This new finding is titled Neural Progenitor Cells Regulates Microglia Functions and Activity. It was published in Nature Neuroscience Journal in November 2012 by Tony Wiss-Corey's lab at Sanford University. To understand this finding, let's talk about a few cell types that live in our brains and where they come from. So if I asked you what cells were in our brain, you would probably say neurons, and that's absolutely true. Neurons in our brain come from specialized cells that resemble stem cells that we call neural progenitor cells, or NPC. It was initially thought that neurons could not be replenished in case of injury, such as a stroke or brain trauma. But, thanks to research such as this one, we now know that these NPCs are very important for brain injury patients to regain cognition and fully recover. So remember these NPC cells, because this is what today's finding is focusing on. But our brains are composed of much more than just neurons. Our brains are also composed of a whole array of different cells that provide an environment in which the neurons can behave like neurons and produce a functioning brain. A microglia is one of these cells. Microglia are very important, and in fact crucial, for the proper functioning of the brain. This is in part because they produce molecules, or secreted molecules, that are going to travel to nearby NPCs and tell them what to do, such as divide and make neurons. So from what I've told you so far, you understand that microglia can influence the behavior of NPC cells. To be able to design better treatments for brain injury, it is important that we understand how NPCs work, because NPCs are the ones that replenish the neurons that are lost. What do they need to survive? And what do they provide to the cells around? So in an effort to understand how NPCs work, these scientists were interested in seeing if NPCs could influence the behavior of microglia. First, the scientists noticed that microglia were abundant near pools of NPCs. This provided a first clue that there could be an important interaction between these two cell types. Next, the scientists noticed that NPCs were also producing secreted molecules, and they wanted to see if these secreted molecules could influence microglia in a similar manner than microglia influence NPCs. To do this, the scientists isolated microglia alone and secreted molecules from NPCs and examined microglia function when the microglia were in the presence or absence of NPC secreted molecules. So what happened to the microglia? Well, the microglia that were given NPC secreted molecules started to divide, they moved around more, and they changed the types of secreted molecules they produced. So this was exciting and suggested that NPCs can influence microglia function through NPC secreted molecules. But the authors went even further and wanted to see if NPCs could control microglia function in a brain, with all of the added complexity, all of the other cell types, neurons, etc. So the authors injected NPCs into mouse brains and looked at the microglia. What the scientists saw was that at the site of the injection where there were many NPCs and NPC secreted molecules, there were a lot more microglia, a lot more activated microglia that were dividing and secreting their own secreted molecules. If the scientists injected NPC secreted molecules in mouse brains instead of NPCs themselves, they saw the same effect on microglia function. This means that the NPC secreted molecules are responsible for controlling the behavior of microglia, both in an isolated cell system, as well as in a brain. The scientists of this paper also discovered that one of the important NPC secreted molecules that is responsible for this is called VEGF, which controls the growth of blood vessels. It's not clear exactly how a factor that controls the growth of blood vessels could be responsible for controlling microglia function, but it's definitely a new avenue of research. So what did this study show? This study identified a new complex interaction between neural progenitor cells, or NPCs, and the microglia that surround them, where NPCs secret molecules that control microglia movement, number, and function. The scientists found that a factor that promotes the growth of blood vessels is responsible for this. This is very exciting because it suggests that NPCs are controlling microglia that in turn control NPC function. This type of cycle is found in many systems in nature, and it's very interesting to think about some possible reasons life would have evolved such complex modes of regulation. So what can we take away from this study when it comes to therapy? Of course, like every other study, there are a lot of questions that still remain. For instance, is this important for recovery from brain injury? How does this blood vessel growth factor control microglia function? And of course the ultimate question, can we use this information to influence recovery in patients? Can we somehow find a way to add more NPC secretive molecules, including VEGF, into patient brains to promote microglia function, in turn boosting NPC function, and possibly neuron growth? This idea is very exciting and provides new avenues for future research. So as you hopefully took away, scientists are always asking fundamental questions, offering breakthrough answers that in turn open up even more new exciting questions to expand our knowledge with the ultimate goal of developing efficient therapies.


Hi everyone, Joe from jaspyscasewrakes.com with the Bangles, Dolphins, Vikings, Cowboys, Random Number Block, R&B, Randomizer for Pick Your Team 21, which is in a separate video. That's how a number block works, in case you were wondering. I think these people all know what's up, thanks for getting into it. There are the numbers right there, let's roll it, let's randomize it. Three times, one and a two. Add them down to bill and then three times four, the numbers, one, two and three easy times. Number zero gets any and all redemptions for that group of teams, including one of one redemptions. Which is pretty rare, but it is a possible one. Alright, so add them with five, Brett with eight, Brian with seven, Hunter with two, Raymond with zero, Alex with three, Adam with one, Matt with four and six, and Bill with nine. Let's sort this by column B, right there, there we go. And coming up in a separate video will be the break itself, jaspyscasewrakes.com. Bye.


What is up everybody, Jason here for jaspyscasebase.com. We're giving away 10 free spots tonight. Only guys with this filler sold out, which it did, guys. We're gonna give away six spots at the end, too, in the hip rate break. This is 2021 Mosaic football hobby pack number 122, guys. And again, first we do the break, randomized because we're named soon to distribute the hits out. Then at the end, we'll randomize only the names and the top six get into the hip rate break. Now, we don't have to do any more fillers, guys. The only thing that's keeping us from breaking open that hip rate break is the straight up spots, guys. Just gotta sell five more. So have plenty of time to still get that done tonight, guys. So for people that are in this filler, if you don't get a spot, maybe consider buying a full spot and that'll unlock the break, guys. Now, the dice roll here will be for the first list here. It will be for a randomizer to give away those 10 spots. We'll paste in the 10 names. Then we'll randomize the names and teams for the pack filler first. Then at the end, we'll have the original list with the winners. What a new dice roll. And then we'll give away those spots as well. So roll it. Full 12, top 10, get free extra spots in this filler to increase your chances of winning in the main break. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12. 12 times, 12, 12. Jeremy, Sportport. I mean, I should say Aeron, Johnny, Chad, Raymond, Travis, Chad, Johnny, Sportport, and Aeron. There you go, guys. 12 times, 12 times. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. All right, now I'm gonna save this list for later. That way we can do that randomizer later for the spot giveaway. And then again, we're gonna go 12 times now on the list of names and teams for the pack filler. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12. 12 times, Aeron, Johnny. 12 times, one, two, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. Pins down to the pipe, Patriots. So guys, stay to what you got, of course, just a pack filler. Oh, we got an autograph coming out, but it's gonna be a redemption, though. All right, let's see who this is. Rookie autographs, Mosaic. Card number one, wow. Wow. Trevor Lawrence out of a pack filler, guys. How about that? Now it is expired, expired about a year ago. Obviously less than a year ago, so that's always good because usually, if it's like well over a year, sometimes it can be kind of hard to get this card back, but sometimes within the first year, they might still hold onto some of these. So I would redeem it as quickly as possible. Chapp Coleman, who got the Jaguars? Maybe they'll give you something similar value if they don't have this Trevor Lawrence, but definitely fight it. There you go, Rookie autographs, Mosaic, Trevor Lawrence. Nice, out of a pack filler, guys. There you go. But if not, you'll still get something obviously better than nothing. Nice, there you go. Now we'll switch scenes, of course, and there's the original list with the winners. Let's roll it. Five and a three, eight times. So again, guys, eight times and it's top six. Get into the break. Eight times. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight. Eight times, eight, eight. Spore port, first one out, first one in, that's six. Have five as well. Chad Coleman you're in, Johnny. Spore port again, and spore port.  Oh my god, what the hell's going on here? Yeah, are they trying to blow it or what? I know, people were saying that the Vegas will tonight's blew it on purpose. Eight times, wow. What a randomizer for a spore port though, man. There you go. So again, guys, like I mentioned before to people in the live stream earlier before I started this break. All that's keeping us from breaking open this break here is just the straight up spots. So if you guys want to try to sell it out tonight, just got to sell five spots straight up, guys. So let's get that rolling, jaspyscasebreaks.com.


It looks like the moment I decided to upload a video about my project, my day trading, swing trading strategy from $10,000 all the way up to $1 million, the crypto market, the entire crypto market decided to collapse. Anyways, so what did I do during this bearish movement in the crypto market? Let's recap real quick. All I wanted was 2% for the next 200 trades to bring my account from $10,000 all the way up to $1 million. And for all of you guys who haven't seen the first one, I started with $10,000 and am currently sitting at $19,000. A legit question most of you guys probably have is how much money did you lose during this bearish market? The answer is none. The reason why I didn't lose any money is because I am not invested in the market right now. My entire strategy is to purchase a coin and sell it immediately after I get my 2% gain on the investment. So last week, the only thing that I lost was time. I didn't make a single trade during this downtrend for one specific reason. I am not a financial advisor. You should not listen to my advice. This is for entertainment purposes only. And on top of that, I have no idea how long this bearish market is going to last. The new support level for Bitcoin could be around $40,000 to $42,000. Currently on Sunday, we are around $44,000. So I'm still waiting to see what's going to happen within the next week. If we hit the $40,000 and we're going to stay around the $40,000 mark and we don't drop any further, I might go back into trading and work on the 2% per trade. And of course, there is no doubt I missed out on a lot of opportunities during the last week.  But again, I just started this journey and I don't want to risk $19,000 just to hope for a 2% gain. I didn't understand the charts, which was one rule for me that I only purchased a coin when I know the charts look favorable for me. They didn't look favorable for me at all. And I wouldn't say educated enough to read the chart better to make those 2% gains even in a downtrend. Here's why I'm not concerned about not trading this money for one entire week. First of all, it's a side project for me or a side hustle. So I do not rely on that income from trading. Therefore, I'm not in a rush to gamble with $19,000 and hope for the best. I'd rather wait another week and observe the market and see if we have if the bear market continues or if we can stabilize at a $40,000 mark and possibly even see an uptrend. I had a conversation with a crypto fund manager and I asked him about his opinion on Bitcoin. He was very positive and he was basically welcoming this discount on Bitcoin right now. When you listen to people talk about Bitcoin, even big companies, big investors, big fund managers, they all talk about doubling down on Bitcoin, purchasing even more. So for me as a retail investor, it sounds like everybody's still bullish on Bitcoin and this is just a 20-30% correction. But again, I'm not a financial advisor. I have no idea what's going to happen. This is just my assumption. So yeah, a lot of people bought the dip. They think that $45,000 is already the dip and that's the lowest it will get. For me personally, I don't have millions of dollars to just spend and let them sit in there. For me, I'm going to wait and see. Maybe it's going to drop to $40,000. If not, if there is an uptrend, yeah, then I missed the bottom but you will never get in at the perfect time. This is just not going to happen. Also, another important thing is that those individuals have millions of dollars that they can just put into Bitcoin and that's not their life savings. So for them investing $1 million into Bitcoin is probably the same as $1,000 for you and I. So although we have seen a big correction of how much is it now? It is $14,000, $14,000, $15,000. People are still bullish on Bitcoin and they just accumulate more. They buy and buy and buy and buy, which also makes me want to buy one and hold it for the long term. But this has nothing to do with this project of the day trading the 2%, but I just want to be transparent. I might, if we drop to $40,000, I might buy in and get myself a beautiful Bitcoin. Where does that leave me with my journey? I was looking into different opportunities to just stake my money or my cryptocurrency while I'm not trading it because I don't want to leave my money just dead in my wallet where it's not doing anything. You got to put that money to work, am I right? And here's how I get paid for owning cryptocurrency. Yes, you can also get paid on stablecoins, which my money is in right now. Before I tell you where I put my money, I just want to make sure that you understand that this is not a sponsored post or a brand deal. This is just a website, a company that I believe in, where I put my money where I feel safe working a little bit and I feel good about my funds. But before you put any money into that company, please do your own due diligence and make sure you trust it as well. So the company is called Nexo.io. So Nexo allows people to borrow money against their own cryptocurrency holdings, which means you can take out a loan against your Bitcoin, but you do not have to sell your Bitcoin because as soon as you sell an asset with the profit, that's a taxable event. If you just loan against your Bitcoin, there's no tax, which is amazing. I don't want to confuse you with taxes, but basically Nexo allows you to take out a loan against your Bitcoin or any cryptocurrency holdings, which is then taken as a collateral. So in case you cannot pay back your loan, they will just seize that Bitcoin. Let's just take that as an example, sell that so they are zero. And obviously with every loan, you have to pay interest on the money that you borrow. And that's how Nexo makes money. On the other side, as an investor, if you give them your money that you just place into your own wallet, you can make up to 12% in dividends per year.  This is called compound interest or the eighth wonder of the world. I bet Einstein. So this is an amazing way for me to store my cryptocurrency while I'm not actively trading it or even my other positions. I just, you know, keep in there to make some money. Obviously on those $19,000, I'm not going to make a lot of money in dividends, but I'd rather take a dollar here and there than absolutely nothing. Another great thing is your funds are not frozen, which means I can just withdraw my money anytime I want. Within a couple seconds, everything is set up and then you just wait a minute or two and then you have your funds back in your Binance account. So what am I going to do for next week? I'm not going to force myself to purchase a coin and get in there. If I don't fully believe the trend is at least stable and it doesn't have to be bullish, but just stable. I don't want to trade in the bearish market because I have never traded in the bearish market.  But I think it's very funny that I said in the first video, I'm always go out because I want to avoid a drop of 40 or 50% and that's basically what happened. To sum up this video, I am still 200 trades short of reaching the $1 million, but I'm very proud of myself for not, you know, giving into the temptation of just getting in there when it bounced back a little bit because I obeyed my own rules and only got in there when I fully trusted the pattern and I knew what I was doing. I am really excited for next week. I don't know what I would like, you know, to see if there's a massive drop, a bigger correction, I would, I think I would appreciate the drop so I can get into Bitcoin a little bit lower, but at the same time for my other project, obviously the 2% day trading project, I would appreciate a constant, you know, I don't want to say flat, but like kind of bullish, flat-ish market for the next week. I want to end this video with a question for you guys. I just heard and learned about NFTs and I'm not too sure about how I think about it. I need to do way more research, but guys, let me know. Are you guys interested in NFTs? Do you guys invest in it? What do you think about it? Let me know in the comment section below. I'm curious to see what you guys think. Thank you so much for watching. I'll see you next time.


A few years ago, I was reading a book by David Ayedda called The Way of the Superior Man and In this book there was one thing that he recommended all men do That he said was essential for mass clean energy And that thing was to take time off from time to time to have periods of reflection and contemplation He suggested you take your holiday leave from work and you spend maybe a week or two Somewhere far away from your family from your friends far away from social media far away from distractions just to think to contemplate now Naturally as a man you'd build you think that a practice this would be a waste of time a waste of energy Why would you get away from your life just to sit around and think? Why would you get away from working and making money just to sit around and think? Well, there's a reason for this. There's a reason why we think this way once again, mass clean energy is penetration energy It's force. It's gain things done It's the energy that gets you from A to B That's why it's natural for us to think this way. However, what you need to consider is that Sometimes in life we overlook things now When we get trapped in this nine to five grind we get trapped in Society's template and we are not society's template the one that's been given to everybody the Go to school get a degree get a job Meet the one have some kids work nine to five to your 60 retire in your worst days Live maybe 10 or 20 more years before you die That's a template everyone's been given We all know it And it's real easy for men today to get trapped in that and not think that there's any other options Especially if they don't take time to think They don't take time to reflect and put the pieces together If you don't take time to stop and think about your life you can get Chucked left and right you can get pulled this way and that way You will never truly find yourself You always be the victim You see an ad on tv talking about the New Mercedes Benz and you think that in order to be happy you need to buy the Mercedes Benz Because you never took time to stop and think you never took time to stop and observe moments in your life when you bought Something that you wanted When you fell into that consumer mindset the black friday sales when you bought those things and you only Experienced momentarily happiness transient happiness Didn't last did it? Of course, you wouldn't know this if you didn't sit down and think and observe and contemplate If you also don't think and contemplate you will never know if you're living in life to your metrics Or if you're living in life to society's metrics Perhaps in order for you to be happy You need a new car Maybe you just need more time for your brazilian jujitsu training Perhaps in order for you to be happy you shouldn't be in that marriage Perhaps you should Experience the world see what you like Maybe kids aren't for you Maybe you do need kids. Maybe you need more kids All these questions you can only answer if you have time to pause and reflect To think about your life. Are you going the right direction with your career? Are you doing meaningful work? Or are you just working for money? Are you just working for survival? Are you trapped? Are you working to please your parents? Are you working to please your friends? What are you living life for? These are deep questions that cannot be answered when you are preoccupied with work preoccupied with life as we know it You need time off. You need time with your thoughts time with your mind To dig deeper. This also allows you to plan for the future To interpolate to figure out if you are going To be where you want to be in a couple of years or if you're lagging behind You can only do this when you pause when you reflect You can adjust course Change a few things learn the things you need to do Do the actions you need to do in order to get to where you need to be Only when you pause and reflect If you keep going like a train Once you figure out that it's time to stop your momentum Will be too large and you won't be able to stop on time That's why the freight train method of approaching life is not the best way of approaching life Need time to stop and do some maintenance work and I know it's pretty extreme.  Peace


Welcome to Getting Started with CESA for Pre-K through Second Grade Teachers. We are so honored to have you here today, spending your time learning a little bit more about CESA. Before we get started, this is a reminder that this session is extremely interactive. We want you to play with CESA as a student. So that means you need to have the class version of the app downloaded on a second device. That means you can look and find it wherever you find your apps on your device. Here's just a couple images of where they might be found in the device that you are using. Again, we are using the class version of the app today. And as a reminder as well, if you're using a computer, you actually don't need to download anything. You can just open a new browser tab and go to app.CESA.me. We don't need to sign in or create an account at this point. I'm just kind of preparing you for the interactive portion of our presentation. So the other thing I want to let you know about is starting on August 13th, any session that you view from our PD and PJs, you actually can get a certificate for viewing the content. This is great to maybe show your administration or keep to prove that, you know, you're doing amazing things learning and growing professionally. So if you are live, no worries, we are going to email the certificate directly to you. But if you're watching this via a recording, make sure you listen for the code during this session. I will actually say two segments of a six character code during this session and you will fill out a form with that code to get your certificate. Pretty easy. All right, so let's get started. I'm Angela. I taught kindergarten for 15 years in my classroom. I have five iPads in about 24 students. I now lead the community team at CESA because I experienced the amazing benefits that CESA provided, not only for me, the teacher, but the students in my classroom and their families. And I'm so passionate about supporting you to get started as well. Please find me on Twitter. I'm at Mrs. Gadki. Send me a message. Let me know that you're watching this. Let me know how it's going in your classroom. I'd love to connect with you. And let's talk about our plan for today. I am going to introduce you to CESA. We are going to talk about CESA. We will explore the creative tools that are built in. You are going to explore a lot as a student today. I will share classroom ideas for you to really make implementing and starting CESA really easy. And then we will pause at the end for questions and to share next steps. So let's get started. CESA is the best platform for empowering students to demonstrate their learning. We have three main components. We have student portfolios, formative insights, and family communication when you're using CESA. We are able to help your students unlock creative thinking. They are able to explore amazing, powerful tools to show what they know in ways that work best for them. And again, this works in any grade level or subject area. As a teacher, also note that we have help and inspiration for you. Inside CESA is our activity library with thousands of engaging activities ready to use within CESA. So let's pause for a moment and think about how does this work? What's the basic flow of CESA? First, your students are able to use these intuitive tools to capture and demonstrate learning in their portfolio. Teachers get valuable insights into what students understand without lots of extra steps and extra work. And then families see their child's work and can leave comments and encouragement as well when you are ready to open that aspect of CESA with your classroom. I think a great way to hear and learn about CESA is directly from a student. So I'm actually going to go to this student example. I'm going to open it up. I'm going to make sure my volume is turned up. And this is actually from a first grade student. They had been working with addition concepts. So students went and were exploring with math manipulatives in their classroom. Probably looks like something you do in your classroom, right? Then what they did is they took a photo and added it to CESA to further explain and reflect. So let's listen. This is how I make seven. Four plus three equals seven. Six plus one equals seven. Five plus three equals seven. Wait, no. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Now I need to cross out one of these. Okay. And five plus three does not equal seven. So five plus two equals seven. I love that. So in less than 30 seconds as the teacher, I can hear exactly what my students are thinking because they had that opportunity to pause, explain and reflect. She actually self corrected and made, you know, reflected and figured out how to fix that mistake. Right. So as a teacher, when I get these insights, I'm easily able to plan instruction and next steps for my students, which again is saving me a lot of, you know, time and extra effort to try to figure out, oh, what, what, what's next? How do I get this info from my students? So I want you also to know right off the bat here. Don't add this to your list. This is not something we're going to add to this super long list of all those things you are trying to accomplish at this point in the year. Rather really think of it as a way to enhance what you are already doing in your classroom. I guarantee if you are here right now listening to the session, you are a teacher that goes above and beyond in your classroom and most likely has very solid teaching strategies that you're already using. This is actually a way to enhance that. And again, gain you insights as the teacher as well. So we're going to explore that today. As a reminder, seesaw works great in any classroom. You can have shared devices or one to one devices. And seesaw is free. We are only going to talk about all the free features of seesaw today. So nothing we're going to show you today is the paid version of seesaw. We'll talk a little bit more about that in other sessions. So if we peek inside of a seesaw class on the left here, you'll see the feed of all the student work. This is the journal. This is where all the student work will be shown to you as a teacher. On the right, you see the list of student names. Those are each individual student portfolios. So if I were to actually tap on each student name, my feed on the left would filter to just that student, which is really handy. So when you think of a traditional portfolio, maybe that, you know, you have a huge binder with all these different sections, one for each student. This is how you view that in seesaw. The other component of seesaw that's really important and critical to know about is this green add button. And we are going to play a lot with that today. That's basically where all the action starts is that green add button. And we will show you how to use that. I'm zooming in right here to show you that in this class, there are student names. And like I mentioned, these are the portfolios. Because we have tons, hundreds of teachers here today, participating and practicing. I don't have your names listed in the class that we are going to join. That means today you are actually going to be joining a portfolio that matches the first letter of your first name. So I'm going to show you what my class looks like here in a second. So again, I am going to be the teacher today. You are going to stay the student. So right now I'm actually going to move out of the slides for a second and just go into the seesaw class that we are going to be joining.  This is teachers playing. Okay. This is a professional development class that we have set up. You are going to be playing in here as well. You're going to be learning how to capture and reflect with photo and voice and drawing. And you'll notice here on the right, do you see how I don't have a student name listed? That's because this is just a PD class. And I have hundreds of you with me here today. So again, you're going to be sharing a portfolio with someone else, but just note, of course, in your own classroom, students will have their own portfolio that they're working with.  In the bottom right, I see this button that says plus students. I'm going to click on that. And because I already have students entered into this class by name. This is what I get right now. I get the class code that people can scan to join. This does not expire. But this code right here that I'm going to copy right now does expire in the next hour. This is a text code. And we'll talk about that for those of you that are live. I'm actually going to paste that text code into the chat box of this session, because you might choose to use that if you're trying to, you know, enter this class and you're trying to, maybe scan with a different computer or something like that. But I want to draw your attention right now to the bottom right corner where it says print student sign in poster, because this is key to getting your pre K through second grade students into seesaw. I'm actually just going to tap that right now because seesaw is doing the work for you. We are generating a unique poster that you hang up in your classroom. This is the key to your classroom. This is the key to your class. This is not something you share with anyone else, but here is our unique poster for our class. Getting started pre K too. So I wanted just to show you where I got that from, because as I go back into the slides right now, you are actually in a moment going to be joining as a student and participating. So. Excuse me. As I mentioned for younger students, this is so easy for them to get signed into seesaw. I mean, let's just think for a second here. It is no fun to have a student try to struggle with entering, you know, a 15 digit username and 15, 20 digit password to try to get into something. Our students at these younger students you're working with can simply tap the seesaw app scan this code and they are in it is amazing. And you are going to get to experience that for yourself as a student today. So this is when you want to grab your second device and you want to get ready to participate as a student, because we are about to get started and play. So again, as a reminder, if you're having any sort of issues, make sure you type it in the question box, but I'm going to move pretty slowly here to make sure everybody gets signed in. So if you already have seesaw on your device, tap the seesaw icon, but you might get there and it might do this. That means you're already signed in as a student, or I'm sorry, as a teacher. We're not going to be a teacher today. So right now on the screen, I'm just modeling for those of you that happen to be signed into your class as a teacher. So what you are going to want to do right now is tap in the upper left on your profile icon, and then tap the gear icon and tap sign out. That is how you will get to this screen where we are all going to start today. So all of you that are here today participating, this is the time where we're going to be a student. So again, we've just tapped the seesaw class app. Your screen looks probably pretty identical to this, and we are going to follow these steps together right now. So remember that sign-in poster that I showed you? I'm actually going to break it down even further so we can do this together. First of all, tap I'm a student. We are not using email sign-in at all today, so make sure you choose scan code. I'm a student in scan code. This is the code. Oh, I'll show you in a second. When you tap scan code, a built-in QR reader is going to pop up. This is already inside seesaw. We make it simple. Don't try to use a separate QR reader that is not going to work for you. Make sure you allow permissions for seesaw to use your camera or mic, and then you are going to scan this code. So go ahead and scan this class QR code. You are going in as a student. So we have tapped I'm a student. We are scanning this code right now. This code is going to work for you. Those of you viewing via the recording, this code is going to work for you. So you can pause right now. You can scan this code with your second device. As a student, you will be able to join our seesaw class. For those of you joining live, and maybe you're having a problem scanning the code, look in that chat box for that code, that text code that you could type in. If you have a computer that doesn't have a camera, you can type in the text code. If you are here live, that text code will expire within the next hour. If you are using the text code, which is in the chat box. So I'm pausing here to make sure everyone is getting signed in. Okay. Getting into seesaw again. We're just scanning this code. We've tapped the class app. We've chosen I'm a student. I'm going to get a little bit of information about the class. So for those of you who are still in a class, you should be in the class with all sorts of stuff already in there from other teachers that have been playing with seesaw. All right. So for those of you that are still in as a teacher, make sure you sign out in the top left. Tap your profile icon. Tap the gear icon and sign out. If you are signed in as a teacher right now, make sure you get in as a student. If you are in class with a teacher, make sure you get in as a teacher. If you are in class with a teacher, where is that text code? I'm actually going to make sure you all get that right now sent to you so everyone can see that. So you can have access to that code. So today you do have the option if you're live to type in the text code or scan this class code right here. All right. So we are going to keep moving. So I'm going to show you some great modeling just like you would true kindergarten teacher shine through here. So I'm going to show you the first creative tool. You're not going to do anything out except for just watch. So when we look at the photo tool in seesaw, it is built right in, which is amazing. Your students don't have to jump between all sorts of different spots. They can just tap the photo tool after they do that. They're ready to go. They can take a photo. You are going to find a 3D shape in the room you're in right now. So maybe it's your water bottle. It's your tissue box. I don't know. What can you find a cylinder or a cone or a prism, something, and you're going to just take a photo of that. And then once your photo is taken, you're just going to tap the green check in the upper right. What that does is it sends you to select your name. The first letter of your first name is the portfolio you are looking for. So you're going to tap the green check in the upper right. Again, this class is set up so you can view each other's work. That's just how I've set it up today. And then you'll notice once you tap that green check, it is waiting for teacher approval. Nothing goes anywhere until it goes to the teacher's eyes in your seesaw class. So are you ready to try this? Here we go. Now you kind of watched me walk through those steps. So you're going to tap that green add button. You're going to tap that green add button. You're going to tap that green add button because you are signed in as a student. After you tap the green add button, go ahead and just follow these cues, right? You're going to tap the photo tool. Take a photo of a three-dimensional shape somewhere in your room. Then tap the green check. Choose the portfolio that matches the first letter of your message. And then you're going to tap that green add button. And then you're going to tap that green add button again. And it's going into our seesaw class today. So I'd like to give you a couple of minutes to do that right now. I'll put a little background music on. And then we'll continue. All right. So hopefully you had some time to play. Now again, I encourage you to, you know, keep playing throughout the session today. If you're watching the recording, if you're going to stay signed in as a student, I'm going to pop over and show you right now from the teacher view, what is happening. When I go into this class that you are in as a teacher, I'm going to refresh my screen to make sure I have all the latest and greatest learnings from you. But check this out on the bottom. Do you see this gigantic red bar? That is saying I have 75 unapproved posts right now from you, those of you that are live participating. And again, if you're watching the recording, you can still participate in practice by scanning that class code. I'm going to tap review right now because again, nothing goes into, ooh, those blueberries look great. Nothing goes into seesaw without teacher approval. So I can approve one at a time. Perfect cylinder there with a highlighter. Okay. Ooh, nice. That's a great cylinder too. Ooh, I'm seeing lots of cylinders. Okay. So I can approve these one at a time. Awesome. So you could see as a teacher really quickly, if you're just doing a quick check in with your students, like show me a rectangular prism or find a parallel line. That is really fast for them to do in seesaw and you have some great insights as well. Now I could tap the delete to delete an item. If it's inappropriate for some reason, I also can on the bottom, use this button and approve all of these posts at once. And of course in your own classroom, you would be looking and viewing at all of these, but I trust our amazing professionals here today. So I'm going to approve all. Now keep in mind, again, you'll see here that I'm in the journal view. That is where everything is going into my class journal as a teacher. This is where I can view all of that student work in one spot. So I'm going to hop back into our slide deck right now because we have so much more to learn today. Let's talk about some classroom ideas. So I think it's really smart to start really simple, especially with our pre-k through second grade learners. As a teacher, it's totally fine. If you take a day or two and capture learning in the moment, when you are signed in to seesaw as a teacher, you can tap that green add button and choose post to student journal or post student work. And you can take a photo and then add it to that child's portfolio. So think about this. This is actually one of my little friends from the first day of kindergarten. I thought, oh, this is going to spur amazing conversation at home, right? So right now I've added this to this child's portfolio. The family is connected because I had my families connect actually before the first day of school. And then they got this notification and they could view only their own child's work. Wow. Can you imagine the conversation that's going to happen at home after that first day? When your little peanuts get home and their family's like, what happened? What happened on the first day? And they're overwhelmed and I don't know or nothing. But let's start those conversations from day one. Let's build that relationship between home and school. And it's as simple as just even taking a photo. Really quickly, as I mentioned at the beginning, students can document their own work, right? So here's some examples of students documenting in math and documenting in science. Again, I love about seesaw that you can document that hands-on learning that we know is happening in your classroom and bridge it into the digital to add those layers of reflection. So one quick story I want to tell about my little friend in the upper left here. I had asked my students to show me what they knew about patterns. And I was really trying to determine if they could create an A, B, A, B pattern. And this is at the beginning of the year in September.  You just have to use two colors and make a pattern. Then take a photo and seesaw and show me what you did. So they did that, you know, even with our shared devices as students finished, they just grabbed the device, took their photo and seesaw. And when I got this little guy's, I was like, oh, gosh, no, he doesn't have A, B, A, B pattern. Obviously doesn't know, doesn't know A, B, A, B pattern. And then I thought, wait a second. This student did exactly what I asked. He created a pattern with two colors. And you'll notice it's much more complex than the A, B, A, B pattern, you know, that I had asked. I had actually said, if you remember, two colors. So he built a two color pattern. But because he was able to use seesaw and choose his materials, it didn't limit his ability to show me actually the depth of his knowledge. So this, again, when we talk about those insights, I'm able to capture that really quickly and really know kind of what I'm going to do next with those students. Now, you can also draw on top of photos and seesaw. Maybe they're demonstrating a concept. So after you take a photo, you can use any of our expressive pens to demonstrate that concept. I love this example. So this is from my classroom. We were growing crystal gardens and they're very fragile. You can't take them home. And I thought, oh gosh, you know, before seesaw existed in my classroom, we had science notebooks. They would, you know, use their paper and marker and crayons and draw an experiment we did in science.  That would take about 20 minutes. And then we would normally run out of time for the key component, which is the reflection and prediction that happens at the end. So I thought to myself, oh, with seesaw, they could just snap a photo. We clearly see what's going on here. They can use that time to then explain, reflect, make some predictions, right? And in this example, you'll see they've done this post, you know, they showed the progress of this experiment as well. But my very favorite way to get started with seesaw in our early childhood primary classes is using it during writer's workshop.  But seesaw really gives them the opportunity to, in this example, the student has taken a photo of their writer's workshop. Remember, I didn't change how I structured my writer's workshop, right? I'm still doing my mini lesson. They're still going off and doing their independent writing. But now I've enhanced this because I've given them the opportunity to read their story and record it. I am great at art. Okay, you love the little sweet voice, right? Students want to tell their story. They can practice their oral storytelling for those non-readers and writers. This is huge. Even for those students that are readers and writers, it gives them the opportunity to practice their fluency. It's in a portfolio. They can see their progress from, you know, from month to month or even week to week and sometimes. Okay. I'm going to pause here for a moment and remember, I said you can get a certificate for viewing this session. The first three digits you will need to get that certificate are the numbers one, two, nine. All right. As we continue, let's look at assessments. How can CISA help you with assessments? I know in your classroom you spent a lot of time doing one on one assessments with students. Think about sight word checks, right? This student has taken a photo and recorded their voice. I can read this week's sight words. They're about explaining school word because able between different current. Hello. I love this, right? When I saw this as a teacher in 10 seconds, I knew what the student was able to do. I actually then circled, oh, we're going to revisit where we're going to get in a small group with my other friends that need that and off we go. Now normally I would do this with each student individually. It would take me 30, maybe 45 minutes to assess each student one-on-one while the rest of my class is working independently, right? But think about that's 30 to 40 minutes of instructional time that I have saved. It's captured here. I can listen to it. So just all sorts of little tidbits I'm giving you here today. Are we ready to create with photo and voice? I think one of the most powerful aspects of CISA is just simply photo and voice. So we're going to try that today. And you are going to try your amazing artistic abilities. And in five seconds about, maybe you have a quick piece of paper next to you or a pen or something that you can use to draw a self-portrait. Okay. Now I'm talking, you know, I'm giving you five seconds. So there's no judgment here today. Draw your five-second self-portrait because what I'm going to ask you to do is I want you then to take a photo of that self-portrait. And we're going to record our voice saying, what are we interested in learning about this year? This might be something you already do in your classroom. Again, CISA is about enhancing what you're already doing. So I'm sure you have your student at the beginning of the year. Maybe they're drawing a self-portrait. Maybe they're goal setting, right? So add a layer of CISA to that. So what you're going to do right now is after you've drawn your amazing self-portrait in five seconds, you're going to tap that green add button. We're going to choose the photo, but this time after we take that photo of your self-portrait, tap the microphone that you'll see pop up on the left. And then tap the green check, add it to your portfolio. Tell me something you're interested in learning about this year. It can be as a teacher, of course, as well. So I'm going to give you a couple of minutes to do that. Let's try it. All right. Hopefully you got a chance to add that to our CISA class. If you're still working, that's okay. I'm going to show you a couple more classroom ideas. So when we think about what you just did, you just took a photo, you added your voice. Now students can continue as their CISA, as they become more familiar with CISA like you are, they can add more layers to their learning. So for example, here's the second grader explaining a math concept. They're using photo, drawing, and voice together. This is a group of 16, and I figured out 16 is an even number because there is four groups, there is eight groups of two. And when, and none left over, I can also do an addition sentence. Eight plus equals 16. Again, do you hear the students in the background? They're still working and doing the things that they need to do in their daily classroom day. And the student is just taking a quick moment to record and reflect in CISA. Again, as a teacher, this is getting you great insights into what your students are able to do. Again, enhancing what you're already doing in your classroom. Let's talk about literacy stations. Maybe you do daily five like I did in my classroom. And then think of any component in your day where you are trying to work with a small group of students. Okay, so maybe you're doing a guided reading group and you look around your classroom and you've got 20 other students that you're hoping fingers crossed are independently working at various other stations, right? Adding CISA to the mix really adds this level of amazing accountability for the students, but also you get to see their work and it doesn't necessarily need to be a situation where, you know, it always has to be a worksheet, right? As I mentioned before, I love that CISA allows this opportunity for students to use those hands on materials. So for example, in this station, students were doing word work. They created a tree map and they were sorting their site work cards. So this student then just quickly at the end, recapt what he had done. These are the words that have T and M. Two, that's what and the. All right, again, quick, quick check. The student is able to show me and tell me what they know, which is actually very empowering for them as well. Think about reading fluency. Don't we all want to hear our students more frequently? Have them take a quick picture of a book that they're reading and CISA and do maybe a 60 second fluency check. They can do that. What if you're working with a group of students and you have been practicing a strategy and then you send them off into the world and you hope they can independently apply that. So this example here, what you'll see in the slides when you get them is, is a student that is using the strategy of supporting predictions with text evidence. So take a peek at that. What we're going to do right now is actually check in with another tool, the drawing tool in CISA. And as you tap the drawing tool in CISA, you are going to be taken to a screen that looks like this. And there are so many options here. Students can use labels. They can draw and record at the same time to really capture that learning process before that was only something that was available if you were using an iPad or an Android device. Now you can also draw and record at the same time. If you have a Chromebook or any computer that's getting to CISA via the website. So you can also make a collage with multiple photos. Students can add over 25 photos to this canvas. There's shapes and backgrounds. And then do you see these amazing annotation tools here? We have the pencil, pen, a highlighter, a glow pen, which can be kind of fun. And then of course any color of the rainbow that students can create with just by starting with the blank slate. Now, true story. I think it was April in my classroom, maybe the end of April.  And I thought, how am I going to get this all done? How am I going to, you know, make sure I'm meeting all the needs of my students? And I thought, huh, why am I not just doing this in CISA? Well, my five friends come because I had five iPads. They grabbed an iPad. They went off to a recording spot in our classroom, which we'll talk about more later in a follow up sessions. But that basically means they have their own spot to reflect and think. So here we go. I can count by fast. Five, 10, 15, 20. 20 for 30. Okay. So she gets to 100, spoiler alert. But for me as a teacher, again, I'm saving a ton of instructional time. I'm not sitting there one on one with the student when I can easily capture the same information with CISA. Again, it's not earth shattering, but it kind of was in the moment I figured it out. More that you can do with the drawing tool. So as I mentioned, students can add labels. They can draw and record with their voice. So this is an example of a word sort that a student created in CISA. So I'm going to stop it. It goes on for a little bit there, but just again, sparking some ideas. Students can also start with a photo. Maybe you're in a maker space. The student is building a circuit. They then added labels to the top of the photo to explain what they had created in the parts there. So we're actually going to start with a photo. So I'm going to start with a photo. So I'm going to start with a photo. And then I'm going to go back to what they had created. So I'm going to start with a photo. So I'm going to start by drawing what they had created in the parts there. So we're actually going to explore right now with drawing, photo, voice, whatever kind of you want to explore. And what I'm curious about is I have shown you a lot of ideas, but I want you to think of maybe the one CISA idea where you're like, Oh, I'm totally doing that in my classroom. I'm going to try that. in your classroom. So you are going to tap that green add button. You're going to choose the drawing tool first this time and then you can draw maybe draw a picture or write a word. Do whatever you want. Just play. Play around in there. But then I want you to tap that mic and I want you to explain and say, what are you going to use C-soft board in your classroom? What's one way? And I'm really trying to get you to reflect here in the moment. All those ideas spinning around in your head, right? There might be a lot going on. Just pause for a moment and reflect at this time. What are you going to use? What's one way you're going to use C-soft? So go ahead and do that right now. Alright, so you've been playing around in our C-soft class. I haven't checked back in for a while as a teacher. So I'm just gonna go there right now. I'm gonna refresh. Look at all these unapproved posts that I have. Again, as a teacher everything comes to you first. So I can tap here and review. Oh, look at this, right? Child to demonstrate learning again. So you're just playing around with some of the drawing tools. Look at some of these amazing self-portraits. Wow! Okay, so again, I'm just scrolling quickly here as a teacher. I can improve these one at a time. I could delete one at a time if I wanted to. This is looking great. Oh yay! Someone found our new shapes that you can add as well. So again, I can also approve all. All of this work is going into the journal. So you understand that flow, right? Your students are creating. It's coming to you to approve and then it is added to the class journal. Again, as a reminder, if I tap on any of these individual portfolios, this feed will just sort to that child's portfolio, right? So you can easily see just an individual student's work as well. But I'm gonna go back here and tap class journal because then I see all of my students work coming in right there. All right, so we are doing awesome here today. Great work. Let's talk about how we get families connected to CSaw because, wow, this is going to completely be a game changer for you with connecting with families. Here's how it works. So families use the free CSaw Family app. It is completely different app. So they can download the app or they can go to the website app.csaw.me. It is free and you are able to use CSaw to really think about how however you've communicated with families in the past, I almost guarantee it can be done in CSaw. So announcements, class photos, newsletters, you can send them a Google form to sign up for conferences. All these things can be done in CSaw via the class app on your side as the teacher going to the family app. So inside CSaw right now, you have two options for inviting families. You can print paper invites that are available in 15 languages. You can also view a sample email to send to families as well. So I'm going to just show you literally how fast and easy this is.  And you're like, let's get the family connected. On the bottom right, I just tap the plus families button and I have my option show up right here. I can again print paper invites. It comes in any of these languages. I'm going to choose that option. That's what I did in my kindergarten classroom by click print paper invites. Again, CSaw is doing the work for you. It is generating a one page invitation unique to each student in your class. So it's giving you some instructions here as a teacher, but then here we go. Student A and of course I would say their real name, right? Like Annabelle. This is Annabelle's. So what this has on it is not the class QR code. This is a code only for their own child's journal. So that's why you want to make sure that this letter goes to the student listed at the top. So what families do is they just they open the CSaw family app, they scan this code, they create their account and they're connected. That's it. They can also connect from a computer as well. And the instructions are on that page. And just as a reminder, families only see their own child's work. They don't see everybody's work in the class. They only see work that their own child is tagged in. Okay, here we go. Are you ready to shift from student mode to teacher mode? If you are and you're like, Yes, Angela, I want to do this right now. You can actually join me and see how to create your own class. Or you could sit back and just watch me do this right now. And then no, when you get the recording, you could also do it later if you want to do that. So I'm going to go into our CSaw class right now. And just note, this is only for you of those of you using free CSaw. If your school is using the paid version of CSaw, CSaw for schools, they actually create classes for you. So you would not want to create a class if you're using the paid version of CSaw, that your school is setting up for you. So what I'm going to do right now is just show you how to do this. I'm going to go in the upper left. I'm going to tap my gear icon as a teacher and choose sign out because I want to I'm going to start from the beginning for those of you that are watching because I want to show you how fast and easy this is. So I'm going to tap I'm a teacher, I've just gone to the website app.csaw.me. I'm tapping I'm a teacher. And I'm going to choose create my account if you don't already have a teacher account. So I'm going to create my account. It's going to be called Angela Tester. And here we go. Of course, you would use a real email address. Whoops. See, I'm trying to type and talk and do all this at the same time. Wow. It's not working so well for me right now. But let's let's see if we can get it. Yay, passwords match. Okay, so I'm going to create my teacher account. And now it's so easy. You can import from Google Classroom. So if you're already using Google Classroom, and you have a class set there, you can click that button and put it right in a seesaw to build your seesaw class. I did not have that. So I am just going to create my seesaw class. This is Gadkis kindergarten. I'm going to choose my grade level, tap the green check. And voila, my class is done. It's ready.  Okay, we even have sample student already there for you to play with. So you can tag sample students as your portfolio as you're playing with. But if you're like, no, I let's make this happen. I want my students in this class right now. Then on the bottom right, you're just going to tap plus students. And then there's a couple questions. Do you want your students signing in with Google or email addresses? My answer was no. Are they shared devices or one to one devices? We had shared devices. So I'm going to choose that. And then I can just start typing in my students name. Okay. So I'm just gonna, you know, get some student names in here. Now, if you have a class list, oh my goodness, just tap paste the list of student names. And it will get your your students just you can copy and paste it in so handy dandy. Let's see. All right, so I'm going to pretend that that I'm done. I'm going to tap the green check. It's adding my students. It's also showing how they're going to join my class, right? And a reminder, in the bottom right is that student sign in poster that's going to get created, but I'm going to x out of this right now. So do you see all my students are right there? Now a little trick I want to show you. When my students were added right now, it looks like they're just like letter icons. If I refresh in the top left. For some reason, if you refresh, then it will show these cute little emoji friends, right? For your students that are at the pre K to level. That's also kind of handy so they can quickly find the portfolio that matches, you know, their name or they'll remember the icon as well. So keep that in mind. So you just created your class. So again, I would encourage you just to play as a teacher. You're not going to break anything. Post a student journal or post student work is what you might see right there when you tap that green add button and and play around have a little fun practice the flow of using seesaw. And then if you want if you're like, Oh my gosh, I need to keep going. I want to learn more come tomorrow to our live session at the same time. We are talking about part two and we're actually going to explore the CSI activity library. We're going to spend a lot of time walking you through the kindergarten getting started guide. So if you're really interested in quick mini lessons, you can use to introduce your students to see saw and get them going make sure you come to getting started part two. You can actually register for that session anytime by following this link right here or just typing in that link. If you're viewing the recording that will take you to the registration page. So make sure you join us for that. I also want to let you know if you're brand new, cool, our health center is amazing. So make sure you bookmark health dot seesaw dot me. Tons of resources are there for you ready to support you getting started. And as just a reminder, this is my public service announcement for the day. Don't share your class code. I shared our code with you today because we're a global classroom of learners. You want to keep this off of social media out of photos and inside your classroom, of course, because privacy is our priority here at CISA and we are really really that's fundamental to our mission. So make sure you check out our privacy center. Here's how you find that as well. And we are so grateful that you spent time with us today. And those of you listening to the recording, the next three digits you're going to need to get your certificate are zero, three, four. So those six digits will be used in the forum and you can see in the description for getting your certificate for attending this session. So we are so grateful to have you in our CISA community and boy, oh boy, do you see all of the ways that our teachers connect on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, make sure you join those communities and participate in that conversation as well. So many good ideas are shared there and we hope you'll come back for more live sessions. Our schedule is always posted at web.cisa.me backslash pd s


Okay, everybody. We'll go ahead and get started. My name is Mitch Meticovich. For those of you don't know me It's a pleasure to have you all here for our 2020 Session for our strategic planning committee and at this time and Iced Paul if you can go ahead and Do a roll call force, please Cal O. Yes, California Highway Patrol here Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation here Department of Technology here Emergency Medical Services Authority here Department of Finance Interduffy Department of Finance here Department of Fish and Game here Department the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection here Department of Justice Military Department Department of Public Health Department of Parks and Recreation Here Department of Transportation Department of Water Resources We have a core I feel like we've excluded part of our membership in the back So is there any way we can put them at the round table or is that So thank you so as we move into 2020 I think it's important that we I just want to Do a couple things one is I want to welcome everybody and two. I also want to maximize Your time and the and leverage this Meeting opportunity to really get into the heart of what we will all care about which is good interoperable communications That'll work together and hopefully Eliminate some of the issues that we have so we have some presentations that will continue that we started last time But a lot of the the dialogue that we bring together Will help set the conditions for this Upcoming year and I really want to maximize that and open it up in a way that we can Really be beneficial for everybody when it comes to what we're doing so with that we'll go ahead and At this time, I'd like to ask that we review the March and July meeting minutes so that we can officially approve those if you haven't already read them Should be in your packet And if everybody is okay with those meeting minutes, then we'll I just need to get a motion to approve the minutes as presented Mitch, uh, just would note that um, director finance's name is spelled incorrectly on this Thank you. Andrew Make that adjustment Any other comments? Okay, do I have a motion? Cal fire will make the motion to approve the minutes as drafted and amended Uh, dated march 28 2019 and july 25 About 2019 second All right. Thank you excellent, and then There's her. I guess I'll ask if there's any dissent. I don't think there's going to be so that We'll say that that motion carries and we're uh, good to approve the minutes here Based on the comments. Thank you everybody so our next item is to uh, looking to for a vote to approve our public safety radio strategic planning committee working group charter Um, so if you can please take a look at that if you haven't had a chance to yet um And ensure that we are capturing the vision of what we're looking at here for our working group Okay, if everybody's had a chance to scan the charter Uh, it asks us there if you feel comfortable with that or any amendments that we need to present That you think could see they're ambiguous or needs to be added to the charter at this time Mitch is a point of clarification under membership The draft charter says see attached membership listing. Obviously that is not available here for us today as this is a draft Is it the intent of this group to have a representative on the technical working group that is Uh, a designee of each one of the member agencies on the committee Ideally that would be the case it but if there's a a particular group that doesn't have that Availability to it. We'll work with whatever Is available, you know from the membership that is presenting to it because we'll just use that brain trust as our primary working group to To come forward with uh proposals and considerations Thank you. No questions. Any other comments? Are making it easy so um appreciate that so if it's time then if we have a uh a vote or an A motion. Thank you to approve the the charter as listed CHP makes a motion to approve charters listed In a second Second from Cal Fire. Thank you all those in favor And no opposed Okay, hearing no voices. We'll move on that motion is approved And we'll move on to our next item Um, this time like to introduce uh, Reggie Salvador From the governor's office emergency services. He's going to provide a update For us How much come up here next to me, Reggie? Good afternoon folks. Just uh wanted to uh Just uh talk about a couple of bills on both the state and federal side That are currently in play during this uh last half of the two-year session Uh AB 1366 by somebody member Gonzales is the uh voice over internet protocol uh communication services bill which Would extend the sunset date of section 710 of uh the public utilities code which deregulated VoIP But um that sunset date through this bill would extend to january 1st of 2025 That bill is currently still held in the senate committee on energy utilities and communications uh, which means that section 710 essentially Uh Met that VoIP would be deregulated until december 31st of 2019 so as of Currently of 2020 VoIP is now regularly regulated by the cpu seat Uh sp4 31 which is by senator maguire Require the cpu c in consultation with cal oes to develop and implement performance reliability standards for cell towers within tier two and tier three High fire threat areas that include number one Establishing a minimum operating life for backup power systems of no less than 48 hours And number two establishing means to warn Customers when backup power systems is low or low and could no longer be supported Uh, it's currently in the assembly communications and conveyance committee Charred by assemblymen Miguel Santiago and bless you whoever sneezed um Additionally sp7 34 by senator stern Uh would permit county social service departments employees to share contact information of elderly or disabled persons to emergency services personnel During a public safety power shutoff That I believe this week passed senate appropriations and is currently on the senate floor Uh Lastly sp7 94 by assemblymember jackson would allow local government to enter into agreements with local social services departments To access contact information for people with access and functional needs In order to enroll them in local alert and warning system programs That has been triple referred to the senate committee on governmental organization The senate energy utilities and communications committee as well as the senate judiciary committee So on the federal side hr 292 by uh congress congressmember curtis Streamlines broadband permit processes by allowing states and tribes certain authorities for permitting Within land owned by the national forest system Department of interior as well as tribes It is currently in the house subcommittee on conservation and forestry Uh s 273 by senator roberts Is the kelsey smith act which would require communication service providers to share users device locations with law enforcement officers Or public safety answering point representatives to respond to a call for assistance Or life-threatening emergencies and that is currently located in the senate committee on commerce science and technology uh also hr 38 36 by congresswoman eshu out of california Would amend the federal communications act to allow states to develop terms and conditions for infrastructure resilience Of wireless service providers by authorizing states to require wireless companies to deploy infrastructure that can withstand disasters That bill has been co-sponsored by 15 members of the california congressional delegation as well And that is currently in the house committee on energy and commerce Lastly of note Is that as a result of the ps ps events from october Because congresswoman eshu had introduced this bill as well That her As well as congressman thompson And the entire california congressional delegation Has requested from has requested of the house committee on energy and commerce as well as the subcommittee on communications and technology To hold a formal hearing on the role of telecommunications and public safety Based upon the october wildfire and ps ps events That formal request is still outstanding and uh, we are to be hearing more of that come later on the session And that should be it for now That is 75 about towers 753 No, but but the one about towers is sb 431 Sure Any questions from your perspective reggie Looking at this our working group And since all of these touches in different ways, what's They're out there. Is there anything that you wanted to highlight of particular interest? To us that you think is going to be Have significant ramifications for state agencies. I think Based upon the technical expertise surrounding this strategic planning committee I would think that The input that the agencies have to provide would be beneficial Based upon their own respective jurisdictional and programmatic responsibilities and as such anything that can enhance those programmatic responsibilities for the public safety Aspects would be a great thing and if they those those uh, those items can be communicated up to uh To our office of legislative and external affairs, that would be great Through through through you and this committee Okay, thank you. Um, and lastly I was going to ask you a question regarding the federal legislation for broadband permitting on federal areas is Do you see And that's tribal and federal and tribal and federal lands And so the purpose of that bill is to allow To give greater flexibility for the carriers then to establish and and build Infrastructure in those areas is that I believe so it streams line the permitting process because of the fact that as everyone Is fully aware when it comes to permitting whether it's on local state or federal lands or it's an environmental process that can be very Cumbersome and so industry would tend would would would rather Hope to you to streamline some of those processes Reggie quick question With that is there would there be any applicability to public agencies because I know the public agencies run into the same Same challenge on federal lands to get uh, I would think that'd be the similar similar But obviously, you know private public, you know sector You know entities would kind of operate under the same under different under different You know part of the term utility functions if you will That's a great point chief allen particularly some of the challenges we had with site selection to do the Red Mountain project that we've been working on here up north And the initial refusal on that federal land. So that was that's a great point Any other questions for reggie? All right. Hey, thanks, uh, mr. Salvador appreciate the update and uh This time we'll go ahead and transition to uh, mr. Hank o'neill Who is going to provide an update to us? Um from the swicks out of the household. Good afternoon. I'm hank o'neill I'm the emergency communication division chief here at callow. Yes, and I work in the 911 branch for budge courier The update i'm going to give is on the statewide in our operability executive committee um through the us department of homeland security cyber security and infrastructure security agency emergency communication division they have a technical assistance program In which we're allowed at five requests annually These are derived from the offerings as a catalog changes from year to year We base our request To further enhance california's interoperability and provide strategic support in advancing california statewide communications interoperability plan skip The 2019 national emergency communications plan And state interoperability performance markers is measured on the interoperability continuum The links to the cal skip cal ifog national ifog and the national emergency communication plan can all be found on callow Yes, his website under the california interoperable communications The first update is on the cal skip which is included in this year's uh technical assistance We will be updating the skip this year and the project begins in may The cal ifog Was under a technical assistance last year. It's in the process of being Updated as well as integrated into a mobile app All the updates have been received We should be finalizing it Within the next month and then it'll take about two months for the app to actually be developed and deployed As I mentioned, we're allotted five requests annually of the five that we submitted this year We were approved for all five and we were additionally approved for a sixth course If you'd like I could go over which courses we have coming this year So the first one is the skip update as I mentioned the next one is a communication unit exercise for communication unit trainees tentatively scheduled for may We have an instant tactical dispatcher training course scheduled for april We have a communication focused full-scale exercise that is going to be held in san diego in november Cal OES is hosting the radio rodeo for san diego this year and in conjunction with that radio rodeo Where you're going to hold a full-scale exercise? We are holding an incident communication center manager course in march We have an all auxiliary communications training course That is going to be held also in march And those are the courses for this year Last year's technical assistance We have an outstanding information technology service unit leader training course that is on hold pending scheduling with the local host agency And then the other one that I did not mention yet is the communication operational assessment of lake tahoe and trucky region That is supposed to be delivered the middle of next month and that turns into a Follow-up technical assistance for the state of nevada, which they'll get into an engineering technical assistance Those are the uh, most of the updates for the cal seek Additionally, there's two more updates one on esf2 emergency support function to cal OES is a lead agency for this emergency support function communications as lead organization, we are going to be reaching out to all state agencies to request that you provide a primary and alternate communication contact for this function and we use primarily for Information sharing both during and outside of emergency activations one of those will be to update the chasm the communications asset survey and mapping tool basically it's a geographically oriented App that you can see which assets are available statewide And then one senate bill that we'd like to update on is 670 The telecommunications community isolation outage notification We fully anticipate the information that will be reported through this senate bill will be timely precision impact area designation down to the zip code And it'll be actionable at the local level The public comment period will end at the conclusion of the public hearing which is scheduled for tuesday february fourth Then the last item i'd like to give an update on it's the next gen 911 contract Which is progressing the primary contract atos Who has primary responsibilities for olympic communication systems is the primary and they've hired four subcontractors For four regions across the state This will significantly enhance location accuracy and provide redundant pathways It also this contract also has an alert and warning component Where with the state will be providing an alert and warning platform statewide Currently they're subcontracted with everbridge There's been significant outreach efforts across the state to all the p-saps And additionally follow on outreach to all the mutual aid region committees to Socialize what's going to happen when this starts being implemented And budge couriers recorded one of those presentations that's available on youtube So if you haven't been able to attend one, it's very informative. It's about two hours. So That's all i have for my update any questions Just to remind everyone that the courses are going to be posted online with your site, correct? Yes, so They're available for everyone there on it. And then i think it's important to provide a little more clarification On The emergency support function too and and who's currently working with you the state operation center When you're doing that work and then kind of what uh, what that role in that interface is that you're trying to achieve So primarily right now is lead agency for communications Cal OES coordinates primarily with other lead agencies of either other esfs So our primary reach out has been with caltrans for esf one And a couple others So what we're trying to do is actually have these agencies designate somebody specifically for communications So that we can create synergy and also staffing that may be necessary if we have a larger scale disaster than what we're used to And then part of that function, uh, just for the rest of the the members is that we found ourselves on this last public safety power shutoff not Challenged other than refueling and the occasional problem the generator is either propane or diesel Within our radio communications for ourselves. We found a significant challenge with all of our Wireless and wire line communication so Because the infrastructure not having the same hardening that we Enjoy are for ourselves. However, as we all know most of our employees And of course the public are all counting on the wire line wireless to work and so that interface between all of us whether it's an alert and warning function or it is a Backup for area that you might have interference or just a you know problem with comms For yourselves. I became a grossly challenged for us there. So Significant hard work there a unique challenge for us on october And if there's interest we can come back to that again at a littered point and kind of walk everybody through What those challenges were and what they've entailed but obviously 670 and the and the new reporting guidelines as they come out will change some of that for us so we can provide more rapid information to All of us that are part of the whole of government response So that you can have good information out there when we're doing our work. So Thank you, Hank. Any other questions for mr. O'Neill? All right, thank you At this time asking mr. Pat malin to come forward. He's our assistant director here of public safety communications To provide his update Good afternoon, you know as we've had some previous discussions You know amongst some of the members of this board about the The need for interoperable communications across the state particularly during times of emergencies You know, we can look at the at the recent fires and and some of the psps functions where Agencies need to communicate across agency and today that's very very difficult if if not impossible so So this last year we submitted a a budget change proposal Through the process through the department of finance and the governor's office Which was approved and I think I reported that to you At the july meeting that was a five-year program for 59.5 million dollars to build out A program that we call a crest which is a california radio interoperability system I'm really really pleased to report that within five and a half months we deployed the first six sites and turned them on On december 18th. We made the first official transmission on the crest system from From this building to a one of our technicians that was in bakersfield And then subsequently about 75 miles north of bakersfield for a second call when chp was Was present for demonstration Also on december 20th and then again on january the first I personally drove Highway 99 south and five coming back with the radio It took radio strength measurements and it was phenomenal coverage from sacramento all the way up halfway up the grapevine before I lost coverage And same thing coming back north to well north of sacramento So i'm really really pleased with that So that means within five and a half months of receiving the the go ahead we had six sites deployed The real advantage to the crest system is that we're going on existing sites We're not having to build any greenfield sites. So so it really expedites the the process And kind of coupled with that in order to provide the backhaul for a digital system We're relying on the upgrade to the caps net system, which i'll get i'll cover in just a couple minutes To provide the backhaul via digital digital connection We're actually still waiting to get the remainder of the staff on the on the project. We've had a senior Senior engineer assigned us as well as a supervising engineer had been working diligently on this, you know, since Since its inception and the rest of the team should come on board around the 1st of february Additionally for year two we have Acquired the equipment we've ordered the equipment for 34 additional sites so and that will in the deployment for that is We'll cover the the north valley basically highway five going north the bay area and then into uh, los angeles of venter And orange counties in year two And then the following years it was we get a little bit more into some of the the more rural jurisdictions of the state You know, we will have some additional challenges, but Within the first two to three years we'll have a vast majority of the population covered by this program So our our our vision is is that this will be a subscriber base system to help, you know continue To provide the maintenance for the system with Agency specific assigned talk groups and psc will be working with individual agencies to Develop the talk groups as well as some overarching Talk groups which will allow interoperability during times of disasters and that can be loaded into all the radios We're also looking at some interoperable shared talk groups with other jurisdictions We've had discussions with sacramental county. We've had discussions with la rick's project Which will vastly improve the coverage in those two jurisdictions and then have some ability to roam on to other systems In a quid pro quo type basis where say los angeles would send one of their transportation buses up as far sacramental and be able to operate seamlessly on the chris system in exchange for Um for hypo petroleum or caltrans or some agency From the state to be able to operate in the los angeles area and have really super improved coverage The features of this it is a p25 trunk system So the using a phase two radios we will provide 10 time will simultaneous talk groups Talk conversations going on per site And any if you if we're into phase one that would be five talk groups It does offer encryption, which I know is of great interest to the high root patrol GPS location services are part of the radios Wi-Fi program and we can actually reprogram the radios via wi-fi over the air And not have to have the the radios actually come into some kind of a depot to be connected to a computer We will have a 24 7 network operating center here at the at the psc campus And then we can also provide you know special talk groups for some kind of a special You special event that might be occurring such as a county fair as I said Yeah, just forget the olympics as that's too far out So this this map that you see here is kind of the five phases that we And we envisioned for the program as I said Phase one the first in the central valley has been completed. That's done with six sites Phase two, which is in the bay area in some areas going north on highway five as well as the The la orange county ventura county areas will be part of phase two phase three will be the Basically the the pacific you know up from ventura North of enteros anabarba and counties north up up to Basically silicon valley that that does not cover it in phase in phase two Phase four will be the north coast Which will we know is going to be a significant challenge particularly along highway one As well as going out towards the arizona border along the the mexican border And then five which is the really the long pole in the tent as far as being able to ensure coverage will be And up up through the The the sierra's on the east side of the sierra's and up into the northern parts of california this this slide right here is a Modeling of the radial coverage that's that's being supplied by the first six sites And as I said, I did drive it personally on on In december and the first of january And know that all the way down and halfway up the grapevine we have coverage So we have really really good coverage through that We are doing some of system optimization and we're looking to To actually start being public safety agencies and agencies on the system probably around the first of june I've talked with chief howlin about the potential for some of his units being able to Have access to the system to check it out just not to rely on it from a public safety perspective because It's not ready for prime time yet but it will Give us a real-life test of how that system can function The next phase is I said this phase two. This is the depiction of the the coverage Forecast for the six sites in the in the bay area Does not include the the coverage in southern california but As you can see if you exclude the the area to the left side, which is out into the ocean We actually have pretty decent coverage through throughout the san francisco throughout the san francisco area Any questions on the chris system? Yes, sir It's 700 megahertz. Yeah, it will be a trunk system. Yes I think the you know the future goal as we know the cal fire operates in vhf You know and conventional There is the potential you know down the road to be able to connect some of that through the core So that you know units that are say going up up through Five and up through 99 can at least be able to communicate with something in the more rural districts, but that's That is something that's that's a little bit beyond years one and two Pat quick question. I I know when we look at radio I think we all look at the same things. We're looking at coverage capacity and reliability from that standpoint It sounds like because you're using existing sites with We're done it back up that the reliability is built to the the standard that we expect as far as all our sites Absolutely And then the other question is when you look at the phased approach and you indicated that you know The north coast and some of our troubling areas and you look at the cirras and other places that we all operate in have you done any mapping to Basically your estimates of what coverage will look like. Well, as I said, I'm still waiting to bring the staff on board on February 1st So, I mean the first six sites is is really a phenomenal effort by one one engineer and in in the supervising engineer Is I mean, I'm just absolutely flabbergasted that we got something turned on that that quickly So we will be Miniana, so I'll call you on the second to call me on the second Well, wait, give me the fourth is a Monday. So give me the fifth. Perfect. Okay. Thank you, Pat Okay, any other questions on chris Okay, moving on to caps net as I sit So I I just got to say That I am extremely proud of the work you guys are doing already on chris and You know when you look back At least when I look back, you know, just 15 years ago on the pizzeris pick minutes that were that were out there This has been an issue and a concept That goes back that far that was never implemented even though everybody knew it was the right thing to do The brain trust is known that connecting all these disparate networks and making this happen Was the right piece and then We were fortunate enough to have The support of the legislature and the support of the governor to get that funding and to not Shoulder it back on on the agencies to to get the startup cost to have it built out And so it is really going to be a phenomenal endeavor once we're complete and so I just want to say well done and as it starts to continue to build out when we get that group put together I think it's going to be the envy For communications in the future Thank you Moving on to the the chris update. Um, as I said, we're relying upon the chris system for Our the chris system is going to be relying upon a digital backhaul technology, which is a part of caps net In addition The caps net program will also be supportive of the next generation 911 We're looking to put in a a path into every public safety answering port. That's 438 Peace apps in the state with a redundant backhaul for You know in case of emergencies if we lose cellular if we lose land lines, we've always got Microwave so we've completed 14 sites excuse me The transition to mpls technology in 14 sites along the eastern sierra We have a contract in place with nokea and they're doing the site surveys and doing the engineering We'll be actually doing the installation on 50 sites in phase one Phase two is the next 50 sites and that's uh, that is actually forecast for progress in fiscal year 21 or 2021 The caps net team is hiring engineers and IT classifications as part of the bcp That should be in place by june 30th of this year We do recognize it with mpls technology that we could be vulnerable to attack So we are bringing on an IT classification specifically to support the caps net program in the security security measures that are in place there The other challenge that we've had as we deployed these The mpls technologies. We're actually having to add dishes and radios into some of the vaults and so that's created a 310 process which is the access and the licensing for use of the vault We've been working with our partner agencies on that to expedite that process Because it is a temporary installation You know we're putting in another radio another dish while we make that migration to digital And then we'll be removing the old analog stuff, but in the interim We're taking up additional space in the vaults and on the towers And so we want our partner agencies to actually own those sites to become involved in that process So we're bringing on a You know some assistance to to expedite that process because our goal is to have the entire microwave network, which is I think To about 275 sites and 370 some odd paths updated within the next four years Um last item I have is actually not on the slide is to discuss To bring you up to speed on the public safety communications enterprise system. It's a yes system Um, we implemented the timekeeping aspect of that about a year and a half ago And that has been proved proved out to be extremely beneficial in providing clarity to The client agencies about what the technicians and what the engineers are spending their time on is every Entry that they make as far as you know attributing a time to a project Includes a description of what they did So that is now in place We were able to roll that into the billing project Billings aspect of the project Which probably all got hit with a pretty massive bill in december Because it included the first four months of of this current calendar year or this current fiscal year With the billings, but it should have it did include a lot of the clarity that you've been asked for Asking for and with the automation of that system. We're now able to turn out a report on a budget a billing within the next month so As of today Actually as of monday of next week We will have the billing for the month of december completed So that will make your should make your cash flow situation a whole lot more manageable And that's the end of my report any questions. Yes, sir So We will be having a fleet mapping exercise and that is an extremely important part of that we will be actually reaching out to Each of the agencies represented on this board for providing a you know A participant in the working group on that so that we we can address all of those issues We do know that there are different protocols between different agencies But we also would need to set up a common protocol For you know for emergency responses if we have a big one We need everybody's you know to know what the same radio code is if there's a radio code involved or at least You know go back to the basics and that's plain English Any other questions? it's a great great question john and Where we want to be down the road within the entire state community, so And that's just partial so it's gonna It's going to take some work And it's going to take some compromise from uh everybody everybody involved Hopefully we we write it together and have At least a framework that we agree upon I don't think one person wrote the bible All right, thanks pat appreciate that And so I wanted uh before we transitioned to you know recommendations for future items I wanted to make sure I had an opportunity Um for any last questions kind of that kind of because pat's area is so broad And I wanted to make sure that um it gives us an opportunity to transition time For anybody on any other issues that we have within our public safety radio Side that we wanted to bring up or anything that you have a question on the financial side that And maybe out there Standing that we need to surface Those are so nice Okay, then we'll go into uh future recommendations on anything that that we have Future recommended agenda items that you would like to see briefed out. Do do you like the updates that you're getting? From calis or is there something else in specific that you want or if there's a specific Program that you're implementing we'd love to hear some of your individual successes as well And put you on the agenda on certain projects that you're working that you feel comfortable Presenting to the groups so that we can have That that dialogue I'll take that as a we'll continue to march and I will Strong arm some volunteers on some things later down. So very good. Okay Moving on I'll put it now for a public comment hearing none Um at this time we'll take a motion to adjourn Mitch if I may before I make a motion to adjourn I just want to thank you and your staff from the standpoint because I I think as I look at the agencies around the table We all rely on you guys Day-to-day to make sure our operations go and you know, it's as a team We all contribute to public safety and so Thank you to you and your crew for what you do to maintain our communications And I think as we meet in the future to continue to have the dialogue to ensure that we're moving forward with technology And also the governance standpoint and I think you know as I I think about it I think that that topic of interoperability Probably need to dive a little deeper in from that that reporting standpoint to make sure we're addressing those pain points And then anything we can do is a board to weigh in To keep things moving forward because I I always hate to find out we have a communications problem in the middle of an emergency And it's a whole lot easier to learn from the last one and apply the learning to the next one So that it just keeps getting easier and easier from that standpoint And with that I'm happy to make a motion to adjourn And do I have a second? All right We are uh This concludes the uh our meeting here and we'll see you next quarter and we'll get that invitation out And I appreciate the the kind words scott. So thank you so much