okay 7 o'clock now we can go ahead and
get started um I'm gonna skip my whole
Spiel because we have a not many people
I think everybody knows they're here for
um we have a roll call please trusty
Marquez here trusty Weekley right here
trusty maoy present president Wells here
president Lawson here changes to the
agenda
we have a motion to approve it I move we
approve the
agenda second second all those in favor
I all right thank you um we do not have
any oral communication tonight Evelyn
you can can okay um so we'll go right
into 6.1 the health and wellness
reports we have our director of Wellness
coming up with two of her Associates r
two of our RNs that are going to give
the presentation this evening so
patrinia I'll turn it over to
you is someone going to do the lights
for
her but right
microphone you'll see
it oh she did push
yeah that's exactly what
around and around and around
everything good now yes all right yes
M all right so good evening Board of
Trustees Dr Baker cabinet members um I
want to send a a welcome from the health
and wellness team I'm Patrina red I'm
the director of health and wellness and
with me tonight I have my two lead
nurses Lisa Cox and phoe re Chambers and
we will be presenting on the health and
wellness Department
okay so our first screen uh goes over
and it shows you our full team here in
Redwood City we have four RNs two of our
RNs are lead nurses and we also have
quite a few lbn they're starting to come
on board as District hires so we have
three onetoone LVN who work with our
special needs students and we have three
office
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LVN the goals for our department are
listed here um our main focus this year
is to engage teacher parents students
and the community in promoting Health
enhancing behaviors we're using data to
make necessary modifications and use
best practices to cultivate and expand
our program and then we want to also
increase family and Community
involvement at each of our school
sites so the first thing that I want to
discuss is engaging teachers or more so
engaging staff both classified and
certificated staff this year funded by
the seoa healthcare district we have a
new staff wellness program for both
certificated and classified and
management staff anybody that wants to
join and the purpose of this program is
to promote
uh overall well-being for our staff as
well as to reduce stress you guys okay
and it's a 10-week uh long course where
the teams meet weekly and they meet
online via zoom and they are working on
the 10 components listed in the picture
we started um having meetings early in
the spring where we advertise they
attended info sessions and at the end of
September is when we first started uh
our first sessions and it is um once
again funded by the seoa healthcare
district at no cost to our
staff to engage parents the seoa
healthcare district also funds parenting
classes through the parent Venture the
green section shows all of the courses
that were offered last year in their
parent education series it shows the
amount of attention
that um attended each event and also
shows how many people viewed the
recordings after the live session the
very last session was funded through
Redwood City together they also wanted
to promote uh more exposure to parents
on parent education and so a course was
offered in Spanish uh at our Hoover site
for the 2425 school year we've started
off with two classes one was on fent
andol and the other is um on Executive
functioning we are still determining the
classes for the spring but Redwood City
together has committed to provide extra
funding to continue to support the
mission and offer more classes through
parent
Venture so I would say around September
I did a survey to our parent Community
to find out what what type of courses
would they like to uh receive parent
education on and here are the courses um
that they responded most as most of you
guys could see mental health was the top
priority for our families as well as
Internet safety and
academics as part of the SB hip Grant
Daybreak is offering family counseling
virtual
to our families in the district and in
addition to the family counseling
they're also offering six sessions
of they're more like parenting classes
versus um the parent education Series so
they they they defer a little bit
different from parent Venture as they go
a little bit deeper and the topics that
they um are discussing are based off of
what Anna Paulo who is our lead mental
health counselor she presented um I
believe last month on what our needs of
our students are and so we try to tailor
this the parent survey along with the
needs of uh what our parents was
requesting and we came up with the
courses uh listed here so November 4th
will be our first class it will be
offered both in English and Spanish and
it'll also be offered
online and then also finally um
regarding our students and engaging them
the new change this year is that we
continue We are continuing to offer
health education but it is being offered
internally so what that means is that
our puberty talk for fifth grade
students and our team talk for seventh
grade students will be and are adapted
for all ability uh we be taught by Osa
and Lucero our nurses were also trained
in the curriculum as well
and the reason for this change is
because Health connected had a a cost
increase of more than 50% and we just
figured it would be best to serve our
students internally and we would be able
to still be trained and host the same
curriculum for our students but do it
with our staff and then we also have
volunteer medical students through
Stamford that will also be helping to
co- te some of our classes and help
facilitate the classes so puberty talk
started um last week and uh we'll go
throughout the fall and then we'll start
our Teen Talk probably around December
early January and the chart here just is
some data that I got from Health
connected showing how many participants
uh participated how many students
participated in puberty talk Teen Talk
middle school and adapted for all
abilities and it also shows the opt outs
um that we had of parents that did not
want their children to participate for
last year's school year so I'll have
this year school this year's school year
data at the end of this
year all right so now I have my nurses
here that will come and present on
services in
rcsd
hello I'm Lisa Cox one of the lead
RNs I'm Fe re Chambers the other lead RN
right I can't see that so I'm going to
look at this I don't have my other
glasses so one of the things that us as
nurses in our districts do or I should
say in this District at our school sites
is that we do California state mandated
hearing and vision this is done starting
with our teers and Kinders as they come
in so we get a baseline of what their
eyes look like we also do second grade
we do fifth grade and we do eighth grade
at all our school sites we also do
students that have IEPs um and any staff
requests so we were at Hoover on Monday
and the vice principal brought us two
students that had a problem in class and
we screen them and yes they can't see
and so that's where referrals will go
out so it's a really good program that
we do required by the state um vision is
done by the district nurses at all the
school sites so when we are doing them
all four RNs were certified to do this
go to the sites together and do it
together um we screen using visual
Acuity where they're 10t away and
there's a char and we have to get them
down to we try to get them to 2020 but
if we can't we have to get them at least
to
3232 this year we started um we were
able to borrow Sano County bought a spot
screener and we were able to do spot
screening which was fantastic because
our te cares their eyes are still
developing they usually don't pass an
near vision and they were passing with a
spot screener so it was great to see
that it's working and we were using that
to this year um at some of our school
sites uh kiddos that don't know letters
um like our te cares we use the slone
chart symbols to help um with our
screening and then in the spring we do
color vision for male students only in
first
grade and then with the hearing we um
work with hearing conservation
Associates to come in and do hearing at
all our school sites for the same
grades did I do that
right which arrow it's not going
so these are the results from our
hearing Envision from
2023 um with hearing we screened 200
2,99 students 86 didn't pass and we sent
out 86 referrals the vision screening we
did
2,493 students 324 didn't pass and we
sent out 324 referrals the big
difference between those two was that we
also had three School sites that Vision
to learn came and screened the entire
School these are just the grades that I
mentioned TK through k 2 fifth so
there's the difference in the numbers of
who we screened because the next slide
will show you how many students Vision
to learn screened with their vision
screening
um special ed also sends us request
throughout the year to do vision and
hearing so we also on top of the state
mandated did 500 plus individual
students vision and hearing for IEP
meetings in the spring we did 351 male
students 16 did not pass we do not send
referrals out for that because there is
no treatment for color vision deficiency
it's basically you have it and we let
teachers know so that they don't use the
colors that we screen for in their
educational AIDS this year we're in the
process of doing our uh vision screening
right now we still have three sites that
we are going to be doing for the rest
the next two weeks and then hearing will
start at the beginning of no November
and those are the dates that we um are
going to be doing so all of that is in
progress right now
and then this is Vision to learn right
and I'll go over Vision to learn so
Vision to learn is a nonprofit
organization that Redwood City School
District we've partnered with and
they've been in our district for a few
years now um what they do is they
provide free Vision Services to Title
One schools and it's every two years um
they do an initial
screening and for students who don't
pass that initial screening they bring
in a mobile van clinic and the clinic is
serviced by an optician and optometrist
and those students who did not pass the
initial screen and get a follow-up exam
and if they need glasses they get
glasses also for free um if you look at
these numbers last year they screen they
were at three School sites Hoover tafts
and and
McKinley and at Hoover they did
585 students they
screened 168 didn't pass total students
who got follow-up exams were
171 30 were unable to be examined and
glasses dispensed was 141 Taft total
screen
314 those didn't pass 78 78 were
examined 58 receiv received glasses
McKinley 387 got screened 130 didn't
pass total who got follow-up examed 108
22 were unable to be examined and 94 got
glasses and I just wanted to go over
quickly that sometimes the well as you
can see the numbers don't match up with
who didn't pass in total exams or unable
to exam um and that's because sometimes
as Lisa explained students who might
have been absent for the initial exam
for at Hoover especially that 1713 kids
were absent and when the van was there
they got an an i exam and sometimes
students are like our students in
special ed or RLC classes um they just
won't go in the van so they don't get
screened they for some re some kids are
claustrophobic or they're just afraid so
they don't get screened at that time all
right and these are our numbers for this
year for vision to learn they're at two
School sites this year Garfield and
Roosevelt and Roosevelt they're still in
process of doing the follow-up
exams all right immunizations very
important for school nursing and public
health um so this School nursing team
and the registration team have
collaborated the last two years to try
to improve our numbers and we've
definitely seen an improvement when we
work together so the registration team
what they've been doing is making sure
that all students who register are up to
dat we do have a few students who like
students who are mckin vento act or
students in foster care that if they
don't if they're not up to date they can
still register and a start school but
they still need to meet the
requirements um and we've also partnered
with Stanford teen van this year to help
our seventh graders get meet the seventh
grade
requirements and so if you look at our
numbers last year
tkk they we had like 32 students who
were missing immunizations at the
beginning of the school year seventh
graders 81
this year TK went down a little bit tiny
bit 31 um seventh graders 24 and we had
34 students utilize the services that
the stamford's teen van provided we had
vaccination clinic at Kennedy in the
spring and then at MIT in the summer um
and so just to make note that for TK and
Kender sometimes they can be conditional
admission that means they've met the
requirements but still need a couple
more doses and they don't those doses
they're not going to get when school
starts
so they can start school without full
vaccination and that's our pres thanks
for letting us present to you guys
tonight and we are open to
questions presentation okay all right
stand by yes
s okay so other services that we offer
in the district um as you guys have
heard for the past three years is Dental
screenings through Sun rees's Dental
that's funded through the seoa
healthcare district and Dignity Health
they provide screening for our preschool
and TK and kindergarten students and
this is a visual inspection of whether
or not a student has ACT active Decay or
um cavities it is sent excuse me it's
opt out only so if a parent does not
want their child to participate they
would just turn in the form when they
get the Flyers saying that Dental
screening is coming to their school and
so for last year's school year there
were
928 students that were screen and as you
can look at the numbers below you can
see the numbers of students with active
Decay
39% um we had 55% students which is a
little bit more than half with no dental
problems but that's still way off and so
um we need to make sure that we're able
to um make a difference with these
students and by getting treatment early
hopefully we could prevent them from
getting the active
Decay and then this is just another uh
screening charts to the left it's just a
chart that shows the number of no Decay
so that was
361 students uh with no Decay is a
little blurry and 560 students um excuse
me 567 with no Decay and 361 with active
Decay so that's quite a few students um
the class one students are the students
that have no issue um class two students
are in the yellow are students that have
um some urgent needs and class three
students are they need to see a dentist
right away so they need emergency care
on the right hand side of the chart it
shows all of the schools that were
screened so they screen students at the
CDC as well as the school sit so if
you're just looking at the chart as you
can see the highest uh number of active
DK for last year school year was at
Garfield CDC which we had 60% of our
students there um with act active Decay
and so things that we noticed is that um
the students do have a lot of Decay um
earlier on in preschool they start to
lose some of their baby teeth and so
when there's screening that takes place
at the elementary level some of those
teeth have fell out so um those may not
count in the active Decay rate because
they have the adult teeth however if a
student does not receive any treatment
it it's still going to be counted that
following year and often times we see
from one year to another another that
students are not getting
treated so the data Trends um show
during 2122 the focus was really just on
our prease students and so we only
screened about 446 students I don't know
why 23 24 didn't come up um but for the
22 23 year we had
939 and I believe for 23 24 we had
928 so was just a little bit less that
following year but as you can see
there's still um you know a lot of
active Decay a lot of noticeable Dental
problem at least more than half of the
students for um last year's school year
had a lot of uh noticeable Decay and we
still have quite a few with nonurgent
but still it's a lot of students with
noticeable decay
and so as a result of that last year I
had a request from for trusty weekly
about a dental sealant program and so at
that time Sano County said we're about
three to four years out with doing a
dental sealant program so you know check
back with us later um sent them an email
say it's not it's a nogo I got a call
this spring saying heyy we found an
agency out of Southern Califoria
California that is uh willing to you
know move and and do work in uh Redwood
City and since Sun rees's had been very
active in our district um that they
decided to work with our district the
dental clinic is called Jerry Smiles
they're too a mobile clinic and so we
are in the works right now um so it's on
the radar we're hoping to Pilot a few
School sites the goal is that they will
actually be screening first through e8th
grade students so um all of our students
will be taken care of uh for when we get
to them but we're going to look at those
high priority sites for this school year
to get treated and then we'll Branch out
um for next year's school year this does
require an active consent form because
it is a procedure that's being done to a
student's uh tooth or
teeth okay so in addition the health
Wellness also works with Subs Abuse
Prevention programs and so there's three
programs that were currently working
within the district the first one is TP
which is um it's it's we're under the
Consortium of the SEO County Office of
Education uh they received a three-year
Grant and within that Grant we are under
their umbrella uh to provide a six
lesson curriculum to Middle School
students so primarily seventh and eighth
grade students and the curriculum is
through the Stanford toolkit called you
and me together VAP free and then also
we have to administer the California
healthy kids survey and last year's
school year was our first year um
Redwood City school district has in
previous years um administered the
California healthy kids survey but the
grant ran out so it wasn't required any
longer um we started this backup last
year and we will be continuing that um
even with this year but it's required
every other year so for the 2324 school
year tupi was offered at Kennedy Hoover
MIT Roy cloud and Garfield um it is
based on whichever sites we can find a a
site coordinator no matter what we will
still administer the California healthy
kids survey um if there's a middle
school component but if um
but for for the Tay program in order for
it to run we have to have a site lead
and so this year uh so far we've had
identified staff at Kennedy Hoover MIT
NSA and Clifford that will be um the
site coordinators and any other school
that has a middle school component is in
the works of finding a
coordinator we also are working with ha
W Vape which is out of UC San
Diego and they provide alternative means
to supension and so it is a online
program where students do the curriculum
online if they are caught vaping or
using tobacco at school and this program
offers coaching and it also allows for
parent
participation uh last year only three
referrals were made and one of the three
referrals were successfully completed so
we're hoping that this school year that
this will be um an option for schools to
use as an alternative
to suspension when a student is caught
hopefully it will eliminate um students
from vaping altogether but if they are
caught this is uh one of the options
that they can
choose in addition to that seoa healthc
care District also funds another program
called El Central libertad and they
focus on drug prevention as well um they
are at four of our school sites Kennedy
Hoover Garfield and McKinley um as you
can see the top numbers are the
unduplicated students per site and what
unduplicated means in this sense are
students that are caught vaping they're
only counted once so if a student is
caught multiple times um they're not
counting in this number everybody
participates in a group um about 85% of
those students um they attended the
session and then um there were 11
students from various School sites that
required additional support and so they
were referred to the outpatient program
and you can see the numbers here listed
for um how many sessions were conducted
per School sites the referrals are
coming from either the Family Center or
from the principales and for the
students that 15% of the students that
did not attend or complete the first
cohort they were referred to the second
cohort and parents are required to give
permission for their students to
participate through our lcap we have
behavioral support and so what this
means is that we have a board certified
behavior analyst that is um providing
behavioral support to teachers as well
as to individual students um I have data
for the 2324 school year as well as
current data as of right now now so last
year we had
61 uh referrals and to date what are we
about two months into school we have 26
referrals so the number is definitely
trending on the high end and I'm
anticipating almost 100 referrals um by
the end of the school year this is for
tier 2 support so one of the ways that
we're trying to slow down the referrals
is making sure that our school sites are
offering tier one support
for our kiddos before making the
referral and then um if those tier one
supports are not working then we refer
them to uh support for our
bcba and then also we are trying to
increase Community involvement at each
School site so one of the events that we
did which is in the leftand corner was a
career day event at Kennedy the women's
day event is what I have a picture of
because that's what I was kind of
helping out with and so this was one of
our women in the trade industry doing a
presentation on how our students can get
into the trade industry we're also doing
some collaboration with our family
centers so whenever there are parent
presentations we're looking to work with
our um our family centers and engaging
our parents by having our parents come
in and view the webinars at the School
sites and having discussions with them
so that way they can get a deeper
understanding of the information that's
being presented because we all know that
our parents don't always access um
webinars or online
classes and then also um whenever we are
uh referring students to Medical
Services for Urgent Care we follow up
with our community schools for
additional support and then we also have
a new admin um uh admin secretary in our
um Registration Department who also is
supporting the work of our nurses that
they can bring referrals to connect with
parents um for additional uh follow-up
Services if they need like extra Dental
screenings or hearing um places to go to
get their hearing checked the middle uh
the middle picture is food tasting event
we partnered with ucce as well as SEO
County um to do food tast events so that
was at open house at Kennedy uh in the
spring and then also we will continue to
have our health and wellness committee
and that was one of our end of the year
activity I tried to snag a picture
before everybody left and so one of the
new components of the health and
wellness committee is that we will have
students uh participate on the committee
to give um their advice on what's
important for them and their classmates
as it relates to health and
wellness and as you can see these are
all of the different things that the
Sequoia Healthcare uh contributes to we
can not do the work without their
contribution um so this is the different
areas that they help support and the
funding that goes towards it this is a
bigger slide that um breaks down the
different areas so this year we have
about
$200,000 more in funding from the the
Sequoia healthcare district uh than we
have had in the previous years um they
continue to support pretty much the same
Staffing counseling parent education and
then the additional fundings come with
the Community Partners that apply for
Grants uh specifically to serve our
students and so our their total
contribution is over 1.9 million for
this school
year lastly I just want to thank jenet
Lawson jenet Lawson Alysa mecoboy for
serving on the health and well Wellness
committee since I started they kind of
helped guide me help with suggestions as
well as um thank you Lisa um help with
come up with suggestions and so you guys
have been my RIT or die so thank you for
being a
part yes and so just thank you any
questions
a little decoration all right so that's
the end of our presentation so do you
have any questions for us thank you so
much that was very thoughtful um I'll
open up to the board for comments or
questions um thanks again for the
presentation and for everything that you
guys and the team does for our students
um my question is when we do the
screening are all students being
screened or do we like prioritize the
unduplicated pupils and then move on
with the other students or is that just
for every student in the district for
the hearing and the vision yes so we
screen the state mandated and then we
screen students that we get the
referrals uh throughout the year so the
500 plus that counselors case managers
they send to us and those are all the
other grades the vision to learn they
screened the entire school so those
numbers they screen every grade and then
those that don't pass the screening go
in and get their exam so we only screen
the state mandated grades unless
otherwise asked right and keep in mind
State mandated grade it's TK second
grade fifth grade and eighth
grade so it's half the school basically
if you're Ka it's half your school great
thank you um and then my comment
regarding the sealant thank you David
for the comment last year um as I was
talking to Dr Baker during our one-onone
and I was like Hey I was reading the
agenda and that is so awesome I mean I
remember if you opt to put a sealant on
your child's teeth I mean I remember
paying for my kids like $75 per teeth
you know so that's like awesome so so
thank you for the partnership for
actually listening to the board member
and following up with somebody to do
something for a district so thank you so
much for for that um and then again
thank you for the family involvement and
what you guys are doing obviously
because that's how we want to start with
the parents involvement so that they can
support our students so thank you so
much for everything and that's it for
me thank you so much wow that made my
night um I'm I'm listened to you it is a
nice nice feeling and um you know it's
it's exciting that I I I expect that in
the coming years we're GNA see the
outcomes of those programs leading to
much better dental health so like that's
that's super duper exciting I have a I
have a whole bunch of questions I'll try
and be quick with it um just first slide
U members of the general public may not
be familiar with the difference between
an LVN and an RN versus an RN lead I'm
wondering if you give folks like a 30-
second
education to what those are all right so
LVN is a vocational nurse and they just
go to they do a program that's just
strictly focused on like the skills RN
it's a four-year degree they have a
BSN and and um what was the other one oh
and Le So Lisa and I we um supervised
the nursing team under the Tage of
Patrina I not a
nurse experts in the field I have pH and
I also have our masters in nursing so
that also where we're one up from the
RNs the fouryear degree well the extra
education I should say that's fantastic
thank you the levels of Education yep
thank you um based on the data that you
have here and I really do love the rich
data what would you say is unusual about
our District's Health like if we were to
compare this for you know other similar
districts um and and in trend lines as
well I did appreciate the the graphs
that show some of these uh things
trending but like what are the big tells
from this that that you
see I think I think for us is that we
need to handhold and give a little bit
more support um an Outreach to our
families to let them know um where to
access these resources from um some some
families automatically get it they have
their own dentist and they they don't
need what we offer here at the school
district but there's some families
especially those that are new to the
country new to our district that need to
learn how to navigate the system and to
provide support so unlike some of our
neighboring School District we have many
of those families and so that's why the
admin assistant and the family centers
are so important because in addition to
our nurse Outreach they can help guide
the families to the resources that they
need to get the support for their
children makes sense I I did notice that
on the attendance for the different uh
parental classes that the the Spanish
one had markedly lower attendance is
there more that we could be doing to go
and connect with that Community to help
them navigate the resources that are
available to them yes so the grant got
approved I would say at the beginning of
May so we didn't have a lot of time to
get the class together but we still
wanted to hold the class before the end
of the school year we know now that the
grant is going to be moving forward so
yes we will be outreaching a little more
toughly and then also like I said
bringing in our family centers to kind
of give that extra phone call to amilies
that need that extra support because we
do want to see the numbers of our
parents increase especially our
Spanish-speaking families to make sure
because some of the classes are
specifically um for any type of um
concerns that may have come up um
through our community centers or through
Outreach and so we are trying to address
those issues so we just need to make
sure we do that extra Outreach to get
them to attend and we're trying we're
trying different things we're trying all
online we're trying in person and so
that was one that was in person and
that's the first one that's been in
person um since I've started in the
district so even though it was a low
turnout it was still a good amount of
parents um that attended the workshop
for the first time cool thank you um I
really like seeing the data about number
of students screened number where we
found something the referrals do we
continue that investigation further as
to whether or not the student actually
was able ble to find and connect with
those services and got the treatment
they needed whether you know I saw some
data about glasses but there was also um
a comment uh on the Dentistry front that
um maybe not all those students who were
found to need Dental help actually got
it do we do we have any outcome
data so
we we do um but just very little and
it's only what parents report back to us
and so that's where we need to weave
into the community sitters and the admin
um assistant to to do some follow-up
calls to make sure that the families are
receiving the services um that are in
need but then also we'll be able to
track it with the dental because we will
be able to track how many students got
the approval from their parents in order
to get the dental ceilings and um they
will also be doing cleaning along with
the sealant and they will also um check
for cavities and so that's not something
that usually our older students are
getting so you know they're just
screened one time in preschool a couple
of times preschool TK and Kinder but
then after that they just kind of Go off
into the abyss and now we'll be able to
really see if the students get the
services through Jerry Smiles um or you
know whatever agency because Jerry
Smiles will also notify parents if
there's a need and parents can still
choose to go to their own provider and
so we'll be able to track that data
because it's a it's a question on the
form in terms of vision it would seem
that like the teacher can tell whether a
student is wearing glasses and might be
able to ask if they're wearing contacts
and so we in theory should be able to
track if a student is known to have
Vision deficiencies that are not
actually being corrected in the
classroom do do we track that is that
something we're looking
at we don't track if but sometimes the
teachers do let us know student a has
glasses but never wears them so then
we'll follow up with parents sometimes
it's just that student might have lost
glass the glasses or they're broken and
the student the parents don't have a way
to get new ones um so we're actually
trying to work on finding other
resources outside of vision to learn is
they only go to the title one schools
yeah so if there are students at the
other schools that needs
Services then there's a gap but we had a
program vssp and vouchers but as of
November 4th they're discontinuing their
vouchers so we're yeah in the process of
trying to find a new
partner that's a bummer
yeah it is I mean I I think for vision
because it's so much clearer and easier
to inspect whether or not
uh Vision remediation is taking place
versus like doing regular Dental
inspection say is a very different bar
right that would be a nice thing for us
to be able to track and the reason why
I'm poking at it just uh if there are
people who are curious like why why does
he care about glasses um we know from
the research that students who have
uncorrected Vision deficiencies uh
disproportionately struggle with uh in
classroom instruction and with reading
and it's it's relatively speaking a
simple fix um and so just I really want
to make sure that we give every kid the
best possible chance to get an education
which means them being able to actually
see their educational material and so if
um I guess this is a request for the
district as much as anything that we
that we start looking at that and that I
would love to explore with you uh we can
get access to some more of these
resources that actually can provide
glasses for kids who've demonstrated the
need for them yeah awesome um in terms
of the immunization requirements I
believe I know the answer to this
question but I'm just going to ask it
anyhow um are are covid vaccines
required as part of the required
immunization schedule no didn't think so
thank you just not everyone is is clear
on that um and in terms of the puberty
talk curriculum can parents review the
curriculum before deciding whether or
not to opt out yes so we did have a
parent night for puberty talk where they
were able to um review a presentation
that was led by Ann Lucero and then we
also have a a hard copy of the
curriculum here at the reg the what is
this the front desk that parents could
come in and we actually have had parents
come in to review the curriculum we
can't post it online because of
copyright uh laws but they are able to
come in ohol um I I I was able to see
some pretty awesome news that the FDA uh
put out like just this month on uh
findings on youth tobacco uh sh showed
actually really significant declin from
this school year from last year around
vaping and ecigarette use um so it seems
like programs like this are working even
at a national scale to reduce teenage
use of uh cigarettes and other nicotine
products so um I thought that was pretty
fantastic and thought I would share that
with the group cool last question I
swear I'm done now if you could just
change anything about what the district
is doing to make for healthier children
what would you change about our approach
I would say
just being being able to connect with
more partners and more giving Partners
to fund some of these areas that we're
lacking in um I often time my other half
is the seoa healthcare district so in
areas like where the vision is no longer
being taken care of I always bring it
back to them because taxpayer dollars
are funding um what the a healthcare
district distributes to our school
district and so we are looking at it in
other areas but um you know I just would
hope that you know through Partnerships
and communication and being on all of
these committees we're able to get that
um that backup support that we need
thank
you thanks um all right thank you so
much for the presentation this was
really um Wonder ful and I think it goes
to show what a safety net the school
district is particularly for those
families and students that are School
dependent I mean these are such
important areas of health and go
directly to academics right so anyway
just thank you for all you're doing and
please thank all the other nurses and
other staff you know counselors I mean
there's lots of people that are involved
in this so first of all thank you and
then I also want to say thank you very
much for recognizing us on the wellness
committee and I was actually going to
tonight to say that both Janet and I
have been serving on that committee well
I've been on it I think since it began
so however long that was that was like
I've had multiple Wellness coordinators
and then you I think your whole time so
um anyway it's an opportunity for the
three of you and the two of you to think
about who's going to uh join it's
actually excellent you get to work with
patrinia you get to work on Wellness for
our students and our staff and it's not
a big lift uh we meet I was trying to
think is it quarterly now or B monly
yeah we're meeting three times a year
only three times we used to meet monthly
by the way so yes and that was Overkill
so we figure we could still do the same
job and get the same work done in in
between time if there was something that
needed to be communicated out I could
just do it via email and so our first
meeting will be coming up on November
7th and like I said um I'm having now a
group of students that will when are you
guys leaving December 17th so can be at
the first one so you'll get to see that
new transition picture that's great so
what I was going to say is one thing
that's great about this committee is it
does have a lot of our partners and
providers who come to it so for example
if you have a real interest in certain
areas it's an opportunity to share that
and it's got a lot of the players there
and if they're not there they know other
people so it's a really it's a great
coordination and collaboration uh in
Wellness so anyway just to plug on that
uh and then I I also wanted just to do a
huge shout out to the Sequoia healthcare
district and like you said I mean it's
taxpayer money that's going to them to
be distributed for health care but I do
think that we're getting um you know
year-over-year we're getting quite a bit
of money to really support what we do
and we couldn't do it without them I
mean you know when did you say a million
one 1.9 for this next year for this
school year and you know we've been
getting a lot of money year over year
over year so it's it's a huge plus and
so just for any community members who
don't know that that uh we're
grateful um okay so I did have just a
few kind of questions um so I was
wondering how many employees if you know
otherwise you can get back to me um are
taking advantage of that staff wellness
program we have 20 20 okay so for the
first cohort there's 20 okay and I'm
sure as the word gets out how awesome it
is more will join but I just think
that's great I mean I think um our staff
can only be as kind of present and
available able as they are healthy so
I'm such a firm believer in that and I
know another thing you didn't talk about
is you did get a discount at the kinata
college um yeah to the gym so if you
don't know and I'm announcing I know you
know I've seen you um Evelyn is there
and I actually am there but um you know
the all the employees get a 50% discount
I believe to in in the health club there
so um anyway so thank you the one who
followed up I just made the connection I
think so anyway thank thank you for
doing that um so that's great on the
parent Venture
education and then also the parent add
the Daybreak health I saw there's video
recordings and I'm wondering are we um
are other like are any of our parents
able to access those anybody can anybody
can so I okay so when I was a parent I
went to a lot of these and I've still
gone to some of them as a Schoolboard
member but I think they're excellent and
as we do more of them in Spanish and we
have ones in English I was thinking
maybe there's an opportunity to showcase
those at some of the schools like at
parent nights or caitos or whatever and
also just to push them out a little bit
more because it's sort of like us
watching a webinar professional
development webinar but it's a
professional development of parent
education and if they're already
recorded and they're really they have
experts that are are part of those
presentations they're really good so
anyway I'm a huge advocate of that and I
do think there's opportunities for the
numbers to grow when I look get those
numbers and I realize not everyone can
make it live but if we have the video
recordings maybe there's an opportunity
to do more and anyway so that's just a
plug on that and just let me say that
that's only the people that report where
they're from there's many more than join
but those are the only the people that
capture that fo that they're from
Redwood City okay there's definitely
more than yeah yeah that's great okay um
I had some of the same oh okay on Toth
Decay I'm wondering are we doing more on
kind of
nutrition and protection of teeth like
before we get to cavities because it's
sort of alarming when you see and I and
I know the research and the data and
stuff out there that some of our
families the kids are having really
heavy sugar juices and you know things
like that early on but to have cavities
at three four five I mean that's so
young and so I was thinking maybe with
our partners we need to connect up with
them I just feel like there's more
parent education that needs to happen to
prevent the need for all of
this so Sun Reeses does uh they do a um
like a dental presentation with the
students and so yes we do need to get to
um the parent level we did a access to
health care that more so went over our
services and that's something that I've
discussed with the nurses is just coming
up with different topics for parents
because one of the
um survey results came in and it was on
health or nutrition so looking at those
specific topics we have had our nurse go
in uh with some of our partners and do
presentation on particular requests and
so yes it it needs but we just need more
parent participation because sometimes
we offer it but we need to grow our
numbers with our parents attend yeah
yeah yeah and then maybe you know
through our preschools There's an
opportunity I know like with pe+ we're
doing some nutrition and some Wellness
but maybe I don't know maybe there's an
opportunity to get them earlier because
obviously if we can prevent it to begin
with it would be amazing so anyway I
just want to put in a plug for that if
there's anything more and you know
through Redwood City together we've got
Kaiser we've got some of the other
health care maybe we need to let you
know I I I can let the people there know
that maybe there's more they could do
too um okay another qu sorry I this was
such an awesome presentation there was
so much in it that so I was curious on
the site coordinators for tupe who who
like what sort of person is a site
coordinator is that a teacher a
principal a parent um it could be any
any yes because um what happens it could
be classified it could be a certificate
certificated last year we had
administrators this year we have
administrators we have counselors we
have teachers just whoever wants to fill
the role okay um and so part of that
role is um offering the or providing the
six lesson curriculum or making sure
that it takes place at the middle school
level and then there's coordinators
meetings that they have to attend
there's also student groups um because
the goal is for students to educate
other students so at lunchtime they're
preparing students to give presentations
doing tabling events at lunchtime or if
there's a back to school night or open
house that students are actually um
doing the presentation so my one goal in
life um is hopefully to get TP students
at each of our school sites 2% on
Tobacco um education because they are
trained in that um when they attend a
field trip in January or February that
will then be followed up with our nurses
doing a Naran training um for parents
and so the students will be presenting
on that and then our nurses will be
presenting on the Naran um we've all
already had uh SEO County Office of Ed
stating that they will give us a free
Naran to give out to parents should we
do that presentation and so I'm hoping
to be able to do something like that in
the spring once we get our our two-p
coordinators and students up and running
that's great uh thank you for that extra
information and that's great news
hearing about the lower rates and I do
think there's regulations that kind of
shut down some of the advertising that
was going out and so Social Media stuff
and everything so anyway that's great
and I'm sure a lot of the work we're
doing makes a difference um so finally I
just want to say thank you Phoebe and
Lisa thank you for your leadership with
the nurses and for being here tonight um
really appreciate it and the patrini
I've so enjoyed working with you and
thank you for your leadership in this
District you're really making a
difference um to the health and wellness
of the staff and the students and the
family so really appreciate you you bet
thank you yeah I agree thank you uh
patrinia feebe and Lisa for presenting
tonight and all the RNs and lvns really
are making a difference it's just such a
strong reminder of how schools are kind
of hubs in the community and that just
have this unique opportunity to be a
keystone for Community well-being uh and
so it's awesome to see and again also
thank you Sequoia healthcare district
and our other funding Partners too um
sounds like Redwood City together is
getting in on the game um and the SB hip
Grant uh it's really nice to see all
this funding coming together to be able
to address these needs and of course
there's a ton of Partners listed here um
that's awesome to see we want you want
more we want more uh to be able to put
them in there but you know to not
recognize like yeah Vision to learn
coming in and screening and giving out
classes Stanford running their teen van
and having medical students come and
help to do Health Ed classes sesa um
hopefully Jerry smile starts you know
really contributing in here um the
county office with their classes that
they're putting in there um El Cent a
little bit hot um you know there's just
so many partners right like I I don't
know I probably miss a bunch there um
one of the questions I had two questions
for you um your goal is to use data and
make necessary modification use best
practices to cultivate and expand the
program SW could you do you have an
example of where where that went into
play so just with their dental program
looking at what we are doing preschool
TK and Kinder noticing that these issues
are arising at such an early age then
with the recommendation of our trustee
it just made sense to try to work at the
next level and so um you know just
getting another partner on board but
making sure that Jerry Smiles is
communicating with some recent hey these
are our students that are having um the
active DK so uh the yeah the active DK
so just make sure that these students
are being seen and so then we can follow
up to see okay these students they had
it in Kinder now at first grade they
were treated or they were prevented so
the students that didn't have the Decay
now um they continue they will continue
not to have the Decay because of the
season so that's one of the measures we
using in order to improve our program
great yeah continuous learning
continuous Improvement I love it um and
then uh I would like to think that we
would do hearing Invision screening
regardless of it being mandated by the
state of California but since it is
mandated by the state of California I
was wondering does it come with funding
from the state of California
not to my
know just one of those unfunded mandates
yeah so probably we just have to take it
out of the grant funding LC general fund
and yeah okay that doesn't surprise
me true we do build um we do build do SA
or Lea billing um when we do vision and
hearing screening for IEPs so that might
come with a little bit of
okay yeah yeah figured I'd ask I
mean
yeah
anyway um anyway there was there was
there are a lot of good really good
programs going on here I I appreciate
seeing the staff wellness program as
well I think that that's that's an
important area for us to focus on um I
remember a couple years ago just almost
felt like there was an enrollment not
like a enrollment crisis with like
immunizations trying to make sure ready
got up coming out of that so it's really
neat to see how that's like progressing
and that partnership in there of course
the dental en vision screening uh and
then the non-punitive Support classes
for tobacco use instead of suspending
students or pushing them out and there's
just a lot a lot good going on here so
thanks again for the hard work and for
the presentation tonight thank you yeah
thank you so much for your presentation
and just there's so much going on you
guys are doing so much work and I just
really appreciate um the support you're
offering to our families but also to our
staff um
patrini I think you've you've grown the
health and wellness Department a lot
since you've been here and I appreciate
all the work that you've put into it and
it's been great working with you over
the last few years so um I don't have
any additional questions
so thank you I don't have any questions
either but it's just the recognition uh
Patrina since you've been with us and
knowing what the program was prior to
your time uh it's it's amazing to where
we are right now and thank you both Lisa
and Phoebe for all that you do and
working closely with Patrina to make
sure that this is moving in the right
direction um and a great thank you to
the seoa healthare district because
Pamela Pamela you know when she became
CEO about the same time I became
superintendent we've been hand inand all
the way and she doesn't she always
supports us even if it's a little crazy
I have some money here I can give you
but she she's great she's a she's a real
supporter of the Redwood City School
District and out of the school district
I think we get the most money to be
honest yeah yeah yeah yeah
oh um but they are great supporters so
whenever they uh need anything from us
we are always there to go to board
meetings and to express our gratitude
and give out any type of information
that the board is looking for and uh
it's it's just been a wonderful
partnership and I know we were kind of
iffy when it started back when you know
when Jan was here do you remember it's
evolved I think we had to grow trust
with each other right certainly I think
with Pamela and with you and you know
anyway and it's worked out really well
so I thank all three of you for just
being you know the heroes of moving this
forward really appreciate it and our
kids do too I'm I'm really sure they do
and their parents but as as as Mr
Weekley was saying we need to find a
better way or another not a better way
but another
manner of how to really get some of our
parents who are Latino parents who are
hesitant or for whatever reason don't
want to go and get the services and I
know sometimes there's some suspicions
around things and especially if you're
undocumented where is information going
to go and so forth so it's something
that uh we can work
on can I say something just because
right now we're talking about the Latino
parents um I've been attending a lot of
the par meetings where the Latino
parents are there and one of the things
that they told us is it's better for
them to actually get a phone call or the
text rather than for us to think that
they're looking at our website because
they really don't so that's one of the
things that we heard from some of those
parents and so I had the feeling but
they confirmed it so we want them to we
want them there make the phone call or
send the text that would send them to
the link and give them a reminder
because they really need that and they
express that so
and that's that's one thing that we've
been doing to get the amount of parents
out that we need like for last
night and maybe we can do maybe I can do
the C as well yeah to connect with the
parents we're out I've got a list of all
of them you know for the year
yeah great thank you so much
okay so discussion items we have a slew
of board policies to go over um starting
with board policy 5113 absences and
excuses so thank you so much to jenet
Lisa for really diving into our board
policy committee recently and we were
able to actually bring quite a few to
you tonight so I appreciate apprciate
having you read them in advance I know
there's details in there and so forth um
but we have a variety tonight and we'll
continue to bring more over the next uh
certainly two months and then regroup as
uh communes might be changing but the
first one is uh regarding absences and
excuses I do recognize that the board
policy is fairly short and then the
administrative EGS jump in but I wanted
to know if there were any questions
regarding this particular
policy I had emailed in some comments
but you addressed them thoroughly in
email so thank you
welcome when by any chance do you want
to address the question so that everyone
can be aware of
it so we had um a couple questions
about um well when we had a formatting
problem so we address of that but uh
that was minor the other one let me pull
it up so I can speak a little bit more
eloquently about
it um so regarding the absences this
particular
one some minor changes regarding um the
previous uh version this current version
that we're
modifying erroneously moved um the grade
levels Ed code state 7th through 12th
grade in terms of notifying students in
grades 7 through 12 we had put 7 through
eight so that was just as a correction
that we had to do uh that shouldn't have
been done in the first place so minor
but important and then also there was a
recommendation um to review the power
school platform that we used to track
our attendances and determine um for
students that are on independent study
legitimately and are are taking
advantage of that opportunities with
their families for whatever their
reasons are we have learned um and know
that F the absences the way it works for
independent study is a a child is um
marked as unexcused until the proper
paperwork is returned because it's a
it's a comprehensive packet that goes
home and all the parts need to be in
there so when the office manager
receives it and notes it's complete and
s it to the teacher for grading then
they go back in and they Mark excused
because sometimes the packet doesn't
come back and then it is truly unexcused
and so that has been the process the
problem with that is that our other
great system of alerting of attendance
and Tracy truancies notes sends a note
to the parent saying your child's now
Trent so it's just it's a mixed message
that is that needs to get worked out so
we're we're researching on how to do
that so that was a recommendation that
was that was great um um and then there
was also a reminder about independent
study that Ed code states that in
actuality it's the minimum is three
consecutive days in a row our board
policy also says up to 20 so that's the
range in which independent study I know
that's a little bit of a sidestep for
excuses and absences but related to the
absence so those were the comments that
were
made anything else okay uh 7.2 for
discussion of board policy 514 5.6
parent Guardian
notification
yes uh so once again
um there were just some minor updates on
this particular policy and we did have a
couple of qu one question came in uh
that was answered actually by our
director of communications Jorge kintana
regarding um when
a when
parents um
when parents are not necessarily
proficient in either language or or a
language necessarily how um the district
is supporting communication out and so
Jorge responded to that um request about
um the different versions of of how
parents receive information including
most recently a podcast that one happens
to be in Spanish for for individuals
that are not reading and so that that's
another um item that was added did you
want to add anything trusty weekly or
yeah just
um I I think it's great the um degree to
which we work to accommodate English and
Spanish speaking parents in in the
district um and it seems like we are
entering now an ERA with uh commodity
tools that may make it easier and easier
for us to support uh so-called longtail
languages um because we have many uh non
either English or Spanish speaking
parents who are in the district and
being able to not just communicate out
to them but also receive information
from them would be really advantageous
for maximizing the inclusivity of the
district and so I I would love just over
the coming years to see us adopt such
tools for both outbound communication as
well as solicitation of information from
parents just given that that's getting
easier and easier to do agree I I do
know we have board policy that says
there's a minimum of 15% in which we're
required but I think this was an an sort
of an out-of thebox idea of how we can
get ahead of it with the technology
tools that now exist so for example Dr
Baker's newsletter is one example where
you can toggle to translate but those
are limited now the good news is that
Jorge is pretty on top of managing those
numbers and so he recently noted that
Arabic is a language that's emerging
more in our district and so added that
feature so there's been progress made I
just I think for this one idea um
you know that was really interesting for
us to explore because maybe it's even
out there and we haven't really delved
into that yet so thank you for the
suggestion for that thank
you any other additional questions
regarding parent Guardian
notifications going go on to
7.3 board policy 60000 Concepts and
roles any questions on this particular
one
okay you that's 7.4 board policy 4033
lactation accommodation yes so this is a
new law that um emerged in July and so
we did have board policy as you as you
know this is an update but it does uh
require the district one in regards to
notifying employees when they note they
will be out on maternity leave to State
we have this policy so we've made that
changes in our internal forms but also
then when the employee notes that they
would like to take advantage of a
lactation room that we have the space
with all the required elements and the
time within the day and so um we've
already experienced some occurrences
this year which is great and and and all
of our employees have been supported um
so so not too much of a larger reach it
just you know we wanted to make sure our
processes and our routines were in place
when we are aware that somebody is out
and then come back and need those
services so sometimes managing
substitutes coming in to cover and so
forth so that's been new but it's been
working that's good any other any
questions about this particular
lactation
policy no okay uh our last one 7.5 board
policy 1113 district and school websites
yes so the biggest change was really
about the directory
information are there any questions
regarding this particular
one no but thank you policy committee
for doing the updates and running
through it you know um these are all
just kind of updates to existing
policies it looks like just catching up
on Ed code and like tightening up
language so thanks appreciate it yeah
very
thankful absolutely yes yeah bring bring
bring his many batches as you can get
done yeah will appreciate it yeah no
doubt I'll be sending those to you
Friday the review for our upcoming
meeting so thank you Wendy yes thank you
okay that brings us to our consent items
do you have a motion to
approve so moved seconded all those in
favor I thank you we have no action
items so reports from board members and
superintendent who would like to
start uh we just we had a board policy
committee meeting obviously I think
that's about it for me this
week I uh visited Garfield
last not last this past Friday but the
Friday before um it was nice um yeah
principal shackle on Friday I don't know
maybe every morning but Friday morning I
met her at the gate she's welcoming all
the students as they come in everybody
gets a handshake a fist bump a hug
something like a greeting then went in
and had an assembly a lot of the parents
stick around for the assembly um and
it's kids are recognized as greater
Gators the parents that are there taking
pictures of their kids so it was uh it
was a nice really nice Community kind of
thing of course we visited some
classrooms we got into both the
slc's um the the older slc's they have
uh chores around campus so they get to
go and go and like clean up and stuff so
that was neat to see them sort of
transition into their chore time um lots
of Fest instructions going on in the um
you know in the classrooms um principal
shackle was talking about there's a real
focus on third grade reading that sort
of what their data said they need to do
this year um so that's cool and it just
yeah there's you know it's a school
that's really focused on community and
high quality tier one instruction so it
was a good visit um and then earlier
tonight um Anna presented did the buz
budget presentation for the Kennedy
Middle School School site Council uh so
I was there um we didn't we didn't get
too much feedback about what they wanted
as their priorities um from this meeting
so hopefully they'll come back and fill
it out in the survey but uh principal
Shandra mentioned from the cacos that uh
the Mental Health Counselors was a top
one from that conversation there so just
thought
i' CIA or
David so um one thing that Alyssa for
what forgot was the ran City 20 together
uh meeting
um budget committee meeting because I
was like I I had to go back I'm like
there's been so many budget committee
meeting um DC at Garfield and again we
had some parents
um that was a small group of parents but
still at least five schools were
represented so that was good and then um
we talked about the budget as well and
then last night at Hoover also talk
about the
budget that's it you know real just real
quick I want to put in a plug for
Redwood City together because I will be
circling off so again one of the other
three of you or two of you someone
should go on there with Cecilia I'm
assuming Cecilia will keep it that is a
really um great collaborative and we
meet every other month about
no quarterly I don't know anyway anyway
but again uh that's where a lot of our
partners and collaborators are and at
the last meeting we had a really good
conversation and highlighted some ways
that we could work even more together
and a lot of them around health and
wellness and how they can support our
academic so again that's another great
place to plug in and I do want also want
to just put a shout in for Dr Baker
because you have spent a lot of time
with that group you were the lead last
year um and then I know you continue to
really help them with how that group can
support our school district so it is a
really important group there's a lot of
resources there um brain resources as
well as money resources so we really
need to Foster that group so that's just
a plug that one of you should think
about it and it's a great group I I've
really enjoyed being on it all these
years did and thank you Dr Baker been
such an amazing resource to that group
and I do think it helps our school
district I think so too and we've got a
really good uh Dr vorta Who is now at
Kaiser and he's the one that represents
Kaiser he wasn't there this this last
week when we met but um at the executive
meeting that he attends with me he did
bring uh to the table how can he and his
team come to our Latino families when
their meetings when we're having whether
it be elac with whether it be daac
whether it be cafesito because there is
a
high uh rate uh coloral cancer that's
becoming uh quite extreme in the Latino
community and so he wants to get the
word out and the different types of
testing that one can can have and so I
said I can definitely put together the
cafesito for you if you want to get your
team out here we'll get Michelle raon
and we'll get the community school
coordinators to push it but it it's it's
a way to really collaborate and items
that we need and we're talking about the
health pieces for our students Kaiser
you know um if you don't have insurance
all we have to do is let them know now
Stacy said and and they will get it and
so that was brought from Stacy said this
at the last meeting provid they're
providing health care
for they're Kaiser now is well they'll
help you get the Healthcare through
Obamacare or whatever um but if if you
cannot get it for whatever reason they
will still be your health care provider
it's pretty amazing and so again it just
remind like there was a lot of stuff
that happened this last week at that
meeting last last week at the meeting
that was like oh my gosh there's even
more ways to capitalize capitalize on
this collaborative so yeah that was
another thing that came up so yeah we
can we should probably plug Patrina in
well she yeah I already talked great
okay good sorry all right enough
brainstorming
sorry um my only things to report would
be the board policy meeting and the
budget renewal initiative we met and
then we're actually having our second
meeting again tomorrow so tomorrow
yes um do you have anything else uh no
the budget meeting last night uh was
that a Ryan's like council meeting today
to go over the budget um great group of
people not only the council itself but
it also had had a large group online so
uh they um let me have an hour and 15
minutes was
good um okay Bly Williams report any
questions 11.2 information on S County
investment fund
questions no
11.3 um review of connect Community
Charter Schools un audited actuals for
2324 comments
question no all right uh 11.4 review of
Kips un audited actuals for
2324 and review of rocket ships un
audited
actuals other than yeah go for Rick
thank you to you and your team for all
those reviews I I really do appreciate
what doing and it's nice to I mean it
helps us to read those letters in terms
of how they're doing thank
you yeah there are 11.6 review of um
hr's hiring
season I don't have any questions but I
do have a comment I really like the
format that you guys are using this time
around I think is really neat so thank
you so much to your staff thank you that
was Dr Baker's idea it said formal
presentation or information so this was
a new way of doing it and it was nice
because it was it was a different way to
process it thank you for that
feedback yeah and my only comment too is
that it's just it's neat H it was a good
presentation thanks for putting that
together and if we you know if you're
going to continue Staffing with the
international staff which we probably
are going to find that we need to it's
kind of good to see the learnings coming
in and you know and and uh really
continue to you know use those learnings
to find high quality staff for our
students that's great thank you
um yeah thank you very much I appreciate
it getting the information the the one
question or just sort of comment I had
or maybe you can speak to it is do you
think there's more opportunities for us
through internships and that sort of
thing um and then I was trying to
remember did you ever follow up with the
reach University that was you did okay
and we're not doing anything with them
that wasn't a good fit or you know
um yes so they had various there was
payments that had to be made and there
some other areas to that you know it's
interesting with internships because a
teacher needs to complete a certain
percent of classes before they're
eligible to be an intern and those fall
under ineffective teachers in the C
unfortunately however it is a way to
build and and we are a big proponent we
have many relationships with our
universities for student teachers and
interns
um the other part we run into is
sometimes an intern needs two different
experiences for their credential so they
may start with us in the
fall but they can't be an intern and
then leave us halfway so that's a little
bit of an odd scenario U but overall
we're we have about 30 agreements with
universities it's just where people are
placed in their proximity to their home
and so forth one the universities that
we really enjoy partnering with is San
Jose State and San Francisco State
they're local they also have bilingual
programs but Alder is turning out to be
a lot more successful there is
relatively new to us over the last five
years and that was a partnership through
Sano County Office of Ed to help with
special ed but they've branched into
middle school and bilingual so we've
just started adding our first bilingual
teacher this year as a resident and that
actually is the best type of version
because you the person is in the
classroom every single day with the
master teacher literally co- teing
learning about rcsd initiatives and
methods and platforms and so forth
instructional strategies the focus of
the school attend staff meetings right
there with that Master teacher all year
long and then they're ready for year two
so that's a program I think is has been
the highlight um but anyway so so it
sounds like we're capitalizing on these
programs where we can we have the
capacity or where there's and the fit
okay right definitely okay all right
thanks I like the exploratory and
iterative style where we're trying to
see what works we tried some new things
this year not everything was a total
slam dunk but then we learn from that we
iterate and we try making some changes
next year and see how that works out
absolutely a little bit of a a a
Learning lesson um certainly with our
International staff which was a trial
right we got essentially 100% fill rate
of our vacancies for our credential
staff and almost that for our par
Educators however you know the flip side
to that is all the learning that we
discovered that's needed so similar to a
newer teacher even though we have
experience coming in the transition is
very different the IEP process is
totally different so you have a a
teacher that understands children but
just has to learn something brand new
and doesn't isn't necessarily afforded
the time to do that so we could sort of
um backwards map that a little bit
better and we really mean starting the
process in January meanwhile our still
our focus is local right that that
that's very helpful as well and our
interns and so forth
so um we I've been talking quite a bit
with Anna and the special ed team about
just staff developments and supports and
different ways we can be looking at it I
think also um a new Avenue of the way
we're interviewing we took another look
at that I mentioned with um simulations
and videos to review and more case
studies so we get a better sense of the
training that will be needed and then be
setting that up so know those were some
of our learning lessons um I still like
the program I still want to do it I
think it's worthy still far less
expensive than contractors but it does
come at a separate price and so we're
trying to figure out bandwidth and how
we can manage that um and and to some
degree you know it
wasn't all the entities fault that you
know brought us the teachers from the
Philippines there were problems with
their visas that it happened at the
Consulate in the Philippines and they
had a date that they were going to meet
and all of a sudden they changed their
date and it was months later and so it
allowed a backlog before they could even
get here and have the training that you
had everybody had planned for them right
yes that is true we did have some snapo
with the visas yes I may have a contact
at State Department if we want to kind
of knock on some doors early with the uh
Embassy in
Manila yeah let us know that'd be great
I'll reach out to you about that that'd
be great thank you get them at the door
right
away thank you very much for that report
it was really um helpful to to read
through okay you're
welcome correspondents
I don't think
we
yeah there there was a email uh asking
for more support from payroll uh that I
received and when he on you followed up
on that one so
yeah all good
yeah okay other business suggested items
for the future agendas
that to remind you that we have a study
session next week next week from 6:00 to
8 6 to 8 yeah here here
great I think the boardroom will be
decorated it might be
decorated because there there is a big
Festival going on the next day Evelyn
puts it Evelyn Evelyn and her
crew's charge yeah shout outs to Sarah J
or Amber um Veronica Ramirez we all kind
of gathered to put up a Halloween po
yeah um there's no changes to the board
meeting calendar sorry no changes to the
board meeting not this time um okay do
we have a motion to adjourn I move we
adjourn I'll second all those in favor
thank
you e