Board of Education — April 21, 2016

okay they're like cuz she doesn't know how to sit there 712 um I now reconvene to the regular board meeting of the board of education at 7:12 p.m. with Blair Fikes Orosco n and Cruz Pres before we begin please silence all electronic devices and note that these proceedings are being recorded the leing to the Pledge of Allegiance tonight is CH Hill

principal the board met in closed session from 4 pm to 7: p.m regarding conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation and existing litigation student discipline conference with labor negotiators actn csca and Public Employee discipline dismissal release in Clos session the board voted 5 with Blair na Fikes Orosco Cruz voting yes to decline the April 3rd request to cure

and correct the action on March 7th 2016 further the board adopted resolution 201516 d59 to place a certificate employee identified by the employee number 24364 on a compulsory leave of absence pursuant to Education Code section 44 010 44940 and 44945 effective April 22nd 2016 by the following vote Fikes Hernandez Blair no Orosco Cruz voting yes no further action

was taken which requires public disclosure thank you um Chun Hol High School principal brenes will lead the Pledge of Allegiance thank you can we all please stand let's begin I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank

you thank you we're now at presentations ladies and gentlemen it seems like a week doesn't go by without one of our schools particip ipating in some exceptional event or activity it is not uncommon that these students who rise to those challenges will only one day become leaders while searching this year for Chino Hills High School it has been a

remarkable Year Mr Rosco can you join me please okay also um our basketball team can you please come up to the podium and parents as well and Coach all right yeah right okay let's begin CIF boys basketball open division state champion ending the season with a perfect 35 score named number one one boys high school basketball team in the nation by several

reputable Sports and news Publications good job scored 100 points or more 18 times tying a state record named National Championship in the final fat 50 rankings from ball is life what was that let's clap that's amazing wow and their game in the city Palms classic quarterfinal Chino Hills 83 Monte ver Academy 92 listed as a game of the year by Inland Valley Daily

Bulletin awesome Mr Rosco I know you attended the Sacramento basketball game so please proceed thank you well it was very exciting game although the first half was a little scary but it ended up being very positive so um first of all for the record I'd like to indicate that the agenda it has the uh section listed incorrectly and so for the minutes if we

can make that correction that is actually the open division um and also um national champions so if we could please reflect that in the minutes I'm going to actually highlight um some of the boys and we'll start off with the coach actually so coach bake was um named Coach of the Year CIF Southern section open division actually actually you might

want to hold your applause because there's a pretty long list on these guys okay so American Family Insurance all USA boys basketball coach of the year 2016 nay Smith High School coach of the year and Los Angeles Times boys basketball coach of the year and now I'm going to start with the Freshman so lamalo ball who is a

freshman was named Inland Valley daily bulletin's newcomer of the year for boys basketball I also learned today that he was um that Max Prep named him freshman co-mvp of the year today and he shares that honor with another Chino Hills High School basketball who is Big O and that's what I'm going to refer to to him as Vigo um who is named Max prep's

freshman co-mvp of the year he's also named uh State freshman of the year in boys basketball by Cal High Sports and he was named to Inland Valley daily B bulletin's boys basketball first team he's also a freshman next we have Elijah Scott who is a junior he was named to the all CIF Southern section open division he was

named to the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin boys basketball first team and liangelo ball who is a junior was named to the lcif southern section open division he was named to the Los Angeles Times All-Star boys basketball team and finally named to the Inland Valley daily bulletin's boys basketball first team and now bear with me because this is a

long one so Lonzo ball who is a senior was Nam most Val Valuable Player CIF Southern section open division American Family Insurance all USA boys basketball player of the year 2016 McDonald's All-American player providing 13 assist in the 114 to 107 win by the West team 2016 Morgan Wooten National Player of the Year by the McDonald's All-American

games 2016 nay Smith High School Player of the Year Daily Bulletin boys basketball player of the year Gatorade State player of the year 2016 John rwood and high school player of the year award in division one Los Angeles Times boys basketball player of the year named to the Los Angeles Times All Stars boys basketball team Max prep's 20156

National boys basketball player of the year and named Mr California basketball by Cal High Sports what an impressive list of accolades and next and next year we will see him playing at UCLA with with with his brothers uh joining the team thereafter I'm not going to say plain with you because there is that rumor that you may not be there too long

so anyway um okay so let me just say that although we've highlighted the five boys I want to say that it truly takes an entire team and coaching staff to achieve what they achieved and so it was it's important to realize that every single person on this team had an important role whether major small whatever it was important and they all

contributed to this achievement so congratulations to the Chino Hills High School basketball and with that and with that we'd like to present you with the certificate also um I do want to share with you that art Bennett um called who's the council no mayor right he's mayor of Chino Hills and um wanted me to share with you that he is apologizes for

not being here but to also indicate that you guys will be recognized at the May 10th council meeting and so um he offers his congratulations tonight as well but furthermore my well now before I even go on we don't have a portable mic no portable mic oh it's up up there so we want to give the opportunity

for Mrs brenis would you like to speak we want to give it to the coach but also if you'd like to say a few words to just we're trying to get the we're trying to get the so on behalf of chin Hills High School gentlemen basketball team we want to say U thank you for a miraculous wonderful

um fun season we appreciate all of your hard work you made not only your high school proud but you also made our uh Community um very very proud and our city very proud so thank you so much for a wonderful season that we will never ever forget thank you and and Coach if you'd like to either introduce the players or have them

introduce themselves and share whatever um you'd like to share with the the community sure yeah I'm going to introduce some of these guys right here right here Elijah Scott go and put your hand up so everybody can recognize you Shane Hopkins my coach uh Darren Moore lamelo ball Lonzo ball Nick Manor hall on Andre ball liangelo ball Matt

Reed Adam Vasquez I have my coaching staff back there coach Ryan coach Oscar coach Ruben coach Mel and Coach Steph awesome well again again on behalf of the school district we would like to also thank you and congratulate you on your achievements that you all have um been together as a team to to achieve but that doesn't end here I understand

that um the honors don't stop here because Mr Ray patongo from HF Johnson has also a presentation to make oh wow uh on behalf of the herf Jones company and Lonzo ball we would like to present the Nay Smith National High School basketball player of the year toino Hills High School so they can put on the campus all righty I'm going to

bring it out and show it to you guys [Applause] so Ray we want to thank you for um the replica of the trophy that Lonzo ball one I just want to say that I know that the young men um are young in age but us older folk um we know the um sentimental value of something um like this um it is

going to hopefully granted knock on what there'll be no Fires at at our school and it will stay forever it will stay um at the front of our school where people that enter it can um see and be reminded of the momentus and magical moments that we had at Chino Hills High School so we just know that although I may no longer

be here on Earth this will still be sitting in the halls of Chino Hills High School so again thank you so much for this Ray and for parents grandparents who would like to take some pictures we'll take just a minute so that the uh parents can take pictures of the of the kids that's beautiful can you guys come in a who in

attention one two three one two three Stay Ready Mr Joseph would you like to comment we we have all heard accolades tonight about this team we've heard about their records we've we've seen them get Awards and we really joyful about what this team has accomplished but as superintendent let me tell you what I was proudest of of

this team this team emanated class this was nothing but class they were a Real Testament to their families and to our district they never lost their composure they always carried themselves as young men and I am proud of them for that than I even am of their record and I think I don't think we'll ever see their like

again I really don't and it's not about the record it's about who they are as human beings so I thank you for the way you you represented our district thank you thank you you made our community proud thank you very much [Applause] Hearts our next guest is Dr Kim Caba to tell us about a wonderful program at Don

Lugo High School capturing kids heart Dr cabera [Applause] do we need to move we need to move okay yep that's not what I put on the slide that's not my well good evening um I'd like to thank Mr Joseph and the board of education for allowing me to come and talk about capturing kids' Hearts uh this is a

three-day training that um we did this summer the week before school start it's actually the two weeks before school started so a week before teachers were to come back which as you know that's a very sacred time for teachers at that last bit of summer vacation um we actually had uh 68 staff members commit to making the difference using capturing

kids hearts on our campus four administrators five counselors a school psychologist and 58 teachers in December those that uh remained untrained because of prior commitments eight staff members um including those that um had just been hired um were also trained and felt that this was a very um valuable experience the primary focus of capturing kids Hearts is to develop healthy relation

relationships between members of the school's educational community and to teach effective skills that help participants in working with today's young people we have to realize that the influences on their lives are much different from those in past years even as recently as the past five years the rate of change and the things that kids are exposed to today are significantly

different from a previous generation and the resulting struggles are a testimony to the difficulty that they're having with those changes if we're to make a difference in these young people's lives then we have to open the doors to their hearts and their minds the mission of capturing kids' Hearts is to win a child's heart and to lead him or her to

their personal best and the goal of the training is to equip Educators with the tools that enable them to do the job that is before them some of the um practical pieces of capturing kids Hearts is to develop the self-managing classroom and decrease discipline issues through Innovative techniques such as a social contract decrease delinquent behaviors such as

disruptive outbursts violent acts and drug use and to utilize the Excel teaching model which I'll explain and reinforce the role of emotional intelligence in teaching we also aim to build a classroom Rapport and teamwork to create a SE a safe trusting learning environment develop students empathy for diverse culture cultures and backgrounds and increase classroom attendance by building students motivation and helping

them to make respon take responsibility for their actions and performance the five key pieces to capturing kids hearts or the primary skills are the Excel model the social contract which you see to the right the four questions for misbehavior the four questions for the disres for disrespect and solar listening skills the steps outlined in the Excel teaching model prepare teachers to

effectively impact their students each time they come together from the beginning of class to the end as Flip Flip a quote by Flip Flip Flippin says a leader is someone who sets aside a Personal Agenda and Embraces a greater agenda of servicing others Excel stands for the following engage explore communicate Empower and launch to engage this is the first step

in to the success of the day it begins when we greet our students at the door with a handshake at the beginning of each class as you walk around my campus you will we'll see our teachers at the door handshaking our kids as they come in and offering them a good morning or good afternoon the handshake is the

first glance at how the day is going for some of our young people if it's a firm handshake with a greeting we know that it's probably going to be a good day one in which we can't make eye contact or they don't even want to so much as engage and Shake Hands tells us that we may have difficulty that day so it's the

first glance into what we are going to be dealing with in the classroom it's also a skill that we try to teach our students as a necessity um and social skill in which they need to make that eye contact they have to have energy to become a professional explore is the Second Step that lays the foundation for the content

of the class which is to follow we get in touch with where the students are personally emotionally and academically as we get to know our students we begin to listen attend convey empathy we start to probe into what their needs may be and we ask open-ended questions in building a trusting environment where students feel safe from ridicule and

rejection true learning is able to actually take place the questions start to begin without feeling that they're going to be mocked by their peers or being looked down upon by a teacher in the classroom step three is to communicate this step is the communication of the content of the class and the teacher addresses the needs discovered in the

previous step once a trusting environment is established the two-way process of dialogue between the teacher and student ensues the teacher becomes the facilitator and resource to the class another important step is the ability to translate that which is being taught into real world benefits we so often hear why do we have to learn this when am I going to use this again I'll

never use geometry again or the Pythagorean theorem but students have to know how their studies will assist them in their future efforts at earning a living and finding meaning in their lives as administrators we were also challenged because the way that we communicate we often will portray messages of miscommunication when people come to talk to us we tend to multitask

or let's say let's walk and talk and we tend to walk really fast or maybe um we may not smile or we might have a non-expression and we start to convey that um that message of I'm too busy for you um at the high school level we also um really tend to enjoy our sarcasm and that tends to sometimes get into that

very biting and hurtful sarcasm that our students begin to think she really or he really doesn't like me and they start to turn off to the class so we were challenged and we were shown the Chinese symbol for the word listen which involves the characters for ears eyes heart the U and undivided attention to listen effectively to another person you

must listen with your eyes ears and heart with your undivided attention sometimes we want to convey that we're listening but we may not know how to show the other person that we're doing that so we're challenged to look them in the eye make sure that we are able to maybe repeat what they're saying and engage in discussion the fourth step is to empower

and empowerment occurs when students gain the ability to use and do the things that they've been taught possessing the same skills as a teacher is the goal of education and when we can do that we've been taught that which we've been taught then we truly are empowered one of the skills that we learn in the classroom is that when

there is that biting sense of sarcasm we can call a foul on each other and so um we practiced actually doing that in our um conference and we would foul each other if somebody just kind of made a joke or we would use a sense of sarcasm and then we had to follow with two put ups and so we would have to look that

person in the eye and it would have to be a genuine way to empower them and not just say oh I like the blue shirt you're wearing today it's actually saying you know I really appreciate the way that you took the time to to talk to me this morning and to find out how I was doing so giving them a genuine sense of um of

belonging the fifth piece and this is one of my favorites is the launch and in the Excel teaching model launching has to do with the way that we end and send it's the way that teachers end a classroom experience and the way they send their charges forth to the face of the future this is vastly different from just

having students rush out the door when the bell rings it's the way to check check in with our students to get their attention just before they leave and a couple of the launches that I've heard in our classrooms that I really like are the following the first one is believe it and achieve it so the teacher will

actually say believe it and the class knows to respond achieve it and the second one is if you believe in yourself the class responds you can do unbelievable things and so the students are sent off with those on a daily basis remembering that these are these are ways that they're going to look back and they're going to

remember we also have something called the social contract which you saw a little bit ago and the social contract is actually designed to let all participants in the classroom or School know what behavor is acceptable and what is not the primary questions to consider When developing a social contract are the following how do you want me to treat

you how do you want to treat each other how do you think I want to be treated and how will we handle violations of the contract using the social contract the teachers in our classrooms are able to create more self-managing classrooms as each student takes responsibility for his or own behavior as you walk around our school you'll see on the walls the

social contracts that were created at the beginning of the school year where our teachers had the students put down the things that they thought were going to be necessary we didn't abide by class rules that we had already preset our students actually made those rules for each other and so they were taught that they once we violated the social

contract we could call you out on a foul and we would have to do something to put you up so that that violation doesn't occur again there are times when um sometimes the social contract just doesn't ring true for some and they don't want to follow so we now start to move to questions for misbehavior and this is

something that we've encouraged our teachers to do prior to sending a referral so just asking you know excuse me what are you doing and and we don't call them out in front of everybody it's one of those where you come up alongside and you just kind of ask quietly what are you doing and then you follow by

asking what are you supposed to be doing and hopefully they respond in kind and they tell you what they're supposed to do some s they want to tell you to pound sand so you keep kind of going and they you ask them are you doing it and if not what are you going to do about it it's

kind of their final time and sometimes when we know that that handshake kind of gave us that clue that it wasn't going to be such a great day we can go through this and we might also need to give them a little bit of time and we already know that because we walked in the door knowing that they were having a tough

time so sometimes we move to that issue of disrespect and we have to remind them who they are talking to and how they're supposed to be talking to me because we did for every every social contract that I've seen in a classroom I see that respect is one of the very top things that our students have decided upon and

we asked them then are you doing it and so how are you going to talk to me and many times we can talk them off the ledge but you know once we've gone through these and these don't work then it's time that we now get to see them and have like a discussion again with them in the office and of often times as

an administrator we kind of go through these questions as well and how are we going to do things differently so in the end we're working at and teaching our students to build meaningful Relationships by spending time listening and affirming each other being careful careful of our need to be right and finally asking for forgiveness from each each

other thank [Applause] you I think Dan has a presentation next you say yeah well before you leave and before the next presentation I'd just like to say you're doing some incredible things at Don Lugo and and I and I shared um with Miss Cera no maybe a few weeks ago or a few days ago in regards to a video that I

happened to run across where you just saw the excitement of the kids and you were I don't remember exactly what it was but there was coming to my house I think it was really neat stuff that you're doing with the students congratulations kudos to you and your staff yes I also like to appreciate your service there I know this program was an

excellent program and the kids in the back that told me on campuses when teachers would stood up in the classroom and shook their hand in first day it really touched their hearts and give them not just the motivation but but again it was attention that they were missing our youth and so I think you're the bright star in our school district

thank you for your service and thank you for Don lug being here thank you thank you and thank you as well you know capturing kids heart it builds relationship with with students to students teachers to students students to teachers but not only that it provides a safe environment and also makes the classroom accountable so it is a great start and I I suspect

the social contract Begins the very first day of class so it's it's good right right at first good job thank you next up Dan is a director of Elementary curriculum Elementary report cards thank you very much and good evening president Cruz Board of Education superintendent Joseph cabinet colleagues and Community tonight we have the pleasure of presenting our work that's

the culmination of a project that we've been working on the standards based report card committee for over two school years we're here to share the new CVUSD k6 standards based report card tonight you'll be hearing from members of our team that poured themselves into creating this set of communication tools that are for parents students teachers and the community let me

introduce the community excuse me let me introduce the committee at this time Miss Carla Vander from cattle Elementary Miss Cynthia Horton from Wickman Elementary Miss Angela Milstead from Marshall Elementary Miss Kim James formerly from Wickman Elementary and now at the district office as a technology training specialist Mr Josh riger from Eagle Canyon Elementary Miss Evette Farley from

hidden Trails Elementary Miss Rosa Gomez from elementary curriculum office and myself Dan Sosa from the elementary curriculum office thank you you thank you folks we would also like to take this time to thank act for their consultation and involvement all throughout this important process we want to thank them for that so let's talk about our learning objectives and what we're going to be

talking about here tonight or maybe not here we go first we'll start off with the why we will share what is standards-based grading and what was the need for this change next we'll talk about the work of our committee then we'll actually get into review the report card and give the community and the board the opportunity to take a look at how this is such a

dynamic tool we will end with talking about next steps and how the elementary curriculum department and the committee will be supporting teachers and parents in this new process and to get us started I'd like to invite Rosa and Josh good evening okay so before we begin discussing and exploring our new CVUSD standards based report card I'd like to begin with a quick quote from

the California State Board of Education when the folus of grade the adoption of the Common Core State stand standards in 2010 signals A Renewed commitment to ensure that all California students gain the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in a global economy and Technology Rich workplace as responsible actively engaged citizens so how does standard space grading play a part in the skills

and knowledge gained by our students well first we have to take a look at what is standards based grading standards Spas grading is an assessment philosophy that shifts student feedback from the work that they do to what the students know in standard space grading all assessments are aligned to the standards and students are giving feedback on how well they have Masters

those standards it's a subtle shift with dramatic results and students who learn quickly and demonstrate Mastery of these standards can be presented with new challenges is to further increase their learning and their knowledge students who struggle are not trapped by this past failure and they can stay focused and take the time on increasing their learning another benefit is the separation of academic

Mastery from habits of work Mastery in traditional grading we might give the same grade to a student that demonstrates Mastery per turns in an assignment laid and the student who turns in assignment on time but has not demonstrated Mastery standards based grading allows the opportunity for us to make that differentiation and allow our students to gain those skills and

knowledge so they can be successful citizens in our global economy and at this point we're going to take a quick view at our short video and then Josh will continue with our presentation in the focus of grading is to give clear feedback and help the student take ownership over his own learning it becomes a truly useful tool all too often we forget the focus

of grading we give a grade to show a student what he did in the past but forget to connect that to what he can do going forward as teachers we found that using standards-based grading enabled us to stay focused on giving more meaningful feedback to our students standards-based grading or SBG helps teachers do three things one learning

goals standards based grading helps us focus on the learning goals of our class SBG is a grading system that focuses on the content skills or standards that students must learn this means that when recording scores the concern is not with a cumulative grade on a test but rather the level of Mastery the student has achieved on each

concept assessed on that test test with that slight change patterns begin to appear in the classroom as a whole and for individual students the class may be struggling with a particular concept and may require the teacher to revise her instruction or a student may show a pattern of weakness with a particular skill which can be individually addressed two

assessments standards based grading forces us to look at our curriculum and make sure that each activity test and project has a purpose with a clear idea of each learning goal we can be more intentional about what each activity is for when creating tests we know exactly which skills need to be assessed existing homework assignments or activities that don't Aid or assess

any learning goals are clearly not necessary three feedback standards-based grading helps us give better feedback to our students once the goals of the class are clear we can be clear with students about how well they were mastering the content we used to say You must earn an 82% on the final to pass with SG we can say you just need to

focus on using clear evidence to support your claims the focus is on skills instead of points standards-based grading is an assessment and feedback method that helps teachers stay focused on the goals of the class align all parts of the curriculum to the course goals and give students specific actionable feedback about their strengths and weaknesses [Music] well first of all I'd like to say um

what an amazing team that this was to work with this was truly 21st Century Learning and for seas in action over the past um two years so a lot of communication and a lot of collaboration so um in a standards based grading system obviously the grades look very different it's not a traditional point-based uh system it's focused on uh

measuring students Mastery of a specific set of outcomes uh students progress towards Mastery is tracked by their performance on learning tax tasks whether that be assignments projects or assessments that align to the outcome uh it encourages student ownership of learning and allows the teachers to provide the essential accurate uh feedback the goal of this approach is to

clearly communicate to students and parents what is expected of students and how to help them be success successful in their educational journey and you'll hear this again during our presentation that standards-based grading is really a growth mindset and kindergarten through sixth grade is is a time for growth it's the formative years as you will um it's when the acquisition of foundational

skills really takes place thus standards based grading or SBG provides accurate assessment and actionable feedback on student growth so the video touched on three points I just want to kind of clarify number one learning goals standards based grading is not a cumulative grade but rather a but rather a level of academic Mastery of each concept um second all curricular um uh

Endeavors have a purpose extraneous assignments and homework that doesn't really Aid in the assessment of goals are not necessary and finally it's feedback based which is one of our District's areas of emphasis And Timely feedback as we know is one of the um significant indicators of Student Success so standards based grading really focuses on the Improvement of

certain skills not a cumulative percent on points as a more traditional report card does so in summary standards based grading is a focus on skills not points and in that um it separates academic Mastery from habits of work Mastery and we're going to hear more from that from Carla and Cindy the whole purpose of the standard standards based report card is to

communic is using it as a communication tool for parents and Guardians and for the students it allows the teachers to clearly communicate the growth that the students are that's happening throughout the year not just through segments of it's through Ms of time but the whole year on the common cor standards that we're actually teaching what it is most important to

focus on is it it's a shift from what the student is doing in the classroom to what they know at certain points throughout the year showing their progress the focus is on their practice and on their growth as it should be in the elementary years we don't get them they're not at the same point all of them so we really need to focus on where

they begin to where they're progressing to okay um Slide Five okay so um why the Need For Change um based on everything that you've seen so far in the presentation there were spe a few specific reasons why we need to make this change in CVUSD um our former report card was only um really touched on the standards from

1997 um and even with the adjustments that we made to the report card over the past few years um that tool was kind of insufficient in really trying to communicate the student progress on our current standards that we have now um and in contrast to what some people might have thought our former report card wasn't really standards

based it was still a subject-based report card and for the past 100 years students like we you've heard they earned grades based on how many points that they had earned out of how many points were possible and it was an average of how many points they had collected um students who struggled on assignments but worked very hard and

eventually learned what they were supposed to do would still receive a lower grade based on that average and so this actually led to decreased motivation for many students for many years and not only that but a letter grade never truly shows what the student do well on and where they could improve Robert Marano is a leading researcher in the field of Education

he has brought about many changes in vocabulary instruction teaching strategies and assessment practices when he was asked about the need to change to a standards-based grading system he said this why would anyone want to change current grading practices the answer is quite simple subject specific grades are so imprecise that they are almost meaningless we want assessment to be

meaningful we want to clearly communicate learning goals to our students their parents and the team at the school site our new report card will show the progress and growth towards the end of the year goals achievement of Standards by the end of the year our new standard-based report card aligns with the growth mindset of the common cor state standards and ASPC

students are not expected to have mastered all parts of a standards or group of Standards at the end of the first trimester we all realize that each student can learn just not in the same way and in the same amount of time the standard-based report card allows for demonstration of growth over time and it will clearly explain to what

the level the student has achieved the learning goals or the standards for that grade level this change is being implemented at the kindergarten through sixth grade level because Elementary School is a significant period for the development and growth of foundational skills and for for learning habits of success both of which are featured on the new report card that is the

why our committee Mo most of which is assembled here first gathered in January of 2015 and over that time we spent 15 months reviewing articles on standards based report card creation reviewing samples of report cards from more than 10 districts uh we included um advice from the CVUSD Information Services and Aries experts when it came to actually

constructing the report card and we um included all kinds of ideas from each one of us every single one of us has our hands muddy in this uh in this commit commitment um we met so frequently we met as every month and a couple of months we even met three times it was a lot of work um in May of 2015 drafts

were sent out to every single elementary teacher side administrators and act leadership was informed and involved all along the way feedback was solicited from teachers and administrators via a survey link and an email so now we'll take a look at what it actually looks like contrary to what our current report card is which is on an 8 1/2 by4 sheet that you need special

paper in a special color from a special place the new report card is on a typical 8 1/2 by 11 sheet of paper that they can print out right at their School site the front of the report card is laid out with all of the academic marks so it has Ela on one side and math on the other with content area down on the

bottom with the performance Mark section clearly indicated at the top with brand new performance descriptor so it's very clear on exactly what those marks are this committee spent months drafting the language that's on the front of the report card to make sure that it was parent friendly sometimes standards can get a little bit jargony and they're hard to understand we took the time and

many drafts to make sure that what was on the front there would be easily understood since it is an important communication tool for our parents so as you can see um across the top of their future report card instead of seeing our a through f scale you'll see the numbers one two three and four instead um so again this is moving away

from the standard a through f scale and looking for something that you know shows students where they can grow and where they can potentially achieve um so it's difficult for you guys to see right now um but each of the performance levels are um accompanied by our descript for each level it's to the right of the red box there um and in

each of the descriptors is a phrase at this point in the school year letting students know that is the end of the year expectation that they are not expected to achieve Mastery at every single trimester on the standards that we being taught um and again you know this the main shift here that we need to you know communicate both with you know

teachers and with students and their parents and with the community is that um you know this is not a points earned this is a level of mastery instead so um the level one is a beginning standard and it's the standard not yet met but that students have the potential to do that um a level two is progressing a level three is achieving

and a level four is extending and what you don't see on this slide is that we're also going to have an NA which would be for um an area that a teacher has not yet presented content in so that it um so it's very clear to parents you know if the difference between na or a level one or a level two so if you know

if something has not been taught they won't see a one because the student has not demonstrated a level of understanding at a one it has not yet been taught so you'll see that um and I want to point out that one important difference is that the level three is the end of the year expectation that's marked by the word achieving and that's

the level which students should be setting goals to reach and it's possible as well as probable that a strong student that might earn twos in the first two trimesters because they they are making progress towards the end of the year and that they should set the goal then of being able to achieve it by the end of the year at the level

three I'm sorry I'm the next slide too all right next slide sorry okay and go ahead and display the graphic for it and one more okay so I love this graphic and that's why I'm embarrassed I forgot about um so this is something that everyone can relate too I know it's difficult to see at the bottom right there um but think about how

people learn how to ride a bike so um if most likely training wheels are used first they guide and support as the kid is learning how to ride a bike the support is consistent it is always there and this would be similar to a teacher that guides students step by step on how to do something that they're learning in

the classroom at a level two indicated by the person who's holding the bike a little bit support is still present and the teacher occasionally will let go and give feedback and additional help to students when they need it at a level three yay the child can ride the bike and in the classroom that means that the child or the student is consistently

meeting that learning objective which are the standards being taught so this level three is the goal and is indicated by the word achieving and a level four the bike rider can show off and do tricks so for students that means that they can do Advanced applications for their current grade level and we call this an in-depth understanding and we indicate that level

of performance with a number four so then to discuss um another new aspect of our report card is Amanda now we're going to take a look at the backside of the report card and I think this is some of the teachers on the committee's favorite part as well as myself uh this is um at the top you'll

see that it has um program participation and attendance just like it had before it also on the bottom has our new habits of success section and on the other side it has additional information which takes up most of the right side at the bottom is a next year's placement box so that grade articulation can be displayed so for the habits of success I

think it's the next slide one more one more this is how teachers can show parents how the student is actually working in the classroom the front side is showing their academic achievements and on the back side it's really showing those 21st century skills work habits responsibility and integrity and um so this really shows the habits of mind and behaviors that are commonly

found in successful people the phrases are all positively worded as our assumption is that all students will do these things it has broken up into the separate blocks like I said work habits responsibility and integrity and down at the bottom I don't think you can see 21st century skills so as a fifth grade teacher this really allows me to show parents how the

student is looking in my classroom using these marks and it will also be shown by the performance level marks that are on the front page so really showing that growth of how they're they're working in the classroom 12 another click okay all right so for the next steps the office of element inter Elementary curriculum will make revisions to board policies and

administrative regulations which will be brought forward also keeping in mind that this is a tool of communication for the parents and also Guardians um the Office of Education of the uh office of Elementary curriculum will provide parent support materials via presentations that will be provided to schools to utilize with parent groups a newc parent handbook is being created to

support parents with the transition also a one-page parent info guide in the development for use at back to school night is will be used to go with the spc's and also a web page has already been launched with the copies of the spc's and other valuable information of course there's going to be a lot of support needed for teachers

a lot of support and resources are already on their way the new standards-based report card teacher handbook has been created to support teachers with this transition in addition the website that Brandon mentioned is also an internet source of information for teachers and administrators uh with copies of the standards based report cards information uh rubric Builders and many other

training tools for teachers there will be identification of resources for building rubrics at uh for many different purposes there will be continuing collaboration for honing assessment practices and finally of course continued site-based professional learning well the Comm the uh committee thanks you for your attention I know it's a been a little bit long but this has been a long collaborative process we

wanted to be able to share that with you I just want to thank my incredible team one more time that put months and months into this I got to thank them for all that hard thank you next up is Dr Janette Chan elap update good evening board and cabinet and audience this is a little bit awkward to face the friend and not see

anybody's faces um but we'll do the best we can um tonight um as you recall we are still working on our ALC cap development for the upcoming school year but in addition to that we're reviewing our actions and services for this current school year um what we're going to do tonight is continue to share data with you around what we're doing around

our instructional program the teaching and learning that goes on in our classrooms on a daily basis um uh again one of the um big pushes that we're trying to do um this school year is really looking at um the strengths of our kids and identify what um areas of need they have so that we could differentiate instruction for them so

that they're successful in the classroom um if you recall the last um report that we had for you around alcap we really focused on the learning environment so what is it that we have in place for our students around making sure that what's happening at their school sites around attendance and making sure that they're engaged um are that that there's things

in place for our students in those in that in that term in those um terms what we're going to be focusing on today is what's happening not just at the school site but what's happening inside the classroom and so um one of the um pieces of data that you're going to see is around our actual assessments that are

coming down from the state you're going to be seeing assessments that we're creating or that we're using at the school sites to really identify what kids need and so um we're going to be focusing on that tonight the other thing I think that is important to highlight is um the work that's happening at the school sites with our administrators and

our teachers because at the end of the day they're the ones that are making that happen for our students right so there's a lot of work that's happening that's really important and um I really have to give kudos to the teachers to the classified staff and to the administrators for making sure that what's happening in the classroom is

being effective for our students and so one of the things that you'll um hopefully notice today is the framework that we're using for our teaching and learning and so you'll see um evidence that again our administrators and our teachers are analyzing data they're differentiating instruction for our students that um they're using a variety of different tools and um instructional

strategies to meet the needs of kids and so hopefully you'll see all all of these things um through the discussion of the data and then I will be coming back at the end of um some people are going to come up and share that data but I'll be coming back at the end of that um discussion so that we can talk about

what the next steps are around our development of the alcat plan okay so I'm going to go ahead and hand it over to Julian um Rodriguez at this point and he'll be sharing um some of the assessments that and data that we're using around that okay I am going to try to face this way because this is the worst

setup um but I'm really not tall enough to look over this so just just forgive me here all right so we've seen these numbers before first presented these in September I believe at a board report looked at them look at looked at them again in January okay and these are some districtwide numbers and some really powerful questions were coming up um at

that time and and from the community and from teachers and from other Educators because we know that this is a bird's eyee View and we've been talking tonight a lot about foundational skills and so one of the foundational skills you know when we teach reading to kids you know we don't jump in with the story right away

we don't have them start decipher you know decoding words right away we say hey take a look at the cover you know kind of you know leave through the pages look at the pictures you know can you make predictions based on this and and so we have to do the same thing with data okay and so Dr Chan talked a lot

about um being able to identify needs and we can't do that unless we start with data so again we've looked at these numbers before but we have to start breaking them down a little bit and so I want to remind you of the questions um that Dan Sosa posed uh back in January when when we were talking about some

data analysis protocols and some of those questions are that we ask are you know so what's being measured so when you look at Smarter Balance assessment data we know this is Baseline data because this is from 1415 we we've just started our spring assessments for this year the summit of Assessments we're just under 20% complete right now okay those are we

know that we're looking at grades 3 through 8 and then 11 we ask ourselves who's represented and so with this top that top piece right there we know that's districtwide and by the way there's the link there we we had a request to make sure that we had the link um up there um but we know that

that's districtwide data and then when we ask who's being represented what we're looking at is we start breaking it down to some of those areas some of those kids are might need a little bit more attention okay and so we have our our English language arts with our are so socioeconomic disadvantaged we have our students with disabilities our English Learners and

then our foster Youth and then below that we've looked at our four major um ethnic breakouts so these are the representations and then I believed Mr Sosa posed some more questions so what jumps out at you at that time right what jumps out at you what patterns start emerging and then we started hearing the word gaps well yeah there are gaps and and

especially right now you're hearing about not only achievement gaps but you're hearing about zip code gaps if you've been listening to the news and following educational data okay so we do start noticing some gaps so when I look at this data I started noticing the difference in that top tier why isn't it the same all the way

across what patterns are emerging well we got only 11% if I move from left to right there in those top groups and you start looking at gaps between the top numbers so for example if I look at our students with disabilities at 5% exceeding where I look at District overall you have 21% there's a gap there okay so but this

again this is a bird's IV we don't have any answers yet and so really the rest of this presentation is going to be about some of those tools that we have have to help us further identify who they are because what we're looking at here is a representation of 1473 students and I know that because I'm the

director of assessment okay and I don't have names yet right but the teachers in the classroom have the names and what tools are they using and what tools are we using at the school level at the site level all right so that's that's what the rest of this is going to be about um the next slide um we have our math data

here we know that the math test our math achievement much um still far ahead of the county and the state okay but compared to our Ela much lower okay the shifts in math I'm not an elementary school teacher but I've had a lot of conversations um more severe there in terms of what was happening at each grade level Okay so so that's what

we think is represented here by the way I was at a County assessment Network meeting today and um all of us have a lot gray hair some of us have patches um but we were at so so it's all of the uh districts in the county and what's interesting and what we were hoping is the score reports that parents are going

to be getting in June in June um will have for third I'm sorry for 4th through 8th will have two years of scores right next to each other okay so now you'll be able to start seeing that growth and we'll hopefully understand where that scale score comes into play there okay so again this is the bird's eye

view and now what we want to do is we want to look at some of the tools that we have because again 1473 students up there and then 44% of the kids in certain areas um so now we want to look at some of those tools and uh Mr s is going to share some of those with us

I feel kind of sheepish I should have thought about this the first time wow goodness so Mr Rodriguez talked about looking at the data from a bird's eye view sometimes I speak of it as looking at it from a 30,000 foot view whereas what we have represented behind me is what the tools and the processes that our teachers and administrators are

using right down at the school level to be able to use that initial data to make some decisions about program and services but then we go much deeper with other tools that we have at our disposal to really begin to pinpoint those particular areas that our students need support in so you first see here that we have a slide that indicates mtssa and

I've spoken to you before about mtssa and what that is is multi-tiered systems of support for academics we've spoke spoken at length here in front of you before about the fact that we're doing something unique in Chino which is addressing the whole child we're addressing the needs of the child from the academic standpoint but then also addressing the needs of the

child from the behavioral emotional standpoint and we had a fantastic presentation earlier today about how they're doing that at one of our high schools that work is extremely difficult and it is an art as much as it is a science particularly when you get up to the high school level and there's so many things going on with kids so we

need tools we need strategies and we need caring individuals in order to make that happen so with our mtssa we see that 62% of our kids are on track to be grade level readers at the end of the year that is a fantastic number because you know that the standards have become much more rigorous than they are in the past so this set of

tools allows schools and teachers and administrators to hone in on those other groups of students who could use additional support we provide that additional support with our intervention teachers that we have on campuses and with the intervention programs that we have going on starting in the classroom and then moving all the way out to those Specialists that support the students

when they need a little bit more help we also have the unique opportunity to have intervention counselors that are funded right out of lcap that are at the elementary level that help our school sites to be able to identify those students who have particular needs with Behavioral or emotional support So this year we had 532 students who are being serviced by our

intervention counselors those students are identified using a survey tool that we have as part of our identification Suite of software they have 174 what we call PBS lessons or positive behavioral support lessons that go on with those groups and our teachers at 17 of our elementary schools do positive behavioral lessons every single week with their students right in the

classroom to help give them tools and strategies to manage their own behaviors and to manage their own feelings as they go through life well we can't forget our students that are high achieving or those students who think in a different way so what we began two years ago was a a different identification process for our gate students and we are happy to

report that at this time we have 2244 gate identified students in the district that represents about 8% of our overall population that may not seem like a lot but for a district our size that is huge and we have a goal within the next 3 to 5 years to increase that number to 10% of the students within the

district so let's give a little bit of perspective on what we've been doing with gate here in the last couple of years we have increase the percentage of gate students that are qualifying because we've changed some of the processes by 61% over the last three years 61% more second grade students were identified than ever in the past

and we're so excited about that because now we're able to identify students in a broader range we identify students who are English language Learners as you can see behind me we identify students who are homeless we identify students who receive special education support as well with our old Paradigm in the past that wasn't possible but now that we've

changeed some processes and procedures we're able to bring more equity and access to our GATE program and that's very very exciting well we figured since we're going to be identifying more students we need to be training more teachers in those strategies that support our gate students so over the last year we had 77 of our teachers trained within gate

structures and strategies and we had 44 teachers that will end the year gate certified from UC Riverside that was all paid for by the district and we are so excited to do that because we know that if we expand that number of students identified we also need to expand those opportunities for training and support support for our teachers so that's

exciting that graphic on the bottom you can see is just kind of a snapshot of all the professional development that's gone on and earlier this year you heard a presentation from Miss Grace Lee and her professional development team about what has gone into those but those numbers behind me those are the number of hours of training in each one of

those subjects that teachers have received this school year so we are looking at students in a different way and supporting students with many processes procedures and training now I'd like to invite Mr Jones to come up and speak to some of the wonderful things going on at our secondary Sosa as U Mr Sosa was saying we were

looking at a bird's eyee view from the elementary perspective I'm going to share with you some of the secondary things that are going on some of the great things that are going on in our secondary World um and how we are preparing our students to be have access to broader um uh courses of subjects and also be not only um uh graduate but also

be prepared to do well in Co in college um the alignment of our a through G courses uh a through G as you we all know that the the UC put together a a list of courses that stated that students in high school should take these courses that would make them eligible for admission to the UC um uh

system we have 1620 sections of these courses throughout our district of which there are 124 courses in the variety of areas that you see there which is uh English math lab Sciences social studies World languages visual performing arts and a host of electives um and in the area of uh our uh advanced placement we have an AP

snapshot in the top right qu quadrant of this slide we have 24 AP courses throughout our district we have two more on the horizon one's coming to the board tonight for appr uh for information and another one is in the works of bringing being brought back in that uh students would be very um uh that should be very

popular with our ninth and our 10th grade students but of those 24 that we currently have we have 284 students who are taking one or more of these AP courses um keep in mind AP is usually a junior or a senior course because of the schedule that does not not afford n9th graders and 10th graders to actually get into the AP uh there is

really only one course that n9th graders could take and that would be AP art history and there was uh AP Euro that 10th graders would take other than those two courses the rest of the AP courses that are afforded to our students are junior or senior level courses so we have 284 Juniors and seniors in our district that are taking these courses

of these uh um courses that are being taken the students that are taking these 1,749 students took um at least one AP exam one or more AP exams um uh for um last year that's an average of 84% of the actual students who were in the AP program who actually took the exams to qualify themselves for College admission

the bottom right uh quadrant indicates how well our students did in the AP exams three or higher is considered passing and as you see here we have 64% of our students that passed with col getting college credit they still passed the class with a one or or course with a one or or two but they did not get the

actual college credit students can take these classes at high school take the class class and get college credit for the for the course which is a savings for Mom and Dad because they don't have to pay that College tuition for that class when they get to the college level um and in the bottom leftand quadrant it gives you the indication of

how well we are doing with our CTE courses we have 3370 students in our district that are taking a CTE Course once again CTE courses are usually afforded to Juniors and seniors why because the 9th and the 10th grade schedule does not make the room for these classes however there are some ninth graders and there are some 10th

graders based on uh individual scheduling that could get access to a CT course CTE course um oops our next slide in the top half indicates the increase in opportunities that are afforded to our students for college and the bottom half indicates how well they are prepared with these opportunities to get to College as you see in the top half

these are our s students that took the SAT for um uh 20156 um these are the results thus far and we have um the schools there Ayala when Vista continuation school students are taking the sat at the continuation school which is you know commendable um Chino High School Chino Hills High School and then Don Lugo and as you see

it it it shows the 11th grade and the 12th graders that are taking SATs EAP or early Assessment program when our students were taking the ESC I mean the CST uh there was a opportunity for them to to take a series of answer a series of questions and those questions would indicate if they were prepared to not have to take a remedial College

English or Math course when they got to college um and with the new esbc we have the same opportunity but the students have to volunteer and they have to ask that these course these scores are sent to the colleges as you see on the last EAP ass ment 64% of our students as compared to 52% of the county as compared to 56% of the

state were either conditionally ready or actually ready for English when they got to college so we surpassed the state and the and and the county in math 34% of our students as compared to 29% of the state and 20 3% of the county were either conditionally ready or actually ready now what do conditionally ready means as long as they are in a

advanced level math class their senior year and they are taking ERWC or an advanced um English class in their 12th grade year they will be classified ready but it means when they were a junior they are only conditionally ready if they continue in that manner when they become seniors so that's why I put the two percentages together as long as and our counselors

are doing a very good job in making sure our students who are conditionally ready actually take advantage of being act ready by the end of this Senor Year by taking those courses that are have been identified for them to be uh successful so as you can see with this slide not only have we surpassed the county in the

state but we our students are very very uh prepared to be competitive in the college world for college admissions for college accept acceptance and to do well when they get into college I would like to bring our um next director Miss Mary Salo and she will go further in our presentation you can tell Don Jones was here and now I have to make it my

size the cap is our communication tool to the community it highlights our specific meaningful and purposeful actions to address the needs of all underperforming students including the groups of students that are historically academically Limited in their access to graduation and we are all about graduation that is our purpose as you have seen in goals one and two our team

is using data from multiple sources to determine how our district will respond to student needs and ensure the reduction of the achievement gap for all underperforming students this data can quickly allow us to intervene and provide highquality differentiated instruction and offer support to students and parents goal four has two components supporting learning and supporting families and our first area

is supporting our English Learners in elementary school we have ensured that elementary school has had sufficient PD for teachers to be instructors in the area of designated ELD and we have schedules that are changed according to student need multiple times per school year designated eeld is imperative to reclassification and we need our students to be reclassified they won't

graduate from high school in a timely manner if they are not reclassified in elementary school and there are many ser series of research on that fact we need our students to be proficient in English in elementary school we also provide an El Summer Academy while our secondaries have summer school for our students on a very regular basis under the direction of Dr

Carr we provide this extra Elementary summer school specifically for English Learners who are long-term English Learners or students who are new to the country and need those extra moments of time to look at academics and to look at English language development and acquisition as another underserved group our foster Youth and our homeless students are provided additional support

throughout the year they are provided supplemental services and we we assign a certain amount of money to that in our Al cap and we use it wisely and carefully and a student is not denied in this area and they are provided additional hours and if they have completed those hours and a parent comes to us and says my child needs additional

support we provide them with additional support and additional hours for about approximately $2,000 each time they ask um and it amounts to about four months worth of service as you have heard many times before the Abid program is a wonderful addition to our district it provides the support our students need to be successful in high in secondary school

and be prepared to take on the rigor of college it's a highquality program and it's provided at the secondary level as you can see 870 of our students had the opportunity to participate and with our de demograph the demographics we speak to tonight specifically the groups who are underperforming in our schools they need this elective in order to understand the

true system of Education when they just quite aren't getting it or just quite aren't there not developing the skills that they need to go on to the rigor of college so now we're going to talk about what we do for families but because the outc cap is more than just students and just um more than just what we do for

teachers it's about what we do for our families and for our families we have the wonderful hope program the resource center for 78 786 of our neediest families and 1550 of our homeless students those numbers are quite challenging but there isn't anything that's more important when you are engaging in a challenge in life than to have a kind and supportive

place to go and Our Hope Center does help but our families our neediest of families our health clinic has supported 469 patients who had maybe no other options for support in health care and we want our students to go to school and we want them to be healthy while they're there and we want their families to be

able to go confidently to a place that's going to give them the service they need to stay healthy we have our training young kids for early success program we had 78 parents partic participate and we applaud those parents for taking advantage of an opportunity to learn the skills they need to help their students be successful in school and finally we have provided

additional College nights 15 College nights with a specific purpose to engage our parents who speak a language other than English and families who may need financial support in college so it's not just a typical college night it's a college night that focus on focuses on supports for students whose um excuse me parents whose students are English Learners and for parents whose children

are Foster youth guardians of foster Youth and for parents of families that are homeless that financial support means yes I go or no I don't and so those College nights are very specific to that purpose I welcome back Dr Chen much better get to see faces um again what we wanted to do is to give all of all of you um information

and data around the actions and services that are currently found in our alap um our outc cap plan is really unique it it truly is I think we're a district that really cares about again the whole child many districts really focus on on the academics and oftentimes leave out the behavior needs of our students many times they leave out the health um

concerns of our students and again I applaud the the staff and the vision of the board because we're really focusing and emphasizing the whole child and making sure that we really identify the needs of the students their strengths and some of their weaknesses and really plan and strategize around how we intervene for students and the support services that we provide for them so

what we wanted to do was share the metrics that we're capturing um every year and we're going to continue to do that we're going to continue to measure how effective is it that we're uh providing these services for our students because one thing is to say these are the things that we're doing and another thing is to make sure that

what we're doing is working and that it's meaningful and that it's effective because we're um putting putting into place human resources and Financial Resources so we want to make sure that the actions and services that we're providing are truly effective for our kids um I think another important aspect of um the outc cap is understanding that the um the teachers the

administrators um the board everyone that works here in Chino Valley really believes in the unique potential of our students and it's pretty evident when you read the alcat plan I don't know it's probably not the most exciting reading uh if you read other districts Al caps but again when you do compare other districts to the work that we're

doing here in Chino Valley it really does stand out that we care about um the entire development of our students and that we're doing that from preschool all the way to adult school again many districts emphasize K8 sometimes they emphasize the secondary but as you can see we're really focusing on the needs of our preschool students all the way to

our adult ed programs and so um again it's it's something to be very proud of um so our next steps in our alcap development is we're now completing and uh the review of our annual report we're currently working on the development of the 167 school year El um lcap we've been having lots of conversations with our stakeholder groups we've talked to

teachers we've talked to students classified staff administrators cabinet pretty much everybody Under the Sun that is a part of the Chino Valley Community to get input and to make sure that what we're doing again is something that we believe in and something that we're all buying into so our next step is we're going to be having um or creating a

draft of the 161 17 school year lcap we're going to be having some conversations and getting some more suggestions and we're going to be bringing that draft to the board in May and we'll we'll be having a public hearing at that time so that um the public can look at the draft and um again have some input and suggestions

and then in June the board will be provided a final draft where hopefully you'll be okay with it and and give us an approval what that we can submit that 16117 ALC cap to the county and then it goes on to the state for final approval so that uh concludes today's presentation but if I want to open it up

to any questions that the board may have at this time Dr let me I wrote my notes Here There is no on page two of the presentation are these students duplicated so if they're included in the um Ela portion are they also included on um the bottom boxes by ethnicity so they're they're duplicated they are okay yes

and my question is on page four but using the page three data why did we only provide 7 hours of professional development for math but we provided 21 hours for literacy and history when based on the data of Page Three math is where we're significantly struggling um you know the percentages of not met are extremely high yet we

didn't Place enough professional development emphasis for our teachers and I think that in the upcoming lcap that's something I would like to see increased is the professional development in math because um we need to improve those those scores there and lastly oh on page six the early Assessment program back to the professional development for math 60 6% of our

students were not college level math ready that's extremely high and so the emphasis in our upcoming lcap must be increased professional development in in math um um now that my son I I want to touch on page seven regarding Avid now that my son is involved in Avid I've attended a couple of the field trips and I I'm Blown Away by the excitement of

the students when they visit a college campus and I really never I if I hadn't experienced I wouldn't understand you know the need for Avid and I can share that I ended up with a group of 15 boys and so I made sure that we entered into um the gym the basketball court and they stood on the court and they were just

amazed because Briggs doesn't have a gym so they had never seen a basketball or um basketball court inside a gym they were just lit up and we literally climbed the bleachers and we just sat there for about 20 minutes and they just watched as the college students shot the baskets and they cheered as though we were watching a basketball game but it

was just practice but it brought an awareness to me about the need to continue to support this program and the great work that our teachers are are doing in that aspect finally on the last page and I know that it wasn't part of the LC cap but I I do want to recognize Mr Joseph's efforts and he stepped in the back of the room

but in addition to the 15 College nights um at the high schools Mr Joseph out of his discretionary fund for the second year year has paid for over 200 of our students going to the college fair in Los Angeles which provides onsite scholarship Awards and uh we received a report last year about how many of our students applied and I think we had

three or four that were actually accepted on site and we haven't received that report for this year but I think we need to include it even though it's not on the elap it's something that is new to the district and something that is providing a great service to um our neediest students in the community so I just wanted to add that Kudos in there

for Mr Joseph thank you most unusual setting I know sorry um on page on page two and Page Three is it possible for us to get get the numbers of students because 5% of our foster youth I mean 24% of our foster youth might only be 20 kids and or I don't know I don't know how many it is but I know that our

uh economically disadvantaged and the disabilities groups are much larger so it's helpful to look at the the percentages but not as telling maybe as the total numbers um additionally on the students taking the SAT um I don't I don't really get how that is an indicator of our success we're paying for it we're offering it at school so they all are taking it so I

would like to see an indicator of our success being and of course this was the first year so we don't have all of those numbers but the scores that they receive would be much more telling to me than the numbers when we provide them money and the setting um and of course I'm thrilled about the Avid numbers no

[Applause] surprise yeah um I also like to make a comment uh it's great that we're going to have a great numbers and more numbers of gate students and that's great and we would have more teachers train for them um I'd like to see uh a growth a real growth and that's something that our County needs a great I think we're going

to have the best GATE program here and that's going to also attract our attendance from elsewhere so thank you for that um another concern and this is a concern from students uh when we touch the subject of math when I tell kids so what are you getting uh this semester what grades um most frustration had come from their

math classes and my dream would be that have a some type of resource center even after school before school where just kids can come in and just walk in I'm being served and helped by their peers or uh College Tutors uh things like that because there are parents that who could afford to send their students after school programs and

um pay hundreds of dollars but there are other students that who cannot do that and if we can find anywhere some funds from elcap I'd like to see that happening thank you you know for um goal four I want to commend you all you know when it comes to basic needs it's imperative that our that our students have have food shelter

protection stability and so I have to commend of the number of programs that we have so um that's Priority One you know and based based on the report you know the school district is doing excellent even better than the average State and County and and can you elaborate with you know I was noticing they not met for the

English language Learners 55 Ela Foster youth 49 the numbers are high but i f i I firmly believe that these numbers that compared to the state I think we're doing a great job so I'm glad that you that you brought that up Mr Cruz um yeah when you look at our numbers they're they're actually very good as far as the number of

students that are meeting or exceeding standards and again this is Baseline information this is the first time that we get the results back from the state and so we really don't have comparative data at this point but when we compare ourselves to the state and we compare ourselves to the county Chino Valley Unified School District students are

really doing well we're outperforming the majority of the schools or the school districts in the county and we're very um doing very well compared to the state as well so yes there is there are gaps and um they exist in our district but quite frankly they exist in every District at this point and they not just in our state but across the country and

so when we look at it it's not I think something where we need to beat ourselves up about but actually something to celebrate because when we compare ourselves again to other districts we are doing fairly well so um thank you for your um questions yeah and I noticed there's a lot of teachers here can you please stand up because the

truth is it's you guys that make the school district great and parents too and also thank you also Mr SAA you know you know hearing your presentation for the standard-based grading you know there are some things that caught my attention and that was that uh obviously next year will be the first time utilizing this so I I would

suspect there's going to be you have to smooth the edges that's my notion but but at the same time I'm going to I see this as an adventure as well and that is is the reason why I say Adventure is because you have a M and feedback that is definitely going to help the teachers to focus in the right direction and and

the big big element of this thing is um students feedback so now you know thinking myself as a teacher I will know what skills my students have mastered and what they have not mastered so that's going to actually help me to figure out what my students need so but in the long run we'll have to find out

how that's going to work because I could also see teachers getting bogged down because there'll be there'll be students mastering and then we'll have some students that are not so what does what what does a teacher do just go on or wait so but I find this better than the number because a number doesn't measure anything but mastering skills will you

will identify whether they know their subtraction or or their division so this is a good Evolution process that we're we're going towards so I I think all of us that whoever brainstormed this was a good idea and in the future I think are are your education is going to get much more efficient and I have a feeling that

our achievement standard standards going to increase and most a lot of our children are going to pass our classes so thank you sure the last okay it's not next presentation Mr I'm not quite sure which way I should face but I'll go for this way for now um good evening uh president Cruz board members Mr Joseph cabinet and members of the

community and audience um tonight Mr Mike creger and or Mr art Bennett from both from the city of city of Chino Hills and the Chino Valley fire board were supposed to be here to present the final report of the citizens oversight committee for measure M um neither of them have showed up so I will do my best

uh impersonation of them and present to you what we have for the final report um measure M was a uh General obligation bond that was passed March 5th 2002 was $50 million Bond and uh the bond funds were grown exponentially measurem itself was overseen by the citizens oversight committee and the bylaws of that committee state that the purpose of the

committee is set forth in Proposition 39 of the California Constitution is to inform the public at least annually by issuing a written report concerning the expenditure of bond proceeds for measure M which was approved by the voters um for the 20156 school year the committee was comprised of 12 members with Mike creger as chairperson Roman Nava as Vice

chairperson and Brian Joe's as secretary the remaining committee members for 20156 were art Bennett city of Chino Hills representative Brett Benson and V Virginia Curry both representing senior citizens in the community Glenn Duncan city of Chino Jacob Green from the city of Ontario Nick Yoma representing parents um as a guardian and member of a PTA and then we had Al ma Paul Rodriguez

and Kevin cesos as members at large as I previously mentioned the $150 million Bond itself was grown into a pot of over 337 million dollar by utilizing State construction funds and other local funds those funds were used to build five schools throughout the district chaperel Wickman roads Liberty elementary schools and this building that we're in tonight woodrest Junior

High School the remainder of the money touched every School site throughout the district we built additional classroom Wings we removed Portables to and and built those wings um athletic facilities science labs every School site was touched we still have needs to today um the citizens oversight committee did not visit any school sites this this particular school year but they had

other school years at the beginning of this school year we had approximately $5,000 left in measure M funds the remaining funds were spent on furniture replacement at glenme elementary school and also Al at uh Eagle Canyon Elementary School as of March 31st of this year our remaining measure and balance is zero and unless you have any questions

that is the remainder of the meam final report thank you thank you next T employee representative Todd um act actre sorry his name didn't break it good evening I'm Marty DWI a teacher DJ Marshall I'm filling in for Todd most of you know me uh he had a previous engagement tonight I've lived here 45 years I've worked 19

years the first time ever I've addressed you and it's by default but short and simple the teachers nurses and counselors of this District are working hard there's a lot going on evidently we're getting a new report card as you know we're in the middle of a long and tedious negotiation and we're getting frustrated please let's settle this contract before we go back to

Ground Zero we don't want to work the contract we don't want to give up extra unpaid duties we don't want to wear black or any other color let's keep the momentum going and settle this now thank thank you president CCA Denise Aero you have the same time limit Denise you well I'm going to be a little longer

tonight good evening all um tonight I have asked Maria Hernandez she's a bilingual instructional Aid at Chael she attended the par educator conference and I want invited her to come and share her experience okay Maria introduce yourself hello thank you for inviting me my name is Maria Hernandez and I'm a bilingual instructional AA shoper roal Elementary best school in the

district I would like to thank you for the opportunity given to me to attend the California School Employees Association ex sponsor par educator conference on Tuesday April 12th through Thursday April 14th at Ontario Convention Center there were 1300 Prof par profession attending the conference and I learned so much the conference was very informative and educational at the opening session they

explained the implications of for par Educators or instructional AIDS and the federal law Isa every every student succeed act which replaces the No Child Left Behind then I went on to attend different workshops one of them was the ELD in the new framework it emphasized the importance of insurance that our students are provided both designated and integrated

ELD and my role as a par educator in supporting the teachers instruction for a students another Workshop I enjoyed very much was the winkman as a par educator we are the wingman of teachers in the classrooms pilot Pilots cannot fly solo they always fly within a team teachers and para educators are a team teachers need us in the classrooms to

support the instructions the union of a teacher plus an instructional Aid or a part educator equals a Student Success there were many other workshops at attendant but it it would take a long time to explain them all but one thing that was very clear to me after this conference is that para educators are the backbone of education and we need to

be trained the logo on our paper pads said it all para educators are in for the outcome not for the income and I just wanted to thank you a big thank you for uh allowing me the opportunity to attend the conference and be trained thanks thank you Maria um it was really nice to have her input uh I had other input as

well um again I am asking the district that we're going to be if we could be able to send more uh this is so important and I would love to see administrators attend it too because it's not a training that we we have here at our district we have special ed trainings for our instructional AIDS it's for hours one

day really you're not going to get the training that this parent educator got for three days extensive training and I would again even ask administrators to attend this training so but I want to thank you again Mr Joseph as well as Dr Chin for for allowing at least give us the opportunity to send for so thank you

again uh secondly I'd like to recognize one of our bus drivers and I just recently found this out um Lorraine Munoz on February 5th she was in her bus and two other buses took Don Lugo seniors to their Retreat Lorraine's engine caught on fire uh she immediately evacuated the students as she evacuated she grabbed the fire extinguisher put the fire out

by herself before the fire apartment showed up there is more to a bus driver than just driving a bus um a big thank you goes out to her for a quick and calm response all students were safely evacuated and they were secure I am still advocating for my extra help at Cal Arrow I told you I would say this every board meeting sorry

about that um we need the extra help there um I'm asking the board in the district to do the right thing and since Todd was not here and we always hear a a quote I'm going to have a quote tonight from Neil Young keep on rocking in the real world thank I'm not a vet Mr Cruz president Cruz board member

uh Mr Joseph cabinet family and friends uh this morning at 6:30 a.m. I got an email from Evette farling she said would you uh present tonight at the board meeting and I email and I emailed her back and said why me and she emailed me back and said because you got an award last Monday night at the awards banquet

thank you thank you so I promptly emailed her back and said yeah but so did you and plus you're much cuter than me and she emailed me back and said but you're much older than me so here I am but you know Monday night was great and it was fabulous time to honor our administrators and I just want

to thank all of you board members and cabinet staff who all came to honor uh not just me but Ryan candelera and IET Farley as co-admin Elementary co-administrator and Elementary admin administrator these are the best administrators in the county of San berino so just big Applause to you guys and it's amazing when you stand up in front of 300 plus people what goes

through your mind and I'm thinking the whole time how lucky I am to serve in Chino Valley and I thought Mr Joseph for 15 years I've had a bucket list goal to get you on the stage we did it we did it he would never let us nominate him for superintendent of the year would never let us nominate him for any

position but you know when I realized uh last week when Ted Alejandra said at a PTA meeting there are 30,000 students in sanon County who are homeless and I said wow what is Our Hope organization doing really that is an outstanding organization and thank you Mr Joseph for doing that for us while my mind is spinning I'm thinking

Dr Enfield thank you for listening to the principles listening to us when you know that old video we used to watch about all the plates going and trying to keep them all spinning and we're all going how in the world are we going to do all of these things and you listen to us so thank you thank you Dr INF Phil

and I looked at Dr Park and I said thank you for doing the aspiring administrators so thank you for bringing people from within the ranks through our schools and then I looked at Sylvia who served her time last week at our Rotary meeting as a judge for the four-way test so thank you Sylvia for taking your time I just want to say thank you thank

you for all of the opportunities that you all give us that you've given us and the leadership you've given us so thank you thank you the boss just told me if you're a champ member and you have a senior in high school May 19th is the deadline for the scholarship applications okay okay we're now at comments from the

audience on items not on the agenda P are there any requests to speak Pat the following changes on the agenda item 2d1 student expulsion case 151 16-27 amend conditions to include drug and alcohol awareness counseling okay board members do we have any polls Miss Blair I do I have one 2 B4 page 19 page 19 Miss Fikes I have one 2 E1 page

31 Mr N I have none Miss Miss Orosco none I have 2 B3 page um I think it's page 21 okay okay for the remainder of the consent items May I have a motion to move moved Mr NW second Miss Blair all in favor I I opposed motion passes 5 item 2 B4 may I have a motion so move

Mr n second Miss Blair comments questions or discussion 2 B4 is temporary borrowing between funds of the school district but it doesn't indicate what these funds are and I know we've done this before and I've expressed my concern because I'm not comfortable just issuing a blank check to borrow from this to the other so it it's I know that this is something that

occurs frequently I'm just not comfortable knowing how much money how the cash flow is going um so I just wanted to state that I will be voting no for for that reason because there isn't enough information here for me to make an educated decision in approving moving borrowing between funds of the school district that was all Heen um hearing nothing further no I

think Mr na hit is like Oh Mr no a question uh pertain to uh this matter what's the practice on other school districts this is a routine item that every District uh needs to take to its board um at this time of the year so that it's set up in case there is a mismatch um between revenues projected

and expenses for any programs in the district um if you recall a few years ago when the state um is under the fiscal crisis it used to be that the general fund may have a cash shortage because the state kept deferring its um Appropriations to school district however um that is no longer the case this is set up on an as needed basis we

may not even need to use it however if we don't set it up and there is any that's incurred in the coming year we would have no way of borrowing cash and I can tell you you that this past year um when there was a need to do that to do the borrowing between funds it has been um the Child Development Fund

needing to borrow cash from our general fund because Child Development Fund grants um that come from the state um is typically um not matched up with our payment schedules so we have teachers that are funded out the Child Development funds where salaries are um must be paid on a timely basis but their grants from the state hasn't yet arrived

in our bank yet and as such there is a temporary borrowing out of general fund to make sure that salaries aren't uninterrupted and those amounts are typically under $20,000 thank you hearing nothing further all in favor I I opposed I motion passes by vote of 41 item 2 E1 page 31 I have a motion so move Mr n second Miss

Blair comments questions and discussion I don't know this is my item but I don't know if I am on your wavelength there to be called on Mr Cruz pardon me did I light up no okay well you're lit up I'm lit up yeah um my question is about um towards the bottom where it says approved contracts to be amended

the amended contract for speech therapy is being moved from $400,000 for the Year to $571,000 one $571,000 which seems like a large amount um it's almost a 50% uh in increase to be made at this particular time of the year um and I did ask that question and I appreciate the answer that I I did receive from you an

but but in your in your answer to me or in her answer to me Dr Chen um she indicated that for the number of students that we have in speech um we have seven full-time slps and three part-time and that we prob needed 29 so so I'm just concerned about why the numbers don't match up better and

why we have probably a miscalculation if every year we start with a smaller number and we grow in speech we should be able to have some kind of expectation for what we're going to have to eventually hire and um so my question I guess is you know is has somebody done the work to look at um our numbers in September our numbers

in April um and what kind of Staffing we really need I understand that it's difficult to get slps in a school district but I also as a board member am very interested in the cost differential between an employed SLP and a contracted SLP oh there we go I'm pressing okay to answer your question about the study about whether we're looking at the

staffing needs at the beginning of the year middle of the year and end of the year we actually are working on that process right now um I've been working with special ed and all the Departments around that um specific question one of the things that makes it really difficult in special education is that as students are identified at the

beginning of the year we we already know who they are if they're they're going to continue with us the following school year it's a given that they're going to need that service what makes it complex is that many students come into the district um that we didn't anticipate to have who may have an IEP with um a need

for for speech in addition to that as the year progresses students are identified as needing an assessment and sometimes they do qualify for speech and language and then they need to be added to the case load so throughout the year we're identifying students and then we're also getting new students throughout the year so it makes it really difficult to pinpoint exactly the

numbers I understand your concern about the discrepancy and and we should be doing a better job of P trying to pinpoint that and we are currently doing that as far as looking at um the number of of students that we have and the number of of staff that we'll need I think the other thing that makes it

difficult and it's something that you brought up is how we recruit and how we retain our speech and language Pathologists our therapists um we're having a difficulty um recruiting a lot of our uh speech and language therapists for a lot of different reasons and um I'm going to ask Anna if you want to add any more to um Miss VI's questions good

evening um I think our biggest challenge is that there's just not enough slps out there so when we um Fly our positions on Ed join we we go to our Career Fairs um we in fact have been at the Casher conference which is the California Association for speech pathologist and we are not getting anyone um in fact

most of the district are struggling just like we are um a lot of our newly graduating pce they tend to go into clinical service because they have to have a certain amount of time within that field in order to get certain credentials within their s um positions um so that's one of the challenges we have but I think it's important for for

me to let you know also we do staff on a monthly basis so as a district in all areas of special ad Not Just For Speech but for OT for RSP services for AP Services it's a monthly process that we have in place um because the numbers do fluctuate that much if we were to staff at the

beginning of the year we would be paying a lot of staff that wouldn't have a case load until that case load increases so it's really looking at that staff uh the cost of what we're doing as well as making sure we serve all students and I think Dr Chen you you you addressed that um I I guess the the sticking point for

me is $150,000 shortfall that we didn't expect and I just think that as we're looking at numbers over time not just this year's numbers but last year's numbers and the year before that we should have a a better handle on that and I I appreciate the work that you're doing um but I do continue to have concerns um can I add another thing

because in fact we're looking at budgets today for new contracts for next year and so what happens throughout the year is we are working with several a agencies so the one contract that's up today it's just one of several and in looking at what we have spent with the different agencies it depends on the staff they can provide and so what they

make a promise to us at the beginning of the year we project the budget but we have agencies right now that couldn't provide the the staff they had said they could so we actually are are moving money around in special ad for that purpose and if I remember correctly we have about $400,000 that are going to going to be moved out of budgets CU

certain agencies were not able to provide the staff so we have that agency that could and and did provide an SLP aid for us so we again had to add money to that particular agencies whereas other agencies we didn't use the whole budget so that's part of the challenge as well are the people that we are getting

from these outside agencies able to fulfill all aspects of the job are they able to do the IEPs and the um testing that is necessary so the agency they're not par par professionals right so the cas those are managed by highly qualified individuals and the agencies that we contract with have to be a non-public agency so it meaning

they have gone through rigorous screenings by the state and they are monitored by the state so we we are not cutting any Corners in in in in this area at all thank you sure hearing nothing further all in favor I I oppose motion passes by vote of 50 item 2 B3 page 17 may I have a motion

some moved Miss Blair Mr n comments question discussion I just want to say um page page 17 that um uh that um next come West Coast Distribution Center household and school supplies donated 9,400 to the Hope Center so that that was very um nice of them so just wanted to share that um all in favor I I motion U opposed motion

passes by vote of 5 we're now information items are there any questions or comments we're now at board members and superintendent communication board members please remember that in accordance with parliamentary procedures no members shall interrupt the meeting by speaking out of turn to rebut comments of other members as this portion of the agenda is not intended for debate or discussion Miss

funny I want to um recognize students from Ayala High School uh they will be receiving a second place award mind you the first place award is uh being issued to San Francisco State University students so the fact that Ayala High School students are being recognized IED in second place right behind them is in a a very significant achievement they

are receiving the second place award for their trilingual film through our eyes the film is uh was received the award in the mental health matters category members um that participated in the film are Ashley Chung Nellie hijazi Melanie pack and Nick Hill Vio They will receive their award on May 20th along with their adviser Kevin Russell this achievement is extremely

commendable congratulations to these amazing students also at yala high school starting yet uh beginning yesterday The Adams Family musical comedy runs through April uh 30th most of their shows are at 7:08 p.m. with a special mattina on April 30th at 2:8 p.m. let's support the Arts I attended the association of California school administrators Awards dinner which was mentioned earlier today

and I want to acknowledge that um Our Hope program was recognized with a partners in excellence award and Liz Lara who oversees the program shared that recently families had were assisted through our hope program whose homes had burned down and she said they were able to come and get clothing in addition to that detergent and other uh toiletries

you know that they would need as they stayed in a hotel while they were displaced so again I advocate for donations to the whole program of clothing toiletries uh feminine products anything that you would think of as a household necessity they are in um need of replacing because they assisted the families I also want to recognize the administrators who

received the awards that night for their Forward Thinking and providing a quality education to all of our students I want to um I I was excited before the meeting that Mr Joseph shared the stepping up for boys program that the Chino rotary is putting together and this is similar to what has been offered to our sixth grade girls as

they enter into junior high school and I remember attending the 2015 stepping up for girls and during my speech I said you know how great would this be if we could offer it to boys because at that time my son was in sixth grade so I was hoping that there would be something it's a little too late for him now he

missed it by a year but I'm excited that on April 30th there will be a stepping up for boys to help transition our sixth graders into junior high school so I really want to thank the Chino rotary and um the Soroptimist club for listening to what I had to say and really taking it to heart and doing

something about it so that's really exciting and it's progress for our boys our sixth graders I want to close by wishing my daughter a happy 27th birthday today is her birthday and my husband an early birthday on Monday I love my two Tauruses and uh at sometimes they could be very challenging but uh I love them to death and with that thank you all for

staying and have a wonderful night Mr no yes thank you uh we had a presentation on capturing kids heart and that was an excellent uh presentation um but I have a real story to tell at Chino Hills High School a male teacher on a breezy cool day seeing this uh student with his shorts right before PE class offered uh a

jacket to wear and he said really your jacket and he said yes and it happened to be a brand new jacket as well and that story been told by him and his peers and he had earned so much of respect on that campus and what happened was the kids would stay till midnight to do homework preparing exam on in his class

because they wanted to impress him what an awesome story with teachers like that you know people talk about negotiations and all these I I like to give my jacket for all the teachers because our teachers really deserve the best because they have heart for our children now for last eight years this has happened to me for the first time a

student again in Chino Hills High School asked me right before the lunchtime he said Mr n are you going to have a lunch on this campus I said maybe maybe not cuz I have other schedules but I was held up and I was talking to other students and lunchtime was almost over and I was still on that

campus and then he approached me again you still here I said yes but I got to leave he said I want to get you something I said what no no that's okay but then about 10 minutes later as I was walking out on the campus he brought me a lunch a sandwich and a drink I was amazed and I had to eat it while I was

driving but um thank you I I can't remember his name I believe he's a senior so thank you for the awesome teachers that we have but awesome student that who cares for other person I think that's the strength of our school district um Don Lugo uh theater students had a play called You're a Good Man Charlie Brown and there was a very important

part that I have learned for the first time again your age don't matter in learning where they have said to be successful all you need is two things in your mind teamwork and a positive spirit it really touched me because I see our students I see our adults parents I see our cabinet members and and superintendent and our site

administrators and we have secretaries and security guards if we have a this mindset a teamwork and a positive spirit I think we could do everything whether it's they said it's possible I think can get done and I think we're doing a great job so I'd like to thank all the employees and our parents here because we have the same

mindset and again at Don Lugo High School we had a remembering Veterans Day where all the veterans were invited and they were able to interview by our students and there was a heartwarming because as you get older as as you get older you understand that this life is not for forever and many of veterans were very emotional because some of their friends

were no longer here but they also had the pride their reward were this young youth that they could speak to and and give the guidance of life so I'd like to thank all the veterans who had given their life a part of their life or maybe all of their life to serve this country thank you at bu Vista continuation High School

I was amazed again about our principal Rigo Vasquez as we were talking he would know the schedules of each students on the campus I I totally believe that he would call on soo's name came hey I thought you were on that side of campus and you should be in room such such hey you shouldn't be walking with

your friend there cuz you don't have the same classroom I said wow I think this is what makes such a great campus on that um location um your attention the kids as I have said in the past are fighting personal battles and it got to do with many are especially on those campuses I see the drugs that that was the foremost second

it's attention attention from adults whether it's your own parents whether it's your classroom teachers or your secretaries secur security guards or Prin principles if you give them attention they'll be like a tree it's like tree being fed and tree well grow so thank you for your service and I'm glad that um Donnie shenko our security guard had a little letter accident but

he's fine and he's back to work so I'd like to thank him for being returning to uh to the post again thank you have a good night thank you Miss Fikes I have no comments this evening thank you Miss Orosco okay well let me start off with the retirements acknowledging the retirements for this evening's agenda um Miss Deborah esos who is a teacher at

anab borba of 27 years and she actually happened to be my oldest son's kindergarten teacher so um seen her around for a long time um nicoa fton 27 years elementary teacher at Oakridge Deanna melan 24 years at Wickman Judith murve 19 years at uh towns and Junior High School then we have Stella Rosas 26 years of service typus typus clerk 2 at

Ramona Junior High Joyce bazaro 26 years of service counseling assistant at Townsen and Karen horou 20 years of service at nutritional services at Ayala High School to all the individuals who are retiring thank you and good luck in your retirement and hopefully somewhere down the road we're going to do it nice a nice retirement acknowledgement I'm still pushing for

that um Mrs Fikes I'm surprised you didn't talk about the AVID program that was in tonight's agenda so I just want to acknowledge there there was an item in the in the agenda and it's for the AVID program at the elementary level so that's really nice to see one thing I'd like to as I think Miss Blair has alluded to about

Anonymous letters um you know we we get these Anonymous letters and sometimes they have some information that we would like to look into but unless you have a name or a contact information there's no way of us to follow up so if if you want it to have any bearing please include some type of contact information so that

in the event that we need clarifi clarification that we can contact you you don't have to put a name to it just a a contact email I mean sometimes you can make an email and and not have the your real name to it so um just an FYI it's not that we're ignoring the letters it's just that we

need further clarification clarification on some of the things that are being shared with us um as Mr fedt alluded to earlier I did I was um able to judge the four-way test for rotary and um a young lady from Chino Hills High School was one of the finalists and she did extremely well she came in second but she did extremely

well but one thing that I want to point out is there are so many opportunities for our students to earn scholar scholarships and earn more money as they move on to the next level um we need more students from our district and so I don't know how if we need to just get the word out to the principes but we

need to get our students out there I also attended the uh dinner for the celebration for our administrators very nice event um I think that our staff is going to have to have some type of pom poms or something because all the other groups had some type of right some type of pom poms or face although Mrs

Farley we did have her face on there so it was a really neat event um also in regards to the Hope Center I know that um Liz Laura also indicated that they're also in need of K through six grade items and that's where their need is really um this right now at this point uh the Don Lugo seventh annual we

remember where veterans are invited to share with students was again another success I recall when it first started in the library my middle son was actually involved with that particular program when it first started and it has now grown to the multi-purpose room and I believe they had 8390 veterans come and share with the students the students get a lot out of

those conversations and so um thank you to Mr Pope and Miss ragdale who put that together along with a slew of people who are at Lugo and who have contributed so thank you to them also the band sounded great um Roop celebrating Student Success is actually having a award ceremony this evening and it was this evening because a local

assemblyman was uh being the guest speaker this evening so but I did want to highlight that at that event we have several of our students being recognized from yala and I'm not going to do all the names because there are several at ribbon and siala high school we've got 10 students who are being recognized boy Republic high school we have one student

buav Vista High School we have two students Chino high school we have six students Chino Hills High School we have 10 students and from Don luga we have 10 students who are being recognized as the celebrating Student Success award recipients and so kudos to all of them and with that I will conclude my comments thank you thank you

superintendent Joseph well yet again our award-winning music students have put the nation's Spotlight on Chino Valley Unified School District a percussion team from ayalah high vested 14 other high schools from Across the Nation to be named the 2016 WGI percussion Scholastic world champions on April 16th in Dayton Ohio Chino Hills High percuss percussion team took second overall in the same division

and if that wasn't good enough news Ayala Scholastic concert world team came in first overall in this division at the WGI championships against four other top high school percussion teams Chino Hills High School senior naum Dam Noah chuku was surprised in his psychology class on April 13th when he was presented a $40,000 college scholarship from Southern California

Edison he is one of 30 High School seniors to be named a 2016 Edison scholar out of the more than 900 students who applied naum who has a 4.15 grade point average takes honors and advanced placement courses is a band member and is involved in many clubs and his church he plans to attend Cornell University and major in biomed engineering followed

by Medical School the son of Nigerian immigrants naum would like to use his education to help Nigeria Prosper through medical and technological breakthroughs congratulations to Townsen Junior High 8ighth grader nishta mystery and Liberty Elementary sixth grader Philip ramsdale who have advanced to the California state science fair to be held May 23rd and 24th in Los Angeles the two

students qualified for state competition at the 34th annual Inland science and engineering fa Fair held earlier this month in San berino four other Chino Valley Unified School District students also received gold medals in San berino they are fourth graders mcka Bailey and Kyra Fay changfang of Wickman Elementary fifth grader Audrey na of Rolling Ridge Elementary and fourth grader madelin

pong of chapparel Elementary an odyssey of the Mind team from rhs elementary school in Chino has won the opportunity to advance to the creative challenge competitions 2016 World Finals to be held May 25th to 28th at Iowa State University team members all fifth graders at roads are vicam senkumar vishu serum William sahagan soan B bondada Jerry Brown Jaden

Churchill and Analise Miller and last but not least let me be the first to say happy school bus driver appre Appreciation Day to all our school bus drivers the state of California declared April 26th the 4th Tuesday in April of every year as school bus driver Appreciation Day some facts that perhaps you did not know about our school

transportation program on average Chino Valley Unified School District drivers safely transport a whopping 575,000 students over 700,000 miles annually the yellow school bus is without a doubt the single safest mode of student transportation to and from school and school activities according to the national Safety Council school buses are 170 times 72 times safer than the family car eight times safer than passenger

trains eight times safer than scheduled Airlines and four times safer safer than inter city transit buses I will step off the bus now and conclude my comments thank you I attended Don lugo's 7th annual we remember event where veterans brought history to life through sharing firsthand accounts of their military experiences it was a wonderful opportunity for our students to connect

with the past and recognize the importance of sacrifice and service for others it was truly touching to see the connection between the veterans and students congratulations to the Chino High chapter National Honor Society this this is another example of our students putting into action the core beliefs of service to others I'm always encouraged by clubs that help prepare our students

for leadership and success in adulthood I attended the celebratory event earlier in the month I have to give a shout out to Debbie Williams and her students for preparing the some of the most gorgeous and tasteful desserts I also had the pleasure of seeing more Talent from Don Lugo theater Department students they gave a marvelous entertainment performance of

your good man Charlie Brown cotos to the musical director Amanda Herrera and the crew and cast for making the cartoon come to life this last Monday I attended ASCA region 12 administrator of the Year Awards where three of our own were recognized for exemplifying the qualities of stalard leadership congratulations to vet Farley rod fedish and Brian kadari thank you for putting students

first I am one of my favorite recognitions of the night was for our very own Resource Center our family friend centers has indeed proved to give hope to the many students and families in our community that otherwise may not have had anywhere else to go for assistance thank you Mr Joseph for giving our staff a place to continue the

spirit of service to