okay we can go ahead and get started um
Evelyn can we have a roll call please
trusty Marquez here trusty Weekley
trusty mavo is absent vice president
wels here president laon
here all right welcome everybody to the
final board meeting of the 2324 school
year um I going to forgo my welcome
Spiel because the handful of audience
members I've already heard it a few
times um so uh do we have any changes to
the
agenda I'll move to approve can we okay
I'll move to approve the agenda thank
you seconded all those in favor I great
um we do not have any oral communication
I believe Al no no speaker cards that
brings us to bond consent
items we have a motion to approve I will
make a motion to approve
second all those in favor I wonderful
thank you guys have a great
summer thanks
well okay that brings us we have no
action items so discussion item what is
this 8.1 discussion on local indicator
measurements for the California
dashboard okay good evening today we're
going to be going over our local
indicators something we have to do every
year with the lcap
um my
slide um so today's we are Jenny
prepared this presentation she is on
vacation um so as you know we have our
accountability system that we use in
California which measures all of our
testing data um but our local indicators
are things that we do on site here at
the school and so all the information
we're sharing tonight about local
indicators this a survey that um Jenny
sent out to our families and to our
teachers to help us uh know where we
where we are at in terms of our local
indicators so as you know we are you
guys have seen the dashboard all of our
local indic this is the dashboard that
shows us our performance as a district
and of course we address these issu
these um indicators in our lcap um so
this is what drives our lcap as you know
our dashboard provides um everyone the
information as to how we are performing
at at schools and as a district it
provides a quick overview overall about
our student groups and our Target groups
so it uses different measures um of
success for our students but for our
local indicators we look at our
dashboard and then under our dashboard
this is how we're measured so there's a
six State indicators that are on the
dashboard which are academics The
Chronic absenteeism English Learners and
suspension rate is really what the areas
that we we address as a as a K8 School
District then they have the college and
graduation rates for our local
indicators we look at basic conditions
we look our parent engagement our
implementation of Standards um School
climate and our access to AB broad
course of studies so there's these 11
indicators overall that are measured and
so tonight we will be looking at our
five local
indicators and so these local indicators
um we have to make sure we update these
each year um we look at where we are at
um in terms of did we meet them so we
put met not met if we haven't met them
for two or more years um we have to then
address them but so far we've been doing
really well in the last couple of years
part of our U place in the local
integrat we have to do a local report
which is what we're doing tonight with
the alap and then we have to then upload
it into the dashboard in in the next
month and so again Jenny did all of the
survey in the spring
so our first priority is just our basic
services in which we met um so this is
just our Williams Act our Williams
settlements and looking at where we are
at in terms of our school sites and
complaints um and our deficiencies
throughout our Academic Year we look at
our teacher assignments for monitoring
Williams audit um all of these things
are things that we look at in terms of
curriculum facilities and in good repair
so we have met that
standard first state priority to which
is the implementation of State academic
standards we have again we've met our
overall again this is a measurement of
our progress on our academic standards
so we have to do a self-reflection tool
um in which we looked at our district
credential survey teacher survey we had
49 teachers Who U responded to that
survey so there was a a range of of
teachers you guys had the links of the
range of teachers that went from one
probably teachers who were very
beginning teachers who needed more
support to we had refer overall um in
that
data so as we go through um our priority
standards these again information that
is part of the teacher surveys as well
of those surveys that um were linked
we're looking at our academic standards
and our professional development as you
know we've done a lot of professional
development this year so it doesn't
surprise me that a lot of our PD is on
Ela and El right that's where we're at
so we're looking at where we are in
initial implement ation and ELD because
we had that new curriculum um and when
then we look at our mathematics so the
two areas in which we are beginning we
need to work on our next gener science
and social study standards which are
areas and which we still need to improve
upon and academic and for academic
standards for instructional materials
again we've met this standard so when we
look at our overall rating again no
surprise that our instructional
materials Focus has been on Ela and L
and then the mathematics the three areas
that we focused on this year and again
we have a lower rating of a three on
next generation and history and social
science
standards um for implementation of these
standards in terms of policies and
programs um again there is a range and
threes and fours in all of these areas
um with Ela common core standards being
the four so we have you know here it's
kind of interesting that this is where
uh full implement or full implementation
for Next Generation science standards
and history social science are a little
different in the policies and programs
so I maybe on the way the question is
formed for
teachers the Implement implementation of
academic standards and other adopted
academic standards we've also met um
again um we have our CTE at Career
Technical education which usually is in
the middle schools um our steam uh
education in in terms of the Middle
School um but we also have them in the
primary grades as well we have our steam
teachers so a two is there in beginning
of development so again depending on
where we are in terms of our parents
understanding and teachers under health
education we're three physical education
a three Visual and Performing Arts a
three and then World languages is a two
so these are areas um and again we don't
provide too many world languages we have
mandarin and we have Spanish those are
our two languages right so um those are
areas of
focus in terms of priority two is the
implementation of academic standards and
our support for teachers and
administrators so again this is another
standard we've met so we're looking at
our professional learning needs of our
groups and teachers as staff as a whole
so we've provided quite a number of PD
um and support for our teachers this
year which a three and looking at their
individual needs we're at a too um for
teachers this is an area we want to
focus on a lot more next year and then
providing support for teachers on the
standards that they've not yet mastered
so that's a
three and the parent involvement and
family engagement overall we have met
although we know this is an area we want
to address next year as well we really
want to look at our Pro um how we're
seeking more input from our parents in
our decisionmaking so it's one of our
goals um we really want to make sure
we're promoting more parental
participation in different programs so
in our family survey we had 337 for this
indicator um but we did have more in our
family p pan Family survey which is
1,500 so on our state priority three
with parent engagement this is our
overall rating in terms of building
relationships between School staff and
families on the survey that was sent out
in which we met um again just looking at
the numbers we're at full implementation
for number one and three and four and
then we have a four full implementation
where we're creating welcoming
environment so that's great to hear that
we are creating some environments that
are very welcoming to
families um in continuing with State
priority 3 in terms of parent engagement
through our Panorama survey um this is
information you've seen so building the
relationships between the school staff
and families again we've met but we are
at 15% uh favorably for how often do our
parents meet with teachers at the school
site so again it's an area which we need
to address and how involved have we been
in fundraising efforts at your child's
site so if there is fundraising
happening that's about 21% again of who
of our population who answered so you
can see here um just the number of
almost never once twice again this is
part of building that school religion
but this comes from Panorama survey real
quick is that um does that cover all the
grades or they they they're not split
yeah well it has it's split up in yeah
by the family one that's not split yeah
so when I'm looking at this I think
about how involved I was like how often
I met with my my kids teachers in
kindergarten first second grade versus
like Middle School I I don't meet with
them and and I think that's okay I had
conferences and we did like back to
school night and open house but
otherwise I don't schedule meetings with
them yeah that that was going to be my
question for a bunch of these different
metrics like larger is better right and
we we want to go up and the right but uh
trying to set an implicit Target that
all of our families meet with their
students teachers weekly or more I could
IM mention it's a nightmare maybe for
some teachers um and so maybe maybe this
one's got a little bit more Nuance in
terms of like well almost never is
probably not ideal and so we want to
minimize what's in that category um
but maybe once or twice a year is okay
um and in terms of fundraising similarly
it's like it's probably unreasonable
that a 100% would be extremely involved
like I mean that'd be fascinating but um
it's like is is there is there a Target
that we can set based on looking at
surrounding districts of what what a
healthy engagement looks like how we
differ from that healthy engagement and
then what our plan is to get healthy
yeah this is exactly what we were
talking and we were meeting about today
David about we really I think one thing
and I was actually going in our meeting
today looking at our parent the survey
questions which to me are like this is
the question how often do you meet with
your teacher like these are two of the
four questions you're asked none of them
really tell us how often they particip
because participation looks different
right so we were just talking about that
the Panorama survey really doesn't lend
itself for us to really get a good gauge
of our parent participation because
their their questions are very limited
um so this something we're looking into
how do we change this so that we
actually gather more about participation
and what does participation look like
because these questions really only give
us a very snip you know snippet while I
went I attended my parent conference but
some parents do we do see parents on
site we do see them involved but in a
different way doesn't talk about did you
go on a field trip did you volunteer
none of these questions address that and
yet we have parents who participate in
those areas right I mean like I I'd
imagine it's like are you interested in
volunteering but have been unable to
right like Whoa We we'd want to go and
Chase that down like let's make it
easier to get fingerprinted show that
you don't have tuberculosis Etc
unfortunately Panama doesn't let you do
that and I we talked about changing um
some of the questions that we're asking
but
do we are looking into posibly not doing
Panorama yeah just so you guys know I'm
researching it now because yeah it's
just
an what's the point in asking people to
take these surveys when they're not
necessarily helpful cor right so we've
been looking at the California healthy
kids survey as well just so you guys
know the thing with the California
healthy kids it doesn't disaggregate the
information like we may need but we're
going to try to figure that out so when
Patrina returns we're hoping to contact
with California healthy kids and see
what we can do because they do also have
a family engagement survey um and I
actually seen the student one which is a
lot more friendlier and easier for
students to actually um answer questions
to so we're trying to really look just
the framing of the questions that this
is really hard unfortunately the
Panorama is very limited so we are
looking into that so now I'm working on
that um but again this is what we have
for our parent engagement um so in terms
of s just looking at our building
partnership for student outcomes you
know we looking at what we have done
this year and really supporting teachers
and principles really to think about
school of capacity so you know we're
we're at initial implementation we know
we need to do more for parent
participation we are very aware of it um
and that's one of our goals next year as
well as how do we build our school our
parent part Partnerships and how do we
get parents more involved um and so
these are areas you know initial
implementation make sense so these are
areas that we need to work on that we
know be great to have a four um and then
seeking input for decision- making again
this is always this has been an area of
of concern of how do we bring more
parents involved into our school side
councils our elac where decisions are
being made as well as to this Arena and
how do we get our parents more involved
here so again we're really working out
trying to figure out a plan of action
and we met today and starting to work on
that plan um over the summer so that we
can have something different for next
year um in school climate again this is
priority six we have just you know we
have to administer our climate service
which is what we do every year we've
been doing it twice a year but we are
looking at changing
that um and then through our climate
survey again this is not new information
but it does give you a little snippet of
those questions how positive or negative
is the energy of the
school how often do you worry about
violence at your school again you know
these are the questions that come from
the climate survey so you can see that
you know the percentages there and then
you can see the responses but we did
meet meet all of our things and for
middle school again the same questions
positive it depends on the day you know
I've had a good day I had great energy
that day right um so again you know
there's a variety there of what you see
so we're hoping to change
these um and then in terms of broadc
course of study again these are what we
provide our students and we also met
this standard in which we just have to
annually prog show our measurements of
progression in our um in our courseworks
and we're doing so Wendy Clays close
attention with what we're doing our
courses with our Middle School uh teams
making sure we are on top of um
especially Middle School electives right
because we do want to have them have a a
Vari variety of things that we want to
provide our students so looking at
everything that we're doing and
reviewing of schedules and we're doing
that again next year um Power School
attendance we're looking at all of these
things that we're doing to really make
sure we're providing um our students the
with the needs meeting their
needs um and then again this is our part
C study with middle school just all of
our coursework making sure we have all
of this for our students um in which we
do of course there's always areas that
we can improve on right so any questions
or on any of these thank you let me I'll
answer questions go
ahead think uh one of the things that
came out when we were previously
reviewing like some of the Panorama data
about um uh how students feel about the
school environment that I thought was
interesting about panoram I think this
generally like we're we're we're pretty
down on it for totally fair reasons but
one of the things that I thought was
helpful was the percentiles right so
it's like uh what things are bad but are
just kind of like universally bad and
what things are um maybe look bad but
actually are good and then vice versa
right um and one of the sections of that
that PO out at me was just um Middle
School just how our middle schoolers are
doing uh it seems like they're doing
much worse than our uh K to five uh and
some of that is to be expected Middle
School's hard developmentally a lot is
going on um I had an awful Middle School
experience um but but it seems that like
our Middle School's unusually bad in
terms of the experiences that the kids
are having going through it and so that
makes me wonder if it's possible to you
know put put together like a t task
force uh with the some of the students
some of the parents some of the teachers
and try and get to the bottom of like
what is it that is going on that is
causing these students to have like not
feel super welcome at school and not
have a great school experience and then
what concrete things are we planning on
doing about it on what time Horizons and
owned by what people right um so i' I'd
love to see that on on some sort of time
basis because like I feel like we've
been seeing it consistently now
year-over-year that are middle schoolers
are having a a pretty bad time um and i'
I'd love to see if we can address that
that's a great I'm actually thinking
about we have our student voice Bas it's
what we do with our next steps with our
student voice and how do we you know
take that further and making sure all
all our staff members are aware of what
our students are actually asking for and
then putting action to it so I totally
agree that we need to do something with
that thank
you anything else so just the comment um
I was when we talk about middle schools
I'll tell you from my three children I
never heard any violence happening I'm
sure it was happening I just never heard
it and then my kids never came home and
said like somebody got in a fight or
something happened right so I wonder to
like everybody has their opinions of
course too but like where some people
actually think of violence is it because
maybe parents are there at the school
site um obviously more involved because
maybe they're doing I don't know art and
action or something and they see and
hear things so that would just be my um
I guess I'm just wondering like how that
is measured by the parents because again
even with three kids at all
different years and I personally never
heard anything I know it happens but
while they were there my kids never came
home to say something happened at school
so on that I I think it's interesting
because it it depends on how the person
answering the survey interprets that
question because the first time I read
it through I think I'm worrying about
violence I'm worrying about whether or
not there's a school shooter not that
there might be a fight on campus so I
wonder if people are answering that way
too if they worry just in general about
school safety because of everything we
hear in the news I don't know if that's
how they were answering it they they
don't get to explain what they were
thinking and I wonder if it would be
elevated if there had been a recent
incident somewhere in the United States
of a school violence right because that
elevates everyone's needs I wonder if
that would also Elevate so who
knows I mean I hear you my son's in high
school and I would hear there there are
fights here but nothing major that he
would be like I'm concerned about this
so I understand what you're saying it it
depends on the interpretation of
and whatever it had that experience
maybe they had at that moment or what
they saw on the last couple of weeks
right what have
happened no thanks for the presentation
I understand that the standard is about
doing the measurement um and so clearly
that's all met but I appreciate that you
also included some of what was measured
and how that outcome came and so we
could have that discussion yeah thank
you so much and thank Jenny for putting
the slides together too thank you the
the other thing that um we need to about
and David did bring it up about you know
middle school and how people have
different thoughts about middle school
and it's really interesting because you
will take parents or I'll meet with
parents and I I met with one over the
week I ran into one over the weekend
let's put it that way um and they were
totally surprised about the middle
school that their child had gone to they
had heard a b and c you know how people
here and uh they said you do you recall
a couple years she said just visit talk
to the principal we did that our kid is
doing great and loves it and we're sorry
we're going to have just one more year
at this middle school and then we go to
high school and that they're really
worried about high
school they're really worried about high
school and I said well thank you for you
know bringing that to my attention and
that you remembered that we met and I
asked you to go so I think you know
there are different thoughts that are
out there and what we need to do uh as a
district and also as schools is really
highlight the wonderful things that are
happening at those School sites because
these parents were thinking of going to
private school and I said go meet with
the principal spend a day spend a day
there and I called the principal and
told him this is probably going to
happen so welcome them and they did and
they said there were a lot of kids but
um and they still had some hesitancy but
they did it and it's the best thing they
did and they said thank you for saving
us all this money
but now they're worried about the high
school going well that's a different
ball game I
said you can talk to some of our board
members have high school kids um in high
school so but I can't help you in that
Arena so it's you know it's that
Balancing Act the other piece is that
we're looking at and and Anna did allude
to it when we're meeting
today and
um yes there's the healthy kids but Anna
was also doing some research on other
districts and other districts are not
even doing the Panorama survey they've
created their
own so do we go in that manner and have
like the gardener center help us create
the survey something where we're going
to get information that's going to be
information that can we really grab on
to and create next steps that um so
that's a possibility also I thought we
had to take something that was
nationally known and Elna said no you
don't I thought we did too and so that
could have changed that could have
changed since the beginning yeah
so that's the only that's
there I think the gardener Center would
be an excellent idea because we met with
them today information right yeah meting
work with so we we want to be gathering
data that's actionable
um if we have a long survey only a very
small fraction of our population will
fill it out and then it's it's not going
to be a representative example it's
going to be a bathtub curve of either
the people who have an axe to grind or
the people who are delighted and happy
to spend the extra time you should have
seen how long it was when we first
started doing Panorama fair so I I think
short and sweet surveys tend to be good
because they give you the large end they
gives you the statistical resolving
power and lets you see really a nice
crosssection of the community um but
then it means that you've got to be
really discipline of like you only have
a few bullets like you you better pick
really good questions that are really
going to guide you and that the the
district is going to take meaningful
action depending on what our results are
there and then we'll be able to hold
ourselves accountable for making forward
progress on those things year after year
right and so that that should be the the
goal of what we land on right
yeah thank
you um so moving on to
consent consent
items do we have make a motion to
approve the consent items I'll second
all those in favor thank you you um item
10.1 adoption of resolution number 12
approval of Ed code options for teaching
assignments for the 2425 school year oh
thanks hna for that introduction earlier
this is H brought for you tonight for
consideration uh to this is an annual
request uh usually for teachers that are
uh wanting to teach electives but in
some cases for master scheduling needs
uh core subjects and so the list of
that's presented here tonight are
teachers that are fully credentialed
with years of experience that might
teach one extra class in a certain
subject area are there any questions no
I see a lot of fantastic teachers on the
list
though no questions okay go ahead yeah
looks regular um I move to approve
seconded those in favor hi thank you
10.2 adoption of resolution number 13 um
calling for an
election this is what would it mean to
like say no to this just it's like can
you please pass this on I didn't want to
put it on the agenda
okay that was my feeling like do I have
to do this do I really have to do this
it's just something we have to do proor
all
right so for those in the audience it's
to uh call for an election for the three
seats that are um up for this I'm trying
to pull it up for this um um year and
that's truste area 1 three and four I
believe
yes I move that we do the thing that
legally we have to
do there a second second all those in
favor
I uh 10.3 adoption of resolution number
14 the education protection account for
fiscal year
2425 uh good evening resolution 14 is
another requirement uh that
Ates uh excuse
me education protection account money
from the basic state aid that we receive
uh on an annual basis for 2425 it is
estimated to be 1,1
1925989 million
do you any questions
the only question I had asked was where
on the website it gets put because I saw
that that was in there and MC said it's
on the it will be on the District budget
page after we approve it and we'll try
and find the get the old ones on it so
uh with that I'll make a motion to
approve seconded all those in favor I
thank you let's see that was 10 three so
10.4 approval of local inter agency
agreement to provide Education and
Training to credential
candidates so we have a approximately 20
universities that we work with uh to
provide a student teaching or internship
experience for teachers sometimes for
counselors and and other types of
positions and ever so often they they
they don't have a uh their expiration
dates vary so tonight we have two
contracts that are about to expire and
uh we actually don't have anyone that
are filling these interns but should we
hire someone over the summer or next
year here we have them ready to go and
we don't need to come back last minute
so this a proactive approach and since
those dates roll they will come to
incrementally as as they're up and
coming and expiring are there things
that we can and should be doing do you
advertise in these intern openings that
we're about to create so these are for
universities that want to place student
teachers in our schools and so in order
so we do actually advertise with them
about our openings and job vacancies but
what's nice about this relationship is
we get to pair them with a mentor and
they get to work with us and see if they
meet choose and love rcsd and vice versa
which is a win-win um and sometimes they
do need to have a secondary setting in
the in the spring let's say because it's
one semester with us and one semester
with someone else but they're on our
list and we reach out and we actually s
them our job vacancies when the time is
right any other additional
questions thank you
I move we approve to have the
possibility of having
interns second well those in favor
I 10.5 approval of Rood City
Administration Association compensation
proposal any questions on this
topic do have a motion to
approve I'll make a motion to approve
10.5 thank you the administrators want
to say thank you second all those in
favor
I uh let's see 10.6 approval of the
alap just want to
make
into number some
adjusts sorry thank you um just before
we uh uh just want to make a we went
into and we were trying to fine-tune our
goals um so in terms of suspensions we
just added a 0.5 for a district overall
each year and then specifically we went
down and looked at our African-American
so we just reduced it by 1% because we
know we hope we would always have a 0%
in all of them but really trying to
reduce it so we just change the language
in the numbers on go one I just want to
say that and then in go three we also
just um rewrote it a little bit just
saying say that all rcs2 students will
increase at least 4% annually in the LA
and math on the I ready our district
local assessments program and then that
was the other part say the same so we
sort of just fine-tune that one um to
make sure it was a little bit clearer
okay so we're asking that the board
approve our local um account LC cap for
the 2425 school year
tonight any
comments question and then just just to
clarify on that go three it's because we
wanted that 4% is about the number of
students that are meeting their annual
growth Target um I get want to increase
that by number right now every time I
read it I think that we're trying to
have them increase their score 4% as if
we're measuring like they made 70 you
know 70 points on 100 point scale they
should go up by you know three points
this year and you know three the next um
but it's the number of students and
that's kind of what the metrics reflect
okay yeah it's the overall
yeah iion to approve we had a vigorous
discussion about this last week so um
you know I I don't I don't have anything
more to discuss for that um if anyone
else did but uh otherwise I'll make the
motion to
approve I'll second all those in favor
by great thank you and 10.7 approval of
the 2425 proposed
budget we're presenting the
2425 uh fiscal year budget for City
School District uh there were no uh
material changes from the budget
presented at the public
he thank
you if there's no questions or comments
we can a motion to approve I will make a
motion to approve 107 second IED all
those in favor I thank
you that brings us to board
reports since last
Thursday I have nothing to report since
last Thursday
sorry um I attended the city 2020 along
with Alyssa and Dr Baker we had a really
nice retreat with all the
plish um we had a two by two by two
meeting with uh the city council and um
BCE
District um just give updates from the
different uh jurisdictions and the city
manager handed out um their projected
general fund net operating position for
um looks like it's 10 years out there's
a lot of rad um and so on the other side
is some um without new revenues possible
areas that they might consider cutting
so um they're looking at ways to
increase their revenues anything else
from that meeting uh the the tax that's
going to go on the businesses possibly
possibly the the city is discussing
update get their business tax license I
think is what it's called um it's a
pretty Antiquated system they have right
now and there's a lot of other cities
that are revamping theirs too so there
may be um something on the ballot in
November to change the way they do that
um what's interesting is as a voter I
would be voting to approve or not um new
revenue for the city that doesn't
affect me personally coming out of my
pocket so it's an interesting way to
look at it yeah um I think they'll know
by the end of by the end of July I think
whether or not there's going to be
something on that
ballot um otherwise do you have any
other reports no because I was at all
the Bas yep
okay um let's see 12.1 contract update
information credit card summary there
any
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questions I actually review these things
and I I flag when I find weirdness then
just didn't find anything
weird that's
good
correspondence I received a PR request
today that I forwarded to Dr B and Wendy
has it so they're going to she'll take
care of it there's she already has
because we get these all the time and
she already has a spreadsheet and
everything just
sends thank you we just had one last
week right
yeah anything else it's bit quiet
school's
out possible other business suggested
items for future
agenda um no changes to the board
meeting calendar this is our last
meeting and that brings us to
adjournment do we have
a thank you is our second I will second
all those in favor hi great have a
wonderful July and we'll be back August
7 is it 7th or 6 August 7th we'll be
back sweet we should bang the
gattle thus ends the year