okay good evening everyone apologies to
the community for our late start we ran
over a little bit in our closed session
uh roll call please trusty Marquez is
absent trusty Weekley present trusty
mavo present vice president wels here
president Lawson
here okay um let's see I need to we're
on 4.2 report out on closed session from
May 10th 2024 um item 6.1 conference
with legal council regarding anticipated
litigation um we heard from the uh
attorney and no action was taken 6.2
conference with real property
negotiators uh information was received
and no action was
taken
um let's see 6.3 Public Employee uh
performance evaluation for the
superintendent um no action was taken
6.4 rcta negotiations update uh
information received no action
taken um on tonight's agenda 4.3 report
out from closed session on May 22nd 2024
3.1 conference with real property
negotiators no action was
taken so welcome everyone
um see I know that we have one speaker
card I believe that's audience okay
um given the low number of audience
audience members I think everybody here
knows knows the the welcome uh Spiel so
let's go on to 6.1 um uh changes to the
agenda um with Cecilia absent I was
thinking we would pull 12.1 discussion
of the board calendar
meeting however if anybody is going to
miss next week's meeting the June 5th
meeting we could do the discussion both
both
nights uh okay so we can go ahead and
pull that and and we'll have that
discussion when everybody's
here um any other
changes do I have a motion to approve
the agenda I'll move to approve second
did all those in favor I thank
you okay so we are on oral communication
um and thank you for being here um we'
love to hear from the public so let's
see this is James Kang um you can come
to the podium you have three minutes to
speak and if you can turn the microphone
on got it perfect can you hear me yes
awesome well thank you board members uh
my name is James Kang and I am the
father of two students that attend a
radwood city school district um I'd like
to bring up a problem in the norstar
admissions process um that recently
became what I feel like is an unintended
consequence of the uh implementation of
universal testing so the issue that I
see is that since the Implement
implementation of the universal testing
the Northstar weight list for admissions
has grown
significantly and as a result of the
surge in numbers um it's basically made
it impossible for siblings to secure a
place at Northstar if they qualify after
third grade um so here's some personal
context um we have I have a sixth grade
son I have a third grade daughter sixth
gradon attends norstar my daughter
Evelyn attends Roy Cloud our daughter
Evelyn tested in the second grade uh
with universal testing and she just
barely missed the cut off by I think
like one or two test questions which was
a huge bummer but uh you know it was in
a big deal we told her you know don't
worry you'll do fine the next year test
and then we'll see what happens next
year and so this year she took the test
again she did fantastic she qualified uh
and she qualified for admissions uh but
this is is where things kind of go
downhill because after she got qualified
we're notified that she's currently 21st
on the wait list um after talking with
the previous principal of Northstar uh
we believe that the 20 students ahead of
Evelyn currently on the weight list do
not have siblings at Northstar uh Evelyn
currently has a sibling at norstar Noah
and will likely unfortunately never get
in um we had a meeting with Miss kikos
in February regarding my daughter
Evelyn's admission to Northstar for the
fourth grade we learned that um I guess
historically the current system of
priority buckets is that second graders
who do not qualify for Northstar
admissions um or I'm sorry second
graders who were qualified for Northstar
admissions but didn't get in that
they're placed on a weit list and they
will always have the highest level of
priority over anybody else and as a
result Evelyn will never have a
realistic opportunity to attend norstar
and this is because there's 20 kids
ahead of her and the historical
attrition rate is really low and it is
unlikely that 20 students will ever
leave their school through the third to
e8th grade tenure I mean when we learned
this we were shocked um essentially uh
after the second grade testing there's
there was no purpose in having her go
through testing twice and uh giving her
hope that she could potentially get in
in a future year because there's
essentially zero chance of her getting
in after that first year that she tested
um at the very least a proper warning
about this would have been greatly
appreciated this would have set
realistic expectations for us um my wife
and I were both busy working parents and
this has definitely placed a strain on
our family in terms of pickup drop off
schedules split communities and
investing in school relationships um
according to miss kikos the wait list is
quite long all the way up until e8th
grade and I think it's that eighth grade
where the weight list significantly
drops off and only becomes like one
because no one want wants to take their
kid out of their school in eth grade
just for one year um this situation
really places an undue burden on the
Redwood City community members who rely
on siblings to be able to attend the
same school during their common School
uh years uh after Universal testing was
implemented it led to this ripple effect
for families in this unique situation so
you know in in contrast to other schools
siblings always have the one of the
highest levels of priority and it's
really straightforward so you're three
minutes if you could wrap it up please
okay so to to conclude we strongly
believe that we would like for there to
be some type of policy change we propose
a revision to the priority buckets to
provide a higher priority to siblings
over the prior Year's weight list uh
ensuring that Northstar families can
have siblings attend the same school
during their common school age years I
assume that this was the original
intention as sibling priority is
basically the highest priority at every
other school in the Redwood City School
District and it's the same for all the
other school districts H Alto unified
thank you um so as this is oral
communication we can't have a back and
forth discussion um but I would like
some clarification um if we can I my
understanding is that our policy on
admission does put siblings ahead
do but what what he is referring to is
there are siblings already on the wait
list or from the previous year correct
that is he said they weren't it is that
is
not when did you have that in front of
you I didn't I didn't bring that policy
with me prefer to one more time just you
don't mind I can ccle back with you yeah
I think that I think we need to look at
that and circle back and I are on the
policy committee along with Wendy Kelly
we support her in that so we can
certainly take your feedback and have a
conversation about it absolutely yeah
great thank you very much but she didn't
pass the test in second grade right so
that's that's
understand brings all these other
children you're you're asking for is is
a rethinking of that policy so I think
we we would just need to bring it back
to the policy committee and kind of look
at it and think about it and then make a
recommendation yeah so thank you for
bringing that to our attention
Okay
Okay um let's see we are on uh Bond
consent
items there's a I'll make a motion to
approve
second all those in favor I I thank you
thank you guys thank
you no um here you are
yes I'm trying to see who we have on
here um okay um 10.1 approval a contract
with
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um that's that's to go by qk
yeah qka for sure
uh tonight we're bringing uh uh approval
uh for the facilities master plan
architect kuaki quac Architects
otherwise known as qka for uh simpler
saying and also joining us tonight is
Jennifer Gibb uh from vanal Construction
Services uh representing our bond
program manager tonight uh with a short
presentation about the process and
moving forward uh with the uh uh
onboarding of qka and then going through
the process for the facilities Master
Plan update so with that I will share my
screen hello and thank you so much for
having me um
uh board president Lawson uh trustees Dr
Baker staff and Community I'm Jennifer
Gibb and I'm here to talk tonight um
regarding the facilities master plan
process as you have before you um an
action item to approve a contract to
move forward with that process so when
we're Master planning we uh always want
to look at it as an inquiry and data
driven process uh that supports the
goals for your school community so you
really start in the master planning
process with evaluating the uh facility
current conditions and the growth
opportunities that we have within our
district you then take that information
um that's really the data and you align
that with um educational specifications
how do we teach our students how uh how
do they learn right and how can we align
the facility improvements that we're
going to do with the pedagogy of our
school and um and the instructional side
of the house that then becomes a
foundation of a master plan master plan
is a document that will help support you
for the next 10 to 15 years of facility
improvements there's going to be more
need that's identified in your master
plan than what you can do with the
funding that you have available today so
you then will develop an implementation
plan that will help guide you with the
measur S monies and other facility funds
that you have either through um your
facility funds and or um leverage State
funding that you may get through your
program and that will kind of be a
opportunity that you'll come back to um
and you'll revisit this so you'll always
be constantly kind of going around in
this um Circle right we are always
looking at growth um and any other thing
that comes our way that's the highest
level so I'm going to uh talk a a little
bit about the process for master
planning specifically there's a lot of
data inputs um the first one being your
demographics and enrollment projections
we want to make sure um that we're
aligned with that as we're planning out
our facilities for the next 10 to 15
years we look at capacity and
utilization how are we currently
utilizing the spaces that we have and do
we have enough growth one example would
be transitional kindergarten those
spaces are um by Title 5 and title 22 to
be 1350 square feet with a dedicated
restro and adjacent play Space do we
currently have that yes or no how can we
do that in our Master planning process
and be thoughtful about that as we move
forward we always want to look at our
funding whether it's our local funding
specifically you just um measure s and
measure T if we can get State funding to
match that or any type of federal
programs then you go around and you do a
facilities needs assessment and you're
looking specifically lighting HVAC
what's the age of those and we work very
closely with um your Maintenance and
Facilities staff because there's a lot
of that information that we already have
we look at work orders those types of
things to ensure that we're meeting the
current conditions and being thoughtful
about replacement um that's then put
together with cost estimates and budgets
so that we understand what's it cost for
today and then to align that with um
when we potentially may do it that will
come along with the implementation plan
um and then uh the master planning
process you'll have identified site
diagrams of your current um sites with
potentially overlays of these
improvements next slide you want to
really be thoughtful about um in the
master planning process that we get
Garner input from all stakeholders so um
that's our students classified staff
certificated staff your pto's parents
community members constituents that are
um outside in our organization um not
necessarily having a direct connection
with us right business owners Etc so um
the city is a very important um member
of that stakeholder group too want to
line that we're not duplicating efforts
with constituents funds um and being
thoughtful about that partnership and
then also as we think about growth in
our district how we relate that to
development within our district of
either um commercial or residential
development next
slide some of the next steps um in
master planning that we'll be um working
with if so approved tonight um qka would
be discussion around areas of focus um
as I ified in measure s and some of the
priorities that the board has want to
align that understanding all our funds
available not just the U monies that the
constituents and voters approved but
what other monies that we can access for
facilities are there any unfunded
mandates we know we're solving a
transitional kindergarten nutritional
support energy there's lots of things
that we're going to work through with
them to ensure that we um bring those as
priorities to the board for an
opportunity um again condition of your
current facility we want to understand
where we are today so that we have a
baseline so we can grow and be able to
show and understand and Steward that um
improvement with our community always
looking at those partnership growth
within our boundaries how that's going
to affect our schools um and then really
how we Garner that input from um the
community it's through Community
meetings whether they're virtual or in
person we also do um um with qka in the
past working with them in other
districts are very strategic in regards
to surveys community outreach that way
having either town hall or individual
site meetings so um and then always
working closely with our leadership and
our um District stakeholders that have
the day-to-day um known uh history of
our
facilities next
slide really really important I know I
mentioned this in the beginning but when
we go through the master planning
process we will be coming to you um
through this process with more
identified need than we're going to have
funding for this isn't unique to Redwood
City Elementary School District this is
all throughout the state of California
it's just the way that we're funded in
school facilities um and so that's why
looking under turning every Rock right
to find all the pennies to uh leverage
to get the most um improvements done is
what we do through this process um
really really uh and another thing like
any type of Partnerships we have any
ways we can get State funding Etc so
that I just want the board to know that
and the community to understand that
through this process we will absolutely
be identifying more need than we will
have funding for next slide some of the
things I mentioned in regards to
development as we think about um schools
some some districts are growing some
districts are declining um a lot of
districts are flatlined right now
because we have a whole another grade
level we're serving right and so really
being thoughtful about remembering this
is a tool for you as Leaders um to help
guide you it's um a point in time we're
being thoughtful about the vision being
thoughtful about the data inputs and
it's also through the implementation
plan you will come back and you will
revisit that there will be priorities
that will change we didn't know five
years ago that we needed to house four
yearolds right um or nutrition um and
food Universal food for all like all of
those types of things were going to be
able to utilize this as a baseline but
they have it be adaptable for the needs
that are specific to Redwood City next
slide this is a preliminary schedule um
it's a little uh small but um if you can
see it a little closer um we're going to
do information gathering over the next
few months um that's what's proposed and
then um planning and community outreach
and then review and finalize so coming
to the community multiple times for
input um whatever stakeholder groups
those are uh qka is very good about
doing that as I mentioned earlier but
being able to put together draft reviews
Andor project list plans so that we can
work through that together
collaboratively um and then bring
something to the board for formal um
review and approval this has a timeline
of approximately uh six months with a
completion in January uh there's things
that will be doing in the meantime uh
this team will be bringing forth as
identified high high priority um Capital
Improvements um so that we're not
waiting necessarily until January to
start any construction um and or
progress and design of projects but to
be thoughtful about what those are so
that um we can continue to move forward
and also put together a thoughtful plan
next slide and that's it any questions
I'll just add a couple thanks for
presenting tonight um it's great to see
timelines for you know getting the
facility master plan sort of the the
talk about the engagement the community
engagement um I just wanted to ask just
a couple clarifying things about the um
selection of Q Kaa which I know it came
from our pool of Architects that we
approved at the last meeting but just
who made up the selection was it the
same group that made up the selection
committee for this one and then what was
the criteria I know in the board memo it
talks about you know the best
combination of schedule the scope of
work past execution on similar projects
but I just wasn't sure like what were
there other things that were looked at
and evaluated and and what other
priorities were looked at for
that I'll start uh yeah so it was the
same group that that evaluated the
architect pool um you know we looked at
the proposals of the six that are in the
pool I believe five responded uh to this
one uh acknowledged that this was their
strong suit and so that's why we have a
pool right so those that choose to
respond to this project or any other
individual project right some will some
won't based on a number of factors uh so
we looked you know uh quite frankly we
looked at Price first right to see where
some came in some came in way on the
high side you know versus the group that
was kind of in the middle or or grouped
together uh we looked at obviously
qualifications all our Architects all
have done similar type of work uh
there's experience that was on the
committee both from uh Redwood City as
well as uh vpcs who have dealt with uh
all of these Architects at some point U
and the work that they've done for them
in previous districts uh so that was
taken into account as well and the
quality of the product that has been uh
provided in other places and knowing the
process and procedures that that these
Architects normally do uh on an
individual level uh one of the strong
suits of qka and Jen uh mentioned it uh
is the way they handle community
outreach and involvement right um it's
uh actually phenomenal I've seen it in
action before personally I've heard
about it from other people as well uh
and it doesn't waver from job to job
right and the way they bring in
methodology to discuss with the board uh
as uh the board lasts admittedly but
with the community and then eventually
with the board as it's coming for review
and ultimately approval uh where you
know they use indicators of quality
right so they're data data driven
decision metrics for projects so take
some of the emotion out like oh we want
this new building because we want a new
building versus well that building makes
sense because it meets this criteria
that we have set up and worked with the
community about right and then you'll
have a list uh Based on data uh versus
just we want to do this and we want to
do that right because uh as Jen
mentioned a couple of times and we know
this uh this Bond program was uh brought
to the community as a three-phase
approach right phase one phase two and
phase three because we know in any
facilities master plan the need uh will
exceed the amount of funding that we
have right and so being able to use some
of these data points to not justify but
make the community aware of why we're
choosing this over another or uh you
know for some of the mandates that that
Jen spoke about that have come up you
know and and TK is the easy one to pick
on right now we have definite need for
TK classrooms in the areas they uh are
housed on campuses that we need to look
at you know we know HVAC is another big
one that needs to be addressed and
sooner rather than later um we know that
you know our food program is is starting
to grow different legs right now and
there's going to be a need to uh perhaps
do something for the food program uh and
Child Nutrition services along with just
normal modernization so we felt very
comfortable knowing um all the
Architects to one degree or another VPS
uh vpcs knew of them all uh all of them
um probably by working with them
directly at one point or another but
based on all of those factors along with
their proposals uh the committee
selected qka to come forward with this
and uh
unfortunately uh either Aaron or John
from qka uh were available tonight they
both had prior uh engagements uh for
this evening
uh but they'll be back to talk to the
board as well and to explain their
vision of how they do things in their
methodology well thanks for explaining
that and uh just looking back on the
slides for facilities Master planning I
kind of was thinking also about how when
we first met vpcs they told us it's
going to feel kind of slow at first as
we're getting organized and get things
together but then it's going to start to
accelerate really fast looking at the
six-month timeline to finalizing the FMP
and thinking about high priority
projects coming in I feel like we're
right on that curve right now so it's
getting really exciting um thanks again
for presenting the schedule looks
great um so I'm pretty sure the answer
to this question but just for avoidance
of Doubt U this expenditure doesn't
explicitly commit us to QA in any way
beyond the preparation of this
facility's master plan correct you are
correct yeah okay great um selfishly I'm
hoping trustees will be part of the
folks whose uh input is considered part
of this okay
absolutely okay awesome get to make
final decisions
um and then I'm assuming that the output
is not just a uh very long wish list but
is a stack rank of priorities with a
goal of working as far down through the
list as we as we can get absolutely oh
sorry um uh absolutely there's different
ways um as we work through the process
as um we discuss for prioritization and
then some of those are one opportunity
is can we get leverage funding on this
project immediately versus is it a
deferred funding right that might help
us in stretching our dollars even
further um so those prioritization the
whole list is there but it helps through
the community input process of really
helping us hone in on what is best and
needed for Redwood City at this point in
time awesome because having the stack
rank in particular is really helpful
because often times Everything's a
priority in a vacuum like wouldn't it be
nice to have an ice skating rink like
yes but right so I'm awesome thanks
absolutely and that's what I was
referring to the indicators equality and
the the ranking from that right so we
take some of the what you just mentioned
the ice rank out of the discussion
because we need a new lab or new
bathroom facilities and one um great
thing that I spoke about is it's a it's
a foundational document for you and so
as you create these standards and
indicators you move forward next year or
the following year and something shifts
right and regards to a need you're able
to use those indicators to help you
adjust to that more prioritized need as
it becomes a
priority of
course yeah I just want to say thank you
and um I remember from the facilities
master plan that we did about 10 or 12
years ago now um one of the things that
was nice kind of to your question and I
think we talked about this is that you
know there's going to be sort of blocks
of things I mean there'll be things that
School sites and then other things that
rise to the top like the you know
mandated new programs TK or the HVAC or
whatever and so it does allow us then
the board to say okay here's our
priorities as an example last time you
know and I would imagine this time would
be the same way like anything that's
safety related like that would take a
high priority whether it was earthquake
protection or fire or you know
protection of students on campus
whatever it might be like that would
take a priority you know but that's
where the board will have an opportunity
to help with that rank ranking so yeah
so absolutely should happen um yeah the
only thing I might add is just um you
know on one hand six months seems like a
short time or a long time depending upon
where you're sitting so I would just say
as much as you can shrink the timeline
because you know our community is really
asking for a lot of things right now and
so the sooner that we can get to it the
better but I understand that some of
these higher priority things that we
know we need to do we can start to kind
of pull those out other than that I
think it looks like a great process with
lots of good
input yeah my only comment on that at
least was just thinking about like the
summer schedule right so with our
families um on vacation too that's going
to be hard to push up that the the
planning and design phase um and when I
look at just those two starting in
August basically really really ramps up
you're right Mike um I don't have any
questions thank you for your
presentation okay um this is an action
item I'll make a motion to approve
seconded all those in favor I thank you
very
much um that brings us to
11.1 report on the Panorama climate
survey
okay so tonight Jenny will be taking us
through our results from the Panorama
survey um from the spring and again just
thinking about we took it back in the
fall so it's a little bit of comparison
so you can see the spring okay
Jenny hello everyone I'm here again
tonight for our yearly tradition of the
P Panorama survey so um many of the the
result you will see tonight is kind of
like a Deja Vu like you seen it before
the it it's the trend is pretty similar
um to the previous year Administration
next please
um next please
Anna um so uh for those you you already
know how the Panorama survey works I
just want to quickly mention for those
who are not familiar with the survey so
um the safy questions have four to five
answer choices for each questions and
the to the total percentage of the two
or three highest uh positive answer will
be used to calculate the percentage
favorable for each of the question and
then um it's average out to the
percentage we get for each of the topic
okay next
slide um we have total 76% of our
student participated in the spring
pedasos survey um this participation
rate is similar to um the past uh two or
three par survey so we have about 75 to
76% of student participate every
year next
play um here's the overall survey result
in all the topics for grade 3 to5 our
spring score went down compared to the
fall as you can see on the right the
right column show you whether it's down
five point 4 point 6 point um however we
still above the national average as you
can see the national column was you have
percentiles most of our topics are green
which is on bar or above except for
school climate where are in the um uh
second uh block of the compared to the
national average next slides please for
grade six through eight survey um
overall our result went down compared to
the fall specifically significantly on
the student and teacher relationship
um and then as you can see we are below
the national average in all our topics
um for the six3
response next
slide um here is the topic uh breakdown
by the topic um for grade 35 on top and
then grade 68 in the bottom um G 35 here
we are at 62 favorite per uh favorite
percentage
um it has been like that for the past
three spring survey so you see the fall
we went up Spring we went down fall we
went up Spring went down but we end up
at 62% consist consistently for the
three years in a row for 6 to8 um the
favorite respond in this topic has been
declining and we are now at 3 30% which
is the lowest of all
time next year please I mean next slide
please School climate
perception um for both grade three 35
and 6A group they started High dur in
the fall and they Dro in the spring
survey next
slide um School engagement is also
similar to the the first school
belonging topic that we saw um it start
how high and it's go back down and um
can see that for grade 3 to5 we got more
positive respond compared to the grade 6
through 8 for school engagement
topic next
slide um school school safety is the
only topic that would show the very
small slight increase since the fall um
we continue to maintain the good fa
respond with our 3 to 5ifth graders at
61% and then um our 638 grade graders we
hold study at 51% favorable
respond next
slide um school teacher and student
relationship shows a big drop and it's
is we are even though we still have high
percentage compared to other topic but
we are currently at the lowest um
compared to all previous year
administrations for this topic 70% for
grade 3 to 5th and and 42% for grade 6
through
eight next
slide um School gr expectation have the
highest favorable score for our 325
325th graders and is the declining for
our 6 through eight
graders next
please um so we have couple of um
question do survey asking for free
response
so um for each grade level group we have
two question the first ones are what are
the two things that the school did well
and should continue to do as you can see
the the work has like the biggest fund
is the one that mentioned the most um
Pizza day is a hit for our third to
fifth graders and they um enjoy the
steam activities um that are at the
school next slide um for the question
what are the two thing does a school
should do to improve um chocolate bad
chocolate where the most mentioned to
improve so that's maybe something to
consider changing chocolate vendor not
sure um but this chocolate Mill actually
is the top word mentioned um in the
previous year survey also so um next
slide
um for grade sixth through eight uh Pisa
is also uh uh aead at the school um many
comments mentioned that they they like
the good teachers on the list and um
good teachers and pizza also has been
consistent on the list for um previous
year
survey uh for the question what are the
two thing that the school could do to
improve uh
food and dress code and bathroom
especially the bathroom um has been on
the past year survey also as something
they want to
improve okay next slid
please all right um here is the respond
of by broken down by um student group in
all the subjects um go across in the
gray color you will see the district
average um for the each of the topic
respond the plus number in green
represent how much higher is the
response percent for that group of
student compared to District average and
the negative number in Orange represent
how much lower is the response
percentage for that group student
compared to District district average so
um when you put two different uh grade
group together 35 and 68 you can see
that um grade six
and grade three like the starting group
of you know of the lower grade of the
group seem to have more positive respond
in a topic compared to um a grade
level okay next slide
please um so this year I tried to be a
little bit creative by putting slides
together so that we don't have two
separate slide and we have to go back
and forth try to compare um when I put
the grade three to 5 and 638 together um
but I kind of fail a little bit in the 6
througha uh chart I forgot to include
also the the group size um but to just
let to know the size are pretty
proportional um they're not like 10 in
grade 325 and then 100 in 628 that's
pretty Pro proportional so um we can
still compare them um so for this part
the Filipino and African Aman American
student shows more positive respond
compared to other race adicity in group
325 survey which is the um the survey
the picture on the left um however the
African Man Group African-American group
shows more negative respond for student
in grade six through eight which is on
the right side U where you see U more
negative orange
color okay next slides please
here is um how the student respond in
according to their language acquisition
status whether English learner English
only that been reclassify as fluent um
most of the responses are close to the
district average except for English
learner group um in subjects such as
school rigorous
expectation um school safety is also a
concern for grade 3 to 5ifth um
English Learners where you see the
-12 um so they their response are like
12% lower compared to the district
average when it comes to school
safety okay next slid
please um this is the um survey result
broken down by student with disability
um this is something we we seen similar
to previous year um student with
disability shows um less positive respon
compared to student who um in General ad
um especially for grade 3 to
5th
okay next please family survey uh for
this year we have just a little bit um
over 1,000 um Family responses this is
um actually um a lot lower than our
participant participation rate for
previous year survey um we were about 30
to 35% in previous year we're now about
25% of our family participated it's
about 500 500 respond less than previous
year
surveys okay next slide overall our
family's response um seem to be positive
and it has went up in the spring
compared to the
fall next
SL uh for school safety um our safety um
our parents perception of the school
safety and physical um and psychological
safety of school uh improveed to
77% Which is higher than um last year
respond next please
for family engagement um Family resp
engagement also improve slowly each year
though we still very far um below uh how
we were before the
pandemic next
please um cultural awareness con action
um has been stabilized around
50% okay next
slide um for teacher and staff survey we
have
253
responses um this is about 10% more than
we had before
was it 10% 30 30 about 30 teachers we
have more Sur participate in the
survey
please
um for the so for the staff survey we
have two different survey one for
classroom teach staff which is you know
teacher and then non-classroom staff for
classroom staff um we have good
responses though some of them decline
compared to the fall but overall we are
above national
average next please for non-classroom
staff um we have rece receive lower
response and actually a lot lower um
respond a favor respond compared to the
fall as we see that um we have higher
number of um you know percentage that go
down next
slide um for school climate subject um
classroom teacher result is on top
non-classroom staff are in the bottom um
classroom teacher has consistently have
positive respond while non-classroom
staff fluctuate between the stop the
school year and the end of the school
year so they stop high and then lower at
the end of school
year next please staff leadership this
is also the same Trend um classroom
teacher seems perception to be positive
about their relationship with their
leadership uh while not classroom staff
work to8 they started out good year
school year but um ended much lower um
at the end of the school year next
please um here is uh the staff family
relationship um where it measure our St
perception of their relationship between
the family and the school
um classroom teacher perception improved
um on this topic while the noncl staff
continue to show
decline okay next
slide here is also the survey for
cultural awareness this measure how well
our staff is learning and discussing
about um different things related to
race ethnicity and culture in school um
we has been consistently below 50% for
both our classrooms teacher and
non-classroom
staff and I think that is the end of the
presentation thank you Jenny um
questions or
comments
but well it's a lot of data and uh Jenny
as always I really appreciate that we
have a data specialist on staff you know
walking us through all this collecting
all this and uh and presenting it for
for the bo important for the public so I
I appreciate that um wow Middle School
sucks that's just really rough uh we we
we hear a lot about the uh volume of
programs and activities that we're doing
to increase school spirit and school
belonging and I think a lot of the
verbiage is positive and tells a good
story but the these these numbers are
are not really positive in that same way
and are continuing to Trend in the wrong
direction and so I think it it it
provokes a discussion um like what are
we doing wrong in our our middle schools
to be in the zeroth to 10th percentile
Nationwide and what are some things that
we are planning on changing as a
district to uh to to fix this because
this is pretty clear it's a it's a
problem we're not doing well here um and
that's uh and that's disappointing um in
terms of the areas of concern I I think
that also brings up a specific set of
things I I don't think we're going to
litigate chocolate milk but I think on
the on the bathrooms front like I think
there's an open question like is there
more that we should be doing from like a
janitorial perspective to make sure that
bathrooms are clean and and orderly uh I
I don't know what we know about that
swings was on there like what's wrong
with the swings maybe there's like more
narrative behind that but there's a
couple of these things that maybe
provoke discussion about like why is
this getting brought up um do students
have a regular voice other than just
this panoramic uh Panorama survey to go
and and bring issues to the to the board
to say like hey I I think this category
of thing is not being well addressed and
and do we have the ability to respond
and look at what we can do to to mate
those things I think that would be great
um families seem like they're a lot
happier than the students are and
teachers seem even happier um so I think
like there there's there's something
that's going right with uh with the
teachers at least which is good um maybe
more work that needs to be done with the
non-classroom stuff but yeah I just like
I want to know how we this is great
because the students have spoken they've
told they've told us what's working and
what's not right and and they're telling
us especially our middle school students
like this is not working uh and we owe
them a response and that that's
obviously not something that can come in
the format correct um we have a we were
out at the middle one of the middle
schools the other day and uh with the
new principal and the new principal was
you know definitely asking you know
what's working what's not working and so
one thing that she is going to put into
place is a panel of kids you know to
really you know have voice and how can I
change things for not only for you to
feel comfortable among your teachers
among myself being brand new coming in
um what else is needed at this school
site so that's something more than you
having a survey and the other thing
about the survey have these kids care
less about the survey they just want to
get it done and out the door true so I
think there's more validity in really
having those whether it be a panel
whether it be small mini groups that
come in in at a time and speak to
administrators and to teachers and maybe
our coaches that are at the site because
we heard yesterday with the new
principal that was with us you know she
was just out there asking and and she
goes well I know what I need to do when
I get in here so that's one thing I
don't know I I just want to add it
actually is very similar to what we
heard in the student voice piece from
students in Middle School specifically
right it's less computers they really
want to make make sure that we're the
engagement in activities in the
classrooms is is key and not so much on
the computer right and so they that
they're actually voicing it so through
the the voice that we had the student
voice with alcap that was really came
out really strong that we need to work
with the teachers about how do we do
more build more collaborative work into
the into what they're doing and not just
being on a device or you know they want
some of that work and so they're asking
for it too right so there's a lot of
work to do in the Middle School um as
you can see um but also it's very you
know thinking about it as I've gone
through this just thinking it matches
our student voice and what the students
are asking for so awesome that we feel
like we're getting some consistent
Telemetry on some things that are wrong
how do we hold ourselves accountable for
making those improvements and and
changing the the multi-year trend lines
that we see are like in a bad place and
getting worse so do you take and this is
a concern I have and other
superintendents we've been talking about
it the survey do we
take if kids are just going to do it to
get do it get hell out of the classroom
and get go on and do what they want to
do is it serving a purpose for us that's
why I think the interaction face to face
the panels that you have the discussions
the student voice you get more out of
that than I I think this uh to and and
tock back on that we do have and part of
the new elcap and part of the whole
sipus part is really making sure te
principles are also having more
opportunities to talk with kids through
different surveys and figuring out what
do I need to do how do we conage this so
it is more engaging listening to
students so part of the new sipsas
that's part of the work that we're doing
next year some Stu some principles are
already started that this year though
like I know one of the middle school she
does a lot of that like their suggestion
box or this so again we also are looking
at questions and starting to revise so
we went through it as a team and looked
at every single question and saying well
what what would a team what would a
third grade say to this what would a
middle school say to this because there
are some questions that are very similar
and so looking at the similarties taking
off some of that gray area to see if we
can get better results next year as well
so because there's a lot of questions
that are very very similar and so really
thinking and what we when we were
analyzing it unfortunately surveys often
don't get us to the positive assd based
language that we're trying to use right
that's not what it is and we're like how
can we phrase this in a in a different
tone maybe we get a different response
um we also have the California healthy
kids survey which we haven't that we
still have to gather information on that
does have the tone of it is much
different than this one but it's only
given to Fifth and eighth graders so the
tone of voice is better on that one um
in terms of the selection I understand
but there's there's only so much that
that can be used to excuse the results
that we're seeing which are measured on
a nationwide percentile basis and like
the degree to which every middle
schooler is going to be like oh I have
to get through this stupid survey
whatever whatever whatever is going to
normalize across like all the different
middle schoolers across the country that
are being asked the exact same question
the exact same way and we're scoring
very lowly on a on a percentile basis
right so just what what I would love to
see is like um an action plan that that
we have some visibility into that shows
ways in which we're we're going to do
different things and improve this that
include things like the the student
panels and then some of the core areas
of concern here like what are we doing
about bathrooms what I I don't even know
what the swings issue is a dress code
came up I don't know what the context of
that concern is but that we're we're
iterating on these things yeah dress
code came up the other day when we were
when we were at that site you know it's
yeah the um the dress code is that uh
they say the girl have stricter more
strict dress code than the boy and they
would like to
the school to review that for swing I
believe it was lower grade um they want
swing on the playground I don't believe
we have swing in the not all Sites have
swings
yeah that's the problem is that not all
Sites have S we took chocolate milk away
a year and a half ago I'm not surprised
it's there
yeah a big thing yeah I mean like
there's things every every action has an
equal and opposite reaction but yeah I
was saying that chocolate milk was taken
off the menu so it doesn't surprise me
to see out in World
Cloud but the bathroom piece we can look
into we can that quickly the the piece
about the dress code that that is true
there Jenny that is one aspect the other
aspect is you know how come you know
boys have to wear she's talking about
girls these kids yesterday we can't wear
this and we can't wear that and I go
well did you let's talk to the new
principal here maybe you know you come
up with ideas why did that start to
begin with and was it a Crackdown
because and if it was can we change that
they said well she listen sure she will
she's here she's asking you right now so
it it's I I think it's more being with
the kids you know instead of placing all
these Hard Rock Rules that they don't
abide with and and will not abide with
so let them come up with some of that
too I I saw brunch come up from the
middle schoolers maybe we could give
them a win like once a month or
something we we do like a middle school
brunch I don't know um yeah I I would
prefer the face to face I I wouldn't
want to do this Sur I think you get so
much more from kids when they're open
and discuss and it's true Lear aot I
think that'll give us richer out inputs
I'm I'm curious about the outputs like
what do we do with that extra
information that we'll get from each
each site would determine what to
and then you go to what you heard okay
did we accom it are you is it better now
or is it just as bad as it was
previously so I think at a board level
just making sure that all of our sites
are doing that and are we holding the
sites accountable for closing the loop
on actually iterating on those things
and improving those
things so I asked a few questions um
through email and and actually one of my
big Reflections was you know this is
really useful to see um but it's at a a
district-wide level and so one of my
questions was you know what were the
difference did we see differences among
School sites and in the different areas
um Anna responded to me that you can see
like a 13 to 30% difference between
school sites so the answer is yes that
um depending upon what the question is
some school sites may be doing better
than others on these different areas and
so I think the important thing is
exactly what we just talked about is
that at the individual School sites the
principal and the teachers and the staff
really need to be looking at their data
for their school and then reflecting
upon that and Anna did tell me that it
will be reflected in the sipsas in terms
of you know here's the things we're
going to be working on I really like the
idea of regular feedback I I agree I
just think you know regular feedback
where they give you feedback and then
they get to see you actually do
something with it as opposed to a survey
that comes twice a year that kind of
comes to the board and you know they may
not know that we're actually using that
so one thing the principles could do is
say hey I got this data you know we're
gonna make take action on it so they
begin to see that oh it is important and
then maybe they take it a little more
seriously but I I do love the idea of
just the regular feedback and I mean if
you talk to any middle school kids they
have a well any kid they have a lot to
tell you and we need to be listening and
adjusting they were quite vocal the
other day yeah and it sounds like I mean
I think our school staff are open to
that right and we're you know we're
making some changes at the
administration level and teaching
teaching so you know I'm
hopeful um and then the the only other
thing is you know some of the the um
like when you look at some of the
populations like the in number is kind
of small so like one or two students
could skew that the other thing that
Anna brought up with me which is
interesting is that the test taken in
the spring is taken at this very similar
time as all the other testing and so
it's probably not the best time to be
asking kids about what they think
because they maybe already stressed out
enough on the you know so I know you're
going to be rethinking the the timing of
that and then uh patrinia did get back
to me on uh the different questions and
what's being taken out and added and I
thought it was a really good list that
the team came up with uh including when
you looked at some of the qu you know we
we did this a long time ago with the
banks of questions and you're kind of
limited with what's there but I will say
some of those questions I think part of
the issue is that depending upon how you
read it you may actually be responding
to the question of what do you think
other students are feeling not what
you're feeling which is a different sort
of thing because you might be super
engaged but you're kind of pissed off
because you feel like the rest of them
are not engaged so then you mark not
engaged when in fact you know who knows
if everybody so so some of the questions
were a little skewed that I think you
did delete which I think are good
because they were repeated in other ways
that were maybe clear um and then the
other thing I just want to bring up is I
don't know what the number of school
districts that use this but we reflect
it's not all school districts for the
whole United States it's with that said
I mean I agree that we need to do better
like we you know it's a statistically
meaningful s well I don't I don't know
about that that's my question because it
certainly more so than if we just look
at an isolation but it has to be on the
same bank bank of questions and I think
it's supposed to be like similar like
District so what I don't know is what
that in is and we haven't asked that
question in a long time I would be
curious is it is it five school
districts is it 50 is it 5,000 I I don't
know um and we asked like how long ago
was this normed well exactly another
question I I don't think they've updated
their process because we we started this
10 years ago longer I don't know um I
was on it my first year and this is my
ninth year okay so yeah eight or nine
years ago and so I don't know how much
they've kept up to speed
so anyway with that said I still think
there's a lot of useful data and clearly
we have work to do and then then the
other thing is you also mentioned that
some of this will get wrapped up into
the LC cap as well so yes anyway thank
you yeah I mean love it or hate it I
think that there's a strong signal in
there that or six you know something
needs to be done for you know in the
Middle School um and also the trend line
from um as students progress through the
grades in their grouping um because that
at least we can see against our own
student groups that that's been historic
historical that as they as they advanc
in the grades they seem to be having you
know I think it was last year or the
year before we would do the challenging
questions in the elap and the one that
was always would come up is that we're
kind of producing a system where kids
are enjoying school less and less as
they progress Through The Years um and
that's still repeating there um I think
getting the student Voice is awesome um
and for Middle School well I I still
believe that having that that strong
student adult relationship is probably
one of the strongest indicators of how
how well the student going to do
um you know socially and academically
and everything at school um and I think
that getting the feedback and being able
to have that reflected back hearing the
student voice um and putting that
together um I think would be you know a
strong step towards that uh it'll be
interesting to see what comes out of it
there's a lot of initiatives going on at
the school um and you know many of them
are you know seem solely focused on
academics but I think that they have a
great way of also trying to bring up the
engagement there I think with Le the
changing in the math curriculum the the
strengthening of reading and reading
instruction so that kids can have more
you know the ones that need more
intervention and help to get up to speed
in Reading can start to get there um you
know I don't want us to forget that
don't get me wrong I love the um
everything outside of acad mics I think
that's an important part of the school
but I don't want us to forget that the
investment that we're putting into the
core academics I think is also the right
place for being able to see an improve
in Improvement in the climate it is a
long Trend um to be able to see those
roll out I mean these take like five
years probably before we can feel like
they're fully rolled out that we know
what we're doing with them and how to
put that in so um you know we're in it
for the long haul here but I think that
that's definitely the right direction
and I I'm I'm glad again that we made
those changes last
for this year uh last year for this year
um and appreciate all the work that the
teachers and the you know all the staff
um both that the district office and on
the site are doing towards those um
we're not going to see it reflected this
year in the Panorama survey we might
even see it counter reflective because
of you know adopting to the new new way
that that training comes but I think
that over the years um you know we
should try and correlate how that uh
influences uh School climate um so that
we we can see whether or not it does
have that positive correlation that I
would think that we're hoping to see but
thanks for the
presentation I don't have anything
additional to add I think you guys have
all covered everything I was gonna say
um and Alisa I just want to repeat what
you said too and and some of these just
moved off of the slide the
um uh results by
student
uh by ethnicities
yeah when you have an N size of 10 or 13
yeah um a change of one or two is going
to make a big difference so um I take
all of that with a grain of salt the
overall the Panorama survey just
frustrates me for all the reasons that
we talked about um the how easy it is to
misread some of the questions how
questions are repeated um you might
think you're giving it a high Mark a low
Mark I mean I actually did that when I
was taking it I went whoops like they
just flip-flopped the way they were
asking it I know and you know it was the
best available to us at the time but
again we haven't really looked what's
out there and now that every so we
actually adopted it before every School
District in California was required to
do a climate survey like now that's part
of our like require like every you have
to so there may in fact be some better
oh yeah I was just saying that we
adopted this before like we were ahead
of the curve because a lot of school
districts were not doing climate surveys
now it's required for every school
district to do one in California and so
with that but you don't have it doesn't
have to be this tool it could be a
different tool so that may be like you
know staff you guys are plenty busy
right now you've already made some
decisions let's keep climate but you you
know you may want to at some point just
as you're talking to other school
districts is there a better tool out
there because we've heard consistent
frustration at the formatting of the
questions at the utility of the data the
actionability of the data um let's not
change tools because we're unhappy with
what the tools are telling us but like
but I think yeah the goal would be to
change uh change tools to something that
is going to be more helpful more
actionable and yeah yeah um andna remind
me did the um the classroom staff and
the outside the classroom staff get the
same
questions I I think they do because I
remember that being an issue that um
like some of our classified staff that
aren't with the families like say they
work out of the district office they
don't know what the um family
relationship is like so they mark it
lower um just because there's no there's
no option to say I don't know other
than actually the district office staff
have a different survey they also have a
different survey for the school survey
for teachers the classroom and
non-classroom the set of question are
really similar when it come to like your
relationship with leadership does they
listen to like those things are similar
questions but there are a couple
questions in there that are different
like the questions where do you push
your student in the classroom to to
learn well that question would not be in
the non-classroom STA survey it's it's a
little bit different but it's they have
majority other the similar questions
thank you for that yeah but I agree it's
um probably time to to see what else is
available at this point um not not right
now but important but not urgent yes yes
um well we're hoping that with next year
the changes hopefully will get a better
response because there were a lot of
similar questions that were skewed and
for a student to read those and like you
said is this one going to be a high or
not so we really tried to go through
that being mindful um to reduce some of
them while we have to still do the
family one we haven't done the family
one but we did do the students the
student ones and went through them very
cautiously and looking at them um so
that we can then maybe reduce some of
them she we also have the opportunity to
actually add our own questions as well
if we wanted to but they're not nored
that's else on
this great thank you very much thank you
J you're
welcome okay we pulled
12.1 the calendar um for the June 5th
meeting so we are on consent items
there's a motion to approve I'll move to
approve seconded all those in favor all
right thank you we have no action items
so we are on to reports from board and
superintendent would anybody like to
start all right uh let's see we had a
Workforce housing committee meeting to
prepare for the close session
tonight uh let's see I did go I think I
already well I mentioned this at our our
um offsite we had but I did go to the
Redwood City Education Foundation they
had a a fundraising event and I went to
that
went to the Kent Awards I think a lot of
us were there for that uh to honor our
mental health program that was a lot of
fun and then the induction ceremony
which a lot of us were at nicely
done byle and then the Wine Walk which a
number of number staff and board members
were there and that was again a
fundraiser for the Redwood City
Education Foundation sponsored by the
rotary and then uh the superintendent
advisory
Council Cecilia and I attended that on
Monday night and actually we got some
good presentations on the federal
program monitoring as well as uh Foster
use and unhoused and actually the
federal program monitoring I was
thinking I don't know if we need a
presentation to the whole board but it
might be interesting just to share that
PowerPoint has that been shared with the
board I do not believe yeah just because
I know we've heard a lot about it but I
I thought it was kind of a useful
presentation to remind everybody learned
a couple of things that I didn't know so
what we could do is we could do it
during our meetings yeah so yeah so I
don't I don't think it's yeah however
you want to do it but but I thought I
thought that was useful to kind of hear
from Katherine on that and then finally
the the biggest bulk of the thing I did
spend three days in Sacramento with the
California school boards association
with the board meeting and delegate
assembly and I think today probably you
all got there's a lot of conversation
about the prop 98 maneuvering which
could be super impactful particular
particularly for state funded districts
but also for districts like ours that
are Community funded because there's
extra funding that we get and uh the
governor is basically trying to what we
believe csba believes is an
unconstitutional maneuver so uh if
people would like to Advocate um please
do I've already done so um we talked
about a number of ballot measures that
are um potentially impacting school
districts probably the biggest one that
we still don't have final language on
but it'll be a facilities Bond measure
and hopefully I think they're sort of
trying to negotiate what amount that
would be U but the governor I know is
supportive of it and that would go
forward from the state legisl state
legislature so we'll know more about
that and of course Redwood City would be
um open to getting funding from that to
help uh cost share what we're doing we
talked a lot about the budget um
legislative oh this is what okay so on
legislation uh there's a lot of bills
that uh csba is reviewing on our behalf
and advocating for but one of the things
that I just wanted to and I I brought a
few copies is drowning in documentation
we have talked a lot about this in
reports so here's a list of just some of
the state and federal reports it doesn't
even include the local things you might
have to do for Grants and um we're doing
a whole campaign on this and we're
actually sponsoring legislation through
an assembly or state person I forget now
Senator I'm not sure which now um but
we're hoping to basically make it a
requirement by CDE to require them to
account for all the different reports
and to talk you know on a yearly basis
and say Here's all the things required
here's how we're using this information
here's how long it's taking school
districts prepare these things so anyway
the idea is we're hoping to pressure
them a little bit on perhaps reducing
the amount of documentation uh to a more
appropriate level so that was actually
really exciting and I do have um a few
copies here I'll just pass those along
if you want to look at it and there's
also the policy platform for uh csba
which is always interesting to look at
which uh sort of account for the
advocating um components of what we work
on oh and then the other thing did I
don't know if I passed this on but there
csba just created a Workforce housing
web page did I pass that on okay and so
the thing I just want to highlight for
the public in case anyone wants to go to
it they can go to the csba website and
do education Workforce housing but they
now have a list of school districts that
are considering Workforce housing in the
process like in the planning stages
under construction and completion and
the list is getting longer every day and
that doesn't even account for all the
school districts that have been
contacting csba for support around this
so um it's definitely a Hot Topic that I
heard about at the delegate assembly
there's a lot of school districts
looking at education Workforce housing
whether they're in rural areas or urban
areas or Suburban areas everybody's
having issues with um housing their
employees so pretty interesting there
okay those were the highlights there's
lots of other stuff that
happened but uh yeah you you already
mentioned the Kent Awards
congratulations for mental health
program uh it was a great event I glad I
was able to make it to the whole whole
thing because I was worried I wasn't
gonna get there until after the dinner
that it was fun the induction colloquium
was was outstanding it was a great
afternoon out on uh Henry fordfield um
also uh had scheduled to measure you
oversight committee but they we weren't
able to meet they weren't able to meet
because of lack of Quorum but there was
a chance to sit around for a little bit
and just start of talk with members that
were there and they had some good
suggestions about how to make the line
item descriptions more accessible to the
community um the last elcat meeting
happened between our last board meeting
and now um and we were looking through
the different actions and expenditures I
think we broke up by act by uh goal and
and look through those um and then I
visited Orion for principal's coffee uh
sto by the Library uh and the
Multicultural yeah the Multicultural
travel week know yeah I got I got the
visit I got to visit Australia I only
could make it to one classroom because
there was a break in the tour um it was
teacher Rachel's kindergarten classroom
and they were I was show around by Aiden
one of the kindergarteners um and it was
a lot of fun uh kangaroos other
marsupial you know crabs I he made a
crab that he was really proud of um so
it was just it was yeah it was awesome
fourth graders were in there getting
shown around um so it was a fun fun trip
and the um principal's coffee was great
too the parents there asked really
really engaging questions and I thought
principal Winnie answered them really
well and and assistant principal Briana
um I actually learned a lot about the
Stanford screen a roar U because someone
was asking about like is this an
effective use of teachers time like
they're giving yet another assessment to
students and they don't even know what
it is and are we just you know are we
just I have guinea pigs as pet so I'm
not going to say that are we just the
guinea pigs maybe are we the trial
animal for the um the uh exam um and you
know it was just talking about how hey
Universal screening is coming this is
positive Stanford's actually here
helping us um being able to get it we're
getting a lot of information um so it's
both a great answer but also really
really informative um hopefully Roar
gets selected if we're happy with it as
a screener so that we can double down on
that uh investment that's going in there
but I was dutifully keeping an eye on
Mike and also attended the lcap meeting
and made made sure he behaved himself at
the principal's coffee Ryan um fall yeah
pretty much pretty much I can and and he
did indeed uh conduct himself
professionally so um those were the two
things that I did um also just had some
interesting discussions with folks about
uh last week's uh artificial
intelligence announcements both in terms
of GPT 40 uh as well as the uh new
Gemini models from Google uh kind of
backtack and the implications that those
might have for education you know as
artificial intelligence tooling it
continues to increase in quality and
sophistication and as the latency comes
down so you've got uh in these
multimodal models you can hold up a
camera and be talking to it at the same
time ask it questions about what you see
and get back answers and instruction and
code uh and audio um all of that and so
just if you haven't yet taken a look at
some of the demos for uh the GPT 40 uh
release last week it is pretty startling
what state-of-the-art is um this stuff
would have seemed like sci-fi years ago
and it's now on us and I think this
could be tremendously powerful as we
look to how we can Empower kids in our
district to learn um so it's just that's
been really exciting to to be
tracking um all of might have been
covered the Kenta words the induction
colloquium and Workforce housing the
only thing I wanted to say um since
induction was at um Henry Ford um I I
don't know if you guys all got to see
but Jennifer handed out the Mustang
strong their new um newspaper they're
doing which is um student design that's
really really cool um so feel free to
pass that
out yeah did you make did anyone make it
differ you make it differ no because um
we had I think it was we had the CL no
no your yeah accent thing uh um yeah but
and it's really cool I I was a um
student newspaper editor too so I was
super proud of it for wants to start one
for Orion so like I'm compare out copy
you can show
to anything for you Dr b no uh just in
uh as I said previously Anna and I both
went to one of the middle schools this
past week and introduced a new principal
and she spent the whole day there so it
was great so B spent the day there and
then came back to the district office
and interviewed for
VP what was that then she came back to
the district office and started
interviewing for VP for an assistant
principal so and about the AI piece it
is interesting uh David did send me a a
video to watch and it's something that
may help our students especially if we
can't find the tutoring that we need so
something to think about and I did
download the 4.0 and I I have it right
it's amazing it's it's kind of freaky
yeah it's amazing these these models
also are capable of about a 100
different languages and so for
multilangual instruction as well whether
it's mandrin or Chinese English uh all
three yeah it could be very
interesting great thank you um
correspondence just been
quiet exhaust end of the year yeah did
you want to say that we're got the
resolution or Not that we're bring did
you talk to I have not talked
okay um okay let's see possible business
items for the future
agenda you know um not for this year but
maybe for next year kind of riffing off
the artificial intelligence I do think
it would be at some point when staff is
ready it would be an interesting maybe
board study session or at least just a
reflection on how staff are using the
art you know using artificial
intelligence at different levels because
teaching or administering or whatever
and um you know just how the board maybe
can help support that or whatever but
again I I would say that's for whenever
maybe sometime later fall or something
like that and then I did want to mention
just on the AI you know csba also has a
task force and they're bringing in all
sorts of experts and they've got a few
documents right now on their website are
they working on policy and they're
working on policies you know template
policies and other sorts of things so um
but like you said it's moving so fast
it's and so there yeah but anyway so you
know at some point I just think let's
add that to the list of possible topics
and I think the other side of that is
there are a lot of people who are
knowledgeable about artificial
intelligence advances here in Silicon
Valley we're right in the heart of it
and so I I could imagine some benefit in
having short uh presentations on
state-of-the-art in AI in education and
options for for us to go is is part of
that okay um changes to the
calendar no no
changes that brings us to the end of our
agenda 8:27 is there a motion to adjourn
I move we
adjourn I'll second all those in favor a
thank you I just want to shout out to
Henry Ford there's a number of staff at
um hung out in our meeting the whole
time so thank you for being here