 Good evening and welcome to Fajaro Valley Unified School District Governing Board of Directors meeting for Wednesday, I'm sorry, something to help remind me, February 28th. We are, I'm calling this meeting to order at 7.56 p.m. So welcome to the PBUSD board meeting. We have translation in Spanish. If you need that support, please see our very own Yurena López. So, I also see lots of new faces here this evening, which we do appreciate and enjoy. So I want to take a moment to establish some ground rules. There may be differences of opinions, sometimes strong differences. So please give those speaking the same respect for those who are speaking the same way. So, I also see lots of new faces here this evening, which we do appreciate and enjoy. So I want to take a moment to establish some ground rules. There may be differences of opinions, sometimes strong differences. So please give those speaking the same respect that you would like to receive when you are speaking. This will allow everyone to be heard and the board to conduct its necessary business. I'm going to move to item 3.2, the Pledge of Allegiance, and I'm going to ask Vice President Soto to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Thank you, State of America, to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, and a God, and a Louisville. Thank you, President Soto. Thank you Vice President Soto. I'm going to now move to item 3.3, our Superintendent Comments, and I'm going to ask Superintendent Sheckman to make his comments now. Thank you. Thank you President Costner and Board, and thank you for the large crowd tonight. Actually, my comments tonight are all about thank you. How many of you folks, and I know a lot of you, were there on Saturday at Watsonville High? Really appreciate it. Thank you AFT. You paid the bill for 40,000 books to be donated. We had hundreds of volunteers. The truck came in on Monday. We started unloading on Wednesday. Lots of kids from Watsonville High, lots of teachers, lots of administrators, most of the people in the back of the room, a lot of you. You moved the books over Friday, opened up on, I don't know why I'm standing, opened up on Saturday. It's just perfect. Just think now that all those books are in homes around our community. Sure, it was just a little tight. I said that in my thank you, but it really was a bill of business. Next door, some of you may have gone over and visited it, get over 200 individuals, keep their teeth clean. We had one guy had a tooth-toed cow heel. He was a non-profit in the state of California. He brings in volunteers, and we had volunteers from Southern California. It was really successful to put the two together. Nellie, I know you're here tonight. Nellie, I really appreciate the leadership. She and I started planning a long time ago. She's thinking about becoming a principal. I know she still needs to be in the credential. But I'm partly kidding. You could just say something. But I really appreciate the leadership and the hard work that everybody does. That's my message. Thank you. Thank you, Superintendent Checkman, and I'm sure it was a wonderful event. Sorry I missed it. Now we are going to move to 3.4 governing board comments reports on standing committees. This is an opportunity for each board member to take a few minutes to comment on the activities they've been going through and committee meetings. And we are going to start with our very own Student Trustee. Thank you, President Acosta, and good evening to everyone here. Thank you for being here tonight. These last months, the board has heard from the community time and time again with the same mission to bring back the CRA contract. As a representative of students in our district and also as an ethnic studies student, I feel the urgency to continue to advocate and emphasize to the board the importance of making decisions that align with the community needs and to bring back the renewal of the contract. Thank you. Thank you to our Student Trustee, and I will now con on Trustee Bellano-Skow. Thank you, Trustee Bellano-Skow. Trustee Dr. Holm. Good evening, everyone. I did attend several committee meetings, but just given the lateness of the hour, I'm going to wave my comments for now. Thank you, Trustee Dr. Holm. Trustee DeSerpa. I'll be similar. Thank you. Trustee George Jr. I would just like to briefly quickly say thank you, Nelly. PBFT, AFTCFT volunteers, all the dentists, medical assistants who were there that day, all the people that donated books, and I was able to celebrate the... to attend the event, to celebrate the life of Masahashimoto. Masahashimoto is a lifelong Watsonville resident and historian, a teacher, and a great story of perseverance. He's seen the ups and downs of Watsonville, and if you're interested in history, please look at Masahashimoto, and he tells a great story. So thank you, Mas, and Marcia. Thank you to both of them, and thank you, Trustee George Jr. and Trustee Florence. Hello, everyone. Thank you for being here tonight. I wanted to say thank you to PBFT for the Literacy Fair. It was amazing. My daughter and I did attend. It was a lot of fun. I loved seeing all the high school students out there also putting in their community service hours. Thank you Extended Learning for having the section outside of the cafeteria that was a lot of fun. The physics bus was interesting to go through with my daughter. And also I was able to attend the CAC meeting last night, and we had a very great informational meeting presented to us about the LCAP and how important it is for us to give our input as parents and as community members. And so if you are able to fill out the Youth Truth Survey, and we also will have a survey for the LCAP. And that's awesome. Thank you. Thank you, Trustee Florence. Vice President Soto. All right. I'm going to say my usual beginning part. Thank you, everybody, for being here. Good evening. I just want to take a moment and acknowledge my colleagues. We've had an arduous month and we're going to continue to have one tomorrow night. We've had an incredible display of disagreement on certain topics, with this healthy conversation among the society, among people. But I saw in my colleagues the ability to come together to make a decision and I want to acknowledge all of you tonight for that. So Trustee Skow, Trustee Holm, Trustee DeSerpa, Trustee Dodd, Trustee Torres and President Acosta. I want to thank you to display the ability to show some cohesion and we need to make important decisions and I appreciate that and all of you. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Vice President Soto. So we are sorry that we had to start late. The Board actually does need to reconvene to closed session at the end of our public session. So I do have a few comments. One, I did attend the Adult Education Advisory Committee meeting along with our Superintendent Checkman. It was great to see so many local, state and federal leaders in attendance and interested in seeing what we are doing here at PBUSD with adult education. Unfortunately, I will not be able to attend this month's Migrant Seasonal Head Start Policy Committee meeting tomorrow and neither will my colleague Trustee DeSerpa. Since the governing Board of Directors will be having a special board meeting on declining enrollment tomorrow night here in this room at 6 p.m. My third comment announcement is that after months of defining a process and with community stakeholders input and numerous governing board meetings, the governing Board of Directors of Pajaro Valley Unified School District have identified a finalist for the Superintendent of Pajaro Valley Unified School District and there will be more information coming soon at a later date. And in my last comment, I just want to take a moment to extend my deepest gratitude to our PBUSD community. So many members of our PBUSD community have reached out to me and my family extending us their sympathy and condolences at the passing of my mother this past week. For nearly 40 years, my mother's working life and career. She was a classified school employee as a school bus driver and a licensed and certified school bus driver instructor by the State of California. I cannot possibly be again to count the numerous students that arrived safely to school and returned safely at home at the end of their school day due to my mother's direct impact on her work for nearly four decades of her life. I just want to thank again to all of you who have reached out to me and my family offering us your condolences and deepest sympathy. It is greatly appreciated and a wonderful testimony to our great PBUSD community here in the Park Valley. I'm going to now move to Item 3.5, High School Student Board Trustees Report and I believe we have a report from Diamond Tech Institute. It's a recording. Thank you. Good evening, President Acosta, Board of Trustees, and Interim Superintendent Murray Shackman. I'm O'Reilly Doran and I'm excited to catch you up on everything we've been doing since our last report. We ended our first semester with our annual adoptive family. We were able to bring holiday cheer to two families this year. Thank you to all students and families who contributed. Over the winter break, our ethics team competed in a debate-style forum at UCSC and although we did place on the top, our team did really well and we're proud of our white tigers. Our character education theme for the third quarter is to be encouraging. This character trait reminds us to help build each other up and that together, it can be big things. As always, we started a 2024 semester with community team building and pancakes. We also awarded the winners of our first semester project for Beast Battle and College Career Expert, a new portfolio of expo. Beast Battle is a school-wide project that incorporates agriculture, science, engineering, and digital media. We have a few projects for Beast Battle that will be moving forward with their entry for the county's team expo. We also awarded the students who showed excellency in their new portfolios. Students had the short mastery of professional content as well as MOC interview. Between the two projects, students were awarded over 3,800 in scholarships. We also recently celebrated 10 Diamond Techies, of course selected to show off their film-making skills at the Watsonville Film Festival. Showing will be at Green Valley Cinemas at 11.30 on March 9th. Congratulations to our student directors. We started a next round of project-based learning, and we're currently in the middle of our national directing change submissions. These short films are about mental health and suicide prevention. Last year, we had two submissions recognized from this national organization, and we're hoping to have more this year. We're also working on our social media and marketing challenge. Last year, our client was a beach boardwalk, and this year we're working with the Santa Cruz Community Credit Union. To engage the community in their program. We're the only school participating from Santa Cruz County, and we're hoping to do a great job again this year. Coming up soon is our annual business boards, held in the Melo Center on March 28th. This is a great DTI heritage project. Mark your calendars and come see or be a judge for this event. Just scan the QR code and fill out the information. I'll give you a minute. Great. We look forward to seeing you there and showing you our latest business innovations. It was great to celebrate Valentine's Day this year. We had some great lunchtime activities and lots of participation. You and Mr. Lakata joined us in the fun Teacher Ken. Don't forget to follow us on social media, and thank you again for this opportunity to share what we've been doing at Diamond Tech. And our next report will be from Parallel Valley High School. Good evening President Acosta, Superintendent Mr. Sheckman, and the members in the board, and Lafayette Student Trustee. For Black History Month, this year our Black Student Units, along with their Motor and Culture Committee, prepared many different activities to shine light on Black History Month. Our teachers participated in decorating their door to celebrate aspects of Black History with colorful and informational posters. This year's theme on our Instagram page was to highlight inspiring Black figures dating. Our main focus for this event was to remind people that Black History is American History. For a senior panoramic, as amongst the closer to the graduation, the senior class had their senior panoramic. Every year, joins in this picture as a remembrance, a memory we carry as we move on to a new chapter. For the love of the game Spare Week, from February 13th to the 16th, we introduced our third spare week of the school year. For the love of the game, Spare Week. We kicked off the week with our love for comfort, where we wore our favorite PJs. For the love of yourself, what's next? We were various valentine accessories and colors. Following that, we had for the love of your favorite team. Whether it was basketball, football, or even school jersey, we were showing them off. Lastly, we had for the love of your district where we wore our class colors. Next up, we have on February 16th, which we had a third rally of this year for the love of the game. In our rally schedule, we had various games as hungry hungry hippos, musical chairs, tug-a-war, which staff and students have both participated in. We had a couple of performances, such as for cortical performance, cheer, ban, and color guard. We assist the classroom classes based off the performance of during the week and student participation in success in the games and also the quality of the yells. Particularly, senior class emerged as the leaders, falling by the sophomore class in second place, the junior class in third, and the freshman class in fourth. Next up, we have athletics. On January 30th, we had Gold Socket held a senior night, and also made a CCS. On February 9th, Boyz Socket held a senior night out in the field. And on February 8th, we had Gold's basketball senior night in the gym. And lastly, on February 12th, we had Boyz basketball senior night along with side cheer. And for our after-school events, on Friday, February 16th, we organized our no-chillabanda dance. This particular event unfolded on a patio with the activity to revel and the music provided by the DJ and a live band of performance. Next up, we have Expanded Lady which we would like to thank. As Sweet Sheet and Connor Candy, despite the rainy weather on February 14th, we managed to have some enjoyable moments with Connor Candy and friends after school thanks to the event organized by Expanded Lady again. And we also had our after-school annual tie-dye. In preparation for our rally, we engaged in a tie-dye activity to create a distinctive rally shoot. After the tie-dye, the soft ones went for pink and the juniors chose orange and seniors tie-dye the shirt screen. We appreciate the chance to add a unique touch to our tire. Hello, good evening. So, next up, we have our after-school painting night with Judy Giddelson. Great, great, great. We hosted a paint night that attracted many students. All the necessary materials were provided as a backdrop of their choice. It turned out to be a fantastic experience for many, even with those that haven't really had a good amount of experience. But, you know, it looks so cute. It's everyone having a great time and producing impressive artwork. Next, we have our 2023 Winter Concert. On December 11th, our band class announced a winter concert with various groups to prepare for the holiday season. We had mariachi, we had a clarinet choir, so I let's do it, and much more. A lovely night to spend with friends and family as you listen to many holiday songs. I was actually there to support some of my friends and my sister. Okay, thank you. Thank you. And then next up, we had, last Friday after school, we held a Jamba Juice fundraiser where proceeds went to ASB. This was a successful fundraiser in which we sold out and have good feedback from many students and staff. We have chosen to have them back until the end of the year. That's really good. I wish I had some. For our grizzly highlights, a group of students in our entrepreneurship class 2 were tasked with creating a small business. Rose Ever, an external flower bouquet business, since getting started, they have appeared on the news, attended conferences and workshops to expand the business. We do have their QR code to their Instagram link on the screen for anyone in the business. We would also like to highlight our mock trial. Despite this being their first year as a PVHS mock trial team, by the end of the season, they have received astonishing awards for their participation and work. Jocelyn Gomez received her award for being an astonishing prosecution attorney. Ricardo Vega for an astonishing prosecution witness. The team as a whole, including teacher coach Eric Hutchison and attorney coach Jason Gill for an amazing sportsmanship. The PAL Merrigan Mock Trial Award presented by the Santa Cruz County Trial Award Association. We would also like to highlight some of our athletes. David Hernandez received a peak health first team all league patch for cross country for his astonishing accomplishments. He finished eighth place in the Santa Lucia division at peak health championships and holds three school records. As highlighted before, Girl Soccer made a CCDS this year for their amazing accomplishments for their hard work despite the lack of semi in the evening practices and having to wake up early for morning practices. As well as our two wrestlers made it to CCS, Jose Perez and Jocelyn Santana. We're extremely proud of our grizzly and their accomplishments. Finally, we made a give up, EALP and our cancelling department have been holding financial aid workshops to help out our students with the faster applications because we all know that there have been many challenges this year with this new year's format. As we get closer to March, we also like to get closer to our college decision results. We wish all the seniors the best of luck with their results. We'd like to thank you guys for inviting us today to present to you. Thank you for her. I'm going to now move to item 4.1, approval of the agenda. Can I have an emotion to approve the agenda? Second. I have a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Motion carries 7-0. Can I have a motion to approve, moving on to item 5.1, approval of the February 14th 2024 board meeting minutes, Valentine's Day. We didn't have dinner plans. Can I have a motion to approve the board meeting minutes for February 14th 2024? Second. I have a she beat you. I have a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Motion carries 7-0. Approval, I'm moving to item 5.2, approval of the February 17th, 2024 special board meeting minutes. Can I have a motion to approve that? Was that Soto? Velanozka. I'm sorry. I have a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. I'm sorry, they were waiting for me. And then moving to item 5.3, approval of the February 18th, 2024 special board meeting minutes. Can I have a motion? Move to approve. Thank you, trustee. Can I have a second? Thank you, trustee. I have a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Perfect. Thank you. Now move on to item 6.1, public comment. This is an opportunity for members of the public to address the issues that are not on our agenda for this evening. Please note that through the Brown Act we are prohibited the board from engaging in discussion for non-agendized items, but we do want you to know we are listening. Do we have any public comments? Yes, we do, President Acosta. We have 18 for the evening on 6.1. First three, we'll call you up and then everybody subsequently in a group of three as well. So the first three, Laura Hunter, Bernard Gomez and Karina Moreno. Good evening, members of the board, Superintendent Sheckman and the Skiing community. Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Laura Hunter and I'm proud to serve as an education specialist at Pajaro Valley High School where I teach modified math and chemistry. Tonight I stand before the board to underscore the critical importance of the new teacher supports that have played a pivotal role in my professional journey. In the upcoming season I urge the board to recognize and preserve these support systems. They not only facilitate the growth and success of us educators but also contribute significantly to our overall well-being. Please also consider that the new teacher project be available to all incoming teachers. I would like to express my appreciation to PVUSD and the Santa Cruz County Office of Ed for the new teacher project, Melissa and Marvellon, the induction process. I'm particularly grateful for the guidance and mentorship provided as well by Mary Edelstein. Additionally, I extend my heartfelt appreciation to self-administration Heather, Louise and Leah for their unwavering support as I pursued my additional credential in special education. And I would also like to thank the PV High School Science team who is here present tonight. They're an awesome department to be able to work with, so collaborative, dedicated and up to the future. I would like to thank Ed's services, especially math and science, so Mike Russo and Terry Redfern, they were integral in helping me develop my curriculum and helping me learn how to modify that for special education students. I also appreciated the training for talk moves and culturally responsive teaching. In conclusion, I express my sincere gratitude and the opportunity to be able to work with you. Thank you. Is it on or not? I just want to note, I was notified by tech that it is on and it's recording for a YouTube channel. They are able to hear it on our YouTube channel. We're just not able to hear it internally, but please do continue to use your mics for the YouTube channel. Thank you. Thank you for that. Thank you. First and foremost, I think regardless of our views and stance on subjects that are affecting our community, I do want to extend my condolences for the Nancasta, for your loss. Hope to plan as well. You hear me from it, right? So come here again to encourage you, the board, to re-agendize the CRE contract. Community members, students have been coming week after week requesting this and they're being ignored and I don't think that's correct. I think this is people call it a democracy, right? We should have differences but we're allowed to have differences, right? But we're also allowed to have a discussion around it and actually hear, have a discourse, healthy dialogue around it and actually hear why is it that you don't want that, besides all the fluff and the stuff that is circulating. So bring CRE back, we're going to approve it. It's the last year, it's the only right thing to do. The second thing I want to say is just real quick on the SRO issue. We ended a mid-year review budget for the city and Chief Zamora basically said that they cannot fulfill one of the positions SRO positions, right? So that's actually impacting also the community, the Watsonville community at the city level, right? So I think we can do something different, right? I think enough time has passed and the urgency and we can do something different now, support the students in a different way now. So those are my comments. Thank you. Hello, Buenos noches. My name is Karina Moreno. I'm in my deepest condolences to you and your family for what you're going through and thank you for opening in that way. It was beautiful. But I'm also here to support and I'm not going to take up too much time because I want to support the students and the teachers and the parents who've come out again to ask you to include them in the conversation by agendizing the CRE program and having that conversation with them. I thank you guys for I think talking about it but allowing, you know and not violating the Brown Act and allowing them to be a part of the conversation, you know, and I don't think it's a violation of the Brown Act either to acknowledge their emails, respond to them and let them know what's going on and, you know, agendizing allow us all to be a part of that conversation. You know, I know it's your responsibility to represent these people and it is also your responsibility to look after their children and what it is that they're learning and I'm asking you, you know, before you send them off into the world let them have a chance to know where they come from, you know, and ground themselves in that way who do I represent, where do I come from and why is that important but again, I'm not going to take too much time we'll just have a good night. Thank you. I have following three Nancy Bilesich Sergio Medina and Austin Martin Good evening trustees and I just everything has already been said and I already turned in a card but I first would like to offer my personal condolences to you, Georgia for this tough situation but I did want to thank and appreciate PVFT and the district working together for that event this weekend it was truly amazing to see so many people working together to set it up and how long it took and PVFT was right there working and so was administration, teachers, everybody together and that collaboration was really nice to see and then of course this event, all the people that were so happy to get books so thank you for sponsoring it and making it happen that's it, thanks. Hello, my name is Sergio I am a student at Watsonville High School that is a part of the Ethnic Studies program and I want to say there is a lot of community members whole board members talking for me but this is a student talking to you so I hope this opinion matters even a hundred times more than what they're saying I've been a part of the Ethnic Studies program now for three years I've been for it since my sophomore year I am currently a senior and I just hope that the CRE contract that you guys don't want to renew because I'm a student that needs it if the teachers aren't being supportive you think we're being supported with this contract and I just hope that you know I'm a senior this isn't going to be my problem but this is going to be the next generation's problem and I don't want that I have a little brother here who's a student that if he's not getting the support with this the renewal of this contract you think I'm going to be okay with that and I won't be and that's it hello I'm a senior at Watsonville High School my name is Austin Martin and I like to come here and talk about the CRE program the Ethnic Studies program and bring it back I've been taking Ethnic Studies since my sophomore year so as a student taking and learning this class I confused onto why the students were not taking into consideration and the CRE program should come back as a student I've never seen an instance of bigotry or anti-semitism in the classroom guided by the CRE program all these accusations of anti-semitism and bigotry are based off the land there of Allison $16 ago who I love this Allison has wrote a letter to you explaining yourself with evidence and yet you still refuse to bring back the program based off prior claims we are all a collective with the same goal to bring education to students about Ethnic Studies I've been signed with over 17,000 signatures and 16 organizations in support to bring back the program with our own teachers who have come and spoken here at these very board meetings and still no honor to their request and now students like me have spoken in support of this program and still no discussion to bring back this program it makes no sense to me after all of this you still refuse to bring back the CRE program and bring support to our teachers I consider bringing back the CRE program not only for the students but for the teachers to grow my teacher Bobby Pell's the arc of the moral universe is long but it always bends forward to justice thank you alright next three Chris Webb Bill Beecher Nat Lowe my condolences to trustee Acosta if it wasn't for my mom I would not be here right now this evening also I want to thank trustee Holm Wilson that's like real important to me because I value due process I value due process when I opposed the dismissal of Dr. Rodriguez in spite of whatever disagreements I had with her I value due process when I have supported renaissance and their student progress monitoring system and the loss of that I feel like has hurt student due process and disciplinary matters so that's very important to me I also want to thank the community for taking the time to come and speak out and make PBSD as good as it could be I feel like that's more helpful than to ignore issues and wait for them to come up in some formal complaint so I hope that we can like actually hear things here and that way people don't have to do these other things but in there coming out people have said they asked a good question and I can't help but think of it as we discuss this all the time like who are we serving there was two people came I never recognize them they came and they had what I got to go to their temple because whatever temple it is they carry a lot of weight I'll go there maybe I can finally get a feel for renaissance and couple other things but it's it's just like I don't get who we're serving with some of this because I don't feel like the student should be first and everything we do also I want to thank PVFT and PVFT for working together to have a great event I did really think it was great I was great to see elected officials there including a current congressional candidate Lawrence Milan for Watsonville congressional district 18 it was good to see him and past board members current board members everyone on every level coming together that was awesome I hope we can continue to do that and partly because there's great things and we didn't get a chance to show them all off thank you good evening during the last board meeting on February 14th approximately 17 teachers parents and students requested orally and an item be reinstated for the ethnicity program CRE and it should be placed on a future agenda there was no response from the board that those requests needed to be done in writing and we're seeing that again tonight it's within your prove you to be able to tell these speakers they have to do it in writing you have it I can only conclude one of two things either the board was aware of the board policy that requests needed to be in writing or the board knew but chose not to advise the requesters of that requirement so the board would not have to consider those requests and either case shame on the board shame for not knowing their own board bylaws or shame for not informing those speakers that should be considered a dereliction of duty consequently I have amended my previous written request for an agenda item to amend the board bylaws to include notifying oral requesters that they need to provide a written request to the superintendent and you have that it's already gone to the agenda community I'm also presenting a written request to place on a future agenda the reinstatement of the ethnicity program CRE since none of people last time knew I'm doing it for them there's others that will do it tonight and while talking about the board bylaws that state the speakers be given three minutes for some time the board has informed speakers they only have two either change the bylaws which call for three don't throttle your people that you serve the bylaws provide for reducing the time if there are too many speakers follow your own bylaws or change it it is recommended that the board be given training on their own bylaws because as I look around you don't seem to know them thank you good evening board of trustees my name is Nat Low from Area 7 this is the fifth time I'm speaking here about the CRE contract and at this point I feel like I'm running out of things to say because it's been five months and we've said it all so I'm going to bring it back to why we are all here we are here for our students you've all received over 80 testimonies from students that Bobby helped send you for multiple meetings students have come up here on a school night in front of an intimidating number of adults to speak their truth and to advocate for what is important to them even when their voices are trembling and I am so proud of all of them every time a student comes out here to speak it makes a heart sing through your words and your actions and specifically how your actions do or don't align with your words you are teaching our students how systems of power work in ways that directly impact them you are teaching them how seven people in power against the overwhelming desires of the students, teachers parents and the broader community can deny them the ethnic studies education that they deserve based on false accusations from just two people you are teaching them what it feels like to be disempowered by the system of public education at the same time we who are showing up here month after month are collectively showing our students what it takes to challenge systems of power to speak up, to organize and to never give up and in some ways this is a practical education because ethnic studies as you recall was born because students organized took to the streets and challenged the people in power in their cases of learning to get the education that they deserve so I am asking the board what do you want to be teaching the students of UDUSU and does that align with the words and actions that you have shown how are you going to use the power that has been entrusted to you in this moment our students and our community are speaking to you please listen Alright next three what the floor is Takashi Mizuno Maximiliano Baraza trustee Acosta in sentido pésame I am so sorry for your loss I have talked before you about budget and accountability of EL learning during an ELAC meeting in November where the ELS was presenting the site principal interjected three flojos no quieren estudiar and other things lazy they don't want to learn this was not appropriate but let me refresh your memory during the fall EL classes were reduced in size from 8 to 12 to 20 students periods 1 through 5 no sooner said than done classes were being held in the auditorium in larger rooms where they were double up or triple up with other classes to cover absent teachers this continues as of today hence the nine EL students there were educational rights for edco last time I spoke to you I was telling you about how in the family our EL students were saying oh yeah the teachers are in Spanish faster than English but now the families having to address the bullying of one of our EL children I hope that you will address this situation thank you for your time good evening first of all miss Acosta and your family goshiyu-san goshiyu-sousama that means in Japanese last saturday I also attended to a joint gathering to honor late first Hashima he was one of the Japanese Americans he met when I started to come it was about 18 years ago and one of the first things which I learned from him was that Japanese were not welcome until Cabrio College was built and Yushi-san and I recently heard from one of Japanese Americans that one out of three students high school students at Washingtonville High School were Japanese Americans in 1930 and even in 1970 one out of ten students at Washingtonville High School they were Japanese Americans now how many Japanese Americans are in high school in Washingtonville one of the main reasons what you can guess what happened to Japanese Americans in Japanese during World War II all of the Japanese and Japanese Americans in Paharo Valley they were sent to Salinas first they stayed there for three months and then they were sent to Boston Arizona and I also recently heard from one of the latest Japanese Americans she is now 60 no, 1960 years old she still lives in Washingtonville and I learned from her indirectly her family came back to Washingtonville after they were released from the interment camp and they were farmers and they grow our letters but nobody in Washingtonville bought their letters so their letters were bought by a guy from Los Angeles that was the situation just after World War II in Washingtonville although there are some teachers in Washingtonville during World War II they helped Japanese Americans but after the World War that's the situation for Japanese Americans who came back from the camp base thank you Takashi time inspired thank you anyway this time I usually go to bed because it's time for me to go oh my thank you thank you good evening Board of Trustees my representative is Trustee Flores and I am from Area 5 by the way, so glad you can make it today Trustee Flores I'm confused about why this issue is not back on your agenda yet this is my third time speaking and others like Mr. Palp have been here over six times now why do you keep ignoring it why does my voice not matter to you you should know that the more you avoid us the more you motivate us to continue coming back you have grown in numbers and we will continue to do so I've gotten my friends interested I've gotten my teachers interested who by the way are also your constituents they may not be here now but trust me, they're watching and know who you are and as a reminder to you Trustee Flores, since you weren't here last meeting I want you to know that the next time you're up for the election I'll be of voting age and so all my friends they ask you for the third time that you add this issue back to the agenda thank you alright, next three Nourdes Barasa Gabriel Barasa Eli Davey James or Davey good to meet you I'm Dr. Barasa and I live in Area 5 I'm a constituent of Trustee Flores who thus far has done a poor job of representing her constituents unfortunately why am I here a third time because the board continues to ignore us people have come consistently I really don't know what you need in order to listen to the people two people came you guys jumped on it more than 50 people have come consistently and you ignore us why do those two people matter more than me that's what I'd like to know and who are you really serving are you serving those two people or the rest of the community I really don't know what you guys need to hear to understand how important this issue is and I just say you know in the beginning Trustee Acosta was talking about how she wants people to come how do you encourage that if you keep ignoring us that doesn't encourage involvement and so I am here to ask that you put CRE back for the third time and for some people here maybe the eighth and ninth time and I really hope that you're listening I hope that you guys can work as a team to come together and put it back because everybody here keeps asking for you to do this and I really do not understand why it's so hard to put it back what do you need to hear from us in order for you to understand how important this is so please put it back and stop ignoring us and not just those two people who came thank you good evening my name is Gabriel Baraza I live in area 5 and I actually want to thank Mr. Beecher for pointing this in the right direction because I did submit a written request within the guidelines of the board within a week of this meeting I submitted it to Mr. Schechtman thank you Mr. Schechtman for a very rapid response to the question to the board so again I ask what my wife asked I ask what my son asked why do we continue being ignored you know Mr. Takashi had a very moving very informational presentation about the treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II those things are not taught in school generally these are not things that people in our community which consists of Japanese people Filipinos Mexicans Mexican Americans people from Slavic countries all make a plot symbol each of us have a unique history and those histories are not taught because people want to keep ethnic studies from being a government the state of California has made it a requirement for people to be educated in ethnic studies ethnic studies goes against the dominant narratives in society and a lot of people get scared because that challenges their power you know you guys are representing the constituents that live in this community you guys need to take that into account we are majority people of color in this community and yet we have very little power very little political power but we will grow and we will remember your actions and your inaction thank you it struck me during the meeting two weeks ago how absurd it is that so many have spoken in support of CRE for nearly six months with zero change and yet all it took to kill the contract in new one September was two members of the public who provided no evidence or context to back up their accusations it is worth asking who benefits from this and how because it certainly is not the dozens of ethnic studies students who disagree with the actions and inaction of the board it is absurd to me that this board can present horror at the accusations made yet consistently refused to accept invitations to visit ethnic studies classrooms to talk to Allison refused the expertise of local ethnic studies professors who came here on their own time to educate them and refused to listen to their students and student trustee I also want to give a huge respect to the students who come here to advocate for their education for many of them this may be their first time public speaking and I applaud them for it even if it should not be necessary for them to fight so hard with the adults that hold the reins of their education look to the advocacy that has inspired the students to have taken these classes I asked the board to look at if they are serving the students or if they are serving themselves with projecting this K-4 for the Loved program alright last three and just a little clarification Judy Baker are you speaking under 6 because he wrote 10 on here so I just wanted to clarify okay you might as well come up with the next group as well then so Ixel Barasa Providence and Bobby Pelt I'm an 8th grader and I live in area 5 I'm an 8th grader and I'm here for the third time because you decided to ignore me once more by ignoring us you're discouraging me and other students who want to speak because we know our voices will be disregarded instead of listening to us we're constituent you decided to listen to the two conservative people with false claims of anti-Semitism why is it that their voice matters so much more than ours we, the students are being robbed of the significant opportunity aren't you on the board to work for the students and assure that we get the best possible education there isn't an excuse for us to get such a watered down version of ethnic studies I have heard multiple people including the people who have spoken at past board meetings how much ethnic studies mean to them and how much it has improved their view of the world by stopping progress we are taking that away from us I also want to remind Trustee Olivia Flores who is further disregarding our concerns that my brother and his friends will vote by the time of the re-election please add this back to the agenda and actually represent your constituents thank you good evening I'm here once again to speak on the CRE contract Vice President Soto the night that this board decided not to renew the CRE contract we made a motion to approve it you said and I quote we have a viable program that's already been in place and I don't feel that we need to disrupt it because of an opinion we are here mostly because of the opinion that President Acosta and Trustee D'Serfa opinion they formed without speaking to Allison themselves opinion they formed without talking to the teachers that actually worked with Allison opinion they formed without sitting in in our CRE PD session opinion they formed without observing an ethnic studies class in session an opinion they formed without asking the students we serve what their experiences have been that tells me that these opinions are just that opinion and they should not disrupt the progress of a viable program and yet here we are in the meantime folks have written and spoken up in support of Allison and CRE as a viable program myself and the ethnic studies teachers of your own district have supported CRE as a viable program experts and professors from UCSC have supported CRE as a viable program over 1700 people have supported CRE as a viable organization have supported CRE as a viable program students who have taken ethnic studies and their parents have supported CRE as a viable program when you have this many professionals and experts saying the same thing it's not an opinion it's a fact CRE is a viable program and yet here we are Vice President D'Serfa has been six months since you said those words this has gone on long enough right this wrong bring the CRE contact back thank you good evening trustees and the entire community my name is Providence and I'm a parent of two amazing PVUSD students but in the light of recent events I think there should be a review of our existing protocols for hiring, training and evaluating school principals we need to work strong so that we take and we ensure that our children are being led by individuals who prioritize the safety and the well-being of them when they're in school regarding accountability within our district we need to acknowledge the concerns raised about the leadership and oversight of our school principals what happened at Ye Hong and what's happening in all the schools with a lot of different principals is not okay and there needs to be something done about it a lot of kids are being affected by these principals who nobody holds accountable for their actions I also support renewing the contract the CRE contract and I think with all the people that are here today so I'm not going to repeat what everybody said but I think we should all learn to listen to each other and come to an agreement and like Soto mentioned earlier it's okay to disagree but it's also okay to talk about it and to come to a middle part an agreement and Acosta, I'm sorry for the loss of your mother I'm from Watsonville Charter School of the Arts and I didn't personally go to the PVUFT event this last weekend but five of our parents did and we gathered boxes of books for our mobile book library which is set to come out in May so we're hopefully teaming up with Live Like Cocos Foundation and getting a lot of support from them to create a library for the first time in our school, on our school campus we're Charter School and today I'm just trying to find out how to get more support from PVST to create a better playfield for our kids the track, all that is owned by PVST, it's currently in location for the sewer system for the school and it's not really something we can use to improve it because we don't have permission to so I wanted to find out how we might be able to get support from PVST to get funds and a plan because our parents are amazing fundraisers and we've been doing it for a long time and like I said we went to get lots of books for our mobile library so that we don't have to fund quite so much for filling it that's it, thank you thank you Ms. Baker thank you all to all of our public speakers now we will be moving on to item 7, employee organization comments now is the time that we hear from our employee organizations each one will have 5 minutes and we will start with 7.1 the Harrow Valley Federation of Teachers PVFT, do we have anyone here from PVFT to speak tonight good evening good evening trustees Mr. Shekman condolences President Acosta to you and your family I want to start off by thanking everybody who helped with this massive event 40,000 books is no joke my back hurts still but I want to say thank you to the coordinators and directors who sat down with us and they asked me what's your vision I really want to give a special thanks to Jen Bruno who was like if you partner with us that would be bigger and she came through because our vision was yes we're bringing books to the community and what a wonderful thing to get books people were walking out hundreds of dollars with our books for free and that's awesome but this is also the opportunity for our district to really showcase all the amazing things that we do here because we have incredible programs so with everyone's collaboration and we've had a really nice brainstorm meeting to plan it just was really cool to actually see it come together last Saturday teachers who teach had their students perform Esistema came and had two of their student groups perform these are programs in our school district we had a teacher read Mr. Schekman write a book and just to be able to see that alongside the literature one of the maestras read a book on Danza and then we had our political group dance so it was really a very special event and then the activities that were outside were just very cool the physics bus was awesome I wish I had more time to spend in there and so big thank you to our membership and CSEA because Watsonville High School they really showed up their people were there to clean to help us set up do a lot of heavy lifting so thank you to Joe Gregorio and his staff but the Watsonville High School student volunteers were just incredibly impressive some of those students were there Wednesday night Friday night late where I was like you need to make sure I want to make sure you're getting into your parents car so that you get home safe because we were there late and they were back early in the morning on Saturday to continue volunteering so it was just really wonderful to not only help create this opportunity this day but to see our students enjoy having that sense of purpose in giving to the community so that was really awesome so yeah anyways I was still kind of writing on that and I really do hope that is something that we can do again not 40,000 books big but it is something that I want to be able to do first book that is an organization that the American Federation of Teachers that's our union and they focus on providing low cost well reduced prices on amazing books you saw some of the titles and so our district being a title one district we qualify for purchasing books through first book at a discounted rate so that is also something that our teachers if they sign up through first book they can qualify to buy books that would normally be 20 some dollars for you know around 10 even under 10 dollars alright so I want to speak on ethnic studies as well because we are the American Federation of Teachers it's we're based on social justice this is something that you've heard me speak about for many years now but ethnic studies it can promote empathy that social justice and academic success I'm a Latina I'm a woman of color in this society and I stand in a space that it wasn't until recently that we see more women and women of color in leadership positions and a lot of times were questions but growing up in the 70s and 80s going through school I didn't see me in the content I didn't know that those were that was my space I thought where do I see a majority of the people of color doing the hard labor um so what ethnic studies does is it blows the dust off of archived historical contributions of the marginalized groups in our society and this program it helps students see themselves and each other as part of this narrative that we live here in the United States and as I mentioned last time I know that with the CRE contract it would be to help the administrators be trained that's important again our administrators are there to support us the teachers and the staff they're there to be the first line of communication for the parents when a parent has a question and they need to be trained they need to understand the importance of this curriculum it is something that is part of our state requirement why not be fully trained on it so we hope that you take that into consideration as you go back into the next agenda setting committee and put that back on the agenda thank you we also look forward to working with the trustees to organize a meeting with the new superintendent next is 7.2 california school employees association do we have anyone here from csa seeing none we'll move to 7.3 for harle valley association manager do we have anyone here to speak on behalf of california good evening board members good evening superintendent last one i can go so my name is katie christmas and i am the proud principal of the tohoto canther and the lakeview eagles so i'm here this evening to share a little bit about the work that i've had the honor and privilege to do this year being the principal of two schools in a unique situation with a tremendous amount of trauma and so i've just put together a little flyer here with a few bullet points about some of the things that have gone well so i'll start over here some of the opportunities that this unique situation has brought to us so some of the glows for our campus is here what is going well in our leadership capacity and through the support of district leadership and our directors we're really starting to integrate our positive behavior intervention systems along with our restorative practices to support our students in self-regulating their emotions and that's with the support of our district office student services department thank you dr. akras and also miss mclean i'd also like to acknowledge that through the collaboration with other district leaders we've increased the types of award achievement opportunities for our students so when you see pictured in this document is actually a pancake breakfast that we offered for our students who showed growth in math scores both in achievement and growth and so we had about a hundred and fifty students who were invited to claim the two campuses so there's still opportunities to grow for both schools but we also had family members offer to support us with that pancake breakfast ADA has increased despite Pajaro being transported into Lakeview we have actually seen increase in both school sites so that's been a success for us but we do know that we still need to focus on increasing our average daily attendance and then what I appreciate most and I wish we had more time to do though I do know the importance of opening Pajaro is we've been able to share best practices across site both instructionally, social emotionally and also with regards to behavior management systems so when I think about opportunities moving forward for the remainder of this year I really want to leverage the time to highlight the importance of our assessments so we've been looking at NWA math but our next step is to focus in on the task which is the state test and really try to make sure that our families, our students and our staff understand the importance of that with regards to measuring our ability to meet the state standards I'd also want to refine our behavior management system so we're still refining those despite seeing improvements and opportunities that students are taking to seek out adults, trusted adults including counselors and administration to report unsafe situations and so if I could advocate for anything moving forward on behalf of leadership it's to continue to be supported by our district office leaders in our capacity to support our teachers our classified staff, our students and our families and just to highlight how those are currently taking place thank you Michael Berman for bringing in the Family Engagement Institute to leaders that's giving me opportunities to collaborate with folks nationwide to integrate opportunities for our families our staff and our students and then I'd also like to highlight a need to focus on staff retention and certainly transportation has been impacted that does impact our our ability to make sure that our students are getting to campus on time ready to learn and then we are making up for that loss of learning and trying to do so within the year so I want to just thank you all honestly for giving me the time and space to share what's going well on our campus and I hope to come back to you all and share some of what has changed in preparation for the next school year. I hope you have a good evening. Thank you. Moving on to item 7.4 Communication Workers of America CWA, this is our substitute teachers do we have anybody here to speak on behalf? Seeing none we will move on to 8 our action items Action Item 8.1 Resolution Number 2324 25, Woman History's Month This report will be presented by our Superintendent, Mary Sheckerman Thank you President Acosta thanks for hanging in there everyone who's still here this is an important topic we move from Black History Month to Women's History Month but rather than we have the resolution up there but I'd like to highlight two women a little bit obscure at least the very first one so the first group I presented this to somebody who got on the computer really quick and was able to answer what it was so do you know who Mary where Dennis was alright excellent she was an artist a suffragist birth control reformer and an anti-war advocate she began her reform career at the National American Women's Suffrage Association where she served as a literature coordinator who wrote a number of influential essays for the movement in 1915 she founded the first birth control organization in the U.S. the National Birth Control League later named the Voluntary Parenthood I just thought it was appropriate to highlight somebody we probably don't know about and certainly in 1915 what some themes are relevant today she was the head of the game the other famous American woman in history is very contemporary in her achievements presently she is earning a 4.4 GPA relatively impacted the school culture and the people around her she's a leader and a top student in her school and is already serving on an important and influential board of trustees she will be more impacting after she attends Brown University so Ruby Romero Maya and Mary where Dennis are our women in history for our presentation tonight thank you Superintendent Shekman do we have any public speakers to decide we do not so none I'll bring it back to the board for a discussion any discussion on the board we'll take you back to home thank you Superintendent Shekman I just wanted to thank you for highlighting famous women famous women and I just think of that quote well-behaved women's ultimate history and oh yeah just making history and thank you I'll make a motion I'll second thank you Trustee Disgutza any other discussion or comments on the board yes Trustee Villano-Skow any other discussion or comments on the board our student Trustee would like to make a comment thank you Superintendent Shekman for this resolution and the honor I'd also like to mention or thank many of my heroes that are also my teachers that have greatly impacted my education and I can't think to know enough further support in everything thank you anyone else alright wonderful I have a first and a second any opposed any abstaining the motion carries 7-0 moving on to act on item 8.2 revised cross-description for the district perceptions this report will be presented by townshanks director of human resources good evening so if the light is on that means it's on okay thank you okay perfect good evening President Acosta board members and Superintendent Shekman my name is Pam Shanks director classified personnel the item brought before you tonight is a revised class description for district receptionist a presentation of the new district office lobby project was presented to the board in October after it opened in August of 2023 as with any new project there were logistics that needed to be ironed out we found a couple things one that keeping the position and purchasing wasn't really working since a good number of the visitors that come to the district office are here for human resources primarily student services, migrant seasonal head start and various other departments so when we looked at also at other districts and county offices we found that a district receptionist that was structured the way we were typically did report to the human resources office the primary duties of this position were written initially for the planning of the building to have a main lobby for visitors so there was a couple of changes needed in the class description one is removing the director of purchasing as the supervisor and instead changing it to an assigned administrator the position will report to HR and there's three different administrators in HR so she works with all three of us the removal of receiving sorting and distributing of incoming and outgoing mail that's also been a very difficult task for that position to complete so we've moved it to a different position which I'll talk about in a little bit so the revised class description was shared with CSEA and the incumbent in the position as well any questions regarding the job duties will continue to be discussed with the current incumbent as needed over time the revised class description was taken to the personnel commission on February 15th and approved the pay range will remain the same since there were not substantial changes to the job description so this evening I asked the board to approve the revised class description as presented thank you Ms. Shanks do we have any public speakers to decide on? no speakers I'll bring it back to the board for discussion make a motion to approve I have a motion to approve from trustee DeSerba is there any other discussion? is there any other discussion from the board? no it's the same title that's a different position I'll talk about next any other questions or comments from the board? I have a question you said that and I understand the structure of the three administrators I'm taking that means you as classified the director as indicated and then the assistant suit of HR those are the three administrators referring to this person reports to yes I just know from a business perspective when an employee has more than one director things get very confusing it gets very confusing for the employee it can get confusing for the admin it can get confusing for someone that's in their replacement on a sub basis it can get confusing for just other places in general so I'm that's very obscured me that you're saying this person has a direct report with three different people is that what I'm hearing you say or am I mishearing you? so what I would say is the position Brian correct me if I'm wrong about this but the position would report to the assistant superintendent but then for logistical things like covering scheduling things like that if she is taking vacation things like that one of the three of us might cover that piece of it so she just one of us will be a supervisor over her and evaluate her but depending on what the issue is in the logistic logistical piece of it we all may cover that piece of it I was going to say like so the assistant suit will assign one of the two directors to be her direct report so she won't have to report to all three of us and that way that person can manage her schedule because she's you know if she takes vacation we have to find coverage etc so it won't be that three different people are coming at her to you do this you do that so it would either be one of the two directors who would be the direct report and working with her and doing her evaluation and all of those types of things and that's kind of where I was going with that so I appreciate your elaboration but also inclusive of for time off for evaluation purposes and there will be one specific direct report I mean and obviously if let's just say that Ms. Shanks in her role and she's on vacation then it might have to role to somebody in the absence of she wasn't on a two week vacation or something or some other sort of leak right correct but I just want to make sure that there's clarity there because that right when I heard that that was just a lot of ambiguity for me and just from the business perspective I'm just saying that just doesn't work in the real world. Yeah and we don't want her reporting to three different people we all know that could be very confusing so it was me that she was reporting to I was working with her on all her stuff and since I've moved I'm still kind of doing that but eventually it'll probably be Susan or for because Susan's in that Susan Perez is the interim director of HR but right now I'm handling it since for the continuity's sake but then eventually when we have permanent people it will most likely be the the certificated person. Okay that's the one thing that was my thank you for the clarification from both of you okay so I have a first and I have a second is there any other discussion or thoughts or comments or comments from anyone else see none I'll call for a vote all those in favor. Aye all those opposed any abstaining thank you okay thank you I'm sorry I'm back up I'm so sorry okay item 8.3 new class description purchasing and warehouse assistance is reported to be presented by members of the HR director of the resources. Great thank you again president Acosta board members and superintendent checkman this item brought before you tonight is a new class description titled purchasing and warehouse assistant. I worked with Rich Ariano the director of purchasing on a variety of different duties that he was needing and there was a need to have a position in that department that encompasses a variety of job duties some of the duties will be shifted from the district receptionist as we talked about earlier and other duties are being established to support the work of the purchasing functions such as assisting with various purchasing duties driving delivery duties receiving and handling incoming and outgoing mail which is being moved from the district receptionist to this position reviewing orders purchase requisitions etc the personnel commission was presented this also on sorry February 15th and placed it on range 37 of the classified salary schedule and so I just asked the board tonight to approve this new class description and also the attached classified salary schedule is presented do we have any public speakers on this item we do not seeing none I'll bring it back to the board for discussion I'll make a motion to approve I have a first do I have a second or any other comments I just have a quick question can you see a CA signed off on this yes we did share it with the CA as well alright thank you a second so I have a first and second do I have any other comments for discussion from the board seeing none I'll call the vote all those in favor aye all those opposed any abstaining motion carries 7-0 thank you thank you moving on to item 8 port 4 approved memorandum of understanding between PBFT and PBUSD for the 2023-2024 summer school pay rates this report will be presented by our interim assistant superintendent of human resources thank you welcome good evening president Acosta my condolences on your loss and good evening vice president Soto board of trustees and interim superintendent Mr. Schechtman check out right this time PBFT and PBUSD is pleased to present this summer school MOU for our summer school rates it's exactly the same as last year we're going to be paying our teachers their hourly per diem for working in our expanded learning migrant or extended school year extended school year is our special education summer school the teachers will also have the opportunity to work additional hours to offer that nine hour day at $70 per hour however if you do choose to work those you must commit to work the hours during the day of summer school and commit to working the three weeks of summer school so we respectfully request your approval of this MOU thank you Mr. Schechtman do we have any public speakers on this no we do not alright see now I'll bring it back to the board for discussion I'll make a motion I have a motion from trustee Dr. Holm a second any other questions or comments from the board any other questions so this is the rate for the teachers and I know we also have we have preschool teachers etc doing work during the summer we have preschool classes but they have their own summer programs already going do they get they don't get any rating this is separate program okay any other questions from anyone else I do have a question that came up when you mentioned that this is the same rate as last year it's the same structure the $70 is the same rate obviously the rates have gone up because our salaries went up that was my question did it reflect that because I think we maybe had settled negotiations before the start of that summer correct correct so this is based off our most current salary schedule for their previous that pay increase correct my question so I have a person that could have any other discussion from the board comments being on a call for the vote all those in favor aye any opposed any abstaining motion carries 7-0 thank you very much okay and now we are moving on to do we have 8.5 8.5 the creative curriculum transitional sorry this report will be presented by our very own assistant superintendent elementary education thank you good evening president Acosta and board of trustees so what I'm doing is I'm bringing tonight the it's called the creative curriculum it's a proposed new curriculum for our transitional kindergarten classes and the reason that we're bringing this forward is because there are preschool learning foundations available on the CDE website however those are going to be updated this summer and then a release they've already started to share some of what the updates will be and so we want to make sure that we're choosing a developmentally appropriate curriculum for our transitional kinders that align with the new updates that are going to be out by the CDE the title of that new document is going to be the California preschool transitional kindergarten learning foundations PTKFL and some of the main reasons for their revisions was around looking at not just a new title but there's new domains in there the structure of language and literacy and how that's expected to be taught new age labels increased alignment to kindergarten common core there's added teacher support sections in there and then also an emphasis on diversity equity and inclusion so when we're looking at that new domain that's in there it's mostly focused on the approaches to learning and you'll see on the left side of the screen where it's addressing actually the curiosity interest and initiative, engagement, perseverance, working memory, inhibitory control, flexibility, problem solving planning and collaborating with others those are skills that we're seeing some of our kinders struggling with because we haven't really carved out that time appropriately for RTKs to build those skills prior to going into kindergarten so with this new curriculum it does actually allow us for more structured teaching around these skills that our TKs need before going to kindergarten it also aligns with the assessment the desired results developmental profile and also the head start early outcomes framework so the cool with this is everything is going to be aligned so with this curriculum it would be used beginning in the fall in all of our TK classrooms it is available in English and in Spanish it meets the UPK curriculum checklist and it has a lot of hands-on learning activities for our students a lot of project based learning for them we would be able to provide teacher training for them with the company as well and then it would also offer alignment for all of our programs zero to five years old because we do actually have our preschools are using this curriculum so this would just be the TK version of that same piece just to give you an idea of what's included in it there are actually three components to it there's the content, context and instructional strategies and you can see on the tree on the left-hand side there the different areas that are included across those three components and then just across the school year these would be the units that students would be able to experience the very first one is about six weeks long it's about really building that classroom community and then the very last one is getting ready for kindergarten it's also about six weeks long the other units are roughly about four weeks they are interchangeable in order so teachers would have the ability to rearrange that order based on what they would want to do for alignment for their students and things like that maybe to align with activities at the site but we would have to have the community building one and then the getting ready for kindergarten they would definitely have to stay at the beginning and the end so another big reason why we want to do this shift is because using this curriculum is also going to allow us to really focus in on that much needed social-emotional learning piece for our students at the TK level so we would be able to address problems like identity, emotional intelligence modeling emotion regulation and co-regulation social problem solving skills and then learning about what empathy and caring are because we know four year olds need some help with that so what we're doing is we're asking for approval to adopt the creative curriculum as our core material for TK beginning in fall of 2024 thank you do you have any perfect speakers to this item yes we do, we have one do the fakery again so my daughter is at Starlight at the TK there and I volunteer every Thursday even if I have one sick I make sure I get it covered so I'm there every Thursday and in the classroom and from my understanding TK is still pretty new like the first TK students that haven't graduated high school so they're still learning what this is TK for me is very much preschool and I think I know our teacher even with me there she needs way more support in the classroom to be able to teach the curriculum that's awesome, I have no objections to to teach the curriculum that's there and also while the support staff is there to focus in on those social-emotional needs of the students I think for my daughter you know more importantly than she's doing amazing she came from a strong preschool background two years at the Watsonville Adult Ed so at the Watsonville Cooperative Preschool and and I think more importantly for her and for the other kids not so much learning like your memorizing ABC's but it's really learning how to flex discipline and muscles in the classroom and everywhere Thank you Thank you I will bring it back to the board now for discussion and comments from the board Any questions or comments from the board Yes, Trustee Bellano-Ska I'm sorry, say the first part Trustee Bellano-Ska I know it does, you can't hear it but if you could still turn on your mic Oh, I just want to make sure our YouTube channel is hearing you on repeat That's okay The next one, yes So they are still actually addressing language arts, they're addressing math, science social studies topics they are still addressing all of those pieces but most of it's done through project based The other piece to add to this whole thing is we are going to be doing a restructure of what TK looks like across the school year Currently it basically looks like a kinder-like classroom which isn't necessarily appropriate to their developmental age So the switch along with this curriculum would be that the first half of the year if you were to walk into the room it would look a lot more like a preschool classroom physically than it would a traditional kinder class That's not saying that there isn't any learning going on but the emphasis the primary emphasis at the beginning is still getting the social-emotional piece and building community, building relationships What does it mean to be in a classroom at this age Once they come back from winter break, then the classroom looks more like a kinder classroom So when we're talking about teaching whole group, small group independent time, partner time all of those things are really being established in that first semester so that when we do make that flip and there's still social-emotional going on in the second semester but now we're shifting more towards the academic piece as they transition out we've got those skills built in and then we just layer on top of those for the rest of the year before they go to come back Thank you Any other I was going to make a motion quickly I'll just make a motion I'll make a motion Any other questions if you're expecting to see now My question was in regards to having enough support system there So that is one of the things that we're aligning right now Usually IA support in all of our classrooms sometimes there might be an IA that's out and so the site has to readjust and provide coverage but for the coming year for sure we're having more support in our TK classrooms than we are this year So there's a ratio of adult to student and once we hit that ratio we have to have two people in the room for the whole time that the students are in the room And what is the ratio for adult to student Currently it's 1 to 12 and I think 1 to 10 starting in the fall So it's currently 1 to 12 I'm I'm sorry 1 to 12 and 1 to 10 So we were working off of 1 to 12 at one point but we are making that shift to go 1 to 10 So if a classroom has It looks like it's 1 to 12 on paper but in actuality it's 1 to 10 Is that how I should understand that But the number of times the amount of minutes that we have the second person in the room Next year I'm sorry It's 1 to 10 So But currently it's not necessarily for the full time So next year they will have a second person full time in the room And that was going to be my second question What is the time span? It's the whole time Any time that there's more than 10 It depends on the site So next year we have four more sites going full day So this coming year we have two TK sites that are not full day and that is Bradley and Starlight And those are what, like four hours? Yeah, they're about about four hours, not more than that Kind of like what most of us think back to the traditional kindergarten model And then the full day model is It's a full regular day like Kinder in first grade and all those other ones So it's like kids are usually in school about six hours And so you're saying the 1 to 10 Now for a portion of that time that you're looking to What do you mean by a portion of that time? So if it's like a six hour program the portion is for half to two hours we have to get a second person So the full day the current full day sites actually have somebody there the whole time The ones that are not So the six that are currently not full day don't have the person there longer than I think it's a 3.75 because it's a lower amount So now that they're expanding out to the full day they'll have the person in there as long as there's over 10 students in the room then they have a second person in the room with them that entire time And is this a volunteer as an parent? No, it's a paid instructional assistant It's a paid instructor So we will for sure have that support if it's over again how many hours once it reaches over the full day kinder is it the six hours like the rest of the school would be? And once it reaches how many hours they have to have someone full time It's the number of students so over 10 So if they have 10 So even if it's 8am to 4pm at 8am if it's 12 students they have the full time instructional assistant throughout the whole day, is that what you're saying? Yeah, there'd be like maybe a 15 minute difference or something like that But yeah, okay, that's something I'm sorry for the question That's okay, that's why I'm here Anyone else? I have a first and a second Anyone else have any approach or comments or anything? I'll call for a vote All those in favor? Aye Any opposed? Any abstain? Thank you And then our next item is 8.6 Comprehensive School Safety Plan This report will be presented by our own Dr. Ivan Alcaraz Director of Student Services Good evening President Acosta Board of Trustees and Interim Superintendent Marie Shekman I'm Dr. Ivan Alcaraz, the Director of Student Services And yes, today we'll be talking about our School Comprehensive Safety Plan This is kind of an annual presentation to the Board as an action item So I'm going to go through a little bit of just a timeline as to where it begins and up to now and I'll talk a little bit about the different parts of each of Part 1 and Part 2 of the Comprehensive Safety Plan So I know that the date there for California Education Code says that we should have this plan approved by March 1st, but it does generally begin the process in September So normally at the beginning of the school year we meet with our school administrators to begin the process of identifying sites, team members who are going to be contributing and looking at the Comprehensive School Safety Plan and all the components associated with the plan And so throughout the year they're meeting with these team members to look at their school plans and to make adjustments and alterations as needed Beginning in the month of January Student Services Department does offer office hours to the site administration and the teams to be able to consult to be able to review the plans with them and then offer any suggestions or alterations that may be needed to the school plan. In some cases some of us including myself have gone out to the sites to do some walkthroughs with the administration and the teams to review their plans with them And then we come together in the month of February at the beginning with law enforcement to look at these plans as well So we typically work with our Santa Cruz County office to look at the Santa Cruz County area Comprehensive Safety Plans of the Police Department and then for the Monterey County areas we do work with the Fire Department Chief Mendoza from Monterey County as well And so with that being said we come to this board meeting to present to you the Comprehensive Safety Plans You'll notice that there are two parts to the Comprehensive Safety Plan Part 1 really focuses on site and district policies as well as culture and climate indicators So you'll notice on Part 1 we look at there's suspension and expulsion data that the site is reporting They may be utilizing some of the other indicators like our California Health and Kids Surveys Maybe they're pulling data from our U-Truth Survey data to provide some context in terms of their culture and climate as well In Part 1 you'll also notice that there is their drill so when they're scheduled to have their drills or fire drill, evacuation drills for earthquake, shelter in place as well as some of the other ones that we do normally were like Alice and threat assessments as well In addition there are a couple of other things in there like dress code for example is part of that Part 1 as well as some of the bullying prevention policies and procedures some of the PBIS initiatives some of the restorative practices that they're embarking at the school site All of that lives in Part 1 Part 1 is public document upon approval from the school board All sites will be posting that to their front page so that folks in the community can also continue to review that I know we do have approval but this is an ongoing kind of live document as staff changes and things change in our system we might have to go back and make those adjustments but there is that timeline where the board has to approve it by March 1 Upon approval we do send all of our comprehensive school safety plans to county office of education so we work with our partners at COE to also review those plans as well Part 2 is actually a confidential component because it does focus on our emergency plans our evacuation maps, it has roles and responsibilities the staff that support in critical incidents for example so that is a non-public document that does not get posted and it's an internal document for review and feedback for the sites so that one will not get posted but it does include a lot of our response and emergency plans so posting that would actually jeopardize us if we did something like that like that I kindly request that the board approve our comprehensive school safety plans Do we have any public students inside? No we do not I will bring it back to the board for discussion, questions and comments If you have any questions Thank you Dr. Ivan Lankaras for putting this together I know safety and security is a big concern I know especially in my area and I also just like to thank the SRO officer CJ Johnson at Watsonville High I know he cares a lot for Watsonville High and as well as Minnie White and Radcliffe he tries his best to do pass-by's along the school he's the eyes and ears for the safety and security of Watsonville High School and he's quick to take the lead sometimes when there's a perceived thought at Watsonville High I've seen him personally take the lead making sure all the accents at Watsonville High are secure he's quick to call Watsonville PD and know what the threat could be possibly and another thing people sometimes don't seem to understand yes he's the SRO officer at Watsonville High but I've seen people talk to him directly about how they feel I've seen him work closely with the mental health clinician and he's just he's there for the students they're really happy to talk to him they trust him and I just want to say thank you C.J. Johnson and thank you and everybody who put this report together thank you thank you trustee Dr. Junior trustee Belano-Scow yeah so we're always in ongoing conversations with our partners right with Watsonville Police Department so we actually have a meeting tomorrow with captain to further discuss plans on how to find coverage and potentially find alternative plans for that SRO and mental health clinician but at this current moment in time staffing seems to continue to be an issue as well for our partners at Watsonville Police Department and they have not been able to fill that position so we're going to be engaging tomorrow in a dialogue about potential other options that may be available to us at this moment in time trustee Shekman superintendant Shekman I'll give it together tonight on time well it's okay over the course of this year Officer Samora and I have had discussions with Dr. Alkaras saying it's the sad truth that there are at least six now sure we looked at other alternatives and really haven't found anything or anybody to step to the place there was discussion of that and we're very open to it I don't personally believe and I talked to the principal about it and Brian will bring this they're all males on that campus and we've got to bring that role and we can't advertise for a female we can't advertise and hope no I don't think so we've been exploring different options and have not been successful yeah so I will add to the PBI component we also have been working with our probation department as well so we do have a student success program as well partnership between a case manager and a probation officer to provide some level of support for and you know address some of the needs there in terms of the in-house suspension typically that's an administrator who takes to lead on supervising generally speaking in the office they collect work from the classroom they're out of the classroom but in the school setting to continue learning inside the office yeah generally speaking yes there are some times where they may seek the support from another staff member on campus if they need to step out for a reason but generally speaking it's the administrator who takes to lead on that supervision for that student yeah we do encourage in-house suspension as one of the alternatives to out-of-school suspension however you've noted that there are sometimes where that's not possible and it also really highly depends on the incident right so there are sometimes where suspension is needed to create that distance and separation in that moment of reflection sometimes cannot happen inside the office and may have to happen outside of that so whenever possible our sites do explore the option of in-house suspension we do so I regularly meet with our assistant principals or administrators who oversee discipline at their campuses so we generally cover these areas in terms of what is the response and communication that should go out during a suspension typically during a suspension there is a notification or email that gets sent to the students teachers indicating the suspension and the ad code violation that was that cost or that led to that suspension in a number of days of our suspension with the return date as well there's also within our student information system there is a print out form for our suspension form that typically gets printed out and part of that conferencing with the guardian there is a conversation in the notice of suspension that is issued at that time to the guardians so I would normally a teacher may be preoccupied with the class and teaching the class what some staff members do is they do request a student to step out of the classroom for some time for just to be able to get the class going and then they may be able to have that dialogue and conversation with the student other staff members may not be able to do that at that moment in time they may refer the student to the office for an office referral and then follow up with that phone call or for a conversation at the end of the day or at the end of the period when possible we actually encourage the staff if there's an issue in the classroom to work with the family to be able to create a positive conversation out of that incident I can't imagine any other philosophy other than to encourage teachers to contact even with small problems I can't always because as Ivan has indicated I have 30 plus kids I do want to add a little history of before Dr. Alcarazzo was in this position there were schools that did have teachers doing suspension centers the one at Watsonville High was a lose, lose proposition and the superintendent at that time made sure it closed we had a program that I thought was pretty successful right when I left in 2015 we had a teacher who was trained in a program the 7 thank you so much I need no and if a kid was caught smoking powder in possession of a small amount of marijuana the family could agree to waive the suspension and participate in that program the kid wouldn't be in classes and the teacher was really well trained to provide the kind of thinking that and reflection that Ivan was talking about that's not able to be done in an office I'm not sure why it went away perhaps the numbers won't weigh down I don't think so that seems like a very specific case for that school site I would encourage the staff member to work with the site administration I'm happy to later connect with superintendent Murray about some specific concerns that you may have but it sounds like it might be just a messy situation that you know I'm gonna have to interject here and just say I want to be very cautious of providing identifiers there's multiple identifiers given to this situation already and our students have federal protection rights so if we could wing the conversation away from specifics and keep them much more general I'll honor that but in this space I can't honor there's too many specifiers there sorry so one difference when a student has a learning disability is the team attempting to identify whether the behavior is a manifestation of the learning disability that is just one difference in that scenario but all education codes or suspension apply to students even when there is a learning disability yeah and I just encourage you to follow up with superintendent Shekman on any specifics please I didn't want to discourage you from that just not in this space I'm sorry oh sure yes trustee floris did you have some comments or questions yes so I just wanted to thank you for this and our kids feeling safe on campuses for many of us and I know the word around the community is how the program with the SRO is going so great at Watson and Hyde that's all I hear is that they love it and I hear about the students and interacting with them and engaging with them I think it's wonderful and I think our other competent high schools are carrying this unfortunately I hope the meeting tomorrow goes great I hope we can get someone out there for PV because not only do we want to have their campus be safe but we also want them to have that that cultured also and that relationship with someone who can help to uplift them and I know at Paws High my son attends there I don't hear the same type of culture with their SRO as I do at Watsonville so hopefully we can maybe try to push out the SRO a little more in that direction but I know it's the PV version of the sheriff but I just I love to hear from so many people in our community how they love how much how engaging he is with our students so I'd like to see if maybe we can try to encourage that a little more at Paws High and get PV high one as well and that's President Soka Thank you Thank you for the information Just a question can amendments be made to this plan post approval? The answer to that is yes and like I mentioned it sometimes because some of these parts of the plan have individuals designated as leaders of a certain portion of the plan so when staffing changes or things change whatever happens we do end up backing making those adjustments so that they're current right so whenever someone reviews it and it's needed at that moment in time we can take a look at more current That leads me to my next point so I had a lieutenant from the Sanctuary Sheriff's office contacting me and he feels that the Alice plan is antiquated and is not compatible with the rest of the county which is what they work with with other districts so I'm supposing you're the point of contact or something like that so I'm going to reach out to him and try to get a line of communication going so that we can see what we can do to change that plan he sounded generally concerned over the fact that Alice it is a functional system but it's not compatible with the county as opposed to the other districts should an incident occur I mean it will work we have it internally but there's a level of communication that's missing from other emergency services since they're not connected to that I know that we've been in conversations with the county office of who's now making adjustments to their active shooter and critical incident response they were in what used to be a very antiquated protocol for response so last year is when they were engaging in dialogue and a new protocol was in place with the Santa Cruz Sheriff's Department I want to remind the board that there was a huge investment with our Alice protocol and we've been doing that for about now four or five years and now we're at a point where we're actually training students and getting back in students hand so shifting to a different protocol would require us to restart the process let's open that line of communication see what it's going to take if something does need to be amended or implemented so that we're in compliance and fall in line with the rest of the county so that I forbid something major or there's going to be holes in the communication lines and emergency aspect of it then do we collaborate with Monterey County and the SRO over there for their specific since we have Pajaro Hall and Aloni on the Monterey County side no what we've been routed for our comprehensive safety plan has been the fire department chief Mendoza as the individual who's bringing us through the review our comprehensive safety plan so we have no involvement with the sheriff's office usually it's dispatch when we need them and not necessarily but for our comprehensive safety plans it's chief Mendoza from the fire department so that'll be another aspect we'll have to get in touch with and try to implement as well I'm going to add one thing in with the ALIS is that just to remind that the ALIS protocol is for our for PVUSD district employees and students it is what we do until law enforcement gets there the moment law enforcement gets there they 100% take over it's the process that we use to stay safe in that time being and the average response time is 5 to 8 minutes so that's what we do until law enforcement gets there but we will definitely start the conversation I've spoken to several lieutenants retired lieutenant people that I know over there they kind of had a little difference of opinion on that but we'll get that communication going thank you when we have issues or problems and we call dispatch the SO from Monterey County does respond my cousin was the chief deputy not the chief what do you call it the chief like the head guy the sheriff he was the sheriff and I actually talked to him Steve Bernal so I had talked to him about could they staff our SRO because we had asked our sheriff and he could not staff it Watsonville couldn't staff it so I thought well what the heck they could not staff it but that was last year so I don't know but I think are like we have a hard time recruiting and retaining teachers so does law enforcement because the cost of living there is so high it's a workforce issue so we have no SRO at PD High in its place we had had probation professionals helping us with kids are those people still I know that was a big grant that had still in existence with our student success program as we call it with that probation officer and then even though we don't have an SRO at PD High we do have the mental health clinician that is paired with that SRO to continue to provide that level of care for students who are we do have the mental health clinician in place and then we still have the probation professional on campus too to keep an eye on the kids that are on probation that's great so on the safety plan like really click on any of those areas to see actually what the protocols are is that correct so on part one which is public you can see all of the sections of the part one part two is not public that's why it's not in there so you will not you're not able to see the part two which is generally speaking our response to emergencies you probably said that already I'm sorry to interrupt I'm referring to compliance where it says like what I was interested in seeing is protocols to address mental health care of people is that something that I cannot click on to see there is it's a PDF file that was downloaded so maybe you start scrolling down all the way you might pull that section that has that okay I just I'm seeing it in the presentation so I'll take a look later thank you for that um I think that might be it when I first came to the district we didn't have protocols across all schools so that each principle even if they were brand new they were sort of interpreting how to be disciplined a little differently and so we had as a result tons and tons of suspensions and explosions and we worked on that really hard and so you feel like like the training for our new principles and what we're doing in all the schools is equitable across the district at this point yeah over the last couple of years we've been collaborating with human resources and other district leaders and departments to do more onboarding for our new administrators when they get hired part of that if they are responsible for student discipline or student services departments at the high school levels for example we do cover those pieces with them to ensure that there is some level of understanding in common practice as we address discipline so can we always do more absolutely I think that's been always an ongoing thing of myself I you know want to be a reach to all of our side administrators and I am just a phone call away if they're having some tough situations happening at their school site so I'm in consultation with them all the time about specific issues so that I can provide that guidance when they're not feeling 100% sure about what's going on and then my last comment is just that one day I was in Houston for a conference and I was driving around and I came upon a motorcade of school district police officers like they have their own police forces in Texas and it was shocking to me I was like wow that's a thing so we have a big district I don't know I mean what do other big districts do in the state you don't have to answer this now but I maybe like to hear about it later a district our size do we ever have our own little law enforcement situation anyway no answer needed we'll spend another hour talking about police on campus thank you trustee disperper I just asked superintendent checkman to put that in our agenda so it could be a future topic to bring up so before I want cold emergency do you have any questions, comments or anything not trying to put you on the spot but I'm realizing that you and I are really too unspoken because I do before she's feeling hurt so I heard lots of really great comments from everyone tonight up here and really appreciative of that and I couldn't trust you before I said it I mean she spoke on behalf of the board and I'd say that also for all of you as administrators and our teachers and staff I mean nobody cares more about the actual physical safety and well-being of our students and our staff and our faculty on a daily basis numerous of us have been I think probably getting the same emails because people don't do the BCC right on concerns particularly centered around PB High School right and that is really concerning and a lot of those concerns are coming from our own employees teachers are classified employees and that's really concerning I do want to echo what Trustee Dodge Jr said and Trustee Flores said heard we missed getting to meet the CJ the day Superintendent Checkman and I did our tour there at Watsonville High School we've heard phenomenal things about him I am not surprised also under the leadership of their so but also the continued echo concerns about PB High School and it just can't be brushed off but I also last night I watched the Watsonville City Council meeting and they have a very packed agenda including a lot about their financials and budgets and one particular a few centered of course around fire PD and she's tomorrow is up there speaking so it'd be like some great review before you go meeting tomorrow but with speaking to this and they he very much so wants to get an SR up at PD High School that helps their budget with the Watsonville PD so it's not it really I want just the community as a whole and I think most of us at Peer Logic would give it's not try at all I mean it helps them and assist them with their budget which overall helps our community none of us are an island and for ourselves so there's a greater issue I think what trust is a surfacer that that sounds like a phenomenal idea if I mean if that's in the direction we're able to move in I mean we're one of the largest school districts in the state the largest in the region and we've been on a platform to be a leader for many things in the state but in the nation so that's where we can you know get that somewhere on the line but I just really also want to make sure everyone knows that it's it's not for a lack of fire I mean it's it's the same area we suffer and trying to get talent and teachers and I think it's the same struggle they're suffering both in the PD and the fire department so I just wanted to echo that because I didn't have that because I don't know nothing better to do last night 11 o'clock at night I don't know I'm weird but um so if you don't have nobody else has anything to add I do not have a first so I'm going to have to call for a first to make a motion to approve the surfacan thank you trustee to surfacan and thank you trustee for the second so I have a first and a second all those in favor aye any opposed any abstaining all right the thank you and thank you so much for your time I was gonna cost I thought we could squeeze one more in but I feel you I know where you're going and my only thing I'm going to ask you is to recognize how many items we have left to go back to closed session before you make your motion exactly so I recognize just to give us doesn't even have to go that full time but please give us recognizing that we still have two report items and we still have to go back in the closed session I was going to make a motion to extend our meeting to 12.30 thank you as much as you know I don't like that yeah nobody wants to go home again bed before midnight so I have a first for the trustee home I think the second is oh trustee to surfacan so I have a first and a second to extend our meeting till 12.30 all those in favor all those opposed you do not get a vote Marie any abstaining so the vote carries 7-0 so our meeting is now extended till 12.30 and lucky you, you get to go home before that our next item 9.1 8.2 board policy 615 8.4 independent study this is our first read and this report will be presented by none other than our executive director of teaching and learning Ms. Katie Q good evening president Acosta interim superintendent our trustees and cabinet thank you so much and the good news is that I majored in clarity and I minored in brevity so watch out here we go so tonight I'm bringing to you tonight our first read proposed changes to our board policy 6158 regarding independent study the reason for this proposed change which you saw in the little description in the packet we haven't had an update to our board policy for many years and assembly bills over the last few years have made substantive changes to existing education code regarding independent studies and districts including ours began implementing those in 22-23 school year so some of the language adjustments that are included in the education code its language adjustments clarifications definitions and then of course some updates to the code itself specific some of those updates are specific guidelines for a short term which is less than 15 days and long term more than 15 days independent study for students the new ed code creates provisions for districts to help address chronic absenteeism through re-engagement strategies and the policy also provides specific guidance regarding the claiming of apportionment for traditional independent study ADA for apportionment is based on the time value of student work products and it's a combination of the time value of the work product and participation in synchronous instruction so much has changed over the last many years in the world of independent studies since PVSD has updated its policy including education code and so we worked collaboratively with the school board association to take their recommendations for an update for our independent study which is what was attached in the board doc that you have before you are current board policy and then the proposed change Any questions? Do we have any public speakers to the signer? We do not All right, seeing that I will bring it back to the board Any questions? Comments? Major and a minor Okay So this is just a report I do have a question So this is an independent study Does this pertain as well to our independent and dependent charter school? Or is this just for the charter as known for their independent study program they are a dependent charter school Can you just elaborate on that because we have three now independent I believe and then the rest are dependent at least So our board policy pertains to all schools and so the board policy will pertain to any of our schools So it would include our dependent charter schools, right? Yes But not necessarily our independent Right, so this is based on California education code and they still have to follow California education code Thank you Anyone else? No, I'll make a motion first We don't need a motion It will come back at a regular Thank you, Peggy Thank you so much I'm looking forward to helping elaborate Then moving to item 9.2 Our 2023-2024 LCAP mid-year update This report will be presented by none other than our superintendent of Secondary Education This does occur Good evening, President Costas Good evening, President Costas Board of trustees Interim Superintendent Mr. Shepman, we're still here This evening I am presenting the Update report it's reminder our LCAP. We write the LCAP to improve outcomes for our students. We have actions outcomes and metrics So this past year in 2023, there's a new Senate bill that provided that all LEAs must provide an update to the LCAP and by honor before February 28th 2024 we got it in and This is the third year of a three-year LCAP. So this started in 2021. This is our last year of this So as a reminder, we do have nine LCAP goals The first one being the increasing the number of students who are from TK 12 students performing at or above grade level Second one is with our CTE offerings and designs third ones visual and performing arts The fourth one staffing materials and facilities the fifth one being the English language learner proficiency Sixth is school culture and student connectedness seventh is family engagement The eighth is with students with disabilities and the ninth is with our focus on our foster youth So one of the things that we have that we show is our budget the amount of funds that we receive from the state when we adopted the LCAP in June which would also came with the adoption of our budget The state hadn't finalized their budget. So there is a change to the the dollar amount that we did receive in our LCFF So the process for the mid-year funding is that we need to look at the Outcomes of our students at this point. We need to look at the expenditures that we have done and also the different Metrics so one of the things that we wanted to look at the sum of our metrics This is using our NWA math assessment on the screen. This is for math. What you'll notice is the Blue line to be far right is where we are as of this point with this. So this was actually in January so halfway through the school year the Bar that's on the four far left of each of this sections the green bar represents 2018-2019 I just wanted it as a reference point of where we were before we went to pandemic the middle bar Right the light green is where we were last year at the end of the school year So this is percent of students making one year of academic growth or more So as you can see this year, we've had great growth in our math and We still have time to increase this percentage by the five years For reading we do see a similar trend where The growth that students the percent of students making one year's growth or more in reading is outperforming what we did Last year at the end of the school year And so once again, it's the blue bar that is for this year for the mid-year If we look at the students performing at or above grade level This is for our eighth grade students in math. This is one of the things that we look at the bottom bar is 2018-19 before the pandemic the middle bar is where we were at the end of the school year last year and the top bar Is where we are now the top bar is the percent which still can increase by the end of the school year We look at reading inside our LCAP. We look at third fifth and eighth grade reading for our students And this is for a percent of students at or above grade level and reading once again on the far left 2018-19 the middle bar is where we were at the end of the school last year and the Light blue bar is where we are currently if it's the half of the year One thing I wanted to note the eighth grade our current students that are in eighth grade They had not received the SIP's Instruction that we do now with our science of reading and so this our cohort our current sixth graders are our group of students who went through the SIP's Science of reading instruction And so if we look the third grade we still have time that we will surpass last year's Student percent of students that are reading at or above grade level in third grade However, we look at school attendance rate. You'll see that we are moving in the right direction We're not close. Well, we're close to where we were pre-pandemic But as you can see we are trending in the positive direction for our students who are attending school and Conversely chronically truant students We are also trending in the correct way where we have less percentage of students who are identified as chronically truant The stars are where we said that we wanted to be at the end of the three year. The LCAP was written right And during the pandemic because then it came out of it, so We had we will get there Another part of it is looking at the metrics met These are some of the things that were hundred percent done completed We met the goal that we set out to do the outcome So Expulsion rates seven out of seven subgroups the expulsion rates are lower than lower than what we had said Last year they were lower than what we wanted them to be at our three-year outcome and currently this year They're lower than what they were last year Certificate staffing as you know, we actually had positive this year with certificate staffing in the classroom Implementation of purchasing practices for solvent fiscal Practices the number of school-wide family engagement that we've held on every single school site So the family engagement center family engagement department has done an extremely great job in Offering helping school sites to really develop their plans And so we've already met that goal and that's increased all three years The percent of preschool students ready for kindergarten. We've met that goal And then a lot of some other ones For a second semester we have a focus based on looking at Where we are right now our second semester focus of where we are right now Identify which schools are not meeting the target that we've set for students having at least one year's growth in reading And then it helped to implement a plan the multi-tiered systems of support the training and the implementation Continuing to do this to help Support each student so that they receive the services that they need Attendance and engagement to continually increase our number of students that are attending school Recruitment and support for highly highly qualified classified and certificated staff so we can start next year on another Positive note Evaluation of instructional curriculum and programs what we have in place is it working this year? There were some items that we did Take off the plate because we didn't see that it was working We weren't going to put that extra stress on our staff That's on with our students and then the last thing is work with school sites to build out master schedules This is at all levels elementary middle and high to allow for equal and equitable access for foster youth English learners and So in the next steps, we have the youth truth survey that just closed we have to disaggregate the data The end of the year results for Sony to grow disaggregate the data see what we do Enhance the family engagement plans continue to find professional development for individual choice and accountability This is for our certificated staff to make sure that everybody has a voice in what we do Continue to work with the LCAP advisory committee to develop the new three-year LCAP plan and then hold the public meeting on June 12 For the new LCAP plan and then approval on June 26 2024 we do have some schools that will be in the new LCAP plan that our CSI eligible, which means that they had three Areas in red and there for different reasons whether it was for attendance that their attendance rates suspension rates Whether it was for EL progress for English language arts or math These are the schools that are listed here on the side They will be included in our new LCAP plan to make sure that we are Supporting and with the results that we're seeing now. I'm sure that next year Some of these schools will be taken off the CSI list And that is the end of the mid-year report. Thank you Which one So we had a metric regarding expulsion rates and Yes, so what at the beginning when it was first written we looked at our expulsion rate We identified a goal an outcome of what we wanted with our metric to be at the end of the three years That percentage and I can pull up it's in my binder that percentage what it is at the end of last year We were under that expulsion rate that we wanted and this year We are lower and what it is and what we do is we build it out We have listed the subgroups of our students and so all seven of the seven subgroups that we have listed in the LCAP plan met that metric where the expulsion rate is under what we wanted it to be This is for students reading out or above grade level And that was the last year that we had three We had three periods of assessment results Because the following year Yes It does look and we are trending of the eighth grade and we said that's the cohort that didn't get yes And they were in fifth grade Doing at home during that the year that we were online and in fourth grade. They left. Yeah Okay, so that is the year but we still have we we are set to outperform what we did last year Do we have any math Yes, so the one no, that's fine. So we have two this is students Performing at or above grade level in math in the LCAP We have the eighth grade as our marker to look to see how our students are doing eighth grade in eighth grade It's the same where it'll we're looking at it Our students are outperforming what we had before the pandemic and doing Better than last year. That's great. Congratulations to everybody's hard work I'm out. That's really great Okay, thank you. I'll make a motion to approve. Nope. Nope. It's just a report Any other discussions on the board? All right. Thank you. Thank you very thank you so much, Lisa So seeing none, I will now take us to item 10 our consent agenda Um, these are items that are routine items coming before the board Do we have any public speakers to consent agenda? Are there any items that the board wishes to defer? See none. I have I'm so sorry. I do. I have one And it is um rolling Which one you tell me which number Is 10.8 rolling hills. Oh 10.8. So you'd like to differ 10.8. Please Just that one Okay, would you make a motion to the effect? Take a motion to approve I'm pulling item 10.9 10.8 10.8 Okay, sorry So I have a motion to approve consent agenda as presented with deferring item 10.8. Can I have a second? I have a first and a second all those in favor I any opposed Any abstaining great the motion carries seven zero now. We will move to item 10.8 The approval of the architect agreement for rolling hills middle school track and field project number 2024012 Hello, my check How's everybody doing? Good morning. I would say to wake you up. You know, here we are. We're gonna go to 12 30, you know Yes, yes To trust the district I said she asked to defer the side and see what her questions or comments are for this Yes, thank you. So in the backup that I'm looking at it doesn't tell me where this money is coming from Can you tell me where the four million dollars? Yes? So 3.5 million is coming from watsonville the city of watsonville We're working with the department of recreation Parks and recreation with nick. I can't see it last Yeah, call up a quib. Hopefully I did him justice Yes, nick really good friend of ours Uh, so he had taken to the board of the city of watsonville And processed this and he had turned over to us a letter of intent With the amounts listed there I don't see that This item per se includes that letter of intent, but it is 3.5 million Yes And then inclusive to rolling hills has $500,000 of measure out funds available Which we're using to start the process And get an architect something and so So I've done work with the county before on a very Tiny scale compared to what you're talking about. Yes, and I had to have an mo you And there were certain conditions that the district needed to meet to Like have the field or the playground open for the public, etc. Do you know what the conditions are? Yes, and it's just very curious to me. I've never heard The city of watsonville give this much money to the district for anything I mean, it was like pulling teeth to get a hundred thousand dollars from them for the culinary Garden in the kitchen. Yeah, yeah, and I believe this is a shocking to me. Yeah, Kimsons can attest to And will the fields be open for like Soccer league or Yeah, what is where some of the conditions for as the time being they'll go ahead and use and the fields are Being able to be utilized But this is for us to at least one test take the feasibility of the project Identify long lead items in the cost of construction and allow us to figure out the schedule of when we can start the construction So the architect will allow us to interpret those items to come Yeah, start the dsa paperwork. As you know, the state is very stringent on some of the construction we do for the schools Yeah, yeah, another another similar one that we've done in the past with alongside an mo you and the city of watsonville has been We have done that track and field with them And also opportunity the potential which i've been talking to her lendo about and approaching the city of watsonville for Is the parro middle school track and field? They are interested in Coming and presenting to us the idea of extending funds for some of our various School sites to utilize some of their funds along with us to you know, upgrade playgrounds and Utilize those funds in that manner too. Okay. Well, this is this is great. This is wonderful And thank you to the city council and the staff and the parks and rec department for proposing this For our schools, it's great. Yeah, that's really awesome Before you might need to make a motion was there I think a few trustees have a question before we get a motion on the table Any other questions before a motion? I know I had questions. Do you have another? Do you just want to So my my question is you spoke to the letter of the intent How come that's not here in the backup? I believe Yeah, yeah, I believe there is so I so and I don't know maybe Yeah, CBO since might want to speak to this. I'm not sure. I just want to understand before somebody jumps to make a motion on this sense just you just took his butt and an awareness about this Can I say something quickly? It's just for the archetype. Right, but Right the four million on the hook though If the 3.5 million for some reason doesn't come through And we approved this tonight the district's still on the hook for this And that cost is out of this It would be out of the 500,000 That's great, so okay, yes, so we do have Got it, I got it I'm just wanting to make sure that the district's on the hook for something that we're banking on and we don't have And you know that would be not a fiscally sound decision for us to make because yes, of course Okay, thank you. No, thank you for the clarification. I think trustee Disripper did want something else to say Just make a motion to approve I have a first can I have a second? I have a first and second all those in favor I any opposed See none the item carries seven zero at this point. I will now close Our closed session and the board will reconvene I'm sorry. We'll now close public session the board will reconvene to closed session at 10 36 Yes, there are from February 28 board meeting for pahoe valley unified school district motion number one closed session item 2.1 under closed session Agenda item 2.1 the vote or the board voted 601 to uphold the district's response to an employee complaint appeal Motion number two closed session item 2.2 So I moved to approve the certificated personnel report as presented by district administration on february 28 2024 with 8 and 26 Additional action items. Can I get a second that we stopped there? I have a first and a second all those in favor I any opposed any abstaining motion carries seven zero motion number three Closed session item 2.3. I moved to approve classified personnel report as report as presented by district administration on february 28 2024 with 8 and 7 Additional action items. May I ask for a second? I'll second All those in favor Any opposed any abstaining motion carries seven zero All right, we have announcement or one announcement this evening of pahoe valley unified school district is pleased to announce the selection of martin Gutierrez as the new principal of hall elementary school Mr. Gutierrez began his teaching career at hall district elementary school as a classroom teacher in 2008 He also served as a summer school lead teacher and after school coordinator He began his administrative career as an assistant principal at the alice south community school He served as a principal of barden elementary school from 2018 to 2024 And it's currently serving as an administrator of extended learning for alice south school district Mr. Gutierrez earned his bachelor of arts degree in political science from uc davis Is multiple subject credential from cs umb Both his master's in education and his administrative credential were earned at san jose state He's currently enrolled in an educational doctorate program at san jose state with an emphasis in educational leadership We're excited to welcome this highly accomplished administrator to hall district elementary gohawks Oh, yeah. Yeah, we I got two more There are two more items to report out Uh from closed session closed session item 2.8 regarding resolution Number 23 24 24 The board approved the non re-election of two fte Certified probationary employees with the vote of seven zero employee id 97 Do I read the employee id? No, okay So closed session item 2.11 regarding resolution 23 24 26 The board approved the possible release reassignment or non re-election of certain Certified management employees with the vote of seven zero and that is all Thank you vice president soto Moving to item 14.1 our upcoming board meetings our next special Our next meeting is a special study session tomorrow February 29th at 6 p.m. Right here on declining enrollment. I look forward to seeing you all here Um, and the next regular board meeting will be on march 13th I now adjourn this meeting at 11 22 p.m Thank you You