot of thoughts expressed. At times was a little bit of heated argument because one program felt the other program was getting more. But I said, I can't look at it that way as a superintendent. I said, what I look at is numbers, numbers tell me what I really need to do. If I turn away from that and not pay attention to that, I'm not doing my due diligence to the district. So we got past that and, and still you may have gotten some emails. I got a couple that were not very happy with this. But I believe this is the best that we can do at this point in time for both programs staying together at the Orion campus and the Orion campus, as you know, looks. Looks great. I mean, and people really don't want to leave it and go somewhere else. And as I said earlier to another board member, you know, parents and teachers, they all love their stu. Their school sites. They all love their school sites and don't want to leave. So this I believe is something that will really accommodate both groups. I just got to keep my eye on the enrollment questions."},{"start":3233570,"end":3235210,"speaker":"E","text":"Any questions you want to turn your microphone on?"},{"start":3235210,"end":3240080,"speaker":"B","text":"Yeah, I forgot to ask this, but I'm assuming the school site council, when"},{"start":3240080,"end":3241960,"speaker":"C","text":"they're doing their facility master plan, already"},{"start":3241960,"end":3249880,"speaker":"B","text":"kind of knew this was the plan for Orion. They. Yeah, they kind of got. So that's planned into the. Because there were committee members that were on this."},{"start":3249960,"end":3250320,"speaker":"C","text":"Yeah."},{"start":3250320,"end":3250680,"speaker":"A","text":"Okay."},{"start":3250680,"end":3254760,"speaker":"B","text":"So that's planned into their suggestion and their recommendation for the facility master plan."},{"start":3258200,"end":3269200,"speaker":"D","text":"So I feel like this is a reasonable synthesis of a complex problem and what to do for next year and the year following. And the natural is like, but what then. Right."},{"start":3269440,"end":3282240,"speaker":"B","text":"And then you. The year following next year and the year after will probably be fine. It's that third year. That's right. But I think at that second year you need to start looking at numbers early and. Yes. Fighting. Okay. What happens next?"},{"start":3282400,"end":3282800,"speaker":"D","text":"Right."},{"start":3282960,"end":3283320,"speaker":"C","text":"So."},{"start":3283320,"end":3309790,"speaker":"D","text":"So I. I think it's super important. You know, I love Rick's calendars. Right. They're very inspirational. I feel like we sort of need a check in calendar here for what are the cut points where if the enrollment numbers are X, that implies action Y on year three, you know, and. And to start spelling that out and gaming that out. So we kind of. We and the community kind of know what's coming in terms of our plan to have a plan."},{"start":3309870,"end":3355150,"speaker":"B","text":"Right, right, right. I totally agree with that because it's. You should not surprise anyone. And that's why you need to do this several years ahead of time and. And by us. And you're going to see this. As I told a couple board members that I met with this app. I met with several board members this afternoon. Not a couple. I didn't forget. Leave on. Leave you out that in a couple weeks you'll be getting where enrollment is for next as at that day. And you'll be seeing how many classrooms at each school and how many grade levels at each school too. And we need to keep our eye on that. We really do. So that'll tell us what changes will need to be made sooner than later and have a plan in place."},{"start":3356270,"end":3378970,"speaker":"D","text":"Yeah, I Think it's just really important that we work back anticipating that there might be some things come to a head three school years from now that might require some potentially very big moves and changes that might take a couple of years to play out. Like how much time do we actually have before it's incumbent on us to make those decisions to enable that third year out to."},{"start":3379130,"end":3379490,"speaker":"B","text":"Right."},{"start":3379490,"end":3379850,"speaker":"D","text":"Work?"},{"start":3379930,"end":3392890,"speaker":"B","text":"Yeah, definitely, we can do that. We can put some calendars together and I'll, I'll work with Winnie also. That's. Winnie's involved and then she could probably get the school site council involved too. So everybody. So it doesn't show like we're hiding anything under."},{"start":3400330,"end":3425940,"speaker":"E","text":"Any other questions? I had one just about classroom utilization. I think, you know, there's a few things that we should be really, really cognizant about. First of all, thanks for putting together the plan and you know, the growth committee that worked on a district staff. This was a lot of time, multiple meetings, lots of data in there. All the slides are available on the website. If you Google search for it for Orion Growth Plan Redwood City, you'll, you'll be able to find it."},{"start":3426500,"end":3431170,"speaker":"B","text":"Mike, there are more slides than what I showed here. Yeah, I wasn't gonna. Because it's. You're in the memo."},{"start":3431170,"end":3463180,"speaker":"E","text":"No. And pro tip is go to meeting number five because each meeting has the previous meeting slides in it as well. Yeah. So if you go to the fifth one, you don't have to do what I did, which was click through each one until you realize at the end. But there's a lot of good data in there to, to look at it. And I, I like that. The process honored community voices. It respected fiscal constraints. You know, it presented, you know, a reasonably short term, long term roadmap that put stuff in and then. And it reflected our commitment to, you know, quality, innovation, sustainability, all of that."},{"start":3463180,"end":3463460,"speaker":"B","text":"Points."},{"start":3464580,"end":3481460,"speaker":"E","text":"I do think though that classroom utilization is something that we should, you know, just check in on. I, I just, I don't, I don't have a good sense of how efficiently classrooms are going to be utilized under, you know, under this growth plan. Because the thing with two programs operating on one site, I don't, I don't have to say this, but I'm going to anyways. It's like the classrooms aren't fungible."},{"start":3481460,"end":3481700,"speaker":"F","text":"Right."},{"start":3481700,"end":3507330,"speaker":"E","text":"You can't combine for one program and the other there. And so you end up with, you know, just because you might have, you know, 28 kids across the grade that does that, that might be two classrooms. Because it's Two different programs. So are we operating small, underfilled sections and upper grades? You know, are we using staff and space in a way that's aligning with our goals for sustainability and, you know, inequity across rcsd?"},{"start":3509410,"end":3545750,"speaker":"B","text":"And that's the reason why, when you see the enrollment numbers that are going to come to you in a couple weeks, I want them out to you on the 30th. That's my dipstick. You will see how underutilized some of our classrooms are and what needs to as we look at moving forward. If, and I'm not just speaking here with this school site, but at other school sites, when you look at those numbers, we've got to come up with a plan of how to handle this."},{"start":3545750,"end":3546150,"speaker":"G","text":"Right."},{"start":3546470,"end":3587140,"speaker":"B","text":"And because we are in declining enrollment, I think right now we've got a bump because of tk, but that TK bump has got a plateau. And so when Jorge and I were working on this this past week, Jorge says, do you realize we're 100 kindergarteners short were from last year at this time? I go, what? There are less? Yeah. 100 kids less than last year at this time? I go, no, I didn't know that. So he says, it is different. And then he went back several years and he says, we haven't been this low last three years."},{"start":3587300,"end":3587860,"speaker":"E","text":"Yeah."},{"start":3588100,"end":3600460,"speaker":"B","text":"So it's coming. It is coming. So we need to keep our eye on that because classrooms are not. Not. I guess, I. I don't want to just sound like a broken record when you see those numbers. They're not utilized to."},{"start":3600540,"end":3600940,"speaker":"E","text":"Right."},{"start":3601500,"end":3602100,"speaker":"B","text":"They should be."},{"start":3602100,"end":3606540,"speaker":"E","text":"Right, Right. And so I assume mitigations are being considered around, like, combo classes."},{"start":3606540,"end":3607060,"speaker":"B","text":"Oh, yeah."},{"start":3607060,"end":3608140,"speaker":"E","text":"Within program, obviously."},{"start":3608220,"end":3609580,"speaker":"B","text":"Within program. Within program."},{"start":3609580,"end":3609980,"speaker":"E","text":"Okay."},{"start":3609980,"end":3611420,"speaker":"D","text":"M's already been doing combo."},{"start":3611500,"end":3611940,"speaker":"B","text":"Yeah."},{"start":3611940,"end":3612220,"speaker":"F","text":"Yeah."},{"start":3612220,"end":3616380,"speaker":"E","text":"I mean, I think Adelante had combo classes every year that my kids went through, too."},{"start":3616380,"end":3616780,"speaker":"H","text":"Yeah."},{"start":3617740,"end":3618220,"speaker":"D","text":"Cool."},{"start":3618540,"end":3681540,"speaker":"E","text":"You know, I appreciate that you talked about the retention of an upper grade. We just kind of touched on it a little bit. I don't have all the details of what you're doing for Kennedy. We're not going to discuss it tonight because that's not important here. But. But I'm very curious because there's a lot of ways to interpret everything that you said there, so it'd be interesting to hear what's. How that's being planned and just making sure that that has. That there's an equitable access for people to get. Get into it. Whatever. Whatever's going to be offered there. But there are good things going, being added, like the wind Block, I guess, you know, this plan for Kennedy, I mean, are we going to be like, how are we going to measure it if retention's working? Is that so The, I mean, obviously the numbers will have it, but it might be nice to know like for the families that stayed, why did they stay? For families that left, what made them, made them leave and see if we're actually moving it. Yeah, I mean we know that. What, we know where the attrition's happening. It's happening second to third grade. But then some families stay, some don't. And you know, are we collecting, are we collecting data around that to say like what, what's, what's the choice? Is the wind block helping? Is the advanced."},{"start":3682420,"end":3688820,"speaker":"B","text":"We could, we could start doing that. We have not done any surveys or any exit interviews with any of the families we've done that."},{"start":3688820,"end":3690900,"speaker":"D","text":"It's been done in probably."},{"start":3691300,"end":3700340,"speaker":"E","text":"Yeah, probably at the site. Yeah. And I mean this isn't a district problem. This is, you know, they can ask another site to figure that one out. Okay, cool."},{"start":3701140,"end":3771840,"speaker":"B","text":"And I'll just. Because I mentioned it and it's part of, of, of what's happening for Orion. Alright. Is that Orion Altern, Orion Co Op. I go back to Al. And before that it was something else. But Orion Co Op and Mandarin immersion. When we're talking in regard to this English class that's going to open up for sixth graders, we are really trying this as a pilot because it will, if it's really successful, it needs to open up at the other six, eight the following year. Because we do have students that are scoring at that criteria that we. It's not only we have students that are scoring at that criteria that are not only students that are meeting, not feeding in, not only feeding into Kennedy, but our kids that are at Clifford, our kids that are at mit, Roy Cloud and Hoover. So if this works like we think it will, we're going to have to. When you're talking about equity, it goes all over, just like the advanced math. Advanced math is all over if you're a sixth, seventh or eighth grader and you qualify, you're in advanced math no matter what school."},{"start":3774160,"end":3787290,"speaker":"E","text":"Yeah, it's the hard tracking part. I just want to make sure that there's not like hard tracking that's rigid and made a decision based upon one day in fifth grade that then suddenly nobody can correct for. So I don't want to get into it tonight. Those are the kind of things that I get back."},{"start":3787370,"end":3790650,"speaker":"B","text":"And then we're having a parent meeting and all that. Yeah, and then."},{"start":3790650,"end":3822330,"speaker":"E","text":"Yeah, perfect, perfect, perfect, perfect. Actually, yeah. One other thing you did touch on this. Just the access to the program a little bit. Orion, you know, it's a, it's a really vibrant community, but it does have a lower proportion of unduplicated students compared to a bunch of our other schools. It's not inherently bad. Right. But it does sort of raise that question of like, like, you know, is this accessible to all families, you know, especially maybe those with like language barrier or, or digital access or anything like that. Is that part of the outreach?"},{"start":3822330,"end":3829490,"speaker":"B","text":"That's part of the outreach that Winnie wants to do. And so Winnie's going to do something similar what Northstar has been doing for the last couple years."},{"start":3829490,"end":3829970,"speaker":"E","text":"Yeah."},{"start":3829970,"end":3843270,"speaker":"B","text":"And so she wants to do that. So that's why she is asking if we cannot, if the enrollment department can't start a lot earlier than it has in the past. And so Jorge's working with his team to see how he can get that, working in that direction. Yeah."},{"start":3843270,"end":3852310,"speaker":"E","text":"Because if you're going to expand for growth. Right. We want to ensure that the growth's inclusive and, you know, not just reflective of people who know how to kind of navigate the system. Right."},{"start":3852310,"end":3852670,"speaker":"D","text":"Yeah."},{"start":3852670,"end":3855870,"speaker":"B","text":"Okay, cool."},{"start":3857390,"end":3863230,"speaker":"E","text":"Is there any, any other comments, questions? Is there a motion to approve."},{"start":3866520,"end":3868760,"speaker":"G","text":"I'll move to approve the Ryan growth plan."},{"start":3869000,"end":3871960,"speaker":"E","text":"And a second second. All in favor?"},{"start":3873000,"end":3873800,"speaker":"B","text":"Great, great."},{"start":3873800,"end":3874360,"speaker":"G","text":"Thank you."},{"start":3875800,"end":3880760,"speaker":"E","text":"Let's look at this board and superintendent reports. Who would like to start?"},{"start":3882680,"end":3912580,"speaker":"D","text":"I went on a tour of Kip. I was invited there warmly and connected with staff there. The fair Oak street in front is just, just absolute madhouse in, in the morning, just in that narrow window of drop off the county. They're, they're in un unincorporated San Mateo county and they have not formally done a safe routes to school analysis. Seems like that it could really be needed. Honestly, it is pretty crazy."},{"start":3912580,"end":3914980,"speaker":"B","text":"I think we should contact the county office of that."},{"start":3914980,"end":3915380,"speaker":"H","text":"Yes."},{"start":3915540,"end":3915900,"speaker":"B","text":"Yep."},{"start":3915900,"end":3977500,"speaker":"D","text":"So I, I, I'd nudge them to, to, to go and do that. See, El Achieve is working pretty well for them for English language development. They've got a cool teacher training program where you can get a temporary credential in a year and the only requirement is that you have to have a ba. A lot of families scared right now about what's going on vis a vis immigration and the like. And that's causing some school attendance reticence, which is an issue. There's some perimeter issues. It's pretty clear that the school site gets unauthorized use regularly on weekends. And so the staff come in, in the Mornings and there's like beer bottles around and the like. And so they needed a little bit of extra help securing the perimeter there. Yeah, we had some conversations about handoffs to and from the district. I'll write up some notes and share those over and that's. I'll write up the rest of this later, but those are sort of some"},{"start":3977500,"end":3978500,"speaker":"G","text":"of the high level bits."},{"start":3978500,"end":4013720,"speaker":"D","text":"But it was really nice to get to connect with some of the charters in addition to the regular schools here in the district, just to see what's going on and ways in which we're working well together. And I actually think we have really positive relationship with our charters versus adversarial, which is great. And there's a lot of eagerness to even further deepen that relationship with the district and kind of share best practices because we're serving very similar audiences of students. So what of their approaches can we learn from? And then similarly, what approaches are we using that they can learn from as well to better serve their, their students? So it's a very positive visit."},{"start":4025240,"end":4092500,"speaker":"H","text":"I always forget. So I and David Lee went to the LCAP meeting that was held at the Fair Oaks Community Center. I forget what date because I just wrote them down. And then I also went that evening to the DLAC meeting that Katherine held over at Hoover and she actually, it was the first time that I've been to the DL meetings where we actually had a lot more parents than in prior meetings. So kudos to the team for involving a lot of our parents and for the parents to actually make it, um, to those meetings. Um, I was also the superintendent advisory committee this Monday with Dr. Baker Rick. And I don't even know what day I live in that I forgot who else was there. Martin. Yes. Sorry, Martin. And then I attended the celebration of the induction program at Henry Ford. So that's also great. So. And that's it for me."},{"start":4099540,"end":4327040,"speaker":"G","text":"Got a few things. San Mateo county is doing. The school funding task force that I attended with, with Mike and there will be a few sessions, but it was interesting just to hear from other board members around the, around the county, from other districts, just on issues that they're facing in school funding obviously is a persistent one across the board and so trying to figure out how we can collectively attack that. But that's an ongoing thing, so it was just good to hear it from others. I had the good fortune of also attending a field trip for one of Hoover's. Half of, I think they're 8th graders, where they got to do some hands on learning, which was Fantastic. Speaking for myself, I thought it was fantastic. There's a lot of great learning, both on the academic side as well as the actual practical. And I could tell that there's a lot of engagement from the eighth graders. And you could tell that there's both the. I mean, there was discussions of like electromagnetic fields and all that. And I was learning, I was like, oh, this is like way better than when I learned it. But then the students, they were learning and then they're putting into practice. I could tell like when they actually got their hands on. There was like a light bulb going on of like, oh, this is cool, like, let's do this. So I thought that was great just to see that happening. I know that there's a lot of coordination that was involved there, I think, I think with Mr. Milan, Ms. Castro from Hoover and obviously Lupe, but then I think also from the county office in terms of providing transportation. So very grateful. I understand there's maybe some. There's an effort to get the other half of the eighth grader just continue the program, which I personally think would be great just to get the exposure to see that there's a range of career possibilities out there, just to know that. And then of course, very grateful to Local 467 for putting that on and hosting them. Just I, I know it's a lot of effort, but it was, I thought it was a great experience. Did a couple of school sites visits as well. Saw McKinley. It was great, always great to see B. We obviously had the presentation the other day, but a lot of reiterating the same things, which seems like. I think my sense is that she's, you know, getting her bearings and there's a lot of stuff happening this year and. But it was, it was really helpful for me to hear her thoughts on like with the vision already going forward of what she wants to accomplish. So it's just a lot of forward thinking and something that I really appreciate just that we're always. We have, we have a lot of great staff who are working and thinking about what the next step is and not just staying stagnant. And you know, we always have plenty to. To grow also into Taft. Very similar things. Great, great staff. I think one. One thing that I hear was that steam was super important. So this super highly valued. A lot of things that we've heard across the board as well. Just in terms of quite a bit of resource allocation needs for sped, which I know the district doctor Way, I think you've already mentioned this. There's ongoing work to help ease that for the school. So I'm sure that's very appreciated by the schools. But you know something that's just a recurring theme. Also went to the. As Cecilia mentioned the LCAP thing and I, I thought it was great to hear a lot of the engagement of the folks who were there. I would personally love to increase the engagement even further. We need to serve our community, obviously. But for the folks who were there and Lupe who was there, it was great to hear all the engagement there and the thoughtfulness and obviously all the work that Ana put in and Katherine to put all the presentation together was really helpful. And then this is like a long list. I went to the Kent Awards with with several of the others, including Mike and Dr. Baker. Was great to have our Orion staff honored. And then."},{"start":4328800,"end":4329400,"speaker":"B","text":"Yeah, I think."},{"start":4329400,"end":4330240,"speaker":"G","text":"I think that's it."},{"start":4335360,"end":4358590,"speaker":"E","text":"Ah, good. Thanks. You reminded me of so many. Yeah. Congratulations to the parent participation program for their Kent Award this year. That was. It's always fun to be there and so see everything get recognized just like at the induction colloquium. Although my favorite part is not the recognition as much as important. That is it's sitting at the table with the part. And I tell this to Nicole every year where the mentees and the mentors tell you what they learned. And they both learn."},{"start":4358590,"end":4358950,"speaker":"G","text":"Right."},{"start":4359590,"end":4386330,"speaker":"E","text":"Because it's incredible. You're not just born knowing how to put classrooms into small groups and working with one while the others are working independently. You need to be able to taught how to do that. And it's just great to hear those kind of stories. We also had. I was just before this, I was at the Healthy Cities Tutoring Volunteer recognition. There's like 80 volunteers here. I know they're pretty active at Henry Ford. Sounds like they're going to follow Principal Knopf to Garfield."},{"start":4386490,"end":4387890,"speaker":"B","text":"They're active also at Taft."},{"start":4387890,"end":4388690,"speaker":"E","text":"At Taft, yeah."},{"start":4388690,"end":4389050,"speaker":"G","text":"Okay."},{"start":4389050,"end":4392770,"speaker":"B","text":"They're doing English language, right?"},{"start":4392770,"end":4393050,"speaker":"E","text":"Right."},{"start":4393050,"end":4393490,"speaker":"B","text":"That's right."},{"start":4393490,"end":4393930,"speaker":"E","text":"Yeah."},{"start":4393930,"end":4396340,"speaker":"B","text":"So yeah. So power."},{"start":4396340,"end":4441350,"speaker":"E","text":"It's nice to. To recognize them there. And then we had a citizens bond oversight meeting which if you want they get posted online. You can watch the video on YouTube or I'll give you the brief summary. There was a. They elected the chair and the vice chair, which is Carl and Jennifer again. They're work. Still working on the annual report for fiscal year 2324, which will come to the board when they have it finished. But it hasn't been finished yet. And that's both for measure T and measure S. They did review bond expenditures and progress and an update on the facility's master plan. And the next meeting's in August, so that means, you know, I. We wouldn't see the annual report till. If it came to them by then. It wouldn't come until after that for us. I think I got everything in there. Keep me honest. Okay, Dr. Baker."},{"start":4448240,"end":4448480,"speaker":"G","text":"Great."},{"start":4448480,"end":4467360,"speaker":"E","text":"All right, let's move on to information. I think we can just go through these. Unless people have questions. Maybe we'll just do. Take the first one and two individually, and then we can do the interim reports up to date. I don't know. Does anybody have questions or comments about the credit card summary or the investment fund update? Rick's here to answer them all."},{"start":4469920,"end":4470480,"speaker":"B","text":"Far away."},{"start":4470480,"end":4488140,"speaker":"E","text":"Okay, information's received, and then let's do the next three together. Rick, unless there's something that you think you particularly need to call out, these are. These are the reviews of the interim financial reports for the three charters. 14.3 is for connect, 14.4 for KIPP, and 14.5 for rocketship."},{"start":4490220,"end":4504480,"speaker":"B","text":"I would just say thanks to the staff that go through these diligently to produce this. And we're still closely monitoring all of our charter schools and look forward to their adopted budgets to bring back to the board later this summer."},{"start":4505110,"end":4530150,"speaker":"E","text":"Yeah, it's an additional ask of the business office. Not every school is an authorizing agency for charters, and we are of three. And, you know, the LCFF doesn't actually throw money in per administra, you know, office staff that has to be able to do that work. So really appreciate the work that they do there. It's some. I guess it's a glimpse of what it looks like at accounting office because they do it for our interim report, and you have to do it here, so. Yeah, I appreciate that."},{"start":4530150,"end":4530640,"speaker":"B","text":"Work, work."},{"start":4531280,"end":4538640,"speaker":"E","text":"Okay, great. Let's move on to correspondence. You want to know correspondence? Yeah, go ahead."},{"start":4539200,"end":4582440,"speaker":"H","text":"Well, I think. I don't know if everybody. Some. Some of the correspondence we get is, you know, we're BCC or not. Not sure if everybody gets the. The notification, but. I know. I just wanted to say I know Megan. At least I got an email from her. Again, I didn't check whether she emailed everybody else, and she was here earlier, um, with her proposal about the whole advance class. So I do want to say. I do read my emails. I not. Not always respond, but I do want to just publicly say that. And then there was another parent, that email about the Orion growth. There was a concern, and so those are the. Yes, those are the only ones."},{"start":4584360,"end":4596860,"speaker":"E","text":"All right, moving on. Other business or suggested items for future agenda. Yeah, I don't have any. Doesn't look like anyone else has some. So then the board meetings calendar, has there been any changes to the calendar?"},{"start":4597100,"end":4623060,"speaker":"B","text":"No, the only one that I'm trying to, trying to put all site on play in place. Okay. Like we talk talk to everybody's of this. I'm working on calendars. I'm trying to get our calendars now because we have training with the principals that we're doing right after school. Yeah, I'm trying to get that. I. I think by Friday. Okay, but definitely by. I'll get something out by Friday."},{"start":4623380,"end":4636100,"speaker":"E","text":"Okay. All right, that'll be good. Yeah, I think we, we could use use the time for deeper work. All right, we're at adjournment. We need a motion to adjourn."}]}