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all right I think we'll go ahead and get
started um Evelyn can you start with a
roll call trusty Lee present trusty King
trusty Marquez here vice president
Weekley is absent uh president wels
here all right I'm going to start with
the report out on the closed session
from today February 5th 2025 uh the
board received information and no action
was
taken uh let's move on to our welcome uh
good evening welcome to the February 5th
2025 meeting of the Redwood City School
District governing
board again welcome all members of the
public are Partners in education and the
board encourages you to participate and
provide comments on issues of concern
regardless of whether they are on the
agenda to speak please complete a
speaker card online or if you're here in
person uh you'll find them available at
the entrance to complete um so fill one
out and then hand it to Evelyn uh if
you're addressing a subject listed on
the agenda you'll be called on at the
time that item is being considered but
if the issue is not on the agenda you'll
be called shortly uh during the oral
communication agenda item and then to be
fair to all speakers uh we limit public
comments to 3 minutes per person per
topic uh unless otherwise
noted uh with that I'll move on to
changes for the uh to the agenda I don't
know if anyone has an additions
deletions
modifications all right with that uh
let's uh can I get a motion to approve
the
agenda motion to approve the
agenda second okay all in favor I great
then we will move on to oral
communication uh we have a a few
speakers cards in person and I saw at
least one online so we will start with
the
inperson uh to begin with and I've got
them numbered here so to start with uh
Maria
Stockton sorry uh by the way could you
turn the microphone on yeah it's the
button that looks like a person and the
light will turn red ah you got it thank
you hi there I'm Maria Stockton I am the
chapter president for CCA uh Redwood
City 5 that's California School
Employees Association and if you have
not yet understood what a classifi is
you take all the teachers out all the
administrator everybody else who serves
the children of this District are
classified employees so Food Service bus
drivers clerical custodians they're all
mine so I'm their new president for the
next two years so you get to hear from
me every often so I'm here tonight to
say today we started no yesterday we
actually started negotiations I think it
was very fruitful and today we did as
well and so uh I would like to thank my
team who is Shauna ingersol representing
clerical Mike mckenny Transportation
Ronnie oera custodians Maria bues de oy
Food Service Rosario Gonzalez per
Educators and Ivon Mendes for special
services for doing such a great job and
we also want to thank the district
Representatives because we felt they
listened to us we listened to them and
it was very productive I feel so uh
thank you very
much thank you Maria for your comments
and for recognizing your team in the
district um let's see our next speaker
is uh uh Diana scalant
okan hello my name is Diana scante okon
and I've been the librarian at adalante
Selby for 14 years I wanted to speak to
the board members about the proposed
reduction in our working hours and
provide a clear picture of how my
current schedule is utilized to support
our students effectively I understand
that budget cuts are necessary but it is
important for me to share with you what
my job entails we have been told by
numerous co-workers at the do has
reviewed our library schedules and has
commented on our time that we don't see
classes this is why I'm here to clear
this communic miscommunication up the
empty spaces on my schedule are not
times that I don't work it's when I do
most of my work throughout the day
Thursdays are not the day that I don't
work it's the day that I do everything
that I cannot do throughout the week
essential tasks that directly benefit
our students in the broader School
Community there isn't one minute of my 7
and a half hours a day that aren't
working minutes on a written schedule
you may see open blocks but which
include recess lunch and times that I am
working around class availability
currently I see 20 classes a week lowest
day is four classes highest is six
during the times that I don't see
classes I'm doing ongoing Library
maintenance that involves shelving up to
300 books a day I am cleaning up the
shelves that even the best classes can
demolish I am processing books
processing each book involves seven
steps and minutes for each book for the
Spanish books that I purchase it can
take up to 10 steps for each book
Spanish and Mandarin book processing is
much more timec consuming than English
Library maintenance involves researching
and ordering cataloging and processing
meetings and trainings working on our
own professional development extensive
book repairs running reports ongoing
problem solving with our database
working on newsletters and My Librarian
Instagram page being a mentor to our new
Librarians reaching out to parents for
late and lost books and Community
engagement such as special events with
the public library and author visits
these tasks underscore the importance of
our current schedule as they are
essential to the academic and Social
Development of our students speaking for
myself reducing my hours were would
significantly impact my ability to
perform these tasks effectively I will
not have the time to do most of these
maintenance tasks next year the district
office wants to cut my hours from 37.5
down to 30 hours a week basically
eliminating one day a week my favorite
thing to do is plan vibrant and fun
lesson plans sometimes up to four
different ones each week for different
grade levels teaching our students the
beauty of literature and non-fiction I
have painstakingly worked on these
lesson plans which are not just a read
aloud but interactive activities using
the Smartboard for photos and videos
along with games to play that teach them
correct Library usage I'm here to
clarify that I use every minute of every
day doing the job that I do today's
Library isn't just checking books in and
out like the ones from the 80s it's
interactive alive in a constantly
shifting experience that's entirely up
to me I am able to accomplish a lot and
build a strong Library program for
utante salby students and staff thank
you thank you Diane for sharing your
schedule and experience um our next
experiences Devon
molini next speaker
uh good evening board and everybody
online at home hopefully a few of my
students I'm an eighth grade math and
science teacher over at Hoover and um I
got to say the main reason I want to
fill out the card and address all of you
is my appreciation for our
Administration for one thing um it's
great to be at a place where I actually
feel acknowledged and appreciated um
I've been another schools where that has
been the opposite and um it's it makes
it where okay what I do counts it
matters I get to go to work that's one
thing the support staff not just for our
school but throughout the district is
crucial and I am grateful for them and
um if they don't get the acknowledgement
that they should which they are working
behind the scenes constantly up until 11
o'clock at night
6 o'clock in the morning I mean you guys
are Eternal on all levels it's
appreciated all right and as far
as Diane um my kids went to adalante
Selby she remembered them by name she
remember the books they checked out
would talk to them about the books they
checked out not looking it up she knows
her
students Nancy Vi at our school
fantastic well organized
loving and absolutely well informed when
it comes to the information we have the
books available what the students needs
are and making extra Bridges she helped
organize a field trip for our eighth
graders to go to the Redwood City
Library get a tour of the facilities get
their library cards and not just find
out about books about the teen center
about all of the extracurricular
activities that are going on there the
make maker space it's they're invaluable
please please please support them um so
that's really why I want to speak today
just so that way there is a voice for a
lot of us and a lot of directions all in
appreciation okay thank you for the
time thanks St I appreciate your
comments and your appreciation of your
colleagues uh and then we have one more
speaker for and by the way um we have
one more speaker for Hoover but I'm
going to save that one for the
presentation uh there um so I'm going to
go to the next uh General open
communication one oral comments with uh
this one's online it's Megan ory
green hello everybody my name is Megan
O'Reilly Green I have soon to be four
children at the um um is that to get
that to come over the speaker so that we
can hear
um can you still can you hear
me I think we have work around yeah
we'll do we'll we'll do that okay yes go
ahead Megan we'll we'll start the three
minutes over and uh we'll get going from
there yeah sure so um I'm I'm Megan I
have soon to be four children in the
Orion mandin immersion program and I'm
just calling in today um on behalf of
the prospective Mi families that have
been recently attending board meetings
and I'm calling today to express my
support for the recruiting efforts and
the active placement of the desired
classes for the Orion Co-op program we
are very gratified to have received
placement for three TK classes of Mi at
Orion because this is the minimum number
of classes needed across National Mi
schools to have a healthy cohort in
Middle School however we want to express
that we know that skipping a class of
enrollment is equally difficult for
Co-Op as it is for Mi and we support the
eventual placement of a second Co-op T
class TK class in the second round
because they tend to have a different
enrollment pattern than us and they have
they tend to have a lot of families
expressing interest in enrolling in the
second round um and so we wanted to
express support for them and and show
our solidarity with them um as we
continue to recruit to fill out our Mi
classes we really don't want this to be
a competition for space or resources or
classes and I want to show that we
support each other in doing what's best
and what's right for our sister
program um and also I just want to point
out that you know this situation you
know this current imbalance and the
anxiety that families have felt this
points to um a missed opportunity I
think um in our community um for the
Orion growth committee to be presented
with accurate data on growth we had
projected there was projected that we
would lose 84 students in fact at
present I think we're we're gaining over
50 students across both programs even if
you even if you account for the families
that we expect to lose for norstar which
we're not going to lose everyone that
applied anyway um and we if Coop gets
their second te class which which we
expect then we could they could we could
stand to have almost 70 or 80 students
new students at that campus so um I'm
calling to say that I hope that the
community can be given a chance to
process growth you know the needed
growth for Mi what's best for Co-Op and
talk about it as a community um because
I think that that's important so that we
can provide input on the the outcome of
growth and the effect that that would
have on each respective program
thank you guys so much and thank you so
much for all the classified staff we
know how hard you guys work and I want
to express my support for you too
there's no audio coming through
remotely um there's no audio coming
through
remotely can you guys hear me I can hear
you but we cannot hear what's happening
in the boardroom oh okay all
right I'll just mute
myself Mike Dr Baker We cannot hear you
online
all right now we're it's gonna
Echo here Hang on we're just having a
little bit of technical difficulty okay
good we're in good shape um it'll be
hard for us to hear people online but I
think we can make it through from there
um okay so that was it for oral
communication we're going to move on to
the bond program consent items um and so
9.1 is approval of the all the items U
Can I have a motion to approve
oh yeah do you want to do you want to do
your clarification it wasn't yeah sorry
about that we're g to go back and let Dr
Baker just clarify one thing from oral
comments
okay talk through
yours so I don't I I don't understand
where the miscommunication came from
because there is a second TK for the
Orion Co-op it was never stated that
that was not going to exist uh principal
wnny at this point in time is doing
additional tours she's doing additional
um
applications at the time when she's
doing tours with families so I just
don't know where this miscommunication
came from that was never stated from the
district
office okay
thanks and now I'm going to Carlos you
want me to try mic turn again okay I'm
gonna back uh trusty weekly can you hear
me yes okay great we're back on back in
business here okay so moving on to the
um Bond program consent items um is
there a motion to approve the bond
program consent
items motion to
approve and a second second all in favor
I great let's move on to bond program
action items this is 10.1 approval of
the agreement for rental and purchase of
mobile air conditioning
units uh good evening uh tonight we have
Jen Gibb from vpcs joining us in the
audience and Eric Van Pelt from vpcs
joining us online uh and I'm going to
show the presentation and turn it over
to
them thank you so much for having me I
am Jennifer Gibb I'm the program manager
um supporting um measure s and tonight
we we have an item on for the purchase
of um temporary air conditioning units
at our sites so if you go to the next
slide just a little update um in the
next slide on measure s we um the board
approved um the architect uh contract in
November of 2024 for um upgrades of our
HVAC units
districtwide um in 2025 this coming
summer we plan um to replace the hbac
units and install um new units at four
sites uh at atan Shelby Hoover Roosevelt
and Taft and continue the design process
for um the remaining District uh sites
for an implementation and installation
in 2026 and the following summer
2027 if you go to the next slide um
tonight there was an item for approval
for um the purchase of some units and
also the rental of some units so we did
a cost benefit analysis of
what it would cost to supply the
district with all units being rented and
then also a portion of the units being
purchased so before you now you can see
that um we've looked at the current uh
2025 sites that would be a rental cost
of
$25,000 to get those rented for a a few
months two to three months and then um
replace the units during the summer for
those four sites and then uh rental
units um for the next four uh sites per
for all sites for um four sites for 15
months and then another four sites for
27 months that brings um the total and
we did have some contingency applied
just because the pricing of units can go
up um and so we wanted to make sure that
we were covered for that that would
bring if we rented all the units uh we'd
be requesting
2.7 of 2 $7 million um with measure s
bond funds if you go to the next slide
we looked at the cost to rent some of
the units and then purchase the
remaining units so rental of 130 units
because that would be a short-term
rental for the units um that we are
preparing for replacement this summer um
so they continue 205,000 for that and
then a purchase of
178 units which um is significantly
lower at 600
10,000 for the um all the remaining
eight sites we have um 10% contingency
and bringing that total um would be
under a million at
$896,000
um there's two different type of units
those um because of the opportunity and
the mass purchasing of a large quantity
of units um we looked at providing all
those units this spring that we were
needed to have two different types of
units they are similar it in their
function it's just that with getting 178
units in a couple months we need the
need to be flexible with that another um
opportunity that we um are utilizing
here tonight is also the purchase of
these units under a piggyback uh
contract and that would be um that is
something the district has participated
in the past you've participated in an
Omnia contract under public contract
code um um I just have to make sure I
say the right one um excuse me public
contract code uh to
21118 it's a public contract code that
districts are allowed to utilize with
mass purchasing a piggyback um the
piggyback purchase would be um
purchasing those under a selection
process that the another district has
already gone through which was a
competitive process and you're utilizing
that for the purchase of your units um
so that was the procurement process that
we would like to move forward with if
you go to the next slide um we'd
recommend purchasing these units um
doing a portion um which was the rental
for the four sites that we're going to
use this summer and then the remaining
purchase of the 178 units for the
consecutive
Summers and with that I have can answer
any questions of the
board all right thank you um for walking
us through that uh
I do have did anyone have like a quick
clarifying question before we get into
discussion there's one public speaker so
I can take that next no okay um and then
our public speaker
is uh for 10.1 Carl
Anders all right I think I'm
unmuted um trustees thanks for uh
hearing me this evening I think normally
you take public comment after you
discuss but I'm fine hang on Carl um we
couldn't quite hear you I'm gonna try
okay he's Crystal Clear online just so
you
know okay um Carl go ahead and go ahead
and give it a try again how about now
Mike can you hear me I can yes okay I uh
happy to speak tonight on this topic um
I uh trustees I'm a big fan of of
spending money in our schools I'm
working on this citizens paral tax
initiative to hopefully bring more money
to the district big fan of spending Bond
money big fan of hbac upgrades we've
heard so many teachers complain about
the hot classroom so this will be great
in the spring and um it's going to be
great when this is permanently done so
big fan of portable AC this is great
it's a perfect interim solution um my
question is really about uh charging
rental costs for two to three months for
some of the units to the bond bond fund
um I don't think that's a proper use of
bond money and um rather than argue that
point though the point that I'd like to
make this evening is just to think about
the bond spending this is my suggestion
not can we spend this as Bond money but
should we spend this as Bond money and I
think the way to think about that is the
bargain that was cast with the taxpayers
is we're going to get $300 million for
measure s you taxpayers will pay that
back over 30
years um in the first trunch at a 4%
interest rate so every dollar that you
spend from measure s costs the taxpayers
US
$340 over the next 30 Years and so when
you think about hey should we rent an
air conditioning unit for two to three
months and then pay for it over 30 years
at three times the cost it just doesn't
make sense I think the taxpayers want
you to build beautiful class rooms and
libraries and steam facilities with that
money and I fully support that um now I
know a rental makes
sense uh and so maybe you just pay for
that out of the general funds If instead
you want to buy all the units that's
fine too now the taxpayers have a
capital asset that you've Acquired and
when they're no longer needed maybe the
district can sell them and get some
money back that's great but please don't
use Bond money that we have to pay for
30 years on a 2 to three-month rental
thank you than
you all right thank you Carl okay great
thanks Carl um before we move into board
discussion um just Rick to kind of
follow up on that comment can we use a
different funding source for the um the
rentals well I agree that this is kind
of bundled together as the same project
it might be clearer if it had a
different funding source for for the
rentals
only excuse me yeah good evening uh yes
we can use a different funding source we
could use different facilities fund fund
25 or 35 to pay for the rental cost and
so if we were to proceed with this
action tonight um that would be part of
it um having a different different
funding source for the rentals and and
then the bond money for the purchase of
the capital asset yes I certainly can be
yes then um with that clarified um I'd
like to uh open up to any of the
trustees here who want to if they have
questions or
comments quick comment for me uh online
Trust weekly here um I really appreciate
can you guys
hear Hello thumbs up can you hear me he
okay David uh you got to hang on a
second I can turn the M can he can he
can speak but as if you're gonna take a
vote he does he doesn't get to vote
right yeah I understand that I don't get
okay so I think got volume on for you
David try it now can can you hear
me can you hear me
now yes I'm seeing nods okay awesome I
just wanted to thank the district staff
for the rigorous analysis here about
whether it made sense to rent versus buy
and which tranches to rent versus which
tranches to buy um there was further
email correspondence where there's
clarification about what we do with the
purchased temporary units at end of life
um and just I I feel like the staff
approached this in a really thoughtful
way to go and minimize the the cost
impact while making sure to respond
timely to the Urgent needs that we've
heard from teachers from parents Etc to
have air conditioning available before
it starts getting hot again so it's just
a note of
thanks all right thanks David yeah and I
I agree I mean ensuring a comfortable
learning environment is critical for
students focus and well-being we heard a
lot of that especially in the hot months
at the beginning of the year um and so
uh getting something in place um for the
spring and Su and early summer and then
the longterm improvements that are
coming is going to be great and again I
like David um I totally appreciate the
hybrid approach and the way that you're
looking at it it seems really thoughtful
and cost effective um and you know to be
able to address a cost effective way to
address the immediate needs um and
keeping long-term fiscal responsibility
you know kind of in mind um with that I
guess we can go ahead and see if I can
get a motion to
approve remember what the change in
funding source is for the
rental to
approve think second all in favor I
okay uh this is on okay so we have a we
have a speaker in the room on this one
uh one just before it finishes so we'll
take it uh Devon
meany hello again um so I I'm uh
unfortunately I haven't been keeping
close tabs on the air conditioning
discussion promotions and whatnot thank
you very much uh enough of being in
ovens uh it gets a little toasty during
the summer or spring or even early fall
um something to consider especially with
the portable units um right now I've got
34 students in each of my classes we max
out at 35 um they're eighth graders
they're pretty much some of them are
really in adult bodies already having a
another thing on the floor in the room
taking up space sounds a little
challenging so I don't know if we can
get those up top and actually have the
units on the roof permanently would be
optimal that's my only concern otherwise
yes please air conditioning that's it
they will it's Hoover Hoover will get
them and then Hoover is one of the first
schools to get the permanent one so the
temporary yeah so the temporary for
Hoover would be just for this spring and
then HVAC will be upgraded over the
summer and you'll come back to um you
won't even have a unit in there not
mounted on the ceiling or on the floor
so but thank you for the comment um I
appreciate hearing it we did hear a lot
from the community uh parents staff um
in the classroom out of the classroom
about the real need for this Improvement
so appreciate it all right let's move on
to school and Community reports we're
going to start with 11.1 uh the
financial and performance audits for the
building
funds excuse me uh good evening again uh
tonight we are presenting uh under 11.1
the financial performance audit for both
major TNS uh joining me tonight uh is
our lead auditor from uh e Bailey uh and
I'll let him introduce himself I'll say
a mod and I don't want to butcher his
last name but he's here to uh present
the uh audit to the board thank you good
evening um name is uh Ahad GBE I know
it's a little difficult to pronounce but
um uh tonight you have the annual
financial report for the district and
along with that is uh measure s& so Rick
are these a separate agenda item or are
they together uh S&T are one item and
then the next item is the district's
audit and we're starting out with the
S&T I see um and so S&T is a little bit
different than the districts it's uh
ensuring that the financial statements
of those two measures are fairly stated
and they are segregated from The
District's funds and along with that uh
you are required to have a performance
audit per Proposition 39 which is
effectively compliance audit ensuring
that the expenses are in compliance with
what the voters had voted on and so it's
a two segment type of audit we the
financial aspect of it we confirm the
receipts we confirm your cash your bond
proceeds uh we test the expenses and we
make sure that the amounts are uh fairly
stated with respect to those two
measures and then with respect to the
performance audit we sit with your
project managers we take a look at the
expenses we make sure that these
expenses are in accordance with what the
voters had voted on and I'm pleased to
let you know that those two measures did
not have any exceptions adjustments or
findings and we issued a clean opinion
on both the financial statements and the
compliance or the performance audit and
with that I'll be more than happy to
take any questions thank you Aman for
the presentation and the audit um do any
of the trustees have any questions
comments I just want to say thank you um
I know it takes a lot of hours for you
guys to go through it and so um finding
with the fine Com or however you say it
um so I I appreciate all the work that
you guys do and I'm happy to hear that
there was no
findings yeah likewise and
congratulations to the district I mean
there's multiple levels of oversight on
this tax money that the voters have
entrusted in the district um and it's
just it's nice to see that this one
check the audit has come through clean
um as does the oversight committee uh so
this is an action item so we need a
motion and a second to
approve oh David sorry sorry I know um
just to clarify I did see and I think
you answered this but the there was
language About Management override of
controls being a significant risk I
think what you mentioned was that this
is standard language is that correct yes
we are required to tell you a few things
in that letter that you saw in there uh
and one of these things is what we did
in terms of the audit and we always look
at management override this is just the
standard procedure making sure that
procedures in place in there to ensure
that the the internal controls are
adhere to your policies are adhere to so
we perform policies we performed a test
of those procedures to lower that risk
this is a required communication that we
are required to tell you about in other
words it's it's not unusual for this to
be something uh this is standard for all
audit clients thank
you okay is there a
motion do we take motion for this one or
is it just information is this I thought
it was under action item is this
information I'm sorry you're right this
is not an action item you're right this
is just a community report thanks yeah
sorry okay great then let's move on to
the next item and so this is for the
full District audit all right and uh so
this is the annual financial report for
the district uh it is a process that
started at the early part of the year we
uh split the audit into multiple phases
we got it we go out to the sites uh we
perform uh um a test in during the
interim phase of the audit that's the
process or the phase in which we take a
look at the manner that you process
receipts uh the manner that you process
dispersements and man that process
payroll uh we want to see internal
controls we look at those internal
controls and we want to make sure that
there segregation and review process and
then we wait for management to close the
books and come in after the fact and
it's effectively confirmation Process
Management uh presents to you the UN
audited actuals and again we come in
after the fact we confirm it with your
creditors with your Bankers with the
state with your grantors it's just the
process of confirming the amounts are
reported on the financial statements you
also are required to have a federal
compliance audit and a state compliance
audit and so those are the additional
items that we audited during the scope
of the audit and I'm pleased to let you
know that uh the district received a
clean opinion on these financial
statements and they received a clean
opinion on federal compliance there's a
finding in that related to the state
compliance which is a repeat finding
from the prior years it's a common thing
that we're seeing out there in the Bay
Area um and I do want to thank the
district's management I mean again it's
a confirmation process so they connected
us with all the external parties that
ensures so that we can ensure that these
financial statements are fated it's a
confirmation process again and uh with
that uh I'll be more than happy to take
any
questions all right I'll turn turn the
trustees again do you have any questions
or
comments another clarification just on
the second finding um I think you
mentioned that for a district of size um
it's not uncommon or sorry a district of
this type it's not uncommon to have a
internal control system that's not quite
as robust uh I just clarification when
you do find districts that have a more
robust internal control systems what are
the characteristics of those types of
like larger or what result like um yes
um and so this is not really unusual for
this District because we're seeing it
quite often uh with some of these
districts and so if there are
adjustments to the financial statements
and this is what causes the finding and
normally you see this due to I'm going
to say I don't know but this turnover
that typically happens here and there
and so some District does indeed have a
Reconciliation process does have the
internal control procedures that they
need to have in there is just the
sometimes the Staffing shortages and so
that's why you have we come in after the
fact again when and so if there's an
adjustment in there there were a couple
adjustments there uh to make sure that
you know the numbers line up with as I
mentioned before the
confirmations and uh and so it was
reported to you that there were
adjustments and that therefore the
internal controls at the district level
I may we come in as like the very last
step but we would like it to see that
the district has you know fully
implemented those requirements again the
district does have the internal control
procedures in that they do have the
reconciliation process but I think it
was just probably turnovers what we
heard um with respect to those
adjustments tenifer
cilia everyone's good all right well
thanks thanks Rick for you in your
office I know that last couple years
have had various vacancies that you're
working with but a great job on keeping
high quality work so appreciate it um
great I think we can move on if
everyone's time yeah all right
great sayy thank you so much thank you
yeah I appreciate it thank you all right
our next item in the school and
Community reports is uh I think we'll
start are we starting with Hoover okay
we'll start with who well it's the
Hoover and Roy Cloud school
presentations I'll pass it off to Anna
to so tonight we have our Hoover admin
team who'll be presenting their board
presentation thank you for the team for
being here turn this on I know there's a
lot of uh a lot of your teachers are
online yes oh great thank you thank you
staff we love
you good evening
trustees cabinet Dr Baker uh thank you
for having us my name is Lupe Gman I am
the principal at hu community school and
with me we have good evening John
Michael Gomez assistant principal one of
the assistant principles and this is my
third year at
Hoover and I'm Josh Griffith I'm the
dean of students at Hoover this year
nice to see you all
did it work
okay uh in
2022 and 2023 we entered atsi with
threed indicators in the areas of
language arts mathematics and English uh
Learners by 23 24 we exited with growth
in English language arts chronic
absenteeism and suspension
rates no
try again to your
computer thank
you uh the progress of English Learners
increased moving to yellow with an
improvement of
11.2% chronic absenteeism overall has
shifted to Orange with a decrease in
chronic
absenteeism rate of 6.4 in October um uh
2023 we had 638 students and by the end
of the school year the number grew to
nearly 700 typically we receive between
50 to 100 students uh new to the school
after this the start of the year um in
the past month alone we welcomed
approximately 15 students most of them
who are new to the country
um of our population 97% are categorized
as economic ically disadvantaged 67 are
English language Learners and
96% are Latin eent we head it over to Mr
Gomez all right so as you know this
highlights rcs's lcap goal uh number one
uh which Under the mtss Umbrella um and
withal supports uh Hoover is currently
working on improving her student
outcomes uh working on reducing chronic
absenteeism increasing overall
attendance and lowering our suspension
rates so these efforts reflect Hoover's
commitment to equity engagement and a
positive School climate which um we're
about to discuss
tonight and this graph and the next
illustrate what John Michael just
explained about our U chronic
absenteeism I don't know how to new
fangled
things let's see here as you can see
that we've gone down to 20% uh by this
by December from 2021 to 22 um
37.7% down to
20.5% which is significant
and um by student group you can also see
that we've um our chronic absentee rate
has gone way down um and specifically if
you can look at the uh subgroup they're
called homeless on this particular thing
but we call them the housing insecure so
um we've been doing a pretty good job of
meeting you know Bringing Down The
Chronic absenteeism and I think the
definition of a chronic chronically
absent student is I can't I I think it's
like um two or three absences per month
and we're really working hard making
phone calls which we'll talk about in a
few
minutes so this slide here highlights
the comparison rates of our suspensions
um so as you can see um over the past
four years our suspension rates have
dropped dramatically um rising from last
year at 4.3% to currently uh 310% which
is a huge decrease um and so just to
kind of give you a little perspective at
this time last year uh we had 25
students who had been suspended um and
currently we're only at four so
definitely some increase there we
believe this progress is a result of
intentional efforts through our PBS and
oural program implementation restorative
practices and building a strong culture
of belonging to equity relationships and
Community Support at our school
um yeah one of the things that we're
really working hard on now is the um the
attendance and our attendance protocols
follow the district guidelines for
attendance Outreach with our attendance
team working at all tier levels tiers
one two and three we do tier one monthly
messaging to families through school
messenger flyering teacher communication
caitos and principal newsletters we are
using the attendance tracking tool safe
arrivals to notify ify parents of
unreported absences and attendance
intervention platform School status to
notify families when their students have
become truant or have um excessive
unexcused absences also for tier two
School staff including the office um
assistants mtss tosa and Family Center
staff we spend hours each week calling
the families of students who are
approaching or are at Chronic
absenteeism levels to encourage them to
send their kids to school and to offer
support for tier three thanks to the CC
sspp Grant we have the dean of students
me who provides individualized supports
to students and families who are
struggling uh to get to school
consistently um I have families who are
struggling to get to school and so I
have a case load of up to 15 kids at a
time I work with them I make home visits
I do phone calls I reach out to the
parents I meet with the students we do
quite a bit of work just to make sure
the kids get to school in time if
they're sick of course we want them to
stay home but um they're many other
factors involved so um I think that's
about it for that particular slide or
for that part of my slide sorry we keep
dancing around here uh through PBIS we
have established clear behavioral
expectations and strengthen
collaboration uh via our PBS and SL team
uh now that we call it the school
climate committee um our partnership
with circle up has enhanced restorative
practices and our dean of students
provides targeted interventions for
those needing extra support on the side
of things
uh we're in our second year of
implementing um our current curriculum
uh for TK through third grade we're
currently using kis fourth and fifth
graders uh we have child MIND Institute
coming in to provide some SEO workshops
and then our Middle School is currently
using what we call our the program we do
it for the culture um our lead counselor
Miss Heather Springs and her team offer
coaching and teered mental health
supports um this year we also welcome
our cits trauma informed counselor for
additional needs uh we Foster a posi of
school climate through events like
Winterfest um our Ruby Bridges March and
kindness week which we just held last
week and then this year we're also we
have started a service learning
requirement for middle school students
which encourages students to get back to
their Community uh to assess School
climate and belonging um our MTS
leadership team um has developed a
universal secl screener because we like
data right results um have been overl
overwhelmingly positive so far with 93%
of students 85% of teachers and 75% of
parent supporting strong friendships at
school 100% of teachers 90% of parents
and 85% of students believe teachers
care about students and finally 86% of
students like the way they are um so as
a community school we support families
through the family center um expanding
service Safety Net services with a food
pantry Thrive program and a dedicated
family partner so we believe this
relationship Ren approach has led to
fewer suspensions like we mentioned um
improved absenteeism and a strong School
community where all students and Staff
feel supported and
connected lcap goal two now by June and
you can all read this of course but I'll
read it out loud Anyway by June of 2027
55% of second to e8th grade English
Learners will progress by a minimum of
one level on the elpac each school year
as measured by the summit of elpac
assessment which actually we just
started yesterday I think for this year
um we're going to re to increase our
reclassification rate to 20% and
decrease our um at risk long-term
English Learners from 30% to 10%
um as you can see let's see here um we
hope okay we have already said all that
let me go to the next slide if I can and
you can see that um we've seen you know
various levels of growth and decreases
but um what you can see is that in um 1
2 fifth and sixth grades um there was an
increase a grow
and there was a de there was decrease in
third fourth 7th and eighth grades and
we do speculate that there was a
learning curve kind of adjusting to the
new District ELD curriculum perhaps the
group testing was not as effective
effective as we had hoped um Miss Gusman
will speak about what we were doing to
ensure that our students continue moving
forward this year so if you can take a
look at that you can see that
um 80% of the kindergarteners showed at
least one level of growth but there's
been some up and down but
overall there's been growth
so I'm going talk a little bit about um
how we support currently supporting our
multilingual Learners um like we
mentioned earlier 67% of our student
population is are defined as English
language Learners uh so this year we
continue to strategically align our
grade level uh schedules to ensure that
designated ELD instruction um is
effectively integrated across all
Elementary classrooms and then in grades
3 through
uh we are circling um and um groups are
tailored to students proficiency levels
um additionally we are providing small
group pullout support um for our
International students in grades three
through five uh while students in grades
6 through eth are participating in our
newcomer Academy led by one of our
newcomer teachers uh currently we're
also supporting um 91 recent
International students um and so that
number also continues to grow each week
last year um teachers across um all
grade levels have were implementing
language power which is our new ELD
curriculum um to strengthen the
foundational language skills for our
English language Learners and then this
year where we're refining those
instructional practices implementing the
curriculum with greater Fidelity and
incorporating TCM strategies learned
through demo lessons and coaching
sessions um with our uh tosa or coaches
that are at our site um and then to
further enhance um our instruction our
El coach um Miss Luc Moreno um has been
providing direct support to classrooms
ensuring that te teachers have the
resources and guidance needed to
differentiate instruction effectively um
and then on the Middle School side um
elll St are multilingual students um are
receiving additional targeted support
through U what we call Tig or targeted
instructional grouping um which meets
four times a week where they're working
on strengthening uh phonics and reading
comprehension skills by placing students
in groups based again on their
individual learning needs and so um with
these supports and interventions and
coaching um we um continue to um um have
opportunities to develop language
proficiency and academic sucess academic
success among our multilanguage
multilanguage
Learners thank you Mr Gomez all right
and we're going to go on to uh elop goal
number three um and I will quickly
summarize it because I'm sure you know
it really well uh so again by um June of
27 we aim that for students to uh be at
least a 4% annual increase in ela and in
Ma and math sorry Ed math on I
additionally we set a goal for 20% of
English Learners in grades 3rd through
8th grade to meet an exceed standards in
ela um and 16% in
math there we go um our proficiency
rates have declined in recent years due
to changes in student demographics and
an influx of guest teachers interns and
teachers new to the profession we still
love we love you all um given the
factors giving these factors a
short-term drop in the data is
inevitable unavoidable uh with 96% of
our students qualifying for free and
reduced lunch and
182 self-reported mckinly vento cases
we're actively working to meet the
diverse needs of our evolving
population uh 177% of our economically
disadvantaged students 4.8% of our
English Learners and 17.5% of our latinx
students met or exceeded proficiency on
espec student performance um on the did
I go there we go sorry student
performance on The Fall I ready showed
limited understanding of grade level
standards and we used this data to
inform the plc's and instructional
practices for this school
year um like in the area of ela our
students have declined in
math uh
12% 12.5% of our economically
disadvantaged students 5%
5.7% of our English Learners and 13.3%
of our latinx students meant or exceeded
Proficiency in math on the
ESC and we see similar Trends um in math
as we do in
ela we also believe that a cohort
fluctuation um has something to do with
the
um with the the grade level um
experience so when we had more
established grade levels teachers who
have who have been at Hoover who know
the culture we have seen that students
do better than when we have newer
cohorts or a group of teachers that is
working together for the first
time all
right and again in um on I ready we also
saw limited uh growth and a huge
opportunity for us to help our students
reach
proficiency all right so I have a lot to
say so bear with me um we we have worked
very closely with our district coaches
with annaa um Katherine and of course
our site to come up with a comprehensive
action plan um again with 96% of our
students uh who are economically
disadvantaged we Face significant
challenges such as 20% chronic AP
absenteeism rate a 13%
self-identified housing in security this
is that we know of um and to address
these issues we have adop adopted a
multifaceted strategy that targets both
academic and the whole child um we
continue to emphasize phonics math and
English language development curriculum
that was introduced last year and due to
the shift in our teaching teacher
demographics 25 out of the 38 classroom
teachers have been at Hoover less than
18 months um teachers are receiving
additional excuse me support from our
literacy and ELD specialist osas and of
course our wonderful District coaches
that have just poured in so much support
um to help us Implement our programs
consistently
for grades TK through 5 our
instructional schedule has been designed
to include dedicated times for
foundational skills small group
instructions and ELD ensuring dedicated
intervention periods so it's sacred time
every day that teachers
follow each grade level circles for ELD
and targeted reading groups for grades
first through fifth grade on a daily
basis um and we're also included fing
instruction for students learning to
read in grades 3rd through sixth grade
additionally teachers are expected to
conduct math instruction in small groups
three times a week and this has been uh
a little more challenging because our
new math program uh is very different
for a lot of our folks so there there's
a huge learning curve there and um we
are working very closely with them and
they are eager and implementing and and
teaching themselves how to do math the
new way um during targeted reading
instruction our reading specialist
suszie and our um District coach laa
pull groups which helps uh reduce the
student to teacher ratio and facilitates
more personalized instruction our after
school supports include cap tutoring air
reading Costco tutoring and uh after
school teacher tutoring program
our multi-tiered system of supports mtss
Team U meets twice a month because we
have a lot of work to do uh for an hour
and a half each of those days and
focuses on our professional learning
communities we have established regular
inquiry Cycles classroom walkthroughs
and goal setting meetings to track
progress share best practices and adopt
interventions as necessary coaching at
both district and site levels ensures
that new and experienced teachers
receive ongoing support to build
effective instruction and differentiate
learning practices moreover we have
paired incoming teachers with coaches
these coaches model lessons facilitate
peer observations and engage in coaching
Cycles centered on best practices so we
are pouring in support to our teachers
so that we can build capacity and of
course we have to recognize and
celebrate at our student achievement
because that's an intal part of
motivating and fostering a positive
School culture uh we highlight growth
through student recognition for academic
achievement and progress um at
schoolwide assemblies and celebratory
events that acknowledge student efforts
reinforcing the value of hard work and
perseverance so we have to have fun and
make sure that our kids love school and
so we want to acknowledge that the
complexity of our student population and
recent staff changes may present
short-term
challenges as reflected in our data um
our commitment to uh a structured
data-driven approach targeted
instructional support and continuous
professional development provides a
solid foundation for sustainable
academic growth we are dedicated to
continuously monitoring and adaptive
planning along with community and family
engagement which is essential in our
community schools to ensure that every
student has opportunity to succeed our
goals Encompass the whole
child um aiming to increase proficiency
rates in course subjects reduce
absenteeism and ultimately improve as
scores thank you oh I want to show you
some pictures of the fun we have at
Hoover so you we have um pictures here
at our faest with our families and our
middle schoolers doing community service
a Ruby Bridges a walk with where our
students all created a pledge for equity
and inclusion uh you can see our staff
Halloween costume we were all uh Super
Mario Brother characters because we're
leveling up this year uh we have kids
showing off their uh husky Paws for our
husky March store uh K our students got
to go to sequa to see uh the play and so
that was uh a lot of fun honk that's
right that was a lot of fun um on this
corner you see our uh student election
so kids voting and that coincided with
our national election uh and then we
have a a picture of our Chill Zone where
our students can go
and regulate when their strug struggling
uh pictures of our uh what is it winter
fest uh recognition of our veter our
veteran folk um our music program
playing at our Winterfest and just just
a lot of
fun thank you very
much thanks lthe Josh and John Michael I
really appreciate the presentation we do
have two speakers for your um and we had
the the earlier one too Devin so uh um
I'd like to uh ask Larry brisard
to the next
comments hello my name is Larry
brousard they call me AKA gug Gaga at
the school the whole school from TK to a
grade I've been in the school system
since I was 18 San Francisco
and I came to Redwood City I've been
here ever since Amanda was here
volunteer since
2015 and I still volunteer but I'm on
the
payroll but other than that my heart
goes out to your team members from The
District's office Wendy John Evelyn a
lot of people's names I remember Aaron
she's with her new baby uh I commend you
guys you guys do a wonderful job but at
the end of the day
nobody knows how you feel because
they're not in your shoes they don't
have no idea what you got to go through
here it's a
job it's it's it's it's hard work it
gets stressful I can imagine but you
guys do a wonderful job from the Min
from the whole team and uh I just wanted
to say to my Hoover
family the whole team this young lady
work she may be short she don't
play
John
Michaels I'm getting kind of old Josh
and his wife they are team I wish his
wife could come to Hoover but uh back in
the day I volunteered to her I've been
volunteer for many years I'm not going
to never stop I'm trying to catch up
with Mr I but when he's when I get his
age I'm come come to the school just
like him uh but uh what I worry
about the school is called Safety and I
say it all the
time and I know they have a budget there
but still they they can get
donations what I need I need I need some
safety stuff out there reflex stop signs
slowdown signs cones I used to donate
get on Amazon and get the little cones
but you know what it's called Safety I
do R the police department and they gave
me some cones I I it's a wonderful team
there R City Police Department I've been
doing that for many years in San
Francisco when I met Miss C
Castro it was she talked so good about
me not knowing that I worked in San
Francisco she said what school did she
work at Charles Drew she worked in San
Francisco she know everybody I knew the
administration my boss but you know what
I've been in the system since I was 18
and I love the community here but I
worry about safety because some of the
kids get there I used to get up there at
6 o'clock in the morning kids the
parents Dro them off they have to go to
work but it's called Safety Safety at
that crosswalk and I don't want to never
see other than that I need some support
cones not the small ones the bright ones
reflectable ones because when it gets
daylight saving time it's night out
there then also
this young man right here got a
wonderful team a wonderful team you guys
do a wonderful job when things happen
you guys are always there the flood in
the gym the flood in this I'm gonna have
to cut you off because that was the
three minutes but I really appreciate
your comments and appreciation of the
staff yeah it's a it's just much for the
comments yeah but uh I need that those
hes yeah thank you God bless you thank
you um all right our next speaker is uh
I think this is Laura Lind I hope I got
your last name right I couldn't quite
read it y Lin
great good evening I'm Laura Lin um I'm
a proud uh Hoover husky fairly new to
the pack um I just joined um Hoover last
year and um I've taught many many years
and I just want to say this is the most
challenging job I've ever had in my
career um and I feel um very compelled
to just express my appreciation for um
not just the administrative team who I I
don't know how they do all the things
that they do there's never a time you'll
walk by one of their offices and they
don't have a child in there that they
are counseling or that they are
um reprimanding or that they're that
they're working with that they're
helping that they're improving um
they're so dedicated to the kids um it's
just very heartwarming but aside from
that also the faculty that I work with
the teachers that um that I'm side by
side with every single day working when
we get together when we have those 5
Seconds of free time and we're chatting
about something we're putting our heads
together about like what can we do what
can we do how can we fix this why isn't
this working what what would I do wrong
what you know what can we do better what
are you doing um I don't know what are
you doing we're we're constantly sharing
ideas um it's a very hardworking team
that I I'm just so impressed by by all
of them everybody is so dedicated at
Hoover so I just wanted to express that
because I feel really fortunate to be
there even though I cry every day um
it's a wonderful place to be and um I
just hope that everyone um at this table
realizes how um incredibly dedicated and
um hardworking our team is and that is
all thank you so much thanks Laura for
sharing your experience and your
appreciation of like yes the hardworking
team at Hoover everyone that's at that
site I really appreciate it um that's it
for our our comments we have one more
Spanish speaker on
line let me look at the
sheet regular
session yeah okay so it's uh Elizabeth
Estrada online
Beth you can
unmute I believe the the speaker is on
the in the conference
line the Bor hear
this we we can hear it now yeah there's
sound problems in the boardroom but if
we turn our so if they could start over
um I'll turn my sound on so we can hear
h
[Music]
girl
POS
IND
gracias graci gracias that you'll
provide the translation
correct so I will uh provide the
interpretation for the comment just
received
um well good evening uh to everyone my
name is lisabeth estada and to me as a
Huber mother uh it's to uh value the
explicitly the develop you know the uh
how my children are developing on their
studies and depending on the level uh
that you know that they get difficulties
or that they're behind like they the
teachers um uh work together to help
directly H to do the homework and to uh
plan lessons and also to I don't want to
like I always want to mention also like
the programs that we have after school
like for example Boys and Girls Club
that they are supporting they are giving
materials and um
effectively
emphasizing uh the studies and to me the
emotional support that they have I've
seen it and that I perceived that that
it's that it's given for the teachers
and they see like they they're always
willing uh to help their families and at
the same times H that works for us
because that re that uh
reinforces uh the behaviors and the
emotionals uh the emotions as well and
also the studies of our children and
also you
know uh you we always get possibly uh
positive input and you know the
participation that I have on my school
Hoover is to uh to motivate parents uh
deeply that uh probably that they don't
participate as much that you know to
come to the educational center and to
strengthen La um the the the activities
on our schools and the education for our
children so for those uh parents that
don't do it as often so they could do it
more often often so I always want to
remind this the expectations that the
parents have of for the schools you know
they they take a play or they take a
they take a part with you know it's
always a relationship family and School
site and we always have to keep in mind
that we are a community families and
schools and we have to ask you know uh
we have to ask for like Quality quality
education and also values and attention
for differences the individual
differences and guarantee the safety
especially and protection in the school
site uh and to prepare them for their
education and those are my words with
all of my heart and God bless you and
Hoover
Huskies thank
you all right thanks Cel for the
translation um okay so let's uh open it
up to board member questions and
comments um anyone yeah go ahead go
ahead Jen I don't know if this oh thank
you thank you our team for the
presentation and thank you for all you
guys do at the school I don't know if my
questions may be more for Anna but um
you know you keep mentioning kind of the
stability of the teaching cohort is
hopefully having a bigger impact on on
their impr academic success are we
seeing that next year that kind of we're
able to retain the teaching cohort at
Hoover and are there things that we do
to kind of support them I would say
Hoover in the last uh this year has had
some a little bit more stability than
the years of the past so she still has
some teachers that are returning but
she'll have some um not as many openings
as she's had in the past so yeah this
we're hoping to build more stability
with the teacher staying on yeah and I
have to say we're a family we're the
Hoover husky family uh and I I'm so for
we are so fortunate to have such an
amazing hardworking dedicated ated staff
I and we're very happy and proud that a
majority of them will be
returning then maybe my other questions
maybe maybe can be taken offline but I
was wondering with the illustrative math
is there less of a language component
attached to to it
or um no there's not there's a lot of
language and um and illustrative math
and this being really our first year um
I I say it our first year though we
started last year right our first year
where we're really trying to really move
um the curriculum along and the teachers
are are still learning how to make sure
um to use all the components that are
important so they're still under you
know they're still learn there it's so
much language involved and the one thing
that our students are at you know at
Hoover and not just Tob our our three
bilingual schools we made the choice
because we have a 50-50 program to do do
that in English versus Spanish in their
home
language um adalante does it all in
Spanish and then transfers it over up in
the upper grades so we have chosen at
these sites because of the type of model
of bilingual program we do it in English
so there has been some hiccups and
there's some transitions a lot of math
is has a lot of cognet so a lot of
things is transferable but there's a lot
of language involved in the thinking of
it so our teachers like lupus said
earlier are still learning to teach in
that because a lot of the the
illustrative math is providing a problem
and not giving them the answer and
that's really difficult for teachers to
do they become facilitators
to supporting
teachers
know manipulate a little bit
more ins and outs of the curriculum
itself so ho team has very
dedicated with our coach Anastasia who's
been there a lot working with her
teachers and implementing and supporting
them with the math
curriculum great and I mean just getting
the kids to school is the most important
thing so your climate numbers very
commendable sure um well thank you for
the three of you um I do appreciate your
enthusiasm and your eagerness to help
all the students um I want to say I
think besides going to Taft when Anna
was there um when I visited Hoover a lot
of the kids obviously I was walking with
Lupe so you know I I didn't see you uh
Josh and um I'm sorry Dave John Michael
I was gonna call you Michael but I knew
that was the middle one um
students are very um you know oh miss
Guzman you know so I do appreciate the
fact that students know who their
principal is not just their teacher or
the classified staff that works there so
it does make a big difference um and of
course as much as the students there may
be struggling especially with all the
English Learners that you're getting um
I was just gonna kind of ask a follow-up
question regarding the math because like
what are we doing with those English
Learners especially when they're coming
in with zero English right I mean it's
just so hard so when we think about um
and even just when
um oh my God I just lost M um Devin when
he spoke about having 34 students in his
classroom I mean we're talking 34
students not 20 or 16 right it makes a
really big difference so we we really
I totally understand and I know that we
wish students were in a better place and
they will be but again we have to think
about the struggles that the students
are having and but again I appreciate
the fact that you guys are a great team
obviously really loving you just told
everybody that you love them and so I
think that makes a big difference um I
do know one of your newer teachers that
said she loves Hoover she's like this is
so great our team um they're they pair
up with by grade and so she's like
everybody just loves working together so
you know know that I hear that outside
of work too so I do appreciate it and so
I I know you guys are working really
hard obviously the
absenteeism Co took a big shift and so I
know we're getting better and so I
appreciate obviously we want the
academic but you also make it fun to
where they actually know they're going
to be recognized and so that says a lot
I mean just like Larry mentioned um the
safety that's number one and so
hopefully all that would play a part in
moving our kids forward so thank you so
just my follow-up question regarding
obviously the math what are we doing
with those English Learners obviously
the math part it's a lot of English so
our we're virate that a lot of our math
has um we have the Spanish component is
needed with some of those students but
we do have our newcomers especially Lupa
has um a much more support as she does
have a high number of newcomers there so
really trying to provide them what we're
finding in math and not just this is in
Middle School um we need to look at our
model because many of them are going to
many different places and when you have
one instructional Aid and one teacher we
can't so we have to figure that out and
Katherine and I are working on that for
next year but definitely trying to
figure out what does that look like in
the Middle School versus math is very
difficult if if a instructional Aid
doesn't know the math so that's another
you know it's one more thing um I know
Hoover has a very strong math team I've
been there and saw um have seen them um
they do a lot they've they've been able
to um actually one their science teacher
actually has a whole translation thing
that really makees sure to include that
the students the new students that are
in the curriculum and have this like The
Sciences in Spanish they have access to
some of the math in Spanish so they've
been doing a lot at Hoover to really try
to support the newcomers as much as
possible to allow them to use their home
Lang language um in the elementary level
third fourth and fifth grade we have a
lot other supports as well um in terms
of she actually has another teacher
there this year and so we're looking at
how they're they're supporting their
students this year in some of those
areas but we it just depends we have
kids who come in to Hoover with a lot of
skills you know that have have had
schoolly and then we have those who
don't have schooling so we really worry
about the ones that don't have schooling
because they have a lot more catchup to
do and a lot more work to do with
individualized instru
so I think one of the things that Miss
Rivera and I are talking about um is how
do we assess them when they come in so
that we can make sure we're putting them
into the right supports um and doing
that so we haven't been able to really
assess them as coming but she's been
working on um some workshops that she's
been attending that are giving us some
some ways of assessing the kids so that
we have some snapshot about how we can
figure out the program for them to
really help support their skills
and then another thing is just kind of a
thought I'm not the educator but I'm
just wondering like what are we doing as
far as reaching out to the families of
those students and how they can help
them because I know in the past as a
matter of fact and I do want to say
thank you to lisabeth for speaking up
she is one of our Spanish speaking
superintendent advisory committee
members and she's been attending I don't
know I think this is like her third year
and I know she's always at Hoover so I
appreciate her um being here and
speaking um
we heard from one of the parents at one
point actually more than one parent um
how our culturally the Latino Community
just expects their kids to have a lot of
homework and so a lot of the a few of
the parents were actually wondering why
some kids don't have as much homework
and I'm wondering if what are we doing
to address those um issues with some of
those parents because if as a parent the
student has coming in not maybe
understanding the math are we telling
those parents don't be mad at your kid
please make sure to write your teacher
back a note and I know that that's some
of the things that we kind of learn as
we go but just so that the poor kid is
stressed out about learning a new
language and going home to a mad parent
because they're not understanding the
homework or something like that so I
just want to throw it out there I'm sure
you guys know what you're doing I just
wanted to you know see what you're doing
and if we're doing the right
thing so there are uh different things
that we do part of our tutoring programs
address our student our eel needs um we
also have a lot of our teachers who are
participating in the after school
teacher program and they target the
students who need the most support uh we
have uh cap tutoring after school we
also have uh work with our parents so
that they can ACC access tutoring.com um
on the kids Chromebooks so they get that
support we work with the library down
the street uh so that the kids could go
to the dropin center um we're actually
right now working to get a cohort of our
eighth graders to become peer tutors um
part of their service Community hours so
that um they can then come back and
tutor our kids uh on campus so there
different type of um ways to access
support for our families um and it has
to be different for each child depending
on their need we know that some of our
families you know have three jobs and I
it's not an exaggeration and live in a
household with 10 other people and
they're on survival mode so it it's not
Equitable to expect families to Pro help
them with homework at that point because
they are surviving and
the inverse triangle of trauma you know
working on homework is not a priority
all the time and we need to understand
that and figure out how to support
children at school uh we're very
fortunate and I'm I'm so sorry I didn't
give you a shout out earlier uh bgcp and
pal are essential in giving our kids a
safe place a place where kids can do
their homework I know they're not a
homework completion program I would love
to figure out how to maybe we bring
volunteers from high school pair them up
and have high schoolers come volunteer
and do you know tutoring with our kidos
because our kiddos are with us till 5:30
6 o' so by that time high schoolers can
come in um but you know that's one of
the things that I'm going to do when I
actually have time um anyways so there
there are a lot of ideas we also work
very closely with the community school
um Partnerships and just thinking
outside of the box how can we bring more
resources into our community at Hoover
it is a safe place for our families it
is a place where they know they can come
and get support and so how do we Bridge
more
services and how do we reach more
families and given the climate right now
how do we create an environment where
they know that they can safely come to
us and we can support
them so sorry that was long-winded
answer to to your
question I'll Echo some of what I think
everyone's already thinking and has
already said but thank you all of you
for coming and for doing the work for
making the presentation um and for
providing all the context uh behind what
the school is all the populations you
serve um as a former alternative ma math
teacher I certainly understand the
challenges that come along with serving
a high concentration of high needs
population so I know it is not easy um
so again just really appreciate it want
to acknowledge that um and I my
understanding too is that there are
several new members of the pack uh so
doing you know doing the work among that
environment very difficult um so I
totally appreciate that uh and in
particular the the work on chronic
absenteeism the progress on suspensions
and uh School climate all great um
that's said I think under underlying a
lot of the questions here and I think
I'm sure everyone you're aware is we
also do want to make sure that we're
focusing on the academic achievement
results as well of course you need to
set the foundation right you can't teach
unless you got the kids coming to school
so like totally get that but something
that we definitely want to keep our eyes
on um I have one comment um which is
kind of I think a mix uh for the
district and and for the school and more
just broadly and then a couple of
questions on the comment this is more
just on the presentation I I I find
myself struggling a little little bit to
match let me take a step back I think
what would be super helpful for me in
the presentations and maybe for others
would be to really get a good sense of
what the concrete goals are for the
specific school and then tie that to the
data pieces that we're seeing after that
right so I I know that we have our LC
cap goals we see those but and then they
just have specific metrics that go along
with that at the district level but
obviously we know that Hoover serving a
different population from Roy Cloud for
example and so I imagine that there's
going to be different independent goals
that are set um and I know I I imagine
that the sipsas are doing this I I'm
still just catching up to speed and so I
don't know all the ins and outs but um
it would be helpful for me to kind of
see that of this is our specific goal at
Hoover and the sypsa and then here's how
we're tracking along it it's just
helpful for for me to get a sense of do
do we know what a clear vision of
success looks like in this specific
environment um and is it sufficiently
ambitious and specific while also being
achievable right because like there's no
there's no benefit to setting goals that
are unachievable right no one wants to
be set up for failure so um that's kind
of just my big thought uh that would be
helpful uh in the presentations just
generally just to make sure that we're
miroring that um and again I'm sure that
I'm missing lots of context um so I
appreciate the patience with people um
getting me up to speed um the the two
questions that I have and I know L
already you've already answered them but
and it'll be a recurring theme but I
think it' be helpful for the board and
the public to hear answers to are one um
what strategies specific or what
specific strategy or support or
characteristic are you finding is the
most supportive uh at Hoover in terms of
that translates to student academic and
Su and other success tied to our goals
and then the flip side what are the
major challenges that we as a board can
be mindful of in helping support
jump in
um no offense to anyone
we the the biggest challenge is having
experienced
teachers um
who know the culture and know how to
work with our population and so we have
amazing dedicated teachers that are
interns guest
teachers um
first second year
teachers teachers who have joined our
team in are coming from very different
type of communities and then we have our
veteran
teachers and when you have 25 of your
teachers that are new to your school
there's definitely a learning curve not
only in all the curriculum and and
instructional strategies that are used
that in our district and at our site but
also just getting to know the community
and getting to know your team and
developing your professional learning
communities and
um it's a lot to ask in one year I think
down the line because we're a very tight
uh group of people and very hardworking
and dedicating and just cramming in as
much information as we can into our
brains we're going to get there it's
going to take
time and then on the flip side challeng
the challenge
es I think one of our greatest
challenges is addressing the trauma in
our
communities when our kids have food
insecurities housing
insecurities um when excuse me that's my
alarm to put my children to bed sorry I
silence my phone um there we
go uh
so as I was saying when when we when our
kids don't have their basic needs
met there's a big hurdle um and I think
that's why the community school model is
so important because we have to address
those needs when our kids come to school
in clean clothes fed um they have slept
well um and are just they don't they can
you know block out the noise then we can
get to work and when they come to
school disregulated because of X Y and Z
then we need to address the social
emotional need first so that their brain
is ready to
learn that that's very helpful on the
strengths in particular and it's good to
hear that we're we're optimistic about
having greater stability um so I'm I'm
optimistic that'll translate and then on
the challenges uh that totally makes
sense and again I I think all of us are
trying to be mindful of the ways that we
can support those regards thank you
again um David did you want to make any
comments being just being mindful of the
time too both for you and for uh the um
you know the rest of the stuff pretty
late out east um thank you so much and
it was great to come by Hoover to go and
tour and talk with you about the school
about what's going on there I think it's
great that we're getting students to
show up and I think that the name of the
game at this point is like you say
experience teacher is uh investing in
those teachers and their training and
making sure that we can spend uh more
time in in the classroom giving feedback
uh to those teachers to continue to
invest in them and their Excellence so
thank you for all you do for our
kids all right um yeah okay great thank
you let's uh let's wrap up quickly first
I I don't think anyone acknowledge the
suspension numbers that's incredible to
change that's there and attributing that
to really building that strong sense of
belonging which is so important and we
just talked about it today at the
chamber meeting um superintendent McGee
was talking about it particularly with
like the the you call it euphemistically
climate change but some of the really
aggressive changes in policy that are
are just so hurtful um knowing that
there are adults that care at school and
making sure that kids love school is
really just a top top priority and I'm
glad to see that you're focused on it
one of my things that I dislike about
the presentations that we get here is
that percent met does not take into
consideration at all where the students
come from E on each given day or in each
given year or even each given week for
them uh time by time and so it's it's a
I'm very glad that you're data driven
and I know you're looking at more data
than just the stuff that's presented
here um but it doesn't tell the whole
story and we know that um so thank you
for coming and sharing some of that
whole story uh and the last thing is um
I to hear you loud and clear uh with it
doesn't matter how experienced the
teacher is if they're turning over at
that rate um we need to find find a way
like to creatively find ways to bring
some stability to to Staffing so that um
they can get the Reps right the year
aftere reps of doing it um it it takes a
couple reps to be able to get through a
new curriculum a new school a new
classroom and a new teaching team um and
even when one teach changes it changes
the team and so I think that's an
important part uh Dr Baker I don't know
if you had any closing comments and then
we can move on make a quick so that
because I know we have to go in all
three of you thank you so much and I
know Lupa you want to get home because
you want put the little ones to bed and
I had agreed that you would be out of
here by that time but I'm so sorry I'm
so sorry um just you know to comment on
you know you you are moving forward and
I know there are some challenges but the
work that you're doing with the
professional learning communities with
your teachers and the goals that you're
creating are something that I think
going to be very beneficial in moving
that needle she has taken it with with
John Michael and with dinora I believe
and also with you Josh to make sure that
teachers are meeting at grade level
coming up with goals for what's going to
happen and move it how to move the
children forward and you're looking at
data more often than you have in the
past so I'm sure that's going to also
help so with that being said thank you
so much for all you do and good night go
you can go
andna back to you all right so now we're
g to have um Roy Cloud Administration
come up and share um their
presentation on yes All Right hi
everyone um uh good evening Redwood City
uh Board of Trustees superintendent
Baker District administration and
cabinet colleagues community members and
our incredible Roy Cloud staff and
Families my name is Melissa Bowen I am
the principal and I'm Jason kingburg the
vice principal um it is an absolute
pleasure to speak with you guys this
evening um we're delighted to share the
great many things that Roy Cloud um has
engaged in since our last board report
um from Innovative learning experiences
to meaningful Community initiatives our
school continues to thrive and we are
excited to showcase our progress um a
heartfelt shout out to our amazing Roy
CL Cloud staff your dedication and care
for our Scholars makes all the
difference in their growth and success
and we're going to be able to see that
in our presentation tonight um to our
families thank you so much for your
unwavering collaboration and support the
partnership we have with you helps us
create a strong connected School
Community where every child feels seen
heard and encouraged to reach their full
potential and we appreciate each and
every one of you for being a part of
this journey and we look forward to
sharing our accomplishments with you
tonight so let's Dive In
goal number one I'm going to keep going
um we'll get it um you guys know what
goal number one is and um we are going
to look at our data so first up is the
um chronic absenteeism um you'll notice
that throughout the couple the years and
the different data points that we're
looking at our data kind of es and flows
so our goal is really to kind of look at
sure yep there we go um our goal is to
to really think through these practices
and um stop that kind of EB and flow and
really kind of uh work on trending up if
the trend up is positive or down if the
positive trend is going down um and so
for our chronic absenteeism you know as
you can see we hit kind of a high Mark
in uh 2122 it's gone um down with a
little bit you know we're trending a
little up this year um some things to
keep in mind in terms of how we are
addressing our chronic abs
absenteeism um is uh let me oh so here's
another representation of our different
student groups um that you're seeing
there one of the ways in which um or let
me just s talk about the trends just
quickly is the trend suggests increasing
um uh increasing need for that
connection um this also shows our
suspension rates so our numbers have
started out that are numbers have kind
of really wavered in very low
percentages um and while they maintain
at low percentages we want to keep
lowering them um we really do try to um
address some of our behavioral um
concerns and needs with restorative
practices kind of the educational
approach but of course as we know that
sometimes um an appropriate response is
is a suspension um but we do continue to
keep our suspension rates um quite low
all right so let's talk about what are
ways in which we are addressing our
chronic absenteeism suspension rates um
and just overall climate and culture of
our school um so Roy Cloud's commitment
uh to Social and emotional support
attendance and discipline goals are um
as followed uh we are actively
addressing our district gride goals
through implementation of the mtss um
systems of support we look through mtss
and a multitude of ways one is through
our academics really focusing on that
tier one universal instruction we are
also looking through Mt uh we're looking
at mtss through the LI through the lens
of diversity equity and inclusion and
what that looks like for each of our
individual students we have an
implementation of a schoolwide seal
program through the character strong
curriculum that Fosters empathy
self-awareness and resilience we have
our Liv School PBIS tracker and incen
system and for our our younger um
Scholars the bolt buuck system that
encourages positive behavior and student
engagement through enforcing uh these
enforcing
strategies we engage in culturally
responsive teaching practices focusing
on the pedagogy of confidence um
representation uh providing
representation and student engagement in
the classes and to embed those in our
daily
instruction um a couple years ago we uh
engaged in a Dei or diversity equity and
inclusion literat literature lift that
it was supported by our PTO um to
encourage that representation um within
our um within our literature our goal
was to make sure that our Scholars no
matter what book they were checking out
of the library or in their classrooms or
reading as a novel study showed um an
example of themselves and their peers um
in the characters in the book um this
year we are engaging in a district ride
PLC to really look at um some of our
academic data and to create some smart
goals Roy Cloud also has a separate PLC
um that's around climate and culture so
we meet regularly um and that and one of
the um plc's is to look specifically at
the types of representation that are in
our books um so that we are reaching all
of our Scholars we have um wholes School
real outs that feature um different
literature uh that and reinforces
diversity kindness and respect um I want
to give a shout out to our TK team they
were the ones I did want just you know I
I just wanted to reach the students so I
did a recording of a book that was
timely of some of the topics we were
addressing in our seal and they came to
me and they said you know that was
amazing and I like we saw the ters they
were like we saw you on the TV so we
continued to do that just as a way for
us to reach our Scholars um and to show
this kind of communal aspect and this
communal approach in supporting our
Scholars
um that it's not just in the classroom
um that it's all of us teaching all of
the
students um and we also have an
incredible mental health counselor who
supports by providing small group
lessons onetoone counseling um she
supports our M uh Middle School
inclusivity student committee that was
just created this year she also um leads
peacemakers which is a third through
fifth grade student Le um uh support for
conflict resolution out on the
playground she has friendship circles
restorative circles um to all address
the emotional needs of our
Scholars um and then we also have an
academic counselor who conducts minute
meetings that have
been so incredibly valuable with the
data that she collects when she just
sits down with our Scholars and they
really are for a minute but the amount
of information she gets from our
Scholars really helps Drive our
instruction and drive our approaches
forward in supporting our Scholars so
I'm very grateful for the time that she
spends with our Scholars she also has
Lunch Bunch kindness club we she offers
office hours and um right now she's
getting ready to support that High
School articulation um we are um
communicating with our um our counselor
through the seoa Union High School
District is through uh Woodside and uh
we create opportunities for our parents
and families to meet with the high
schools to kind of learn about the
registration process and the process
that's going to be coming in terms of
choosing classes and just overall
getting ready for high school um our
academic counselor promotes positive
interactions between Scholars and
teachers helps to provide helps to be an
advocate for scholar needs provides an
additional safe person for Scholars to
confide in and help them find the
support that they need we also have
rainbow cloud a student-driven
initiative fostering lgbtq plus
inclusion and support our Music Teacher
mix
wasburn um is the staff member who leads
um this and provides the safe place for
all Scholars to join who are actively
seeking more opportunities to promote
inclusivity in our school so I think um
uh um uh trusty Lee you had mentioned
like what are each School site's
individual um goals in addition to our
lcap goals ours really is to build that
whole child approach um and to make sure
that all of our students feel included
and that we have a safe place um to
learn and to grow um they have been in
instrumental in promoting a positive
learning environment and is attending
with me on Friday the youth advisory and
social Summit um with a group of middle
schoolers who have chosen to attend this
we are excited to take them this is our
first year going um we also have um uh
we are attending this summer The Social
and emotional in Institute conference in
Burling game to ensure our staff stay
informed on best practices
foral um we also engage in restorative
practices in incorporating many of the
lessons from learning for justice and
Zetta Hammond's resources to build
strong Community centered approaches to
discipline and behavior um approaches
resources we've used from Hammond have
allowed our staff to pause and consider
the equity we hold to provide to our
Scholars and families and to really
reflect on the practices um and look for
ways to enhance and improve in addition
these resources we are also continuing
to use the pedagogy of confidence that
was introduced to us a couple years ago
um through thinking maps and practices
we find that these resources support our
Scholars taking ownership of their
learning and to help Thrive especially
in ela and we also celebrate and
recognize inclusive schools week and
great kindness challenge to reinforce
that inclusivity and
empathy um so ways that we are
addressing our attendance um much like a
lot of our schools we are engaging in
that personalized um that personalized
support um we spend a lot of time
calling families seeing if they need
additional resources or supports to get
their child to school um and then we
also we also do home visits you know
some of our schools uh some of our
Scholars they live around I have walked
to a to a house or two to help get our
Scholars to school um we also do fun
attendance challenges we are currently
in one for the month of February we have
found we did one in September that was
very successful um we I think our
students love a good challenge um and a
friendly comp competition between the
grades um and it also helps that there's
um an incentive at the end of the month
so we will continue to do those as well
because they do show um improvements in
our attendance records for Middle School
um we at the beginning of the school
year we had an interactive review of our
handbook and expectations one of the
things we really want to do is for all
of our Scholars but really the leaders
of our school our middle schoolers is to
make sure that they are set up for
success and we're front-loading a lot of
our expectations because when you know
your expectations you know you know how
to address them and so what they did in
their home rooms is they took each
section of the of the handbook and then
they presented it to their um to their
Community to help us really kind of
engage in those um what's in that
handbook and how we can navigate a
successful year uh we also have
executive functioning support for all of
our Scholars we do have a focused
attention in sixth grade with um the
smarts curriculum we are enhancing our
literature options in classrooms and
libraries we have targeted academic
supports with um during our enrichment
periods while also providing Scholars
multiple options to engage in um
interest and passions and we have a
reading buddy program additional to our
enrichment um program we are attending
Castle which is the um it's the kind of
the California student body um uh year
uh annual um Workshop that all of that
all of our middle schoolers um are able
to go to we always go to them last year
we uh received the outstanding
leadership program award that is framed
very proudly in our office um we have a
wh school talent show hosted by our
Middle School community service we have
ongoing musical performances and school
plays um we also have our monthly bolt
award assemblies I gave you guys the
link in case you guys want to come and
see one because they're really fun and
they're really great um and we have
regular school events um I think all in
all what we find is that you know Roy
Cloud really Prides itself on a very
rigorous Academic Program but we also
want to make sure that we're providing
an enriching and fun School environment
so that the students want to come to
school they want to learn they want to
be challenged appropriately they also
want to have fun with their with their
teachers and and their peers um and so
that is how we are addressing uh goal
number one and I'm goingon to hand it
over I think I'm gonna hand it oh here's
just some photos of some of the the
things that we do at Roy Cloud um so we
have our um we you'll see uh Mr kingburg
and I up there dressed as uh the some of
the feelings from inside out um we have
our kindness challenge um activities we
have our Unity day um that's there we
have our Roy Cloud plc's you'll see mix
Washburn down at the at the bottom there
we have um our our classroom
expectations and our playground
expectations that Mr kingburg and I
review with our Scholars um you see a
panel there that was um when uh we
hosted like and upstanders and we asked
um some of our community members to be a
part of that panel um and and the uh
tree of of understanding that's the a
zoretta Hammond resource where it helps
us kind of see where we're falling in
terms of what we understand about our
Scholars do we fall in the in the leaves
or can we get down into their roots and
really understand our Learners and their
and their learner profiles okay all
right there we go all right um good
evening okay our cap goal number two
English learner progress and achievement
uh by June 2027 55% of second through
8th grade English learner students at
Roy Cloud school will advance by at
least one level annually on the summit
of elpac assessment additionally we aim
to increase the reclassification rate to
20% and reduce long-term English learner
status to 10% through targeted
interventions and supports key
strategies and supports that we're using
high quality designated integrated ELD
instruction Implement daily designated
emerging multilingual instruction
tailored to emerging multilingual
Learners strengthen integrated
strategies across all content areas
ensuring students access grade level
curriculum with appropriate scaffolding
using our data to analyze which students
would benefit from an alternative
approach to instruction or more
scaffolding we need to be able to tailor
instruction uh that is targeted towards
individ ual student needs provide
focused staff development on engaging
with multilingual Learners and their
families focused on Equity uh data
driven instruction and progress
monitoring utilize formative and
summative assessments including lpac
interim assessments to track student
progress and we're doing that right now
um Implement elevation and language
power to drive instruction support and
evaluate progress uh conduct Shadow a
student day which we'll be doing in the
spring where where Educators observe
multilingual Learners to gain insight
into their experiences and needs we do
this every year in the spring and we
find that it helps us inform our
practices and plan for the remainder of
the year and start the following year
strong uh expanded intervention and
support programs we offer intervention
programs focused on language development
and literacy Implement small group and
individualize support for struggling
emerging multilingual learning students
you technology to provide better access
for emerging multilingual Learners to
engage with class communities curriculum
and learning we want to shout out to all
of our staff who have jumped in to learn
about all the resources that are
available to us whether they be the
student devices themselves the
curriculum or supplemental resources our
teachers spend much of their time at the
beginning of the school year building
relationships with Scholars and ensuring
that they have the supports they need in
place and that the scholars know how to
access them for instance making sure
that our younger Scholars
know how to access their preferred
language in the iPads uh provided so
they can access their learning in an
optimal setting for our Upper Elementary
to Middle School Scholars we make sure
Scholars can toggle between English and
their preferred language in the online
curriculum we have um and our Scholars
have access to digital resources to read
and engage in their preferred language
while they're working on their English
language acquisition uh family and
Community engagement we provide parents
support to families in understanding the
reclassification process and how to
support language development at home we
utilize our principal's coffee and
designated time in our school site
Council meetings to inform parents of
the process and how we can all work
together to support the scholars we
conduct Outreach by Administration and
school Personnel before the school year
starts to connect with families and
build community we did that this uh past
summer uh we do this each summer to
personally connect with families
especially new families to ensure
they're receiving tailored support in
starting a new school year uh we
established bilingual family Liaisons to
strengthen our communication uh between
the school and the families we are
building uh the process of this
initiative but we're finding it very
supportive for the families we have a
liaison for uh culturally responsive and
inclusive learning environments we
celebrate multilingual Learners by
providing a platform where they feel
empowered by their strengths interests
and knowledge with the support of our
academic counselor reading intervention
teacher our Scholars are able to
celebrate and share in their lives and
show their peers their interests and
passions as a way to build community uh
we use designthinking approach to learn
more about multilingual Learners
experiences at school and how to improve
we introduce this in August of this year
and plan to dive into this process in
the spring with our shadow days to learn
more about the individual experiences of
our emerging multilingual Learners to
support them their development and to
help them Thrive and feel included in
the school Community uh we expand the
use of bilingual texts and resources to
support student comprehension and
engagement Foster a positive School
climate where the students feel valued
included and supported in their language
learning journey by implementing these
targeted supports Roy Cloud school is
committed to ensuring that more emerging
multilingual learner students Achieve
Language proficiency gain access to
academic success and transition out of
el services within the expected time
frame um the next slide okay is a
summary of the lpac growth level at Roy
Cloud yeah it's a little
tricky that way okay oh okay I was
pointing it over there too but that
doesn't seem to be working oh well wait
minute okay there we are okay um the
graph illustrates the percentage of
students who increased by at least one
level on the lpac assessment across
different grade level for the academic
years 2021 22 22 23 and 23 24 what's
important to note is that our emerging
multilingual learner numbers are
relatively low last year we have just
shy of 20 Scholars this year it's
important to know that we have increased
our number of Scholars and thus have
increased the number of emerging
multilingual Learners we are excited and
delighted to work with uh this student
group key observations uh kindergarten
fourth grade and 8th grade had 100% of
students increase by at least one lpac
level 22 23 first grade and 23 24 showed
50% of Scholars improving what's
important to note is that we have very
few Scholars uh sixth grade 2324 had 20%
of students increase their lpac level
while we did not meet our goal We are
continuing practices to ensure our
Scholars are being supported we are
hopeful with the initiatives data
analysis and new programat programmatic
shifts we've made this year that
Scholars will improve in elpac and reach
their goal of reclassification we're
currently conducting our summative elpac
testing and we look forward to reviewing
the results as we feel they will show
huge growth um we're going to continue
to design instruction across all grade
levels to ensure consistent support and
support integrated uh systems into the
classroom will increase professional
development for teachers leverage Tech
technology and data tools to drive
instruction and track progress and
provide better access to Scholars
strengthen family engagement strategies
to reinforce language learning at
home um yeah and then some other things
that we're doing you want to talk about
that okay
yeah um some of the things that we've
done kind of behind the scenes we were
talking about that design thinking
process in terms of really learning um
the individual um supports that are
emerging multilinguals um um you know it
would benefit them more so that's down
at the bottom here and we have our
language power our student Shadow
program what we did was our um our grade
level teams kind of worked together to
see who would be the representative of
the grade level who would shadow um a
student um it started out where we were
going to have them Shadow the student
that was in their grade but then they
all got kind of creative and they asked
if they could go and see some of the um
some of the students that they used to
teach and I was like let's run with it
and do that um and we still collected
some really great data and so these were
kind of the um the uh outcome of the
student empathy interview data um those
are the questions that we talked about
we engaged with and like um Jason said
we it really did inform our practice for
this
year all right thank you well done on
that okay lcap goal three um so here is
our goal um for um for really looking at
Ela and math um let's jump into the data
all right so um some strategies that
we've put in place to address our El Ela
go goals um as you can see we um we kind
of ramped up in around 2019 and we've
kind of wavered in that that high 60s um
percentile it's not our goal but we are
definitely putting in some things um
this year to really uh address um the
goal that we have set for oursel um I do
want to to thank the district in terms
of the the PLC that you guys created for
us because it has really provided a lot
of really great conversations um around
what the needs are for our Scholars and
allowed us to um take our time looking
at the data and creating those smart
goals so some of the things that we've
done I think you can go to the next one
oh here's um just a different look um at
some of our student
groups and how they're performing in ela
and here's um another group so you'll
see that our current um eighth grade is
performing in ela just shy of our goal
next one and here's our I ready so our
students um our students are performing
quite well in I ready we do find um that
uh from the fall um assessments to the
spring there's a quite a significant
jump um which we are very proud of with
our Scholars
all right and here's math let's before
we go can you go back one more before we
jump into math I want to talk about our
what we're doing and with Ela so um some
of the things that we're doing to
address our Ela El Ela goals uh is to
engage in holistic writing assessments
more frequently we just did our fibs we
found that while this did give us a
little bit of data we wanted more data
so we decided to do a whole school um
writing assessment really from kinder on
eth um focusing on um opinion persuasive
and argumentative we find that um in the
real world we really want our students
to find their voice and what better way
to practice than with an opinion um uh
persuasive and argumentative essay so
they just did that and our teachers
currently are in the process of um doing
a holistic scoring where they're looking
at all of the students in their grade um
and that's really informing our practice
uh we are supporting Early Elementary
teachers with our hegerty phonic um
program we have small group instruction
support from our reading intervention
teacher I just want to pause and give
our reading teacher Moren mCP a shout
out for the work and support she is
providing not just to our Scholars um
but also to our teachers we were talking
about the Roy Cloud specific PLC in one
of those groups is around small group
instruction and how this approach um to
learning can support Scholars progress
and growth um in middle school we
reconfigured our schedule to ensure
scholar and teachers have time to slow
down the instruction with longer periods
and more Universal supports to provide
better access for things like novel
studies um and provide curriculum um
with audiobooks and Bookshare um just to
increase that that access um for our
Scholars our third through fifth grade
teachers have encou um engaged in
learning more about literacy circles or
as the um fourth graders are call them
their book clubs which I love um with
the support of of of the administration
we've gone in and modeled best practices
on how to engage with the scholars with
this approach and it's been really
successful and so while we modeled it
they then have taken the Reign and it's
been really great to go in and see what
they've been what they've been doing
with their literacy
circles um what's important to note back
at our data is um that last year with
the addition of a middle school SLC
class our goals were to support our
Scholars individual learning plans that
best support their access to their
learning
we learned a lot about best practices
around supporting Middle School Scholars
especially in this SLC class and the
supportive impact that a hybrid model um
of part-time SLC and part-time general
education can have on a scholar um it
provides an increased opportunity for
engaging with peers additional supports
for both an SLC teacher and the general
education teachers and an increased
pride and attention to work we're
hopeful that with our second year this
is our second year with our um SLC class
um that these Scholars will continue to
thrive and grow in the areas of ela now
that all of our staff is well versed in
supporting these Scholars and that
Scholars are comfortable um in with the
how we do things in middle school at Roy
Cloud um and then back to our going back
to our data in terms of seeing the
eighth graders almost at our goal um
with the exception of the current
seventh grade we have observed an
increase in our data with Scholars who
have who have met or exceeded grade
level expectations especially in Ela
yeah it's back a little bit that's okay
um with new practices in place we hope
to continue this success rate the
address um and address the individual
needs of our Scholars focusing on the
current seventh grade Scholars we uh to
see what additional supports might be
needed to ensure that their continued
success in ela
continues um and like I've said we've um
developed a lot of our smart goals and
reading practice this year um such as
implementing our small group instruction
um and increased individual conferences
a lot of our Middle School teachers are
engaging more in that and unpacking
directions and prompts to ensure all
Scholars understand what is being asked
of them when showing what they know
that's what we saw from our from the
fiab um which is going to be very
supportive in this year's ASC where you
know we were able to take time and help
our students really really pull apart
what the prompts were asking them um and
be able to have the time to ask the
teachers like hey what does this mean so
that when it comes time for them to take
the aspect that they will have those
tools that they're ready for them um
overall we've H we've been very
successful in achieving our goals um and
and now we're going to jump to math
there we go um and achieving our goals
in math as shown in this graph we hope
um uh for with the continued support and
additional enrichments that we have in
place will'll be able to surpass this
goal and Achieve scores in the 70th
percent
range um in addition to what was
mentioned about Ela um this graph
pertains to students uh yep that one um
to student groups much of the support
and improvements mentioned align with
math as well um for our emerging
multilingual Learners in sback and Ela
our goal will be for all 13 of those
students to take the sbac and reach
grade level this year um with our math
goals hovering around similar
percentiles from year-to year our goal
is that with the implementation of
additional resources and supports we'll
continue to improve in this subject um
we have implemented many strategies
first with the support of additional
supplemental materials in addition to
illustrative math um and our current um
middle school math program we also use
Silicon Valley math initiative resources
we are able to help our Scholars um
learn how to explain their thinking in
math practices as this is a huge focus
in these types of resources we find that
our Scholars are really great at those
Foundation foundational math skills um
they're really good at attacking a
problem but in terms of explaining how
they got there that's where we're trying
to build um those types of skills and we
find that the resources around svmi Mars
and problem of the month um really help
us kind of um achieve that we find that
with many scholars who struggle in this
area we want to ensure um especially
with our emerging multilingual Learners
that they are receiving targeted support
in order to help U explain their
thinking and whether that is you know
through verbal if that's through you
know collaborative thinking we want to
make sure that they are providing the
appropriate access for them to do that
um svmi has really helped us do this and
furthermore many teachers have been
trained in vertical learning um so if
you came to Roy cloud in any of the math
classes you might see a bunch of um
poster boards up on the wall you you
might see some easel and that's what
vertical learning is um get students up
and working with their peers supports
stamina constructive conversation and
retention of information and
additionally Scholars are learning tools
in their designated El Support classes
to understand key terms and vocabulary
that would otherwise be a barrier in
their
learning all right I ready there we go
um there seems to be a little
discrepancy between our ESC data and our
I data starting in the early grades um
levels with uh while ASC starts in third
grade what we're kind of wondering is if
these the discrepancies are because that
I um data is collected in the younger
grades um what Roy Cloud also looks at
is um when our scores waver more than
one grade level below what we want to do
is we want to do a deeper dive into
those assessments um from our district
approved curriculum so the illustrative
math also um really helps us do this we
look at this data um when we look at
this data our Scholars are improving in
their math skills by topic um and uh and
as it compares to I ready so that's
that's really promising for us to to be
able to see that in our
curriculum okay examples of how we are
achieving and reaching our goals for um
goal number three uh we are really big
on demon strating lessons I know you
guys have heard that from me before we
do it every year we love it um and we
also are encouraging our teachers to
also do it too so when we go into
classrooms and we see um certain
teachers are um are addressing a topic
or or a key skill in a certain way and
we're like that is really good we're you
know trying to encourage our teachers to
be able to show um what they know with
some of their colleagues uh we really do
focus on modeling around the pedagogy of
confidence Universal Design for Learning
Project based learning um to promote
those high levels of student engagement
um some examples that we have engage
that we've supported encouraged or
modeled are with Socratic seminars
educational Escape rooms think like an
escape room that you would go to but
it's like it's in the classroom and
we're not really escaping the classroom
we're more trying to get into a a box
that says you did it um it's fun uh
diverse read alouds um and how Scholars
read in class um we have in-person and
active simulations um with the
walkthrough history organization that
comes um and conducts uh simulations in
fourth fifth and sixth grade we have
active games and interactive projects
that immerse scholars in are learning
each year our sixth grade teachers host
a Heritage night that's coming up you'll
get an invite um our seventh grade
Scholars run the chasi challenge that
replicates the Inca relay messaging
system the eighth grade creates and
individualize projects around their
interests that relates to the National
History Day project um again we talked
about the administrator uh LED teaching
we actively teach units so not only are
we kind of modeling um how you know some
practices but when we were introduced to
our new math curriculum I really wanted
to see what it looked like and so I
jumped into a few classes I did a first
grade class and a fourth grade class and
I learned a lot um a lot in terms of
what our teachers are engaging in then
also how we can support them um to to
you know really enrich that curriculum
in the
classroom um we do a lot of Staff
collaboration and data analysis um so
staff meetings are dedicated to
reviewing learner profile student data
and next steps in improving scholar
success we started this last year after
we learned from how to do it with the
act the staff development team um at the
district and how to engage in creating
learner profiles from The Scholar um
based academic data that we can receive
from our from our curriculum data and
from our assessments um from this
information we look um at the curriculum
and see how to enhance the lessons to
ensure they're accessible um to all
students so we in looking at the uh
learner profile We compare it to how the
the lessons in our curriculum or our
supplemental materials are addressing
the needs of our Scholars and if we feel
that there's any kind of adjustments we
call it a lesson remix where we um
adjust and we provide additional support
so that it's fully access ible to all of
our scholars in the
classroom um as you guys know we're
engaging in our smart uh goals and
driven practices so every six weeks we
look at our data we create new smart
goals that are measurable we track our
progress um and that guides our next
steps this has been incredibly helpful
in looking closely at the data and
creating mean meaningful approaches
towards student supporting students we
go a step further um with these um uh
with these um smart goals but by um
conducting a gallery walk um after each
cohort engages in data collection so we
have it split between K2 TK um kind of
is doing their own thing um with um with
an bar ala so we do K2 smart goals we
have 35 that's run by Mr konigsburg and
then middle school and then what we do
is we all come together whoops I'm sorry
uh all come together um after we've
charted kind of our aha moments um and
our next steps on U poster boards and we
do a gallery walk to see where the
trends lie um as a tk8 school it's
important for us to see these Trends um
as the grade levels increase to find
Opportunities to Target our attention
and support and to work collabor
collaboratively in addressing these
needs um we also use the interim
assessments um with our uh with our
curriculum um and with esack and we have
um as I said we talked about um we use
svmi so silicon valy math initiative
resources the math assessment Resource
Services which is also known as Mars and
problem of the month to enhance those
problem solving skills we love this
Resource as it really supports SC um
teaching Scholars how to explain their
thinking and it provides a very clear
insight for our teachers to see how
Scholars attack a math problem um
building on those mathematical practices
and in addition to this year um
supported by our parent Community we
have brought math Olympiad um the math
Olympiad program to grades three four
and five I don't know if we have any
math olympiads it's been a around for a
really long time um to really strengthen
our mathematical reasoning and fluency
and with the support of our family
community um we've been able to bring
this to our school and it is wildly
successful um there are that you'll see
a photo of our kids getting really
excited for their math Olympiad day um
we hope that this provides a level of
enrichment for our Scholars um to seek
in math in addition to the enriching
activities that are incur um occurring
in the classroom and we also have Study
Buddies um so which is a program that
provides peer assisted learning in math
and literacy our community service
Scholars who are middle schoolers
support first through third grade
Scholars who would benefit from
individualized support um and um like I
said we do a lot of literacy circles and
book studies which also promotes that
differentiated learning um so our
teachers can move around and meet with
different groups um we also have an
optional Middle School book club that
was just started by our ASB teacher lead
an a rival this year that the teachers
are super excited about really what
we're trying to do is provide a lot of
opportunities for students to get
excited for learning um and to to want
to dive deeper into like what can they
do next in ela and math um we also
provide audiobooks and audio options as
well as graphic novels to support
Equitable access for students who might
need alternative literacy
resources um and we have an annual steam
fair so we just did that and we have
three students who are going to the San
Mato County stem fair with a few
students from Northstar we're super
excited for this opportunity um and just
something to note that we did it we
started it last year this is our second
year we doubled the amount of
participants from last year so I'm just
hoping it's going to keep going I keep
hitting this microphone
um and uh we have you know we encourage
academic driven field trips um and yeah
I mean we do we're doing a lot at Roy
Cloud um we're trying we are working to
support all of our Scholars and their
individual needs um yeah and we can show
here some pictures so top what is that
top left that's our our math olympiads
they're super excited um next to them is
an example of how we do an escape room
um the white boards that are under it is
an example of how we do vertical
learning the row of photos underneath
them those are all of our stem fair
kiddos um we do lots of student Le um
presentations and debates um uh on the
right is our SV some of our svmi work
next
one at the top there that's an example
of how we do our Gallery walks after we
do our data Dives and our our smart
goals um that uh a a screenshot of a
slide is how we started the year really
engaging in how to build a belonging
classroom looking at ways to promote
that student engagement through jigsaw
um the jigsaw model connecting at the
door Socratic seminars any um supporting
that noticing and wondering conversation
um and to promote our buddy um our buddy
program um we talked about pedagogy of
confidence and um within that they have
these thinking Ms that maps that have
really helped helped our students um
tailor their thinking and uh drill down
into how they want to uh utilize a
graphic organizer to help expand in
their writing and so right in the center
there that's an example that's a third
grade example um which I was really
impressed with um and then next to that
is a Socratic seminar outside um we did
it outside it happened to be really nice
and the classrooms can be a little
cramped when we do those Socratic
seminars um and then here's a really
creative way that our third grade
teachers um engage in
uh literacy practice and
exploration is that it okay that's our
presentation all right thank you so much
thank you Melissa and Jason for the
presentation I really appreciate it um
I'm gonna turn to the board members for
questions comments or discussion I will
point out the time just so that we're
mindful of it um we heard earlier that
administrators work till 11 o'clock at
night so that means they have two more
hours of work ahead of them um so let's
be very you know considerate of their
time
but by all means ask your questions and
discussions
yeah um I'll okay I I really don't have
any questions I just want to express
appreciation um first apologies for
drawing this the the Short Straw I know
that it's a late night as indicated but
really appreciate you guys making the
time to give the presentation say to be
engaged and to get us all this
information and obviously also to do the
work um I just really appreciate a lot
of the thinking I can tell from this
that you know even if you're seeing good
results it's clear that you're not being
complacent right you're thinking ahead
to what else can we do um so just really
want to appreciate that I can tell some
of the things that I really enjoyed um
hearing about were the the approach to
uh the buy in for expectations at the
beginning of the year the the the
creativity with the Escape rooms and
then um I was not in math olymbia but I
was in math counts which I think is
probably analogous and I also do a math
test every year with my family for fun
so certainly in the pool of big old
nerds and I say that most lovingly in
the most lovingly way so certainly
appreciate them shout to the suit I will
reach out to you when we have our math L
you can come join us I would love that
yeah no thank you um principal Melissa
and VP um Jason I also just wanted to
just glad to see a bunch of girls on the
math Olympia team right there in the
photo and also on their little um
science fair presentations down there so
so good job with that you know
mentioning inclusivity and I think this
is part of it here um this is not
something we need to discuss tonight but
I think the lpac slide is misrepresented
and anybody else misunderstand it I know
you don't have a a lot of students but I
I don't think all the zeros are correct
or my Miser understanding we we don't
have emerging multilinguals in every
grade um so that's that's probably where
some of the zeros were coming from I
then your your average number becomes
much smaller than doesn't reflect kind
of the but we can look at that later
okay um thank you for the presentation
um it's wonderful to hear everything
that you're doing um I do want to point
out I appreciate um hearing you Melissa
say the pedagogy of confid confidence um
like five or six times if not seven so I
appreciate that because that's one of
the biggest things I know that different
schools you know some you some don't but
um I do think that's a really good I
don't know model to use um so I
appreciate um Roy Cloud using it um the
audiobooks when you refer to them as
support are we talking I guess if you
could just explain a a little bit more
on that yeah absolutely um so sometimes
um when we're doing novel studies in the
classroom sometimes the students need
some time to
um receive the chapter that they're
going to read in a different way and so
what our our especially our Middle
School uh teachers are doing is they are
kind of frontloading by um they find uh
if we can't find um an a true audiobook
we'll use YouTube um because there's
lots of resources on there where people
are reading the the different chapters
of their of the novel study that they're
engaging in so what they'll do is
they'll place it on Google Classroom
students then can access it there so
that they can listen to it while also
following along um so they can do it in
a in whatever really way that makes the
most sense of them so if it is the night
before they can listen to the audiobook
while they are following along or they
can just listen to it so that the next
day they can become they can come in
prepared to engage in the conversation
of the chapter that they're going to be
reading together um it also is you know
where if they're doing any kind of
indivi independent reading where they
can you know put their headphones on and
they as they're reading along in the
book they can they can listen to it as
well it's just it provides an additional
access point because sometimes you know
our Scholars um just need a little help
in that we're we're just reading the
words on the paper um you know sometimes
they need to do it a few times so it
just it's just to provide them that that
additional thing if they need it great
um and then the other thing that I wrote
down um I really um like the Study
Buddies um because I think that gives
students a sense of you know
you're helping your buddy so that that's
really nice um and then of course the
student Le presentations I think again
that leads to you know leadership skills
down the line so I appreciate everything
that you guys do thank you and that's it
for me thank
you okay uh trusty weekly did you did
you have anything you wanted to
add um just short comment that I really
can you hear me
cool yeah just a short comment that I
really appreciate the uh hunger to
continue improving results to continue
looking at like what can we try next
when will we see the results and to
really have the school itself be
learning about the process of teaching
and what's working what's not so just I
I I appreciate that attitude that comes
through really clearly and the uh the
data grounding that's
here thank you thank you very much
thanks um yeah no great great
presentation thank you for coming and
staying so late uh we will try and wrap
this up really quickly um love the
actually Melissa this is your third year
here yes yeah it's I'm I'm thank you so
much for choosing Redwood City uh it's
clear that you made a great Community up
there at Roy Cloud uh are making a real
difference so just excited to see
everything that's happening there um
love the focus on belonging a whole
child and really making sure the kids
want to learn love to learn um I think
it's of the most important things we can
do in the you know up through 8th grade
uh to really set people up for success
in high school and it was really
interesting thanks for sharing about
your SLC class in middle school and the
inclusive practices that are going on
there I think that's really really
exciting to hear about it um and look
forward to hearing about how that goes
over the future years pass it off to Dr
Baker well Melissa and Jason thank you
so much but first of all thank you so
much for each of you taking the
initiative I know Melissa has done this
since she started but going into the
class rooms and Dem demonstrating
lessons that shows your vulnerability
you're getting in there with the
teachers and what the teachers are asked
to do you're showing that you can do it
so it makes you very vulnerable so I
really appreciate that you're both in
there and I've heard some really great
things definitely about Melissa when she
started doing this and I know Jason
you're doing the same thing I think at
the is it the younger Elementary did I
did a fifth grade I modeled a fifth
grade lesson and a couple middle school
lessons so far that's great that's great
to hear the other piece is the learning
profiles which I'm really interested to
learn more about it's something where
you get to understand more of what that
child needs and how you how are you
going to be able to meet those needs so
kudos for you for doing that again
thanks so much it's fun visiting CL
Cloud that was I guess that was my
last yeah my last round was Cloud now
we're on a different we're on a
different route now with another three
schools but thank you so much and um
just let us know when you're having the
different types of activities that the
gallery walks the learning profiles so
forth so we can come up and observe them
it'd great yeah absolutely and again I
just want to shout out to the staff
development team because we got that
idea from one of the udl um the
workshops that they they ran last year
great good yeah it was really great we
we get a lot from from those uh from
those trainings perfect yeah thank you
all right all right it's 9:25 go thank
thank you so much again yeah have a good
night yeah
thanks uh does anyone want to break I I
I imagine we can probably we have about
20 minutes left of agenda does should we
just keep going is that okay with
everyone here at the yeah ready keep
going yeah let's do it okay so we're on
to the consent items is there a motion
to
approve I move to approve the consent
items okay that was a second from Jen uh
all in favor I okay great uh then we'll
move on to action items 13 .1 is
acceptance of the Redwood City Teachers
Association Sun Sign proposal yes thank
you uh similar to um CSA president Maria
Stockton we had a wonderful day of Union
negotiations we're opening up February
so this particular action item is for
rcta these next two items uh and this
will start the first stage of the
negotiation process as board approval
are there any questions regarding the
sunshine proposal from rcta
any questions comments or anything to
discuss looks pretty standard um so is
there a motion this is an action item
so this time will ask if there's a
motion to
approve
so a second okay all in favor I okay
great then we are on
to uh 13.2 which is the receipt of the
governing board's initial proposal for
negotiations with rcta
yes the items identified are the
district's um initial proposal for
opening up negotiations which is
intended to start on February 25th with
rcta any questions regarding this
one nope great okay thanks Wendy um look
forward to seeing productive and
collaborative discussions you know
balancing all the needs of the students
community staff and everything that goes
through so is there a motion to approve
I move to approve 13 and a
second all right all in favor
I okay we can move on to board and
superintendent
reports you have things to
report I don't have something to report
that I attended to but I do want to just
um bring it out to everyone's attention
I am part of the OE um planning
committee and so O is a youth um
conference that happens at Kata College
every year um and that is happening on
March 22nd it's a let me see if I'm
telling you yes March 22 8:30 till about
2 o'clock we do need volunteers so
you're welcome to come and join
us all right thanks for letting us know
um Jen or David anything to report
uh very
quickly was able to go to a the Selby
where waren where to showed me around
got good got to see the sites got to see
the classes great learning was really
helpful for me to see a lot of the
consistency and kind of the learning
that went on kind of in the different uh
there's some similarities in classrooms
and consistency but also their own style
so it was I just it was very good to see
and helpful for me and um I know I think
they're also very appreciative or
looking forward to the HVAC
installations so as I'm sure we all are
um separately went to the fam unus
program the graduation talk to CC about
this I think we'll look forward to
trying to coordinate with them a little
bit more to exent we can just to help
keep um the community engaged especially
for the Spanish speakers but again those
also really nice to see uh one other
thing Maybe
not maybe for Rick I'm sure you're
following closely already but I know
that there's the budget onus trailer
bill which was recently released which
is obviously just a proposal but one
thing that stuck in my mind is that um I
know that there's some proposal for
funds to be allocated specifically for
reading uh and math kind of
instructional coaches so from what I've
heard from all of our schools uh big you
know Big Boost to the the achievement
through uh PD and instructional coaching
things like that so something to keep
Ming and I know what I forgot and you
too we were part of the superintendent
advisory committee and so
yeah that's all
right uh yeah um speaking of the budget
out today was the chamber Education
meeting um and they Jan dentler was
there from Josh Becker's Senator
Becker's office um Maria kif was from
assembly member papin and um Alise
Lester was there from assembly member
Burman and they talked about some of the
budget plus the education Bill bills
that were affecting education from the
last year and then some of the proposals
that uh a few of them none of them have
put together what their final package is
for um for legislation this year um but
what they were kind of looking at might
be able to come in so that was that was
interesting to hear about um and then I
also attended the citizens Bond
oversight committee um where the you
know the committee did its Duty and uh
discussed um some of the bond programs
reviewed some of the bond expenditures
and um I don't know if they took any
action on it I can't remember if
anything had to be approved time I think
it was mostly just discussion items yeah
minutes that's
it I toured uh let's see David check
check mic check David hang on I gotta
turn my volume up and then okay try it
try check check mic check cool I toured
Hoover Taft in Garfield and met with the
respective principles uh inspected the
classrooms I've got a bunch of notes
from that that I haven't sent out yet
but uh I I will write up that was really
helpful uh just one note from that uh
spotted at all three sites were a bunch
of the improvements to the food program
that have gone live uh I sampled some
very tasty chicken tinga that was
freshly locally cooked at Taft for
instance um that was very nice and got a
number of generally like pretty com
positive comments about how that was
rolling out but um yeah I'll write up my
notes in more detail there but it was
really nice just to get to uh connect
more with our our school sites and with
our
principles great
umer all of mine have been
mentioned they've all they've all been
mentioned outstanding okay um so we've
made it through so now we're on to
information items um Rick I think I'm
turning this over to you to sort of walk
us through it uh can we do them all can
we do them all together yeah it's just
information items 151 to and three are
rocket ship Redwood City connect
respectively their first interim
financial report uh and the uh letter on
behalf of Redwood City to them uh items
15 four five and six uh rocket ship
connect and Kip
respectively uh is their audit report
and the letter on behalf of rcsd to
them do anyone have questions or any any
I think
anything that you need clarification for
I don't think say this is pretty
standard we see this yearly um so great
um well thank you to oh wait sorry we
David did you have no okay great um
thank thanks Rick to your office you
have a lot of hats to wear and like
responsibilities as everybody does in
education so appreciate the work that y
all did that um moving on to
correspondence does anyone have
correspondence I wanted to mention one
thing um I got invited healthy cities
tutoring is having an event on March 8th
did everybody get that invitation okay
great because I can't make it and I just
wanted to see if there were if somebody
else was able to make it from the board
um it if if you can it's I don't think
it's a requirement but it's probably
nice if someone could go um anyone
fundraiser yeah it's a fundraiser yeah
okay um any other any other
correspondence wor just the
correspondence that I re we all received
and I responded that right right um I
think we have public comment simar yeah
okay uh All Right Moving On other
business suggested items for future
agenda none okay um board meeting
calendar right right we need to talk
about that okay yeah so um it's in
regard to the partial tax and we had had
a conversation t i okay we haven't
talked since yes see we we spoke on
Monday to yeah but we need to
meet I think what we should do is Carlo
and Ben and Jessica and then right right
to the board okay yeah that sounds
good um Evelyn are there changes to the
board meetings calendar yes there is a
close session added on February 26
545
cool two items too so we have to um
watch our time sry
items do you will you need more time I
know um sped requested an hour so I'm
not sure if
I it can't be an hour I
will I'll talk I'll talk to S about that
okay okay
okay coming up and did you send out a
calendar invite I can't remember okay
great perfect thank
you you did all right we're on to 19.1
adjourn the meeting can I get a motion
to adjourn sorry but go ahead come back
just going back to the count this is not
an added thing for future but um just
out of curiosity do do we have dates for
I know connect did their thing is there
a renewal hearing that's scheduled or
you you mean the renewal approval yeah
yeah it
is as of right now it's February 26 ah
okay oh so that's very much coming out
are the sorry I know that I know there's
a big renewal thing are the other
Charters where do they fall in the
pipeline is that like next year year or
it's next year if I'm not is 27 they go
through 27
and rocket ship is either 26 or 27 but
I'll confound okay not a big deal not
this year no yeah not this year guess is
the only one for Renewal okay thank
you cool um .1 adjourn the meeting can I
get a motion to
adjourn all right then move motion the
second a second all right all in favor I
all right where did perfect bye folks