 I actually met with caterers and tasted some of the food that's going to be served at prom and prom will be held the 30th of April at Crescetti Hall and the finalizing for our budget and ticket prices will be announced Next week if everything goes perfectly We also celebrated National Counselor Appreciation Week by gifting each of our counselors Starbucks cups with their names on each of them Here's those are some of our beloved counselors and my counselor miss Myers who has always been super supportive, especially in all of my college applications so we just wanted to celebrate them and students have also continued with their endless creativity attempting to represent the diversity of thought and diversity of backgrounds that we have on campus one example of this is the Watsonville high school student union That has begun it started amongst a class of 2023 and They're a sort of advocacy group trying to Represent the voices of Watsonville high school and trying to aid our community that way and a group of students has also dedicated themselves to trying to make a an entire feature film completely led by students completely run by students and Casting calls for that are beginning. I believe this month and auditions will be beginning next month and this is all despite Something Well a tragedy that happened with one of our students this past week and a lot of difficulties Have been found especially for our class of 2023 Last Wednesday news broke out to Watsonville high school about the passing of one of our juniors Isaac Ruelas Isaac was 16 years old at the time of his passing and was a beloved classmate especially amongst class of 2023 in Response to his passing. We have continued to try to ensure that our students are receiving the help that they need and that's one of the main reasons Why I share this so for any Watsonville high school students in the room today or watching this or watching this playback I'd like to give everyone the reminder that grief counseling is available at our school and Miss Medina our social emotional counselor Her door is always open for them. I would also like to remind all these students that We are keeping the wellness center open as often as possible for anything that they would need or that they could need and For students and members of the Watsonville high school community and the PVUSD community that wish to show their support for Isaac's family There's a GoFundMe that's available right now for those who are able to donate and wish to aid in the payment of Isaac's funeral expenses You can find the GoFundMe online. I hope that everyone here if they are need of any counseling or any emotional support of that form Know that they have access to that and that if they wish to show their support they're able to do so in this time of Healing so thank you all for listening Thank you, Arman Is there anyone here from Oh, it's your new school. Yeah, come on up. It once again. It's good evening steamed board members Superintendent dr. Rodriguez and audience as you all know my name is it's he Sanchez and I am a senior at new school Hi, everyone. My name is Anthony Godinez and I'm also a senior in your school and thank you for having us here tonight Our theme for this school year is restored because we were gone from in-person learning for almost a year And this year new school committee Okay, one second. Oh, yeah, this year new school community days celebrated It's 28th anniversary as I shared with you guys a few minutes ago We did not hold a celebration, but we wanted to share this milestone with you These are a couple facts about our school. Our school first site was at 521 Main Street, which is now La Manzana learning community day school Before we were the Aztecs we were known as the Black Sheep Olga Cornel or administrative assistant had has had seen at new school community day for 19 years So enrichment Fridays are continuing this quarter with the new emphasis At the beginning of the semester. We had a reset to our enrichment Friday first We start the day off with Santa Cruz art council, which includes guitar lessons with Juan five elements of hip-hop with with Luis our reflections with Abram and find out with Monica Then some students participate in team sports in the Monterey Bay alternative school athletic league and This quarter it's basketball and the other students head downtown to digital nest where they're currently making a business plan and environmental science workshop where they work on hand hands-on projects and what some will be ante Here's some pictures of digital nest and the science workshop and The basketball team This is our third year of student-led conference and the second of the school year participation was much better this time around They occurred it occurred on February 15th and the 17th most students did it in person and a few did it virtually New school community day offered Food on both days on Tuesday. They offered us pizza and Thursday's burritos Our advisory teachers were there to help and support with the process 26 students completed their conferences with a parent our Conferences include attendance data our goals credit recovery data our graduation plan and what digital citizenship means This year. We're using five-star student to help motivate students in a positive way Our first one was on December 15th and our second one was today The goal is to do one every month and students have an opportunity to redeem their five-star students points Which will be rewarded with snacks beverages soups new school gear give cards and special privileges Students earn points by attendance and demonstrating the Aztec avenues of achievements which are taking action having zeal taking Responsibility earning it carrying and setting goals and also using a proper language and there's some pictures from Our last redeem day and today's redeem day Thank you all for your time and attention once again. I'm a T Sanchez and I'm a senior at new school And my name is Anthony Godine Sanay. What's your senior at nisco community day? Thank you Thank you. That was both great presentations present Is it okay if I can make a comment sure I would just like to Thank the founder of new school mr. Don Angleston He was my principal when I was at a mini white and he was it was his vision to create the school When I would just like to announce Don Angleston. Thank you very much Thank you Next we have I think a video by diamond tech That evening president home boy of trustees and superintendent dr. Michelle Rodriguez My name is Adriana Jimenez Espinoza and I am excited to catch you up on everything we have been doing since second semester started Our character education theme for third quarter is imagination And we have had a lot of opportunities since January to be imaginative through projects and activities First off, we would like to thank everyone who donated and supported our adoptive family project in December our amazing officer Manager jasmine samora helps deliver the donations and we were able to help a family in need who lives in the diamond tech neighborhood It was a joy to see our community coming together and supporting each other As always we started with our day one two and three seminars Team building and pancake breakfast this year. We set up a maker space for beast battle Our community ends from next door participated The next door neighborhood donated lots of cardboard and materials and even a live size chicken for scale purposes for the headhouse projects We have been working on several projects this quarter and we have finally submitted our beast battle 2021 to judges and our waiting feedback Our seniors have been working in collaboration with the real videography company in Santa Cruz called in Spira To develop a new promo video for the diamond tech Here's our latest work. Welcome to diamond technology institute a shining gem in parro valley unified school district Diamond tech is a fully accredited high school and online traditional high schools Our school focuses on learning through design thinking and project-based learning diamond technology institute prepares us for our futures Whether it is a career out of high school a two-year college or a full year university There are only 25 students per grade level for a total of 100 students Throughout the program study. We are encouraged to practice innovation and problem solving We work collaboratively and because we are a small school our teachers have the opportunity to work with us And give us individual support so we can be successful Diamond tech focuses on college and career preparation to help us build skills for success All students graduate with a 10-year plan and a personal website Which helps us to know exactly what our next steps will be after graduation Diamond tech helps us move forward in our learning and advance through the programs offered at the school or through concurrent college enrollment Our school exposes us to real world experiences and our teachers want to put the latest technology to student hands So we become the experts and leaders of tomorrow Our school values and works closely with us to provide a safe space to grow where everyone can feel welcome Our community offers many options for our diverse interests like student leadership sports clubs Mentorships school activities fundraisers get speakers fuel trips and much much more Learning is an adventure and we would like to share our adventure with you So if you want a challenge and to be part of an innovative high school with a specialty educational program Then it is time to join the 100 with the strength of 1000 Our class competed in foundation for innovations social media and marketing challenge Seniors Ishiva Grahik and Evan Strader took first place in the development of marketing materials and a 12 month social media plan for the staying back center Although the materials you see here were developed by these two students Lastly, it was great to celebrate valentine's day and get back to having fun some fun We made old-fashioned valentine card boxes and exchange valentines Had our selfie photo booth and brought desserts to share It felt good to get back to normal after the rough omicron start Don't forget to follow us on social media and thank you again for the opportunity to share what we have been doing at Diamond Tech Thank you diamond tech that was super That was super fun to see you that video So before we approve our agenda, I'd like to point out that we got several Very lovely donations in support of our emerald lagasse culinary garden and teaching kitchen Um, we got nine donations in total 124 800 so with many many thanks to Julie Packard for a donation of $50,000 A donation from miles and rosanne writer foundation for $50,000 A donation from jim edens $15,000 A donation from joe griffin $5,000 A donation from gaol and joe orteez $3,000 A donation from terry valentine A donation of $500 To dan wiser a donation of $50. Thank you dan Donation from ali and nick Sutton of $1,000 and a donation from margaret gordon of $250 So we thank we thank all the donors many of them for their interest and confidence in our Culinary garden and teaching kitchen and I think we're almost to the finish line in terms of our fundraising How much more do we need do you think? So we need three hundred and ten thousand more dollars to finish the project So thank you to everybody who's donated to date And with that i'm looking for a motion to approve tonight's agenda I move to approve all second all those in favor. Hi Motion passes unanimously. Thank you Um, I need um, we're looking to approve the minutes from our last board meeting on february 9th I move to approve all second all those in favor I Thank you that motion passes. I'm sorry Jen shocker abstains motion passes Six one no is a six one zero Six zero one. Thank you Next up on our agenda is Six point one Visitor not agenda items. This is a time for public comment Do we have any speakers? We do we have eight speakers for this item So i'm going to be calling three people at a time. We have a maryland garret followed by bill beechard Followed by matt mongomery maryland garret I taught in this district for about 20 years The tremors you see I have My health provider thinks are from working Next to fields of pesticide at msc school And I also read that the radio frequency microwave radiation from wireless technology Has the same effects on the neurological system And young people are especially at risk as I watch the presentation here on technology I Shutter because microwave radiation and wi-fi and wireless technology is very damaging A recent article. I just saw Is in the publication wise traditions This is weston a price.org And it's their winter 21 2021 edition radio frequency radiation A significant factor in increasing thyroid cancer And if people are holding a cell phone here increase brain tumors salivary clan tumors Thyroid cancer Around here colorectal cancers related to the radiation. I met a 17 year old young man who said oh, I know about Being dangerous. I said, how do you know because hardly anyone's read about the adverse effects Told me he kept his cell phone in his left pocket. This is a true sad story Developed testicular cancer from the radiation and had to have his left testicle Removed at age 17. This is no coincidence nor is it Presentation I saw in health impacts of wireless radiation A woman young woman with breast cancer Four points to the cancer exactly where the four antennas Of the phone who were resting against her skin and her bra Thank you. We need to have this harm removed from our school district Thank you. Thank you, maryland Good evening. I'd like to do a presentation on the top hispanic districts In the state and kind of compare them to what we do here Here's my sources of data Here's the six schools that I looked at. These are the same six schools. I looked at 14 years ago They're doing even better than they did then And you can see what kind of percentage of hispanics similar to ours So if we looked at english language arts Uh three of them are doing outstanding As well as aptos whites This is a graph showing the state and where aptos is much lower English language learners Which for us is usually a killer. They've rarely scored well Like two to five percent This is how well they do in meeting or exceeding the standard On socioeconomically disadvantaged Similar results that people Aren't penalized because they're poor Students with disabilities which for the state in our district is at travesty. Everybody does very poorly But not in these districts So common factors from interviewing the superintendents and principals at these schools. They do heavy intervention They identify at risk students in the first three weeks And then they get them help before drawing it after school and in summer sessions and talking to one of the superintendents last week He says I treat all the kids the same Doesn't matter what ethnicity or whether they have economic issues Treats them all the same Get some intervention They also do early transition to english At one school they have no english language learners Because they transition them and they're the top performer calling by Last english immersion only on campus And I left you something to read. Thank you You also have two requests for agenda items in front of you Thank you, bill All right At home good evening board members. How many times do we need to see masks fail before we accept observable reality? Santa Cruz's county's dr. Gale newall rail reinstated the county's mask mandate november 22nd Cases were low at the time. We're going to be taking a recess now. Enjoy Anyways, this wasn't in the midst of an ongoing surge. Let's check in on it. That doesn't look good Cases went up about 600 percent. Look at that change in growth rate Okay, take two December 15 They can still listen. I don't know. They'll play it California reinstated the statewide mask mandate when announcing the new mandate incompetent dr. Mark Gailey makes it clear that this is being done Proactively because we have a tool that we know has worked and can work It worked so well that cases went up 700 and they extended the mask mandate naturally Let's look at district data at the board's meeting in october. We heard a school nurse elizabeth thorn give us another Claim in support of child masking. I quote Our rates are down in our schools because of mask wearing Rates are down compared to what? Let's compare how low the district's numbers are to the general population of the united states The district dashboard says there has been 3400 student and 372 staff Covid cases since august 12th In the same time period across the us there were 42 million cases since august 12th So what does that mean? In the same time period 17.7 percent of students in the district were infected 15.7 percent of district staff And 12.7 percent of the us as a whole So much for the rates being down thanks to masks Considering this data. I ask you Is this what success looks like? How would you define failure then? Please end this mandate and return choice to parents and students. All right Okay, calling the meeting back to order. I think we're still On item 6.1 public comment. Do we Have further speakers we do this is monica. Nolan followed by chris webb and Mariah Seguda and Riley Gomez So give me one second, okay point of order Oh, I'm sorry, do you want me to wait? Okay. Yes, please Um matt Montgomery Thank you board members Good evening. I'd like to show the data again. So this is Santa Cruz county So our mask mandate went into place November 22nd. Well rates were still low. This was done by gale newill after that case This went up 600 percent That's not a successful policy. I would describe that as failure People compare masks to seatbelts sometimes Could you imagine if we put in a seatbelt mandate and traffic fatality deaths look like that? I think we might question that policy Statewide we saw something similar The mask mandate went into place months before the surge happened Afterwards cases went up 500 percent. Nonetheless, the mask mandate was extended Again, is this what success looks like? Is this a workable policy? Where is the actual effect? We also heard Back in october we heard someone from the district a school nurse say that our rates were low because of masking Well, this was a nurse saying this so I took her at her word. It's a respectable member of the community So I looked up the actual rates You can go to the Pajaro Valley COVID dashboard. It'll tell you right now. There were 3,412 COVID cases in our students From 12 august through february 22nd For the staff there were 372 cases For the united states as a whole during that same time period 42 million cases So what does that work out to? Well for harrow valley students, that's an infection rate of 17.7 percent For the staff it's an infection rate of 15.7 percent For the united states as a whole so just america in general 12.65 percent of the population became infected during that time So if this is what success looks like, how would you define failure? How would you ever challenge this policy based off results if this is considered success? Thank you Thank you Okay, and then resuming our next speakers It is really It is pretty unwind We have monica followed by chris web and then mariah sigouda and riley gomez All right. Thank you board members and dr. Rodriguez. My name is monica nowlin I am the academic counselor at renaissance high school and new school. We can miss it'sy sanchez over there I'm already in espanol. Hola. Mi nombre es monica nowlin. Soy el canzajera académica renaissance high school y New school community day. Lo siento Mi espanol no muy bueno But lo entiendo Gracias coming into this position as an academic counselor for both of these schools I actually never knew that I would love it so much And some of you know me from my previous position at aptos high. I loved that job a lot So I love this even more than that If you can imagine because you know how passionate I am I wanted to thank the board actually for approving this position dr. Rodriguez and assistant superintendent chris and chelsea's because they believe that I am The right person for the job and i'm not crying. I'm just nervous so um I just because I am so passionate And so I did want to come here to talk about some of the good that's going on in our schools as some of our student reps Said we are implementing pbis at new school A lot and then renaissance We're kind of taking our time to really hone in on that and I think it's good to hear the good That's going on and our students are really happy to be back with us They don't like distance learning. They hope to never go back to it And so that makes me happy because then that reminds me like they need us They want to be with us we have time to give to them and um I hope we can do that. So with that said I do want to also talk about how We I think some of my colleagues before have come to speak with you all about reinstating the after-school program at renaissance high I know it doesn't happen in a day, but I'm coming in with fresh eyes And the students really need something more and they need somewhere safe to go We have a shorter day and so transportation is a big issue for our students And if we could see that happen and we can get that extra support for them I really think that we could see a lot of change in our community Um at renaissance high and then watsonville paharo in general. So thank you Thanks for your comments There's no way to curtail the beeping Dan wiser I know we have to be careful what you ask for right we ask for that clock, but now it's annoying us chris I want to express my profound thanks to the students who advocated for themselves and their teachers By speaking to this body about teacher wages You make me hopeful for the future of my country and the results of your actions Has made me hopeful pvsd will retrain will retain more of its teachers than it otherwise would I also want to thank pvft members who acted to push for a long overdue salary schedule increase While I know the t8 increase may not keep up with inflation or bring salaries to levels To levels that make pvsd truly attractive to new hires I feel worthwhile progress was made and I hope pvft members Supported their agreement. I want to thank this the district negotiations team for their respectful good faith negotiations When we work together, we can achieve great things for the pvsd community. I also want to thank you guys for the timer I think it is good excision in spite of the beeps I also want to echo miss no one's comment about The after-school program. You guys have heard me talk about the field before There's there's talk from among the students about the alternative sports league and soccer And I find it unfortunate that while we might be able to compete We can't really practice unless it's on a blacktop Which is a little disappointing and I also um thinking of the negotiations And and everything I I think one of the reasons that it went as well as it did Was because of the the transparency of the district in terms of budgets And that's something where I feel like we can take that same Model and and bring it to sites. I know at all the pvft meetings, they always have a budget report And I feel this leads to Greater trust in the leadership from the members So I'd like to see that kind of transparency about school site budgets At school site council and possibly leadership or staff meetings I think it would really do good and it would avoid any appearances of fiscal impropriety Thank you Thank you chris And my name is mariah Segura and I'm here with my teammate Riley Gomez and julia We're both currently seniors on the watsumahai girls varsity softball team along with the junior I mean softball and today we're here to address the poor conditions of our softball field Every softball season the girls and I witness the poor conditions of our field To begin our infield and outfields are not leveled making our job as individuals playing softball even harder Our outfield has dozens of holes causing our teammates to run with their heads down In hopes of not falling or twisting their ankles the fields have weeds growing uncontrollably everywhere Especially in the pitchers bullpen making it difficult to warm up pitchers during a live softball game It is also very difficult when our woman's bathroom only consists of one functioning stall While the second one doesn't have a door and neither are wheelchair accessible We have been told by watsumahai school that we're not able to maintain our own field But who will who will do it if no one is going to Though we're thankful for the staff who have maintained our fields before and continue to cut the grass We will not accept the bare minimum of our field getting cleaned one or two hours before our game Just as will happen last season In 2021 we won the ccs division one title for watsumahai And not everyone who visited and played on our field was satisfied with its condition We saw coaches from the opposing team walking around our outfield looking for holes So that they could win their athletes before the game My mother who came to watch our game couldn't push my father in his wheelchair because the grass was too thick and high Making it a safety issue The fields condition still only affect players, but our families and friends We are asking here today for a change We will like to see weekly maintenance of our field and if not, we ask that we're given the right to clean our fields and also parent volunteers Because we cannot continue playing in these conditions We would also love to see wheelchair accessible restrooms and a pathway created from the entrance to the stands So that the public and those in wheelchairs can have a safe and secure pathway. Thank you Thank you for bringing that important item in front of us you guys. I appreciate you coming tonight Okay, next up we have laura saddle followed by donna left left fever Hello board members. Nice to see you in person I'm always so nervous. I'm a really outgoing bubbly person, but I'm always so nervous when I get here Um First of all, I I do want to give a very deep heartfelt. Thank you to our negotiation teams I've been i'm um an elementary school teacher laura azzaro Sorry, I didn't introduce myself and um, I've been teaching in the district for about 26 years Came in on a really cool internship that the district offered. I was a special ed teacher for five years and now at the elementary level and um I've really seen the morale drop so much the last 10 years and And then COVID hit and it was it just threw everything off So I'm just elated Because it was it it's a decent it's a decent increase Thank you for acknowledging that um You know, but we have to go forward and I do you know, I emailed some of you and and I I do understand it's it's hard when we're publicly funded And I do know that there's there's funds that we can't touch but I do want to assure you that I'm very involved I I'd go to the california federation a teacher's convention when we had it And I do advocate for funding for our schools We meet with the aides and the assistants there and I've been to lobby days advocating very strongly for funding for our public schools I just Can't control what happens to it when it gets here But I do appreciate the strong leadership. We've had this last two years We're still in a pandemic, you know, we're on paper We're staffed fully but we're still understaffed all the time because of illness uh, that's um And family emergencies and things like that but I really really appreciate that you've been following the cdc guidelines I haven't had a cold since school started because of the mask The children are out playing and running and having a great old time. I don't see them hiding behind Play structures crying their eyes out because they have to wear a mask We all laugh and play they get breaks. Anyway, thank you for honoring that. Thank you My name is donna le fever. I'm a math teacher at watsonville high school um, so I do want to say I appreciate um that there was a salary increase It's not quite near enough of where we need to get to um I this is my first year in the district, but I've been hearing about it My mom's been a teacher in this district since I was nine or ten. Um, and so a very long time and um So, yeah, it's just there's some It's challenging to listen to that and then now be a part of it and watch the The way that we decide to fund our educators. Um, so something to just think about when we're Going coming back again next year. Um The other thing I want to bring up though Um is the class sizes. I was having uh, we had a department meeting with our Not a department meeting like a team meeting with my other math two colleagues And we're talking about some of the concerns that we're seeing. Um, just The support that's needed for the kids in our math classes right now, especially having missed An entire year of learning, but I mean it's it's been an issue even beyond that and um And One of the big concerns is that um, there is no repeating of a class like if the kids Don't understand the content one year Um, and they don't get a passing grade. Um, there's this edgenuity like online program that they do for credit recovery It's not sufficient in teaching them because it's a computer program and they don't learn from it So the reason that they weren't able to access all the support they have in the classroom from the teacher is because The teacher has spread so thin amongst so many students And then the support that we're offering to these kids just so that they can have the credits in order to graduate Is we'll put you in a classroom with other kids that are doing this online program And they're not getting any of that support for that content So then they move on to the next class and they're not prepared again So I think that we need to rethink that structure and really reduce those class sizes Thank you Thank you, Donna Those are all speakers for this item Okay, next our employee organization starting with um pvft 7.1 Good evening president de serpa and dr. Rodriguez and board of trustees. I am radhika kirkman. I am the chief negotiator for pvft Um, and I just want to give you guys a little message. I know we just t8 so Today our membership ratified The ta for our total compensation for 21 22 school year Um, I want to just take a moment We wanted to thank the board and the district for working with our team to come to that agreement on the ongoing salary increase And the status quo on our health benefits for this school year We know that an ongoing salary increase is an important first step to ensuring that our students have the educators and the support staff That they need to be successful We do understand that the cost of living in this area may not prevent some people from having to look elsewhere But we were hopeful that it will also keep many more educators in this district Um coming to an agreement before the end of this school year allows the district to also update our salary schedules And so we're hopeful that that will attract more educators into the district We do still have many many vacancies over 30 vacancies And we know that a long-term sub does provide some consistency. It does not compare to a permanent credentialed teacher of record Someone who is knowledgeable about their subject area and who can build those home and school connections with their students Um, our team is especially thankful that we were able to come to an agreement in such a relatively short period of time My team are teachers who are actually working in classrooms. So they were very thankful of that Um, we are hopeful now to continue working with the district and to look ahead to our contract negotiations that are coming up So I appreciate all of the collaborative effort that went into this and I know it's going to take a lot more To solve the ongoing Crises that are happening in education right now. So thank you Thank you, radhika Is anyone here from csea? Is there are there any speakers to this item Apologize feel beacher Mr. Beecher I think at the last board meeting we all felt Pretty bad for the teachers and the condition they're working in And I wanted to address that. I think we need to rethink what we're doing here Um The statistics teacher you might remember said that we have eight percent of the teachers retiring every year and we only have three percent New teachers coming in That's a difference of five percent That means every year we will lose 50 teachers will have fewer and fewer teachers available for the classroom In five years we will lose 250 teachers So we can't keep teaching the way we are now So i'm here to ask pvft To work with the district to rethink how we teach Now covet 19 The con academy and several other areas have taught us that We can teach differently And need fewer teachers and by doing that you can pay the teachers more How would you do it you use attrition If we're going to lose 50 teachers every year you could use that money To fund the teachers that remain and so The flip classroom con academy concept and using online learning We take our best teachers To create Programs like they did this last year And we have teaching via The internet the students come into the classroom And in the collaborative room are able to get an assignment Perform it and then present it in the classroom. That's a better form of learning Then just straight sitting in a lecture hall listening to a teacher for an hour So I would ask pbft To work with the district to rethink how we teach. I also would challenge the board You should be in there stimulating recognizing. We have a structural problem. You can't solve it But you can deal with it. Thank you You have to put your card in ahead of the speaker ahead of the agenda ahead of the agenda item You need to put a speaker card in if you'd like to speak so i'm sorry Okay, so we have next up is 7.2 csea. Is anyone here from csea tonight? 7.3 pavam paharavalli association of managers We have mr. Dan wiser is going to comment for him tonight Yes Yes, thank you president diserpa Board of justties and dr. Rodriguez My name is dan wiser. I'm the very proud director of technology for paharavalli For our technology services department And tonight i'm going to tell you about some of the incredible work that the technology services team Has been doing and then just want to kind of acknowledge some of the The unsung heroes that work in the background keeping everything afloat and functioning So as you know technology is constantly changing If the need for technology is constantly growing and then everything is constantly being updated and modified and improved Which leads to a need for very skilled staff not only in terms of managing all that technology But being able to quickly learn new technologies and support all that and it's a never-ending ongoing process of being a lifelong learner and I really think that The technology services staff kind of exemplifies that for our district They're constantly learning new skills new systems new ways to improve those systems And then they're constantly teaching and learning from each other And one of the sort of jokes we talk about this building as being a teaching hospital I think it's it's very true in terms of the way that we We support each other we learn from each other and we teach each other every day And each of the technology services staff members have very specific roles and areas of expertise And their ability to collaborate and learn from each other has been really instrumental so Starting with site techs who are out at the school sites working with students classrooms supporting projects And then all of the devices that they support fixing deploying refreshing It's an incredible undertaking at every school in the district And then all the behind the scenes engineers technicians The district techs and communication technicians Trying to keep the network functioning today for example We had Four schools that were affected with by power outages and network outages And they were running all over the district bringing back up the networks and supporting the school site So it's it's we're very fortunate to have an incredibly talented and and ongoing improving Team of collaborating technicians in the district. So I just wanted to acknowledge the work that they do every day And then talk about some of the great projects that we've all been collaborating on One of which is the e-rate and measure l bond fund network infrastructure that we applied for last year That was a 1.5 million dollar project across the whole district and we're in the middle of implementing that right now Um, and then with ecf emergency connectivity fund funds We're starting to receive all the devices that we applied for and funded through that the emergency connectivity fund Which is going to be a great Support for our refresh process this year. It's um, it's almost 9 000 devices that are going into the classrooms And then We also have We've just basically completed all those Informa cast right the clock bell paging systems that we've been installing at all the school sites The last two sites aloni and radcliffe have just been completed They they've implemented the systems train the staff troubleshot the whole process and then Helped to make sure that everything was tuned. So some of the speakers were too loud They brought them down or brought the quiet ones up and so those projects are now complete And I just really wanted to acknowledge the incredible work of all of the technology services team every day Because without them there's no way we could keep so much going all the time. So That's it. Thank you very much Thank you Were there any speakers to that item? No, okay 7.4 cwa Communication workers of america Okay, we'll move on to um item 8.1 under report and discussion This is data trends patterns and representing the whole child whole family whole community This is a report by lisa agiria Our assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction Just seeing if there's a laser pointer here Okay, uh, good evening president to serpa board of trustees and dr. Rod regus This evening. I will be going over um data trends and patterns Um in looking at our students for this um for semester and and sometimes over the past few years Parra parra valley unified school district has eight key performance District indicators that we use to monitor our students academic health and social emotional well-being In addition to graduation rates, I will be going over the six highlighted kpi is that you see here so the first uh district key performance indicator kpi that'll be going over this evening is our five star data Five star is a student recognition program And students are recognized for actions and leadership aligned to their school values um, and so What this graph represents is the percentage of students throughout our district that have been recognized These students that the percentage um are unduplicated students So if I was at aptos high school and I received I was recognized twice by the five star system I would only count as once towards this as you can see since the beginning of the school year monthly Then a percentage of our students that are recognized through the five five star point system has increased And so we are continuing to push it through Each month this data is updated on our um district data dashboard And we look at it to see to make sure that we are going in the upward trend So the next thing is the uh the site wellness team information And so last year during the um, we were in distance learning during the pandemic One of the things that we started were the site and the district wellness teams The reason why we did this is that we wanted to have a way to identify students who were not engaging in online distance learning We realized that the system worked well within our schools to identify students So we kept it going for this year to figure out which students were not doing um Well in academically or social emotionally as we return to this school site And so This is updated quarterly And so if we look on the school sites what we can see from quarter one to quarter two because we've not hit quarter three yet Is that social anxiety has actually decreased? um And that academic stress And attendance concerns have are one of the two of the things that have Increased through it and so what happens is that school sites each one has their own um Wellness team and then the referrals come in and they look at the students and they assign them to different department members based on what the concerns are and then different uh staff members will follow up with students Are those unduplicated as well? Those referrals those are the number of um, so once a student is on the list, they don't repeat. So those are unduplicated. Okay So that's the number not percentage um Next is sewn to grow um, as you know, um sewn to grow is a program that where we can monitor our students feelings And so weekly students are asked um, how are they feeling and if they want to they can expand on the reason Why they chose that they're feeling that way um On a five point scale students, uh indicate whether they're very sad Sad okay happy or very happy One meaning that they're very sad Five being that they are very happy What we do is we take the average of the five point scale of all of our students And we plot them on the graph and so we look at the trend of our students emotional health Their feelings over the school year and this is updated weekly The lowest point on this scale is actually um, january 18th with the which is the second week that we came back From um, the december break and as you remember this was the start Of the amicron variant where we didn't know which was it was rapidly transmissionable So we didn't know how long we're going to be out and how many people were going to be out And so it was a very unknown time and that was represented in our students data Staying with son to grow um these two graphs the one on the left compares our students feelings and how they're how they're doing as compared to all the other son to grow in districts Throughout the united states and on our on average, um students are showing that they are happier Um when compared to students across the district one of the important reasons For son to grow is that when we returned from uh distance learning and coming back We didn't know how many of our students are we're going to need Help for their social emotional well-being and in our minds We thought it was going to be everybody and if we put resources mental health resources for everybody it actually waters down the system So this um son to grow has allowed us to identify which students really are in need Of additional supports and which students are doing okay We were surprised and we didn't know the amount of our students that Reported that they are doing okay and that they are coming back because we all had different lived experiences We didn't know what we were going to get If we look the graph on the right are the reflections over time And so if you look um for each month Our students are getting happier as they're in school So one of the things we like to say is our students definitely are happy to be back in school And as they adjust Socially and back in seats they're becoming more happy So that was it's another great graph um We interviewed Both students and staff in terms of the use of son to grow And so um we asked about it and some of our student voices One said after we read the feedback which is student which teachers can give them feedback when they write in there why they're feeling The student said I know it's very sincere using her time to type that and that's helping the student feel accepted and wanted and Being that they're in class Students said the feedback I get shows my teacher cares about me And so even though the teacher may not every day Talk to them say how you're doing that feedback that they get knowing that their teacher's reading what they're saying Is another way of saying we care and we're glad that you're here Teachers um one said one of my students shared that his mom had coveted and he was really anxious That was the only way I would have known he only found that space to utilize and share Thank goodness. Otherwise, I would have never known And then another one said the feedback I'm sorry. I didn't know that I didn't know that one of my students was really hungry I was able to refer her to the food pantry So sometimes students come in class and we don't know why they're behaving or they are the way they are in their moods And this allows students a way to um say what's going on in their world With that we are going to switch To dibbles and edel Um, we use dibbles and edel to monitor students early literacy skills Dibbles which stands for dynamic indicators of basic early literacy Is a series of short tests that assess the students acquisition of early literacy skills And so what we have on this graph on our two left hand side the bar The bar graphs are kindergarten And on the very left is the fall data Then we have the kindergarten winter Then we have first grade uh fall and first grade winter In kindergarten in the fall we test for letter name fluency This is how well in the students recognize letter names In the winter we test for um Nonsense word fluency What this means for example dibbles dibbles isn't actually an english word It's a nonsense word, but because I know the phonetics of the english language I'm able to pronounce dibbles And then it's the same thing for edel in spanish. It's not an actual spanish word But because I have the phonetics i'm able to pronounce it So that's an example of a nonsense word the fluency Um, if you look the students are coming in low And during last year um, so we have 67 of our students in the in the fall in kindergarten Who are still in the strategic range or intensive range for letter name fluency and then in the winter For nonsense word we have 68 percent Nonsense word is A little more difficult Than just the letter name, but it's still a large amount that are um in the intensive range We look at first grade we have from um fall the nonsense words to then we go to oral reading fluency That's the orf. So in the fall we do nonsense words with first graders and then in the winter we do oral reading fluency Um, which is a more difficult test than the nonsense words And if you look in first grade we had a great decrease in The students who are in the intensive range and we had a seven percent increase in students who are core or core negligible Core negligible means that they're not at risk of falling below Grade level and where they should be and that's what that means Move on to um idel, which is the uh, the indicators Dinamicos del éxito en la lectura It's a set of measures for assessing the acquisition of spanish early literacy skills Like the dibbles idel the idel test students In letter name fluency Um and also oral reading fluency and then nonsense words in spanish From fall to winter kinder students who fell in the intensive band decreased from 55 percent to 28 percent All right, so we're getting that we're getting that decrease that we want to see on the idel idel is um kinder in In first grade we also had a decrease of 14 percent of our students going from the intensive From 57 to 43 and then we had an increase of 11 percent in the core Which is where we want them to be from 31 percent to 42 percent in the first grade We're going to move to uh second grade If we look at these scores um first students they go in the fall They do oral reading fluency in both the fall and the winter And so it is the same in both dibbles and idel on what they are um assessed um, we had a slight decrease in the students in the intensive and um A slight increase in the students who are core core knowledgeable And then on the same thing with the idel we had a slight decrease in the intensive And we had an increase in the students who are at core A second grade um students they were in kindergarten when we went in when we when the whole colvid pandemic hint and they hit and they went Into distance learning and so second grade is one of the grades that were intensifying our supports And adding things such as the um instructional associates on the classrooms to make sure that we we help our support our students in their reading and their math We're now going to go to the nwa map the measures of academic progress Uh, if you've been you've seen the um different ways of reporting the map um tonight we're going over um The map looking at the students writ score By grade level in reading and math over the last five years You'll notice a very similar trend in all of the grades as we go through The blue line represents the test that they take when they take the map in the fall The orange line represents the The average writ score of the student when they take it in the winter And they'll take it once again in the spring Which will be able to compare the spring scores and we're going to have a large very large increase in spring So just so you know that's my prediction Um, so if you look um for second grade reading, um, we we had the trend of increasing Um, and then the 2020 you'll notice in all of them That there is a large In most of them, there's a large increase in 2020 students took the um last year They took the map assessment at their home Right, so there there were things that we did to control to make sure that they were in a proper testing environment But we don't have full control over what happens in the home But as you notice, we are on an upward trend in um the second grade in the reading Also in the math, we're on an upward trend And then once they return this year in 2021 there was um, uh a drop This is um, if you look through all of them, it's a very similar trend And by me turning the page it won't get you to the next slide Um, lisa could you explain what writ stands for and what it is? Rit is Roush um unit And so it's to look at the academic performance as well as student growth over time And so when I take a test I will have a writ score assigned to me And I can look at that writ score in a moment in time to see if whether how I'm doing grade level Why is whether I'm at grade level whether I'm above or whether I'm below And then if I look at my writ score over time It can tell me whether I am growing at the rate that I should be growing And so what we did is we took the writ Score average for the entire district of that grade level So some schools fared better than others some students fared better than others, but we want to look at the entire district Um, okay, so it's on fourth. I think so fourth grade. Um And so we have our scores here It's the same thing when we come back. Um, there is that downward turn for this year Fourth grade reading is the it's that one that It's actually higher than where we started in 2017 tracking it um sixth grade similar where we were going on in upward trajectory and then we had the decline math the curve eighth grade And then ninth grade reading and math If you're looking at the writ score one of the things that if you notice as um A second grader between fall and winter what should increase between 10 and 12 points? Meanwhile while you get to ninth grade. It's a very small. It's a less Less number. It's usually two to four when you get to tenth grade It's actually a negative number as the average when you go to fall to winter So as you increase in grades the amount that you should be growing decreases um, and so then our ninth grade and then Our reading and our math um With all the similar scores one thing that um, we're looking at With it is the uncertainty that has happened this year in terms of the uncertainty of the students who are absent due to COVID and we had staff affected as well due to COVID and then also in the distance learning it um We're looking and that all of our students were not it was not beneficial to our students And so there is a gap that we are providing in the supports that we're putting in place And with the next report you'll hear about some of the things that we are putting in place with one time monies And with our l cap to focus to help Um, so we can get back on track to the upward trajectory which Spring it'll look great Okay, so now we're gonna um switch gears And we are now looking at uh grades so With um, this is high school grades with ninth tenth, and then you'll shortly see 11th and 12th It is the um same grade distribution and this is the percentage of a percentage of grades given So if you look at this is for first semester, so this is was for um, the students grade that they just received um, if you look at it where you have As have the largest percentage then b's then c's then f's then d's And it's the same for ninth, tenth, 11th and 12th To support the 20 to 25 percent of low grades Um at the high schools, we currently have two to three uc santa cruz educational partnership tutors at all three high schools We have the migrant tutors in place Um, we also have virtual learning through paper, which you approved earlier this year for our students at the um all high schools And then we continue the site wellness teams to catch students who are struggling um And in addition what we are Looking at is we are looking at the effects of the classes that we've added um To support students passion interests and talents. We continue to add the cte courses We continue to add vapa and also the ethnic studies So one of the things that we look at is how are our students in these other classes fairing Um versus um the traditional classes on these two um pie charts Um what we're looking at is the high school the cte core grade distribution So this is any course that is labeled as a cte course the distribution of the percent a's b's c's d's and f's If you look um 70 5.1 percent of our students Um, they they have an a through a c which makes it a college eligible grade in class and they get credit The other one all courses which are not cte is the one of the the pie chart on the bottom It's 71 um 0.1 percent and um With this what's included in here is physical education This year there was a very very high large number of a's in physical education more than i Normally see and so that is also in the one with all courses and so that Cte does not have any physical education classes and they're still doing better um, then if we look at the uh the english class the writing for stage and screen which is one that we put in um 95.8 of the students that are taking the course Are getting an a b or c which makes it a college the which they're they're they get college credit for And then on to for the transcripts And then compared to english one which is an angel class It's 74.5 percent And that's the students receiving a through g credit In looking at the ethnic studies There is a slight gpa difference between the ethnic literature one and the regular english What we're looking at here is that we the gpa represents All of the grades given in the class and what the average gpa is for that course If we look at the world history ethnic studies, it's a much larger gpa difference Between the world history ethnic studies and then the world history One thing i would like to do is put in a plug um for The ethnic studies we have a pbsd employee Who has a student at one in the aptos ethnic studies um english lit classes And that um employee said that the ethnic literature class has increased their child's writing ability more than any other english class That their child has ever taken And so not only is it something that students are interested in it is Really supporting the academics of the students and getting ready for college The last thing that we'll be looking at um finally is graduation rates um since 2016-17 graduation rates Have steadily increased Last year the So in 2019-20 That's when we had the hold harmless year That's the year that we went in and we did the hold harmless and so students um as a reminder once uh Quarter three hit students there that's the grade they stayed That couldn't decrease it could only increase and then last year um We followed ab104 Which we decreased the number of credits for for seniors to graduate And 93.45 percent of our students did um graduate So it is on I still like to say it is on the upward trend of the graduation rates And with that that was a lot of information Thank you Any speakers to this item? Marilyn Garrett Education not radiation Education not microwave radiation from all these devices So this was an interesting Uh presentation here What I would like to see on that and I'm going to submit this Is um talking about children's health Here's images of red blood cells affected by electromagnetic wireless radiation and Tells about German students doing an experiment where they tested Looked at the blood cells before and after exposure to a cell phone And they clumped together Marilyn. I'm just wondering how that relates to the presentation. We're talking about I just read it here student health Key indicators to regularly monitor the health of students So this is key Is technology that's being used healthy? That's the basic thing Where is the proof of safety? And I was in this board room different board room Years ago when they brought on the wireless technology and I asked the question Is this safe? for student health And the red presenter said That's not our area of expertise and went on with this Presentation not bringing wi-fi Not one board member said wait a minute That's the most important thing we need to know Is if something's safe And it isn't so i'm going to review this article and then from this organization Called citizens for safe technology Have it wired. Thank you Attention all parents is wi-fi in school making your child sick So i have enough copies of that for you. Thank you Now they were smoking 24 seven you'd see it When I started teaching in this district they smoked in the teachers Yeah Thank you my dear Okay, lisa I'm guessing that we have some questions from the board. Does anyone Down on this end want to start with any questions? No Daniel Just quickly not to take too much time. Um, is there anything broken down by schools? We could take a look at In the future We can break it down by Any other comments or questions? Justy shocker, so We're talking about The interventions at the high school level that we've put in place to Combat the low grades that we're seeing with some of the students How are we making sure that students are getting to that tutoring that parents know about that tutoring That students know about that tutoring so that we are making sure that they're taking advantage of those supports to graduate and catch up in their classes So the um tutors that are on site, which are the educational partnership percent of the u.c. Santa Cruz um tutors They're the ones that do the outreach to students So they will because they're on site They have that ability to work with other counselors and also work with the administration And teachers to go physically get the kids and talk to them and and do that the paper tutoring, which is the virtual one um That so how paper tutoring what we're doing is that we're first addressing with the 250 students who are on the site wellness team for academics And sites are doing outreach and the paper tutoring company themselves are actually working with school sites to do the outreach to calling and all of the materials The advertisements and the materials and there's youtube videos to get it out to parents And so we are doing also um Like almost a commercial to make sure that the students are getting on for the paper tutoring Because that's the one that we don't have as much control over when they do it because it is 24 7 that the students have access Which is a great access It's just making sure that they do utilize it So trustee shocker i'm just gonna also ask um miss chaus to speak to also what the counselors are doing and um The wellness teams and other efforts Sure. So a couple of things that are going on in terms of how are we capturing kids Likewise as we've done in the past two years during distance learning each counselor has met with every singer So anybody that was already off track we've met with They did individual plans with each student to say What are the state requirements that they need to make sure that they actually hit those marks first And then in addition any others that would be at the 220 mark that that would be warranted So um as miss geary spoke underneath 104 it's still at the 130 level This is the last year that that is in play So really kind of looking at the kids and making sure that they hit the state requirements first Receding them in that or getting them into credit recovery. Um, we had a very robust winter session for credit recovery Um, and we expect to have another robust uh spring So we're looking at just about 700 kids that have one or other class across district wide And about half of those at this point are now moving into credit recovery for those classes We're focusing on the state requirements first to make sure that they are able to graduate And then moving forward from there, but Huge shout out and I'd be remiss if I didn't to our counselors for meeting with each one of the kids Those contract pieces also include the parent contact so that the parent knows Whether the student may be in jeopardy of not graduating as well So that's kind of another fold in to help motivate students to to have different opportunities to make up That class in terms of sight wellness Our teams are still running sight wellness. So as mr. Geary presented, you'll see that academic piece kind of Peak their rigor level has gone up in terms of classes. So they are feeling that piece as well But you can also see the pieces that are high, you know, we have higher substance abuse and stress anxiety right now as well So coupling those pieces we focused a lot on the connection that they have with school And keeping them connected to the adults that care about them in the school So huge motivating factor when you know somebody cares about you versus not so really focusing on that connection to keep them Engaged what I will say is that the ones that may be struggling in that cd band are showing up More more robustly than they initially were so As we get closer It's also not uncommon to see seniors pull stuff off that we didn't think that they could pull off at times So there was a little piece of that that is historical across the board. So when we're talking about one or two classes I would say if they went to credit recovery at this point And again, we'll have some summer grads as well They would likely be able to finish at least three classes if they were motivated It's about 15 credits before then in school year in addition to their normal classes Thank you very much for sharing My next question is if we go back to like our map, right? So if we take out Our 2020 data Right, which is an anonymity because like you said it's at home. We don't know Sister helping whatever It's it's hard. It's a hard environment to control. Um, so if we look Take 2020 out trajectory wise Where we're at now is not too far off where we were Prior to kovat correct? Yes, that is correct with students in school 100% okay, and that is across the board With the map scores pretty much or if you look at fourth grade Reading it's actually above than where we were in the in the winter Okay, and also the fall And then our math scores are improving You know those kind of took a hit but those look like they are improving Um, slowly yes, they are also Except for sixth sixth grade. We see some problems, but it's still above When we look at the winter test. We're still Where we were where we were okay, and are we having extra supports in place for the middle schoolers right now also Um for the middle school what you say we're going to be adding um in the next presentation Okay, with the we'll be adding um some supports, but we also have Counselors that are on the the middle school and they also have site wellness teams as well And so they use the same process that the high school does when they have students that are Are not doing well, um in different sites too. For example, they'll take the The map data and they'll go through it and they'll comb it and they'll actually look By student by student and they'll go through and they'll make plans students make plan they look at it And that's part of what um what we're doing to also empower the students to say like this was your trajectory and we can get you back up there Okay, and also with our map we were partnering with Khan Academy, right? So the the accelerator with the methods so the kids that Are struggling they are having lessons that are targeted to them through that portion absolutely correct So as students are taking it and they're they're where their RIT score falls It places them into the map accelerator based on their score And so the the lessons that are delivered to them through Khan Academy is where they're supposed to be And what they need to fill in their gaps. That's absolutely correct. Thank you Yeah, just really briefly going back to um trustee dodges request. I think Having data by school site. I think would be helpful but also um Having data Uh for English language learners and students would yeah subgroups. I think would be very helpful for us Um So going back to the wellness teams and referrals Um was a turnaround time for them to for students to who are referred to receive services or additional supports It's pretty fast. Um wellness teams the expectations that they're meeting weekly And so depending on the severity and what the actual case is that the the staff because it because it is Monitored by the school site. It's a fast turnaround where they're not waiting on someone from the outside to support and help Great and then as far as accessing um academic counselors or additional tutoring on site through Our career centers and so forth or have there been any issues with waiting times for students who access them We haven't additional help. We haven't heard and uh, if there is any we haven't heard from students that there is Waiting time, but we can look into that to see That'll be good. This is great. Thank you I I was just gonna say I did have some questions, but I feel like they got answered it was um kind of leaping off of what trustee dodges said about how um It is because I figured of course you could break this down by school all the way down to By the student and I think you and the shells have answered that sufficiently for me tonight But and I think it is important for us to look at how that we are doing it as a district as a whole So thank you for your presentation Thanks for this presentation Um, there's it's there's a lot to learn here and a lot to study And so I do still feel like we need a special study session because I have a lot more questions than I You want to answer tonight? But the ones that I'd like answered tonight is If you could go to the slide that shows the graduation rate again So do we have any I'm I know you do because you have this data at your fingertips. I'm probably at your desk but do you have any sense of How our graduation rate compares to the state and national average Or even county. Yeah, I have that at my desk. I don't have it here. Okay. So that's something I'd like to know I think the public should know that Um, but that's a nice number compared to years past. So yes, congratulations. Yeah on Getting that up and then, um You said something about supports including instructional associates and I have no idea. I've never heard that assistants So assistants like aids. Yeah, Ia's Ia's So we're are we putting more Ia's in to support students than we ever have before? Yes, we did We have put more Ia's and we um earlier Yeah for the start of the school year And at the elementary school sites and they are not only are have we increased the number that we have We're also doing professional development with them where they come and they learn With the different um curriculums and the sips like the fluency to work with students. So We've brought on more instructional Ia's and also increase with the professional development that they're receiving as well So it's not just they're there in the classroom to That's great. I think our teachers have been asking for that for a long time Yeah, so the expectations there and also to support the learning. That's great And then um under the I had the same concern about I'd like to see the breakdown by individual schools So I so we know Okay, and and subgroups would be good And again when you're averaging out like when I'm looking at the scores, I'd like to know how that averages out Not averages out, but how that compares to state and national averages and You know similar demographic districts I think that would be helpful Um And then if you is this a if you could go back to the slide that talked about grades um This I think So we have the ninth and tenth grade grades here And then we have the 11th 12 12th grades here And then we have the cte. Yeah, so maybe it was those last two slides I'm wondering how did how did these differ from years past? Do you have any sense? Pretty consistent. It is pretty consistent. Okay Okay, so I think we all expected Some dips in our progress that we were so excited about Considering covet and that's not a surprise and I don't think we were expecting anything different. So it's just a small Yeah Um, and then in terms of counselors in the middle school, I thought we only had part-time counselors Do we have full-time counselors now in the middle school with increased funding? Yeah, so we have one social emotional counselor at each middle school now and we have At least one academic counselor. It depends on their size But they have at least one academic and one social emotional. Oh, that's great increase the ratios this this beginning of this year That's wonderful. Okay. I think that's all. Thank you very much But you don't leave because you're up next with our l-cap update report So we'll move on to item 8.2. All right. Thank you again. Good evening president to serve by board trustees and dr. Rodriguez I'm not sure why the apple moved down But the the fruit is ready to be picked is what it what it's saying So, okay, um, so then I'm here to present the l-cap mid-year report and so a little background is that the section 124 e of assembly bill 130 requires all leas to present an update on the annual annual update the 21 to L-cap for this year looking at some metrics some of the metrics you've you just saw in the previous Presentation as well as expenditures that we either had to reconfigure or we haven't spent yet And so tonight I will be going through The different l-cap goals where we are with some of the metrics and where we are with some of the expenditures in addition, um, we have to um, we're also looking this is the The parent budget the and also looking at where we had an increase in concentration grants And so last June when you approved the l-cap as well as the july budget The budget act of 2021 had not yet been approved And what this did is it actually increased the amount of funding to schools whether it was through one-time funds Or what we hadn't also we had a major increase in the lcff supplemental concentration grant monies And so tonight we're also going to be talking about the with the increase the 5.5 million increase in the concentration supplemental Grant monies what it is that we are going to be doing with the money So the supplement to the l-cap which was included in the board packet There were five areas for our written response. Um, the first one is um, how did we engage with educational partners? Um on the use of funds provided through the budget act of 2021 that were not included in the l-cap that you approved um a description on how we plan on using the additional concentration grant add-on funding um, and then the third area is um, how we engaged With our community partners on the use of one-time federal funds received Intended to support the recovery of the covet 19 pandemic and the impact of distance learning the fourth area, um Is how we're implementing how the the successes and the challenges of the implementation of the federal American rescue plan act and the federal elementary and secondary school emergency relief which are essers s or 1 2 and 3s And then finally, um, how we are using its fiscal resources received for the 21 22 school year in a manner that's consistent With the board approved Um, 21 22 l-cap So in the first area, which is how we engage with our educational partners Um, we listened to the voices of our stakeholders from surveys and meetings that took place from march 2021 to january 2022 These meetings included things such as school site council English language advisory committee district advisory committee The district english learning learner advisory committee The community advisory committee migrant parent advisory committee migrant seasonal head start policy committee child development parent advisory committee town halls thought exchange student meetings and bargaining unit meetings where we asked how we want to spend the The funds that we are receiving This second area Where we're looking at, um, how we're going to spend the additional 5.5 million in the concentration add-on funding, um And the funding must be used to increase the number. So it's strict. So the number of staff Who provide direct services to students at schools campuses with an enrollment of 55 percent or higher Unduplicated students. So the unduplicated students are students that are socio economically disadvantaged english learners and or foster youth And so we'll be adding a counselor to service students and families in the newcomer program and the international academy Additional fte to middle school for english language development acceleration additional fte to high school for english language development acceleration Additional fte at wattenville high school specifically to teach within the newcomer program Reading and mass specialists at the middle schools I'm going to increase the number of maintenance specialists additional school parent liaisons to increase parent engagement An additional socio-emotional counselors at the secondary schools both middle and high schools This was based on the feedback that we received through our Different meetings and our surveys Area three asked how we engage educational partners with the use of one-time federal funds Which are your s or one s or two s or three in-person instruction and expanded learning grants You'll see that we had different meetings and also different surveys And in which included the weekly conversations with the superintendent where dr. Rod regis goes to different school sites and engages with the staff Area four is the success and challenges of the implementation of the s or three plan So some of the excess successes that we had was the expanded arts through l-systema the expanded outdoor science education through life lab expanded enhanced school-based counseling, which is the expansion with our contract with pvpsa additional social emotional counselors and the addition of mental health clinicians Um eaop contract for academic supports at um middle school some of our middle schools and high schools addition of instructional aides at the elementary um schools ias robust summer learning program and the opening of the family wellness and engagement center Some of the challenges that we've had in the implementation Is the balancing of the l-cap which was we we wrote the l-cap We earmarked monies and then we received one-time funds. So it was the balancing of the l-cap spending with the one-time monies that we received the hiring of staff to fill positions So we know we have a need for certain positions to support our students Um, but it's the hiring to find the the people to put in the place where we had some challenges unreliable substitute pool for both certificated and classified As we know it's been a challenging year And then also the implementation of the changing cdhp protocols, which um Have changed quite a bit as through the school year Those were some of our challenges And the last area is how we're using fiscal resources consistent with the l-cap um all monies um that we whether it was through one-time grant or the additional add-on of the concentration Are aligned um to one of the seven l-cap goals With the implementation of and this is just a short list in a Very broad list of the things that we have put in place the expanded professional development Family engagement additional materials and curriculum additional personnel and extended hours of personnel the purchase of additional Outdoor seating so that students can be outside and eat and gather facility repairs and safety improvements and community partnerships to expand academic Opportunities enrichment and extended learning time If we look through our l-cap um the mid-year metrics, there are three different Buckets that they can fall into the metrics, which is what we look at to see how we are doing in terms of what we want to achieve with our goals Um, so one of them is that the outcome is unknown Um one's outcomes in progress. We don't have data and the last one is the outcome is known There are lots of metrics within the l-cap some of them have been presented um throughout this year Some of them presented in the previous presentation and I have um a few that will be upcoming The second thing we're going to look at is the l-cap expenditures and implementation um and so with our expenditures and um Implementation we said we were going to earmark a certain amount of money to do this And so whatever action that is that we said that we were going to do it could be whether that it wasn't started It's in progress or it's not completed So this evening what i'm going to do is i'm going to go over the areas where that that we had to either reconfigure expenditures Either because we used one time um money or that there's been a delay due to A reason whether it's because we couldn't meet in person or whatever it is And so those are the areas that i am going to highlight So the first l-cap goal is that by 2024 we're going to increase the number of tk12 students performing at grade level um or above And the high school is completing a through g coursework to prepare all students to graduate from pv pv usd life career and college ready, so that's our first goal um some of the metrics um We look we have map and if you look on here some of it is broken out by um demographics This is a percent of students making one year's academic growth The first column is where our baseline was when the l-cap was written the um Middle column is where we want to be at the end of the 2023-24 school year and the third column is where we currently are based on our last um Scores or whatever it is So this is actually in progress because we will students will take another test in spring And that's where we can really see where our students are growing and how many are making a um year's progress um So lisa if I could just have you go back to that I think so for me when you look at the mid-year update you guys were asking previously about the subgroups What we have found that the pandemic and distance learning affected vulnerable student groups at a higher level than Other students it also affected our students more as they got older So, um, we had some significant challenges in terms of literacy for our k1 But then when you look at map growth and the negative impact of distance learning you see it much more at the higher levels Um, and you'll see it here, right? So you'll see that Um, when you look at the percentage that were proficient in making great progress, um, Whether it's socionomically disadvantaged or students with disabilities, you'll see the significant down shift that we had And so that's why we are putting in so many things in place whether it's the intervention teachers or the instructional assistants Right because we need to what is bringing down the district-wide numbers is just a disproportionate impact That had on vulnerable populations So we saw that in our families and we're seeing that in our students as well So michelle with that since we're talking about this in that center column where it says desired outcomes like why Why wouldn't we put a hundred percent when don't we want a hundred percent of our kids to have the desired outcome? We do but when you look psychometrically at what progress Realistically can be made we can make the 60 percent by the 23 24 school year Um, and so that's not our end result But that is the result of where we want to get ourselves back to Especially knowing that we saw a downward trajectory. And so we're having to Rebound back um and get back to where we were So when you look at the trajectories that we had, um, we were going we've been going up for the last four years unfortunately As in most school districts um the distance learning Although everyone did a valiant effort. It was a challenging year. So people Our students came back um at a lower rate and then at this point It's been harder for them to rebound back and everyone's making A great effort to do that. But yeah Those numbers will increase With the next l-cap cycle because we will reach those and then you increase it more Um, so we have another one is so for example of an outcome is unknown is the s-back the cast test that students take Um, we did not take the test last year. So that's why there's outcome is unknown Um Then on the bottom we have the percent of high school students who agree or strongly agree that their school has helped Understand this the steps needed in order to have their career that they wanted And if we look the majority of um our students, um the subgroups it increased Um, and so our what we're doing with the schools with the students and looking at their futures. Um, it's showing that it is working um And then if we look at the reconfigured expenditures and identified delays in um, there was 25 000 earmarked for early childhood and um this action item has not started It will be starting. Um, there's a couple different things. There are um aligning The the student work the the curriculum on how the ece Alliance pushing up through to tk as well as looking at different um social emotional programs for students That works for um the younger students Um, the second thing is the cultural responsive classroom and teaching Um, we have not spent very much money in this area The action is delayed due to the subs shortage and outside So the subs shortage number one and so we had a series for um teachers and administrators to take We did delay that because it's better especially with this to do it in person than it is to do it online because It really is about learning who you are as a an educator so that you can help students Who may or may not look like you right? So you have to know your own biases and that and that is really done better in person than it is online The second thing is that there was an outside contract with our community resource education the cre through the ethnic studies that was paid with um one time funds College and career development Action 1.9. Um, that's our eaop contract. So within the l cap we placed that in there that was paid through one time um one time funds and then the the foster youth it's in progress What happens is part of our services for our foster youth We work through the santa criss county office of ed and they um invoice us at the end of the year So these this is in progress the work is being done Which just hasn't been invoiced so if when you look at the budget it doesn't show that it it was um any money was spent That's just a quick question on the eaop Is that just for one year or is that a multi-year contract? The eaop um the one point I believe it's one year just for it's a one. Okay. Yeah. Wow. Okay. Thanks So l cap goal two is that ensure Parva valley and I won't read the whole thing but provides par parva valley unified provides Julie wants me to all right by 2024 ensure that parva valley unified provides career technical education cte pathways that are aligned to high-scale high-demand high-wage professions with our regional industry ecosystem And that also infirm as strengths our students lived experiences Resilience and persistence persistence inherent student cultural capital and persistence leading to a habit of lifelong learning and post-secondary options Which include four and two-year colleges technical training and or certification based employment this is um director julie edwards um who uh Overseas this l cap goal and she wrote that goal and it is beautiful So some of the metrics that we have in place If we look um all of them we have progress great progress in all areas. You've heard many updates with the cte work going on um You look the first one we're 98 completion where we have minimum of two a through g desnay core sequence reflecting standards Align curriculum and state cal pads aligned courses Where our desired outcome for 23 24 was 90 percent. So we are actually ahead So this is one that will Yeah, yes, exactly will the change it to 100 where we were last year is 25 percent And that outcome is known. Um the next two we do have if you look we also have um progress on the The the middle one and that's in progress and then the last one the career technical education student leadership opportunities And this one um part of the reason why it's not higher is because of the in-person opportunities aren't there quite there yet There are progress in all and even though that our students aren't going to the events in progress Julie has them all airmarked of exactly where they will be going soon as everything opens up So reconfigured expenditures and identified delays And so the action hasn't started the first one Where we're looking at adding a graphic design and product innovation There's pre-work that is being done. But the where we need to spend the moneys has not yet taken place Pathway exploration at new school The action is in progress, but no expenditures also has um needs to happen And the last one is the professional development and you'll see this um throughout that the professional development That's an area that we haven't spent as much money because Usually it's spent on subs or um extra time for teachers and because we don't have the in-person ability That we had we haven't had to spend the money on subs And that's the one thing that we're trying to do with professional development is not take them out of the classroom So it'll kept goal three My 2024 to develop students talents passions and interests All tk12 students will have access to the arts as part of our commitment to the whole child learning and development Um, this is an area that we've been working on for quite some time have added quite a bit of Programs alike um save the music. I saw a great save the music class today and different adding um choir and Band at our middle school and high schools and different opportunities for students So we want to increase So some of the the metrics if we look um, this is where there is a hundred percent The desired outcome at the end Um, the first one percent of elementary students with access to visual and performing arts through a teacher outside of their primary teacher And this has increased We are adding more save the music teachers Um, and so this is an area that has increased the outcome is known because we know who our staff are And we know where our students are going during the day second one is a percent of secondary students with access to VAPA courses With the ability to take multiple courses in a given discipline repeatedly, which means um, I i'm my I'm forced to take band for some reason right and then I find out that I'm Fall in love with playing the saxophone and I want to continue And next year I want to go to intermediate band or advanced band. So having that Strand at the same school site where I can continue my passion And that's what this one is. Um, this metric is talking about Um, we're we're the same this year The outcome is known and we are looking and um Our coordinator of APA sugralty is working with school sites to figure out how we can make sure that those strands do exist Where students can continue their passion Some of the reconfigured expenditures and identified delays Um, the first one is the elementary visual and performing arts Um, and this is looking at the professional development within Um, the for the VAPA teachers this one hasn't started do there was um, we were going to do a lot of professional development But because of subs shortage, um, and we didn't want to pull teachers from the school day Um, the second one's el sistema El sistema week. This is completed, but we use one time, um money To purchase the action item and the last one is the latino film institute use cinema project project, which we also used one time monies el cap goal four Is ensure educational needs are met for all students by providing engaging 21st century learning environments appropriately credentialed teachers and quality standards and lines instructional materials through fiscally solvent practices This is really where we look at our williams Which the report came earlier where we're looking at instructional materials school sites, um conditions, um, and as well as if we have properly Credential teachers within the classroom also within. Um, yeah, so then if we look We have um for the first one is looking at the facilities Where we want to decrease the number of instances. So this one is backwards the lower the number is um, the better number So we did crease just a little bit and we want to get down to 20 percent So it's the number of instances where facilities do not meet the good repair. So this is the lower percentage is the better Um, the outcome is known. Um, the missus the second one is the calphering dashpert indicator basics of mis assignments for teachers who teach english learners Um, this one we're at zero percent, which is great And the last one is the percent of classroom assignments filled on the first day of school and as we know That did decrease because we did not have all of our positions filled Some of the reconfigured expenditures and identified delays. Um, so the first one is core instructional materials This year we had earmarked monies for elementary science adoption Curriculum adoption as well as high school english curriculum adoption both of them were started in progress But because of the pandemic, um, we delayed both of them and we will be Adopting them in the near future So the money that was set aside to pay for the adoption that we need for both elementary science And also for high school english is is delayed and so that's in progress, but it is Just delayed and we'll be doing it next year. Um, but we still need to have that money set aside school libraries It's where we want to improve our school libraries with facilities to have Places for students to go to after school as well as having library books. This is completed, but we use one time funds Um, and the last one is the 21st century learning tools This is something where you heard about the innovation tech coaches who go out work with school sites have, um See virtual 3d goggles which have grease green screens Different items of that sort In this case, um, our technology coaches are all in the classroom teaching And so this one is not started because They're not In able to go out to the school sites this year el cap goal five the el cap goal five, um looks at our long-term english learners And it's um, we want to make sure that they're demonstrating at least one year of progress towards english fluency And then we want to decrease the number of long-term english learners So if we look at the metrics um For our english learner reclassification rate. This one's in progress. We are currently Holding el pack tests on all of our school sites This is our spring annual one to figure out to find out how many of our students have progressed in english So that they become reclassified Um, and so our baseline last year we had seven percent english learner reclassification rate And we're projected to hit 10 and so this is in the pandemic and so it is in progress and we'll know more in spring The second one is the number of students who have access to all course offerings And so this decreased a little bit But we are finding ways that more creative ways that our students have access to all course offerings And the last one is the number of students receiving the seal of biliteracy award As you know, this is one that has increased um our director of State and fed in english learner services Michael burman has done a great job in terms of reaching out to counselors to students to families To try to grab as many students as and and talk to them about Going through the process to get the biliter by literacy award There is some onus on the student to complete paperwork. And so he really is working with the counselors Last year we had 148 students Which decreased a little bit And then this year we're projected to hit 165, which is great. So it is it is a increase in what we've done and So we're moving closer to our goal Reconfigured expenditures and identified delays in this area for lcap goal five All of our expenditures that we identified are being spent appropriately And so there is nothing that we can say that where we're not spending the funds lcap goal six. This is where um, we look at the school campuses We want to create a culture where all adults provide a safe support of a positive school environment Grounded in culturally and linguistically responsive teaching that encourages positive behavior provides more opportunities for students sense of connectedness And increases engagement This is really looking at how our students are filling on school site looking at suspensions expulsions and what we have in place to Support the students well-being And so some of the metrics The first one is the pbis Is the number of schools scoring high enough on the tiered fidelity inventory the tfi to be recognized by the world? Coalition of pbis At the bronze level or higher. So the bronze is the lowest level that you can be recognized and some bronze over gold and so We have had a large increase of a number of our schools that have been recognized We're almost hitting our goal. So we're at last year. We had 26 of our schools recognized By the pbis world coalition. So the outcome is known um, and then we are working with the The the rest of the schools to see if we can get all of our schools 100 we had 28, but we really want to be 31 Um, the second metric in this one is the percent of middle school students who agree or strongly agree when they are feeling Upset stressed or having problems their school has programs or services that can help them And if we look at this it shows that the the services that we've put in For most of our subgroups, it has increased saying yes that I do agree or strongly agree with this statement Um, we're gonna and what we're what we would like is to have this increase even more um, but the majority of them With the english learner dropping 1 um, but there is an an increase and So the reconfigured expenditures and identified delays This is where um, a lot of one-time funds were used. So the first thing is the family engagement and wellness center It was written in the l cap, but we used one-time um funds for this action item. It's completed pbis We used um one-time funding Multi-tiered systems of support. Um, this is completed and we use one-time Um funding the community resource and counseling. This is our partnership with pvpsa one-time money Um, and then the drug and alcohol prevention. Um, this was also used completed with one-time funds and the last goal Which is increased parent and family engagement in their children's education through a variety of opportunities That promote greater parent capacity and empowerment by adding opportunities throughout the school district um, the parent engagement center Is doing a great job with our online. We notice that more we have more parent participation online In looking at the metric what we noticed there was a decline in the percent of um Parents who agree or strongly agree that they're engaged with their their children's school And if you think about it from a parent's perspective, oh, sorry I was I was turning my pages thinking that it automatically goes. Um If you um from a from a parent's perspective, um The the it it feels different and when non covid times you could go on campus You can engage with your child's teacher. You can talk to the office. You can volunteer. You can go on field trips And when we were in distance learning It was one thing to say, you know, you could see the teacher online every day, right? You could you could see that or talk to your student about it or see them Now that we're back in school as a parent our previous experience Is not the same And it's a little weird as a parent to feel like, you know, I've actually Maybe seen my child's teacher once this entire year But it's because we don't have the volunteer opportunities or the field trips because of the pandemic And so there was and and it shows in the decrease in the parents who say that they feel Engaged with their child's school because there aren't those opportunities and once we um Once we switch and it feels more like normalcy these numbers will go back up So some of the reconfigured expenditures and this goes along with it The first thing is the family engagement plan part of it is that we want to work with the family engagement Services want to work with school sites to create a family engagement plan by school Right, so they come up and they said how many what are you going to do to engage your parents? What opportunities and activities are you going to have on your school site? Where parents and families and guardians can come and participate But because of we're still in the coveted times this has not yet been allowed to happen But there is money earmarked for that Um And then the other thing is the college and career night. We want to increase we had college and career Day that turned two week that's gone to two weeks. And so this year we also added the college and career night for family Um families and so there was money earmarked But this was done through a virtual platform and not in person. So we didn't need any Any funding for for this event and so those were the two in the oil capital seven And in closing the challenges of hiring staff implementing health and safety protocols and addressing learning acceleration needs due to the impact of distance learning Has presented many challenges as we return to in-person learning But we are still committed to the LCAP to provide the necessary student services to our students And we would like to acknowledge and thank Are the hard work and dedication of all of our employees certificated and classified The support of our parents and community and the resilience of our students to ensure all students graduate college career and life ready it's been An interesting journey over the last two years Thank you. Lisa. Do we have any speakers to this item? We do not Okay, any questions or comments from the board a trustee home I'm wondering if we have any data around Because we've been talking about the impact of you know distance learning etc Do we have any data? From the maybe school district that had the same kind of transmission rates as our area, but maybe didn't Go to distance, you know or like just i'm thinking about like the impact So I know some districts and say like new york So outside of california Yeah, they they tried to stay open But then they had to close and then they opened and there was a lot of back and forth Do we have any data around impacts on their learning goals? We probably could use map because map is national level data and try to find something aligned with that Because we aren't doing s back. We don't have any national level data other than map But we could investigate that Definitely in other states They had Differing experiences of their amount of closure for sure and that would be just good data for us to have is Things to build So the l-cap was written at the beginning of the school year, right? No, the l-cap was written Last year and board approved june 23rd 2021. Okay, but it was for this school year It's for this school year. It goes from 20 the beginning of the school year The year 23 24. Okay, so I know we got some extra money coming in and um Is there is there anything there left over all every dollar of it is now allocated? Every dollar of is now allocated. Okay, and the in the march the next board meeting There will be a budget presentation Where it will go through. Okay, sounds good any other questions from this side? It was a lot of information And it was very thorough Okay Okay, thank you Thank you Okay, we are on uh section nine, which is action items um, the next presentation is 9.1 the 2021 comprehensive school safety plan presented by assistant superintendent christin schaus Good evening board president serpa Uh board of trustees and dr. Rodriguez A couple of beautiful people up there. You can see that's actually part of our alice team that's been doing trainings throughout the district I have the pleasure of giving you an opportunity to see a little closer into the comprehensive school safety plan process So every year by ed code we're required to review safety plans that level of review has to happen At the site level also includes a law enforcement review and district office review Those have to be submitted by march 1st every year Each school has to then forward that to you guys as the district or the county office So what you'll sometimes see is the smaller districts will use county offices Larger districts tend to use their own districts to be able to approve those and then they move on to the cde I can verify that we have all of them So we are not going to need to notify the cde that we have any schools missing at this point A couple of things that I want to kind of point out as we go through. I know that several of you guys are familiar with them Dock tracking and I just noticed that our cursor doesn't actually work up there So if you look at the upper left hand side up there, you'll see dock tracking Dock tracking is a system that we use for multiple plans. It actually includes our l cap our single plans for student achievement Various different plans that have compliance measures that need to be hit Within that document it allows us to clearly see the guidelines of what's in ed code so that we can ensure that we've met all of those pieces A couple of pieces that you'll notice at the top left hand side just underneath dock tracking You'll see part one So comprehensive school safety plans come in two parts Part one is open to the public By that I mean that it's allowed to be presented on their websites You'll see several different pieces, but the highlights of part one really are around Board policy and what the rules and regulations of the schools are in general A few things that folks may sometimes misconstrue You'll see that little first Orange arrow up there current status of school crime. They're not actually referring to school crime as legal or penal code crime They're actually referring to office discipline referrals You know some of the various pieces up there with the tenants We don't code it that way the cde codes it that way. So I just want to make sure you guys know that is not Us looking at school crime in that capacity. It does require schools to put forward how many kids have been suspended What is the california healthy kids survey say what does your youth truth survey say? So they do need to make sure that they bring forward any of the discipline actions that have occurred on their campus And then what kind of those remediations looked like Another piece you'll see up there is the emergency disaster preparedness training schedule A little insert there as well requires them every drill that's required by ed code Needs to be listed there with the dates of either completion or proposed completion of when they're going to hit those If you reviewed last years, which I know you did you would have seen that we were in hiatus We were during covet time kids were not with us. So those drills actually indicated On hold until covet closure opens up You'll see that each one of those has now been resumed So you will see that drills have started to occur again And those earthquake drills fire drills those pieces are now happening for our kids in our sites again And then lastly, you'll see the last one Of the orange pull out there in aro Positive school climate those are going to be all of your pbis pieces That is not inclusive. So you would open up the file. That's just a short version of uh, you know, what you would see in a snippet So from pbis tier one and tier two supports But that's really where a school would put in what's happening on the preventative side Or what are they using for their pbis module pieces? To support students You'll see at the bottom there again that those are posted publicly to school sites based on approval This is part two. So you'll see that upper left hand corner again right underneath dock tracking Part two and uh, I'll probably say this twice I want to make sure that everybody knows this in in all transparency. There's a reason why part two is not disclosed to the public In part two, it includes staging and assembly areas reunification areas site and evacuation maps identification of disabled individuals location of shutoff valves control panels and blueprints of buildings All things that also fell into the wrong hands actually put us in a poor situation With staff students and first responders. So part two is actually undercover By that it's it's meant that the district can see it The sites have access to be able to see their own plans as well But in terms of publication to the larger mass those are not disclosed Part one again, you'll see upon approval That would go up on websites this year We're also going to have principals make sure that their parents are aware of them So whatever their normal form of communication is whether that's a newsletter their memos their pushouts through pa's They'll they'll notify their parents that part one is also up and posted to their websites Within the board docs. I put three samples. That's typical of what we have done in the past We put one from elementary school middle school and a high school You'll also see over on my desk. We have all of them in person as well So we ran them in hard copies just to make sure that You also have assurances that they've all been done And with that staff is recommending that you move those forward for approval so that I can get them off to cde Are there any speakers to this item? Any questions or comments from the board? trusty dotch Thank you very much president diserpa um Attached are three samples of part one one from each grade level valencia rolling hills in pahoro valley high school Was that this year? Yes, so all of those are current so each one of the three that I attached to the board docs will be the current years that went through oh You know, thank you for the port It was a good report. I was just wondering Why weren't any schools from my area? trusty accost are trusty sodos Schools involved in any of this training For this year So everybody's involved in the training each one of the sites is required to go through the process They are uh, you know on my desk. I do bring them forward You're welcome to be able to to review each one of your schools as well We just randomly actually picked samples last year. I picked three different samples that include eda hall watsonville high i believe in another one and Not just step on trusty sodos toes or anything Do we know the last time we had a training in monterey county and are we working with law enforcement monterey county? Which training are you referring to this is considered the alice training, right? No, so this actually is in corporation of all plan levels. So you'll see up here One of the pieces which is that center band Arrow actually talks about all the drills. So those would include shelter in place. They'd include alice training fire evacuation and also Earthquake so it's not just one incident. It's multiple. So the plan has to cover all of them We are working with our local law enforcement both sheriff and wpd To make sure that we're moving through the process of Following the same protocols that they are Have we've been working with monterey county? We have reached out to monterey county. I have not received feedback from that I will say that the alice design does not change what law enforcement is going to do on arrival It actually brings forward the alert system. It brings forward our folks informing us earlier All of those are going to be needed before we even dispatch to law enforcement either way. Okay. Thank you Thank you christen for your report. I had actually a question on your Back a couple sites the The second part that one. Yep. Yeah, you said this is just to District personnel, right When when you say district personnel, are you just referring To administration principles or are you Is that encompassing all Certificated and classified employees, right? So our classified employees and our certificated staff are part of the process of their site level reviews So one of the things that they do is Our teachers have access to the site evacuation map. We want our folks to know where they're going We just don't want outsiders to know where our kids are going So they do have access to this part on site. Our principles do go through these pieces of if we're leaving a campus Here's where our reunification site is. So we do go over it with staff That includes those shutoff valves those blueprints Mno, uh, absolutely knows where the blueprints are and where those shutoff valves In fact, they're an active part that if we were to have a gas leak They're responsible to help us, uh, you know, remediate that and turn those pieces off too Okay and then The next question I have just regarding this is this Share it may be sort of piggybacking off of this, but Is this Component shared with our local emergency systems like the fire department law enforcement county sheriff Do they have access to this? Yes. So uh, each one of our law enforcement agencies actually do have access to this It's a requirement by our ed code to have them review it So each one of the plans that we're presenting tonight has been reviewed by our local law enforcement So that is going to include watsonville fire department Um, the central fire departments the center cruise county sheriff watsonville pd and monterey county sheriff And cdf only law enforcement. It actually does not include fire department as one of the ed code measures. Oh, really? Wow They do come out and do uh rounds to make sure that that we're doing uh Our evacuation drills, but they are not required to sign off on the actual plans So so then fire departments don't have access to this as part of our emergency services, they do not have access to The plans themselves. We wouldn't be opposed to that either though. It's just not a requirement by that code. Okay. All right And so then coming back I guess the question is sure all current law enforcement Including monterey county santa cruz county sheriff And watsonville pd This is have access to have absolutely. Okay. Great. Thank you Tisoto, I just had a follow-up to uh trustee dodges question regarding monterey county Who's the point of contact that you tried to contact over there? I would be happy to answer that but I prefer not to answer it in open session and fairness to that individual as well Okay Fair enough Uh That way I can reach out to my contacts out there as well to kind of push this along Thank you. Appreciate it So I you know I used to work in the classrooms of my kids and I've been on on valencia's campus when the fire department has come Into the classroom and in fact cited The teacher for having too much construction paper on the bulletin Or the ceilings that happens to you Seriously happened and all of the teachers had to go through and pull down like most of their you know displays um I also sat on the site site councils Where um these plans would come before us and we would approve them alongside at school administration And law enforcement and then they go up to the district office level and then to the coe and then to the state So there's several levels of oversight for these And i'm glad to know that all are completed because I know that's sometimes hard to get everybody's Safety plans in on time and i'm really happy to see that that all of them are completed this year. Thank you and before us Okay, any other oh dr. Trustee dodge. Thank you Is it possible to reach out to once upon the once upon a fire department to ask if they're interested in being able to Read this or be part of this Yeah, absolutely. I think once of a fire department is A lot you know a lot of them were from from watson one I think they would have first-time knowledge and any type of emergency earthquake fire and they also carry a paramedic And so I think there would be An important piece of this project so If we could do that. Thank you Okay, with no further discussion or questions. I'm looking for a motion to approve this I'll make a motion to approve second All those in favor I I opposed Motion carries unanimously. Thank you. Thank you very much President de sopa. I'd like to make a motion to extend our meeting Um to midnight To what time to midnight to midnight. Okay All those in favor Opposed Motion passes 601. Thank you Um, okay next is 9.2 resolution 21 22 25 intent to Sell a permanent easement rights to improve the overall safety around lake view middle school. This is a report by our cbo Clint rucker. Thank you Thank you president de sopa board of trustees and dr. Rodriguez So I'm here before you tonight to talk about a intent to sell or grant permanent easement rights to a parcel of land that we own near lake view middle school Caltrans in the city of Santa Cruz are actually looking to Work on that road at hula hand and 152 as many of you know currently It has a very short about 50 foot left turn lane as well as a right turn and through lane And for any of you who have been on that road that Straight slash right turn lane kind of becomes into two lanes when it really shouldn't be What they're looking to do is really create two left turn lanes One will be a left turn only one will be a straight and left turn as well as creating a right turn lane In order to accomplish this they need to widen the road That's specifically one of the areas they need to widen is at the corner of hula hand and 152 Which is technically our property on lake views As part of lake views land If we can scroll down On this one actually it's the other exhibit a go to the other exhibit We could thank you. Um, so this land actually is not on while it is on our property of lake view It is not actually in the school itself. So if we scroll down there that shaded area is what they're looking at It's about 93 square feet. So it is a very small amount of land If we were to attempt to sell this land they have assessed it as what they consider nominal Meaning it has no price to it because it's such a small amount of land and it's an area where you can't really build anything on it You can't create anything on it because it's Brushed up would be brushed up against our property in a road. Um, what they're asking for is permanent easement rights So the reason we do permanent easement rights is it allows us to maintain the fact that it can only be used Specifically for this road it does not actually give caltrans the ability to then turn around and resell that property For another use so we are asking the board to approve a resolution as an intent to sell It's the first step whenever we grant permanent easement rights or attempt to sell any land We have to first put out a resolution of our intent We then need to publish that in a newspaper And then we need to come back to a public hearing as well as another action item to approve the actual Sale or granting of permanent easement rights I've been working with the city on this for about three or four months trying to find a solution That would benefit the district as well as city. They are not asking for any funding for this So this isn't a project that we're funding It's simply allowing them to have the rights to that easement to be able to widen that road They'll also have a temporary construction easement of about 300 feet, but that will be temporary Again, this isn't actually impacting any of the land that our students actually use It's actually on the outside of the fence So it's actually pretty much if you go down to that corner on lake view on 152 and huan it is effectively the sidewalk area or the plants near it that we just technically own So what we're looking for tonight is for the board to approve the intent resolution on the intent to sell And then we'll come back at a future board meeting to finalize Are there any speakers? Any questions tristia costa So Just I guess I'm And I'm really familiar with the area, but I'm trying to visualize what is you're saying. So It Is that part of that sidewalk? Yeah, so the sidewalk while the ours right next to it the kind of dirt area is ours And that's where they would be pushing the sidewalk to that dirt area And then where the current sidewalk is would become the road to widen the road Okay, so we are not talking about eliminating the sidewalk No, no the sidewalk is actually going to be extended. They're going to extend the sidewalk longer on On 152 but in order to do that they need to effectively move the sidewalk over right and so In what assurances do you have that that is what will take place? So Is that in writing in part of this we can get that in right? They do they did in their proposal include What was included in our exhibit that shows all of the steps they will be taking But I can absolutely as we move forward with them Ask for in writing when they do the purchase contract to say that there will be a sidewalk maintained at that area Okay, and and it's not that I think anybody has any interest in increasing You know risk or safety or causing safety hazard issues to our students But the only way I will be comfortable with moving with this particularly because this is my trusty area Is If that we have that assurance so with that conversation We just had a hundred percent understand if you get that assurance I will make the motion to go ahead and approve this so you can move it forward And when I bring it back for the actual sale, I will emphasize that. Yep. Absolutely. I'm good. Thank you So that was my motion of approval Um, that was a motion. Is that what you said? Yes Second. Okay. Any other questions or discussion? I have a okay um when we're One of the things I just want to put out there Because it was listed in our board docs But I think it's important public to know that we're also looking at adding bike lanes to that fact So hula hand Currently for those who are familiar does not have a full bike lane It'll actually this project will complete the entire bike lane on hula hand as well as create one Turning bike lane for them as well. So it's really a great project for that street Our part in it is just allowing a small piece of our land so that they can complete the project and unfortunately That's what's been preventing them from moving forward Thank you. Of course trustee home Just verifying my understanding that it's like, okay, so this project, you know, it's actually increasing safety around one of our school sites 100% so again creating a dedicated turn lane. That's longer a second turn lane to help Traffic as trustee shocker mentioned extending the bike lane that's currently on hula hand as well as extending the sidewalks on 152 and crosswalks. Yes, correct Anything else trustee roscoe or anyone so the entire Reason for this project is to increase safety. Yeah, absolutely. There also will be putting up signs for Speed limits radar signs. They will also be again extending the curbs as well as making them ADA compliant The city and paltrans hula idea is to make it a more safe environment for traffic And since our students do use that area quite a bit. It's a great Wind for the district and the price of sale will be so we'll be Just charging for the construction easement, which would be $500 again when they assessed it was nominal, which What could effectively happen is they could take the land through eminent domain But we don't want to go that route because we want to support the project. It's something that helps us Great, okay We have a first and a second all those in favor. Hi. Hi anyone opposed Motion carries unanimously seven zero Okay Next up is item 9.3 to approve a job description and bilingual stipend MOU for a school counselor. Um, this is for newcomer and international academy and this will be presented by our Assistant superintendent for human resources. Alison nizawa. Yes. Thank you president the serpa board of trustees dr Rodriguez, so I'm excited tonight to have this job description in front of you as well as an mou for a bilingual stipend as you saw in the report and discussion from From lisa with regard to the l-cap there We're wanting to add a position in which will be housed at watsonville high So it's a school counselor position that'll be able to work mostly with our um, some of our most vulnerable students who are our newcomers to the country and those that have been with us for four years or less um, this position will be really um Paramount in terms of making sure that these families when they're coming to our to our district are able to help Get receive support and navigating not only the school system But the community and making sure that they're put in touch with resources that could be vital for them while they're here Um, as I said, the position will be housed at watsonville high. Um, however, it will also support the international academy That's also at rolling hills So we will have some continuity between families that are coming and starting in our international academy and then progressing on to watsonville high um so again Former high school principal. It's also awesome to see this position to also help Kind of bridge that gap and we're seeing a bunch of transcripts that are coming from other countries predominantly We see them from Mexico But we do get in from other countries and so to have a counselor that can also help make sure That our students coming to the district can stay on track and be on track to be college and career ready is also Something that's super important. Um We worked uh, I worked with pvft as well to develop the job description and the mo you that you have So the mo u is for a bilingual stipend currently in the contract bilingual stipends are only for classroom teaching positions And teachers that possess a b-clad counselors pps's don't come with a b-clad Um, but we do feel that this position is vital to being bilingual and it's a bilingual required position And we also want to value that expertise and that skill and providing a signing bonus So that's why you see an mo u in front of you as well Um, because we don't have it in contract and so we worked on spelling that out for this position because it is it's new so, um With all that being said, I hope that you will approve the position and the mo you Are there any speakers? No any questions Jen holm And i'm just wondering, you know, so I I get that this counselor would be taking on some some new responsibilities But does that those new responsibilities? Offload some of the responsibilities of our existing counselors. Does it help with that at all? Yeah, so at Watsonville high you would have then another additional counselor that would support that population school of students So they wouldn't necessarily be on the caseloads of the other academic They would be under under this one. So it would help lighten the load a little bit for the counselor that was in the high Thank you I have a question so, um, i'm sure we have probably like a smaller newcomer student population of pb high school Someone during this position would also be supporting those students at that school I think the idea behind the position is to get our newcomers kind of through the if they don't come at middle school through the International Academy to be at Watsonville high because this is where the supports are going to be there the most um But we do understand that sometimes families are at different sites in different schools and so the idea is to also support the family and the families that we have so although We know we have newcomers at multiple school sites I think the idea is to provide the resources and get them at the sites where this position will be um, so that we can support them Better by having them at the school that they're attending and and where the counselor is And if that's not possible would an alternative be offering transportation To is that what yeah, so i'll give you an example So we have approximately what we have exactly now because we added one We have 40 students at the international academy at rolling hills. They come from multiple school sites We do because we have a waiting list We do have 14 additional newcomers at the other five Middle schools slash intermediate schools um And so the the goal is for us to have because it's all about economy of scale, right? Having all the students that need those specific Supports and resources at one location. So the goal would be to have um, whether they're aptos student aptos high students or they are pv high students be at watsonville high With this newcomer program that we're going to be implementing And so currently we do provide transportation to for those students who aren't members of rolling hills To get to that location and the reason why we have the other 14 out there is because we have a 20 to 1 ratio We tried to do a better ratio than the regular And i'm currently there's 20 students in each of the two classes at rolling hills So are we looking to expand? Well, I would say we would probably do more of an expansion at at pms most likely Because it we have a quadrative students that already go to rolling hills from that area And so we'd probably look at a cluster. Um, that's a little bit far away from rolling hills So that those students again don't have to go across the entire school district Thank you For many years our district supported Our through the diocese of of monterey Our catholic charities organization here in watsonville and they We gave them sort of a nominal five thousand dollars every year to provide services and a group support group for the newcomers Um, and I don't think we are doing that anymore But um under the guidance of maria runceman that that happened for many many years Um, so I'd like I'd love to see that happen again. I don't I know we Are sort of looking for outside service providers That might have capacity to help families and I think they do So anyway, so I just I just want to put that out there Um, I think this is a great position and I'd like to make a motion to support it Second all those in favor I I Anyone opposed? Motion carry seven zero 9.4 the approval of the playworks pilot expansion project and this Report will be delivered by mr. Casey clapping back our assistant superintendent of elementary education Good evening president de serpa board of trustees and dr. Rodriguez Tonight I have the pleasure of reporting back to you on our elementary playworks pilot and request your approval to expand our partnership with playworks So if you can remember playworks as a non-profit organization that is dedicated to empowering our students through play Empowering them with tools to resolve problems on their own Um, and also making sure they feel included And in a positive climate and most importantly Maximizing helping to maximize instructional time at school so These are their guiding principles. I kind of just summed up And if you can remember we started off our initially our partnership with them They were helping us map out safe Areas and spaces on our school campuses as we prepared to return Back to our school sites and so while we Surveied our parents and our stakeholders our staff and students what a couple things came up We really needed they were really concerned about making sure that Students were playing Outside and had that the peer-to-peer interactions and that it was done in a healthy and safe way And so as we continued to build our partnership We realized it was a perfect match with them because it matched our restorative start It matched identity belonging and agency And the need the sel needs and concerns It helped by valuing identity belonging and agency through helping to ensure that all students are included during recess Through opportunities to play all students empowering student leaders Building student agency by providing tools to resolve those conflicts and by developing community with daily rituals and routines And so here are a couple quotes. There's one from a teacher and one from a student And so the first one it is great to see how playworks helped rebuild community after the year and a half of distance learning And that was a Radcliffe elementary teacher. And here's another one from one of our students They made it safer for kids to play. So that's the language that a student actually used Um, so as we're looking at it, what does a better recess mean, right? There's three main things that it brings to our students The first one is conflict resolution It helps equip our students with the ability to solve conflicts on their own, right and those disagreements It also helps build leadership skills within our students themselves, right to be able to Start developing their sense of fairness communication skills cooperation And then lastly that academic success. We know that when students are outside They're actually playing and utilizing that time wisely and running and getting along with one another They go back into the classroom And they excel academically. They do much better. They're more likely to be included in those discussions And to have that confidence also So this year our playworks pilot modules Had three modules and it Included six of our sites as you can see they're up there. Amesti and solo Calabasas Minty white Radcliffe and Valencia And so they participated in all three of those pilots towards the end of last year. They Were able to send a team that participated in the power of play A shorter introduction with some of the routines and callbacks and some of the the rituals. So then And then at the beginning of this year, we were able to do a two-day training with them Providing the recess implementation with the teams from their sites also And then towards the in november we finished with a recess reboot Which included playworks coming out with their coaches to each of the sites for four days Amplifying the work that their teams had done on their sites So this year we are asking that we continue with adding additional six sites and those are On the screen in front of you Alianza hall district haide landmark marvits marvista and wcsa And you can see an artifact from Calabasas elementary Encouraging kids to play the the new game of the week Um there and so here are our seven of the components that really make up the the playworks Program as you can see we have some students some junior coaches that are leaders that are helping on a primary recess And those are our junior coaches at valencia. And so Building those leaders those junior coaches as you see it's also developing Structures for play routines at the beginning of recess and at the end And structures around the playground that make it safer So our students aren't all running out in the same direction or they're not all running out at the end in the line and knocking each other over also really utilizing Consistent problem-solving strategies like roshambo so they're not arguing over handball right when they're out Um and then providing Novelty things like games of a week of the week that keep things fresh for our students and active So they're playing and they're not sitting and then also making sure that all during class game time our teachers have consistent games So students learn how to play those games and they actually know how to do it when they're On their own at recess right or at lunch recess or another time And then building that staff capacity So not only are are some of our certificated teachers on that team are classified Team as well right so they have they are working together So our yard duty that are out there at most of the recesses and lunches are empowered with the and equipped with tools to help support the students and how to Be positive and and build those relationships And then lastly the community build building effort Not only are they given strategies to build community with the students through the junior coaches and other techniques, but also activities to do with staff during their staff meetings bringing people together and building capacity with their team And then this is just a quick playworks implementation roadmap. So you're like Casey, what does that look like for a site when they're when they're going back and implementing this It's that first power of play module. They start with they send their team and then they go And go back to the site and they start planting the seeds and doing some of the activities And and games and rituals with their with their staff and then it leads to recess implementation day one, which is all day. They're learning games Structures for their playground efficient use of using equipment And and things like that and then they come back and they Complete recess implementation day two where they also have team planning time So this is where pbis actually goes perfect with this too Because a lot of the same team members are on the pbis team where they can plan Strategically how to implement at their school site And then they go they're sent back to their to their sites to really implement their site plan So as they're implementing it, then the final phase is recess reboot when the coaches come in and amplify and accelerate and give that feedback and consultation On at actual recess time and they're there for four days straight Really really helping to lift that work And so here as we're as with any pilot we want to make sure that we're surveying, right? We're looking at data and we're surveying the people that are Implementing and part of that process, right? And so these are some of our our staff members that are participating At one of the school sites and so as you're looking at it here are three questions that were on the survey and And these percentages show that they were Either agreed or strongly agreed with the statements. So the first one is since playworks Climate at recess has improved so 75 percent of those of the staff members Agreed that it that it has and that's in a short amount of time. So this was done after The last phase so this was November you're thinking Right, so they they haven't even been implementing. They didn't get that last boost that long ago, right? And so then the second one is since playworks student discipline has decreased by 52 percent, right? And then lastly More students are engaged or included in safe activities 83 percent So I know you're probably thinking well, what were the other Questions like what were the other choices? So the next one the one in the middle with the most Um, the next most Percentage of a vote was where I can't tell yet. So that was a choice So a majority of the missing the 25 percent would be I can't tell yet because it's so soon, right? and so we will continue to survey our staff and Students and then the other choice, of course Is a disagree or greatly or strongly disagree just like the the agree piece And then these are just a few more quotes My favorite one is that middle piece from the MSD elementary teacher More options for games at recess has really helped students stay entertained and even join new groups or meet kids from other classes The yard duties are empowered to lead And the routines and reminders are helping reduce issues It would be great to continue this program And so you have a couple other quotes there Two and then we move into our student voices, right? Which we always love to hear the most. So this is coming from third through fifth grade students. And so that first one again Strongly agree and agree 47 Playwork 47 percent playworks has made our playground safer So that was one of the most important things for us. So students are acknowledging that our second one is second Since playworks started there is there are more things to play at recess and that's a 65 percent So students are noticing that and that third one There are fewer conflicts now since playworks came to our school. That's so that's 37 percent So that if you're thinking about it on a playground that students can actually acknowledge that 37 percent less con or fewer conflicts Really is making an impact at those sites And so Sylvesteray, Mr. Sylvesteray, can you play the video clip? Yes, just a second. Excuse me. Oh, I did your regular All right Thank you. So I hope that was worth it. It's always great to see our kalabasa's cougars in action, right? And so These are just a few of our student quotes But I love this one in the middle that says I like that we say good job. Nice try They help kids with arguing and conflict And so again, I took the exact wording and spelling of our students right there, right? So you can see their language But so they're taught how to say instead of saying you're out, right? They're taught how to say good job. Nice try So it's so it helps with Encouraging one another too So with that said, I would like to thank all of our our schools right there For all of their pictures and support with this and staff requests your approval to expand our playworks pilot Thank you. Casey. Do we have any speakers to this item? Okay. Any questions or comments from the board? Okay Do we have plans to continue expansion to other elementary sites? So at this time our goal is to continuing Continue to get feedback and to really monitor especially like discipline data and our staff and student surveys And as and look for that continued success You haven't even had this for a year yet, correct It's just okay. So well, when does your next survey go out? Our next survey will go out in spring in the spring. Okay. Thank you Any other comments or questions? I'll make a motion to approve I'll second. Okay Um, all those in favor? I I opposed Motion carries unanimously. Thank you. Thank you Okay, next up. We have our consent agenda Um, I'll move to approve. Thank you Second Again acknowledging all the donations tonight with great gratitude All those in favor? I I opposed Motion carries unanimously. Thank you All right, and now moving on to action on closed session under item 2.1 I move to approve the certificator personnel report as rescinded by the district administration on February 23rd 2022 with 13 and 12 additional action items. I'll second All those in favor? I opposed Motion carries seven zero Under item 2.2. I move to approve the classified personnel report as presented by the district administration on February 23rd 2022 with six and seven additional action items All those in favor? I Opposed? Okay And under item 2.3 the board approved the non-re-election of 3 0.0 fte certificated provisionary employees for employee ID number 94 7050 and 5443 with a 601 vote Thank you Our upcoming board meeting Is is it on here or is it on my written one? Oh, thank you. Our upcoming board meeting will be on March 9th We hope to see everybody then and until then have a very safe Couple of weeks. Thank you. We are adjourned