 Good evening. Good evening, everybody If we could grab a seat as we get the show on the road I like to call the order of the Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board meeting for Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 And I would like to ask Trustee Disciple if she could lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance Also, I'd like to say we have a translation in Spanish if you need support, please see Virginia Who's located over here We would also I'd also like to say that if someone would like to speak to an agenda item on the agenda They must complete a speaker card and then hand to Eva Who's over here prior to the agenda item each speaker will have two minutes So with that gender item 3.3 the superintendent comments by Dr. Michelle Rodriguez So on February 14th Valentine's Day, I had the pleasure to spend a day in the life of a Duncan Holbert preschool teacher and our and our Fantastic teacher Amy Lauta. So el 14 de febrero tuve el placer de pasar un día en la vida de una maestra Prescolar de Duncan Holbert con nuestra fantástica maestra Amy Lauta She was so caring, compassionate, energetic with her students and her staff throughout the day 37% de asesencia Alcanzar este objetivo nos afecta a todo ser personal, a certificado, classificado y administración El pasado fin de semana más de 1300 estudiantes asistieron a la academia de sábado en nueve escuelas diferentes So site and district administration are finding creative ways to engage the students at Rowling Hills Middle School The assistant principal Selena Munoz held a Saturday Academy with a hundred and forty students using Herself police assistance league pal and high school volunteers So administración escolar y el distrito han encontrado formas creativas para volucrar a los estudiantes En la escuela secundaria de Rowling Hills la subdirectora Selena Munoz con el apoyo de la liga de asesencia de policía Y voluntarios de las escuelas preparatorias Llevó a cabo un academia de sábado al cual asistieron 140 estudiantes Starting March 7th. We will begin district-wide Saturday field trips to Monterey Bay Aquarium for our students We are asking all district administrators to chaperone at least one field trip. So all the matter out there I will be chaperoning the first one on March 7th and the second one on March 21st A partir de 7 de marzo comenzamos excursiones de sábados en todo el distrito al aquario de Monterey para nuestros estudiantes Estamos pidiendo que todos los Administradores de la oficina de distrito que pueden supervisar una excursión a las Supervisar una excursión yo voy a ayudar a la supervisión de la primera viaje el siete a morso y también 21 de marzo So thank you Gender item 3.4 governing board comments reports on standing committee meetings This is the opportunity for each board member to make a few comments, and I would like to start with trustee Georgia cost I'll wave tonight. Thank you trustee Maria Roscoe Thank You Danny so My comments tonight will be brief as well So I got the opportunity to participate as a judge at the Watsonville Charter School of the Arts Invention Convention All I can say that I was super impressed and inspired by our young inventors So great job Chameleons. I also attended the D-LAC LCAP input session And it was great to just listen to our parent leaders concerns and feedback in regards to our LCAP goals and as always I Left everyone with a couple of action items. They asked me to address So thank you for voicing your concerns And lastly although I wasn't able to attend this year's parent conference as it conflicted with my baby's baptism I do want to congratulate Ruby Vazquez and her team on a job well done Also a huge. Thank you to the migrant ad For supporting the conference by providing bus transportation. I know that means the world to our families. Thank you Thank you very much trustee Austman said and I did screw up on the D-LAC meeting But I went to the adult education Advise advisory council and it was so incredibly cool to see all this stuff that they have Like the jobs that they are creating for their their our community for example they They've always been wanting to do Nursing assistant The position of nursing assistant But they haven't been able to find a teacher because the teacher has to have worked in a convalescent hospital So it's been very difficult to find a teacher, but they found one So they're starting So people can become a nursing assistant with adult education And they've also got a dental assistant a pharmacy assistant a tech and a medical assistant all of those there too and they actually are starting a A let's see Like it's almost like a pre apprenticeship program When well, they're able to have you know Their you know students in adult education do Construction Plumbing Electricity and it's funny because I think Nancy bill is such as some of them are getting Certificates and going right out to work instead of finished Doing the whole apprenticeship program because they're you know, they got certificates in their pre-apprenticeship program So they're they're actually doing well going out Getting positions so that that was great. I love all the stuff that adult education does and I went to the migrant Migrant head start Meeting and they have a policy committee, which is not the full committee of about 30 30 parents This one's during the year not during their migrant season. It's called the executive committee And so there's I think five executive members that come to a meeting and myself and it was great because One of the staff members came and talked about their curriculum They have what they call creative curriculum and she talked about all the themes every month And I was going to bring it to you, but I forgot to bring All these Fabulous great themes every month that they're doing with their children. It's super great I Went to the parent conference and it was super great I didn't go to the whole day conference because unfortunately I have to work on Sundays even in solar, but I was there for the beginning of it And it was so great to see everybody and They had a whole program at the beginning, you know For me to go to it was it's really great and then I only thing else I did I went to my my teacher friend Maratha Flores from EA Hall Invited me to a fundraiser for special education At EA Hall at Cassidy's and I guess Cassidy she says does a lot of work for the school district providing, you know Fundraiser for school district, so it's that's cool I'm so I went to her fundraiser and Yeah, that was good to you. Thank you Thank you very much trusty to surplus Thank you in the essence of saving time. I will pass tonight. I'm looking forward to hearing from everyone here We have a couple of special guests tonight that we'll hear from and I'm excited about that There is a teacher recruitment fair March 7th at the COE that Pajaro Valley will be participating in and I encourage anybody who's interested in teaching for Pajaro Valley to Come to that event. Thank you. I Will also will pass to trusty doll. I Attended the chain of kindness event at Minty white elementary and it was lovely to see all of the acts of kindness that the students had Created and made into a link. It was a pile of you know links probably I don't know waist high for me Which is considerable if you know how tall I am I Also attended the parent conference at EA Hall I thought it was incredibly well organized and I appreciated seeing that barriers such as childcare and transportation were managed so that We could have robust attendance and one session in particular stood out for me And that was when I attended with President Dodge and it was on how the district is supporting our English language learners and For me even though I get information about our programs as a trusty It was wonderful to sit in a group, you know with different stakeholders and hear about Experiences and learn a little bit have a deeper conversation about our programs. So I really appreciated that I also attended today's wellness committee meeting and a particular aspect of the meeting that stood out to me was Looking for opportunities for healthy ways to reward our students So things like having popcorn parties maybe instead of like cupcake parties Or you know having maybe extra time at recess and I'm curious about that So I am curious about hearing like what are alternatives that people are using so I'm interested in that That's it. I Just wanted to read a brief comment from trusty. Satya who's not here today. She wrote She's sorry to miss tonight's meeting. She is out of town as stated at the December 2019 organizational meeting She will be back next meeting Thanks Next up generally I am 3.5 high school student board representative report and I believe so far we have new school just new school Are they here? I'm not sure. Oh Okay Okay, all right. Well, since no one another high school here. No other representatives All right moving on next up we have Item 3.6 the Carl's in a family foundation Report be presented by Timothy Allen director of the foundation Dr. Rodriguez and board members I'm very proud to introduce Tim Allen from the Carl's in family foundation who identified one of our PV USD Watson behind teachers for an outstanding award Thank you very much. It is truly an honor to be here Let me tell you a little bit about our foundation first the foundation was started by a company called Broderbund software the two Carl's and brothers and a sister started that in the late 80s and It was an educational games Computer-based program if you remember where in the world are you Carmen San Diego and print shop Those were the first things that they began to produce When they started the company They also started a 501c3 that they funded with a percentage of their profits and they asked their employees to go out in the Bay Area and Volunteer their time for a charity of choice and they could come back and get grants for their Volunteer work in the late 80s. They went through a hostile takeover They lost the company sold the company But they were able to retain the endowment that they had created over the years So the family got together and said what are we going to do with this money and Because several of the people in the family had been teachers mostly in higher education They said let's focus on high school teachers in California and then they made some really interesting considerations about how to award teachers the first thing that they decided was that in order for a teacher to be Considered for an award that they were going to give they had to be nominated by former students And they had to be nominated by former students who are either enrolled in or graduated from a four-year university The second thing they said was that these teachers had to teach in high-need highly culturally diverse schools mostly title one schools The idea being that if these teachers could take kids who are basically first generation high school students Give them the skills necessary to compete in higher education, then they probably were doing a very good job and so Back in in 2000 this organization started off and since that time we have honored now with this past year 87 teachers Now once a nomination comes in from one of these students and this is what makes us I think different from any teacher of the year program is That once a nomination comes in my job is to find six or seven other former students who span the career of this teacher From as far back as I can go and of course I want to get somebody from the last year of the last year's graduating class because I want to know if the teachers energy and Passion is still there since the time that they started teaching until last year And so after interviewing five or six or seven of those students. I interviewed the principal I interview two colleagues. I interview the teacher and by then I know more about the teacher than he or she knows about themselves and Then I go out and watch them teach And out of the group probably a hundred nominations that I get every year I narrow it down to 15 that go that to that length and I give the board finally ten candidates the board Selects five of those and gives each of them twenty thousand dollars This year as every year we have our award ceremony in Mill Valley up in the Bay Area northern Bay Bay Area and we had the Opportunity to honor one of your teachers. Actually, this is the second teacher from Watsonville High School several years ago We honored Grace Petino and it's unusual that we get two people from the same high school but this year we have the pleasure of honoring Miss Mitafian and At the award ceremony she received her personal check for 15,000 which she gets an opportunity To decide how she's here to spend on her own But we hold back five thousand dollars and we give that five thousand dollars as a grant to the high school and Grace Grace, I'm sorry Vivian gets the opportunity to determine where that money goes But I have to tell you that when I talked to Vivian's former students I Got a virtual education in what makes effective teachers I interview probably three hundred to four hundred young people every year about what it takes To make great teachers effective in their classroom why they are able to change the pathways of students and the things that I heard about Vivian Basically is that she has a passion for what she does She really truly enjoys coming to the classroom every day and you can see her energy and you can see How she relates to her students because the kids told me there is no No obstacle in that classroom that she's going to allow us to stand behind We are going to be successful Failure is not an option in her class and when I walked into Grace's Sorry, I keep calling When I When I walked into Vivian's classroom, I saw that in action. I saw how she related to her students I saw the love that they had and the respect that they had for her I saw how she loved teaching them and how she had this unique ability to make very very complicated things Easy to understand because I was no math student and I could at the end of the time that I spent with her I actually understood a few things So it is truly my pleasure and my honor to award this grant to Vivian and to Watsonville High School Thank you so much. We enjoy Thank you so much It is it is my honor It's my honor to be a teacher and I don't want to cry almost with my honor to be a teacher I'm grateful to to my colleagues and to my administrators to you for your service and Mostly to my students my former students some of whom are even here and and and my current students it is my great pleasure and honor to be a teacher and For the $5,000 I've talked we wanted to do something that That would last something that wouldn't just go away And I have a great love of reading and and libraries and so I spoke with our library media tech and said what do you need and So we decided together that there's a place in Watsonville High School You probably know if you've been in the library that's behind the glass an area that is underutilized or maybe pretty much these days Unutilized because Amy sits outside that office and she says that these days with all the computers and all the games happening and all the Activity stuff that goes on in the library that we need a quiet place So we're going to use remodel that spot that behind the glass in area and with Furniture and lighting and desks that make it appealing for a quiet area in the library and that's what we'll do with the $5,000 Thank you again so much Thank you very much and go cats Are they any public speakers to this item Any comments or questions from the board? Mr. Allen, I just want to say on behalf of the board. Thank you so much for honoring one of our own teachers Well, you know the beauty of it is that it could be any teacher in this room because it comes from their former students. It's It's something that kids will walk into a college office and they'll see the form and they'll fill it out or they'll go online so I'm sure that every school and Every district has a lot of wonderful teachers, but it is because it's student-oriented It really makes so much more of a difference and we're proud to do that How did the student find out about the Carlson Foundation? They find out about it in a variety of ways One of the things that I do every year is send out Information to all the deans of the schools of education in all the colleges and universities in California because We would like that information passed out to their Students because one of the reasons most of us went into teaching was because we had a teacher who made a difference We go through the financial aid offices because we're looking for kids who have financial difficulty So those forms are there that the flyers are there. We posted in their school newspapers the university dailies we give it out to a Lot of the minority scholarship foundations and then a lot of kids just go online and look for something So that's basically how they come and they come sometimes I get over a hundred and fifty and sometimes I only get fifty But they're all pretty good So some some students that are like getting working on a master's degree or credential program also can apply to the foundation for grants No, they they can only nominate the tea nomination got it. Okay. Well. Thank you. Oh, you're welcome. My pleasure. Thank you so Any more comments questions? No. Oh trustee I Just wanted to real quick before you leave I just wanted to acknowledge just the the beautiful opportunity to give back in creating that quiet space that having that Just just a moment to just kind of sit and breathe or study and kind of shut out all of the literal noise is Is a beautiful thing. So thank you for continuing to to pass on that gift New school are you here new school representatives? Good evening. My name is Iris Ornelas. I'm a junior in new school Hi, my name is Kimberly Lopez, and I'm senior class president so we had spare week before we went on our winter break and the Spirit days we had were a holiday hat Crazy socks PJ's day and ugly sweaters We had the mayor visit visit us because we wrote letters to him on if we were mayors He brought pizza and had lunch with us students had interesting conversations with him For basketball, we had to we have two teams one for boys and one for co-ed both teams will Be competing this Friday against Renaissance to decide who will play central coast for the league championship On January 22nd Josh Lopez and Lupita Gonzalez were students of the month, and I'm very worried 12 Luis Gomez and let the Juarez were students of the month and Josh Lopez won this the speech contest today at the Rotary Club in the role model Conference Latino role model conference six students attended they heard inspirational local professionals and families There was a keynote speaker Reina Grande On world on world wetlands day six of our students attended we planted trees and native plants. There was live music We met the congressman Jimmy Panetta, and we got free passes to the Monterey Bay Aquarium for student conferences we provided food and parents attended as well our slides contained our credits attendance map scores and growth Watson Marotery gave us a $2,000 grant With the money we are gonna be making a water bottle greenhouse a minion recycling sculpture a Cardin to garden design and a side yard is a side yard redesign and a gravity drip irrigation system for new school Fridays, we had digital we had digitalness science workshop and sports now we have Mariposa art which include dance ceramics and calligraphy we attended the community arts empowerment Where students are working on a mosaic project that will go on the parking garage in Watsonville That's it. Thank you for having us. Thank you. Thank you very much. Do we have any other high schools or is that it? Okay Next up approval of agenda agenda item 4.1 I'd like to make a motion to approve the agenda with an amendment to move item 8.1 up to After item 5.1 the approval of the minutes Second that motion. It's like I got a first and a second all in favor. Hi. Any opposed? Thank you very much Agenda item number five approval minutes 5.1 approval of February 12 2020 board meeting minutes. Can I have a motion move approval second all in favor? Say aye. Aye Okay, okay So we have Six zero when I believe. Oh, I'm sorry. I approve the minutes So next up we're moving to item 8.1 the Pajaro Valley little league at e-hall school joint facility use agreement Report will be presented by Joe Dominguez Good evening board president dodge jr. Members of the board superintendent Rodriguez. We have this evening pleased to present With Pajaro Valley little league a joint facility use agreement Which provides a five-year term in partnership with PV usd For the EA Hall softball and baseball field It's a true partnership and it benefits our youth in our community The agreement allows Pajaro Valley little league to use our facility after school hours from 430 to sundown and it also provides the district with the maintains the right and authority to Continue facility use permits to other nonprofits or sports leagues When it's not conflicting with the school district or school site calendar and or Pajaro Valley little league calendar It also in the agreement We waive our facility use permits to the little league in exchange they will provide maintenance and upkeep of the fields and including the snack shack and Moving forward they are planning if the agreement is approved to install at a future date batting cage for our youth to have practice and Also storage containers both for athletic equipment and for maintenance equipment for the upkeep of the field So it's our recommendation to move forward with the agreement and this evening We also have Pajaro Valley a little league joining us tonight And I'm open for any questions Don't we need public speakers tonight? We have several public speakers, so I'll call you up in groups of three if you can line up at the podium John Sapaos The bios Shane Osborn and Aurelio Gonzales Good evening as trustees. Thank you for being here and thank you for cooperating with us Can I bring up our president Bricks double field so that way we can go ahead? That's our clicker here I'm just gonna give a quick History because I actually have behind me two presidents I have one president that was a president for Watsonville National Little League that was originally there for when Watsonville National Little League existed and moved from Ramsey Park to EA Hall school So little leagues been at a high school since approximately 1998 and so our past president for that was John Savaios and I just want to introduce him to him and he could say a few words Good evening everyone and thank you really as really mentioned I was the past president for about 12 years of the National Little League Combined years with my kids from age 5 to 12. So I had three of those go through there So 12 24 36 or something like that, right? So a lot of time there a lot of cleanup at the A hall school and The fields really was a part of this as well and at that time and we were playing in reaction also with American League and Salsy Piedes which Rick Stubbup it was the president at that time of Salsy Piedes But as really mentioned I started at Ramsey Park. We took The rubber which is the pitching rubber and we moved it to Frannich field when Frannich opened up with its first field and You know We need this to support the kids Because as we all know there's so much so much happening in today's world with the children And to have this support from the district Would be very very much appreciated and very well needed to support the kids You know when you have a clean field the kids are more Adapt to coming out and wanting to play We don't have a great field and and balls are hopping all over the place on them And they you know are a little tentative to play because the ball can hop and if they're not prepared You know it's gonna it's gonna get them good in the chest or something or in the face. So You know having those fields prepared not only for the school, but for the little league We would really appreciate that and it would go a long way, you know as I mentioned I've been around the league all my life and It was a great thing for my kids and all the team building made them better men So we create men we create children we create ladies and Even to this day, you know, I remember and still have Players that I've coached through the whole time that I was there and see them out in the public and they say hey coach Hi, John. How you doing? And you know, we see each other and it's it's a great thing to see them and have them remember Where they came from so thank you very much, and we look forward to your support just Just a just a little tidbit. I actually I'm wearing this blue because I had to be the Dodgers one year in National Little League and John's son wasn't my team and John said how dare you So his son always had to take the uniform off before he got in the car. I said John really I know you're a Giants fan But but anyways, I'd like to bring up Rick Stubblefield He's also been with South Sepuelties little league South Sepuelties little league and once a national little league joined forces And so and we're gonna get to that and so now he's also the president of the Parco Valley little league Thank you really I wasn't expecting to have to speak tonight, but here I am Been involved in little league baseball in the lots of hilarious. So I was 15 years old So I think I'm that's if I could still count right that's going on 54 years this year Little League is multi-generational in the community. I've been in long enough where I'm seeing a lot of tons of sons of fathers that played and even grandsons where their grandpas played little league in this area and Their dad's played the league area. I know we have a few people here in support tonight Dads and kids if you could stand up just briefly and thank you for coming and thank you for your support. I didn't Honestly, I didn't I didn't personally I didn't push very hard for the dads to bring your kids out tonight Only because it's a school night, you know, so not knowing where this was on the agenda and how late we'd be here But but so it means all that much more that they're here We would Really be hurting bad without EA Hall. I'm telling you because we have right now. We have We have a practice out of there both fields six days a week And as difficult as the red tape can be to get other sites approved for practice EA Hall is paramount to our existence and being able to and being able to let the kids playing practice because we have as Every little league does we have more teams than we do facilities to practice So it would really be appreciated if if the board could approve this extension of the MOU and we could keep on keeping on and Look for improvements and maybe someday have a schedule of the games out there. Thank you very much. Appreciate it All right, I'm gonna bring you up a coach Shannon he's a chain. I'm sorry about that. He's really famous around the town He's coach basketball football soccer. He's a coach all the way around coach, but now we have him as a baseball coach That's what happens. That's what happens when you don't know how to say no Um, I combined it from a different perspective than the other speakers I moved to Watsonville 15 years ago. My wife's family has been here. I didn't have much of a sense for community I started coaching with my special needs nephew with Lisa Sandoval and I've been with the league for 11 years now It's a great community. I've made friends. My son has grown up in it You know, we serve two to 300 kids every year about 25 to 30% of those kids are on some form of scholarship If you're a parent of an aspiring athlete, I think you guys know how much that cost can be in nowadays with Travel ball and all the stuff little league doesn't turn anybody away So we have kids that you know, maybe not couldn't afford to go play some other sports But they can always play a little league as Rick said these fields are vital to our continuation of a baseball which is you know, a great American game teaches a lot of life lessons and Hopefully I want to say thank you to ye hall for getting this MU ready to go and hopefully you guys approve it. Thanks Thank you, I just want to wrap it up with this this is an important step that we're taking forward Because this is gonna allow us to help maintain those fields cut the grass and make the game the fields more playable for our children in the community So we hope that you guys support us in this endeavor of ours and and you'll be supporting the kids also I know not all the whole league came out. We didn't want to overwhelm you guys or the teachers Because they see enough of them as it is But anyways, so tonight hopefully you guys take the next big step. Thank you. Thank you very much Public speakers. Yes. We also have Lisa Sandoval and Tony Tapiz Good evening President Dodge Superintendent Dr. Rodriguez Board of Trustees and all the community members that are here I just want to thank you for your consideration of extending the MOU for ye hall fields. I Have been involved with Parho Valley little league now for I'm trying not to get emotional because my children were highly involved with little league for about 15 years and Like Shane mentioned we started it started a team. I made him come out and help us. His son was actually born While he was coaching our teams Not literally on the field, but and we brought in his special needs nephew And just it was amazing to watch these kids develop from did not matter What their abilities were when they came out and to watch them be excited about hitting the ball and Running to being able to catch a ball my husband and I have coached for multiple years We met playing base or coaching little league and so I just really appreciate You guys taking the opportunity to approve this We have lost in multiple fields over the last five or six years to Soccer which I my kids played soccer as well. So I appreciate that but little league has taken a huge hit with it and We have not been able to have proper practice fields and so it's really important that we don't lose the a-haul as well So, thank you Good evening trustees and I've been involved in Parho Valley little league since last Friday And You know in meeting the families, you know, I realize how important it is for us to have access to playing fields and You know, I I devoted a lot of my spare time to access to the the children of the Parho Valley, whether it was with Taekwondo or The special ed advisory committee for the district The policy council for head start that's been what my wife and I have devoted ourselves to and I just want to say that I think it's very important that we don't take away any access and Especially With respect to EA Hall That is exactly where my son will practice and play over the the season So I just want to voice my support for this MOU and Hope that you will approve it to maintain that access that families really do depend on here in onceville Thank you. Thank you very much Any discussion from the board? trusty discipline and I Too was involved with little league. Although I was up in Aptos for about eight years. I managed Every team my son was on and I remember very Vividly the morning I would wake up and realize I was the snack mother And have forgotten that duty and had to run out real quick and get snacks But anyway, I just want to say I am in full support and we're very happy to partner with you Thank you. Thanks for all your volunteers and all the work that you've done over the years Karen did you want to say something? Super glad you're gonna do it and we're happy. I'm sure our board's gonna vote for of course and Great, I'll really all seen you work on this too all these people I know Yeah, I think it's wonderful, so I'm gonna make a motion that we Do we have any other comment? Well, we can comment after that. Okay. We can come in after that second that motion And I'm in full support of approving this tonight Okay, okay, so we'll take a vote all in favor of this MOU. Hi. Any opposed? Motion passes John So while everybody's taking pictures Next up we're gonna have visitor agenda items and that's gonna be six point one item six point one Visitor non-agenda items public comment. So here we go If I can I I have a few of you so if I can have you in groups of three Line up at the podium. The first three are Karen house dr. Gina DeShiara and Evelyn Polito I am here to comment on item number six point one. This is for our teachers My name is Karen house. I am a licensed marriage and family therapist I'm a parent of a student at Valencia elementary school. I Was a student at Mar Vista from kindergarten through third grade a student at Valencia elementary from fourth through sixth grade and A student at Aptos junior high seventh and eighth grade. I returned to Valencia elementary 2003 to 2005 where I worked as the kids corner counselor Servicing the students of the elementary school working through all sorts of issues that Teachers couldn't attend to in the classrooms I've also volunteered in my daughter's kindergarten class first grade class and Have attended a few field trips second third and now the upcoming Sacramento field trip for the fourth grade. I Am here to express my huge dismay that teachers Are not getting a Contract to pay them appropriately Our teachers are fabulous. They're overworked. They're underpaid and they're outstanding I want to say that I was pretty disgusted by the Push to have students improve their attendance and that without Particular at number of attendance teachers couldn't get their their pay and What upsets me about that is The huge oversight to the amount of trauma that many of our students experience on a daily basis or On a monthly basis without throughout the year the first year that my daughter attended Valencia elementary school At my time that was the time great. Thanks I'm here. My name is Gina to share a doctor Gina to share and I'm Veteran teacher. I've been teaching at Lakeview Middle School since it was opened and in spite of the poor poor pay in the Pajaro Valley Unified District and as I see it no hope for better pay because every year It's the same struggle for a for 1% That's it's that's a slap in the face But I'm here to talk about the Willie Brown act you as the governing Board are allowed to establish the regulations for Ed code 4 4 9 2 2 and this is a reduced workload that teachers when they're 55 and Have 10 years in the district can opt for a reduced workload The district in the past has allowed us to share contracts and be creative about the many ways of doing this So for example at my school there was an art to art teachers who shared a contract in their last years Now I am being told that the only way to reduce a contract in pre-retirement is By accepting a part-time position That is already available through the district in other words I would have to look at the part-time positions and accept some random part-time position at another school I'm asking the school board to regulate this and please encourage the school district to follow their precedent of Allowing teachers to be creative to share contracts in their pre-retirement in our last years Teaching is very stressful. And if you expect us to stay a lifetime we need these valves valves for releasing stress and many of us Would like to stay teaching you have a teacher shortage You need us to stay in the classroom if you want us to stay there, please allow us Creativity in the Willie Brown act. Thank you There's an insurmountable of weight that rests on the soldiers of PV teachers The stress of creating an engagement classroom the scraps of resources that the district gives them The stress of making ends meet because their pay is not adequate to the expense of living in this area The guilt that comes along when teachers leave their students from PV to another school that will pay them more Are their students here worth it? Or is our financial stability worth more? Do they want to stick next to the students that are always forgotten and ignored or do they want to afford a house of their own? Students are the teachers are the soul and the youth is a heart of this community and we rejoice in the presence the presence of adults that actually care The district believes that test scores and attendance is all that matters and if scores are low teachers must be doing something wrong That's the logic, right? Step foot in a PV classroom, and you will see how smart we are and while you're there Take note of the student-to-teacher ratio Take note of the absent cross guard and the traffic take note of the students walking from PV rolling hills for practice Take note of the trash that parades our campus take note of the way students talk about the school district Take note of the way teachers will disregard your presence Take notes on our resilience. Take notes on our hard work Take notes of all the good things of PV or just simply notice something I Can use the most powerful adjectives the most depressing student anecdotes the most moving statistics and yet Nothing works and we are still here, and they're still fighting And I have witnessed teachers protest for parapay and elementary school And now I'm reaching the end of my senior year and teachers are still desperately asking You stand before me and there's a ball of There's a ball of disgust in the pit of my stomach that has been accumulating getting bigger And bigger the more I realize that you don't care about PV students, and you care even less about our teachers. I Am the product of their hard work of their dedication and the outrage I feel towards you Is a repercussion of your inaction if I can have the next three people line up Chris Webb Sarah Leonard and David Perez back. I was here two weeks ago, and I would love for all the Teachers and parents from Paro to stand up Thank you for being here We have all paused our incredibly layered dense busy lives when we want to be at home My son is at home by himself right now, and we are here. We are here because we need you to listen The latest effort is to make the 1% meager salary increase contingent upon 97% 88 for the first year and worse with an expectation needing to be met with an increase of 4.5% More kiddos for the district average the second year in order for teachers to receive their 1% pay raise I have sent home three flyers to my 31 students and their families so far in the three weeks that this campaign has run So far Expensively produced posters decorate our school inspiring increased attendance The line is crossed when it becomes my job as an educator to nourish this 97% Goal and then in fact only get my 1% salary increase if this goal is attained I actually was a homeschooling coordinator for a year and made home visits to my students Being a classroom teacher has been challenging and wonderful and as my 22 years can attest to grit and zest are central to my stamina and devotion in this missionary spirited profession It is deplorable and wrong that teacher salary be contingent upon a 97% ADA average for the district those stats are not made Transparent to us, which means we literally are being held to a standard that is unclear and therefore unattainable I would never teach like this to my students I would never not provide expectations that are clear. I would never not show them a rubric Without transparency, how can we know week-to-week whether teachers have met this goal? Our principal has asked us to share this in an email So she shares week-to-week because I asked her but we still don't have any idea What all the schools are attaining week-to-week how the hell are we supposed to meet this goal? And is it even in our sphere of influence? Please consider what we are doing tonight Please consider what you are doing. Please rethink what you are thinking right now because it is wrong Good evening. I'm Chris Webb from Renaissance High School First I I look forward to hoping that the board will support a forthcoming resolution to enact a Health protective maximum contaminate level for chromium-6 that will then submit to the state government Regarding this offer the 1% I Would ask the district or the board to consider what does this really say about your values or what you don't value? Between the offer which considering what little control we have over attendance It's a rather insulting and I think of the overemphasis on PBIS combined with it and I increasingly get the sense that not only are teachers not valued but Education generally isn't and we're sliding towards Baby-sitting or just just marking kids present no matter what? Pandemics may come or anything like that What's Particularly insulting is that I've been in the district long enough to know that here We are coming up on quarter four and I know that in quarter four the the SARB system Goes from Just poor to like completely broken and it gets to the point where eventually when I flag students for attendance There's absolutely nothing that gets done and I'm told to basically wait till next year Furthermore, I think that I remember when dr. Rodriguez came to our site and spoke of electives helping to Bring kids to school and I think that she's right on that but the problem is I noticed that we have five vacancies At my site and I can't help but think that possibly the comparatively low salaries may be a reason for these electives being persistently it there When when I bring up this offer to teachers outside of the district the it's laughable I get reactions of shock. I get that's not something you can control I get that doesn't even cover inflation So if we're not even gonna if you're gonna offer 1% that should be non-contingent anything below inflation should just be non-contingent You want to offer something with a contingency? It should be more respectable like five to ten percent outside. Thank you Hello, good evening. My name is David Perez and I'm a teacher at Pajaro Valley High School I think this is my 24th year in the district and I have three things I just want to say the first one Is I'm looking at your faces is a thank you. Oh We're getting a field so it's been a long time coming and we're watching it Little by little just turn into something that we know is gonna be spectacular. So thank you for that The second thing I want to bring up is the CTE's teachers We're getting some mixed News on what we're keeping or not keeping I Don't know how important you think it is but it is super important to our students It's something that that's gonna follow them forever from nursing and health The bike tech program The athletic medical it's all it's all great Whatever you can do to try to hang on to that is For the kids that they would miss it immensely And the last thing is One percent is a really tough thing. It's it's amazing how much and how many Features we're here To try to get one percent. It's it's really sad that we're groveling here for one percent But gravel we shall so please do your best to help us and get us at least that little More so all right. Thank you very much. I can have the next three lineup Gary Martindale Jim Lucas and Elizabeth Thorn Hello board members and Dr. Gonzalez I'm Gary Martindale. I've taught at Watsonville High for I think 11 years. I Changed over to PV high. I'm one of the founders of PV high I worked and volunteered a lot of my hours working with members in the district office to help found PV high But I wanted to talk to you about something I see is a very big concern I looked at a learning policy Institute study on teacher shortages in California and What the status of that is the sources and potential solutions? This is published in October of 2018 and findings were that there's a decline in new teachers being produced in the state of California with an increase in demand Okay Well, how do you meet that increase in demand later on in the study it cited that? What supports retention if you can't get new teachers to come in to replace the attrition? What supports retention and they found out that? There's three things that teachers cited as what's needed for support one is the status and respect for the teaching profession and The another one is compensation which includes fair salaries and the housing costs of the community Another one is having a supportive administration Well, when you look at the contract offer we've been offered Every person I have spoken to Agrees with me that the offer that has been put on the table before us Doesn't meet the standard of any one of these things the teachers need To want to continue to teach That offer is a slap in the face It's an insult especially the fact that it's attached to us Being responsible for getting kids to school Who thought that up? Who is actually doing that in the state of California? So I just wanted to point that out and I hope that you guys can Offer us a fair contract because this isn't fair My name is Jim Lucas. I'm an English teacher at Power Valley High School I have been there for 13 years all 13 years of my teaching I was in the corporate arena for over three decades and I'm saying that you know I work for some of the largest corporations Silicon Valley rose to the level of senior vice president and I gave that up to be a teacher Starting salary for new teachers just under $47,000. That's about 39 at less than 39 hundred a month After deductions taxes, etc. That's less than 2,500 a month the average rent in Watsonville is over 2,600 a month Something's wrong here folks so Last year we had a survey that was giving results in a safe school environment and better student achievement Our teachers are the foundation for student success reward them by investing. This is an investment folks Investing in their long-term employment in this district. Otherwise, we're gonna be what we are right now a combat zone We're gonna lose good teachers. Thank you. Oh, my name is Elizabeth Thorn. I am a school nurse in this district I have a ridiculous caseload, but we're not here to talk about my caseload We're here to talk about that because I'm a nurse one of the things I can do is help with this attendance That makes sense for the nurses to help Does it make sense for the teachers? Not so much somebody mentioned that we have a Supposed pandemic coming our way. There's nothing the teachers can do about that There's actually not that much I can do about it either But to have your pay be predicated on something like that where we don't have a whole lot of control Including the kids who go to Mexico Like, you know, I guess the teachers are supposed to fly down there and bring them back I don't know. I don't really see how that is something they can do Anyway, I brought a friend with me. Her name is taste. She's a math teacher at Watsonville High School And she wanted to also say a couple words too. Oh, my name is Tacey Gucci. I am teach math at Watsonville High School This is my second year there. I am fully credentialed. I have a master's of the arts in education I have received nothing but stellar reviews the entire time. I was there and I'm a non-relect and I just want to know why Thank you. I can have the next three line up. I'm Melinda Luna and is it Levi Levi or Levi and Sherry, Austerland They have a separate card, but it'd be really great if they could follow us I have my card her card and my card. It'd be great if you could miles and support them while they're up here, too Thank you. I appreciate that flexibility so much Hi, my name is Melinda Luna and thank you very much for hearing us through tonight There are a lot of people who are going to I'm I teach kindergarten bilingual at Starlight Elementary There are a lot of people who are going to be talking about the 97 percent and How hard it is and how it's not on teachers or shouldn't be on teachers to achieve in order to get a raise so what I want to talk about is what I already do and how I support my students and I want to put it back on you. What are you doing and how are you supporting my students? Okay, in the first month of school. I identified at least four students who had major attendance issues I had two of them who had already missed a quarter of school and I had the other two who were late every single day by at least 15 minutes Nothing happened. I Let my attendance secretary now. She called home. I Let my principal know. I don't know if she did anything or not. I never got a report back Conferences I meet. Oh wait before conferences. I text families. I set up extra meetings on my prep time To talk with them about how I can help them get their kids here every day and on time. I Have meetings I set meetings with families at conferences. We discuss attendance again by now my I'm sorry I had five my three that were coming late are coming on time my two that were absent Maybe missing, you know one day every other week instead of one day a week Okay, without the support of administration, I have very little power as soon as I had my administrator I told her she had to come to an IEP that a student was going to because that IEP could not go through because her attendance was so poor that our Psychologists will not look at the students progress because there's not good enough attendance to show that it's not about attendants and yet Was there a SARB? Were there home visits was anyone doing anything except me to worry about that child's attendance Oscar I go to Alianza school third grade I'm miles. I go the starlight elementary fourth grade. I Don't think it's fair that teachers payment rely on the kids because you can't control if the kids come to school and It depends on the kids. I don't think it's fair for my mom to not get paid Enough if just because our kids aren't coming. I feel that you should have one payment and one steady payment and Only lower if they're absent like ten days Like Oscar said, I don't think it's fair that the teachers should rely on their students attendance just to get a raise because The kids are going through their own stories at home and they could be like sick and that makes their attendance low and then The teachers don't get paid. So that's why I don't think it's fair That's right and to piggyback on that miles my son miles here Miles is in school every day unless he has a fever, but I do have kids that are out with fevers just this week I can't even get 97% Attendance since this campaign started because I've had a girl out with a broken arm. I've had students out with fever I've had students out with viruses and Every single student that's been out of my class has been sick. I Can't help that our community is living in different environments. Not everybody has Central heating not everybody has three blankets on their bed Not everybody has the same accommodations that we all have and I just want us to take that into consideration as well and 97% attendance is very Inaccessible and a 1% raise does not compensate all the Inflation that is going on in our community. We all know that most of us teachers don't own homes most of our teachers here have been I've been here 17 years as a bilingual teacher at Starlight Elementary same classroom and I have to come here every year. You see my kids here since they've been little Every board meeting every time we have to come here and beg you for a raise because That's the way we roll in PV USD and it's embarrassing and it's you know, we're humble and we're up here I'm very active in our school district and I help out with family literacy Nutrition Zumba the Moss migrants science program after school Saturday school I can't control broken arms and Drippy noses and kids who have blisters on their heels and why they didn't come to school because they had a blister on their heel It's not under my control. So I just want you to take that into consideration Watsonville little league is up to $170 for the season prices are going up across the board food expenses All of the fun things for our kids in our community. Thank you for considering our 1% raise or better. Thank you Sherry Osterland still here You might know I'm not Sherry Osterland But I'm gonna read something for her that she sent to me because she had to leave to go attend a conference for her students so This is from Sherry Osterland. She's a teacher at Pajaro Middle School She says this is my 27th year of full-time teaching, but I started at PV USD the same year as Dr. Rodriguez I came from Ohio was hired over the phone not knowing anyone in California except my mom my brother and his family I went to the welcome back breakfast got lost on the way sat in the audience by myself Quite nervous and not knowing a soul as I listened to the new superintendent's vision. I was filled with optimism and hope I don't feel that way anymore My initial reason for moving here is gone my mom passed last April, but I have come to love this district I love my co-workers. I love my students and I truly love the work. I do It's really hard, but I enjoy the challenges that it presents. I had never taught students classified as ELD My first year. I was one of nine new teachers my second year. There were eight new teachers. I Have witnessed good teachers leave because they can't afford their basic needs. I Have co-workers who live in two-bedroom apartments with three other people This is embarrassing to our profession. This should embarrass you. I Am one of many who currently work a part-time job to keep from having roommates I have a master's degree, and I am 58 years old. I'd like to recoup over the weekend rather than unload trucks This board currently employs someone to handle attendance Perhaps you should get your own administrative house in order rather than dump those responsibilities on the teachers with this I am one of the schools that has great attendance. In fact, I have only one student who is an attendance issue So I'm not sure if what you're asking me to do is adopt kids from another school or what? I can have the next three line up Laura Zucker Felipe Hernandez and Sarah Baumgart. Hey, my name is Laura Zucker. I'm a speech language pathologist at H.A. Hyde school Good evening everyone. I was looking at the consent agenda and I saw that there is a Approval of an architect agreement for PVSD towers modernization And it says what I found in printing and I don't know much about this But it seems that it says that the original there's something like this is not a complete modernization it's limited to a project budget of 5.5 million dollars and Says for the purpose of this proposal the design construction budget is set at 70% of this value or About 3.9 million dollars at any rate. That sounds like an awful lot of money You know you may tell me that we're wrong. It's already committed blah blah blah, but I have to tell you This looks bad. This is bad optics. You're telling the community teachers and families that there's no money for a decent raise Let alone you might I think you're also telling because that's still on the table that maybe there's not enough money to cap special-ed caseloads and class sizes and yet We're spending millions of dollars to make the vestibule bigger in the towers Really, it's supposed to make the entrance way bigger or maybe a reception hall bigger This does not look good to our parents our parents want the district to be able to attract teachers who are qualified Especially teachers we can't get for ease like math teachers and special-ed teachers and science teachers and they want to keep these teachers For their children so that there's some continuity and not a revolving door of teachers Our teachers have made it so clear that the ADA contingency has to be off the table If you look at the ADA's in other states, I took a brief look and looks like South Carolina has an ADA like 88 percent I didn't see any 97 percent. I didn't look at all the states, but It just seems gruesome to put this on the families too as someone said about the trauma we've parents and transition We have parents working two and three jobs It's a little bit ghoulish to act like parents to act like parents just have to try harder to get their kids to school And the one percent even without the contingency as you've seen is very insulting to teachers We cannot sell this to our membership So that the other bit of bad optics is if it looks like you're stalling it needs to come off the table We need a decent real serious Proposal it's gonna look worse and worse to the community the longer this goes on with the idea of a Very bad one percent. Thank you I'm Sarah Baumgart. I'm I work at Watsonville high school And I just want to speak for five seconds and then I'm gonna give the rest of my time to Pablo barrack on Friday The new science teacher at our school that I've been mentoring for the last two years told me that he is not returning and that he's leaving our district and I just am so demoralized from that because that is 25 I don't even know how many hours I've invested into his professional development Another new teacher we've lost My request that you pull the cards for Carlos Petino net baity myself and Jorge Manriquez, I'm gonna they're gonna succeed their time to me Carlos Petino net baity Jorge Manriquez and Then myself Pablo barrack right here. We're representing approximately 70 years of math teaching experience here in this district If you if you include Vivian who's also a colleague of ours. That's another 40 years. So that's 110 years So we got something to say to one second. Yeah, we do that or Trustees, thank you. I'll just take a second. I want to regard these heroes here You guys are heroes. You're working hard. You deserve better and and you got to decide what you're worth And I appreciate you being here This is in regards specifically to a teacher retention and in particular to Watsonville High I have two letters here That I'd like to pass to each of you board members and I'd like to empower you guys to realize that you decide the priorities of this district You have been given the trust of the people of this community to do that and We believe that you can do that and You can help guide this district into how to spend the money and how to make things a priority So these two letters that I have and I have one for Superintendent and each one of you If you'd like to get them their anonymous letters from two teachers at our site, I'm not going to read the letters to you I'll let you read them on your own and If we can bring those up to you, that would be great a Couple of meetings ago. It was told to me I think by one of our members that a particular community never came here and gave a speech on, you know NWA scores at Watsonville High and grades and He made the the connection the correlation that the NWA scores were poor at our school But the grades did not reflect that poor score and his conclusion Was that we have bad Math teachers at Watsonville High School I'm not here to set the record straight, but maybe just to add to that record One I teach statistics and as a statistics teacher. I know that correlation does not mean causation But I'll give you another example of a concern about staffing students or staffing teachers at our school and how it hurts our students He has an argument There are bad teachers when there are no teachers When you have a long-term sub in a classroom, there is not learning going on There is babysitting going on and that is a disservice to this community I have been in this PVUSD district for 50 years. I know I look pretty young, right? That's because I started here as a four-year-old in kindergarten Went to Calabasas. I did second grade twice. I liked it so much Went to Rolling Hills and graduated from Watsonville High in my alma mater where I teach now Just some quick bullet points about what these teachers are saying here and to let you know why there is going to be such a Shake-up at our school. We have 13 teachers at our school in the math department Seven are looking for other options. One can't be there because his grades aren't good enough He doesn't have a credential so he's got to go and do that When's retiring? That happens. That's okay. That's fine One was not asked back. I don't know why I'm not gonna I'm not gonna speak to that judgment or that wisdom It's beyond my pay grade Two are looking at other places and the things that they say in this letter as you read them are as they do not feel Supported by their administration They do not feel safe and the pay sucks Something else for you guys to think about with this whole contingency You are actually putting all these teachers in a position of defrauding the state of money by telling them You got to make sure the kids are in the classroom and if we're an ADA. I think that's average daily attendance, right? So you're telling them it's up to you to make sure those classes are full that those rosters are full and a Desperate person will do desperate things think of it this way What if the offer was instead not so abstract as attendance, but hey, you got to get those grades up What are your kids getting if you want to raise folks? The fronting the state is not a good idea and it's not a good idea to put teachers in that kind of legal Position especially when you got divorced roaming around trying to devour public schools everywhere So I empower you guys Think hard about what we need. So this is our scenario at Watsonville High We have as many as seven teachers not going to be there this year I've been there 15 years and we've lost at least one teacher every single year at that school So how do you create a continuum of? Thought and learning and growing for our students so that that great teacher that you saw here get that reward Can have those students actually in her class in her calculus BC class We have math one math two math three statistics Calculus Precalculus precalc honors and these people kick butt they work really hard They know how to do the work arounds to get the students where they need to be they make it a Environment where there is a high expectation But what say you? How are you going to keep these people here our next three if I can have you line up eat a thruis care the The assio For hey Suarez Good evening. My name is Edith Ruiz, and I have to be honest. I didn't come prepared because I Should I be prepared right? I'm gonna show up to work tomorrow. I'm only gonna give 1% said no teacher ever Stand up everybody stand up teacher stand up Every time I have a meeting our principal starts everybody, you know move so I had the shakes There's so many of us from different schools. We haven't even said hi to each other. Where are you from good afternoon? Good evening? Whenever someone misses my classroom, which is a kinder bilingual class in landmark elementary my kids say good morning And they they get back to work You know and so welcome everyone. Thank you for being here I'm so proud of all the students that are still here because you have to be at school tomorrow My daughter is one of them is a little sick, so she's not here the other one starting for AP classes So thank you for being here all the parents that are still here with their kids and the ones that went home Thank you for being here. I just want to say that I felt really insulted when I came in today They were making sure people sat down And before they were letting people in I think there's an insult some of us need to stand up for health reasons and Two things I wanted to say I'm right. I'm a product of Watson. Hi, so thank you to the wire cuts and all the teachers Um, I want to thank the math department from Watson. Hi because my daughter has taken all of their math classes They are amazing and I am sad to hear that they're letting one of their math teachers go because As it is there's not many teachers that want to teach math. I have a child in middle school now that lost her band teacher Because he was done with our district. So he left my daughter is really sad and she says we now they finally found a great sub And she was already playing an instrument She can no longer take that instrument home to keep practicing the music. So I think that's really sad That's super sad. Another thing that I wanted to say is I teach a landmark elementary school and We have I'll say it really quickly. We have some k tk k classes That is not acceptable the tk students have other needs the kinder students have other needs safety Emotional that has to change for next year and I know I'm gonna just say one thing I just want you to know that it's an embarrassment to hear a 1% race I have been sick as a dog and I have still given a hundred percent when I show up every day to work I have been in the district for 16 years and I love my job and I love my students And I love to connect with them out in the community. So I don't want to move but I could I have that option. I Have just not chosen not to so please take into consideration We have a lot of brand new teachers that cannot stick around I have because my kids are here But I probably won't do it after in five years from now. So thank you Hi, my name is Kira D. Biasso. I'm a fourth-grade teacher at Bradley elementary And I just I came late to the game To becoming a teacher. I just got my clear credential last year When I went through my program, I learned about Maslow's hierarchy of needs It opened my eyes to the real needs of my students food water and shelter were of the utmost importance If that child was gonna have any chance of ascending that pyramid to feel a sense of accomplishment To gain respect of her peers and to fully achieve her potential After four years of working as a teacher for PVUSD I'm becoming increasingly aware of the fact that while I feel very committed to the well-being of my students It seems like the district is disinterested in my getting my basic needs met. I Can afford food clothing and water but living in this area is very challenging to afford shelter Housing is a basic need and if I can swing the bottom tier here I'm having a very tough time Maintaining my health because our focus on attendance flies in the face of what the rest of the world calls self-care Rest and recuperation can only come when we feel safe and secure that our well-being is valued by the district tying our puny rays to attendance Regards our health certainly but also seems an unprofessional approach to honoring a profession in which we constantly have to prove ourselves Our students are our number one priority But I ask that you please make the employees yours Good evening. Thanks for letting me talk. My name is Jorge Suarez and I am a parent For two kids in Mar Vista and so I have no agenda I'm just here to speak from my heart and maybe share my views on what I'm seeing here My I've been in HR and employment negotiations and all those things much throughout my career and I've never seen anything like this In the private sector you don't wait a year and a half or two years or a year to just get some sort of 1% Race about something that is quasi unattainable And I'm just interested to know what kind of system you use To sit and understand Both sides You have the same needs that they have that I have to have a fair-paying job Assistant job Petrie would respect you have the same fears that they have You have the same desires that they have and vice versa And I'm just floored to see that by the way, thank you all of you for teaching our kids They are the parents away from home And I entrust them with their care kindness empathy patients perseverance and I Just would like to know who had the idea of saying it's like if if your bonus is based on 97% District attendance that you would get a 10% bonus. I don't think that would be fair to you I just don't think something like that something unattainable unrealistic And I am not going to let my kid go to school if my kid is sick We are at the at the borderline of a worldwide epidemic issue with this coronavirus and I hope that he doesn't get to this area But if he does that if you prove that 1% bonus, well, that's gonna be gone People are gonna be afraid to send their kids at school and Karen was talking about I know we only have three minutes for a year and a half of negotiations, but I Just want to say this my kids are experiencing this trauma that Karen was talking about My daughter was sick one day and she says but I have to go to school because I'm gonna be pressured by my peers Because if I don't go they're gonna tell me that I'm a wimp. Just think about that. So please I Don't think you're waiting for a year and a half of negotiations on your bonuses either And I think they don't we shouldn't wait that long either. Just do something get on it and just be open up This is this is ridiculously ridiculous. So thank you and I don't want to be The last two I have our Francisco Estrada and Sonia Quintero Sonia Quintero did Sonia leave not to see her Hello, good evening My name is Sonia Quintero and I work at Calabasas Elementary School in this district And I've been working here for 20 years as a teacher six years as a aid Six years as a parent volunteer in this district Some of my favorite things about this district are that my students and their families and the health benefits we get here Challenge for me is the PVSD is working conditions and the salary and cost to living Many teachers work more than one job to make ends meet. I Know that the union is currently working with the district to negotiate things in our contract and The proposed language of a 1% raise is in contingency on the students attendance is Disrespectful to us as teachers and all we do and all we do to help to support our students learning This does not make for better working conditions We should not have to get any raise contingent on daily attendance We do our job in teaching our students. It should not be our job to ensure their attendance I want to stay in this district and I need a commitment from the board and the district that I am valued and a priority budgeting for a proper raise keeps qualified teachers here and Directly supports the students I work with our working conditions Our our students learning conditions. Thank you Next we have employee organization. We have some of point one PVFT really look forward to seeing you guys Well, if I take my glasses off, I could see you guys so Thank you It isn't I'm gonna speak to you guys first Our membership So good evening Here we are still fighting over something The one word that is the most insulting word on that piece on the piece of paper that you all have allowed the district to deliver to us and I have actually several pages written. I probably won't even read them all because I'll just Speak from the heart more more than this what I have outlined But you have here many people teachers at our educators that are taking the time and it's not Necessarily that It's you know, give me a raise. It's How dare you let this happen to our community? You are the gatekeepers for the for our community. You're our bridge. You hold the district accountable You have the power. You've had parents come and speak already that is more than enough That energy Of the parents can grow You guys are in an elected position Your job is to ensure that our students are receiving the rightful education And that they are receiving it from the qualified educators that are out there Ready and willing to be here for them to guide them through their career as a student so I'm Always grateful to hear from our members and to hear what they have to say because I've been in this district for 13 years and I Can go on and on about my own personal experience, but it's every it's our collective experience that really matters So I you all but always begin these board meetings with your experiences of what you do During the two weeks that we haven't seen you So I just want to share with you a little bit of what I do and This is actually just from this week and it's Wednesday so I Have we my colleague Roddy, I cannot do this alone I'm so grateful that I have a colleague who's there to help as well Today I went in and represented Sat and listened with a group of teachers who are being mandated to be to have a coach in Our contract it's something that we can choose to have But they're being mandated based on test scores It could be that the entire School sites goal would be to look at a certain subject true but to target specific grade levels and base it on there and mandate them to coaching based on test scores But that's not happening at any other site and the only Comment that their administrator can give was basically I get to make decisions. So essentially deal with it We've also spoken to several teachers who have been non-reelected and we're helping them navigate through those emotions because Especially when they've been told they've been exemplary in all of their observations and suddenly We're gonna let you go and how Coincidentally that they're in their second year so that they continue and start the first day next year. They would be tenured and So these are teachers Who have been in our district? This is their second year who have Had their new teacher project who have been observed by administrators who have received good evaluations But they don't want to give them tenure. That's always the fear and that's always the argument Oh, but then we have to give them tenure um, I We've also a group of our teachers also went to Sacramento yesterday and we spent a really long time Advocating for public education funding. So that's something that that's another thing that we do Hmm was five minutes. I know that it's time Um You've already had one teacher speak to the Willie Brown the pre-retirement option We've that's just one teacher of quite a few that we've been hearing from this this past few week the past week So this brings me to oh and Well, this brings me to our state of our negotiations So we've been asked to take into account this budget crunch you guys have been asked to take into account this budget crunch But tonight on your agenda you get to vote on A salary increase for administrators Yeah, the narrative that's written in the agenda is like oh we're saving money But guess what we're going to give them an increase They are gonna be working at two sites, but you know what we have Vapa teachers We have itinerants who work at more than two sites. Do they get a raise? these after school coordinators Will get a raise that? Depending on the level the starting amount that they will be increased to is well, I'm just gonna give you the average is twenty eight thousand dollars Okay, so then you know we're gonna hear about the cost of medical going up But hey, that's okay. It's ongoing for them. They're gonna get to see that in their retirement, but we have to Somehow control the outside factors that we have no control over to increase to 97% ADA And then so again, that's an insult you look at that and it's like it just leaves you to wonder like what What really is the narrative here? What's the story? We have to save money, but we're gonna We're gonna give it over to the administrators So what's the story because what I can infer from this is that? Our teachers and essentially our students because they're the ones that are left without the teacher That we don't matter that we have very little we were very little value because again in that narrative and your agenda Oh, it's a hard to fill position But we're gonna let the fully credentialed teacher with a master's degree in math We're gonna let her go so trustees You know you have the opportunity to set a positive precedent in public education and Demand because you have that right That we aren't it's not held our raise is not held contingent on A 97% ADA Don't be fooled Thank you, thank you very much Okay, next up 7.2 CACA level 7.2 Alger, did you want to speak under cease? 7.2 Thank you so much. Thank you president dodge board members everybody else here also including you guys I just want to go ahead and hopefully make this brief, but I want to get straight to the point I'll I'll give a lot of information. So I apologize if I'm speaking a little fast. I just know there's a time limit So last board meeting we had a person by the name of Bill Beecher I think this is usually around the time when he speaks He went ahead and he showed or he expressed his disgust at walking into a classroom and then finding out that there was Multiplication charts posted on the wall posted on Student desk and he felt like this was in his conclusion. This is a clear signal that The math in the district, especially at the elementary level is so poor that we have to go ahead and have teachers Go ahead and post multiplication charts. So therefore his conclusion was well in this case I suggest go ahead and release all the elementary teachers who are teaching math now For those who are untrained in the field of education. This is actually a very common practice. It's just called scaffolding Just to give you like a clear definition scaffolding refers to a variety of instructional techniques Or strategies being used to support students in order to move them progressively towards independence and a given skill or concept So basically the idea is you use strategies in order to support children It's like to make it more for the common person. Let's say you're trying to teach your child how to ride a bike You're gonna go ahead and put training wheels on the side According to Bill Beecher. This is disgusting. Why would you put? Training wheels on a child you just let him ride the bike. So I just want to address that point the second point that he made was That part about releasing teachers So I want to go ahead and just kind of hopefully you can follow with me I want to guide you through a study This is a very popular theory. It's the theory about the 10,000 hours which pretty much accumulates to about five years of practice in a field This one if anybody's read outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, I think that's where it became a lot more popular in the common conscious But there was also a study in 2014 by Princeton study So what they concluded is if they're studying the deliberate practice and its effect on performance This means the following. This is their conclusion after studying it deliberate practice in a stable structured field yields high rates of success So is that two minutes? Would it be okay to finish? It's just I'll try to make it super brief So in this case the rate of success depends on a stable structured field So this is important because you you can't have somebody trained for five years to put in 10,000 hours if the field is not consistent So in this case take like something like tennis chess classical music it never changes So someone can actually study up to improve So now going into the educational field There's a lot of fluctuation and now this is where it kind of comes into effect. So Bill Beecher was talking about releasing teachers There was a study that was conducted in 2007 and the study concluded that the single most critical factor in whether students succeed Is the improvement of teacher quality now in order to do that? However, the efforts to improve teacher quality are often Dwarfed by the high rates of turnover. So it was actually addressing the turnover rate It turns out that 40 to 50 percent of public school teachers leave their local districts within the first five years Rates are higher in schools serving less advantaged students This study was conducted in our backyard. This was by the University of California Santa Cruz So when they're talking about their study, they're talking about us and if Bill Beecher is recommending that his solution to poor math teachers Is to go ahead and release them He it's actually already in effect because we're already losing teachers who are less than five years in tenure at their jobs So thank you so much just something to consider. Thank you very much Next up items 7.3 power valley association of managers 7.4 communication workers America anybody Okay, next up 8.2 final watsables safe routes plan a little bit of deja vu Good evening trustees superintendents and members of the public. My name is Amelia Conlin I'm a planner with ecology action here to present to you tonight on the final complete streets to schools plan for the city of Watsonville So this project is a partnership between the city of Watsonville the Santa Cruz County Health Department Pajaro Valley Unified School District and Ecology Action and it was funded through a Caltrans sustainable communities planning grant This project includes 15 schools within the city of Watsonville And the overall goal of the project was to establish a list of the barriers to getting to school safely for each of those 15 schools and To develop a list of recommendations to improve access to each of those schools And I do want to clarify that we've been working on two projects simultaneously So both the 15 schools served under the city of Watsonville plan and six schools in the unincorporated Santa Cruz County that are served under a different planning process So I am hoping to come back before you tonight to discuss the remaining six schools in the unincorporated County But here tonight. We're focusing on 15 schools within the city of Watsonville We started off this project back in fall of 2018 with two public meetings in the city of Watsonville Where we asked parents and students about their challenges with getting to school and then followed that up with walking Audits at each of the 15 schools where we met during the school drop-off to observe traffic conditions around each school Once we had a list of draft recommendations We presented those back to each school at a parent meeting with the goal of getting input from parents and school staff Making sure that each list of recommendations was the right fit for that school site We were here before you in November to present the draft list of recommendations and we're here before you tonight to present the final plan So I wanted to provide a high-level overview of the various components of the complete streets to schools plan and The core of this plan are citywide infrastructure recommendations and infrastructure recommendations for the 15 school sites The citywide recommendations are those that impact multiple school sites or that cover major corridors within the city of Watsonville and The school level recommendations are serve the area immediately around each school Again, these recommendations were developed based on input from parents at the parent meetings Based on our observations and the engineering expertise of all to planning and design who served as a consultant on this project and the input that we received during the walking audits and Then again as I mentioned before we did present each list of recommendations back at a parent meeting at each school site With the goal of getting that final set of input This plan is meant as high-level long-term planning document and really as a resource for the district So that as you implement projects in the future you can Have a resource and some Suggestions on possible improvements to improve safety around each school sites So in addition to infrastructure recommendations the plan includes program recommendations And those include recommendations for education programs to educate both students and adults on how to walk bike and drive safely They includes Recommendations for encouragement programs to help overcome some of the barriers and allow parents to feel safe sending their student to school on foot or by bike It includes recommendations for enforcement policies including the school crossing guard program ensuring that there is a crossing guard available at each school and Looking at opportunities for a county-wide crossing guard training program so that all crossing guards are receiving the same information and Then finally there are recommendations for equity policies With the goal of ensuring that every student in the district has access to safe routes to schools education and encouragement programs Finally the plan includes sections on implementation and maintenance So how the plan will be implemented and how projects will be maintained once they've been constructed It includes a list of possible funding sources that can fund the project List included in this plan Grant funding will be very important to help construct many of these projects And leveraging local dollars with grant funding is a good path towards getting these projects built And with that I will turn it over to Murray fonts principal engineer with the city of Watsonville To talk about some of the projects that are in progress now. Thank you Amelia. Good evening. I Appreciate the opportunity to present this evening I'm especially appreciative of the collaborative effort that's been before over these last two years between the district residents of the city of Watsonville to identify ways that we can help our community to live healthier and happier lifestyles Some of the recommendations that have come out of this report indicate that our efforts are in line with the recommendations or Example the city has collaborated with Watsonville High School to put together a project to improve Lincoln Street between Beach and Riverside to make it more pedestrian friendly We secured funding for that project and we anticipate going to to construction later this year with existing funding we have painted green bike lanes within the city of Watsonville for the first time several of these are Adjacent to or provide access to schools. They include Bridge Street Green Valley Road Harkinslew Road and Walker Street as well as Rodriguez Street with the assistance of Caltrans a Flashing beacon will be installed on Beach Street near Marchant to aid crossing at that location Also, the city has been working with state legislators and other agencies to change the speeding laws so that local agencies can change them to reduce them the city is in the process of securing funding to construct a pedestrian bicycle bridge across the highway one at Harkinslew Road and To provide other pedestrian and bicycle improvements to allow Pajaro Valley High School students and parents better access The project is in design Caltrans as a partner as is Santa Cruz County We're hoping that with this funding we'll be able to go to construction in 2022 Once approved the plan the city would take the projects identified at the plan and look for opportunities to Develop what we call the low-hanging fruit those things that could be incorporated into maintenance projects that go on on a regular basis repairing sidewalk Replacing curb ramps and doing minor striping and signage We also look forward to incorporating these recommendations into current projects where the two Agree with each other and support one another and we would look to identify how these projects might be funded in future funding opportunities There are examples of where we partnered with Caltrans Such as the flashing beacon and we have partnered with the district on projects in the past and look forward to doing so in the future The city has contributed funding toward the bike smart and walk smart Safety programs that go on in second and fifth grade classes. We've supported the Urna bike program that takes place in middle school classes as well as at Pajaro Valley High School We're appreciative of the bike tech program and it supported this wonderful urna bike program and hope that it can be retained The city is also Designing a trail on Lee Road that would extend from the railroad tracks to Harkinsu Road and to Pajaro Valley High School Which would provide an alternative access for bicycle and pedestrians Once the plan is prepared The city anticipates providing copies with the district and looking for opportunities to partner One item I forgot to mention on this Lee Road project We're partnering with the Land Trust of Santa Cruz County and they recently Received a letter of support from the district from dr. Rudriguez We appreciate that that may aid them in getting funding and help us to move along this Lee Road project So I encourage you to approve it Watsonville City Council received it and approved it last night So we can move ahead and partner on some of these exciting projects I would just echo Murray's appreciation of the district for all of the principals who gave us their time to host a walking audit at their school to host the public meetings and The recommendation before you tonight is to adopt the final Watsonville complete streets to schools plan Okay, any public speakers to this item Felipe Hernandez, but I don't think he's here. Felipe are you still here? Okay, that's it any discussion from the board Trustee Costa Okay I'm I'm in full support. Thank you for all the work that's gone into this for the last two years I noted just today. We think we had a pedestrian death associated with the traffic accident and so As you've I think you mentioned last time Watsonville for the size of the community we have has far too many deaths associated with vehicular accidents to pedestrians so anything that we can do to make our community safer and in particular children I think we all can get behind so anyway. Thank you very much for bringing this forward and for all the hard work that you've Put into it. We really appreciate it trusty Acosta Karen, I mean, I know there's I Know you said something about there's so much more that we need to probably do right and You were and you're looking for also Further grant funding in order to be able to accomplish some of these projects, correct? correct. Yep and I Just wanted to ask you are what are there things that you would love to have Complete that or that we're not voting on tonight that in moving forward We need to try to see if we can accomplish What are some of those things if you could explain to me? us as Mr.. Serpa indicated Watsonville is very concerned about the Number of collisions. Yeah place within the community and so we've We went after this grant to identify ways that we could make our community safer For bicyclists and pedestrians in and around the schools. We did a similar grant for the downtown area We've passed vision zero to try and focus on that but we would Like to be partners on identifying ways to do this in the city right-of-way or In the transitions between the city right-of-way and school district property Or if we can help out on the school district property, we'd want to see that It isn't limited to just physical improvements in fact Ironically The key of it all Is up here. We all need to take our part. We all need to be part of the role And we found the greatest success comes through children you teach the children and they teach their homes We need to be cautious when we cross the street. We can't assume we'll be safe just because there's a crosswalk So those are the areas we'd like to partner pedestrian and bicycle safety projects and education and programs And I'm sure And that's absolutely true and it's and it's also You need to sort of educate people to drive cars to you know that how to Stop before they turn. I mean, you know what I'm saying. I mean people, you know It's definitely our children and it's definitely adults teaching their children, but it's also People driving cars unfortunately He did learn how to do it better sometimes, you know I'm saying I don't know how we can teach them I don't know Yeah Alright, thanks trustee cost Yes, I I'm certainly gonna chime what my colleagues have already said I mean we all want to see improvement and particularly within the city or limits of Watsonville and Safe routes for so many of our students that particularly in this end of the district walk to and from school on a daily basis You know Just this morning at the end of my street where we live There was a severe car collision during the morning commute hours this afternoon. There was a three-car pile up just after lunch hour on Main Street I mean, it's just horrific not to mention the incident that I believe probably is what Trustee Disciple was leading to that happened last night from the city of Watsonville. I mean, it's just horrific What's what's that I believe? Walker Rodriguez Radcliffe, you know if we could do something with the lights I know you guys are licking at Sabah because Sabah is stuck between West Beach and West Riverside. I know that's a concern You know people I know you were talking about how We need to be more educated on you know using the crosswalk But sometimes we forget that West Beach and West Riverside are highways Yeah, and so if we could do a little bit more my daughter's grandfather was hit A couple years ago crossing banker and West Riverside So if there's a way we can put a crosswalk But I just wanted to echo all the good work that's being done in the community by community citizens And so we all look forward, you know, whether it's writing a letter or just showing up to meetings A lot of us here want to help and go the extra mile So I just want to say thank you and we have a motion by yeah So I'd like to just chime my motion that and honor my colleague that couldn't be here tonight trustee shocker I'd like to make the motion to approve this I'll second it okay all in favor. I I anybody opposed motion passes. Thank you very much. Thank you Next up we have agenda item 8.3 approved extended learning coordinator title change and salary schedule placement Thank You president dodge board trustees dr. Rodriguez for your consideration This is a job description for the extended learning Coordinator to replace the after-school coordinator position as noted in the job description summary the Site coordinator is responsible for operational oversight of extended learning programs Opening the door to oversight of multiple sites for after-school summer school and intercession the new position entails additional responsibilities including oversight of at least two school sites instead of just one this move will reduce the need of Administrative positions as well while there is a salary adjustment commensurate with the additional responsibilities even with a salary increase the change will result in a substantial savings of approximately $300,000 as we continue for ways to reduce administrative costs while focusing on our students Educational experiences and program compliance requirements here to explain the job responsibilities Generally, and the salaries is Allison asawa human resources director of certificated personnel So yeah before you there are three different job descriptions to denote the elementary level the middle school and the high school level to be in Alignment with the salary schedule Any public speakers to this item Any discussion from the board And I Just want to say that um, you know, I mean we've heard from some teachers that how could they How could you just consider even raising the salary of? Administrators when you know, we're not getting sorry in terms, but I mean I know I mean based on what you said This is actually eliminated administrative positions, and this is actually saving money for our district 300,000 is not huge, but it's not bad It's not it's not it's not so bad to be able to actually save $300,000, so I think you know Hopefully everyone can consider this even teachers can consider that we're not trying to Enhanced I mean add more administrators. We're actually trying to eliminate some of them and Actually save money, so I'm just hoping everyone understands that. Thank you Yeah, so many of you too can expand on that. So can you explain how? In what positions administrative positions will be eliminated if this was to be voted on tonight The driving factors between be behind bringing this to the board tonight So if you can start there, please Great. Yeah, so there are 19 and Carol's behind me. So care of like miss the numbers There's 19 programs at different sites that require an after-school coordinator So the reduction would be last Chono was mentioning By reducing administrators, we would have them cover multiple or two sites I'm hoping answering your question. Maria. Is that what you're asking now? What administrative positions would be eliminated? How many lists? How many lists? Oh, so 19 divided by 2 so about 9 8 8 or 9 Okay, we currently already have one who's splitting at the high school. So that'll remain but the other ones that are at the middle and elementary schools Are you guys a second question? I was Yeah, so so what's really driving? Staff's decision to bring this forward to the board because of the timeline of the March 15th notice that is required per med code Any more discussion from the board? I have a motion. I'll make a motion to approve I Guess you would say eliminating some of the administrative positions and adding a new job description for those positions With which, you know increases their responsibility That's what I'm doing. Thank you a second. I second All in favor of the motion I All opposed aye aye Motion passes Next up we have Item 9.1 PV OSD data-driven improvement cycle for poor be presented by Lisa or Casey Are okay all three? Good evening. Dr. Rodriguez board president Dodge and board of trustees This evening. We have the honor of being able to really discuss a few elevation pieces that happened in our instructional cycle this year We wanted to actually start with Looking at what we all do so the all-in everyday piece and how does that imply to our departments our management our Coordinators, how are we of service to students and how are we of service to staff the instructional cycle really is that data-driven cycle? But what we noticed was that we could indeed do a better job at making sure that we were all accountable as well to making sure We service staff a few models pieces that we looked at was the ability to be able to plan strategically do and perform Check more frequently so we could pivot or change the design if we needed to and then really act on those Decisions that we have more frequently What we did was we started with department scorecards so department scorecards This was the first inaugural year that we actually went through with our management teams Started to build the capacity of saying what is the purpose and the function of that department within our organization How does that support the instructional programs at our site and we anchored our work within those departments to looking at what Were the strategies that we said we were going to hit an example would be for middle schools the alignment of looking at math Literacy and student connection depending on what department you're in how do you connect the work that you do to those areas? Few highlights up here that we asked management to look at Directors coordinators and all managers was to look at how do you concentrate your efforts around those areas of district-wide? Goals that we already have to support sites and then how are we actually tracking checking tracking our progress? So as a department, how do we know that our assistance is really being hit and really being receptive? And then those stretch goals pieces of are we using metrics to really inform our practice and changing as we go along if we need to An example up here is an example of a district scorecard off to the right You'll see that there's noted metrics within that and then each department went through to create a goal That really was symbolic of what their purpose and their function in the organization was We then ran through what we would call a data monitoring protocol This was by far the most challenging part at times because it requires a heavy ability to be able to listen and be Reflective of your practice the work that your departments are doing and then be able to really re-engage Based on what you heard from your feedback of your peers These are generally designed in presentation mode of saying you have 24 to 30 minutes depending on on the time Slotment that we have it runs through your presentation Which is uninterrupted for you to be able to explain what your work is and how you are informing your work The group then has an opportunity to really ask some probing and some clarifying questions Which led folks down a different path of things that they may or may not have thought of in that work that they crafted an Opportunity for us to be able to talk in what we call warm and cool feedback So it's what I refer to as talking behind somebody's back But it's giving them the opportunity to hear you say that in the same room So it gives you the opportunity to say oh, that's what people are thinking of the worker That's what they're wondering so we had some follow-up pieces as a result of that piece that many folks struggle with including including myself at times is that ability to be able to actually reflect on what you heard Did you hear the feedback that people were giving you based on the work that we're doing and are you able to actually transition that and have Impact with your next steps and that was a the piece that we started with our departments to help support the next piece Which really was looking at our instructional program as well So in line with that all in every day What are we doing to make sure that we're providing metrics within those departments to and holding ourselves to a data-driven accountability cycle as well Good evening. So the PVSD data-driven instructional cycle is the plan do check act that we use when we're looking at the school sites It is also a major part of the principal evaluation Going through it's our cycle that we start in August We almost finish it in June and it sets the tone for the next the following school year I'm going to go through and highlight a few points that are in our the instructional cycle that we look at for our school sites the process in the fall all students take the nationally normed and adaptive map assessment and Based on in math and English language arts as a baseline to see where students are and how they did from the previous years based on the scores Principles and looking at how the schools did overall Principles will develop school plans and looking at in terms of areas for instructional growth areas in Instruction where they're doing well and they'll create plans for the year in terms of how they're going to address the gaps the areas of a growth and and then they set it out and they do it in front of peers as well as directors coordinators and Assistant superintendents and is a superintendent and so they present their growth there are areas for their growth in then we go up to the collaborative visits where a team goes out to school sites and based on school set Goals either from the summits or things that they're working out this year We're doing a lot of core action work with our new newly implemented Adoptive benchmark in our elementary school sites We look through and what we do is we really look at the positive things that are happening on the school sites And we set the data so that all staff can see and they're left with a graph It's where all staff can see where they are in terms of instructional growth December January students take a second test the map assessment and based on how students do Is that some principals will be asked to come back for a second summit? And then we're going to read then what happens is that their plan that they set out in the beginning at the first summit Would be reviewed to see what is going well and what is not going well because sometimes adjustments need to be made mid course We can't always be the visionaries that we'd like from the very beginning and sometimes things happen so we might have to reset the course and Then in the summit number two the then the principals present the area of growth that happened which Based on map number the second map score and then they Have a plan to address the area of growth and how it will be measured and then at the end of the school year We look to see whether that worked or whether it did not work And then that allows the principal to be reflective over the school year to say in the fall This is what I set out to do. Yes, it worked or it did not work based on my winter scores And then in the spring, how did it turn out? so it's a way of principals and administrations to be reflective within their practice and help the The teachers on the school site So there are several ways to actually read the the growth measure map So this first slide that I'm that I will be showing you is showing elementary fall to winter growth using RIT, which is the growth and points the measurement tool that map uses to actually measure growth and as you're looking at the bottom of Where the key is where the color coding key is We notice that we definitely want to see green and blue because when we're looking at that blue piece It means we're having double-digit growth in their RIT, so we're or not double digits double digits in the points that they're that they're growing in So if you're looking your attention to second grade, which is at the top So it starts with second goes down third fourth fifth sixth and it goes across to the different Elementary schools you will see that a majority of second grade is actually which colors? Blue right we see a majority of blue and green so we're experiencing that double-digit growth with the RIT So that's what we want to see because as we're going up the grade levels more and more we want to get our students To the expectation of grade level right and so you will see that there's less and less Orange and yellow so I'm going to highlight let's see one of our Schools right there. You can see freedom elementary right dab in the center. They've experienced 10.2 increase with their RIT So that's what we want to see and and it will get them close closer to grade level So as we're moving on here is now you'll see the Elementary in reading and The same as we're looking at the key at the bottom again. We're seeing more and more what colors at the top Blues and greens right and the greens are actually increasing throughout as we're going up the grade levels And yes, we do still have continue to have areas of growth And that is part of coming up with those action plans and helping our teachers and principals look at that data So we can continue Growing I'm going to hand it off to Chris In moving over to our middle schools You'll see essentially the same function that Casey was discussing in terms of the RIT scores a few highlight pieces to take a look at You do not see blue and green up there yet We are moving in the right direction a few areas a couple of highlights to look at in terms of the differences in the RIT scores itself a couple of pieces looking back from the 18-19 school year and looking at similar cohort data of I'll take EA Hull for instance our seventh grade what had a difference of the RIT of their norm score of 17.9 that cohort this year moving into that eighth grade year is at a RIT score away from norm of 10.7. So you're starting to see some growth and starting to see some gaps But we are still not where we need to be a few pieces that we've looked at in terms of targeting this in some areas of weakness That we're looking at specifically is the seventh grade What can we do to assist I will tell you that even in middle school? It is one of the harder grades our sixth graders are coming in They're not quite sure of themselves and then our eighth graders have kind of got down the routines and the pieces that they need to have So seventh grade isn't abnormal to struggle But we also know that the vertical alignment that we've had with elementary is increasing the pieces that we're using around PLCs and really bringing teachers to the table and the curriculum pieces to the table to do the planning and look at what the Assessment pieces are are also benefiting and helping us In addition, you do see a green up here. So I want to highlight that at EA Hall We have a 5.9. So made kind of just over that band of Moving towards that expectation and moving forward a few pieces and looking at last year's data, too In regards to kind of where we are at and what the conditional growth is in case he's going to go through that In regards to kind of breaking down what that looks like I'm eager to get to those pieces as well in terms of looking at what that growth was Previously and then where some of those chunks are moving forward in in the work that we've had So I like I said before there's several different ways to actually look at the growth and measurement of map and so this next before we go into the next data slides We will be looking at the conditional growth percentile And this is actually used to measure our students or their classrooms against their typical peers like Across the nation and the norm data there. So if a if a school came in and they were They're being compared to schools that came in and scored at the same level as they did and now we're looking at How much they grew compared to similar schools? So as you're looking up here at again, we have the color coding For us we of course want to see that that green and blue and in the past We've really looked at if we have the CGP over 60 51 percent. That's great. That was that that's great We want to actually see them at that norm, but we know now that that increases if our students can actually Get to that 61 Conditional growth percentile. That's where they have more success And we can get them to be college and career ready on That track. So as we're looking at this slide You are going to notice again the elementary schools. We're looking at math and We have the writ score for each school and then we go to their percentile rank compared to other Schools across the nation that's taking those norms that are taking the map But then the color coding is what we're looking at That's what we really want to look at and see how our students are comparing and growing compared to similar Schools, right? And so we're looking again. We're noticing that our students are growing more and more Historically we have had a lot more of that red So we are reducing that red where our students need to be to be growing even more and you're noticing that On the screen, I'm going to use freedom again as an example up there They're growing at the 91 the 91st percentile compared to schools that came in scoring at the same place that they did, right? So they may have the you know the national percentile at 33 But they're growing compared to like schools at the 91st percentile so we want to continue that so again those blues and greens are that positive growth and We're definitely reducing those reds and orange, right? And Again here you see it our efforts speak for themselves With all of our work with sips this this next slide is our reading slide and it's showing again at that second grade level, right? Where we're getting our students growing at their foundational skills. They're able to show their growth on the map measure also Which will as it as the students grow and continue to grow up the grade levels It will definitely be we will definitely be seeing that growth helping out middle school You highlight pieces for mathematics and secondary as well as the reading slides that we come up with You are seeing the orange still up there I'll preface that by saying we actually had a lot more red up there last year So not quite there yet moving in the right direction in terms of us getting some lift But big highlight pieces would be that we have significant increases in blues and greens hitting the board So last year we had three of those cohort groups if you look at about 17 up their total We had three last year that had actually risen to like Casey said that like school performance piece and where we were ranking in percentile We had three between blue Between blue and green and this year you've seen that double to six so again Promising movement and as that bubble continues to reach middle school as well and the vertical articulation Continues the work that we're doing around PLC's and collaborative walks Will also continue. I'm gonna ask the board for a two-minute extension if that is possible Sounds good All right, and so like Lisa said before we also Require a second summit for some of our schools just to give that differentiated assistance where we actually have them come in and meet with us and Go through a similar protocol so we can come up with an action plan and address various needs so these schools are Before you have been chosen for different reasons Because the map is all about growth So we're looking at how can we if we have some pockets of grade levels that might not be growing or a subject area That's consistently. We're looking at patterns of maybe across years where they need Support that's where we bring them in and have another a second summit And so of course we also want to coach and support From the district office. We want to be able to support our sites So as we're looking at we have a list on elementary and secondary of Supports that we offer so one of our main initiatives this year is that focus on the core actions the collaborative walk-throughs that we actually go and work with our principals in In next steps and identifying what we need our students to be doing With our common core standards and their programs another area of focus is map data professional development To help our principals look at next steps using their data In elementary another one is that we continue to provide differentiated assistance and professional development with SIPs because we we want to make sure that we can have our students coming up with those foundational skills and then again looking at that PDSA Instructional coaching cycle with using utilizing our ELA and math coaches to also assist our sites and principals Just a couple of highlights on the secondary Twice Couple of options on the secondary side that are a little bit different but still moving in the right direction So one of those highlight pieces has been really our middle school principals working within their own PLC as well So them going through and pulling apart Quadrant data and how do we assist folks and what kind of level of feedback are we giving? That is an alignment. You'll see up there What is the review and frequency of feedback that we actually offer teachers and what is the quality look like with that feedback? It came up in the youth true survey It's something that we've worked with in our site administration in terms of the level of frequency But also the quality what what are we giving in feedback and how is that transforming the next steps? And how are we supporting teachers? And then the additional piece with that would be looking at the critical thinking ban are our students the ones actually in those actions and Completing the lift within the classroom. Are we facilitating the learning versus really being that direct instruction piece? Thank you very much. Thank you Are there any public speakers to the discussion item? Any questions or comments from the board? But trustee Um So I know that you know our our map data We've had a lot of conversations about attendance and I know that our map data doesn't necessarily correlate You know with attendance issues, but I know you know we have individual performance that correlates with chronically absent students So when you're looking at these improvement cycles You know, how do you balance the breadth of data or the breadth of information that you get from the map data? With the depth of information you get from the individual factors that happen with our students Well a couple of things so the core the correlates that you're talking about in relationship to being absent It's generally if you're missing one day, you've actually lost that three days piece of instruction So to make that up is incredibly challenging a piece that is seen in this and that teachers have access to as well And that's one of the dives that we were doing with our principles was past the point And even at a secondary level you have five periods you have six periods So what does that look like for each teacher? It actually gives us the opportunity to go in within quadrant focus as well to drive down all the way to the student So you can see if the student is actually started has the ability has high achieving, but really isn't performing And we can address that issue versus a student that we haven't moved into the other the band to be able to Accelerate and get the growth that we're looking for so you kind of drive down to the motivation factor, but it is It is intense work and it gets to that place of saying if you're really going down to make the difference and look at our students Are there some patterns? Absolutely But you do have some outlier pieces that we need to look at more specifically with students which we can do within the system of the quadrants turn I Just want to ask about The fact that we're selected among the whole nation for the con Academy Math, I forgot what it's called Math, Accelerate we were so we were selected among In the whole country as one of them. What are the things that we're doing? With that because you know if we were selected so we're got to be working on that level There are numerous classrooms throughout the district that are using them map accelerator and their math They're also in the teachers are engaged in professional development on The most effective ways to use the map accelerator There was a training that just happened last week Currently we're working with con Academy and also map to go through and really dive down in our data to see how it's working The big Report and what we're really going to find out is what how much our students have accelerated comes in the spring time so Okay, because the fact that we're connected and we were selected How is it that we provide them? We have to provide them data that we're actually doing You know we were selected for and we're okay, so Matt NWA map partnered with con Academy in a relationship So what happens is once the students take the map test the NWA map test it identifies areas of growth for students Those area of growth are automatically fed to the con Academy program. Okay, and so when a student goes online They're working on those identified areas of growth. Okay? Thank you Any questions comments or trustee a rescue It's not a reason why our dependent charter schools were not included on this presentation they were left off of the presentation and What we have that we do have that data and we could add it on for you. That would be great I think I mean as a board I think last year We requested that to happen moving forward, so I'm hopeful that in the future this will not happen again I Under the test scores, I'm assuming that also includes our special ed students Yes, it does You know, it would be really interesting. I think for me to know is to really sort of take that population and then track their growth, so we're able to see really how they're actually doing and Where we need to focus our attention with that population specifically I mean they could be with the learning center sites We're currently looking at the student growth with students with IEPs their growth over the previous years Versus their growth now that they're in the learning center with full inclusion So that's something that we're currently looking at that. We don't have the complete data for Okay. Thank you Great question trustee Roscoe No more questions coming I Can we put up some slides that you that we went over showing some of the colors I don't know there's a million of them Going let's Go back one. Oh, sorry Up there for a second. Well, that's not that's reading. I didn't want that one Can you tell me what it means when something is in the white? Like a quadrant is in the white Like Valencia for example in second grade it says 180 and it's not a color. What does that mean? But the very top Yeah, that was actually growth percentile But do you see the whole first? Yeah, the whole first line. There's like no colors at all Like where it says Bradley one seventy five Okay, so those are actually are the writ scores from the slides before So how I was talking about the very first slides of data that we're showing that we that map measures That's the curriculum base that they actually the curriculum scale that they actually use to measure growth And before we compared fall to winter. So it's I'm gonna actually back up a couple more slides So it goes back to looking at it this way or we're looking at you see the The fall to winter growth. That's where they're seeing points. It's measured by points instead of Like a percentile. So it's the amount of growth points that they received Because that's what we use to help see that our students are making at least a year's growth or more and then if I This is a really hard like I've seen these presentations for a couple years now on map But it's still really hard for me to wrap my brain around and I know you guys live it and breathe it every day So you get it but it's and I'm a board member have been seeing this and it's still hard for me to get So if I want to know how our schools are doing against other schools in California That is is that down at the bottom? I'm gonna actually know I'm gonna actually switch slides Okay, and I'm gonna move us over to the percentile ranking So I don't know if anyone else up here was kind of getting baffled But if I'm baffled then the general public is also baffled. So that's why I want to get down to the nitty gritty Absolutely. So if you're looking on this slide Again, you see that Ritz that point scale that we that you had me go back to that's that very first number at the top And then it goes into the percentile rank That is where they're actually being compared to schools and nationally the national norms Okay, and is that just for growth or is that just for scores in general or scores in general? Okay, that's okay. So they're actually at the 41st Like we're going back to Valencia, right? So they're at the 41st per percentile Overall compared to all the schools that take it nationally, right? But then we look at their school conditional growth percentile and they're making growth at the 99th percentile compared to like schools. Okay, so that's positive. That is positive That's excellent. We want to be all about that number because that's all about the growth So we used to in our old like s-backs or I don't even know what they were gonna know that it was seven minutes We used to be able to tell like the percentage of ELLs at certain schools Which so that it made it gave us a context and how many special ed kids and how many You know We used to have that information in front of us so that it would sort of explain some things in this way of looking at the data, I don't it's hard for me to know that For example, okay, so we can we have just like trustee Arasco asked We actually do divide up our data by subgroups and we actually have our principals look at it that way also So we can we can add that in a an additional reports on map However, just so this is not as back. This is map. So you won't see percentages though So you won't see so many percentages of students, right? Unless we aggregated ourselves I think the difference between the map is that map what we're doing is we're looking more at growth and SBAC we're looking at much more on proficiency. So those are two one is more Interim right because we do it multiple times a year and the SBAC We do it only one time a year and it is basically the final note of where the students are and so We can definitely We're actually in the process of working with a programmer out of the CUE and so we definitely are interested in looking at map in a different way And once we have our our data uploaded Well, we'll definitely can show it to you right now We do not have it uploaded in the new system But like I look at a MST for example, and I see their CGP is at 99 Which is excellent, right? We were happy very happy with that growth But then you look up at the percentile rank and they're number three. It's like that is not that is not okay And so that's where this data gets a little baffling to me because when kids are starting so low that Yes, it's fantastic that they're making growth, but then what what's what's our benchmark for schools like this? And I guess I is that anywhere in this data that I'm looking at what the benchmark should be Well, you think of it like the bell curve so you always want to be on the 50th percentile The the reason the reason why this slide is so important is because if you don't have CGP over the 61 That was mentioned you're never going to be cut. You're never going to increase that number So most of our numbers across the board were ones prior and so we're steadily Increasing that so for example Call of Us is a great example of the the amount of growth that they've done and how that number has increased over time because it used to be a one and Now you can see that they are Gradually because of the great growth that they're doing that number is continuing to increase and so the goal is to have everyone across when it looks as Regular percentile ranked to be over 50% because then you're on the other side of the bell curve And so just to go back to this slide why we actually have that 61 Up there is because we know they'll they'll actually start jumping the percentile ranks Right quicker because we don't want them sitting at Sitting at three right but a messy if they continue to have that 99 Percentile and conditional growth. They're going to keep jumping up the percentiles So so you feel satisfied with the growth that we're making as A district when you see this data, so that's I feel satisfied with the elementary growth We did the low performing block grant specifically focused on the middle school, which we started this year So we still need to continue to push at the secondary level and Specifically at the middle school level we need to do a better job of Continuing to push our students. We've done a lot what I am proud of is this highlights What we focus on we improve Right. We have focused on k3 Significantly and we see excellent growth k3 We just this year started the parallel track at the middle school So, you know, this was these results for three months into that So three months is not enough time to be able to see the initiatives moving forward So I feel good. I we we could have there's just so much data if you we did for leadership the parallel slides of what this looked like in 2020 and what it looked like in 2017 and it was so much red and orange before and now we're seeing a whole bunch of the great colors So for me, that's important because that means that our kids are making the growth and they're improving. Thank you And next up agenda item 9.2 first reading board policy and administrative regulation 514 2.2 safe Routes to school program and will be discussed by dr. Michelle Rodriguez. Yeah, so I'll try to be quick So as we were looking at the safe schools routes there was a question that came up from from board of if we had a Board policy in terms of safe routes to school and also active transportation It was also one of the recommendations in the plan that you just approved We looked we didn't have any board policy on that and so what you see here tonight This is the first reading so it's not for approval, but what we do always work is we work through CSBA for their and gamut for their administrative regulations and their board policies I just want to highlight that this parallel Significantly the plan that you just heard about so it talks about Educational activities and making sure that we're focusing on those educational activities It talks about encouragement strategies. So you you heard about Walk the school day bike the school day and so that is in there There is also a section about crossing guards and partnering with law enforcement and traffic laws and making sure that people are following those laws within our schools and Then Lastly, it just talks about working with local government agencies and looking to reduce Hazards and so all of it really aligns with the next steps that you heard as with all board policies, I Encourage you to look at it between now and the next board meeting or now Is the time that you can provide me feedback on it if there are certain things that you would like to choose? to to shift Generally what we do is we use CASBO and gamut because they've we that Doesn't require us to use any of our own legal counsel because it's already been vetted in its form But we did we did personalize it to us So I encourage board to reach out to me if they have some changes They would like to see made before the next board meeting Thank you very much any public speakers to this discussion item Any questions or comments from the board Okay, quick one. Oh, trustee. Oh, just out of curiosity. Are there any financial Impacts the district for these projects? So no, so we we have dedicated ourselves and there was a mention of a letter in which I wrote in support of the Lee trails and so there is constant Joint collaboration to try to get grants One thing that which is important and Joe has been very involved in it is as we're doing McQuitty is a perfect example We actually use their study as we redid McQuitty So that we as we were already going to do something we coupled that and so we're just doing this energy of funding Thank you very much next Consent agenda on item 10 consent items or routine items coming for the board any public speakers to the consent agenda Are there any items that the board wishes to defer trustee home? Yeah, I'd like to defer a 10.5 10.5 Any other agenda items wishing to be pulled? Right. Can you just go ahead and get a motion for the? Agenda items except 10.5 Emotion approval the second I'm all in the favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay Agenda item 10.5 approval of architect agreement for PV with detours monitors nation 2020 All right. Good evening once again. This item is in regards to part of the district Purchasing the property where we house our district office and this was completed back in 2018 at the end of 2018 we were successful with board support and Superintendent support and acquiring the property for approximately 10.4 million dollars Within that when we were directed by the board to do various assessments and analysis of the property We Through our partnership in our architect. We uncover that there was the envelope of the building roofing our HVAC units and also a safety concern with the seismic upgrade of the building Was required and so within that one of the directions that I was given is to make sure that when we do purchase this property in The negotiation process that we make sure that the purchase price is either cost-neutral or cost-benefit to the district and so with that being said we were able to Have a set-aside budget from our financing of approximately five point six million dollars and that budget is what we Is presented this evening for the architect agreement to move forward with HVAC roof seismic, and then we also talked about the The other components when it regards to Lighting and safety and building envelope as a whole and so we took that into consideration as well And so all of that was lumped into the assessments and the negotiation process with the prior ownership and with our legal team and our consultants at that point in time and So we are able to have five point six million Part of our financing in the COP our certificate of participation To have that set aside for deferred maintenance of the building and those are the items that we are Would like to move forward with and that was Was provided back in 2018 as we move forward through that The the appraisal also took into consideration negotiation process just to remind the board We were also able to reduce the asking price because that there was some needs that needed to be taken care of within the building And so that's where we're able to get the purchase price at ten point four million And so this is specifically to HVAC lighting air drainage roof repairs Elevator Modernization, and we also have faulty doors and then some safety issues within the building So this contract allows our architect to now proceed with designs of the Modernization of the property To meet the address the safety and issues raised in the analysis back in 2018 Any other discussion or another outcome, sir One how much of the project is for the seismic retrofit? Oh, I had that answer Joe. It's I have it right here. So and the board can Look at it if they want it's on the letter that says towers 2020 modernization. It's on the second page for you So the seismic is one point one million one point one eight The existing building systems, which is the HVAC the power of the plumbing and the roofing is one point seven million Fire alarm is a hundred and eighty thousand I want to note that the the floor improvements in the front is very much We have hundreds of employees which do work down at the district office One of their main concerns is safety because as we had mentioned when we purchased the building there I can't remember how many entries there were 24 so there are 24 ways for people to get in the building none of them secure and then if anyone who first goes into the district office will know that it's hard to know where to go because the the registration or the the person that Cicillota is on the fourth floor and so that is just 260 I will say that by doing this one we knew we were gonna have to do this so it drove down the price significantly But also by doing this we will have a lot less deferred maintenance costs because we have on a weekly basis we when it rains it literally rains in the building and We probably have someone out to fix the elevator at least twice a month With people getting stuck in the elevator So they are all things that we need to do and and we have had to You know we just like in my office you go in my office and you will see two fans and heater because the heating and air conditioning doesn't work and so This would allow us to do that and When we did the evaluation drove down the price from their original high price down to a point where we pay less For the building now than when we were paying rent I Just have a couple more and that's one you know my own personal experience with roofs, you know for my own house It's like I had to defer You know some minor repairs on my roof for a few years and then I had to actually completely replace the roof Because I didn't fix it when it's a small problem. Is it fair to assume that if we don't Deal with the roof problems as they are now that that cost if we waited a year or two That that cost would increase in a similar manner correct and there are sections of the roof that are in decent condition and fair condition and there are sections of the roof where there's actually holes in the roof and Prior to acquiring the property. It was the landlord's responsibility But once the district acquired the property and we're purchasing it now We need to protect our property our physical asset And so there are sections of the roof that need to be completely replaced and install new roofs Okay, and my other question is is I know we tend to think about the district office as an administrative building But what other programs and and groups are in that building? We have our various school district white committees from our delac We have professional development for our principals and for our teachers and we also have classified staff We have union leadership meetings in the district administration office It's also an opportunity for student services and the first point of engagement with our new enrollment or new students or Families coming into our community Isn't there a school in there? There's also Pacific Coast Charter and Pacific Coast Charter of the facility Yeah, but it has numerous points of service in our SELPA department our adult education So there's numerous factors and services within the building and I think the importance of having As our superintendent mentioned the reception We located to the first floor will also help and customer service and serving our parents in our community and Making sure that they're directed where they need to be served Officially Any other questions or comments trustee and to serpent So Joe the money that is going to be used to repair the towers Came from a mortgage that we took out when we bought the property correct correct That's the that's the conditions of participation Correct Essentially the mortgage that the district holds on behalf of the towers So it's not coming out of the general fund. It's not many that could be spent on anything else Correct, and it's it was taken it part of the financing as a mortgage To take on the deferred maintenance that we were aware of in the front end of the negotiation purchasing process To do that and so it's included in that and that also reduced the cost of the purchase price and it also allowed us to Continue acquiring the property have this set aside budget for deferred maintenance and still be at a cost savings for the district And despite the added You know five million dollars or whatever for the maintenance of the building or the deferred maintenance How much are will the district save over the long run by purchasing the towers? Let me give you the Because I remember us talking about this in depth, but I can't remember the actual dollar that up here and the Over the 30 years and this was presented back in end of 2018 over 30 years the estimated cost savings is 28.6 million dollars from going from rent annual rent of Approximately 1.3 million annually to shifting into as a mortgage and buying the property Is there a mortgage cost that we pay That we're gonna be paying for a while obviously, right? Actually, we are looking we had it structured so that it was Approximately 16 years that we would break even so the cost savings over 30 year period The those years in those 30 years of the 28 million is paying off the property in approximately 16 years And that was that's where we get the savings over 30 years Okay Any other questions or comments Maria trustee Costa? Well before we go ahead to a vote I Know I wasn't here when the towers were purchased I believe that we shouldn't have bought the towers in my opinion And I know a lot of people in the city of Watsonville knew this was gonna happen and in 1989 We had a big earthquake after that earthquake You know the hospital was red tagged for a while and So I just wanted to bring that up also another thing to Coralitos Creek floods and if you look at the land You know next to our neighbors were you know in a flood plain so we're you know the good flood and I Never would have voted for the the towers to be bought I think a lot of other places and spots up could have been purchased So I will be voting no So if there's a motion I'll make a motion to approve The second I'll second all in favor I I All opposed aye Motion passes All right, so Close session items Item 12 closed session actual report on closed session or closed session item 2.2 Oh Yes, so I was getting looking at the vote in here So the board approved A suspended expulsion for the remainder of the 1920 school year and the fall semester of the 2021 school year With placement at another school in the district on a strict behavior contract for student number 1920 014 with a 502 boat The Board also approved the recommendation of the district administration for a full expulsion of the remainder of the 1920 school year and the fall semester of the 2021 school year with placement at another school outside of the district on a strict behavior contract For student number 1920 013 with a 502 boat Carrying closed session item 2.2. I moved to approve the certificated personnel report is presented by district administration on February 26 2020 with 14 and six additional action items I Move to prove Second On the favor of the motion. Hi. Any opposed and And for closed session item 2.3 I moved to approve the classified personnel report is presented by district administration on February 26 2020 with 4 and 11 additional action items second All in favor say aye aye And you're opposed. I'm sorry mine was a I So it's a port or a post in support And then during closed session as per resolution 1928 the PVSD governing board of trustees voted 5 0 2 on the non-re-election of certain probationary Certificated employees for the following employees 819 0 819 8 8 765 2 7 0 0 8 2 0 9 8 7 3 7 8 8 4 3 and during closed session as per resolution 19 20 27 the PVSD governing board of trustees voted 5 0 2 on the possible Reassignment or release for certain certificated management employees for the following 11 employees 33 48 12 20 12 23 12 73 69 74 24 23 24 25 59 or 49 50 29 96 39 14 and 61 19 Thank you very much up in our next board meeting is scheduled for March 11th at the city council chambers Daddy if I may before you adjourn on that item. I have one last request If I could ask the agenda setting committee to consider bringing an agenda item back On the cost saving measures that as a district We're looking to and we plan to look to in the future including What we have agreed as part of the labor management initiative as a team as a district as far as saving money To make sure that we're able to allocate additional funds to the negotiating table So and we can bring