okay it's 7 o'clock I think we can go
ahead and get started um we'll reconvene
back to regular session and Evelyn if
you could start us with roll
call trusty Lee
here trusty King is absent trusty
Marquez here vice president Weekley
present president wals
here um so 4.2 report out on the closed
session from today March 26th uh we had
two items we received information and no
action was
taken all right now good evening welcome
to Art March 26 2025 meeting of the
Redwood City School District governing
board
solic Al
DEA again welcome um all members of the
public uh your partners in education and
the board encourages you to participate
and provide comments on issues of
concern regardless of whether they are
on the agenda uh to speak please
complete a speaker card online or if
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them available uh at the entrance and
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Evelyn if you're addressing a subject
listed on the agenda we'll call you uh
when that item is being considered but
if the issue is not on the agenda you'll
be called shortly during the oral
Communications agenda item and then to
be fair to all speakers we do limit
public comments to three minutes per
person per topic unless otherwise noted
with that we're on to changes to the
agenda um does anybody have any changes
modifications perfect then we can move
on to approval of the
agenda I'll make a motion to approve the
agenda seconded all in favor I I great
uh and then now we will move on on to
oral communication did we get any
speakers cards in person perfect these
are
for oral communication and yep oral
communication okay so our first speaker
is uh Jose
taliva then there's yeah the microphones
there the buttons kind of like the
person that and if the red light com
yeah perfect thank you thank you uh good
evening everyone my name is Jose tala
I'm the director of advocacy for Kip
NorCal or Kip Public Schools Northern
California uh we want to thank the
district for clarifying the that keep
excellencia will be included in the
facility master
plan we're grateful for your partnership
and look forward to engaging our school
community in the process of gathering
feedback for improvements needed in our
campus we need to help we will help to
distribute the survey to our families so
they have have a chance to provide their
input we thank you to all of you for
Designing our process that prioritize
the parent uh participation and thank
you for your time we're looking forward
to
collaborate thank you
Jose um our next speaker is I'm not sure
about the first name but it's um Johnson
is the last name yeah sorry sorry I
couldn't see your first
name all right so we're live good
evening trustees superintendent Dr Baker
and staff my name is deas Johnson II and
I serve as the associate director for
external Affairs at rocket ship Public
Schools just wanted to bring you
greetings and salutations from rocket
ship Redwood City um we are super
excited to be partnering with you and
your staff members want to show a
special appreciation to Mr Martin cantz
and Mr Rick Edson for their partnership
at rocket ship Redwood City also wanted
to extend an invite to all of the
trustees as well as to Dr Baker um to
come and tour the school and see some of
the wonderful things that we have going
on at 909 Roosevelt AV um and that is
all that I have for you tonight and I
look forward to your continued
partnership thank you all right thank
you
Demus let me make sure there's none
online that's for an agenda
item okay perfect then we can move on to
school and Community reports we're gonna
have Clifford do their school
presentation for the 2425 school year
yeah
the song yeah
okay okay so thank you my name is
Christy Jackson I'm the principal at
Clifford school I also have um our
assistant principal Casey nooski here
who's going to be presenting with me
this
evening first I'd just like to start
with some appreciation so I'd like to
appreciate the trustees I'd like to
appreciate Dr Baker and the District
administration for having us here
tonight to do our presentation also for
all of your guidance and support and all
that you do for Clifford school I'd also
like to of course appreciate our
teachers and our staff I think you can
tell they are absolutely amazing they're
really a large part of what makes
Clifford such a great place for students
to come to learn and also just a great
place to work every day they're so
passionate they care so much about
students they support each other and
it's just really special and so I really
want to appreciate them so thank you
all I'd also like to recognize our
parent community and our parent
volunteers and our PTO they do so much
to provide enrichment to our students
and make sure that all of our students
um get the programs that they need in
order to be successful and to thrive so
I also want to recognize our parent
Community for all they do for Clifford
school okay Wendy next slide please this
isn't working
okay so you'll see here on the
California school dashboard we're really
proud of the growth that we made um
between last year um to the year
previous um you know last year there
were a lot of new things at Clifford we
became a community school last year we
became a title one school last year and
we had a whole brand new Administration
last year um and so we're really proud
of the progress that all of us on our
team made on the school dashboard uh we
started last year in ATS this year in
atsi um due to the Past uh data on the
dashboard but we're happy to report that
we are now out of atsi so we made a lot
of growth in that in um on the dashboard
in chronic absenteeism we went from red
to Yellow suspension rate we went from
red to Green El progress from red to
Green Ela progress from Orange to Green
um in math we actually went down one
indicator level so that's something that
we're definitely going to be working on
um and you will see that our red
indicators we still have for chronic
absenteeism we have Asian students our
Ela progress our English Learners and
our long-term English Learners and for
math our long-term English Learners so
in working on the cpsa we're making sure
that we are um having a plan in place
for all of these groups to make sure
that our subgroups are making progress
next time around next slide
please okay so for elcap goal number one
we're just going to talk a little bit
about how our multi-tiered systems of
supports help create an inclusive and
supportive environment for all of our
students to learn and to thrive next
slide
please that's okay all right so here uh
you can see for goal number one um our
targets and our rates for chronic
absenteeism um we uh overall in
2324 um we had
19% uh for students that were
chronically absent our Target was 23% so
we're proud that we met that goal for
last school year for this um school year
so far um we're kind of on track but
kind of evening out in that area um we
did make an ambitious goal for this
school year of 16% I don't think we're
going to reach that Target um but we are
doing a lot of work and we're putting a
lot of energy um into helping our
students attend school every day um so
some of our Target groups um were on
track and met their target goal and then
a few groups uh we still need to you
know give a little bit more support um
and we'll be talking more about that
when we go into goal one more next slide
please so you can see over the past two
years we've actually made a lot of um
Improvement in chronic absenteeism um
for last school year and this school
year we're kind of evening out around 20
21% um and so some of the factors that
we feel are contributing to our chronic
absenteeism um some of our families do
still struggle with Transportation being
that Clifford has such a wide attendance
barrier uh not a tenant barrier a um
what's one boundary tenant boundary um
and our students are coming from far
away um we have a lot of some students
who aren't able to come to school this
year because they're medically fragile
or their IEPs don't allow them to um but
we're doing a lot of work this year
around family education making sure
parents understand the importance of
attendance and what happens when
students miss school we're also um
helping them better understand what an
excused versus an unexcused absences
because it seems that there's been some
confusion with that also making sure our
parents are educated on Independent
study we do have several families who
like to take trips during the school
year uh we definitely encourage them not
to do that but if they are going to we
want them working and we want them
getting uh those absence as excuse so
some of those are some of the strategies
we're using in chronic
absenteeism next
slide uh with chronic
absenteeism
oh that's okay
Dolson it's time for your routine
that's
okay all right so I think next slide
please uhhuh so you'll see here from
this graph that several of our student
subgroups are consistently making
progress in chronic absenteeism um our
chronic
absentee absenteeism rate for our
English Learners our students with
disabilities our social economically
disadvantage our Latin X and our
homeless youth are all down as far as
chronic absenteeism rates again um the
groups that we will be focusing on are
our Asian students to are more races and
our white students next slide
please next having to do with
suspensions again we're really proud of
of the progress that we've made with
suspensions um we met our Target last
school year and we are on target to meet
that this school year as well um we
don't have very many SU suspensions and
we only use suspensions as a last resort
uh we do a lot of alternatives to to
suspension we use a lot of restorative
practices um a lot of the time we use
reflection with students we want them to
reflect on their actions and have a
growth mind State and learn learn from
their mistakes um and reteaching of
expectations when necessary so we have a
lot of plans in place and we're doing
really well um in the area of
suspensions next slide please
so you'll see in a comparison from years
past from 20223 we're still making some
good gains as far as lowering our
suspension rate it's about even right
now from last year to to this year this
year so far we just have three out of
school suspensions and three in school
suspensions um and again we only use
suspensions as a last resort um to
establish safety for our students or our
community um but we are doing a lot to
make sure that we are proactive um
providing students with the supports
that they need to not get to that point
next slide
please and again with our student groups
and suspension rates we've seen a
decrease in our students um our students
econ that are economically disadvantaged
our latinx students and our homeless
students we've seen a slight increase
with our English Learners and our white
students um and so again some of these
students fall in the same group so some
of it is um you know applies to more
than one student in the data next slide
please so I've already mentioned some
some of what we're doing already to meet
our goals for goal number one um but I
want to talk a little bit about some
particular things that we're proud of um
as far as attendance is concerned what
we've really improved this year is the
efficiency of our attendance team we
have bi-weekly team meetings that
consist of administration also our
community school coordinator and
assistant that they've been a huge
support to our attendance having a the
fact that we're a community school this
year our office team as well and we've
really stepped it up as far as the
amount of Outreach that we're doing with
our families um whether that be phone
calls visits uh meetings um texts on
WhatsApp um there's been a real um we've
had a real push this year to make sure
that when we see students that are
struggling that we're trying to find out
what those barriers are what's going on
with those families and what can we do
to support them and we've actually you
know been able to help a lot of families
kind of um find ways that they could get
to school more often so we're really
proud of the work that we've done there
um we've also tried to really increase
our fam's understanding of the
importance of attendance and not only
our attendance team but we even have our
teachers our teachers are reaching out
to families letting them know how their
tardies or their um lack of a of
attendance is affecting their learning
um talking with them during conferences
Miss Chilton during uh conferences
attending conferences with uh teachers
to talk to parents about the importance
of School attendance we're also
presenting this to parents at back to
school night in any opportunity that we
have with families that are on our
campus to make sure we address the
importance of good
attendance PBIS is also important in
helping our students reach our goals for
goal number one we do have a very robust
program at uh Clifford for PBIS we have
a yes members of the public may not be
familiar with PBIS yeah PBIS is positive
behavioral interventions and supports
it's a way that we set up a system of
very clear expectations for our students
so that they can be successful in school
so they know exactly where they are in
whatever area of the school that they go
to they know what's expected of them and
it uh you know allows them to be
successful and it uh prevents us from
having to redirect them as much um part
a big part of PBIS is uh acknowledgement
so um having an acknowledgement system
where we very frequently acknowledge um
when they're doing the right thing um we
actually had some visitors come from
opportunity school that did some
observations of our middle school and
they said across the district we had a
very positive rate of um positive
feedback to students versus redirection
um and so they were very impressed with
that and we're very proud of what our
teachers are doing doing in this area um
our PBIS team is attending training now
at the County office and we make it fun
for the kids we have our student store
we use live school and middle school we
have our dolphin dollars which is we've
kind of improved those and made them
more fun this year um and at screen team
we are always discussing students and
we're always trying to figure out what
we can do to support them if they're
struggling in any of these
areas as far as which is social
emotional learning uh we did begin a
character trait program this year every
month we celebrate a different character
trait all month long teachers are um
doing lesson with their lessons with
their students having to do with that
character trait reading them books
showing them videos um doing activities
or doing writing reflecting on how they
can use that character trait we've also
implemented monthly uh dolphin award
assemblies um and at those assemblies we
talk about the character trade of the
month we give out our dolphin awards
every teacher gives a dolphin award to
one of their students based on the
character trade uh we're also started
giving out attendance WS so we have a
little bit of competition competition's
kind of fun right um you know the
different grade level spans that have
the best attendance rate for each month
receives an attendance award and we
present that at the sembly um and also
they get one extra recess and a little
treat so the kids really like that
um and then um for social emotional
learning um you know we have our parents
who volunteer to do project Cornerstone
in every classroom um once a month so
that's Oneal program our Middle School
is still using character strong we're
looking into maybe um expanding that to
the elementary school next year um and
we have a great mental health Team we
have one life counselors and a fabulous
head mental health counselor and a lot
of our students are able to get the
support that they need as far as
enrichment I think this is important
when we're looking at our goals for uh
goal one um because uh these enrichment
programs like music and art and drama
and clubs and after school classes and
sports these are some things that some
of our students are really motivated by
it's what excites them about coming to
school it's what they feel passionate
about it's something that they feel good
about and they feel really interested in
and the fact that we're able to offer
that
to all of our students um is important
because you know other than the learning
that's happening in the classroom every
day school should really provide a
well-rounded environment for them to
thrive um and you can't forget our new
Dungeons and Dragons club which our
librarian is doing this year and that is
pretty awesome so the kids are really
enjoying
that next slide
please you can see in some of these
pictures are just just some of the
things I was talking about we have our
students uh holding up their uh dolphin
Awards TK through 8 they're all super
excited about it um we have had art at
the public library almost every month we
have wonderful parent volunteers for art
and action and they put displays in the
public library for us uh we have Frozen
JR this year some recital for
kindergarten our wonderful kindergarten
teachers plan a recital they're doing
another one in the spring same with our
instrumental music teacher um Miss son
you know all of these things um just
make Clifford kind of a fun engaging
place for our students um and also
something that I wanted to highlight was
uh last month we recognize the character
trait tolerance during Black History
Month and we did have a special speaker
who spoke with our middle school
students about hate speech and the
important of respecting each other at
school and treating each other with
kindness no matter where you come from
or what your background is um and I
think these are just great examples of
all the great work that we're doing to
meet our goals for goal number
one so next I'm going to have Miss
nooski come up um and talk to you about
goal number two Miss noski thank you M
Jackson okay thank you um I want to also
acknowledge my admin partner and Mentor
um we did not plan the inverse post
polka dots but that's just how in sync
we are at Clifford um so I'm going to
talk about goal number two which is
really focusing on our English learner
population and the progress that they're
making on the elpac which is the um
English language proficiency assessment
for California as well as our
reclassification rate with that test and
um our long-term English Learners and
what's going on with that population at
our school
next okay great so um in the calendar
year or the school year of 2324 we did
meet our classification Target of 9% of
our um English L population did
reclassify and this year our Target's
11% and we are feeling optimistic that
we will reach our new Target some of the
reasons for that optimism are that we
had made sure that all our teachers with
their um English language um their ELD
instruction that they are spending one
day a week on practicing for that elpac
exam getting students familiar with what
that looks like getting onto the
computers and understanding the
interface we had some really good
practice sessions that were um provided
to us from the district we're in our
first year of really using language
power the curriculum for our Eld the
instruction with Fidelity and those are
some of the reasons why we feel um
confident about meeting that
reclassification Target for this year
next
slide um another thing that we are
looking at with our data is making sure
that we are making that goal of one
level of growth for every English
learner per year that helps prevent
having those long-term English Learners
so moving from a level one to a level
two to a level three and then to that
level four that reclassification level
and all that second grade did um improve
by one level last year so that's
something definitely to celebrate at our
school next slide
please so this is our long-term English
learner and being a middle school we're
going to have more long-term English
Learners because that requires being
classified as an English learner for
five or more years
and we have taken a lot of different
approaches on how to
help lower that number and to help those
students
reclassify one thing we did this year is
really spoke with our students about the
importance of the elpac test and helping
them understand the reason why they were
taking that how that might impact their
High School career and their options for
classes at that point
um and it was really interesting and
talking to students prior to the testing
that we had take place in February this
year and students as I'm walking in the
hallways and talking to them like I got
it Miss nuski I I'm G to try really
really hard I'm going to do my very best
I'm like that's amazing that's all we
can ask so um I just think helping set
the um mindset for students about the
importance of the test and their role in
truly doing their best with that all
year in the preparation with their um
direct and indirect um
instruction currently we have 19
students who classify as long-term
English Learners with 14 of those being
students with
disabilities so that creates another
situation for our campus as we look at
our long-term English Learners last year
we were able to duly classify some of
our students if they met the parameters
set by the state
however the state changed those rules
this summer and students can no longer
duly classify what is happening now and
that we're focusing on to help meet this
goal of reducing the number of our
long-term English Learners is we are
trying to identify those students with
disabilities and where their disability
might qualify them for an exemption for
one of the subtests so there's reading
speaking writing and listening for
example we have a student in our SLC
classroom and part of their disability
is they have a very severe speech
impediment so because of that they are
hard to understand they're not going to
most likely be able to pass the speaking
portion and therefore may not be able to
reclassify by understanding that this
disability is preventing them from that
reclassification we can exempt them from
that one subtest so this is something
we're working hard with with all of our
Special Education team to identify
students that might fall into these
parameters outlined by the
state this year we currently have 26
students who are at risk of becoming
long-term English Learners with 12 of
those also being students with
disabilities so again this is an area of
working with those students the
importance of the test preparing how it
impacts their High School career
especially our eighth graders this year
and then working on trying to make sure
we're supporting our students in the
right way with possibly having a um
subtest
exemption next slide
please so some of the areas where we are
providing program services and different
actions um our language power program we
had professional development for our
teachers this year with that really
rolling out that program with Fidelity
um we've had really good good response
from our teachers about the professional
development they received about the
program itself to have a curriculum a
curriculum that is leveled by where they
are it's not a one-size fits-all it's
really meeting students where they are
in their process of English language
development um and the students are
enjoying the the books that come with it
the readers they're excited they're
being given this opportunity in a small
group environment to shine as they're
trying to improve those language skills
um we have a a pretty diverse population
at our school and so unlike maybe some
schools some of our classes only have
three four maybe six English Learners in
the classroom and of those students who
are in the classroom they might
represent level one two and three so
that's really challenging for a teacher
on how to meet all those needs of those
English Learners and the other needs of
their diverse population in their
classroom so our teachers are very
creative and they've worked hard to
create groupings um at a lot of our
grade levels to make sure that students
are kind of moving at the same time to
be able to receive specialized
instruction that's really targeting
their level and their needs um in fact
um one of our third grade teachers who
is here tonight was just highlighted in
the superintendent update last week um
um and really showcased um her feelings
about this new program and how excited
she is and the kids are and and how this
new look at how to support our English
Learners at our campus is something to
really celebrate and to help them move
forward in their educational
Journey some other additional supports
that we have for our English Learners
are our reading interventionists as well
as another teacher we're really focusing
on those students in our English learner
population and when they're receiving
that reading intervention they're also
receiving additional ELD support at that
time we have Community programs and um
Outreach this year um Michelle redmund
who is here big shout out to Michelle
Redmon she led a series of three
culturally responsive practices
professional development for our entire
staff and um that also is really well
received some of the ways that we are
using that is for example in our family
center understanding that um that
population doesn't use a lot of email or
even texting the way most of us do and
that's where is um Miss Jackson
mentioned we're using the WhatsApp A
system that they're using because that's
familiar to them how they're connecting
with families in other countries and so
we're using what they're using to reach
out to them and we've had really great
success with that and that's been really
exciting um we the elpac practice
sessions that I talked about um our
community center our teachers they were
sharing this with our families and
family was like we want to be doing some
of this practice at home but we don't
have the technology so we worked
together and we loaned out the
technology for those grade levels that
don't normally take that technology home
to support them with that practice
next slide
please so here are some more pictures
that kind of highlight things that
represent our lcap goal number two we
have our Multicultural night this was
our second year it's a really fun event
that started it's for our entire
community and it's a potluck and people
bring things that represent their own
culture um we have had a couple
different fundraisers through our PTO
that's really supporting our socially
economically disadvantaged
students um for example the gingerbread
run was something new we have some
teachers here who ran in the pouring
rain but all the money and proceeds from
that went directly to our family center
to again help support our families and
the needs that they have um we also had
a movie night sponsor by PTO and all of
those funds went to support our after
school enrichment scholarships because
we we are trying to make sure there are
no barriers no Financial barriers to any
of our students being able to have
access to those enriching after school
activities we have a dolphin Boutique
you can see kids shopping families are
shopping these are gently used clothing
that are clean and people can take what
they want and there's no charge for any
of that um and we have a picture of our
elac meeting our English language um
advisory Council group with our parents
and staff and again we're using that
WhatsApp we've had much better rate of
participation and in talking about
culturally responsive practices with
Michelle redm we've really changed the
format we're starting with an icebreaker
we're getting people moving we're having
members from our own staff as well as
from the diff District staff who are
multilingual Learners themselves speak
about their experience and their
experience in school we're just trying
to connect with our community on a
deeper level to help support and to help
people feel safe to ask for the things
that they need so that we can support
all our students at Clifford and with
that I'll turn it back over to Miss
Jackson thank you Casey uh just really
great the partnership that I've had with
Casey I really appreciate it and that
was great so okay okay goal number three
um for goal number three you know we'll
just be reviewing you know our student
progress and how they're doing with
their progress in ela and math um you
can see some targets that we've set for
ourselves for this school year um we
already know that we've uh I ready since
we just had our spring eye ready that we
um were very are very close we have a
few students still finishing up but very
close to meeting our goal for I ready
and we did meet our goal for math for I
ready for the spring so that's very
exciting um and we're putting all in on
the Casp this year we're doing a lot of
preparation and planning for that so we
are optimistic that we will be able to
meet those targets as well next slide
please so this first slide shows a
yearly comparison of how our students
are performing which students are on or
above grade level in ela on the esack
test um we're kind of steady here uh at
about 50% of our students that are um at
or above grade level on the ELA portion
um so just kind of you know that's is
something that we're going to
continually work on we definitely want
to see a little bit more growth and
rather than staying kind of steady um on
the school dashboard we actually did
move up an indicator in ela um and so
when I asked about that um I found out
next slide please um that that had to do
with how how much closer we are getting
to our students are getting to meeting
standard standard uh so um the 2223
school year we were 5.9 points below
standard um and then last year were 2.6
points so because we made some progress
there the indicator improved on the
school dashboard so that's positive but
we would still like to see more students
that are performing um at or above grade
level um and like I said we have um
increased um Casp practice with students
um we did our fibb the interim
assessment for State testing this year
which has helped our students get a
better understanding um we did a lot of
coaching this year um with TCM teacher
created materials came in and coached
our third to eighth grade team um that
was on ELD but improving English
language development for our students is
going to help our subgroups perform
better on the cast test um and also
another thing that we're continual to
work on is our plc's uh this was
something that we brought back this year
um and we definitely find it very
beneficial and we look forward to doing
more next year um and so I think that's
really helped us with pinpointing
students that are in need in
intervention and finding instructional
grouping and being very um specific when
planning instruction for them next slide
please um as far as student groups
you'll see that there's still some
discrepancies here in the data are um
white students and students of two or
more races are performing much higher
than our um English Learners are social
economically disadvantaged and our
students with disabilities so this is um
a growth area that we definitely want to
continue to focus on um you know for our
students with disabilities this year um
our special ed team is doing much more
um intervention with programs like re
180 and sips um and so we're really
optimistic that those programs will help
improve outcomes for our students with
disabilities in the area of foundational
skills and reading and reading
comprehension um again all the work
we've done with ELD this year um and all
the coaching and observations the
teachers have participated in I think
are going to help improve for some of
these subgroups and also again like
Casey mentioned those culturally
responsive practice trainings um is
helping us work with our students better
um using Universal Design for Learning
and also we have a lot of teachers at
our school who are still using pedagogy
of confidence practices and that's
something that um we might not be doing
as much with anymore but that's
something that's not going to go away
anytime soon because they are very good
strategies and they help our students um
learn um and especially you know in the
area of reading and English language
arts next slide
please this next slide
shows um our student cohorts so they're
the same students over several years
from 3rd to 8th grade um you'll see that
there are some years like third through
four third fourth and fifth where
students are kind of consistently making
the same type of growth um but what we
did notice is that there is a little bit
of a dip when students transition from
fifth grade to sixth grade um and
looking more into that um there are some
contributing factors possibly um the
tests that you receive Casp in sixth
grade in Middle School versus in fifth
grade does have um it is more rigorous
uh it's longer the questions are longer
the students have to have a little bit
more stamina so I think that's a bit
natural and it's in matching with the
state average as far as what happens
from the transition from elementary
school to middle school so I think
that's one of the contributing factors
also um in sixth grade the curriculum is
very different than it is in fifth grade
a much more computer-based students um
in Middle School are asked to be more
independent um and that's sixth grade is
a real transition year for them um
they're learning a lot of things and it
takes time for them to get adjusted um
and I think you can see that in seventh
grade many of our groups kind of start
to even out and kind of increase once
they've kind of gotten their footing
there um but we will continue to take a
look at how we can improve outcomes for
our students moving from fifth to sixth
grade uh we did some vertical alignment
at our last PD uh day and um we'd like
to do a little bit more with the fifth
and sixth grade team so that they can
understand a little bit better how they
can PR prepare their students for that
transition next slide
please as far as I ready reading um in
the fall we notice that the students do
come in um performing um you know quite
a bit below where we want them to be um
I do think the summer is difficult for
many of of our students it is a long
time for them to be out of school um we
don't get too many spaces in summer
school because most of those go to the
Bayside students um so I think our
students could definitely need need some
more support in the summer at Clifford
um so that there isn't so much of a
summer slide um so you'll see like for
the beginning of this school year we had
uh 39% of our students were at or above
grade level um the year before was 41%
the before
34% um you know we definitely want to
look at what students are on or above
but what's really important for us is
growth we want to make sure that we
recognize all of our students are coming
to us at a different level with
different needs and that we need to
celebrate their growth um and so we have
made growth we just took the spring I
ready and most of our results are in um
and we're looking at right now um that
we are about about 54% of students on or
above grade level so we are very close
to meeting our Target of 56% and maybe
by the time all of our students have
been absent finished we will get up
there we'll
see okay next slide
please moving on to math performance
this was on the ESC this was one of
those areas that we actually went down
on the dashboard as far as indicators um
so this is definitely something that we
are um going be focusing on a lot this
year and next year how we can support
our students with math on the Casp test
um and um you know it's not uh if you
look at this chart it actually looks
like 1% more of our students are met or
above standard um but the reason the
reporting was on the dashboard is
because um we didn't move up very many
points from being far away from standard
as the year previous and so we kind of
maintained and so since we did not make
growth and we kind of maintained they
put us down one level um some of the
things that we're doing to support our
students with math this year we hired
Mathnasium to come to our school after
school we're paying uh for Mathnasium
through PTO and through title one uh we
have about 60 students who have been
able to receive uh after school math
intervention with
Mathnasium um they go twice a week we
have two sessions um um and so that's
something we implemented this year to
make sure that those students are
receiving intervention um and we
prioritize you know our wonderful mtss
tosa Stacy chulton she does she does a
lot of work with data and she did a lot
of work with our family center um to
prioritize our unduplicated students and
our English Learners and those subgroups
that are struggling and some of the
students that maybe used to be um you
know uh recommended for interventions we
really made sure that it was Equitable
we really made sure that our students
who needed it who maybe wouldn't have
been able to get that intervention on
their own um that that we prioritize
them so um I think that will definitely
help support our students especially the
subgroups making some progress there um
our students also really like reflex and
frax the new uh math programs for them
to do some practice if you go into a
classroom they're so excited for that uh
it's really fun it's really engaging
which is great you know because a big
part of little kids wanting to do work
is if it's fun and they really enjoy
those programs and they're really
motivated to use them so that's been
successful this year next slide
please as far as our subgroups this is
very uh in alignment with what we're
seeing for ELA as well where um you know
the same groups are struggling we still
have our students with disabilities
social economically disadvantaged our
English Learners and our latinx
populations that are still not
performing um at the same level as their
peers so we will continually be working
on how we can bridge that Gap um and
continue to use some of those strategies
that I just mentioned to do
so next slide
please also similar to the ELA data as
far as um espc math um we're still we're
seeing the same type of thing where 3rd
through 5ifth it's kind of steady kind
of a little bit up and down um but that
dip into sixth grade is really a
struggle still and again um I think it's
just that the test kind of bumps up in
difficulty when they get into Middle
School um but also I don't know if
there's as much um cohesion moving from
5ifth to 6th when it had to do with
curriculums in the past um CPM in middle
school is very different than what were
we were using in the element grades um
now that we have a new Adoption and uh
K8 will be using illustrative math I
think that will help kind of um help our
students transition into Middle School
CPM was a lot of independent work um not
a lot of direct instruction so I think
that was maybe a little bit challenging
for our students transitioning to Middle
School um we are getting ready to talk
to our parents about the cast test we're
getting a lot of information out there
we have a principal's class coffee on
Friday we'll be discussing the cast test
how to prepare some tips for parents
helping them understand when the test is
when it's coming how to prepare their
kids on those days um and a lot of our
teams uh our teachers are starting to
practice with their students strategies
to help them um do well on the test um
you know some students um don't test
well and there's some things that we can
tell them or or help them with to make
to kind of you know um take that barrier
away
next slide
please as far as I ready math um you
know same thing with um reading our
students coming in are not scoring um
very well as far as um being above or or
on grade level um this school year we
had 24% of our students in August and
September when they took the beginning
of the year I ready that were at or
above grade level um that's a little bit
less than the year before and a little
bit more than the year previous um we
just did our spring eye ready and again
we still are waiting for a few results
to come in but as of this morning we
were at
49% um and that was our Target so we
actually met our Target for spring I
ready which was
49% so we're very proud of that good
job so just some other program Services
um and things that we're doing to
support um our students tier one
strategies that's a big push this year
just making sure that we're using the
curriculum to fulfill to Fidelity but
that we're teaching the standards that
we're teaching to the standards we have
a fabulous um teaching uh staff and very
knowledgeable and very willing to share
their ideas that's one thing that's so
special about Clifford is that teachers
are very willing to help each other uh
to help new teachers to help each other
to go into each other's classrooms um
and figure out what's working um again
and the udl and the POC pedagogy of
confidence strategies in tier one
definitely help our students in our
subgroups to be connected and to help
them learn um and you know practicing
the fibb was helpful this year and just
the plc's really allowed us to take a
look at our students look at the data
and make plans for our students and our
teachers found that very beneficial this
year and we're really excited about what
we can do with that next year now that
we've gotten our footing with plc's
again we have a lot of tier 2
interventions to support progress in ela
and math um we have an amazing reading
specialist who not only uh pulls kids uh
but also goes into classrooms and models
and and trains teachers also our mtss
tosa they have gone into classrooms and
shown teachers how to use youly so that
students can increase their foundational
skills we've made kits for all of our
our teachers with youly so that they
have those tools and so when we look at
that data they can go back and they can
pick what specific lessons going to
support those students and I think
that's been extremely helpful for our
tier 2 interventions something also fun
that we're doing in third through fifth
grade is peer teach uh which is an
opportunity for students to take like a
pre-assessment and it scores them and
then they get um partnered up with
another student who's performing well in
that standard and they work together and
their peer tutors um this is also a
program like reflex and fra that the
kids love that's it's really exciting it
makes it really fun and it's really nice
that they have an opportunity to work
with their peers and support in that
way I mentioned a lot of the
professional development that we've done
so far another thing we implemented this
year was common planning time for our K
through five teachers by having all of
their students go to PE together where
in the past they would go on different
days or different times and this allows
our grade level teams to work together
and plan together and has have time to
collaborate in supplemental programs um
again on top of the academics that
they're learning in the classroom a lot
of our students enjoy and need Hands-On
learning and so um we're fortunate to
have our PTO support this um but a lot
of great programs Marine SC Science
Institute comes out and works with our
K5 teachers science for scientists is
coming out at the end of this month to
work uh do a stem day with some of our
our uh students uh we have a lot of
great field trips that we support
through the PTO with scholarships and
transportation through measure youu
really providing those re real world
connections and Hands-On experiences for
our students and we have uh visitors
coming in like big buzz about bees is
coming in in a few weeks and the cow
team everybody lik the
cow we also had a really successful
steam night that our steam TOA Danielle
Shaw planned that was a great turnout
hundreds of families and kids showed up
for steam night in collaboration with
raft and it was great I mean the kids
really uh had a good time they love
maker space they love steam all of our
students get to participate in Steam um
and we even had um projects there that
our middle schoolers had made during
their steam elective for the students to
use during the steam night so that was
great to see them giving back in that
way um so yeah next slide please so
here's just an example of some of those
things a lot of steam projects the kids
love to share those because they're so
fun um we have some pictures of some
field trips like to Westminster Woods um
some writing in kindergarten for Martin
Luther King Jr day um our te carers uh
doing all their movement and fun play
based things um and so all of these
things you know Smiles on kids faces um
this is what really helps these types of
experiences help our kids want to be at
school and want to learn and so we're
really proud and happy that we get to
offer that at Clifford
school so with that that is the end of
our presentation thank you so much for
listening and thank you for having us
thank you Christie and
Casey all right thank you Christie and
Casey for your presentation on Clifford
and thanks to your your teachers and
staff that are here tonight um there's
others online and the students and
family that make up the community it was
great to hear um I'm assuming that
people have questions and comments uh so
I would like to open it up to the
trustees um first off thank you all for
showing up um including staff it's super
helpful to just see the excitement and
the energy that you guys bring I think
it's really important at least for me I
imagine for the trustees uh the dice as
well just to to really get a sense of
where everyone is feeling among the
community like we ask for a lot of data
which I know is you know a lot um but
it's important for us for me to tie the
data to the narratives as well so
obviously the presentation itself is
very very useful um but it's also good
to get a sense of the energy so thank
you all for that just as a starter um I
think I just want to make sure because
for me I I want to just get a sense of
big thing and I think we've mentioned
this before like are we on track are we
not on track just to get a sense of
where we are and I think and I know
we've made a lot of progress over the
different presentations on getting there
but I I think maybe it's most efficient
to give you or to repeat back what I
think I've heard and then you can tell
me where I've missed things if that
works sure okay so I think on on goal
one what I think I saw was that largely
on track across all the different pieces
maybe the one wrinkle is chronic
absenteeism which is a little higher
than we'd like but still fairly good
growth compared to past years and there
are some nuances there that have L led
to complications this year correct
that's fair yes okay um goal two I think
I heard similarly I think that we're we
feel good and things are still happening
but in terms of what we're seeing um
reclassification ltel lpac growth we
feel pretty good about it maybe the one
wrinkle that one is with the ltel piece
and some of the nuances especially with
the population with the students with
disabilities at Clifford that we'll see
how that shakes out but broadly we feel
good about where that is is that fair
yes okay uh then goal three uh I think I
heard starting with math I ready we're
we feel very good about where we are in
terms of the growth that we've seen so
far already and feel pretty good I think
we've met our we've met our Target but I
think there's still room for growth to
totally fair uh and I would I would just
note like I think the LC cap goal is
four percentage points increase from
Spring and if I'm I think what I saw was
that we started at 20 some per and
jumped like basically double more than
double um so that's tremendous growth um
yes totally agree more growth good but
like that's a that's a huge jump so
that's very exciting for me to see yeah
and then Casp obviously we'll you we'll
see how that goes it's one test um I
think speaking for myself again growth
is frankly the more important metric but
we know that it plays into all these
other things um on Ela I I think I'm I
didn't quite catch it do we have a sense
of where that is on the I ready the I
ready for for right now with what we
have we still have a few students
finishing I think we're about 2% from
meeting our goal okay yeah okay so still
like still a lot of growth since the
beginning of the school year but not
quite at our Target yet okay but still
no no big concerns you know goals are
there to be goals and we push for them
but Broadley seems like we're moving in
the right direction so far okay yes and
I passed I imagine same sort sort of
picture yeah um okay cool I mean that's
that's really the big stuff that I
wanted to cover I I will also add like
I'm it was it was so cool to hear about
the S was it peer teach program because
I think it's obviously we have a bunch
of people who are a bunch of students
who are going to be in different
positions uh so it's I always think it's
helpful right it's for students to
practice a different muscle if they're
already pretty far along so like to get
that opportunity that's awesome so I'm
very excited about that as well great so
are we um I think the only two other
questions I had um are the same ones I
always ask and I know you answered it
but I I'd like to put them in public um
just
one what um what what do you think the
the greatest strengths or supports that
you guys have received that have led to
um the growth in students that you've
seen and then the flip side what are the
biggest challenges and ways that you
think that the the district and and the
board could help support yeah I think
becoming a community school was a big
game Cher for Clifford um we have a
great staff we have dedicated teachers
we have very experienced teachers we
have a great program we have a
supportive U parent Community but I
think coming in we realized that our
Spanish-speaking families that some of
our students and some of those subgroups
that weren't making as much progress
that we were missing kind of that
connection um um that families maybe
weren't feeling as comfortable coming to
school or they didn't feel as included
um and there's a lot of supports that we
need working with those families and
becoming a community school has really
helped with that um you know our
community school team attends meetings
with parents and teachers and
conferences they do translation they're
helping make sure students are getting
their basic needs met and if a student
can't get their basic needs met they're
not going to be able to be that
successful in school um so I think the
something that has really helped in
enrich our program and and improve
outcomes for all students is the fact
that we're a part of that Community
School model um and that we're just
trying to collaborate as much as
possible with that team and our teachers
um and our whole team you know the thing
about Clifford is you don't get a lot of
people who say that's not my job or I
don't do that everybody is willing to
help everybody else everybody goes all
in to do what they need to do for
students um and so I feel that the
community school also has helped us make
sure that we can do that um that you
know we can make sure kids are taking
care of and that their parents feel safe
and they feel um welcomed at our school
so that we can um you know provide the
support that they need um as far as
challenges um you know Clifford is a big
school we're TK through 8 we have 10
grade levels we have about 700 kids
we're just a little bit under
700 uh we have 150 students on IEP is
one of the highest in the district we
have a high number of specialized
Learning Centers at our school um and
it's just very diverse right I mean we
have like you
know a lot of everything there so
there's a lot that we have to do there's
a lot of support that's needed um we do
the best that we can we work very very
hard um Casey and I are lucky to have
such a wonderful team to support us um
but we could use more support um I know
that we may not be a Bayside school
because we're not located on the Bayside
school but we have 300 students who are
UND duplicated uh that's almost the size
of one of our schools on the Bay Side so
um I just think um Clifford could by be
prioritized more as far as maybe funding
or access to things like summer school
or things like that or additional
support services having a school with
all of those needs requires a lot of
management we have 80 staff members on
our site so I just think when we're
looking at all the schools and taking a
look at um what makes up those schools
that we just make sure that every school
is getting the needed level of
support yeah that's that's really
helpful and totally heard on uh the
diversity of population I personally
think it's helpful to get out just the
district as a whole represents a wide
variety of of students and schools of
population so it's um it's really
helpful just to hear from each school
and representatives you know what what
they value and what's super important so
that that's really all I have but really
appreciate um everyone showing up for
this thank you
so again thank you to everyone I love
the dolphin and the energy that you got
that you brought to this room um it's
really nice to to see all of you here
um for I didn't really write it in in um
order but when we talk about parent
engagement um I do appreciate the fact
that you guys are using the WhatsApp um
to communicate with uh the parents um I
love seeing the picture I figure that
was um elac and so that was I think like
10 or 11 parents so that's great to get
um parents involved um I appreciate the
fact that you guys are making it a point
to talk to students about the elpac and
how it would affect or can affect them
in high school and I'm just wondering
with that if are you talking students in
general or uh middle school
students so again um most of the
students who are in that LEL category
are Middle School students and um uh
that's where I spend a lot of my time is
up in Middle School the way our campus
is we kind of have um two levels and so
I'm sort of up there for um a good
portion of my time when I'm working at
Clifford and so those conversations are
really one-on-one they're formal they're
informal they're frequent just keeping
it sort of front of mind for those
students of what it means I think some
students kind of thought of it more
almost like oh it's like I ready and for
some students it's like okay let me go
through that and again our teachers are
really trying to tell the students the
significance of I ready and this is a
good measure for us it's a way to really
celebrate you we have so many students
and their stretch growth on I ready has
just been amazing from the fall to the
spring and so helping to understand just
exactly what this is what is this test
that we're asking you to do why are you
in that situ situation what is within
your own power to make a change that you
have some control and agency over and so
that's kind of the purpose of those
conversations and they've been ongoing
throughout the year to support those
students and we're hopeful that those
students are able to reclassify this
year and not all of them are um
long-term English Learners I mean we
were kind of having those conversations
with most of our middle schoolers um
regarding the OPAC okay great thank
you um and then another thing um when
you guys talked about uh the attendance
Awards I guess came back I don't know
for how long they were gone I'm just
wondering if for the attendance awards
are you guys giving awards to like those
with let's just say excellent attendance
or are you also taking into
consideration that there may be kids
that are sick and that is why they're
not at school and so I just wanted to
see yeah when we talked about doing I
don't know about the past this is our
second year at Clifford um but we know
that we wanted to make sure that kids
understood the importance of attendance
um we didn't want to recognize
particular students for 100% attendance
or something like that because not all
the time is it up to the kids whether
they come to school or not some of it is
their parents right um the attendance
award um goes to classes that have the
best attendance rate for that month we
do different classes we're not having
the same class we try to spread the
wealth on that um it's more just to so
it's in students Minds The Importance of
Being at school we do have students who
are school avoidant we are having more
and more kids that do not want to come
to school for anxiety or one reason or
the other we're seeing an uptick of that
um and you know sometimes kids are
telling parents I don't want to go to
school I just want to lay in bed today
and we we need to make sure that they
know that that's not okay that unless
you're sick and we tell them that if
you're really sick please stay home but
we want to try to be at school as much
as possible because you could you could
miss something that's very important um
so we're trying not to make it a high
pressure situation where students are
feeling bad about themselves or anything
like that we're just trying to bring
attention to it and get the kids excited
about having an incentive to come to
school and come to school as much as
they can did that answer your question
yes thank
you um and then the matth
I know I wasn't going to pronounce it
correctly Mathnasium tutoring yeah um
did you say that just started was it
this year or just recently we started
that this year um previous year we had
uh an advanced math teacher who did
part-time math intervention we didn't
have that this year this year we just
had our part-time advanced math teacher
so we really didn't have a plan in place
other than what was in the classroom for
math intervention um and so we were
brainstorming Solutions and taking a
look at our funding with our School site
Council last school year we um
Mathnasium we connected to Mathnasium
because I think the owner go to our
school and so they had reached out said
is this something you're interested in
and so we took a look at what we could
provide and we were able to do that with
our budget we had a budget where we were
able to have uh two 10-week sessions
with 30 kids in each session where they
got two hours of math intervention a
week um and so that was something that
was really great for us to be able to
offer um we at this point in time we do
not have the funding because of the
budget cuts to do that next year um what
we have said is that we're going to take
a look at our carryover for next year
and if we're in a good place with our
carryover in our measure U and some of
our other funding areas I'm not sure the
PTO will be able to help but if we have
that available to us uh we've told them
that we would love to have them back if
we can find a way to do it and and to
add on to that a little bit you know we
are data driven as well and so we have
to look at did this impact our data and
so we don't have those results either as
we're as we're making those decisions
looking forward and so that was another
reason to not include in the sipa at
this time to make sure that the choices
we're making with the money we're
spending is impactful and meeting the
needs and allowing for that growth that
we're shooting for given the data that's
being presented to us from our different
um assessments yeah we didn't have our I
ready math results at the time that we
had to make those funding decisions and
so the School site Council just didn't
feel comfortable at that point moving
forward with the program that we weren't
able to see that the data is really
showing that it's beneficial great that
was going to be my next question so I
appreciate that and again thank you that
was it for me thank you thank you
lovely to see you again as well so it
was great that we got a chance to spend
time together last week um talking about
the school so that was that was great
and didn't have to miss me long um on on
Mathnasium do we have like a date by
which we will know confidently about the
effect of that intervention and can make
decisions about this is a thing that we
generally want to see if we can fund or
not well now that we're getting our I
ready data in um yeah we can take a look
at the student that were in the program
and the Mathnasium program I think it
still has a few weeks left um and yeah
we can take a look to see how those
students performed Mathnasium does a
pre-assessment and a postassessment um
which is great but we would also like to
see how our data is showing so um that's
definitely something that we can look at
this year I don't know if funding will
become available but it's definitely
something that we can see to see if it
was effective right because that has
implications Beyond just your school
right if this is something that works
generally it's something we should look
at rolling out more generally across the
district um just so we have some idea of
cost like how much was it uh Mathnasium
I think was about
$28,000 um and like I said we were able
to do 60 students um they had a 10 week
session so it was 30 the first session
and uh 30 the next session um and um
they go twice a week for one hour after
school um and so it's 15 in each session
because we have a 3:00 to 4:00 session a
four to five session and we were
actually really helpful with our uh
Community School team and Miss Chilton
to see what students attend pal what
students attend NKC so that we could
make sure that they were at school to
get there for that intervention the one
thing about after school is um it's a
free service provided to parents so
sometimes it would be like Oh I'm not
going to go today I'm going to go to my
friend's house and it's like no you need
to go this or we have soccer practice
and we're like okay so if you're in
soccer maybe this isn't the right
intervention so we learned some things
and I think we if we are able to do it
again next year I think we could improve
it a lot great um I for one would be
very interested when you have confident
data um to have you uh report back that
you know email or something just so we
can know and and discuss it um cool
thank you so much
um so uh couple different quick
shoutouts uh peer tutoring yay um that's
definitely a thing of mine focusing on
growth absolutely 100% uh what'sapp for
communications I think that was
fantastic uh doing tutoring
interventions like Mathnasium you know
going back to uh pedological research
like blooms 2 Sigma problem fantastic
and using metacognitive approach with
your long-term English language Learners
those are all like you know pet themes
of mine and so it's just wonderful to
see those play out at your school uh I
have an edgy question for you if summer
break were we don't do Stripes if summer
break were shorter do you think students
would experience less learning
loss yes um I come from uh when I first
started teaching I worked at a title one
school that was predominantly English
Learners uh and we had year round school
uh we had a five-week summer and we had
um more breaks during the school year um
and we did feel that there was less uh
learning loss over the summer when
students weren't away for so long we can
provide them with tools and resources
and books and workbooks and say do this
um but some of our families don't have
the opportunity or the time or the means
to devote to making sure their students
are keeping up over the summer so I
think yes if there was a shorter I think
we would be in a little bit better of a
place thank
you all right thank you again for your
presentation uh really appreciate
hearing about it looking forward to
coming out and seeing Clifford Clifford
soon um yeah couple
days um I'm super I'm super glad to hear
about the um impact that the community
schools are having I was really glad we
were able to uh expand that program to
more schools I'm glad that Clifford was
the benefit of one and hearing about
that um and also just how it's targeting
families that you know um could could
use the extra help because we see it in
the math and English data that you know
different demographics are not seeing
the same amount of achievement there so
I was really heartened by the sort of
Equitable approach that you were taking
towards applying some of the
interventions and hearing about that
here it takes a lot of work you know it
takes a lot of work and a lot of focus
and a lot of determination and uh I just
appreciated you talking about it tonight
and and sharing that work um I'll give
it to Dr Baker you
mark well Christin Casey thanks so much
and the great team that's sitting with
you thank you awesome for
coming uh the information uh that you
shared tonight is valuable information
i' would like you to take some time to
think of when we have the principal's
meetings not the one where we're giving
information and providing PD but when
it's a principal meeting for yourself to
go ahead and share some of these
different types of activities that you
and your staff are definitely
implementing that are showing that it's
making a change for the good so I want
you to think about that and all you have
to do is uh when we set the agenda plug
it in there that in how many minutes you
want because some of the items that you
mentioned this evening
were would be helpful for your
colleagues also um the other piece that
I felt really positive about was
definitely but community school and
coming you know kind of a full circle
little bumpy road starting at the first
but wow where has where it is right now
compared to where you started kudos to
both of you and to the staff for leading
the charge on that I really appreciate
that the other piece is um I will check
and see what I can do with the summer
school I know that I'm not sure if the
letters have gone out yet or not I know
Michelle Ramon is in the back she
shaking her
head okay perfect um so we were inviting
fam so we need to check with Clifford to
see if these are the families that you
definitely feel need to come um uh we
want to make sure that they do get there
there is transportation to get to the
program so I will check in with Anna
when she comes back uh next week she's
at cab conference with some of your
colleagues right now and so we'll do
that thank you um the other piece is the
um Alpa practice test great job I know
we not we but I should say we all of us
along with Katherine really pushed that
because we figure that children need to
understand what's they're being asked to
do on that test and the same with the
Casp test whether you're using the FI
ABS or whether you're using some of the
um practice tests that the CP is giving
you because I was in a classroom about
two weeks ago and one of the fourth
grade teachers she put one of the
practice test from the cast up on the
screen and she they just the kids just
pour it apart so they could really
understand what it was asking them to do
because some of those words if you're if
you have been you've already AR feeed
but you still have some discomfort with
some of the language still which is
noticeable and we do all experience that
myself um it was a a way in which she
taught the kids you look at these Circle
the words that you really are having
difficulty understanding and now let's
look at the rest of the sentence and see
if we can figure out what that word is
really asking you to do and so um you
doing that along with the staff I'm
looking at Shannon and I'm sure she is
uh probably doing a really great job
just like the teacher that I that I
viewed uh a couple weeks ago but thank
you for bringing that forward because
it's really important because all of us
when we've gone to graduate school heck
I went and took a a class on you know
the gr the alisat when I did it and
because you want to know what you're
going to be asked and do you TR truly
comprehend so um thank you for all the
work you're doing appreciate it and um
Casey great job with that middle school
I know it has not been
easy uh but you you you have hung in
there and worked with them and made some
changes so I applaud you for that thank
you so much and Christy thank you so
much for your leadership thank you and
group yay
all right we're gonna move on with our
agenda um the next is our consent agenda
U we'll pass it all with one vote so if
I can get a motion to I move we approve
our consent
items second all right all in favor I
all right um
perfect thank you again Clifford
Dolphins yes appreciate it
while you're exiting we'll move on to
our next item uh which is 11.1 it's the
public hearing and Adoption of
resolution number 21 this is approving
the petition for renewal of the charter
uh for connect Community Charter
School Rick I think you're going to
start um
okay we're
connect in the audience we'll ask for
comments in a moment we also have
William sh from dwk our Regal council is
here as well to answer any questions
that we goe and get
started can school submitted a petition
to the district seeking renewal of its
Charter for a five-year term from July 1
2025 through June 30th
2030 a public hearing regarding the
renewal petition was held on January 15%
to the Education Code renewal petition
process at which time the board
considered the level of support for the
renewal petition by teachers staff and
employees uh as well as parents and
Guardians as part of its comprehensive
review of connects renewal petition
District staff and consultation with
legal counsel identified multiple items
where clarification Andor revisions to
the petition were
needed connect worked cooperatively with
with District to provide clarification
and Implement revisions to the renewal
petition to address the identified items
the revised petition reflecting those
revisions uh was attached uh to the
agenda item uh for full
review uh for uh Charter renewals uh
they're grouped uh into three categories
uh depending on academic performance
High
performing uh that can uh the charge Cod
can be provided with a renewal term of 5
to seven years a well performing charter
school with a remle term of maximum of 5
years or a low performing uh charter
school with a maximum renewal term of
two
years uh connect uh charter school has
been designated by the California
Department of Education as a middle
performing Charter School pursuant to
Education Code sections
47607 and
47607
do2 middle performing Charter School
renewals cannot be denied based on
academic performance unless the
authorizer can make findings of fact
that the charter school has failed to
meet or make sufficient progress towards
meeting standards that provide a benefit
to the pupils of the school and that
closure of the charter school is in the
best interest of
students staff considered connects
performance on schoolwide basis and
among all subgroups served by the
charter school as identified on the
California dashboard as and determined
that Charter School meets the minimum
eligibility requirements for Renewal as
a middle performing Charter School
therefore District staff recommends that
the board approve the renewal of connect
Charter uh as has been revised for a new
five-year
term uh the district will be working uh
with connect on the updated oversight
and obligations memorandum of
understanding outlining the party's
respective fiscal and administrative
responsibilities and legal relationship
ship regarding connects operations the
mou term will term will align with the
renewal term and will be brought to the
board for ratification at a future
meeting um representatives from uh
connect Charter School are present uh
and wish to address the board regarding
the renewal petition uh they'll give it
a few minutes to speak haly if you'd
like to come up and
speak right hi all right um I just had
very short remarks and I wrote them down
so I'll forgive me for a reading I U I
just want to say good evening and thank
you for your time and consideration of
our Charter I am really appreciative of
our ongoing partnership I've been
involved with connect since the
beginning and I am so dedicated to
connect uh to its Mi vision and Mission
but our school would not be uh thriving
as it is without the efforts and
commitment of everyone so I wanted to
also thank my staff and teacher and
parents and graduates Community all our
partners including the district um it is
truly the culmination of my long career
in education to be able to lead this
phenomenal staff um I have such a
committed team of professionals they're
dedicated to high expectations and
successful successful outcomes for our
students uh and I really believe in the
future of connect while we still have
growth to make in bringing everyone up
to grade level I see tremendous progress
in our students not just academically
but in their confidence in their
engagement and in their curiosity so
it's been really a treat to see the
growth we've made the over the last
couple of years I'm excited to imagine a
future of continuing our work at connect
and look forward to Growing our
partnership with the district to ensure
positive outcomes for all of our
students so thank you very much and if
have any questions for me I hopefully
can
answer all right so I think now we'll
start open the public hearing okay
perfect then um so we're doing this in
two parts right we'll have a public
hearing we'll hear public comment as it
comes in when that's done then we can
have our discussion if there's anything
discuss so I open the public hearing on
this um adoption of resolution number 21
approving the petition of renewal of the
charter for connect Community Charter
School and it is 8:22
I don't think any in speaker cards for
this evening we weren't sure what to
expect that's fine we got to hear a lot
the last time at our 15th one so if
there's no more public comment then I
will close the public hearing at
approximately
23 thank you thank you um okay so now
that it's closed uh trustees do you have
any um comments or questions uh for
Haley for Rick for anyone on this I've
just been very impressed by the
cooperation between connect and the
district I've been over a couple times
and um I think we've got a lot to learn
from each other so
yeah questions
comments um I keep on doing what you're
doing um I appreciate again the
collaboration and your efforts to come
in and you know present to us even not
just for the petition but um our prior
um board meeting so thank
you I was gonna save this for a
different section but uh I I visited I
had the opportunity to visit connect uh
last week um so that was very helpful
for me to see and I appreciate you
taking the time to show me around is
yeah I think consistent with what I've
heard here which is is really helpful to
to see all the work and the community
that you've built there uh and the
engagement that all the students and
staff had so thank you
no further questions
comments uh thank you um you know I
think we're uh um seems like this should
go forward so uh does anyone have want
to make a motion it's an action
item I would like to move that we
approve this
Charter resolution 21 yeah resolution
yep sure one second okay all in favor I
I all right thank you
absolutely all right um now we're on to
11.2 which is the approval for the
purchase and installation of the new
comi ovens and bracing pans for the CNS
program um I believe that uh Richie has
a presentation and we do have one
speaker for this so we'll take it after
the
presentation is Richie Willam our
director of CMS
to give an overview on thech of
equipment for each of our School site
Kit Hello board and cabinet thank you
for your
time next slide please so what this
project is that that we're bringing
together is the introduction of new
equipment into our kitchens um as a
rough idea those pictures on the right
show different types of cooking vessels
and techniques and things the purchase
of the new equipment using our kit funds
which stand for kitchen infrastructure
and training funds will um accommodate
all of those different cooking
techniques in a much smaller footprint
so as we're not looking or able to knock
down walls and things we're able to do a
lot more with a limited
space next slide
please um the overview of the equipment
is the brand of the comi ovens are
called convo THM they're manufactured in
Germany um they're very high uh product
it and very industrial grade equipment
with a very solid reputation and when
you break down a combination oven it's
the ability to use it as a steamer so we
can use that for steaming rice
vegetables keeping vital nutrients and
and minerals in in the food itself we
can use it as a convection oven to do
our baking and things or a combination
of both which creates a a really kind of
magical environment where you can
introduce Steam while roasting chicken
and things to keep proteins really nice
the IV vario brazing pans are
multi-functional pans and we currently
don't have any large format areas where
we can make soups or sauces or even
boiled pasta for that matter um it has a
very precise control so that you can
heat up like creams and things without
scalding or burning them it also has a
drain built in so that for safety
reasons our staff won't be lifting heavy
pots and pans when it comes to cooking
pasta next slide please
um the features of the comi ovens as I
mentioned are steaming ideal for
vegetables rice we can even use it to
steam fresh eggs and things in the
morning again it's a very delicate and
neutral way to cook food so that the
food tastes exactly how you'd like it to
taste convection baking is perfect for
anything you could imagine um using the
fan speed to um have a really like
powerful cooking environment but also
you can dial down the fan if you want to
create like a more gentle environment
and then combination cooking as I
mentioned allows for both Steam and
convection so that enhances the cooking
efficiency and the quality of the
product overall it keeps the Integrity
of the food and that means juicy chicken
and proteins and bright and flavorful
vegetables next slide
please um features of the IV vario
brazing pans are the ability now we can
use them as a flat top um I have an
amazing pancake recipe we can now use
that to make old grain pancakes for for
breakfast we can now sear grilled cheese
sear chicken breast things like that um
boiling as I mentioned for boiling pasta
and other ingredients and there's also
an auto lift feature that safely lifts
out the basket so that again the staff's
not lifting heavy pots and pans soup
preparation we can it's perfect for
making soups and stews and things too
depending on the season or time of year
it just screams versatility of what
we're going to be able to put on our
menus Precision is fully programmable uh
it's incredibly accurate and precise so
it's also very safe when we're cooking
certain foods to certain temperatures to
make sure that they're heated and cooked
thoroughly and properly and then served
really well um safety as I mentioned you
know with the the usability it's really
designed for the person that's using it
in mind and then training and support
which is a huge component of going with
these Brands is there's local support
that is is ongoing and I've used this
with some of our other vendors that we
Ted talk about we need them to be an
extension of our program what we're
doing is massive feeding you know
potentially 6 6,500 plus students so
anyone that we want to work with or
partner with needs to be an extension of
us and offer that training and support
next slide
please um enhancements in kitchen
technology so this is a massive upgrade
for the school district but believe it
or not this technology has been around
for over 50 years introducing Steam and
while cooking um super popular in Europe
but this is the way now with the
Precision and the controllability it's
going to make a really big difference in
our program and the
food next slide
please um safety improvements as I
touched on earlier the better
installation on the equipment with the
old equipment we have the outside gets
really hot um you know staff's not
careful and in some of our kitchens that
are small even bumping into one of those
could result in a burn with the
technology and the the manufacturing of
this equipment even at 500 degrees you
can put your bare hand on the outside of
the equipment um Advanced programming
think of it just as your smartphone um
you know there will be probably a little
learning curve I don't want to say it's
easy because it's new and but it it does
allow for that precision and
programmability that you want to see
another really good perk that probably
the team will appreciate the most is the
self cleaning feature so to be able to
cook food really well and not have
flavor transfer and have a better cook
environment it's nice to have a clean
clean piece of equipment to work with
and the chemicals are very safe um they
actually neutralize one another and
become a nert when they go into the
drain so they're safe for the
environment as well next slide
please um Financial overview of this
project is um it's a it's a large dollar
amount but it's a small part of our
program um I want to emphasize that this
is also to support our staff the ones
that are in the the field in the
nitty-gritty every day doing the work
the total cost including the purchase of
the equipment and installation is uh
$1,412 18352 cents this will be um all
funded through our kit funds the funds
need to be encumbered by the end of the
school year and um this was a great
opportunity and very much needed for our
program new resources as I also
mentioned are the training service and
Technical questions um again referencing
the extension of our program program
this is now building our Network and we
also have um training resources from
other school districts that um currently
use the same equipment that will come in
and they're part of the the included in
the package and being a part of this
brand that will work with our team
directly to make sure that they're fully
com comfortable using the
equipment thank you outstanding thank
you um we do have one speaker on this on
zoom and so at this time I'll call
Jessica shade
hey
everyone can you all hear me yeah go
ahead great okay I am really excited
about these comi ovens um it seems like
they're going to offer a lot of
Versatility for our kitchens that are in
dire need of updates and support for our
fantastic hardworking kitchen staff
I also know that Richie has been
applying for Grants to support our
kitchen infrastructure Improvement like
these kit funds and I just want to say
how much I appreciate that um I was on
the facilities master plan meeting
yesterday and there was a comment about
if we could leverage um grants to
increase measure s funds impact and I
think this is a great example of how
Richie's been thinking strategically
about how to piece together funds to
start filling the many needs of our
district kitchens so thanks Richie for
getting creative to support our
students all right thanks Jessica um
does anyone have questions or comments
for for
Richie thank you um I appreciate your
leaders leadership and um just as
Jessica I figure a lot of other parents
are going to be very excited um to see
this moving forward if we agree on this
tonight um I really appreciate the fact
that you're thinking of obviously the
employees not to lift and the um
equipment to help with the cleaning of
the equipment so I really appreciate it
so that was my only
comment it's expensive but it also seems
pretty thoughtfully considered also now
I'm hungry thank
you yeah this is great um and thank you
for answering my question offline I was
I had asked about what the participation
uptake has been happened since we
started self toop and you said it was
about 10% increase in participation and
I imagine that even improving the
equipment and the quality of the food is
really GNA um continue to see that grow
so that that's really exciting I mean it
just seems like this is a smart upgrade
um you know it's really student focused
investment it's for the safety and
sustainability for the staff the you
know the hardworking CNS staff and it
doesn't touch the general fund so bonus
um I think that's you know but that's
really important um and I'm really you
know I definitely want to acknowledge
just the whole transparency in the
vendor selection in the board member
that you put together and the process
there um you know that level of
diligence it just really helps maintain
Community Trust um here I thought it was
done very well you've done it really
well on some of the other ones where you
have the rubric for picking our food
vendors um and so I just want to
acknowledge that that diligence
um and because it's you know again wins
for student health but wins for fiscal
responsibility too uh it's it's nice to
have that double win um and that's it uh
I think uh did you have any questions
okay just thank you thank you so much
Richie and then for your efforts of also
when we had the Spanish superintendent
advisory meeting you brought in some
breakfast food and talk to them about
nutrition and so forth and this is what
we're serving our kids now so I applaud
you thank you you cool you this is an
action item so uh I need a motion to
approve I move that we approve the
purchase and installation of the ovens
and brazing pants for the program
seconded all in favor I I great thanks
thank you very
much now we're on to 11.3 this is the
approval of the 2425 second interm
budget report how about Rick
good evening uh board members committee
members and those in the audience still
uh it's red can you hear
me
yeah something's
happening uh good evening again uh
tonight uh as part of our regularly
scheduled annual reports is the
presentation of the second intrum budget
presentation for Redwood City School
District uh and as always we'll go
through a couple of routine slides uh
for everyone uh viewing from home uh to
be caught up as well tonight circled in
green is our second interim report which
on this slide shows it's the seventh
step in the annual process uh for the
budget uh we'll quickly transition now
into budget development lcap development
uh waiting for the Governor's May
revision to see if there's any impacts
to Redwood City Schools uh and then
present both the lcap and the budget for
the public hearing uh and subsequent
adoption in
June uh Education Code
42130 requires uh semiannual reports uh
to the board uh ultimately being sent to
the county office and to the CDE uh for
the first inum which covers
uh fiscal year expenditures July 1
through October 31 uh second interim
report which is July 1 through January
31 and at each of these two reports uh
the first interum and second
interim uh the district self- certifies
is either positive qualified or
negative uh and on the next slide is a
brief overview of each of those
certifications once again the queen
check mark uh gives away the ending of
this present ation uh but we will be
certifying as positive for our second
interum report upon approval tonight uh
simply meaning uh that we feel that we
can meet our financial obligations in
the current fiscal year and our two
subsequent years uh qualified means we
may not be able to and negative would
mean that we uh feel that we will not be
able to meet them uh so at this point in
time of the 2425 fiscal year uh we are
certifying positive uh stating that we
will will meet our finan Cal
obligations uh as we dive into some
numbers for the second intrum uh these
are the budget assumptions that we used
at second inum and they have been
updated slightly uh with any new
information that we have uh from first
intrum uh that goes
into uh primarily the lcff calculator uh
for the current year uh and then taking
into account our two out years in the
multi-year projection uh with the
Associated increases based on the
percentages shown in the
table going into fund one uh is also
commonly referred to as our general fund
it is our general operating fund for the
school district uh as of second inim you
can see we increased by about $930,000
of anticipated Revenue over first inum
uh primarily due to uh our Charter
School enrollment and their projected
enrollment over the course of the years
uh finalizing our what we believe to be
our uh finalization of property taxes um
and then some small other uh revenues
that came in uh during that time period
if we look at uh the breakdown of
Revenue by category uh you can see by
percentage where the majority uh or any
of our money comes from for those
Revenue
sources uh with about 57% coming from uh
the base fund which is uh funded by our
local property taxes
here's a uh graph
representation uh showing the breakdown
by
percentage and for those watching I
tilted the table this just to be a
little more creative wondered if you
caught
[Laughter]
that I probably won't use it next time
but I wanted to try it this time
uh uh on this slide we're shelling our
expenditures is
updated uh from adopted budget through
first inum through second inum uh and
you here you can see about a $3.7
million increase in expenditures
primarily related to service services
and operating expenses uh with an
increase of 3. 591
million uh and that's primarily due to
uh the encumbrance or expenditure of
restricted funds uh that we had already
received revenue for previously uh but
hadn't committed to any project service
or person until this point uh there was
also some large expenditures for uh
insurance for
ab218 um the law that uh for sexual
abuse and
molestation uh that was reintroduced or
extended several years back uh that we
still paying premiums on for uh cases
that may happen uh and then we also had
a large in not increase but our annual
bill for legal expenses came into from
the count
uh that contributed to that
increase so here is a breakdown of
expenditures um by
percentage uh and if uh you add up the
top three which will be on the next
slide as well uh roughly 76% of our
expenditures are for classified
certificated salaries uh and the
associated benefits for both of those
employee
groups here's a breakdown of
expenditures color color coded to the
legend on the right showing what
generally makes up those
categories uh and as I mentioned about
76% of our expenditures are for
personnel or Personnel related
cost here is the snapshot showing our
inputs from revenue and our outputs for
expenditures uh signifying our $15.1
million operating budget uh for the 2425
school year
this slide is really the legend for the
next slide uh and uh I know becoming
familiar to the board as we're showing
this on every presentation now uh these
are uh the general types of expenditures
by color category uh and broken into a
little bit uh a little different uh
methodology than on the previous slide
where we're actually trying to group uh
some of the key components such as
teacher and classroom support salaries
that would include both classified and
certificated
um uh employees who work directly with
students uh in the classroom uh and then
broken down by the other groups uh as
shown on the slide bringing that to this
slide that calling out just expenditures
now uh breaking down those expenditures
uh by those groups on the previous slide
and then we do break out uh the bottom
one for what are considered are 5000s
are contracted in other operating
services in between uh Services provided
to students or on behalf of students
compared to the amount of money that's
there for turning on the lights and
paying the normal bills such as uh trash
or even some legal fees uh and other
contracts that that keep the district
operating but not
necessarily uh with students on a daily
basis but because of students we need
those
Services looking at the components of
the ending fund balance uh you can see
with the updated second intrum uh we
have decreased our enging fund by about
$2.7 million primarily because of the
increase that we showed on the uh
contracted Services uh in the 5000
series on
expenditures uh but still with that and
our starting balance uh still being able
to certify as positive and still being
able to meet our minimum requirement uh
minimum reserve for economic
uncertainty going into the multi-year
projections uh this shows our current
year 2425 and the two out years that
were required to report on U this is a
uh I'll call it the uh small version of
the MIP where we have combined
unrestricted and restricted revenues uh
into a single column uh on the board
agenda item there is the long form
multi-year projection as well that you
can look at if you can want to see the
difference between restricted and
unrestricted on this though it shows uh
the numbers that we talked about for
2425 and then the projections
based on the best information we have at
this time and the assumptions that we
showed at the beginning of the
presentation uh the components of the
ending fund balance on the myp show that
in each of our years the current year
plus two out years we are able to meet
the uh minimum reserve for economic
uncertainty of
3% uh thus being able to certify
positive at second
interim on slide 18 these are our
projected unding fund balances for our
other funds that we routinely report on
to the board fund 12 13 14 21 25 35 and
40 uh you will see you know fun 21 uh
there's going to be a big difference
this year as projects start going uh
We've encumbered uh millions of dollars
to date uh with expenditures to
follow uh especially with the HVAC
projects that are uh we're finalizing
bidding this week on those as well as
the lighting projects that's slated to
kick off over spring break so just a
week and a half away and the project
will start uh the county facilities fund
um fund 35 with the minus 13 million
that's also for solar uh for our schools
uh with a kickoff on that anticipated
in um late August or September for
construction to begin on that uh so
we're seeing some movement in those
other funds now that we haven't seen for
a while because projects are starting to
roll uh with our major s General
obligation Bond and also the conclusion
of our major T General obligation Bond
uh another thing I'll point out and
Richie's already left our cafeteria fund
is using a lot more money these days as
they've depleted some of their
Reserve um as we're making that change
to um scratch cooking or modified
scratch cooking or light scratch cooking
uh as the board has approved I think
seven food contracts now six or seven
food contracts where we're bringing in
we're sourcing our own food now uh so we
are going to see some increase in cost
but we're also going to see a decrease
in Maring quit fees Etc where uh we're
still projecting uh CNS to be a fully
self-funded uh program as well uh and
not uh as president well said uh there's
no money coming from the general fund to
support the CNS program
uh and to that point with the increase
of 10% routine looking at that uh on at
least a monthly basis looking at
year-over-year participation and uh
asking questions about how we can make
that number go even higher uh we have
high participation at some sites low
participation at other sites um and when
you uh average it all out you know we're
only at about 50 or 52% of the students
districtwide are utilizing the food
program progr uh so we're doing quite
well fiscally with what's happening now
with participation but we have a lot of
room that we can grow and Investments
like the one we made tonight will
certainly help that uh with uh different
kinds of foods and higher quality foods
as well so maybe a bit more of an update
on fun 13 than we've given in the past
but I wanted to take the opportunity and
give a lot of credit to Richie for what
he's doing with that
program so as we go through this areas
to monitor we're still in active negot
iations with both rcta and
cfca uh state and federal budgets uh as
well as funding uncertainty that is been
a topic of discussion uh in many
different rooms of what's going to
happen and what could happen What might
happen what's not likely to happen uh of
course we have Rising costs and
liabilities on an annual basis uh still
uh as we do every year closely
monitoring enrollment and making sure we
have the appropriate Staffing uh for the
amount of students we have and the
amount of students we need to serve in
different ways uh and then ensuring our
facility and operational needs are met
uh on a continual basis and since Martin
s I'll gave a lot of credit to Martin
for the work that he's doing with the
facilities and M team uh and utilizing
the funds that they have to make the
facilities our sites better uh on a
daily
basis uh next steps I've kind of gone
over these uh in brief through the time
period negotiations are continuing uh
budget and cap development uh has
already started uh we also have the um
great opportunity this year along with
our friends in HR department to
implement a new uh enterprise system Erp
uh to replace our current Financial
system uh which will go live on July 1
uh so uh and we're
now you whether we're ready or not uh
we're double booking everything right
now so we'll be creating a budget in two
different systems we'll be creating
everything in two systems right now so
um if uh some of our employees in HR and
fiscal get a little cranky over the next
couple of months please give them a
little bit of a break knowing what's
going on uh and then in June as I
mentioned we'll be bringing to the board
uh for public hearing the the proposed
uh lcap and budget uh and subsequently
bringing that back uh right now I
believe at the last meeting in June for
approval of both of those documents uh
which will conclude this year uh in this
reporting cycle and we get to start it
all back up again in August so that I'm
happy to answer any
questions all right thanks Rick um to
you and your in the business office of
course for putting together you know the
thorough transparent second in term um
does anyone have questions or comments
for it yeah I've got a quick one I'm
probably just misreading this but slide
six showed second interim uh 2425 total
revenues of uh a little over 134 million
yes yeah and then I take a look at SL
the multi-year projection slide
16 um and this is showing total revenues
of 142 million that's because we on
slide six we don't show the transfer end
on the multi-year we show the transfer
end got it okay got it thank you I
think I don't have it in here transfer
comes on a lower slide in the book for
sure got it
just any other any other questions or
comments um it's important to call out
that transfer in because it's great that
we're Community you know Community
funded and that we're positive uh
certification here but you know we are
continuing to deficit spend and so
that'll of course take some uh um you
know commitment to be able to figure out
how to how to address that in the future
um but again thank you to you and your
team for putting this presentation
together U putting together the budget
book in the second in term and getting
us to the positive
qualification Dr Baker no no okay uh so
this an action item do I have a motion
to approve I move we approve the second
interim budget second all in favor I
I out standing um through all our stuff
to do uh it's boor in superintendence
report uh does anybody have anything to
report
uh couple things I attended I mentioned
I went to connect that was great very
helpful visit um also went to a Famas
class which was really interesting to
see uh I know that they're very
supportive of same students that we
serve obviously in a different context
but an important and large um
subpopulation but it was great if you
guys haven't just to kind of observe it
I will acknowledge that I uh I revealed
my rustiness in Spanish there but it's
still worthwhile to see all the um the
amount of of learning which is like both
reading English and Spanish across grade
levels different types and then also um
math and growth mindset so that um that
was great for me to see and then
separately uh with trustey weekly we
both attended the legislative brunch
with that was hosted by Sano County um
Board Association uh which was uh I
think really interesting is first and
formost good to connect with uh other of
our colleagues within the county as well
as the County Office of Education board
members it's also helpful to uh hear
what the thoughts were and kind of the
awareness from the federal uh and state
legislators that represent our County my
my general takeaway was that there's um
there's an openness from them from our
representatives to um really think about
education I really appreciate that they
you know came and talk to us and we're
open to hearing things but I also think
that there's I feel like there's a
really there's a there's a great growth
opportunity for us to um Advocate um to
you know make known like the different
issues that we as Redwood City are
seeing in education things that that
could be helpful obviously budget um
funding funding which is kind of
Statewide um but I don't know what
that's going to look like but I I
thought it was a great opportunity but
there's there's room
there um I attended the robit city
together along with Dr Baker um which
which is great you know again um
Community engagement um definitely all
the community based um organizations
that are part of RIT City together are
just doing an really awesome job um and
of course um Rafael who was the
executive director I also attended the O
latinx conference um it was the 13th
annual and um I don't know the number
exactly but it was anywhere between four
to 500 students that showed up um
president um Wells was there
volunteering so I appreciate your uh Vol
uh volunteer work um it was it was great
to see a lot of um students with their
parents or without their parents with
shopon had a lot of resources this year
they um had a
um the Oya bestest which was new this
year um and we didn't know how it was
going to go but it was actually very
smooth uh a lot of had a lot of resource
tables uh lots of workshops that you
know students can join um it was just a
great event um I also went to deac at
Garfield and I um went to the webinar
yesterday for the facility master plan
to um and that's it for
me legislative brunch that was great uh
David Lee covered that very well uh I
also did a School site visit at Clifford
uh as I mentioned so I got to sit down
uh for about two hours kind of going
through a lot of what's going on there I
wrote up a bunch of notes and sent that
onward to Dr
Baker awesome I'm glad you two made it
to the legislative brunch we couldn't
make it because we were at the OA
Festival but uh it was we got it covered
yeah divide and conquer that's good um
last prior was our was climate committee
um most of them was mostly dedicated to
topics related to special education um
and Dr malland joined the meeting as
well so it was felt like a pretty good
conversation visitor Roosevelt this my
first time visiting since it's um has no
more middle school so it was interesting
to see it in that form and I was
thinking about it when um either Christy
or Casey was talking about the um TCM uh
uh PD because they liked it so much at
Roosevelt they site funded TK through
two as well um so I don't know sounds
like positive feedback all the time
about that um PD um I visited Northstar
as well uh it was seems to be doing well
um we had an employee Workforce housing
meeting I think there's a closed session
next week I don't it's coming up uh
we'll have a yeah we'll get we'll get an
update on on how that's going uh and
then I was on the webinar last night too
for the facility master plan thank you
Rick um and then it was Aaron and Nector
were the maybe there was one of the
person that did a presentation too but
John yeah yeah um if you get a chance to
go probably the live ones um it's pretty
neat to see all how they're thinking
about all the sites and what the what
the potential upgrades are for don't get
your hopes up it's like way more than um
can possibly get funded but it's still
uh it's still really neat to see like
how they're Tastefully thinking about
the work that had already been done
through measure T um and you know where
where there are opportunities to um you
know improve like pretty much all the
campuses went to the superintendent
meeting on Friday which was quite
interesting as the attorneys were going
through the different executive orders
and just saying hold on we don't know
what to tell you you know their
executive orders are not laws so just
hold on and when we know we'll let you
know uh so that was interesting all even
though superintendent were asking all
these questions in this scenario and
that scenario they go don't know what to
tell you so it was a bit um
disappointing that we're going through
this process at this point in time and
feel like we're kind of at limbo but
we're not alone you know um it's not
only us here on the peninsula it's you
know Statewide States wide I should say
so that was a a superintendent meeting
along with some other items that I'm
going to talk about with you
individually about what's up that we
need to be careful about uh and I will
say that uh in private with each of you
um I still need to talk to my staff
about it because I don't know a whole
lot about it myself and I asked our
attorney to get me more
information um um with that system that
is out and about that everyone uses but
um seems that other forces have access
to
it uh also attended uh a meeting today
for ab
3216 which is the phone free school act
and you know how we have to have a cell
phone policy start determining um that
what that policy is going to look like
how it's going to uh how we're going to
roll it out we're going to get
stakeholder
um stakeholders to come to an agreement
with all of us and give their
perspectives of how they feel it should
look at a school site you need to have
parents you need to have staff you need
to have um community members that are at
a school site and so what we asked the
county to do because they have two
Consultants that are working with them
is to please get us as much information
as they have at this point in time with
other counties and states that have
already started this and have put
policies and protocols into place we
also wanted to see what these
stakeholder convenings looked like and
um as we move through this process uh we
can instead of us each creating our own
policy because csba does not really have
a policy
yet I don't know I have no idea it seems
like this is right up their
value and
and there's there's a bill and and so
the state has given Direction the state
has given Direction and so we're
following that direction but we don't
each want to be Reinventing the wheel
and those of us because we are a school
district that feeds into a high school
district would like to kind of mirror
you know what's let us start and then
mirror what we're doing so there's no
disconnect when the kids move on to the
SEO High School school district so
um a lot of work to be done on that and
as soon as I get the information that
was presented today going to share it
with Wendy so we can start working on it
and start determining a timeline for
these stakeholder meetings we have to
include the kids also
uh so that that's a piece that will be
new and those will include like the
because all the sites kind of have their
own rules so we'll get to see even today
the Clifford when I just look back at
their presentation they talked about
Yonder patches we didn't ask about it
but right right right yeah and and the
superintendants that were on the me day
some are using Yonder p p pouches and
then others are using these little
plastic see-through ziplock was like a
Ziploc baggie to me because I didn't
want to get so intense with the with the
Yonder pouch and so right now school
districts are kind of all over the place
so this is a group that's going to kind
of bring samon County together to move
in a Direction Where We Don't all have
to do our own individual thing can't we
also in parallel with that yell at csba
to offer some more guidance you you are
all
members it wouldn't look good for the
superintendent that but board members
could definitely do
that Advocate thank
you that's it for me all right great our
next is informational item I don't know
if anyone had any questions about the
county investment fund for February yeah
3.9% something like that sounds great
okay um
correspondence I have a couple um I
definitely wanted to share one is just a
a a lettered copy of an email we all
received about parking in the Clifford
neighborhood and you all got yeah the
response um but then also uh Mrs Miner
at Northstar her Garden Club wrote us
all letters um and they're beautiful uh
and they they have beautiful pictures
and there some of them are written out
it's uh I mean I'm gonna I'm gonna loan
them to each of you to look at it going
home but uh you know it's beautiful
artwork with heartfelt messages from the
students about their happiness with like
the want a Gard they want to make sure
every school has a garden and that they
have some native Oak saplings I think
that they'd be willing to donate if uh
people are there if I got that right so
yeah um I got some were here and I
picked some up while I was there
so thought I sh my correspond I my
correspondence to share so kind of
excited um anyone anyone can anyone top
that
um I got one email about a question
about School boundaries which
superintendent beger um gracefully
responded to so thank you for that um
one other reminder I believe Sano County
School boards Association is calling for
uh nominations for representation if
folks are interested I think those are
due on the 31st so just putting that out
there um and then I think we all
received the email about priority at
North NorthStar Academy as a potential
topic all right next up is possible
other business um and suggested agenda
items I think this is where I um ask
about our self- evaluation I think
Evelyn what we'll do is I talked to Dr
Baker it sounds like we're probably
going to do an off-site Retreat kind of
thing in in sometime in August September
we haven't added that scheduled yet and
maybe what we'll do is we'll just um
review the board evaluation at that time
instead of trying to a study session in
June okay does that work for everyone
yeah sounds I had one other suggestion
okay
um trusty King and I met with uh super
Baker and Anna earlier this week I think
uh just to get a kind of a primer on
some of the academic pieces of things
how they work um I was truly just
putting it out there as a potential
topic because I found it super helpful
um and I I just wonder if it' be a like
a study session topic for broader group
of us to talk through and part of me is
thinking about a lot of the presentation
because I know that we've been where I I
I think others have we've we've all
collectively been pushing to change um
or to get some clarity and crispness on
some of the data that's presented on the
academic side of the presentations and I
wonder if it'd be helpful to just like
talk through it so we're all on the same
page of what we're seeing and what would
be helpful but just a
thought we also done that at an off at
an offsite too that's how we did
that's how we did it previously um and
how we came up with what we're utilizing
now so if we can do that again we well
we're welcome to do it yeah in August
combine these two things that we just
yeah yeah yeah I think so I mean usually
the offsites are like three or four
hours um
and
yeah so longer cool great um any changes
to the board meeting
calendar uh just the close session on
the 2 615 6:15 everybody have that on
their calendar great um okay we're at
the adjournment can I get a motion to
adjourn move
toour okay all in favor I all right we
joined