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November 09th, 2022 Regular Board Meeting

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good evening and welcome to the November 9th 2022 regular meeting of the Banning Unified School District Board of Education the time is 4:32 please be advised that a recording or broadcast of this meeting is being made at the direction of the board Miss Martinez Laura will you be able to take roll yes ma'am can you hear me okay then yeah Christian piano Jesse Martinez a present presidents that were Christy Smith Tracy Chapman not present please let record reflect that we have a quorum thank you watching so I have one point to Pledge of Allegiance we would like to invite the bad in US Color Guard tell me the Pledge of Allegiance Olive Garden ready again I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible order thank you very much now on two words of encouragement tonight by mister or I'm Sorry by Reverend bill. I don't know that I need to stand up on the on the steps back here I miss at Burnet members of the board in in Davis and in everyone it's it's good to be here to deceive I'm going to make a confession is part of this in a former life I work worked in political world in Texas and I was a deputy press secretary and a Governor's campaign it's hard to believe it's been 40 years ago I know I don't look like I'm old enough to have worked in a campaign 40 years ago but I did and I went to work for a man who unexpectedly ended up getting elected governor of Texas it was a very contentious selection of there was a he was a Democrat there was a republican that the first Republican governor in Texas since reconstruction I had been elected mr. Clements and the day of the inauguration was terrible weather in in Austin and it was raining and cold and he was going to go out and take the oath of office and I had the opportunity to be outside the Press office at the moment that the inauguration took place to the swearing in of the governor and what was remarkable to me at that time especially given how contentious the election was was that the Personnel in the office and govern sharpest and in the in the Press office and I'm not getting it about this is that actually true moments before the swearing-in phone rang women who have done High heard about four Governors back answers the phone Governor's press office and took the call and it went through subsequent to that mr. white Mark White who's my boss took the oath of office and became governor of Texas so get the picture you had this transition phone rang again same woman Governor's press office government move forward I was welcomed in it was tremendous it was it was it was it was so wonderful that nobody held it again against me that I'd work for someone that in innocence and taking the bus out where I'm going with this is this it may be 2 months from now before we finally know what the results are in the election because it does take a while to account balance I've learned out here regardless of how it goes students are going to be in class teachers are going to be there to teach staff is going to be there to try to do the very best we can do to take care of orchids work will go on we maybe have been in different places in this election but we're all still in the same Community same time same same opportunities same challenges to do good work on behalf of the the children in this community and so I've been miss Adler I want to thank you nothing like thank you for your service cuz I think this this was arguably would be one of your last meetings because I don't think he sought re-election we move forward and and however however it goes we're all still going to be part of the same Community I will never forget how inspired I was I seeing the professionalism and how people handled their their their business and that office on that day after what had been a very contentious election to me that's that's part of the genius of this country what makes things work is that we can have elections we can have differences of opinion we cannot go through all of that and still be together still be there for the citizenship for the kids if that doesn't inspire you I don't I don't have anything better to inspiring and and I and I'll leave you with that today thank you so much revered. so next time we're going to take a moment of silence I'd want to make sure that I pronounce this person's name correctly so it's Tammy Karis is that correct Jennifer did you know her Tammy Care Center real quickly she was an instructional assistant at in Adult Ed and she passed away from cancer on October 20th this year at the age of 43 she was a beloved member of our family I work closely with mr. I just said students the family attended her memorial service at the Well church in Yucaipa she is survived by her husband of 20 years this is hard and her mother an extended family so it's just a moment of silence for that I thank you I did one point three adopt the agenda are there any changes to the agenda there are no changes to the agenda are there any board board request to change the agenda okay I may have a motion as to adopt agenda as supposed to been a second I don't have a motion for Mister Smith and 2nd from is Martina Laura all those in favor say aye aye USA I all right so I look with a vote of 420 and it is adopted out of 1.4 and presentations I would like to invite dr. Kazi Bush to the podium to introduce this evening student presentation good president Statler distinguished members of the board superintendent Davis and members of the Banning Community it is my pleasure to introduce some very special individuals were going to give very informative information to us this evening first I'd like to introduce our youngest and that is going to be Yasiel McCarthy who's a transitional kindergarten student at floor Street Discovery Center come on up literally good evening everybody in remembrance of distinguished members of the board Messianic ID Lego 11 amazing things I love you in the library and needs to us yeah. Very very very Halloween party I love going to Florida Discovery Center have a good evening I think he deserves another round of applause excellent and so next we have from Nicolette Ras be vice-president Sabrina Casillas Hernandez good evening board president Statler distinguished members of the board superintendent Davis and members of the Banning Community my name is Sabrina Casillas Hernandez and I am the eighth grade ASD vice-president at Nicolet Middle School I'm here to share with you all the Palomino Pride that has happened in the past month October 17th to the 21st Palomino staff held parent-teacher conference is Wednesday October 19th these conferences were held in the gym with an amazing parent dissipation bad women week has was October 24th to November 2nd follow me know started off with a stuffed animal to end a pajama day anything but a backpack day Palomino Spirit day Halloween and day of the day October 27th to the 28th Alamitos Jose their annual haunted maze right is amazed was open to Palomino family October 28th Palomino's enjoyed a BMX presentation with is there aerial stunts November 7th I want me no speak and their annual food drive items collected will be given to thrive Community Church or food boxes October scholar of the month breakfast with a 10 x 20 Alamitos and her family November 7th Palomino's implemented a new lanyard policy has received their ID cards and a green lanyard to wear while at school at all times this policy will help staff identify any sports news over 40 Palomino girls tried out for girls volleyball or girls have started practicing and getting ready for the season cross country has been going well our parents are acting metals and getting great times at the races are final race will be this Thursday at Diamond Valley Lake in Hemet wish us luck basketball tryouts will begin the week of November 28th once again my name is Sabrina Casillas Fernandez representing Nicolet middle school has 8th grade vice-president thank you for your time today well done and last but not least representing Banning High School ASB president Lily yang an evening president Sadler distinguish members of the school board superintendent Davis and members of the community my name is Lily Yang and I'm the associated student body president of Banning High School the home of the Broncos to begin with I would like to thank you all for opportunity to come up and share information about Banning High School a past event we had Red Ribbon Week from October 24th to the 31st on Monday just like the palominos we had hugs not drugs were students are encouraged to bring a stuffed animal to school is a was lay off drugs and students dressed up in Hawaiian gear Wednesday was drugs are wack we're students were wacky socks Thursday was turn your back on drugs were you were closing backward and Friday was black out drugs we were all black and your Shades to prepare for the blackout game the following evening the week ended with the wind as our Broncos football team won against Desert Mirage not only did we win but it was also senior night for girls golf cross-country cheer water polo band and colorguard previously the freshmen have taken egg wants to know if your trip was taken on Friday November 4th where they went up to Cienega Canyon preserve and help raise this upcoming Saturday the boys and girls varsity cross-country team is going to CIF prelims it will be racing at Mount Sac at Mount San Antonio College the following week will be having a school-wide loves giving it is open to all active members of any club clubs giving will be away for all of the clubs on campus interact and get to know each other we also have basketball games on November 17th and 29th or student section themes for these games will be monochrome which is on the 17 with your class colors and throwback which is on the 29th of this month is National native Heritage Month American Indian Pueblo be holding its cultural night where they will have cultural workshops activities popovers and more I would like to I would like to invite the community and board members to attend these upcoming events on the 24th 21st and November 8th we will be going to leadership conference at Disneyland this will be a great opportunity for the members and myself to learn how we can strengthen the school the theme for winter formal will be under the northern lights and we will be held at the Yucaipa Performing Arts Center in February from ideas like karaoke to machines SP has been working hard to plan his pants so revealing so it will be memorable for all students are leadership class is also working on gratitude week which helps recognize the staff at Banning High who don't get recognized as they often you have been working hard to prepper Futurama and make the school year memorable thank you for listening and I hope to see you at the upcoming events thank you very much that concludes our student presentations for the evening thank you dr. Kazi Bush okay maybe on Titan 1.5 student board member comments Miss Savala alright I'm good evening boy president Statler distinguished members of the board superintendent Davis and members Banning Community before ever again I would like to thank the board to a thing to my concern saying that can change it means a lot to another my voice matters and you all are so willing to listen to me to discuss the matter of building has been a matter of concern for a long time especially in Manning and thousand Elementary School I've heard or seen images were my own friends have gone through these experiences it saddens me that these experiences are still happening or coming in Norm My Hope Is that we can work together as a school Community to help both the bully and the who's got the help that they need is my sincerest hope that everybody US Visa student will have a positive experience at Banning unified my next topic is a concerned students mental health approaching five when I do this time is very difficult and is a sorceress for many students I personally have been affected by these feelings and they're not then I would like to get sooner support during this time and let them know that it's great does not define them I'm sure that this is being dressed but I felt that there it can be more support given to you I see any stimuli stressful text thank you for your time thank you Miss of all of that was really good we are taking up thank you alright movie Nine to item 1.6 again dr. Kazi bush it evening again I'd like to call up representative from Coos alternative for our adult school students to be recognized mr. aha here and so at this time we had some very special individuals who we will be recognizing with their adult education to plums I only see one that's okay because we still want it knowledge them I will call everyone's name and so I will let you do the honors of calling the name and I will pass this on to you Consuelo Montes Consuelo Jason Sangre Google Madonna Junior and the brave one that did show up Natalie Amaya so Natalie when was the last time you were at New Horizons Abyss Abyss before okay so she is energy year than overhead you know she was still missing credits and she decided to come back and came to sign up two adults abandoned School in for I mean she did all the work she was on every day every week came in I gave her the same man she come the following week all done and you work real hard and here she is thank you everybody I want you and free one more time congratulations that's awesome all right maybe 92 item 1.7 that I think this site Rusty was trying to avoid but I can't we would like to present to mr. Smith a plaque I don't know if you can see this mr. Smith I hook it up I know can we get it closed up and it says now Unified School District Board of trustee member presented to Jason's death and recognition of outstanding dedication and service to the Banning Unified School District from 2017 to 2017 to 2022 hi there so I just want to say that I have appreciated Jace leadership since the time I was elected to the board and I used to meet for what we called biscuits and gravy is on Saturday mornings before the board meeting so we could try to get a few we didn't always agree on everything and I think that times for he just want to block me on the head and, what are you doing you know but he just he was always there if we needed something he would answer a question I am I now see the load that he carried in those first two years with the four of us all I knew was amazing and he showed great leadership and I would appreciate it so thank you Jason in this will be available at the next meeting you can pick it up so you have to come to next me I know you saw this on the agenda knee when I'm not going on so now you have to accept it so we love you Jason and we're going to miss you you are very much appreciate that you have something to say No not tonight I'll wait till next meeting but thank you anyway okay maybe at the next meeting will have something alright movie 9 Madden 1.8 opportunity for Community comments or closed session items did we receive any comment no comments received comments received all right then I do I guess what time is 4:58 right then I don't I guess we're going to close to some down time is or 58 right and see you guys in a little bit right then I don't I guess we're going close to send out 458 I can see you guys in a little bit all right then I do we are back from closed session the time is 52 I took a little longer than that, okay and I'm going to read out from closed session because misogynist or wasn't able to attend and we have four remember Troutman is now she was awesome. Item 2.1 student matters it was motion by Troutman and seconded by mr. Smith I'm sorry it was motion by Miss Trump in the second and by Mr Smith and it passed with a vote of 420 that was on 2.1 item 2.2 the board was given information and Direction was given on item 2.3 information was given an item 2.4 information was given finally an item 2.5 in closed session the Board of Education deny the appointment of Mr seeney Allianz field rep for elementary school assistant principal motion was made by Smith and seconded by Statler I did not carry on a boat of 222 and that is what happened in close now we're going to move onto item 3.1 oh that was you born okay I am 2.2 up and you for opportunity for Community comment did we receive any community, no comments are received thank you I am 3.3 BT a comment I do not see mr. Garcia is he on Zoom okay mr. Garcia would you like to make your comments on Zoom but I think you know, tonight thank you thank you mr. Garcia I don't 3424 then I would like to welcome csb present Jennifer Serrano but I think I'm going to reserve some of my comments for the next board meeting I did however One update you that everybody has now been paid out there one time money and we're very excited to see their out-of-pocket costs for their insurer go down and get a little bit of a refund so we all thank you for making that possible and I want to thank you for acknowledging Miss Tammy Charis she was not only a torquer but we consider our family here thank you thank you mr. Rana all right moving on to item 4.1 the superintendent's come in our community few things to report the master had a while I'm going over there so you can pull up that presentation so first off I would like to thank Miss Kerry shook she's here this evening and she is she look like when she is secure are benefits for our district and all of our staff in a part of that we use a Keenan Hazard insurance provider and it was his challenge is called all old hola Challenge and hola means life in Hawaiian and so this challenge basically is a physical activity challenge where you can team up with a buddy or team in his to get your physical activity and whether it's using you or your steps from your watch or you put it in there and I have to say there were 18 districts locally that signed up and there were six districts that really competed in this and the challenge goes from October 3rd to November 13th we're almost done Sundays the last day and I want to tell the world that banning is going to win that challenge going to win that Talent so yes excellent job we have 75 staff members that are competing we actually have some districts from the very Stout of us competing but we're just doing a really good job in our district in our district with that and so of that of those teams we have I just want to mention in teams in our district and of those teams is two teams that are neck-and-neck they're fighting each other to be number one in this Challenge and that is the Appaloosa team which is that Hoffer Elementary in the Bridgerton Palestine which is a District Office Team and just right behind them which is going to end in third place is the central point so I just wanted to shout out to all of our staff who can participated in that and carry think you for bringing that I didn't realize how competitive our staff was what I went to one of the sides and they accosted me saying your numbers aren't real and so I said you had looked at my watch and they were just all into it so it's just a good feel for our district to be a part of something and then to win as our distance will thank you for being the scary next thing I just want to share is the city of banning just our school district has been recognized by the city of banning at a couple of things just for our collaborative spirit and working with the city I think as a school district as a police department and it as a city we are trying to move forward create different cultural climate to make our community better and I think we're a long that ride so I don't see anyone well I know there's John in the back there back there in the city of banning to want to thank you for your support and all of your colleagues or what you are doing to support our district to move forward to help our students last comment I have is the December 14th meeting so that is our next regular schedule meeting which will be our annual organization meeting will start at 5:30 so that is a change it will not start at 4:30 will start at 5:30 and when we start will start just like we normally do. in the annual organization meeting will happen where the new board members will be sworn in as well as the board seats will chance we're having the board president and work until 4 so we'll get that information out but I want to make sure I put that on public record. the meeting will start at 5:30 instead of 4:30 now I'm going to go to the podium okay there we go and we're going to work through our four fourth installment of the book coherence by Michael Fallon and Joanne Quinn and so this picture here was taking this past Monday and the picture is of our principals at our principals meeting and we're having a deep conversation about smart smart a team and so we are really showing that we are moving forward as a district to deepen our learning so again tonight is chapter 4 which is called deepening learning and as reminder this is what we should always focus on everything that we do as a district we should put in our mindset what is our mission and our vision are we preparing inspiring and educating students and are we doing that with r because that is our purpose to ensure that our students are prepared to choose their full potential just as a reminder on the previous chapters chapter 1 focused on capacity building collaboration Goji in system is how we should be using those as what drives our school Community for next we talked about the glue in Chapter 2 so these were small little tokens of gif that went out to the board on bosses day to show hey our board is the glue the board provides us with Direction in terms of how we support our students in our community he was also for Monday and this was a random we talked a lot about orenda this is just a picture of Orinda in the space again at our principals meeting in chapter 3 was about the culture of grow how we develop that culture that we continue to grow and that we are lead learners meaning of the principal should be in the space I should be in the space when principles of learning that way I have an understanding of what the expectations are in the classroom and how we continue to build this collaborative so tonight we're going to focus on that bottom right corner I did not tie myself because executive cabinet says I go too long so I'm time of myself now so that deepening learning part talks about Clarity learning goals Precision of pedagogy shifting practices through capacity the first part Clarity learning so several years ago when this book coherence came out I heard about the six seats and I was a little confused because I've always about the Four Season education that is communication critical thinking Club racing and creativity and what I want to say about that is we want our students to have when they graduate or as they progressed through great the great that they're developing those we trust me to be able to communicate verbally written and in their space we want them to be great citizens of our space and we want them to be critical thinkers we want them to take information in and not just an answer but think about that bass about all their background knowledge to understand what's happening in a collaborative environment and being creative in the thing about creativity sometimes we have people who are really gifted hearts drawing music wow until in the doctoral program which I didn't finish I had a professor his name was dr. Alan Daly and he the whole class was about activity in those about how we think if you think something differently than the person next to you you're using your creative thoughts thousand the kind of thing those are the kind of things that we have been stealing our students so that way they feel like they are created and sometimes we need someone to tell us that in order to feel that but the first four is not only for a student's but it's also for the adults we should have staff that critically think that are collaborative that are created and sold a harness those for is great but full and talks about these two additional which is character one of the things I know about our students in Banning is that as they grow as they get older they have RIT they have perseverance and they are resilient I see it in I see it when they talk it comes out from them even our little T care right was so cute this evening but how do we continue to build that character in our students that way they're prepared for real life when they leave us and then the last component of that sixties is citizenship is how do we became a global kind of Stewart of the world doing what is right having Humanity if you will it's all this part of the book really focuses on what we should be developing our students and how we do that with our staff the next part 2 3 in this chapter was precision and pedagogy until pedagogies the method and practice of teaching so our 250-plus teachers that are here and banning they are providing practice and methods to better instruct students and so in order to do that our teachers must possess expertise and instructional and assessment practice meaning that once we assess students are they learning the material than how do we go back in and provide a deeper level directions to that they'd continue to improve and full and talks about Educators must hold a deep knowledge of the learning process and have a myriad of strategies such as a special education teacher years ago they always talked about your supposed to have this strategies to come in and help all students so as a learning organization or learning community community we should be figuring out how to develop strategies in the teachers that way they can deal with a variety of students in differentiate their instruction will it also talks about this learning partnership has to happen between teachers students and parents that means that the parents know what's going on the classroom pictures of supporting students in the students are part of that which means that that creates a quality of learning environment that is engaging and when you have an engaging environment when people are I need to be there that's better for students and teachers so that's something we can foster as leaders and last when I want to make here going back to the community it talks about we must create the conditions create the conditions for growth that means we have to expect rope we have to listen and we have to support when challenges come up and then we get to deep learning the last component of this chapter shifting practice in capacity building and so full and Joanne Quinn ask several questions and I'm going to start at the bottom with districts and so these are things that we should be considering as a district as schools in St do talks about as a district does a district have Clarity on the learning goals have they do they have high yield for pedagogical practices that have been identified and shared is a district read does the district create a cold of learning for all Educators does the district provide resources for Collaborative Learning structures and process to scry so dr. Kazi Bush as you know Lee's is our Academic Program doctor Pendleton and dr. Wolford these are questions that we should be asked and collectively as a team are we doing this are we in that space and if we're not how do we get there the next part about schools so these are our site leaders do our school leaders have the knowledge and skill how to create a culture of learning for teachers and students do they have Collaborative Learning structures in place is there a time for teachers to me is there a time to meet with a principal to talk about these prophecies and then finally the third question for do the does the school access to models to effective practices and opportunities to share literal I'm sorry laterally and vertically so the executive team met are our teachers are the executive team I think last week or week and one of the people on that team talked about it would be nice for all of the second grade teachers to collaborate and then collaborate with a third grade teachers that the third grade teachers understand what the expectations are that way were in sequence so how do we create that environment and I know it can be created and finally feeling talked about the teachers should be asking or we should be asking to teachers for the the Knowledge and Skills in the pedagogical practices do they have the right skills to do their job and teachers have the Knowledge and Skills to develop new learning partnership do teachers have the Knowledge and Skills to create environments that move beyond the traditional Google Classroom so the traditional classroom means I am the teacher you are the student I am here to impart knowledge upon you all those days are gone the reason they're going is because knowledge is all around us every so how does the teacher learn with the student I just listen to Erin Gruwell Erin Gruwell was a part of us she was in Long Beach Unified as a teacher and she had a group of students and it was called the free writers so there was a movie about it and she talked about that she talked about learning with the students not pushing things at the student so in all of these questions in this is something that I would encourage mr. Garcia oh he's not here sorry he's on video to ask and I'll send you these questions mr. Garcia do teachers have the skills cuz if they don't we need to figure out how to develop them in all of these questions it talks about knowledge skills collaboration learning and effective practices in NASA what we're trying to move tour the final thought that fool and talks about is that it is is clear based upon his research that is not about the size of the district or the school it's not about whether the school district is in poverty or its privilege is not about one program being better than the other but He suggests that it's about having a are scared focus and Direction when we are aligned with our csca partners and RBG a partner with the board in our administrative team and our parents and the community we cannot be stopped so we have to develop that alignment and also talks about having a small number of goals this seems to be a theme throughout coherent he talks about bringing those goals down in the board has done that we've gone from 7 goes to 3 but all linked to improve student learning and finally out of we ensure that we have committed leadership at all levels that means student leadership we have students here that talk to us as Leaders parent leaders Community leaders teacher leaders all of those but if we're all aligned we will move fast Ford faster last picture I want to show you is this was taken I don't even know what time goes by so fast but we were in a room at the Riverside County Office of Education and in that room that night there was the state superintendent Tony Thurmond there was our County Superintendent dr. Gomez which is not pictured in here there was the AXA CEO which is a doctor's sweater and he is a part of the association of California school administrators and also Billy burning Billy Vernon is the CEO for ESPN before he boards School Association talk about where we are as a state where we're going and how we need to work together so I want to thank you for your time and your listening and actually wear a picture of a shower up there talking about honoring someone that was another leader so that's crazy talk when and he's a member of the Moreno Valley Unified School District you is was the president up until this evening that we took these pictures he stepped down as president but Riverside County school board members association with hanging on a thread and when they would have meetings to people would show up and that was at himself another gentleman and they had long discussions about how they were going to put back together because there was all this fraud and all this nonsense and all this controversy going on and so people didn't want to be members anymore so he took it as a leadership he took it upon himself saying my name is associated with some of this past stuff so I'm going to step down so that we can grow our association against all that to me was true sign of a leader who said I'm going to step down so we can grow so that's what we're trying to do here to grow wherever we are that's what we are but how do we grow any questions on chapter 4 now this is chapter 4 we have to move I just want to make one comment about something that you said about vertical and lateral so there was a time and Miss Culver's y'all be just walk out to because she hosted when all the first grade teachers got together and we did it once a month on a smart Wednesday and we would discuss our strategies for each chapter that was the most learning time I ever had I sought teachers from Central from offer from heaven and then we all discussed how are we going to get through and where are your kids right now and and like it was it was vital to first year first grade teacher to go what am I doing and have him go I'll just be like this you like this and then I don't recall ever having very close I'll do at Cabazon we would right now since third grade teacher here's what you need to know about the student Kathy but I can see having a lot of rules before school year start so everybody's on the same page starting out and maybe one in the middle and then vertical at the end of your have every call the second grader teachers meet with the third grade teachers and discuss here's what your your kids are at what grade is it gave me for the future sites are you coming incoming that was not my fault no I thought it was a very interesting evening that night I got to meet a lot of people everything went as great as great as it was just a shame that only two board members can go cuz I'm sure the others would have enjoyed it as well things were said that night I could reiterate them the way they did all in all it was just a really good night thank you mr. Smith Mista Martinez Laura nothing thank you all right thank you mr. Davis and so then moving on to the consent if you want to read your butt okay the recommendation is to approve consent calendar agenda items 5.2 through 5.4 as provided it's listed under the consent calendar agenda are considered to be routine and enacted by one motion and vote there's no separate discussion of these items prior to the time the Board of Education considers the motion unless a member of the Border administrators staff request Pacific Islands be discussed and or removed from the consent calendar agenda all right so I'm going to ask for anything that you want to pull from the cassette calendar I hear none we have a motion the 2nd to approve the consent calendar agenda has provided mr. Smith can you stack it I will check it thank you I did meet have a motion by misun Rihanna on the second by mr. Smith all those in favor say aye aye aye aye hearing none emotion is the consent calendar is past excuse me item six that's illegal I would like to invite. once again she's getting her steps in tonight good evening once again president Statler distinguish board members Brent and Davis and members of the community we have this evening for you an overview of our caste California assessment of student performance and progress data from 2022 and so just a little background in terms of what what is this assessment and we talked a lot about Orinda we have assessments that we've been using in years past and so just to give a brief overview as an example of the cast is considered a summative assessment and a summative assessment is a formal assessment that looks at student progress based upon achievement standards in Ark standards that have been identified by California of formative assessment provides tree audit and valuation is student growth we've seen these with our i-Ready assessment which we had in place for a number of years and then more recently we've added are Banning common assessments which are an example of an interim short cycle assessment because those those types of Assessments and few are meant to inform instruction and Sawyer going to administer dose on a more frequent basis and still the cast the California assessment of student performance and progress it is administered once a year on an annual and it is a retrospective snapshot years ago when we had the CST vs EST is May 6th we would call it an autopsy because it's the one in done it's the review of the prior year and so these assessments are used for high-stakes accountability in previous years we had program Improvement and now we will have a dash work that will help us to create a brand-new Baseline of expectations of student grow and so where are we I will first give a caveat on the state has already admonished us do not make a comparison from 2019 to 2022 cuz it's different but naturally as Educators we always want to know where where are we and where are we now and so if you draw your attention Discraft for mathematics and if you look at the green you will see from the 2019 Administration which was the last in person and regular at ministration of our state assessment I'm where we were and percent of students who met or exceeded standards compared to where we are in 2022 our most recent version which is actually an entirely different version of the test and you will see Annie request five percentage points but compared to the state we regressed less than the state average of 7 percentage points from 2019 to 2022 moving on to English language arts you can see that there is a comparison between both Daniel and the state in terms of the proportion of students regress which is at 4% in terms of meat or exceeding standards in English language arts and so Reflections on this what does this imply and so yes like the state are academic services the county many other districts of course we anticipated that we would see and like all likelihood such a regression due to the disruption of learning law which we've all experienced do covid and although the pandemic did had its challenges we also put into place on other things such as our let's learning which was done last year virtual learning so that is always consider it's not an excuse those are facts and observations and so our Focus will be on moving for what is also of interest is when you continue to peel the onion back get into the details we realized our 3rd through 5th graders for the most part this was their first time ever taking the state test is if you think about where they were in 2021 we had option to provide our local assessment and Minnie District selected a local assessment as opposed to the cast while our 3rd through 5th graders many of them may have been in the second grade when there's no testing at all in the second grade they were in the fourth grade or 3rd grade then we didn't provide the cast in addition to that in addition to not being the first time that they were exposed to it we also consider that were looking at apples and in some respects and so the composition of our assessment in 2019 is much different and very in 2022 because the state augmented and reduced much of the blueprint much of the so that's another reason why it's been recommended from the stick is not a good idea to compare but again because we're agitators we are always going to be focused on where were we where are we now where do we need to go last week many students may not be familiar or may not have been annoying or what we call Universal and designated support if they were not implemented during the school year and that simply means if you are student who's used to having received certain kinds of supports in class maybe you were not annoyed with how that lit on a standardized assessment on screen we're having to split your learning via a computer and so some glows for us we saw several grade levels who's board above the district average 4th 5th and 11th grade in particular I'm scored higher than our district average and this is just an amazing and wonderful thing because it continues to reflect the work. have not ceased within our classrooms to see these highlights third and fourth grade also had several just in terms of the percentage who scored higher than the district average in math which is also very notable given some of the traditional weaknesses not just in Banning and math but across the street at 10 to be one of the harder areas to maintain growth and so what and now what what does all this mean test as we know are simply one measure of student Grill we do no test can be used as a tool to help identify strengths and weaknesses and that's great they have purpose they are not the only tool however to be used and moving sports identify students needs in the learning process which is why our Focus ghosts Beyond test and two other things such as our focus on College and Career Readiness steam we have an elementary school who is a nationally certified steam school at we'd like to expand in terms of stem opportunities student empathy interviews in terms of getting an idea from students what are your priorities what are your perspectives on barriers to Jeep and the light as well as additional supports to increase engagement as we heard reference incoherence of students attendance because of students are not coming to school then they're not engaged and in addition to that and arguably one of the most ordinary has given where we've been in these last three years a greater focus on social emotional and mental health support for all In addition we've added or Banning, specimens have the reference which serve as an interim assessment so to speak because teachers are now able to see at least five times throughout the year how students are doing on designated standards that they have selected as a priority and what they do with that data is to turn it around and make an adjustment and instruction because as was mentioned before have to have precision and pedagogy and this is one example of many data reflection sessions with your opportunities for teachers to collaborate in great trouble we of course would love to be able honey we love but we're planning on being able to expand that across the district were second grade teachers at Cabazon work with second grade teachers across the district as we understand you were a lateral collaboration in addition to the vertical articulation up and down the great levels learning books which is been an absolute wonderful occurrence and that our next one is scheduled for Monday at 10 where we get to go and visit classrooms and see what's going on what are teachers doing what are they doing to inspire learning and our future goal of course is to open that up so that teachers will be able to travel schools and see the great things that are and that occurring. Maybe a test has not reflected and then of course our administrator coaching which we mr. Davis superintendent David showed you some pictures from our principals meeting and you saw a picture of Scott I'm giving some information from our principles and that's the one steady we also have coaching that happens to we on the campus with one goal in mind and that is to increase the instructional leadership capacity of principles teachers are the number one indicator of student growth we've seen we known that for years research continues to show us that and so who is going to support our teachers to ensure that they have what they need and so our focus is on continuing the development of the instructional leadership capacity of all you see that last week there calibrate which is extremely important because what we want is for everyone to have a common understanding of what that looks like so that all Cabazon is a wonderful School site that has high expectations well if you go to a third grade class at Cabazon you should like we see some similar things at Central's third grade classrooms they may have a different style with Lair of how they do it but she still see some commonalities beer in terms of the level of rigor and instruction we've also focused several of our El Cap actions and goals increase student achievement and this is very important because this meat we have made a concerted effort to use dollars and money to directly address the learning. I'm which is which have been some assessment data again purpose that's one of the purposes of these assessments to identify areas and also to fill positions such as instructional coaches intervention teachers assistant principals at the elementary level and forthcoming a College and Career specialist on which were very excited about because all of our students need to be in a position to have an AUX viable when they exit the doors of the Banning Unified School District if it is going into higher education if it is going into a career and then of course Foster youth parent Community liaison switch is a district Outreach specialist because again do you spell Physicians speak to some of our greatest needs as though as far as possibility to use our our dollars and that matter to support this new funding of course in terms of wanting to show some improvement I'm by the next year to continue to contribute to student learning and then continue to focus on growth using our assessments that's the purpose we've got 1 assessment that we can look at your to your grill we have an assessment that syndrome that helps us to inform to what extent has there been growth within the year and then of course we know we need a baseline of where we are so are summative cast data right now this is our new floor this is our new base line if so I already administered three times a year and this is very important because again going back to purpose i-Ready hopes to show us growth three times throughout the year and so we're very proud of this because this shows that are prospective of what was stone or measured on the state's count as out our own internal assessment due in stock show growth as you can see here from 2020 to 2022 we have am from about maybe 20 3% to just over 30% of our students and reading who scored early on or above grade level in mathematics similar Trend we usually tend to have a little low I shouldn't say less achieving in math napkins to be more of a challenge but still growth which is what our focus is on growth we had just about maybe 17% to about 22% were early on and above grade level in math as measured by our i-Ready assessment and our Banning common assessments we are spending a lot of time fining and perfecting these we got some great feedback from our teachers in terms of the need and a desire to want to be able to calibrate their understanding with their colleague as is a natural that is absolutely what we want that is how we get to pedagogical precision as was mentioned earlier and so these assessments as mentioned earlier or administered 5 times a year of an rplc as we've heard that term as Learning Community there's a group of individuals or data reflection session where individuals get together look at data make decisions on what next steps will be to move student Sport and of course to intervene if need be I'm still coming up this fall will be our dashboard data which again is going to be our new base and so we are used to seeing the crossed-out a mobile of the gas monitors or gas registers which I'm not even sure I guess they're still our gas registers I'm going to leave that alone. Is the so just scratch that out of your mind because coming up sometime this fall we're home Ralphs will get this in December I'm all we know is that the state of Maine will be getting our dashboard this fall it will look like cell phone bars and so in terms of measuring giving us our new status Baseline it will look like this very low low medium high or very high and the reason being is that I'm in terms of making a comparison we understand that it is valid to use 2019 data to make a comparison to 2022 data and so this is our new Baseline year and so yes I just want to add if you can go back to that slide sorry. Is that I'm excited about this because it gives our community and opportunity to show our growth typically we don't have that opportunity because we're looking and measuring on years and years and years and historically we've had some challenges in Banning but now we will be able to see this is what the Test shows from last year with the status bar at the top and so next year so what are tickets this year it will show did we grow did we go from very low to load it we go from medium to high it gives us the opportunity that we've been waiting for so I'm excited about this. pointing that out and another highlight which is very very important as we've dug into the data and looked at some comparisons which of course we do cuz naturally we always want to know where we stand how did other districts whoever else do as we've dug into our data we've noticed on our 22 scores that we still have Hot Pockets of growth that may not be reflected when you look at the entire District 1 percentage that are absolutely reflected when you break it down by maybe grade level or one great level at this school in one great level at that school and so it just reaffirms once again there is growth and progress being made in terms of moving our students out of those lower bands and into the proficient or the Met band and standard exceeded band I'm so what will we see on our California school dashboard we will as we shared before I'm see status only data which is Baseline the dashboard data that will be use will be our cast dated which includes our English language arts and math scores in addition to that it will include data from our English learner proficiency assessment for English Learners as well as cow pasture which may include things such as graduation rate attendance I'm a like and so some of those academic pry or state priorities will look at the distance from standard met English language arts and math and so this time next year we'll be able to see growth State priority for English learner progress indicator is going to look at to what extent have are English learners taking the elpac advance one level what percentage of those students have advanced when level State party chronic absenteeism which is being absent at least 10% of Android instructional days to what extent are we reducing our chronic absenteeism rate we want that to go down I want that to be very low similar to our suspension Raiders I'm jumping ahead to State Party 6 number of unduplicated students suspended by the total number of students were enrolled what that means is this do you have a student who was suspended 10 times they count as wants to so it's under which is so it's one student no matter how many times they've been suspended and then State Party 5 or graduation rate which looks at a combination of our four-year cohort with your graduating senior source and then finally College and Career indicator will not be published on for this cycle for a baseline we will not get a baseline for this because we didn't have high school seniors who took the cast so there's nothing to even give us a baseline for and so we are awaiting this data so we can know our new base line status with all of that said for the dimmick team our Focus has always been and will continue to be to achieve and we achieve through the implementation of Assessments that inform instruction Jews are bad in common assessments are guaranteed a viable curriculum which we use with our targeted standard to matrices we leverage our textbooks but it is the standards that is what drives instruction are habits what are the routines and practices that we all a spouse that we all hold on to the mindsets we have our expectations to support all students 1st and straw that is rigorous where we can say hey you know what while 20% of the kids half of our kids my kids didn't get this but I'm going back and refining set refinement efficacy what extent do we believe we can make a difference what extent do we believe what we do will inspect touch us to a child multiple children the value that we place on our instructional leaders understanding the power of their role in supporting our teachers in terms of being Equity minded individuals and finally to what extent are we providing safe and effective learning environment for all with optimal conditions for every student to thrive placing them on a high trajectory for learning based upon our mission statement we aim to prepare to inspire and educate students thank you very much questions they do custom on your i-Ready reading and Matt a chart my question is do we would be prudent to pull data to look at specifically RTI students and then our English only students just because my understanding RDI students are learning everything in Spanish and then they're presented with this exam that's an ink is that they're learning to master educationally wise not just verbally I'm wondering if there's if that has that kind of data has been taken into account and look specifically already eyeshadows and seeing how they're progressing as their being immersed in two more English and Spanish and then that 50/50 aspect absolutely part of the job in terms of this aggravating the data is that we can discuss aggregated and soul anyways but it is very important that we look at groups of students to ensure that we are providing what they need so that we can begin to see growth and so that is absolutely correct in terms of yes only are we just aggregating it by student subgroup and great level we just aggravated by program as well because maybe this says the data seemed something different for students with IEPs that it is stain for students are in dual immersion then it is staying for I don't know any other particular group that's where we begin to create a support structure to address their needs based on what the data is telling us this one isn't separated into those specific filters correct so for this slide know this is just an overview of the district but in terms of our job yes we do there when you go on to already we are able to disaggregate data by student groups absolutely I would be curious if we are able to have information to see the visual of the different categories of our students and how they're progressing perfectly on the way there those students subgroups in the future any other comments or questions my doctor is a wonderful presentation and the time is now so thank you time is now thank you all right moving onto item 7.1 Business Services super co-op in Newell this item is for the board to approve the super Co-op annual renewal for 2023-24 thank you is there a motion and a second to open and discuss I am 7.1 I move I second the motion by Mist Robin and a second buy me sangriana all those in favor to open it now so now we open for discussion right then what discussion this contrition any questions anyone all right Jim people we're getting ready to vote so I had emotion from his trauma in his second term is anchiano all those in favor say aye aye aye mr. Smith I think you so those opposed play 97.1 is pasta I danced 7.2 I told remix beside him is for the board to approve and or ratify contractual agreements for 2022-23 as provided was there a motion as to open and discuss okay I'll take Troutman any discussion yes I have that I would like to discuss the Upward Bound you see our contract agreement set up. as you can see more steps install Upward Bound and provides opportunities to position students for access to college on this includes coming on to listen providing immediate presentations as well as working with our high school counselors primary questions regarding the upper bound program I'm familiar with it that was part of it when I was in high I was actually surprised to see it here because I don't recall seeing it before as being a board member so I really would like to know what the structure of it as to how we're advertising our informing our families and our students and what the process is because I do believe that this program is amazing and it really gives our students that opportunity that they may have if the program is the way that I am I experienced it going in the summer at you see are taking college classes are paying for SATs like help with application it was something really valuable and I want to make sure that as we're going along with our goals and college readiness like how early advertising this or how do I what do our families and students know of it and what's the process that we have and so once we've gone through the formalities our counselors will be work I'm to ensure that students are aware of this and we will be using of course our tools to push it out to the community via parentsquare I'm at the light and then our big once we get our College and Career specialist on this will be something that they're going to take leadership on amongst several other programs in terms of positioning not just positioning but notifying parents and students that these are Trinity's exist that's a significant part of what are College and Career specialist will be doing until that time right now it's in the hands of our counselors and we will be working on ways to ensure that down are and that informed of the many opportunities that have been made available so anymore so you know something sparked when the sun Rihanna was asking questions so like an avid the coordinator does all the Recruitment and all that kind of stuff so it gets advertised but they they do all the work so I'll put down do they do we have like a stipend could it be a stipend position or something or part of ASP or you know just asking and so that is something we can definitely talk about just a question technically it is a part the role of a counselor and with the new College and Career Council that will be a part of their duties to advertise that and be responsible for counselors or is there one specific that's are just like there's one specific right now that has been attached to college now and in the future will be this additional position that we are to be hired for thank you very informative so how an emotion by Mr Smith and 2nd by Matt Redman all those in favor say aye supposed to rain on 7.2 passes 7.3 this item is for the board to adopt resolution a 23-0 17 increasing the revolving cash account is there a motion as to open in disgust I M K and I second any discussion yes for this one I know I asked the question via email to mr. Davis and I appreciate the answer my questions but if I can ask the question aloud to the so the community can hear I'm curious sorry if you can repeat what you had written to me that why the need for such a jump from 10,000 to 50000 for the revolving cash fund other than inflation good evening and thank you for the question the request here is to increase the revolving cash account balance from 10,000 up to 50,000 one of which is inflation as a part of the routine this is operations in this case the request is for this account that is held outside of the county treasurer's account that allows the district to take care of emergencies so for example and this is been the struggle as of late with the CTC this is the credentialing I'm agency where if credentials are not approved the pay does not go through the accounting system or there might be some other issue that may be related to payroll and which we would then get a license a counted an issue out a check immediately to employ there's other emergencies that may come up in and that's a matter it does take a little longer to get a check through the county that it is through a rebounding cash account and that is one of the reasons for the request for the increase to allow the flexibility of transactions and addressing any type of emergency item or type of function within fiscal services and District overall hold back is that I'm worried how off do these emergencies happen that we need to make such a large increase that I don't personally don't see the need I understand emergencies happen if I do but unless happening once a week every week I don't see it's all related to mr. Davis also mr. Can you get that agenda tab or get his okay give a real example so along with labor shortages in our nation I'll just put it out there CTC also is experiencing labor shortages and they are backlogged and they are delayed so hasn't exam when we have employees were teachers cuz this is on the certificated side who have applied to renew their credentials not a new credential but to renew their credentials we are seeing delays up to 23 4 months to renew their credentials with your just paying for intern with our County office and it's not just our County office I believe it's the county offices throughout our state when it could credential has not come back as renewed the county will know hey that teacher so we have had staff who have not been paid for the services that they're providing in the classroom and one specific situation we had a teacher who apply to renew their credential in June because it expired in July and they did not finally received their renewal till two weeks ago that means that the district had to find a way to pay that teacher because teacher was in the classroom providing services to students and they have been doing for years and so this is the account that we're utilizing to pay that teacher cuz if not they're working and not getting paid and that not something that we want to do to our staff that a service service in soon so it should be few and far between but that $10,000 yesterday is like $1,000 today. So that's the reason for the and I'm curious. You're saying they can take up to 4 months to happen but we have board meetings once sometimes twice a month so why aren't they approved then this is a separate agency the California teaching credential who has their own rules our own bylaws that we have no control over so if we don't do something different then we're not able to support our staff in this allows us to be able to support our staff while they get their stuff too because we're accountable here at work on the boat our kids were kind of bored to our community I don't know what their accountability is I have no idea we called we called the county we call CDC the employee called CTC with no response 4 months and so I just use that as an example of a situation that comes up from time to time and we want to ensure that we're able to take care of our staff so I'm not familiar with the process of the credentialing and ever but if someone can bring Clarity to me how how soon does someone submit their paperwork or what's the deadline before it expires so I can call us from June and it was expiring in why right so I can give you 30 so mine just expired last night and so I did receive notification but it was like a week before it was going to like and I didn't cancel teach but prior to covid when you renewed and believe me I just held my finger over the send button for 20 minutes going am I going to do this for one year so they send you a notice notification and you go on and it's just online I can just renew online and then it's at day I asked you to pay and you pay and then you pretend that you want to pay and that's the way you used to work but like with the backlog whatever happening on a new ID I kind of got crazy Jen covert has all kinds of people could teach online or something I don't know but anyway it got backed up to where it doesn't immediately tell you anymore so it would tell you immediately received your payment you're good to go and then they wouldn't want to school district whoever else need to know and I think is situational we've had people apply on a Monday on Friday on Friday they're receiving the renewal there's no Rhyme or Reason that we're aware of and there really isn't a platform at this point to Gage was CTC but that is something that I intend on doing because it impacts our staff and so we're at the whim of what's going to happen but we should be prepared to support when I've been reading and following and I can't remember exactly but cspa report tomorrow in Northern California school districts but there is a school district who is having this very situation but they were not paying their teachers and so teachers were losing their houses they didn't have money pay the rent that you can buy stuff and it ate so teachers were just resigning and leaving going to other school districts though if we don't if you're not prepared to hit this what should be in like you said the example you gave me somebody who's been teaching for you thank you for that but other districts are they increasing to this amount or what what do they have I do not know we can do that research and report back but I do not know that we are comparable we're doing yes then destroy a standard that verbiage because okay I hear I hear it like we should pay our teachers absolutely especially if they're working and I'm hearing the car wrestling issue and then that we need to take care of our staff because intern it affects our students but in your example mr. Davis I mean I don't know what the monthly salary is but from like July to now what would I like 10,000 didn't cover that and was that just one staff member or like how many are we having that were facing this challenge with situational to time teachers I don't know they top out at 100 and something thousand dollars which is about could be up to $10,000 a month including stipend so we can talk about 40 to $50,000 and so we we want to be at a point I see Mister ROM I think it's okay mister, we won't we want to be at a point where we're in a space where we use money appropriately and have it available so if this issue comes up and we do not expand this amount we're set up $10,000 and that means that let's take it Beyond this situation cuz I'm sure there are other situations and maybe even my rate on that that we need to have access to the dollars and so that's what this is really all about the teacher situation is CTC is just one inch of there are several other issues that come up and we want to be prepared to support it the thing I'm concerned about it with such a large jump what if things get put through that do not need board approval that the board does not agree with then it comes back to us even though hero is a priority others exam is worrying a payment is sent to say a picture for an entrance fee for student that check is nowhere to be found because it went through a different department in to get to the right Department we would then immediately got a check from the revolving cash account and have it ready to go I just wanted to share the board and then a no way shape or form this process bypasses any of the processing protocols that are set and all expenditures are reported to the board within the 60 days following head coach again it is just Bebe to be able to happy fishing and systems this this is just a standard increase due to some of the recent needs to then be able to meet the needs of not only our staff at all star students and I have to tell you when we have this discussion at a team mr. Haddad I said wait a second because we you know we're going to have to bring this to the board and I said to him I will take care of that because as we talked about coherence as we talked about our staff talk about our community we have to be able to take care of business and as we've talked about a variety of things in the past and decision-making we are trying to set herself up in Banning unified to take care of business and beef and we do that systematically being upfront being transparent sharing whatever the concerns are and so when those concerns are will respond but we are going to do our diligence and make sure we're following all the processes and pull cause as appropriate and also just as part of the process there is a bank reconciliation that always comes to the board and item 7.4 as part of the monthly fiscal Services reporting some of the time things have already been paid and it's not like we can fit all we don't want to pay that take that back to true however of the majority of the transaction switch start budget approval process I'm in again it's just too a lot of flexibility should be the issue arise we've identified a problem when we have a lot of CTC delays and we just want to ensure that we have the ability to cut out check on train sure that employees get paid on time I would like to see this table I would like to see what other districts do is to ensure that we are following industry standards history as far as experience with the other revolving cash account and so depending on the side this district is anywhere between 30 to $100,000 I would say industry-standard as far as other districts like District hey I just feel like that that's such a huge jump I'm I mean I if it with especially with inflation and yes we definitely do need to make some changes but I'm just not comfortable with that number and I we should table it so we can get more information so I'm going to just jump in here on this one so I did a road trip with David where we stopped at we stayed up three or four different hotels example that you gave for the field trips so we have a bus load of high school juniors driving around the state stopping at hotels something happens we don't have the revolving cash because we had to pay that a teacher so she me because of inflation we need to move that amount up and inflation is only going to continue to get worse so there's other situations to I'm sure Mr Postman milkshake Falls and recently about enough truck that turned over on the freeway and so then we don't have any math for kids but we're going to have to use the revolving cash to get milk for that day that week or whatever so there's all kinds of situations we can't just limited to 10 grand because it's not that cover it's not going to work and that our school district is continuing to grow so we have more more needs I don't know Mister Ramos did you have more that you can I agree with what you're saying I'm just saying I don't agree with number that was presented I think we need to maybe discuss it save it for another time another number that you thought would be better I would just like more information before we decide what's given to us so it's Anthony it's that sounds to me like they're just asking like a district is asking flexibility the transparency is going to remain the same as it always has been it's simply an going up moving forward with the flexibility to operate is imperative so you have my support with this mr. Anybody else Miss Ramos did you want to throw something in the mix sweet nectar cake a little bit at the moment no I just feel like as board members we should do our due diligence and if we have questions then we're allowed to ask they're good they're good questions about this one little comment here there is one transaction that I scrutinize the most and its revolving cash account checks call my due diligence that required your signatures again just to demonstrate to the board as to the sensitivity of this matter and and to the degree in which I'm in Walled and ensuring that everything that's process due to go out and catch a count the reconciliation process it's off of field on a monthly basis and I don't know if I'm allowed to bring this up so maybe people won't go fund me now but it seems to me that this is part of the cleaning up process of our budget to because later on we're going to discuss that there was some discussion about the purchase orders and how we're moving a lot of payments to purchase order so that we can't just so we're not just using the revolving tip a purchase order to buy things willy-nilly so I mean I'm using all these different words but it is a process of Shoring up our finances so that we're not always in a precarious situation where we're going on a lot of processes and policies and it's just another one of those that we would like to recommend for approval I given some of the latest concerns in terms of making sure that staff are paid on time like this passes and we move forward and then we just got you come back with information that that we've asked for about other school districts or you know where we're at a y and and it turns out that 50000 was like way too much or whatever you can bring it before the board for it to lower the amount or change it again right or is this only happened once a year once-in-a-lifetime absolutely decided can be reviewed upon additional information of the person can be adjusted at any point the same way that we require for an increase in this instance so that that was my question that just voting to approve it right now doesn't mean we're stuck with it for the next 14 years or something and that the district probably had this Balance established for quite some time so that we can change it if we need to absolutely right side note I'm very grateful for your revolving cash account everything that you spell out black and white in all the balances that were paid everything I'm sure those take those are time-consuming I can tell just by how they're laid out and I'm grateful for your hard work and doing that and make them clear and concise it's a team effort dead end we just want to make sure that we continue to provide transparent information to our constituents I appreciate that Buddy L Smith Park in Florida you look so Christmas the other looking at you okay so I had a motion by Masonic Rihanna and say goodbye miss Troutman all those in favor say aye aye I was supposed or with a load of 32 to the motion passes keeping in mind that it can be we can request for a change in temperature * 7 point four this item is for the board to approve monthly fiscal Services reports and reconciliations purchase orders weren't summary and Commercial warrant registers a motion to open what should I second to open in disgust I move my second any discussion on this I know that I asked this question prior to the board meeting regarding on the Lough erne of the 200 200,000 I just ordered that you just said that the community is aware you know because that is a large number can you please shirt so that our community knows the background of that or what it's for exactly I know mr. Davis explain a little bit more after ask for follow-up questions I just want to make sure that everyone is aware of that absolute this is a purchase order I for legal services this is the projected amount for the year at this point yes it is November and we're going to the process of catching up on some purchase orders and going through the process of having approved through a board meeting as opposed to what was a typical practice before and it was to go the direct pay route meaning that and like I said earlier it would be an expenditure that would go to the board first and send this case again to ship in the process East and part of some of our exchanges has been to shift to a purchase order process and have these items come to the board as a purchase order versus direct payments a bit of a transition here of the $200,000 amount is he projected or estimated cost for the year okay thank you and then just for clarity I asked the question does this lock Us in with this Law Firm please correct me if I'm wrong if I understood incorrectly by we were not necessary to locked and we can still switch Burns and not utilize that full amount correct thank you I am back Nissan item 7.4 all right have a motion by mrs. Mrs. Mann in a second buy me some Rihanna all those in favor say aye aye aye supposed your Indian items 7.4 passes from moving on to item eight board governance you would like to go for us we have Miss and Rihanna Ms. Mann and mr. Davis okay I guess I'll go first I thought we had our last session or fourth session of equity training it was kind of bittersweet because it was great to not work and familiarize ourselves with a different background all participants had and it really just wanted the big picture that it's important to be aware of equity differences and to attract them because it affects our children and our community and I believe we received a lot of resources that will be will be able to incorporate and future board meetings to discuss on how we would like to move forward and providing the equity or District thank you mr. Davis August Robin well said Myra Miss Angie I thought it was very enlightening there was a lot of things discussed with different word numbers from different areas and I'm happy to say that we were we are currently ahead of the game cuz other districts are still working on their Equity statement and we're for it were much further along in the process than other districts so I'm very proud to say that and I'll just kind of wrap up after the four sessions and I've been involved in a lot of equity work for quite some time and Nicole Anderson and I can't remember the other Consulting Group they did a really good job of putting the issues of all students Ford and what do all students need which may be different what other students made me so that was really the focal point but I think moving forward it really puts us in a space where we need to talk about what our actions are and what our practices will be and so you may or may not be aware I think I should is there is a board policies board policy 0415 and it is a board policy of equity and that poor policy was passed by the board in 2018 so at this point we need to review that board policy and determined do we need change do we need to shift that and then there's some questions that we need to ask ourselves is do we need to develop an equity statement do we need to have that discussion and and I think we may and we kind of talked about as a as a team to bring that back when we have a we're going to have a change in the board and bring that before the board after the the new year to talk about what our next steps are cuz we can have someone come in I think doctor cuz he was talked about empathy interviews with students we definitely have to have the voice of students what students feel on our campuses it is a culture what is the culture how do they feel how do they feel that they're treated treated in that give us some information is to where we think we are with Equity versus where we actually are in the other steps are looking at our data are there systemic barriers in our system that we have created that we need to address as an example when we look at suspension us potion data are there any student groups that stand out to say this student group contain Lee gets suspended or expelled but this one doesn't why is that so we need to have some conversations in further we go back to our mission statement it talks about committing our commitment to students so again looking at our policy do we need a statement looking at our data having some staff discussions we broached the subject with a PTA or less executive meeting if you will a new need to have some more discussion to determine how we move forward and that is the wishes of the board based upon the information literacy I think those are be our next steps which will take a little bit of time to get going but I'm I'll say this I'm very proud of miss her missed comment for being a part of that because again we were in this virtual session with work members across the state and so they went out into breakout rooms it was a little scary because it will come back in the hear of the stuff from other districts and hear the question but it was okay was okay cuz we learn we share something. we were doing that was like oh that was good and so I think it was a good experience for us to kind of tell us what we are but we shouldn't stop there how do we continue to move forward to support all of our students because they're unique in the individual it's fair to say that you were mr. popular at those meetings because your name was dropped a lot you had a lot of good things to say I thank you for that report and since this is my last opportunity to actually give my opinion thanks I think it would be dangerous to just assume that Equity is occurring that I think that it's important that we make a statement about how we feel. Equity so nobody can call us out on it so she is in the cultural living in right now okay well I'm bored members comments I want to start with mr. Smith mr. Smith do you have any comments tonight I'm not going to have to come in tonight listen thank you thank you I think you can turn your camera on you probably won't get to take now Miss Martinez Laura thank you for that it's angry good evening the holidays are around the corner and it's a very busy time of the year this past month I was able to attend our Broncos football team's last home game where all of our senior fall athletes were recognized for graduations to them once more again and it was great to see them walk down with their loved ones as they were being announced I enjoyed seeing all the Halloween pictures put up on social media from various cool sites it was great to see our students and staff show off their creativity with their costumes and as we approach Veterans Day I would like to give a big thank you to all our veterans on our staff Tanana Community thank you for your service and sacrifices I look forward to attending tending the csb a conference in December it is going to be a great opportunity for the board to network and learn from various workshops that are available as we prepare as the board that will continue to lead our district I would also like to say thank you to Leslie and to Jason or their service and their commitment to our community as always if there are any questions or concerns please feel free to reach out to me I'm always here and available miss Robin I'm going to keep my free I would just like to thank my fellow board members that we're and Mr Smith or taking on this wild Journey with us it's it's it's been crazy since I've been on but I think we've done well for the most part we've had some ups and downs but I think that's expected at cuz I think if we agreed on everything that would have been looked at poorly so I think I think overall we did okay if not good and I'm very great to the both of you and her dedicating your time and energy to this job thank you all right so this is been a very interesting well I like those three huge things happened my daughter got married two days later or three days later my grandson was born my first grandchild and then three days later selected to the park and then 4 months into the position covid hitting schools are shut down and then it became who's getting vaccinated who can mask I mean it was just under chaos and concern all the time so it's been a very interesting time of my life and I wanted to extend abta I don't know if mr. Garcia still on that thank you for the opportunity for working so hard to get me on the board to begin with and I have enjoyed every single minute there have been minutes where I thought what if any hair like let me just go out and Stand in the Rain for a while or something is give us a kind of craziness but I learned a lot about myself I learned a lot a lot of stuff came out of me that I didn't know I had the strength to do and I really really enjoy I'm going to miss a lot of people however I found out that you never ever leave your students I was at the DMV last week and a guy was getting his he was in line in front of us and he left his drink there and I went to hand it to tell you forgot your didn't turn around looking it was a former student that I'd had like 10 years ago so you should have never go away they're always there for you so I'm going to miss being on the board but at the same time I'm going to enjoy what my daughter-in-law said yay more Grandma time so it'll be fun cuz now I have to cancel. So my life has been really busy for the last three years anyway so those are moving on to item 10 future board items so I'll start and I would like to add the assistant principal Back to the Future board agenda if possible what's the like to add if we're able to possibly a present on what strategies each School site or a district is providing or to help minimize I know that our student board member mentioned that and it's it's really sad to hear that you know some of our students may not have pleasant experiences are memories being in our district and I think it's really important that we do the best to ensure that they do have positive experiences in DC that being hurt and that we care for them so I would like more information on our processes and what else we can do that meant to help so also I'd like to have a future board Island my report findings of racing the revolving cash so that we're out there on that and then another I are just another suggestion on the bleeding from the Sun Rihanna oh mr. Valdivia might remember this when we were together nickel and he was my boss and we had the Simon call people come in and talk about what really bullying is and I'll never forget the statement that bullies are only allowed to survive in your classroom if you're not the ultimate bully if you don't let them know that if you bully somebody else I'm going to believe it's it's going to happen will happen so if it's a pain the teachers to take notice and be aware of what's happening so that that you can say no I'm not I'm not allowing that to happen in my car that would be suggestion precise to maybe get tied it was an excellent training I'll never forget it it really burned into my soul and you need to do have a question so if one Ford item is being brought back how do we go about possibly dismissing it at the next board meeting we have to vote on it because at the is it comes back you I mean I was just my suggestion like was going to push it now right right with what there's several several different ways so mi like we discussed it may be illegal to my request for that agenda item it may be like why you can't bring it back so at that point we just say well it's not going to be on the agenda like to see any other questions so at this time we are going to go to well are we going to adjourn are we going to go to close session procession and then we'll come back and insurance you really won't have much to report out sew in only wearing a jerk but will be back

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