Okay, now for the Pledge of Allegiance, Rosa Lee. Through the flag of the United States of America and through the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Welcome to everyone that's here and we're so happy to have you here with us. This Virginia is there and if you need a translator, you can ask for the devices with her. We have Dr. Rodriguez and Superintendent Comments. Yes, thank you. So PVUSD has the first computer science immersion school in Santa Cruz County and we had our second epic build, Evelyn C. Elementary this past week. Students grades kindergarten, so as young as kindergarten to sixth grade worked on projects with Lego robotics. So in a moment after I say this in Spanish, we're going to show you a short video for you to enjoy. So our school district has the first immersion school in computer science in the county of Santa Cruz. We had our second epic build event in the school of Evelyn C. Elementary this past week. Students from kindergarten to sixth grade worked on projects with Lego robotics. And here's a short video for you to enjoy. Make it bigger. Lego robotics to go around the pathway. To his father, what he did on the computer to code it to be able to do what it did. So next week we will be on spray break. So I hope everybody enjoys the rest and has a safe time off. We look forward to seeing all of our students and staff back at work on Monday, April 8th, 2019. So you don't get more than a week, just one week off. Thank you. Being bored, comments, and I will start with Jennifer Schachter. Good evening, everyone. Thank you for coming. I was able to visit H.A. Hyde and get a tour of the school of Evelyn C. Elementary. So I hope you enjoyed the show. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I was able to visit H.A. Hyde and get a tour of the school. They do have a lot of special needs students there. So it was wonderful to see all the students and the teachers and they all wanted me to show me what they were working on. So it was a good visit and a productive visit. We also have food services meetings tomorrow where we're talking about different items with the school dress that has been mentioned before that we were trying to be more green. It's also been mentioned about the nutrition value of some of the meals. And that's all going to be talked about. And we'll be giving a tour of the nutrition facilities. And I was also able to attend Zumba with our mayor of Watsonville, which was a fun community event. Lots of community members were out there, a chance to socialize and talk a little bit. And lots more things on the upcoming agenda that I look forward to. Thank you. I have mostly lost my voice. So we'll see how well this goes. I was able to do site visits to Renaissance High School and Rio de Mar elementary. And I think to see our schools from a school board trustee perspective was very empowering. Just looking at what our schools are capable of and where they can grow and develop is I'm proud of the work that they're doing. And just, you know, on a personal note, I just wanted to say that Bobby's fellows are with someone for whom I had a great deal of admiration. I'll talk to him. Yeah. I'll talk with all the commenters. Yeah. Thank you, everyone, for joining us tonight. So it's been a couple of busy weeks for us. Last week I participated in our educational equity blueprint group work. And at this session, we received various reports, including one on student led conferences and CT pathways. I'm very excited about the possibility of expanding student led conferences to schools, to other schools within our district as a way to increase not only parent involvement, but also students ownership of their own work and success development of their leadership skills and goal setting. I also write very excited about the in-house CT programs and the integration of CT pathways at the middle school level. At our last board meeting, I mentioned the concern that I had along with D-LAC parents who had expressed concerns around map scores and not all parents receiving their map scores and needing additional help really deciphering what those scores meant for their students. So I'm really excited to announce that starting next year, our district will be implementing the following. We will be printing map scores in-house and handing them out during parent-teacher conferences. And back to school nights, we will be preparing a list of questions parents can ask teachers regarding the assessment scores for their students. And having Anne Childers visit more classrooms and work with goal setting around map scores with those students and teachers at the elementary schools. And a couple of other things. And if the board approves tonight the following item, we will be paying for the map assessment tool for our dependent charter schools. I also attended our monthly D-LAC meeting. At this meeting, our parents receive a report on our Pajara Valley High School Field Project in a report on the recommendations of Save Routes to School Plan for three of our schools, including Minty White, Watsonville High School, and Pajara Valley High. And in an effort to keep our board meeting shorter, I began working with our superintendent to move our student recommendations to the Mellow Center. So making that an annual celebration where we recognize all students at once. And I think it will be a better experience for them where they can invite their families and even their friends. More of a celebration. That's I think what we want to get out of moving it to an annual event. And lastly, I would like to invite everyone to join us tomorrow at the Cesar Chavez Leadership Community Awards. Isabelle Tuncer, who has brought us to Pajara Valley Unified School District, will be honored at this event. So I'm hoping that some of you can show you support tomorrow night. Thank you. Rosalie. So hello, everyone. I was in talk with the Aptos High Principal and we were discussing the National Model for School Counseling Program and how it's doing at Aptos High. From what we've seen, the model really has been adapting well into our school. Our counselors are working effectively with one another, along with parents and students to further create an environment that best promotes student achievement. While talking to the ASB class of Pajara Valley High School, it was great to see that they really have seen a positive change as well. The students have mentioned that it was very nice to see their counselors individually calling seniors into their office in order to go over their academic plans for the future and calling students in, in general, to make sure that they are on track to accomplish everything they need by the end of the year. Though counselors are doing a great job at meeting with students, they, of course, can't get to everyone as quickly as many students hope. Watsonville High students, for example, have expressed that it does take a while for some of their students to meet with their counselors. One example is that of a senior who needed help from his counselor in order to apply to the Cabrillo's Honors Program and when he went to go reach out to his counselor, he was informed that it would take over a week to meet with them. It was also the Watsonville High students who I spoke with that said when they do have time to meet with their counselors, they feel like their conversations are a bit rushed in order so their counselors can move on to other students. So I believe that counseling process has gotten a bit better throughout the years, but, of course, there's still more to do in order to ensure that all students are properly taken care of throughout all the high schools. Thank you. Thank you, Perla. I mean, you're not Perla. You're Rosalie. Sorry.  It was last year's. Yeah. I've been very busy with a family event the past two weeks and every Thursday and Saturday you'll find me out at the track watching my daughter who's a senior run her events. She's running in the Stanford Invitational this Saturday which is a prestigious event with all the college coaches there so we're really looking forward to that. And we're actually preparing and getting really quite excited for graduation and I know all the seniors are have senioritis I think they're they're working hard to keep their grades up but it's also a time when they're sort of feeling like they're done with the high school situation. So I wish all the seniors all the best in the last few weeks of school and hang in there for the teachers and staff. Good evening everybody. City of Watsonville, PBUSD. Just a couple things I've been active in the community school district a couple weeks ago I was with the mayor we cleaned up the levy with the Buddhist temple. Last Saturday me and council member Aurelia we fixed up some of the baseball fields at E Hall. Recently I attended a school site council meeting at Minnie White where the Minnie White has been working with the city and the school district so we're working on fixing the streets on Lincoln. I live on Lincoln I'm pretty sure that some parents live right here on Lincoln. Very dangerous all the way up Lincoln from the high school all the way up to freedom and also at that same meeting we talked about getting those portables fixed up. I know Minnie White has spent some money already so we hope with our remaining money we can get new portables those portables have been there since I was there and hopefully we can work on getting those portables fixed up. Thank you very much. So hi I'm Karen. I want to do that but I also went to another staff meeting at Hall School with all the teachers and I had reported to you last time what it was like when we went to Pahdo Middle School and it was like that it was like Pahdo Middle School with all the discussion about what Michelle was there of course Dr. Rodriguez excuse me and what they're doing in the schools and what we're accomplishing and then teachers got to go around to different posters to talk about different items such as integrity, empowerment, integrity, excellence, equity all these posters all around the room and put their comments on them and of course she opened it up for questions and then she offered everyone that wasn't able to have their question answered that she would and they all had their three by five cards and she would answer them on her weekend their questions and what she has done for the Pahdo Middle School teachers they feel really good about it and so she's going to do it. I also decided to go with Migrant Head Start I actually went to meet the new providers for our daycare homes we're hoping to get four more new providers and so we went to all of their homes and checked out what they have done in terms of you know in some cases they didn't have all the toys and everything there yet but we were able to see their space and what it looked like and where the bathroom was right next door and where they're going to where their outside facilities were and you know some of them were ready to go one of them was totally ready to go and she was a really wonderful place absolutely great so all the providers the new providers had really nice homes and we felt good about having them be our new providers and they're all going to training and they all they're all getting their licenses which they have to show that they have you know the classes and the training in order to do what they're doing which is pretty impressive thanks now I'm going to go I'm going to talk about someone who has passed someone who is very very special to me and to countless countless others his name is Bobby Salazar he he lived at Aptos High and he worked as a lead custodian for 42 years 42 years and he was put in the Hall of Fame in 2010 and he's been mariner of the month more than once he was our CSEA president for five years and he was always always at our board meetings he was always here he's he's done so many other things I'm not going to be able to name them all but he has been on the site council he's been in the homeless school club he's chaperoned all kinds of field trips he even gave in services on gangs he actually sang in the school assemblies he was even a coach you know we should probably figure out how to name something after him you know at some point at Aptos we should probably name something after Bobby I think we should probably do that and go ahead and talk about how wonderful he is to your children so Bobby always made me fit when I was had students you know at Aptos High he made me feel welcome as a parent but what was most important was that he my kids felt like they had somebody looking out for them in Bobby and he was just he fell naturally into friendliness friendship was his natural state my older children were just so incredibly saddened to hear of his passing and so was I I'm going to greatly you know my I've got a younger child to eventually go on to Aptos High and it makes me sad that I won't see Bobby smile he actually counseled many students as a head custodian but students came to him and asked him for advice I mean you know like he was there for every student it was pretty amazing so I'm going to have us take a moment to honor Bobby just a moment to honor Bobby thank you I just want to let the public know that there'll be services this Friday I believe at Mel's Chapel at one to three and a celebration of his left at Aptos I believe at 11 a.m. so if anybody would like to come and say thank you yeah Aptos yeah Aptos High school people should try to go to Aptos High at 11 a.m. and this this coming Saturday if you can make it to Aptos High to honor Bobby really great okay now we have high school students board report and oh and we have a new school student that's what we have here tonight a new school student students you have new school students so you can go up to the microphone if you want if you want to and name yourselves okay hello my name is Christopher Lopez and this is and I'm Karina today we will be representing the school community day recently we received a new counselor her name is Stephanie she transferred from PV PSA and I actually really like her and enjoyed her being at our school seeing how she helps a lot of kids emotionally and academically such as scholarships recently new school developed a new schedule format so now instead of having our period to after break we have it before and then our lunch has been moved after our fourth period just because we wanted our lunch lady to come back but she wasn't able to assist us at the time that we had because she was busy attending with the PV high kids so that's that was our last schedule so now some of the classes have changed times and on Wednesdays it's we have a different we have our lunch is at the end of the school day so food what something that Karina and I are in and we really enjoy it because there we learn about nutrients and like health benefits and today we actually went and we sharpened the shovels and we learned about cooking rice like brown rice and like the difference what it is between brown rice and white rice so we also recently had earlier this March we had a field trip to Iowa Novel State Park where we were able to visit like the elephant seals and our students were able to learn different types of facts about them such as how the longest an elephant seal has been able to hold their breath underwater was two hours and twenty minutes and we were able to see them in like little groups so by that time the during March is when like the pups are the ones that are left and the moms and the dads or have left them already on the beach so we saw like a couple of them unfortunately we saw one that was like dead next to like the dad but we really had a good time even though the weather wasn't so great so recently we also started our applications for our new outdoor science and character development program and the theme around this is going to be ocean life so it's going to begin after spring break which is going to be the first Thursday and our first field trip is going to be to growing up while we will just get like established with all the stuff that we will be able to do later in our field trips and yeah basically that would be we would update you guys later on the other field trips that we would have so we just finished our basketball season they were competing their last game was competing with Sequoia and they actually were victorious and this time they did a bit again with Mr. Love and here's a clip of them shaving his head. So our next sport is going to be soccer these two will also be starting I think after spring break and right now they're having practice the practice of course will be during the week in the mornings and then games would be like Fridays and the students there who are playing would be able to receive PE credits so currently we're working on the yearbook it's still in progress because we're confused about the images that we're going to put on it yeah we're planning of putting a school picture like of every student I believe in the front page and what's really great is that they're only ten dollars. So for diplomas and caps and gowns our office manager Olga was in charge of every students transcript she after spring break she will be ordering our caps and gowns and diplomas and right now she's just seeing like who I'm trying to understand what kids who will finish and what kids who won't unfortunately so she can have like an estimate about how many of those things she will order. So our math teacher Miss Jones made this slideshow called social skills at new school she's teaching us about having confidence and maintaining stress developing emotional and emotional intelligence and doing problem solving. That's it thank you. Thank you. Okay now we're going to do student recognition we're just talking about we're doing a big one at one point next year. Is there someone from Watsonville High School that's here. Okay so I'm going to put McQuitty elementary at the end because I've been told that they're a little bit late are they here? Okay I'll put you second. Nice to see you and I'm really glad you're here. Okay I'm going to do Fatima Gonzales Solis Aloni elementary. Natalie. Okay good evening President Osmondson. Dr. Rodriguez and members of the board I'm Dr. Jean Gottlob principal of Aloni elementary and I'm very proud to be here with some very important members of our team. We have our academic coordinator Gina Elizalde and Fatima's teacher Candelaria Suniga and we are very pleased to present Fatima Gonzales Solis as our Aloni elementary student of the year. She is here with her mom Maria Cristina Solis her dad Jose Alfredo Gonzales and her siblings Jose Enrique and Natalie. Fatima has attended Aloni elementary school since kindergarten and has always been an outstanding student. She is a math superstar and a talented expressive writer who loves to read and she sets her own ambitious personal reading goals. Not only is Fatima an excellent student but she is also a great friend and classmate. She is organized, generous compassionate and always eager to lend a helping hand. We asked Fatima's classmates to describe her and they all mentioned how caring she is and how she goes out of her way to help others. They also spoke about how helpful she is, her determination creativity and sense of humor. She is truly an extraordinary girl. Fatima's family and friends encourage her to do her best and that is exactly what she does. Fatima herself recognizes that she is someone who doesn't give up without a fight. Congratulations Fatima. We know you will keep on fighting and we are proud to have you represent our school. I asked superstar, I wish I could have been more successful. It's so wonderful that you are and you are such a great leader too. Luis Marquez, McQuitty Elementary. Good evening President Osmussen, Dr. Rodriguez, members of the board. It's an honor and a privilege to present to you this exceptional Mustang student, Luis Marquez. Ms. Chappelle, his classroom teacher has a few words. I'm proud to announce him as our student of the year. He is a young kid that exemplifies what it means to be a McQuitty Mustang and he is definitely somebody to be looked up to because of his dedication to his education and his positive peer relationships and he continues to prove himself as a responsible trustworthy, dedicated, kind-hearted and compassionate individual at McQuitty. These are the words that the class came up with. How would you describe him? That's everything they said. Luis Marquez is a great student. He's a great leader in this role. He's shown us that he has exceptional public speaking skills and a strong sense of fairness. Luis cares so much about McQuitty and has brought many thoughtful ideas on how we can make it a better and safer place for all of us to learn and grow. He's participated in Mustang athletes for three years playing kickball, soccer and football sportsmanship by always encouraging and including others. He's extremely outgoing and definitely multi-talented because he was the Grinch in fourth grade at our winter performance and he nailed it. He's aspiring to be an engineer when he grows up because he wants to work with his two brothers in the same field and we're just really proud of him and he's very deserving and he's a wonderful role model and we just can't wait to see what a great person he becomes as an adult. So congratulations, buddy. I'd like to just take a moment to introduce the rest of the folks that are here. His father Luis, his mother Ava, his older brother Daniel who was of McQuitty Mustang too early last year and Miss Cesarillo our academic coordinator. So thank you. The last one that we have here tonight is Ana Sanchez Diamond Technology Institute. So good evening President Osmondson, Board of Trustees and Dr. Rodriguez. I am extremely excited to be standing here with Ana's support team, her mom Rosalia, her sister Rosa who I had in my English class when I taught at Washington High School, Octavio, Guadalupe, Elberto, Mikayla, Luz, Juan and Maria. I know that Ana's support team is strong and I knew it the second she came to my school as an eighth grader and said I want to be here and I want to be an engineer. She has never wavered from that since I've known her but the first two years of her schooling with us she definitely was stuck on petroleum engineer but recently she has decided that she has an affinity for computer science and she's taking a class at Cabrio in computer science as well so she's doing well. Ana is the top of her class of 2020 she volunteers at the public library as a tutor, she volunteers at the science workshop I can't say enough amazing things about Ana and do not let her quiet and shy demeanor fool you she is a white tiger through and through and so we couldn't be prouder to present Ana tonight as our student of the year and we know that she's dedicated to educational improvement and she's dedicated to her school and community and we know that she's going to go far no matter if it's in engineering or computer science so good job Ana congratulations and I think she wants to say a little just a couple things Hello my name is Ana Sanchez and I would like to invite everyone to the business board tomorrow between 9 to 1 at the middle center this is for our junior class and senior class we will present our business project and also think short think without a short and I would like to thank my mom especially I would like to thank my family especially my mom for their support in my education next okay all the all the kids can go all the awardees okay so next I'm very proud to give to Todd Gill our excellent reporter who is a good friend of mine and I'll obviously I've known him for my 14 and a half years here he is receiving the CSBA Golden Quill award recognizing outstanding education journalism and Maria is going to say a few more things she helped nominate him Todd was actually selected as one of 25 recipients of the Golden Quill award this award is presented in recognition of fair, insightful and accurate reporting on public school news by friend broadcast and online news media representatives the Niagara Golden Quill awards are presented by the California School Board Association to recognize outstanding education journalism and highlight the essential role journalists play in increasing understanding of the objectives, operations, accomplishments challenges and opportunities related to public schools Todd Gill is honored by PVUSD for his ongoing coverage of the Paro Valley High School athletic field from the time the district reached an agreement with the Federalist Association in September of 2017 to announce him when the planning commission would vote on the project in April 2018 to the announcement of the field's groundbreaking ceremony in February of this year Todd Gill has been with PVUSD documenting these historic achievements as a board we want to acknowledge Todd Gill for his many years of service to our school district he has been instrumental in keeping our constituents abreast we have introduced our accomplishments as a district as well as the challenges we have faced congratulations Todd you want to come to the podium and we should late last year and because of things that have come up we haven't had the chance to recognize you but we greatly appreciate what you do for our district well thank you it's with great appreciation showing up really matters and you show up here repeatedly we thank you for that because I know sometimes these board meetings are dry and we appreciate your fair and accurate reporting on things we used to have a reporter Donna Brown who used to also be here and she was tough on us she asked us a lot of very tough questions and would do a lot of investigative probing reports and wasn't always she didn't always shine at Pajaro Valley in a very favorable light I think sometimes Sentinel potentially has people watching from afar and then reporting on things later but I think this face-to-face relationship matters and I just want to thank you for being here we really appreciate your your presence, your reporting and we thank the Pajaronian and you're a great journalist welcome to this day thank you very much the rose among the flowers yeah, the rose what? I've been here for the rest of the week at the end of the day thank you thank you very much okay now we're on a little bit boring for the audience for the agenda I'm approving the agenda can I have a motion? approval second I will call for a vote all those in favor aye 6-0-1 okay approval of March 27 2019 board meeting minutes can I have a motion? approval second aye okay now we're going to close the regular board meeting for a public hearing and the public hearing is a sunshine proposal to PVFT for 2019 2020, 2020, 2021 2021 to 2022 school years and Shona will present thank you I'm going to ask Dr. Rodriguez excuse my voice I'm going to try to get through this the RADA Act requires that the parties in the collective bargaining process to sunshine an initial proposal to provide the public with an opportunity to comment on the proposals prior to the commencement of negotiations the district in accordance with the RADA Act is sunshining their proposal for multi-year agreement covering 2019 2020 to 2021 and 2021 to 2022 school years PVFT sunshine their proposal on February 13, 2019 and we look forward to receiving their proposals on workload and hours, class size, wages and related matters, evaluation the mentor program in early childhood education in addition to the articles already sunshine by PVFT on February 13 the district is proposing the following articles for these reasons article 8 health and welfare to explore cost saving measures for benefits article 12 leaves to make sure that we are in statutory compliance article 14 reassignment and transfer to obtain clarification of the language article 21 year round education to discuss the feasibility as we no longer have year round schools article 23 retirement again to explore cost saving measures regarding benefits article 24 reopeners and also we want to work with PVFT to make sure that exhibit A the unit of exclusive representation that the list of positions is current this initial proposal does not include additional articles which may be sunshine in the future during the course of the negotiation as a preliminary matter we appreciate the increasingly collaborative spirit between our district and PVFT leadership as we continue to work together to resolve issues in a positive and productive manner that serves the best interest of the students and our district our district looks forward to ongoing collaborative negotiations towards a multi-year agreement that serves the best interest of our students, thank you we have Bill Beecher Madam President Superintendent Rodriguez, trustees and staff this proposal did not include increase of wage increases I was very surprised I would hope that there is positive action in restructuring the health benefits so that teachers have a choice on the trade off between health coverage and wages this could allow young teachers a possible in excess of $4,000 increase in wages if they opted for an HSA this could also allow our older teachers to increase their wages by a retirement amount by choosing higher deductibles and co-pays this could also allow the district to incentivize our employees to move the health coverage for their working spouses to their spouses employees or employers to date the spouses employers have been getting a free ride at the expense of our district it is estimated that 60% of the spouses are employed and could be covered by their employers this would save a great deal of money for the district and allow us to increase wages tell me that we are finally giving our teachers some control over their choices thank you discussion from the board any questions discussion okay now we're on visitor non-agenda items and so I think we've got quite a few of them Lorenzo good afternoon my name is Lorenzo Holin I'm the current teacher at PV High School I'm a bike tech teacher I'm here to advocate for the bike tech program at Aptos High and how it impacts people in a very drastic way I'm also the current operating manager and overseer mechanic of the bike shack here in Watsonville for the past 18 years a lot of times we have students all our students are different styles of educational backgrounds some academic more hands on you know if you get rid of this program we got word that you know you guys want to shut it down at Aptos and we're here advocating to keep it open you know we have a former student here who's going to be speaking as a tech teacher for the past three years I started at Sequoia High School right across the street started with that classroom now I'm at PV when you give a student an opportunity they work with their hands you know it makes a big difference sometimes you know some of the students they don't like to just sit down in the classroom so I said you know what let's get on the bike let's go but also related to the bike tech we're also called bike tech life tech because bicycles are very important for a bicycle 217 year old today we wouldn't have no cars no automotives no airplanes that's how important the bicycle is the bicycle is a very intimate machine that you can use your hands people think it's very easy but when they start taking my classroom hey Mr. H, that's pretty technical yes it is our students learn verbiage a lot of them work in the industry our project Bike Tech is a global non-profit here started in Santa Cruz here now we're in five states California, New Mexico, Colorado Vermont and Minnesota we're in five states we're the only program in the whole country PV High School we're lucky Bike Tech has five bike tech classes for beginning thank you next we have Tom Kennedy hope I said that right Madam President, Board of Trustees Dr. Rodriguez my name is Tom Kennedy and I am the regional coordinator for Project Bike Tech as Lorenzo spoke to I was out at Aptos High School this past Thursday I was joining students there to find out about their experiences in Bike Tech I talked to a number of young women who were taking the class and loved that hands-on experience there was a range of everyone from freshman to sophomores and juniors and seniors taking the class and they all reported that it made a difference for them they loved the hands-on component and many of them were interested in careers in engineering and they felt that it would apply there and then later that very day I was surprised to get a message that PVUSD was thinking about cancelling the Bike Tech CTE class at Aptos High School last year there were 46 students enrolled this year there are 33 sorry, 53 students enrolled I'm sorry, reverse that was the other way around there are a number as Lorenzo mentioned there are a number now of classrooms throughout the United States and we have about 30 schools around the country interested in getting this program in their schools the classroom itself has about $60,000 worth of equipment in it that we are able to leverage our relationships with the industry those relationships with the national bike industry include certifications that our students can receive which open doors for them for jobs and future career opportunities and just in Santa Cruz County the bicycle industry employs around a thousand people and brings in about $800 million a year in revenue so there's lots of opportunities just right outside our door for young people specifically interested in bicycle careers though many students choose to go in other directions there are a number of graduates at UTI in various other places thank you for your time I have some flyers for you as well thank you next we have Andrew Marquez hello everyone I'm Andrew Marquez I graduated from ATLAS I was in the ROP bike tech class as well as through the ROP classes while at ATLAS and I feel like the bike tech at ATLAS prepares you for more than just working on bicycles because you actually build a resume you build a portfolio you have mock interviews you actually you get to see how the industry is and right now I'm currently a career college student that's in the process of transferring so far I've heard from a couple of my schools and I really the bike tech program had a really big impact on why I decided to pursue mechanical engineering there was a field trip we went to we went to specialize up in Gilroy and we got to see their design process we they actually let us they gave us a sketch pad and we had to come up with a couple of designs for a bicycle and we all had our designs and it was really interesting to see their process it's not just a simple it's not just a simple bicycle there's a huge process to go through it and bike tech really it's not just a bike tech class it's a process where you get to learn a little bit of everything you learn technical skills that you can actually take to the industry and get a job whether it be in the bicycle field working as a mechanic or actually I dream of actually being designing bicycles so there's another aspect to where it's not just a simple class and then you actually you learn a lot of different aspects you learn that even the smallest bolt makes a huge difference and everything is designed for a certain reason not just it's not just there to be there thank you we're now having the unions and management association if they want to come up and speak to us first PVFT Pajaro Valley Federation of Teachers Hi, thank you Francisco Rodriguez president with the Pajaro Valley Federation of Teachers I also wanted to just briefly introduce our president and elect she will be starting July 1st as our new president notice she's wearing a shirt so I just wanted to make a couple comments, number one last weekend was our annual convention for the California Federation of Teachers and we celebrated our 100 years of existence in California as you know we're affiliated with the IFT but in California the CFT started 100 years ago and coincidentally PVFT was chartered 50 years ago this same year so 100 years for CFT 54 PVFT at our convention we passed two very important resolutions number one we made a commitment to make sure and let everybody know that it is time to fix California's broken charter school laws specifically we as an organization statewide organization voted to support the following bills AB 1505 AB 1506 AB 1507 and AB 1508 what these bills do it's a package of bills that it holds charter schools accountable to our local communities you know when the state even though the county may disagree and even though the local boards may disagree approves a charter there's an impact upon the students and communities where they locate AB 1505 by assembly member Patrick O'Donnell would give control back to local elected school boards to decide what charter school is the right fit for their communities instead of unelected officials who might be several hundred miles away AB 1506 by assembly member Kevin McCarty would establish a cap on the growth of charter schools ensuring that unchecked charter growth will not destabilize another local school district as you know is something that may potentially happen here AB 1507 by assembly member Smith would close a loophole in the current law that allows a charter school to operate outside of its authorizing district and 1508 AB 1508 by assembly member Bonta would allow local school boards to consider facilities, fiscal and academic impacts on the district when considering new charter school petitions so we are hopeful that you will join us in supporting these bills by calling your local assembly and senate representatives state assembly and senate representatives and that we control this runaway charter school myth so the other very important resolution that we made was to support what we called the schools and communities act and that is a constitutional change that will as they say ensure that grandma stays in her house but that Disneyland is a fair share of taxes so that we no longer have a proposition 13 that gives back money to corporations and allows them to have huge tax breaks that impact us we are looking at changes that may bring over 11 billion dollars a year in revenue to the state so we hope that you can join us in those two efforts we are going to be starting our campaign soon and we will make sure to let you know what you can do to support us thank you for your time CSEA California school employees association good evening thank you Dr. Rodriguez I too am sick President Auschwitz and Board of Trustees my name is Esther Moreno and I'm chief drop steward for Chapter 132 as you know we are in mourning for one of our very special members and fellow employee Robert Salazar we would like to thank Dr. Rodriguez HR and payroll for all their kindness and support it's meant a lot to us family we will honor Bobby by wearing our cuffs just going to have a beautiful celebration from 11 to 1 Dr. Rodriguez which one I call him donations and support the family I will never forget I know it's an emotional time for all of us right now again just like to reiterate we have the rosary service tomorrow from 1 to 3 at my house and the celebration of life that he so much loved Saturday from 11 to 1 we will be there to support the family but again thank you for your support and unfortunately cancer doesn't discriminate and I just found out from one of our students at EA Hall was turned 13 this Monday was diagnosed with cancer as well yeah so it's it's been hard but you know we move forward and I know Bobby is there with him and shining some light on this young man who needs it so much the family does want to they're okay receiving any well wishes and Bobby is I can't say it's hard to not know that he's here anymore he's one of a kind he just he put himself he put everybody first before himself his last words were always are you okay do you need anything call me keep smiling those were always his last words and we want to thank the district for the support thank you okay Pavam, Pato Valley Association of Managers is there anybody here that wants to report for the managers and CWA Communication Workers of America okay number nine report and discussion items and there's going to be one nine point one which is efficient and effective supports for students report by Kristen Schaus thank you Kristen you're looking for a dear report good evening Suzanne Smith will also be joining me the director of student services as it's been her compilation of work as well to get us to this point a few pieces just as we kind of moved through our presentation there's a couple of pieces on here that will be engaged with data and looking at really what those ramifications are and how practices will change as a result so a few pieces to set context is looking at how we got to a point of looking at the data so we do know that there's a reason why we're moving to synergy and that we've had significant issues with e-schools part of those issues have included differences and then how they're coded so pieces that are going to our system are coded by ed codes if those ed codes are off or if they're double tagged then they're generating more information what CalPADS does is it's our reporting piece that picks up from whatever SIS system we're using so the student information system we're using that's what CalPADS draws from that CalPADS piece then generates what we're doing in terms of the California dashboard so if one is off or if we think there may be a discrepancy in data that's going to trigger the California dashboard being off as well so as we kind of came into the school year the numbers and the resources of really what it looked like in terms of the number of incidents definitely was stark so looked at what do we need to look at what subpopulations are we triggering and then how effective and how accurate was that data to this point so a huge push on this is really looking at as we go through student services that it requires the same amount of time and when you think about student services there's a large number of student needs so how do we get to a place of defining what those are and actually doing that methodically and strategically the same way that we would use with intent to build curriculum we spend time looking at resources we spend time piloting we spend time making sure that we look at best practices and research based programs and then we implement the same is true even though there's a human factor involved so when you look at student services if that data piece is off in the first place and the decision that we're making is triggering that piece to be unaligned as well so a lot of the work that you're going to see in the next few slides is in relationship to making sure that we get that alignment as well so over the course of the past three years you can see some trends with suspension so you'll notice we did this by level as well so you can see the number of suspensions we did have a drop significantly over the course of the three years what we anticipate is that this actually could go up and the reason why we're anticipating that is because in the next few slides what you're going to see decreasing substantially is expulsion so how do we keep kids on campus believe in a restorative practice and actually give reentry points so that we're not sending our kids to additional programs outside of what we should be able to supply as well so we are anticipating potentially an upswing that's going to be a result of the fact that you see a suspension versus us coming to the table and expulsion instead so a few pieces this was actually one of the first things when I came in in December I sat down with Suzanne and I said so explain to me this project what does this look like here and went out to several different sites and I heard from site administrators I heard from parents I heard from several folks in addition the topic was also brought up this was kind of already on the radar in terms of what we were looking for or change practice so the drug dogs are used in several different districts and it has different outcomes depending on what that use looks like as well the original intent of drug dogs was diversion was to make sure that students didn't bring substances on campuses that folks didn't want what we did find though is similar to what the entire nation has found so as we went through started pulling results we have found it to line up exactly with what the national average would be as well so in terms of effectiveness if you were to read this number of sites that have been used the number of alerts and then the accuracy so this tells the story if we have 82 rooms searched and 70 alerts seems like okay it might be effective if it's pulling 70 alerts the problem with that is if you look at the accuracy of those numbers that are actually confirmed that's 100% so when you really think about the effectiveness of diversion do we want kids and if you look at those impacts at the bottom so on average and these are run from class sizes of 27 to 34 and that would be generous if it wasn't a PE class or something else you're impacting just in the number of reports that we have currently you're impacting roughly between 2200 to 2800 kids to do these pieces so the impacts on the accuracy line actually looks like isn't there there's some other pieces that are out as well that we should be aware of in changing practice so when you take a look at what's currently going on NPR has released additional reports those reports came out of UC Davis so a large study was done in regards to the effectiveness of drug dogs on campuses what they found was that much as we would expect that there are issues and concerns with all due respect I've been in law enforcement before so I say this with all due respect but there is bias involved in handlers as well so the certification piece of that dog is there to protect you as much as it is to make sure that there's an alert so if a handler has bias in any way which we have seen kind of rise to the surface in our society as well right now if a handler has bias in any way that dog's going to be triggered regardless of whether they're actually sniffing or not because their job is to protect you as well so those pieces that they're looking at is what are the certifications of canines actually need to look like and how deep do they need to go to training to actually increase this accuracy that work hasn't been done yet so we're in this place of suggesting that that training piece and the authority of the accuracy isn't there yet because those canine programs aren't there yet either there's a couple of other pieces that are going on in regards to it so ACLU also published an additional study that rose to the level of is it took a look at the number of roadside pullovers so the number of roadside pullovers 73% of the time it was hitting on Hispanic males those pieces were unfounded so when you talk about that bias piece that's going on you know that was a very it was a smaller study in nature but what they found was that there were law enforcement agencies that were also resistant to want to continue that study because it does generate more conversation around how do dogs portray us as the actual handler as well so there are some concerns there as well that piece is still moving forward and then the last piece that I think probably is the most telling in terms of where the nation is going on this issue as well you know as a school district we certainly have different procedures and rights involved so the Ed Code allows us to do these pieces but then the next piece of that is is when you look at the latest publication so there's a Supreme Court case moving forward currently it came out of Minnesota that the possibility that drug dogs may actually be taking out of serving traditional warrants as well because what they're finding is that because they pick up on handlers as well when a dog is sitting on a porch as soon as that dog triggers you're allowed to enter the property so it breaches the actual warrant process so what they're saying is let's go back to doing things the correct way make sure that there is actually a reason and a cause to be doing so so the piece that we're looking at is obviously we're about restorative pieces we're about reentry with our students so this obviously alerts our cause to change the practices of what's currently being done now where dogs might fit in to our district and where we're looking at that as well is those places for instance Grad Night you're putting a large group of students on a bus where there is more of a prone opportunity for folks to actually be bringing things that you may not be able to get medical attention for them so when you're on a bus ride that's four or five hours away and a student has something on the bus that could be an issue so those pieces are still being looked at the number of trips that that would even occur with what would that look like because the diversion process isn't to catch kids kids would know that that was going to occur automatically very similar to if you were to go to the airport you know what the TSA regulations are because you don't bring those items in so that's the diversion aspect is not catching kids it's letting them know that this is a clean event this is where we're going with it so that they don't put themselves or others in medical jeopardy a couple of pieces as we discussed in terms of that that suspension piece versus the expulsion line Suzanne and her team has done a great job too at looking at these expulsions and really asking sites and asking administrators of what have we done in supports before we move forward with expulsions so in 2015-16 you had 48 expulsions following year 40 you can see the substantially drop so again that piece that you're seeing with the suspension line is weighing on the other side of the expulsion so if you see the 40 to the 12 it means that we're able to keep more kids on campus because of the additional supports are we there yet no we still have a ways to go but 12 for a district this size is absolutely phenomenal so what should student supports look like so in the past a lot of systems have been built around compliance it's about following rules and making sure you follow the rules but it really is about more than that it's about the education line that we serve and what we do intentionally to make sure that we cover these areas so when you look at student services there's three other buckets that fit so you're looking for connection if we can make solid connections with students they're less likely to get involved in things that we don't want them involved in you also have the curriculum side so what pieces are we using to intentionally teach practices that are healthy for students and you're going to see that in a couple of slides ahead and then the last piece which is that there are compliance pieces that we have to follow so there are five mandates by ed code similar pieces like that that we have to follow so these are a few pieces that are currently going on in our sites are you comfortable talking about a few of these pieces so a few pieces with five stars so five star actually looks at the data collection of what we use to reward students we also have bullying education pieces PVIS which is lifting off quite heavily in this coming year as well how we use office discipline for referrals so it's not necessarily about the consequence you're going to see that in a few minutes here but it's also about the support line that comes with that because that's where you get the restorative and reentry piece with students so one of the most important pieces for me as far as expulsion is my valour team and this is a team that I've spoken to you many times but for those of you that are new it's my team that every time a student is expelled they're assigned a case manager so that case manager follows that student helps them get through with their community service hours goes to the school site, checks on their grades works with the family they make sure they get the counseling that they need and a lot of times if it's a suspended expulsion over the summer they'll work with them also with summer programs and get them really involved and again that goes back to the connected piece they have someone so that when they get expelled even if they're going out of our district over to COE I still have my valour team that meets with them on a regular basis and that I meet with them once a month and we go over line by line every student how they're doing and where they're going and it's really proven to be very successful because we can really keep track of those kids and help them when it's time for them to reenter so that's my valour team check in check out is a simple process many schools do it differently but the standard way especially at the high school because we have social emotional counselors at all the high schools every week as a student depending on what their issues are they'll go check in with the teacher check in with the counselor right before school then they will check in with all their teachers get little marks again every system is different and at the end of the day they check in again with the counselor one of the biggest pieces that we've had over the last five years now are social emotional counselors they've done a great job they've provided a lot of support to our academic counselors as well because our academic counselors also have a small part of the social emotional they all have the same credential and are able to do that piece but when it comes to a crisis or something self harm something that's much more needed for assistance the social emotional counselors are there and they are at every single school in the district so we've been busy kind of setting the stage of those pieces that we're already involved in and you'll be able to see kind of the manpower that's going on behind the scenes with student services again it's a very intentional push and drive to align services but if you take a look at the equity piece so in 2009 4,800 K's which was disruption in a classroom you essentially could not suspend for that anymore which definitely changed how we were handling practices with students across the board but what currently happened was what the state said was that you cannot have a metrics which means if a student throws a trash can across a classroom it's not an automatic suspension what you had to do was look through progressive discipline so as these pieces ran through it was about not just the consequence but it was about the support what ended up happening in a lot of districts was that we just tossed the metrics all together and we didn't use anything so one of the conversations that we've had is how do we onboard and how do we guide folks to make those decisions so that when you're sitting at Watsonville High versus when you're sitting at PV High and you have a student that came in and it's their first use of marijuana what is the response that we have the district is it an immediate expulsion obviously not is it suspension plus referral to outside sources is it drug and alcohol counseling on site so those are the pieces that we're working through with our AP's as well as our site leaders right now but it's to get a guide and parameters as to making sure that we get rid of that disparity and really focus on not being subjective about who's sitting in front of us and whether that person may have gotten in trouble the day before or all those bias pieces that enter the picture as well a few other pieces PBIS traditionally the state has run a conference in October it's very difficult to get into and a lot of the sessions are usually filled being back in the area we were able to make some additional connections with Santa Clara County as well we actually increased that 35 spots to 50 spots we have three folks going from each one of our middle schools in addition to our elementary and high teams so we have a substantial body and we'll be bringing that group back together as a district PBIS team as well to really get that lift that we need in changing practice in addition the multi-tiered systems of support it's bringing in kind of that conceptual map of what does it look like for baseline service for all of our students from the social emotional side as well as the academic side and then moving supports forward with tier two so as that comes forward you're going to see more information in regards to what that looks like and what that means we've also been working on counseling so taking a look at the assessment of contacts and the types of counseling so as you start to look at systems pieces you want to have the correct data so it kind of goes back to that first slide that we were talking about if we don't have the data that we need to make the decision then we're making a decision in really isolation of putting band-aids on fixes really looking at how the system as a whole is working and how are we generating those contacts and what are those contacts you know this evening it's very touching to hear how much Bobby had an impact with students that is a classified member so there are entry points and there are areas within this work that are not exclusive to certificated counselors that are not exclusive one of the major needs that we have is mentors we have a major need for mentors we have a major need for mentors with Hispanic males you know these are not new or different these are looking at our systems and saying what is really the need and do we need to realign some pieces in order to make sure that we're meeting in addition digital citizenship we actually have had that piece on board but we are doing a scope and sequence that rather than you know a sixth grader again the alignment issue sixth grader, seventh grader, eighth grader what should be the expectation as our kids go through that digital citizenship piece to make sure that they've actually hit all of those modules that they're not repeating modules depending on which site they may be at or which person picked that module for the following year so making sure that those boundary lines are drawn from the health side you know you're looking at signs of suicide so how do we get in classrooms and have the conversations that we sometimes don't want to have in regards to this we know that it's a huge impact but this is also building out just one of these pieces is building out the nature of what happens when you have that conversation because when you have that conversation and you bring in something like signs of suicide or any of these pieces you also have the triage the next three days because that's when kids are coming to us for their peers and they just peer report not themselves so definitely something to look at these are those compliance pieces so human trafficking the AB 1227 trauma informed training a re-establishment really and bolstering that LGBTQ plus task force so all of these pieces are moving forward a highlight too is the de-escalation so how do we de-escalate students using verbal commands and actually using that process first before we get into a place where restraint or other pieces come forward and how do we do that well so that no one gets hurt and that we give people more tools to be able to de-escalate students attendance campaigns so this is something that we are working with outside vendors but it needs to be tied closer to our PBIS so how do we get the message to our kids that they want to be on campus that we have connected tools and how do we really support that SB 1626 that has been around for quite some time but we are moving to alignment of making sure that actually is in effect so safety and security staff which would include anybody that's doing that work so if you have assistant principals if you have principals that are out doing this work as well in supervision it's important that they are trained in this as well so these are modules based they are based out of the post board certification so they are actual hours that come out of that training 24 hour requirement of those service hours if you are working more than 20 hours in that capacity covers laws regulations de-escalation emergency response etc progress monitoring so I spoke to you in regards to synergy and the capacity that we believe that that is going to have in setting those pieces up but it's going to really look at those early warning indicators and how do we get kids supports earlier and that last piece which is really the publishing of a team drive additional alignment of saying here are the tools that when you onboarding your out of sight you clearly know how to do a proper investigation what questions do we ask what are subjective questions versus bias questions all those pieces including that discipline guide attended school kids etc so that we have some streamlined processes in place as well the major piece of this is that the work is not easy we understand that there is a need we understand that there is humans involved in this and in order to do this right there tends to be this place of going we have to dig and get more data sometimes so while the process may look like we are moving in several directions we still don't have as much information as much data as we need but we are working on that we are still providing reports in regards to that but without that low level alignment without having some of those guides what we have ended up creating is I have said multiple times if you are in a situation where you haven't given guidance on their own and that is when we get into trouble because we start kind of patching holes with things versus really looking at it from a systems perspective and understanding what those needs are and asking students thank you very much we have some public speakers first off we have Ramiro Medrano good evening my name is Ramiro Medrano I am a long time resident Watsonville born and raised I am also a counselor and alum alumni and a parent in the district I have two daughters that attend this district today I come to speak on this issue of drug dogs on campus from a counselor perspective I am a counselor in the district going on to three years and I have been a counselor in five different schools from middle schools to alternative high school and renaissance and now I am at PV and you know I actually enjoyed your presentation and I agree with a lot of the things that Ms. Shouse said I think that it is unfortunate that we are using this program in our district as from a counselor perspective I have seen it where students are pulled out of class and been searched because a dog alerts on them only to find nothing most of the times actually that I witnessed students being pulled out and being searched they didn't find anything on the student and yes you know it was said we have to remember that we are talking about kids we have to remember that we are talking about people and this means that you know when the dog alerts on the student you know there is the embarrassment of being alerted on there is sort of like this violation of privacy because then they are taken to a room and are searched there is a breach of confidentiality because as I stated last time I was here who knows if perhaps in the home someone smokes and regardless how we feel about that it is perfectly legal in California now for adults to smoke so if a student's backpack smells you know and a dog alerts on them and then they have to go back and answer questions to their peers of hey why did the dog alert on you like you got some or you know have you smoked and then for some students they have to endure that embarrassment and they have to explain themselves for some students perhaps that is a badge of honor for them and then there is an image that they have to uphold and they feel that moving forward like that is part of their image so I also wanted to point out some of the data because I know for a fact that at rolling hills and on and this school year I know for a fact that at new school they have I know for a fact that at Lakeview they have so the data is not complete and so that I suspect that if we had a full picture that the success rate would even be lower 20 out of the 70 20 students out of 70 that the dogs alerted to had drugs we really added up it's actually about 3,000 students that are in those rooms and so I did the math .007% of our students are found with drugs based on that data 7 out of a thousand students that have been in the rooms when the dogs go in and the dogs are searching have been found with drugs I think that's a testament to our students we have to believe in our students a little bit more and I'm here to say that we should adopt preventative programs that are going to work thank you very much next we have Jaime Sanchez good evening everybody my name is Jaime Sanchez I think that we all have sworn to defend the Constitution of the United States and the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is the right of the people to be secure in their persons houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause supported by oath and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized so so by embracing this this blanket search over these hundreds of students you're it's unconstitutional you're submitting them to their privacy being violated that's my comment for the city thank you thank you very much next we have Elias Gonzalez excuse me good evening board members and Dr. Rodriguez as stated my name is Elias Gonzalez I am a parent of two PVUSD students I'm also a graduate of high school, a lifelong resident and I worked in the community for a long time along with the probation department and county mental health so the reason I'm here today because honestly I'm really highly concerned I'm highly concerned that we are even thinking about putting police dogs in our campus I believe this practice has been happening for years already and the reality that we don't have the data to actually prove this work already to me I'm wondering why we don't have this data it's been a long time and we should have this data we're in a type of data you know data is about evidence based so I'm wondering where is this data and why hasn't it been brought up I also was brought up this meeting this meeting came up sometime around in April I think it was supposed to happen and I looked on the agenda last night I didn't see this PowerPoint or anything there on it so I'm wondering why this process went this way as a community member I'm just wondering that as stated earlier I am confused by this lack of creativity resorted to police dogs as our last option the reality is that we do need a lot of work there's a lot of systems I'm a graduate myself I went through a lot of these systems and I was not on the good side of the spectrum I was on the other side being on that other side put me through all these systems I'm for education and not prisons the places we see police dogs are in these institutions we don't see them in schools okay let's start thinking about this this is children we're talking about we're not talking about criminals and when we start putting children and we start putting police dogs in these systems what message are we sending to our kids I have a young daughter that went through the system and she went through a lot and the system didn't support her and that's why I'm here to ask for more counselors more support more mentors I agree with the presentation there was a lot of stuff there that we should be doing but I'm confused because I stood up here and I'm hearing that presentation and it sounds very good but no one's saying that we are going to go back to these practices that were started during the slave days to control populations to control people so there's a lot of data that I want to go but lack of time always happens but with that said I think the trustee said one thing earlier the face to face relationship matters and if you put a dog sniffing dog in front of me that tells me where you stand with my relationship put a teacher in front of me put a human being in front of me put a person in front of me and I think with that said I'll close it thank you very much next we have Eliana Gonzalez okay good evening my name is Eliana Gonzalez I'm a student of the Pajaro Valley school district and I'm here against the use of police dogs on campuses okay so I had the privilege of going up with both of my parents that we're very loving very supportive and very involved in every play that I could even remember once I hit middle school it was a lot different for me okay I was exposed to a lot of new things and I didn't have the support on campus that I had at home from my parents I understand that there are a lot of students at schools but I think maybe if I had a little bit more help I would have been a lot more successful once I hit high school I was exposed to even more I was exposed to in middle school that led me to have a very rough couple of years for me okay as Kristen Shals mentioned the programs that they actually mentioned I'm sorry I tried PVPSA and for the most part they were unavailable every time I tried them they're only there for about two or three times a week I tried the social emotional counselors and they're always busy okay because what's the likelihood of two teams in their most intense emotional years to have a bad day on the same day it's pretty high if we think about it because of the lack of sources that I had this led me to ditching okay I never wanted to go to class my grades dropped really bad and I was always an honor roll student and I eventually got kicked out of the school because my social emotional counselor thought that my best option was to go to another school once I found my new school which is actually upstairs I I did a lot better a lot better I had one on one help with my teachers and they were a lot more concerned about everybody's mental health because of the sport that I had I was able to strive I'm now actually at Cabrio I still attend Pacific Ostrator but I'm taking 11 units at Cabrio three classes on top of that at my own school I'm very ahead on credits I worked at Starbucks for the last year and I know what I want to go to college for I'm showing this story just to show you all that we don't need any more equipment to discipline our students what happens now is going to happen regardless if we put a cop or a dog on campus as a student of the district I think instead of trying to discipline us I think we should get more resources on campus to help us before we get to that point because I went through the system and I failed there completely but once I got the resources I need I was able to do a lot better than I thought I could at 17 Thank you Next we have Emily Halbig Hi, good evening Board members Dr. Rodriguez Michelle has been looking forward to actually meeting with my new school Today I wanted to so I'm a teacher at new school I've been in the district for 14 years taught elementary I was a technology coach at a few of our middle schools and I'm at high school alternative high school now so I've kind of seen the progression of what happens especially with kids that have trauma come to school as a young child and then that trauma might not be addressed those relationships don't get formed and they end up not succeeding in the traditional comprehensive school I think we're lucky so the ones that are there we're actually really lucky to have them there because a lot of them have kind of given up at that point so what I wanted to talk about today which Ms. Schaus referenced a little bit in her presentation is the need for restorative justice in our schools and I recently I did my master's thesis on restorative practices in schools and we're doing PBIS which is great and we're doing these trainings on trauma and porn learning and that's great but you know what I really feel is kind of missing is that piece of building the relationships in the community inside the classroom and our students I feel a lot of them feel really disconnected from school there's a lot of reasons for that the use of drug sniffing dogs as was mentioned is one of those reasons that leave students feeling humiliated anxious angry not wanting to come to school I know the intention is to deter them but really the data shows I think the only thing that it successfully does is creating like an unfriendly unhealthy school environment for the kids so to me it's not just about deterring them from bringing marijuana to school or coming to school high but it's really about addressing the reasons why they're turning to drug use in the first place and then providing them with support in order to make better choices both at school and away from school and so I'm going to come back to the idea of connectedness and you know with young people it's important that they feel a sense of inclusion, belonging you know having a healthy relationship with their classmates and with their teachers is essential for them to become successful academically and socially and that's what restorative practices do in particular incorporating restorative circles, training our teachers on how to do that from the early ages all the way up as Oakland Unified has done it, Salinas Union Elementary is doing restorative justice and I think PBIS is a good step in the right direction but I think that those two things can really work hand in hand and I just want to close by saying that I think that the district is really lucky because you guys have educators like myself, counselors that are informed about restorative practices that have started to employ them in our schools and that could be an asset you know to work with you guys as a team to bring that on a larger scale to our district thank you thank you and finally we have Edgar Abara Good evening, good afternoon Edgar Abara I'm part of a community organization called Milpa, it's based out of Salinas but I'm a longtime resident of Watsonville you know it's pretty alarming that we stand here on the verge of seizure of childhood we're talking about drug sniffing dogs you know my understanding of what I've read throughout my years is that drug sniffing dogs or just canine dogs were used to break picket lines at one point or another and then Grace Harm during the civil rights movement boycotts etc etc so when we really look at what we're bringing to our schools and why we're bringing them they're just band-aids these are just band-aid recipes you know we got to think big if we want to really kind of put a dent and start changing culture culture doesn't just start in high school it's done right there elementary building relationships first and foremost is the most important thing building relationships and what does that really mean we're talking about values we're so focused and caught up about English math, science, all that what about respect what about integrity what about unity what about those type of values and morals sometimes you know because our parents our work all day go by and we don't get to we don't learn them sometimes we find those in the streets you know and unfortunately for myself you know either in the cell or outside on the yard and sniff you and put you down I know what it looks like when your parents come and visit you in an institution and have your parents get sniffed as well I know what it is to get pulled over and have the dog sniff you I know what it is and how it feels like to have your house raided and have a dog while your parents and nephews and nieces and everybody's right there you know so the trauma that is being impacted and being perpetuated by this school is all around the community so as a community we need to work together and come up with better solutions our creativity is boundless I don't think this is a solution I believe that all of us together here as a community everybody we can do a better job together also but recognizing that this presentation with the well put there's a few things missing but also the talk about mentors that's really important culturally relevant programming not just trauma informed, healing informed with too much focus and giving too much time to the negative, healing informed what does that really mean to each and every one of you and us as a community we need to focus on that because for too long we've got to just keep it real there's institutionalized racism that has happened and it continues to happen there are biases that are implanted that we don't even know is happening in the reality that is the reality in our communities so I do strongly urge you to really reconsider this drug sniffing dog and start looking at different programs different programs that are going to help and uplift and build communities not just the child itself but the families and our communities and our totality to make our whole community better in all aspects that's just as important as much as thank you okay is there any questions from the board so where are we at with the dog sniffing program I know Kristen you looked into some information I want to know where we're at as far as what contracts were under what the cost is to the district so staff is actually seeking direction from the board in regards to drug sniffing dogs as well tonight you've heard what the stats currently are you've also heard me address what the issues and the concerns are from handling bias ACLU violations etc you've also heard some very passionate folks I will tell you we do have community on both sides with this so I think that's important to understand as well but you know again we are looking for staff direction in regards to the practices and the intentions of it just to say a few additional words so staff recommendation is that we restrict the use of within the schools I do want to note that we were requested several months ago to place this and place the dogs at Renaissance high school and we refuse to put the drug dogs at Renaissance high school because we felt it was contradicting the restorative practices that we're trying to do at Renaissance and so our our recommendation is that we use the dogs only after we've looked at the data and for very specific and targeted events so that we no longer take them within the classrooms the way in which they're currently used as with all contracts we are not required to go past we aren't required to continue to use them what board authority provides us is it provides us the ability to use a certain service up to a certain time and up to a certain amount it doesn't mean that you have to use it up to the time and up to the amount that's why it's not a required vote but it's rather direction I have a couple questions for you so out of the current supports student supports that we have in place do we have at least some data on which of those that you covered in your presentation have been the most effective in addressing the needs of our students I would say at this point because of the tracking and the monitoring this is very similar to the conversation we're having it's a variety of factors I would not feel confident telling the board that there is one piece that works or not the other thing that I think that we should be aware of is that not all students respond to the same level of support so I think we're still in a place we have looked at contact minutes we have looked at the types of contacts that our counselors are having but in large format in terms of whether it's a small group drug intervention or whether it's outside referrals the answer would be no in terms of looking at that I think a major issue that we do have is early identification so I think as we get that it will be a little bit better you know as folks have been speaking it's about catching it before it gets to the place of crisis so I think we still are in the work at really making sure that we have those pieces in place to catch kids so when this item was initially introduced but the drug sniffing dogs years back I was completely against it and I still am so I do want to move in that direction I think we can do better as a district I think as one of the speakers said it only serves as a bandaid to a problem it's not addressing the root of the problem and I think that's the direction that I want to move forward I want to move forward in a direction where we have early warning indicators in place to prevent instead of constantly being intervening at this point I feel like we've always to a certain extent not all students but I feel like when we review the expulsions there's always recurrent behaviors and I always feel like we are failing our students because of this lack of data because of the lack of data that really should be informing the type of preventative measures that should be held in place so I think that as a district we should definitely consider getting the dogs out of our schools and even I know Dr. Michelle mentioned utilizing the dogs for certain events only I don't even like the idea of that I think there could be other ways for us to be able to handle that so I'm in full support of removing this program from our schools I'll see how well I can speak but basically I teach ethics to nurses and one of the ethical principles that we teach nurses is one to do no harm and I think we're seeing from our community members that this is harming and another ethical principle is beneficence to do good and am I remembering correctly that I saw 29% accuracy rate? That is correct that doesn't speak to doing good to me what I would like maybe to have a further conversation if we're going to talk about limited use I would like to have further conversations about what that actually looks like but definitely stepping back from just this current program is absolutely important maybe you don't have the total data but at the time the very small amount of kids that worked on with some type of contraband do we know what happened to those kids? So part of that is the alignment of service level too so depending on the site that they're at that goes back to that discipline and support guide piece of what then becomes the next place so in large part those students are suspended on our campuses and then ideally and these are the pieces that we're still looking into kind of pulling which were the ones for ones because we don't actually get the roster on this side as to they give us an overall hit so we don't necessarily give us a student so as we're working with the sites what was the support line that we put in place when the student came back? So did we put in an additional measure to make sure that that restored piece actually is coming back on reentry so we don't have an overall number of that? So Suzanne will remember this she was here in the district but when I first took my seat the first couple of years because I am a mental health professional you know we used to get a stack and I started voting no on the expulsions because there was always lots and lots of evidence about why this kid needed to be expelled but not a shred of what we did to prevent that expulsion and what we found also around that time was that there was no standard way of dealing with kids who were getting in trouble at school it was just every campus doing it totally differently so we embarked on trying to improve that and what I'm hearing you say is that we're going to do more so that it's an equitable more equitable situation but we've come a long way from the early years eight years ago I also like Maria had problems with the dogs and they're not scary police dogs they're golden retrievers and labradors we did have a very big contingent of parents who liked the idea because they don't want their kids exposed to drugs selling that kind of thing on campuses and I think in that way it probably was a deterrent however so many of our families have been affected by injury and have to take prescribed narcotics or they smoke now marijuana they had been smoking all along and those things get on kids clothing and backpacks and maybe it's not the kid and I was always very concerned about humiliation the embarrassment so I would support pulling the dogs out of our campuses I think that's a good idea I'd like to see it replaced with something else now that leads me to another issue where we had put in sort of a restorative program at Aptos High that then this board voted to expand at the other campuses and that was an in-house suspension program with a full curriculum and mentors on campus so that kids weren't humiliated by being labeled bad kids and being thrown out of school they were actually suspended on campus with a full curriculum and sort of a treatment model program and then there were other assigned I think teachers and counselors on campus who would check in with those kids regularly can somebody tell me what's going on because what I have heard is that we are no longer operating those programs and that was never disclosed to us we are on all campuses secondary the traditional high schools and I think a lot of it is students have to be willing to do the day version program and the parents yeah they both have to be so it is still available a couple of so we talk data a lot so just a couple of misnumbers too is that if you suspend a student that we keep them on campus that still counts as a suspension because what you're doing is keeping them out of normal access and universal access of their curriculum so when we talk about the coding and making sure the data is correct it's making sure that our sites understand that when you take a student out of their instructional level and even though it's a diversion level it still is going to count as a suspension in your numbers so we don't get an ADA for that kid that day or you'll get ADA on them but it's still going to count as a suspension so they're kind of reading in two different lines right yeah okay well so that makes me very pleased to hear that that's still going on and I don't know if that program can be even improved because it does kids no good to have to be suspended off of campus where nobody can really keep their eyes on them because the parents are working so I like the idea of them staying on campus it's a great presentation and I'm glad we're really trying to you know improve the way that we think about young people thank you so I always voted against the dogs I never was into the dogs I was totally opposed the dogs too and I don't I think I don't want to use for any in any circumstances at all I would like to see that we don't use them at all because we could you know kids are going on a bus or whatever we could just check make sure students are everything's cool and your presentation was really good and I'm optimistic about where we're going and you know and if we can do like she said more restorative practice with the PBIS is important that we're doing I think that's really good but if we can figure out more restorative practices to do in our district that would be very good because the school districts that are using restorative justice in their schools are doing really well I think they're doing them I think they're doing it in Oakland I'm not sure where they're doing them you know but they're doing really it's really incredibly good program that they're doing and I mean I just want to say I think the dogs like the ACLU has said have ended up doing things that have ended up being racially biased against students in places not just here perhaps but all over the country where they have been used and so I am 100% opposed to that kind of thing ever happening in our schools that's bad news so yeah so my direction would be the sooner we can get rid of the dogs that's the better alright I'm relatively new to all this but I represent Yale Hall that's one of the schools in my district and I've seen besides one month there was no instances of any of alerts alerts confirmed or any residual odors so if we can this is just a discussion but at least for sure if we could take them out of any hall the numbers are there's all zeroes in this report it's a great report you've done a lot of great reports and I believe when you get suspended when I got suspended it was called OCSE on the campus suspension center and so that's where we stayed on campus thank you I make a motion and ask that this be put on a future agenda item to be voted on do I need a motion? so there wouldn't be a need for a vote so I think we heard clearly that the desire of the board is to remove the dogs so we'll do that immediately great thank you thank you guys okay we're gonna have to move along it's getting late date English learner reclassification criteria Michael Berman good evening President Osmondson members of the board Dr. Rodriguez just to clarify I do not have any new policies for you I know that you're disappointed in that second meeting we're gonna move on those to set the context of what we do have tonight many members of the board and the audience were present early January when we went to Sacramento to the the state board of education and the item before that which brought us there was about reclassification criteria for L-PAC and there was a recommendation and oh now I went past the person who presented was that gentleman that is Robert Linquanti he is he's been a state data guru for EL's for many many years and I'm throwing him in there because he's kind of my bona fides because one of the last things that he said he retired on the 1st of March and on the 28th of February I was at the bilingual coordinators network meeting and he did a presentation it was also his birthday so he ran late because everybody was giving him big hubbub that was a retirement birthday and the last thing he said in front of everybody was and I was going to show you the reclassification proposal that Pajaro Valley has so if you have any questions talk to Mike so that's just more to like set the stage for where we're going here and just again for context there are four criteria for reclassification the first one being L-PAC the proficiency assessment and then there's teacher evaluation, parent opinion and then a comparison of student performance and basic skills which is usually the state assessment and we can also do local measures like map and one thing that's important about number four is that it's got to be based on performance of English proficient students in the same age group so there has to be some metrics that show a comparison between those two and this is just to kind of say why the RFEPs who are the middle teal group and the English only there's a good comparison between their academic performance and what our goal is to move all of our ELs into that group of students or higher the the guidance that Robert Lincwanti gave us that day was that first of all go back a couple months what they found was that the L-PAC data was inconsistent there were a lot of students who scored in four in first and second grade up to 42% but then they got to third grade and only 12% were getting to the four and there was a large discrepancy between as you went up and down the grade levels so what they wanted to do was find scaled scores at every grade level that represented a similar amount of proficiency i.e. somewhere between 14 and 15% so they decided to change the scale scores and then once they did that they went back and wanted to clarify their guidance to all of us so their guidance is now a four so you have to be a four on L-PAC in order to qualify for the first criteria for reclassification what that will do it will lower the numbers of students who qualify because they raise the bar in most grade levels and so that will potentially result in fewer students meeting the criteria this is our current board approved form it's the interim reclassification criteria that we're using this year interim because we were waiting for guidance from the state as you'll see there are many columns and many rows one thing that happened you'll see later is that the recommendation from the state further conversations with Robert helped us make it a lot simpler I'm going to talk about the data very briefly if you see the middle column and both where there's a four on the bottom those are the students who scored a four on L-PAC right next to them are the EOs and the whole point of what we're trying to show here is that the diamond in the middle of the four is supposed to be as close as possible to the diamond in the middle of the EO that represents that criteria four where there's data that shows comparability between our fours that we're trying to reclass with English proficient students what they found was with the current criteria there wasn't congruence but then what Robert and his team did is they looked at similarly situated EOs and recent RFEPs and what they found there was that there is congruence between the fours the fours that took the L-PAC on the new cut score and similarly situated EOs and new RFEPs and if you can see the far right box in both 7th grade and 11th grade the dotted red line hits both diamonds for the four and for the similarly situated and new RFEPs does anybody want me to go in for there and point to what I'm talking about are we good? we're good so ultimately we have a cleaner reclassification criteria form the only the changes are that it's just a four for the top row which is L-PAC proficiency overall and then for the academic achievement 3rd through 12th grade is the cut score midpoint I guess I didn't mention that by the way the dotted red line represents the midpoint of approaching standards met it's no longer standards met because what they found is students who are approaching who are at the midpoint or above on the S-BAC the state test in reading are equivalent to the students with their score who are fours we're good there right over here and then third through 12th grade the main criteria four is the S-BAC English language arts midpoint of nearly met we still have the NWA map reading score as an alternative it's an or so if they meet either of those with a threshold at 10th grade so if you're in 11th grade and you meet the mean for 10th grade you also meet that criteria and that's it any questions if we have your students qualifying what effect might this have on title one funding for title one funding we get our funding for title three funding is our EL funds and our students who reclassify stay and correct me if I'm wrong but I think it's for four years that they stay within our criteria for still collecting title three I'm new to the job and that's something that I just learned FPM helped me I did want to note that the percentages that you did see up there were statewide just so that you're aware those are not necessarily PVUSD numbers but those are statewide numbers I just wanted to make sure that was clear our numbers will proportionally go down probably similar to that is very similar to what happened with when we had CST we went to SBAC so CST's assessment was much easier comparison to SBAC so that's the exact same thing that's happening here is the CELT was significantly easier than LPAC and so we're just going to see equal measures but I will say that having map does allow us to have an additional layer that will allow for reclassification but if we didn't have reclass even fewer students so we do have two assessments and one of our current structure we purposely kept it high so right now the criteria we have multiple criteria for criteria one there's tier one and tier two it could be overall three with certain categories being in four however we do have for our criteria four for the SBAC at standards met so by raising the bar to four overall on LPAC we are we're going to lose some students that would otherwise reclassify however based on the data that Robert Linquanti found we're also lowering the expectation from standards met to almost to the midpoint of almost so we're hoping to pick up a few students that didn't qualify now that would now qualify next year I have complicated stuff I mean I've sat through a lot of these presentations and I'm confused I mean I get it mostly but I am confused so when will you bring back the actual data so you're just telling us that this is what the changes are in terms of assessing and evaluating kids who are with a new tool that's all this is and congratulations that the guru pointed to PVUSD and your work so that's great proud of you so you will come back though and share the data with us at some point the students are concluding LPAC for this year and so the LPAC numbers that we're getting or the reclassification numbers that we're getting are based on last year's cut scores which are now different than the current cut scores for the assessment that they are currently taking so next year we will be able to give you the updated numbers on reclassification for the current recommendations of cut scores yes we're going to bring back data for you and for the viewing public why is it important to reclassify these kids data shows that students perform much better academically when they're reclassified and that's kind of the what we're showing here there was an acronym up there I think I missed I don't know if you said it reclassified fluent English proficient thank you what I don't understand is that we're voting on this even though explain to me what we're voting on exactly because obviously we don't have any information yet we're kind of waiting to see what's going to happen and you know what's showing us is what's going to be even a little bit harder for our students to reclassify whatever but we're now voting on it yes so we as was mentioned prior last year because we did not have the LPAC scores we were allowed or required to do an interim reclassification criteria now that we've received direction from the state and we have the first set of LPAC scores we must now align to the required state requirements so we have to adopt this reclassification criteria so that when our new SPAC scores come in we can reclassify another set of students if we do not our interim reclassification criteria is now invalid or will be invalid because we're now required to adhere to the new state recommendations so what we're bringing you tonight is yes we don't have data on it yet but we will but we won't be able to have data on it unless we approve the new reclassification criteria okay I get it okay everybody get it one thing that Robert explained to us at BCN was that there is a process that the state is going through and goal hopefully in 2022 that they're actually gonna just take away they're gonna make a recommendation hopefully and it might be just having one criteria not having all four but what we're hoping is to create a criteria that we can use until then I'd like to make a motion to approve the interim criteria for reclassification second second well okay but any we don't have any public speakers okay oh sorry I thought we were no 10.1 you're approving it aren't you okay so now we're doing an action item and this is a 10.1 we're approving the data that we're gonna be okay so I didn't make a motion to approve why she just opened it we just heard the discussion is there anything else that I'm missing okay so my motion stands I'd like to make a motion to approve the interim criteria for reclassification I second your motion there you go okay all those in favor I thank you okay 10.2 classroom supplies this one's a good one for certificated staff presented by Dr. Rodriguez yes thank you so we're actually going to do quite a few people are gonna speak to this item I'm briefly gonna open it up I'm gonna pass it off to trust the Roscoe and then we will bring it to Rich will be doing it he'll need it we'll be Mr. Ariano will be bringing it to some of the details so several now almost close to eight months ago this original conversation was brought up we as a former classroom teacher of over a decade we all know that as a classroom teacher we often invest in significant funds into into our classroom unfortunately unlike most professions it's almost expected of us to do because it's kind of something that we do and so there was a conversation that came up that was what can we do in order to support certificated staff so the reason why Maria is going to speak to it a bit is she never let it die I think every time that because it was not an easy process to figure out something that we could do that we it was allowed with the funds but almost every probably every one-on-one that I had with her she'd say where are we at with the classroom supplies for the certificated staff so she definitely should be provided support on this one because she was the engine behind behind the motor so I will leave it to Maria to say a few more words I just have a comment I think for some time now teachers at different points in time at least for the past six years have expressed some concern around having to pay for materials out of pocket and in many instances they even had to ask parents for donations at school sites so my hope in bringing this item forward is to provide some assistance for our teachers who are buying materials to enrich the classroom experience for our students and in return support their success and while I recognize that this stipend will not cover all expenditures it will provide some help and serve as a token of our appreciation for all they do for our students and so tonight I am asking of course for my colleagues to support me in moving this item forward I think our teachers are deserving of this stipend and and hopefully it can be something that it's done in an annual basis thank you okay good evening President Osmondson Board of Trustees Dr. Rodriguez my name is Rich Ariano I'm the director of purchasing and I'm just going to quickly cover some of the highlights for teachers for this initiative the district's role in the process and then Palace's role in the process I also have Todd Trowbridge with me he's the regional vice president for Palace and he's got some information to share on the initiative as well first the program highlight for teachers each participating staff member will receive a unique purchase order with their name and PO number on it all staff will be issued the same amount the PO can be used online or in one of Palace's retail stores for their supplies online orders that they place will be delivered direct to their school site and to their attention and then for use in store PO must be carried into the store and we'll get into Palace's role on how that helps the entire process so for us in the district our role will be to be clear these are not going to be gifts of funds in any way each PO will be processed through our financial system and go through our approval process invoices will be generated for every purchase that they make so our accounts payable team will get a report back on the amount that they spent and the items that they purchased and then school sites will be trained and supported by our purchasing staff to create these purchase orders for every school site so that will be training and support if it's a school site that has many teachers and they get overwhelmed trying to get this done we can probably quickly help them get those ordered and then sorry and then Palace's role in this process so cost control they already do a great job with us with all of our supply PO's that we process through them making sure that we do not overspend accurate invoicing and reporting of expenses working with our accounts payable team to create a fluid system for that training is available to either go out to sites and help teachers navigate the online portal and then most of the items that would be ordered online would be delivered next day to our sites so that's my piece and then I'm going to turn it over to Todd and then if there's any questions so say how much they're getting I want to make sure so it will be $125 per teacher and it's the board item has the groups that are included and some of the groups that are not but it will be $125 across the board Madam President, Dr. Rodriguez, Board of Trustees I first want to say thank you from Palace for being a partner with us for almost 25 years and you guys have helped pave the way for school district business for Palace but also paved the way for what it should look like with a partnership and we want to thank you for that we want to thank you for the opportunity we have to be here tonight to be a part of this of honoring your teachers just a little bit of details on our side what we have done is we're going to take our school contracts that are pre-negotiated with purchasing department that you guys have voted on and those will be extended to your teachers for that $125 they will also which is not something we've done before but we are extending those discounts it will be about 2200 items that they can go into the store as well and usually we don't give that deep of a discount in the store on PO's but because of the opportunity here and the connection with you guys we see it as a great opportunity to be able to do that I have spent a lot of time over the past year or year and a half training folks to get them online working with Emel they're working with Helen and Colleen to make sure that things are smooth and the PO tracking is done correctly because that's a big deal we want to make sure that we honor every dollar that is spent with us with these PO's and it's a lot of work I think it was almost 2000 PO's will need to be cut but we are willing to track those and work with both your finance department and that the dollars are accounted for and the products are accounted for so again thank you for the opportunity if you have any questions please let me know thank you no comments okay we have Bill Beecher thank you again at first blush this gives teachers a chance to save on the money that they've been spending out of their own pockets for classroom supplies I call it a feel good action it implies that the district is providing the fundamental supplies that are needed by each teacher and that these funds are to cover those extra needs that each teacher has I challenge that premise I know that an insufficient number of pencils and erasers are being distributed to our schools I personally for the last several years have been supplying over 2100 pencils and erasers to four of our elementary schools they just don't get them now how did I why did I start doing this well I was attending site councils and I heard this in the site councils and for those of you who have been on the board we heard many teachers get up drew on the we need wages increased and one of the reasons was we have to take money out of our own pockets to buy supplies well it seems to me that the teachers who should receive help from this action item are the science and art teachers where their needs are distinctly different than the average teacher because you don't buy the stuff that they need this proposal does not discuss whether the present system adequately supplies the needed common supplies which is best handled through central purchasing for the best pricing therefore I suggest that the board act for further consideration I believe a hybrid approach is what you'll end up with you need to fix the old system which wasn't adequately supplying supplies in the first place and there's no discussion about that tonight why aren't we fixing that first and then you do have extra money for teachers who have specific special needs like science and art teachers so thank you for your consideration thank you thank you for Maria for all your years on the board and thank you for bringing this up for teachers and I just also appreciate that we're utilizing a local business actually I was going to bring up Mr. Feature's point what exactly are we doing for our teachers with initial supplies in the classroom I understand it might need to be looked at and brought back and that is fine but I'd like to know what exactly are we providing each classroom with and I appreciate this Jester I know Maria has worked on this for a while and I know that the teachers could really use this so a couple of things one I think that it is not it is not across the board how the school sites use their discretionary funds so that's one because the school site council dictates what the site does with their discretionary funds to though I will say we swipe more than a million dollars of discretionary funds each year from the sites so to me the premise that we do not have the funds at the site to purchase basic supplies does not it isn't I don't believe that's factual I think do we need to we have been doing through the new budget process that just started this year but we've been starting this year we started to talk to the principals about where is your remaining funding where should you be spending your remaining funding so for me I think it's about efficient and effective use of funding because since I've been here every single year we have retaken back over a million dollars from sites which doesn't say to me that sites don't have the funding that they need is there a system in place where we actually see I mean I've looked at the general but for each school is there an accountability for what they are purchasing so each school site has a single plan for student achievement and in the single plan for student achievement they line out and it's approved by their school site council they line out how they're spending all their funds so on each single plan for student achievement we would be able to see how they're allocating those funds and then and it is not the same across the board so like and so though this past year they did something kind of similar to what we're doing right now district wide where they gave each one high schools in general are a little bit more similar because they give amounts to departments and really on the urging of trustee to serve but we had some conversations regarding science last year the art teachers and the science teachers which for the most part are pullout teachers they do receive separate funding so when you look at the district LCAP you actually will see the funding supplies for specifically our science teachers and our art teachers so they already have a different pot of money through supplemental and concentration funds that we're using for their supplies so regarding art and science do we feel as an administration that the money that's supplied to them is adequate for their needs because you know I'm not trying to like this is not a gotcha comment I'm just a parent on a campus going back to school night and you know being asked for a multitude of supplies to support those classrooms including Kleenex and Purell and you know those kind of supplies and then you know what they want is palace you know so I'm sure that Susan can speak a little bit more to this but we have this year alone ask three separate times what specific supplies do you need and we will get you every single supply that you need so in the case of the science if they do not have it it is because although we have asked and we have gone to see the little whites of their eyes to say hey what do you need so Rob Hoffman has gone site by site and asked for it so I feel very specific we have even though that was out there change is hard so you always ask for something it's hard to change the mantra of we always ask for things and you know some of them this won't solve so some of the things that they ask for donations for are things like consumables that are like milk eggs things that they aren't going to be able to get at palace palace was really one of the only partners that would do the high level of work that we are asking them to do we are asking them to do 1200 P.O.'s most most businesses that we asked that from they were like no way so it's not going to solve all the problems of what teachers want because they are not going to be able to go to Safeway and get milk that they need or vinegar that they need but it's it's a step in what we are trying to do I have served both on-site councils and in parent groups and at Valencia we were able to raise significant amounts of money because we have incorporated into a nonprofit and so we were able to give like I think it was $300 per teacher for supplies but the truth is the teachers really used that gift because of the red tape that it took to make it work and I don't know if that was like a district thing or whatever so what I heard you say is that this is going to be hopefully a seamless process people could go online I know myself like I don't really love online shopping I like to go and look at stuff so I'm hoping this will work in a way that teachers are not a lot of barriers in place one of the things that we had talked about is we talked about trying to make it as seamless and normal as possible and so we went with the idea of the PO sheets so the teachers were already used to having a PO sheet that they would take into our store and then use there or they can use it online which like I said I spent a lot of time training online and Rich has asked me to get more people online and I continue to work to do that and so our hope is that it will be as seamless as possible there's going to be speed bumps we're going to hit some rocks in the road but our goal is to make it as seamless as possible for them so that they can spend that money thank you for being willing to do that and I give you a lot of personal business thank you spend a lot of money at your place I'll make a motion actually do you want to make the motion Maria and I Maria is going to make it I would like to make a motion to approve this item a second okay all those in favor aye thank you this is a item which we're going to vote and it's already been discussed with us so I'm hoping there's not a lot of conversation from there's no public speakers right yeah so this was the sunshine proposal is there any discussion from the board okay can I have a motion a little approval second okay all those in favor aye okay resolution 10.4 adult education week 18 1932 what does that mean number 18 1932 is she here she's here you're here I'm not sure you were here or not you're always here but as you know adult education week is April 8th through the 12th and we are going to be taking a trip to Sacramento to meet with our representatives and talk to them about adult education and all those great things and so it would be really nice to have a proclamation on behalf of the district to take with us you have it it's in the packet yeah we have a resolution I read it I don't need to read it I think you have it no I read it we read it yes really good okay any public speakers any discussion from the board resolutions are always great okay can I have a motion second all those in favor thanks for doing a great job yeah Nancy thank you Wilma thank you for the support thank you continue to support you okay great okay 10.5 and this is with you too my dear well these are the the Santa Cruz pens the parent school the nursery schools that we have in Santa Cruz the parent groups have decided to operate them so we have an MOU that we had last year and this is another MOU for the future just pretty standard was approved last year okay no public speakers okay any discussion from the board okay all those in favor I mean I like them I have to make a motion I do have a question actually okay so just for the public what is the difference between what you're presenting tonight versus what we approved a while back this is the same MOU except there is not a monetary figure in this one because it was a one-time fee that we gave to the pens to operate the parents want to operate these schools and we do it a little bit differently than we do our Watsonville co-op so as long as they're fiscally there we're letting them do it so this is the exact same document except the monetary part is not there this year okay motion all those in favor I thank you very much thank you okay 10.6 w-e-a map proposal for addition of charters so what are we doing with that this is by Susan Perez good evening members of the board President Osmond Dr. Rodriguez I want to say two months ago we were asked to gather information about what it would take to include charter school map scores with our map reports and to bring that information back to you so I have done the research and basically I'm going to walk you through what would be involved to start with we have been using map in this district this is our third year we've done a number of presentations on map but just as a reminder it is an interim assessment that is provided three times a year that we use with our students it measures growth over time not only within a year but throughout the time that a student is in our district so it's a very valuable tool for us teachers can use it to plan it basically tells teachers what students are ready to learn next and so teachers can plan grouping we can set up interventions based on this it's proven to be a very valuable tool it does project proficiency it tells us how students are likely to do on state tests at the end of the year and it also gives an indication in fifth grade and above of a student's likely success on state on college entrance, the ACT and they're working on SAT so currently PVUSD has a contract and the amount there is indicated Alianza charter already has a contract and their amount is on the slide and Watsonville charter school of the arts already has a contract so my question to the company was really twofold how much would it cost if we brought the charters in to our contract and added Pacific Coast Charter because there were three charter schools that were wanting to participate and then is it due of what would be involved in the migration of the data into our contract and what about our windows because they don't necessarily differ what would be the challenges with that so basically these the amount in sort of the yellow color would be the additional cost to our contract so you can see the amounts for Alianza Wixha and PCCS a total of just over $12,000 bringing our contract up to $198,000 so an increase in cost to bring them onboard the migration process of taking the scores from Alianza and Wixha is doable it means that for two weeks those two schools cannot have access to their data while the migration process takes place but all their prior scores would be available in our system and the recommendation in talking to NWEA map and the principles is that that takes place in the summer the challenging part would be the windows Wixha has this pretty much the same testing window as we do as a district Alianza had quite a different window but in talking to the principal and her desire to have more transparency and have their scores reflected with ours she talked to the staff and they agreed they would move their window to match the district window so at this point in time I think we have removed all challenges and if you do approve the additional $12,420 I believe it was we can move forward and have those three schools added to our contract and do the migration this summer so that their scores can be in the regular reports next year try to address any questions if you have any so so since Watsonville Charters go for the arts and Alianza had their own contract I just need to understand a little tiny bit better I can understand if it goes charter wanting to be in it but the purpose of spending more money when they have their own contracts and putting them in our contract would be it was at board request that we include charter data when we do our reports when we share our map scores with you which we do several times a year after we've done our assessment windows we did not include charters in the scores because if you're not we didn't have access to their scores because they weren't part of our contract and when the window isn't the same you can't compare the data to be comparing apples and oranges no the window was way especially okay so it's important for it's good for us to be able to share their scores when we share our data because it what helps our data look a little bit better or what well there are students yeah no no they are those charters are really quick so because this was my request I think a couple other yeah and it's primarily because I think over the past years at least since I've been here we've never really been inclusive of our deep payment charter schools and so that's one and then two when PCCS came to percent they really had no data or any system in place that really tracked their student progress right so they are our students so we were doing this assessment for one population to ensure that we are being able to identify the areas of need of growth but then also track our students strengths I think we should be doing it for all students across the district and that was not happening because I'm just asking of the and we're currently paying the district's already currently paying for Wixah and Alianza so it's not the only change would be right okay so very similar to what happened with Aptos High and Navian so Aptos High was the first one to start Navian when we went district wide we reimbursed Aptos High and we started a district wide contract so that is what would happen in this case is we would I don't think this year actually we would they wouldn't have to pay for it now so they would have a little bit extra funds but especially when it comes to Wixah and Alianza they are doing especially Wixah doing some really great work so with the highlight best practices that's been a common trend but the board is where are we doing some of our best work and how can we capitalize on that the only way we can do that and do comparisons is if we're all doing the same period I am very happy that Alianza decided to change the window because originally they did not want to and that was going to mean we were going to have to exclude them so I appreciate that the principal went back to the staff and decided to align it because then now they can benchmark themselves against freedom which is our other dual immersion school and they can see how are they doing in comparison with others I would like to add all three principles we're very happy about this and eager to be able to compare with other schools I'm pretty satisfied anything? okay motion second all those in favor okay this is a long long report in our Chromebook 10.7 Watsonville Prep school Proposition 39 facilities request for a preliminary offer good evening board president Dr. Rodriguez this item is to review our Prop 39 process and in your board agenda item is for Watsonville Prep and the location is at EA Hall and just wanted to kind of take a step back and just confirm to the board that we did follow our Proposition 39 process in order for charters to be eligible for facilities to have a valid charter petition submitted and in place no later than March 15 and the other component has a projected in classroom average daily attendance of more than 80 students and in this case navigator was able to provide both of them and during this process they're also the district for this facility request by November 1st of the year proceeding with the district making a preliminary offer by February 1st which we did the charter school must provide a response by March 1st which was this month and then the district's obligation is to provide a final offer by April 1st and we are in that timeline right now once the agreement is agreed upon facilities would be furnished after at least 10 days before the start of the academic year and this approval this evening allows us to take the necessary steps to make those facilities in preparation for the first day of school so we are working with Watsonville Prep in the preparation of the seven portables at EA Hall and we are also looking at fencing that was one of the concerns from both entities is making sure that we had student safety and the ability to separate the older children from the younger children also accessibility to the campus and making sure that the portables were accessible to the community and parents and had a drop off zone but where they had direct access to the navigator Watsonville Prep site so with that being said if you look on to your attachment you see the facility use agreement that outlines in appendix A it actually gives you a map of EA Hall and it shows you specifically where those portables are located and where the we also came to an agreement initially we have eight portables but the plan was to demolish and send back the portables that were not district owned we continued to work on submitting to there's one portable that we currently lease so we are still continuing to return that to the leasing company because of that there's also an opportunity because of the age of the children was a restroom facility and so on the map you'll see that initially we proposed either where the current eight portable was at or near the street to install a modular restroom building and we came to an agreement with Watsonville Prep to relocate that more to an interior space adjacent to the portables for one visibility and student safety and accessibility we also agreed upon the additional cost would be incurred by Watsonville Prep so that's the overall layout and it also provides with the additional fencing on the top left corner some green play field space as well for the children so we have that available and that kind of summarizes the item as a whole. Yes we have Kevin Svedd Good evening President Osmondson Board Member Superintendent Rodriguez I'm Kevin Svedd I'm the CEO of Navigator Schools we operate or will operate Watsonville Prep School we're really thankful for all the hard work of the staff to provide appropriate facilities for Watsonville Prep students as you know Watsonville or I should say Parro Valley unified residents have priority enrollment for Watsonville Prep School and right now we're getting pretty close to conducting our lottery and all but a couple students are non-PVUSD residents so we do anticipate nearly a hundred percent of our student body will be Parro Valley Unified School District residents we do want to invite you to our upcoming lottery we can provide more details but it's going to be on Saturday April 13 at the YWCA and we can get you more details in case you are interested the lottery is a completely random lottery again taking into account the priority for Watsonville and then also for Parro Valley unified and we look forward later to invite you to if you approve this action item tonight to invite you to our small corner of the campus that will be located at the E.A. Hall site and we are projecting a first day of school as August 14th August 13th so again we just thank you for the staff and the board for taking your time to provide appropriate facilities for the students of Watsonville Pratt thank you so much okay questions from the board just have one can I so I know that Navigator Schools is also considering renting out the Porter Billion downtown Watsonville if they were to reach an agreement