Board of Education — March 1, 2018
now reconvene the regular meeting of the Board of Education at 7 p.m. with Blair Cruz na Roscoe and Fikes present before we begin please silence all electronic devices and note that these proceedings are being recorded Pat the Board met in closed session from 5:30 to 6:50 p.m. regarding conference with legal counsel existing and anticipated litigation public employee discipline dismissal
release in conference with labor negotiators agency designated representatives Sylvia Orosco and James na unrepresented employees new superintendent dr. norm and field the board voted to accept the resignation agreement and general general release between the district and certificated employee number seven six two six effective March 9th 2018 by the following vote crews Blair na Orosco and Fikes voting YES and voted to approve a
settlement agreement in Cal 200 B Apple Valley Unified School District at out a lawsuit that named the district among others many others regarding physical education instruction in grades one through six a copy of the agreement is available upon request but the following book crews bear na Orosco and Mike's voting YES and pursuant to education code four four nine five one authorized
superintendent or his designee to release a certificated management employee identified by number two five one one two effective June 30th 2018 by the following boat crews Blair na Orosco bikes voting yes no further action was taken that requires public disclosure thank you leaving the Pledge of Allegiance tonight is Glen Mead elementary school student Sophia Armenta please join us in saying the Pledge of
Allegiance put your right hand over your heart ready 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 good evening president bikes and board members superintending mr. Joseph in cabinet I have the honor of presenting Glen Mead students this
evening before you start could you introduce yourself no I was going to keep myself a secret that we are happy to have this Sunderland the principal at Glen meat Elementary School who recently celebrated their 50th anniversary and she has students here to read their essays yes thank you last week and we did a school-wide essay contest for our
upper grade students and I brought with me the winner and our two runner ups who did a fabulous job you're not going to get the full essay but you're gonna get kind of a condensed version so I'll let them introduce themselves hello my name is Jacob Garcia I am a Glen Mead student who is in sixth grade so why is Glen be
special to me I'll tell you that Glen read especially me because of the education family generations and exciting programs first Glen metres a school where ultra teen could set goals for themselves and be sure to learn the teacher will stop at no cost to make sure every child learns next Glen meal has been the choice of some families for
many generations we have teachers that attended Glen Mead and periods of students who ever attended Glen meet as well they choose Glen meet because they know it's a great school finally the exciting programs make Glen weed fun this year we'll be holding our 23rd annual talent show it's a great opportunity for students to showcase the talent to all the role
other road runners these are only a few reasons why Glen Mead especially me hi my name is Sophie Araminta I'm in sixth grade and I attend Glen meat elementary school Glen meat is special Glen Vita stood out to me for many reasons those reasons include the student council great staff members and the various programs available with students the student council helps
develop leadership squall ities and students the student council plans activities and help students feel welcomed at school they find fun ways to raise money for charities like our Jump Rope for Heart event students jump rope to raise money to support kids with heart disease the staff members work very hard to teach us to make sure we see we received a good education the
office staff does a great job and is always very caring for the students the PTA raises money for field trips and fun events for us to enjoy finally the program is available to students make Glen meat fun Christian release is one of the programs that comes to mind that I enjoy I'm going to miss Glen Rita as I move on
to junior high for the last seven years Glendening has been special to me because of the leadership programs great staff members and all the student programs my name is George Lopez I am in sixth grade and I also attend Glen meat Elementary why grande meat is so special I have been attending Glen meat since 1st grade and it feels more like a
second home than a school I love knowing that grandma has been making kids feel the same way I do for 50 years the things that make Glen meat so special to me are the caring staff the the caring staff the the great friends and the fun events every day the staff shows through their actions and words how much they
care for their students one example was when I was diagnosed with a brain tumor and had to miss a lot of school the staff helped my family and I with the transition back it back to school and catch with all the work I had missed while I was gone they were so gentle and kind it made me feel as though they were truly
my family I don't know what classes 6th graders in the past took but I have PE computers math language arts social studies and most importantly time with friends I enjoy playing football basketball and soccer I would tell the future sixth graders to do their best work be nice to the teachers be friendly with everyone and that Elementary School
goes by really fast in addition to the great staff good friends Glenny is fun we do a lot of great activities like field trips assemblies campus events and service projects that bring us all together my favorite things are bingo night art night our auction and band even bad events I also I love bingo night and over the years I have won a
total of four baskets and I have never gotten home empty-handed at the art auction event students artwork is auctioned off to keep the art academy classes going I always look forward to the banjo cases because band students get to show off all their hard work and play the best worst it is a fun time to have I know there are many elementary
schools in chino hills' but i feel fortunate that my family chose to send me to glen me even though it does not look like my house then it feels like home and i always feel welcome mr. na Wow George I was thinking about you all week since we met at the university I like to propose of changing
our school name to a Glen meat Family School that's what I felt when I went all mice I haven't heard so much of praises about teachers from students from any schools combined you could say hundred schools but I think this is what it takes to to bring out our future whoever you are where you're healthy and not so healthy but everybody's therefore
together and the parents you guys really have felt it and and that's the pride that that I want to have it in my heart for rest of my life because of what you guys have done so thank you so much for stepping up being a good strength students but also knowing and understanding the appreciation of our situations here today many of us do not
take things with gratitude and we always ask for things but you guys have really stepped up and and felt the true love from our teachers and our staffs there and I'm sure that you'll become like them when you grow up so I'd like to thank everybody here especially can I have the parents stand up I think we
have a good gene pool here thank you thank you the true education starts at home that's what I believe and and I I'm just grateful that we have wonderful teachers who really care for your children I'm being a second parent but with our support like this how could kids fail that there's no way and I see the product so thank you and have a
great night thank you mrs. Orosco well I had the opportunity to attend the anniversary and was wonderful but you know I am really glad that I got to hear the other stories or the other essays because they are one they're all wonderful all three of them were great and it really does give us an opportunity to feel what you're feeling
just by what you've written so great job and lastly I would like to add I was an English teacher and a speech teacher you guys are ready for junior high those were really well-written well organized but then as a speech teacher I have to say I was pretty impressed with how you delivered those speeches because when you write an essay that's a lot
different than having to read it out loud and you all had we're making such a great effort to have eye contact and gestures and that really makes your your writing come alive so I hope I know you're going to have a great experience in junior high I hope you find a sanctuary for yourself that's just as warm and welcoming as you have found it
Glen me oh and George Lopez in 50 years you're gonna become superintendent [Laughter] I remember [Applause] did the parents want to take pictures welcome to do that so it's not out of their Hut growing up well that's a great beginning for our board meeting dr. Park would you like to introduce the next elk at presentation where she Madam President members of the
board superintendent Joseph cabinet and community we have our fourth part to our annual update on our local control accountability plan our report this evening will be on school climate gleaning from the results of the recently administered California Healthy Kids survey along with a local survey that was as ministered to our students the California Healthy Kids survey is a
state-approved survey and it allows school districts to gauge the quality of our schools it's tied to state priorities 6 which is school climate for the purposes of El Cap school climate as the state has defined it refers to students connectedness with school and school safety it's also one measure that we use to gauge our progress with El Cap
goal to engagement I'd like to introduce dr. Shari Johnson who is our director of health services and she will be reviewing the healthy kids survey and along with that she's going to be adding to that information by reviewing the results of our locally administered survey and sharing with you very briefly our actions and services that are in place
to support school climate superintendent board and cabinet okay so we're going to delve into the healthy kids survey the healthy kids survey was developed by CDE to provide data to assist schools of assessing student needs and as dr. Park mentioned school climate just to give you a little bit of background those that participated were grades 5 7 9 and
11 this is the first year we've asked grades 5 to participate grade for the students and grade spot grade 5 it is an active consent so parents give permission in writing for the students to take part in the survey for the remaining grades it's a passive consent but it's voluntary it's it's confidential and it's it's anonymous so
there's no way to know who or what students said what in the survey it provides information regarding student perception regarding a safe and supportive school climate and it also it really is a measure of the students perception regarding their their social-emotional development as well as their needs their competencies as well as their engagement and learning so additionally it also gives us as staff
parents students themselves and the community to really look at the meaning behind the results and then from that look at actions and services that we can move forward with which is what we'll begin to do with the data ok so a little bit about the demographics in terms of grade 7 911 and non traditional and non-traditional refers to Bonavista and
to CDL a we had we had six thousand six hundred forty-five students that participated and that represents 80 four percent of the students in grade five we had 1388 students and that represents sixty-six percent of the fifth grade students and as you can see there's the breakdown for the male and the females that participate in terms of
the survey itself it requires a response rate of 70% for it to be considered valid or representative of the student population so the fifth grade class if you take if you took known it's 66 percent of the students respond it's pretty close to 70% so we felt that it would be helpful to include that data but as we go through the data keep in
mind that it's not fully at that seventy percent so we'll want to be somewhat careful in how we interpret that data but we certainly had more than enough students participate at the other grade levels for it to be a valid valid survey so most of the questions on the healthy kids survey are based on a Likert scale
you know they range from strongly agree to strongly disagree as one measure and then the other is based on zero times two four or more times so for our interpretation of the data for tonight's presentation it was based on a strongly agreed to agree so we looked at the data within those categories as well as zero times or never and you'll see that as we
go through some of the slides so our first indicator a key indicator is the mental and physical health of our students remember this is their perception it is their mental as well as physical well-being and looking at the data you can see that for grades 7 9 and 11 there really is a high percentage of students who have never used alcohol
cigarettes vaping or marijuana but of note we can see that four point five percent of seven nine eleven 11th grade students reported the use of drugs three or more days so that other is it wasn't an ever I just thought it was an important piece for you for you to see so just keep that in mind so as you look
over at the non-traditional we'll talk about that for a little bit remember those includes the students at Buena Vista and at CBL a and we know that students that there are some students that just it's not a good fit for them at a high school and for various reasons you know the choices to move to Buena Vista and in some cases in
to CBL a and dr. Park and I actually had an opportunity to meet with some students in the non-traditional setting as part of the student engagement piece of El Cap and it was actually I think one of the most wonderful experiences that I've had because the connectedness that they feel to to Buena Vista is it's just absolutely amazing they had nothing
but praise they feel comfortable there so really the the disconnect for them is is really that experience that they had at a traditional large setting so keep that in mind as we go through the data as we look at grades 7 9 and 11 versus non-traditional it was interesting to note never use smokeless tobacco 99% so a great statistic the other area that I
wanted to present to you is cyber bullying so 75% of students indicated that they have not experienced any cyber bullying for the 7 9 and 11 versus a traditional 78 so it's pretty even there most of our 7 9 and 11 students are eating breakfast in the morning 62 percent of them versus 44 for the non-traditional so as we're looking at
data remember we're we're looking at at it from the perspective of what possible action can we take and then what services potentially may we put in place to to address that so when you look at 44 percent of our TV la buena vista kiddos not eating breakfast in the morning that's a possible action right the next section that I wanted to talk
about is the chronic sadness in the past 12 months while that's a relatively low percentage of 29% of 7 9 and 11 that had predicted that it reported that they felt sad there's 44% of students and the non-traditional lid has reported sadness within the last 12 months so that's a fairly significant number of students that are reporting concerns and from a
mental health perspective and the supports and services that were putting in place that would definitely be something that we would want to look at and we are looking at certainly through our our k-8 programs with our Mt SSB and as we're moving into high school and and also hoping to tap into the non-traditional programs with our support services that would be an area
that we would want to look at the mental and physical help for fifth graped you can see that 84% report that they've not used any alcohol inhalants or marijuana a hundred percent haven't smoked a whole cigarette that's really great um 86% of our kids are eating breakfast and 70% are indicating that they've not been teased about body or body image this
next is orell cap metric of school safety we looked at the California Healthy Kids survey and I'll talk in a little bit about the school quality survey so the results of the healthy kids survey show that for 7 9 and 11 64 64 percent of the students indicate feeling safe at school and 54 percent of our students reported feeling safe at in
our non-traditional settings I also just to give you an idea of some other areas that I looked at these were just general questions these were questions that were asked that feel safe at school was one question and the other questions were individual questions as well not necessarily necessarily part of a group of questions so you can see in terms of
mean rumors and being made fun of and not being called names or not being pushed slapped or kicked so you can see that in the 60s and 70% in terms of the reporting on that particular on those particular questions for fifth grade and one question of feel safe at school 80% of our fifth graders reported feeling safe at school
57th said they've never been hit 55 never had rumors spread or 53% never had names called I was pleased to see this next the results of this next question teachers make it clear that bullying is not allowed at 80 percent of our students reported that reported that that's been communicated to them our second step curriculum with our
multi-tiered systems of support has some anti-bullying lessons contained in them and it's a big part of that curriculum so 80% of our students are are saying that we're making it clear at school that bullying isn't isn't allowed the next indicator is the connectedness that school connectedness and let me just read you some of the questions that they
were asked some of the questions that they were asked I feel close to people I'm happy at school I feel part of school and they feel I'm being treated fairly so those were the types of questions that were asked under that particular category 66 percent of our students 7 9 and 11 reported that they feel connected non-traditional school
54% but then remember looking back really we feel it's a reflection of their previous experience at school one of the lowest areas was the meaningful participation and let me just read a few of those questions they were asked I do interesting activities at school I helped decide class activities that I like to what I like to do or the things
that I like to do make a difference my help besides school activities and rules and that actually was the lowest score which is interesting so our students feel that they they want to be part of that process of deciding what goes on at school in terms of activities and then even the whole development of school rules which as part of as the high
schools move into multi-tiered systems of support and that positive behavioral supports actually part of that process is for the students to become involved in in that development of those expectations for the schools where the 5th graders would have already had that process taking place because we're already in the in the elementary school the others you know academic motivation
our kids are motivated with 76% and 61% school engagement for fifth grade the connectedness piece 72% of our fifth graders say they're connected to school and again that meaningful participation was a low area for our 5th graders as well it was the same exact questions that I mentioned in the high school survey or the secondary survey so that
would certainly be something we want to look at for future actions and services and interventions for our students ok so let's look at their results what I want to point out first is that school quality survey and you'll see that they're 2017-18 and I believe it was the first year with that we've utilized this it was for grades 6 through 11 and if
you look at the connectedness score on that particular survey well I would actually want to point out first the sample size so the sample size for the school quality survey was a pretty large sample so you know as we know the larger the sample the better results we get and so we had you know over 9,000 students
respond to this particular survey so we felt like it's probably a pretty good representation of our students as a whole so 72% on the school quality survey indicated they feel connected to school and when we look at grades 7 9 and 11 and then combined 5th grade we have a 70% rate on the healthy kids survey so generally speaking we
felt that we met that we didn't need that particular goal we're getting closer but then again you know as we look at actions and services and do our planning that will be something we would need to address school safety was was really good we met that you can see that the school quality survey and 76% of students indicated they feel safe at
school and on the healthy kids survey it was seven seventy two percent so we feel that we met the goal in that area so I've mentioned actions and services and so I want to talk a little bit about our actions and our services I'm not going to present outcome data tonight we'll do that in May we're still collecting data
on all of our programs but I'd like to give you just kind of an overview of what we've been doing in in our in our schools and in our Pro excuse me in our programs let me just talk a little bit about the difference between multi-tiered systems and support and PBIS folks are confused by that so multi-tiered systems of support is our
framework of our interventions with students and we've aligned that with our academics in terms of a multi-tiered system of support where we have tiered levels of intervention and within those tiers are the different strategies or the programs that we put in place so for PBIS PBIS is a strategy it's an evidence-based strategy that we infuse within our framework of multi-tiered
systems of support and then we'll talk a bit about that but let me kind of go back then to what we're doing kind of globally we do have 11 FTE counselors intervention counselors that are in our schools K through 8 and then therefore at the high school the the role of the intervention counselors at our k-8 schools is it's been pretty well defined
because we've been implement ding Mt SSB now for three three plus years and so when we look at you know what they've been doing in terms of services to kit kiddos we have 915 students to date and I remember will collect data at the toward the end of the school year and certainly May when we come back and give you some
data as well 950 and students have been seeing that our top two tiers tier two tiers two and three or Tier one all students are receiving services through the PBIS as well as the second step curriculum that we deliver in every classroom at least once a week for our students it's lessons that are delivered by the teacher
they have also completed 771 class pushing lessons where they'll go into classrooms to address the needs giving additional support where they dressed needs with over a thousand students they've done individual consultations and individual work with students that might be consulting with a teacher it may be helping a teacher develops and plans for individual students we've had 112 students meet their the the goal we
set goals for every student that is pulled out for services in tier 2 and tier 3 112 if met goals a lot of them are still in process we participated in 40 internal TF eyes tiered fidelity inventory walks and I talked about that those are the walks that we that we conduct three times a year to being
internal or we're looking at the systems that are in place for the schools with behavioral expectations we interview teachers the interview classified staff we interview students to look at the fidelity of the implementation of our positive behavior supports and the behavioral expectations that have been developed and we also do the counselor to also go in and do specific training
this year they focused on training the teachers with intervention strategies for students that have attentional difficulties or difficulties with hyperactivity and impulse so every school received at least one training in that and some are requested to as well as crisis management and behavior support in terms of the the PBIS we joined with the county for them to
provide more formalized training for our schools so all of our high schools are involved at this point we had 14 full days of training for our k-8 schools six full days for our high schools and then we've begun to do some training ourselves with staff because the goal will be for us to take over and to be
able to support our staff without having that contract forever with the county we've also worked with parent engagement with the parent engagement center they've been to training and they're now beginning to implement some PDI a stand multi-tiered systems of support strategies with a community and with parents looking at our type tykes in our infant toddler program this is a program
that focuses on on children younger than kindergarten so below H five we've had 125 parents guardians that have participated in the program we've had 43 students that have been served 576 units of service meaning case management and consultation with parents enrichment sessions four hundred and three sessions for our children that are two and a half hours each procession
Buena Vista has a full-time nurse that supports the toddler infant and toddler program our hope centers they're doing an amazing job we have provided support to 650 low-income families and those are unduplicated and then also support services in case management for a McKinney Vento and that that's our homeless population we have provided support to 438 so about 1,100 1,100
families have been served through the hope in its Center it's only until emerge we've got 3311 units of service so those are the direct contacts and referrals and our care closets we don't have we have two we have one at the Adult School and then we have that one at dawn lugo 894 care closet visits so we have six
hope centers in the district and we have three satellites where they go one day a week to three schools we also have a grant Support Specialists working with the homeless students where we have identified over 1,500 students from McKinney Vento the homeless program made referrals through hope for students with tutoring programs for our homeless mckinney-vento students of 62 that have
been referred currently there are 32 that are actively receiving services our district health clinic that's located on the Adult School campus they have provided 500 unduplicated service services to families 770 vaccinations a lot of action for vaccinations and 1,500 units of service and that would be referrals it would be health wellness physicals etc our safe school ambassadors so if we look at the
framework of Mt SSB where would that fit that would be a Tier one service where we're supporting all students with our safe school ambassadors program our foster youth counselor is working with 107 students 28 school sites she collaborates with our staff with outside agencies she attends all of their meetings there are 18 meetings 504 meetings and then she helps them with
career and academic readiness so with that the next time we meet we'll have data supporting all of the great things that they've been doing and so we'll be back in May and I think dr. Park wants to talk so beyond the numbers it was important for our CIS team to really hear from our students and we were very fortunate to
have miss bikes with us at one of our schools and we asked a really important question because goal two refers to engagement our students engaged so this was a question that was asked what do you need to be more connected and motivated to be in school and that was asked of our focused students at all of the comprehensive high schools and Buena
Vista and student leaders from our junior High's as well and their number one priority in order to be fully engaged and connected with school was to have positive relationships with their teachers that was number one the number two that came right behind that is motivating learning environment so different than how I know I was brought up in school where the teacher
participated in a lot of lecture format our students are wanting engagement they're wanting challenging activities hands-on they're wanting collaboration all of these strategies that we have been working on for the last several years and number three they want more fun engaging activities for examples dances and festivals beyond the school day and it was really enlightening to hear from our most important people
which are our students and they had a lot to share and in our annual update in May we will be we will be providing you some of our other priorities that our students have shared for goal one and for goal three that concludes our presentation to the board any questions for us mrs. Blair slide number nine but
page five of the PowerPoint the school safety it's interesting that in most of the categories the non-traditional students feel a lot safer then our students in grades 7 9 and 11 specifically in the know hitting not hit push slapped or kicked in the last 12 months 87% of our non-traditional students reported that versus 79% of our traditional high schools not called
names are insulted in the last 12 months was that 76% for the non-traditional is it possible that some of the methods that are used on our non-traditional campuses can somehow be incorporated I know what makes a difference is that these are smaller campuses and and I get that but like at CBL a they are a lot stricter I mean there is a strict dress
code that is adhered to you know the zero tolerance really means zero tolerance and perhaps we need to start looking at what works at our non-traditional high schools and try to incorporate some of those into our traditional high schools because this is a vast difference and so I I'm really astonished at that and then on the the
servicing the tutoring monitoring tutoring we had 62 students referred but only 32 are active so is that because there's no allocation for the other thirty what what causes that for our homeless students well no I don't know it which page are you on miss Blair you're okay you're on the right one under the grant support specialist for
supporting needs for homeless students so yeah that one 62 referred summer finished up so they finished the tutoring okay some have dropped and we currently have 32 active okay I just was wondering if it was because we didn't have spots for them okay spots and funding okay Thank You mr. na yes going to page four on top
when we talk about chronic sickness in last twelve months and twenty nine percent of our population of students have felt that have we defined what type of sadness the survey doesn't go into specifics I mean obviously chronic symptoms it might be related to it does it it's not a diagnostic tool sure so we could only get a sense of how students
are feeling mm-hmm so when we look at h9 and talks about where the students feel how could they be more connected and motivated in school and it talks about positive student and teacher relationships and motivating learning environment and fun engaging activities might negate or shift their feelings of chronic sadness because unfortunately the sentence probably starts at home and it's
dripping over to the school system so um if we can be proactive and somehow reach out and and help out whether it through the the clubs sports or music activities or intervention counseling you know whatever it takes if we could kind of draw more defined picture and and move toward those objectives and reaching out to them would be good because when you
look at 44% of our non-traditional students and feeling that I feel more comfortable because they have been discovered offices are available sure the 29% of the population are not discovered no they're not yes it's anonymous so we correct right so I guess we need to kind of brainstorm and then see what have tools that were able to engage and and and and also discover
them and give them support and at the elementary level the k-8 we actually came six we do have universal screeners where were you know assessing for that but at this point we haven't moved in that direction with the with the secondary sociability as reaction it could be a small things to and people engage and when you're little kids and
hone your socks every day hurt you so if we could find those things and as a grown adults um help them would be really beneficial for our student population I would agree with you Thank You mr. Cruz yes I'm for mental and physical health 62% are eating and then you have something a lot that are not eating which is something to observe and
and I would be interested on would that be middle class folks you know average you know that'd be interesting I do also notice the mental physical health for grade five parents are really stepping up and it tells you you know as our culture is changing you got this going on so that's pretty good yeah so the parents are stepping off in a
culture that's you know doing things differently and then what was interesting is you know you have academics our school is great academics above the state and you got safety that is also good because it you meant it you met the year but you got connect nerves connectiveness down so so the teachers are doing an excellent job in the
classroom very controlled structured and so having a meaningful education and having kids participate in all that you know that means you have to tolerate a variety of behaviors which in America we have to because we share --is-- individuality we're not in this consensus that everybody should be the same so my mindset is which celebrate individuality but in doing
so you're gonna cause an unstructured environment and that takes art form and a teacher so connectedness it's a very sensitive topic because you're going to change a teacher's way of teaching so with that in mind unfilled it is a sensitive issue and and you know they're doing teachers are doing a great job but it's not meaningful with kids bottom I
don't know those programs are not you know but but into the geology is so important and that's all costume should be not everybody is the same so you think any programs in the future healthy teachers yet we're looking at some programs we haven't finalized anything but we're looking at some particular programs that may help with that for next year so no other questions
and I have my questions a couple of them do we not include boys Republic in this survey why is that okay my other question is do we get grade level breakdowns you've got them all together 7 9 and 11 do we get grade level breakdowns and do we get school breakdowns so you're looking your team is looking at I'm see I'm thinking on
the never used alcohol your seventh grade numbers would be higher than your ninth grade numbers would be a little bit lower and your 11th grade would be the the lowest and so I'm hoping that people are looking at those permutations throughout because unless it goes in a balanced way we we have a problem I was a little concerned about why there's
such an imbalance male to female in our 7 9 and 11 when we have 84% I would have thought that would have been more 49:51 you know again it 84% was the number of students that took the compared to how many students we have seven nine and eleven so the males were fifty five females forty five so that's
what I mean I think that's unusual okay my last question then is the asterisks on several so feel safe at school has an asterisk school connectedness has an asterisks and what what is that what is that sure the the California Healthy Kids survey really looks at an entire package but for the purposes of El Cap the state has defined school climate to
mean school connectedness and school safety so that asterisk you are seeing is the metric that we will use to report out on El Cap okay thank you mr. Cruz I don't remember anything in school yeah I really don't but I tell you the thing that I remember the most is a relationship with teachers until I died searching teachers I don't know what I'd
learned but I know how they behaved towards me I say that because I think that's the most beautiful thing of them all just the relationships with the love of a teacher and a child students doing a job to the point that a teacher would cover his body if there was anything threatening thank you very much for your
presentation and just for your information concluding our board presentation the results of the help California Healthy Kids survey will be posted on our district website great thank you we are now at comments from our employee representatives mr. ball is also I know he'd sent Brenda in his absence but you are you have no report tonight thank you
very much that Farley is not in the audience pardon and Danny her name is CSC a good evening president pikes board members superintendent Joseph food cabinet I just wanted to warn give a warm welcome to Cassie Rock which is a new employee starting tomorrow at Barba an instructional aide Victor Dennis is a plumber again starting tomorrow over an
MOC you picked an excellent place to work with a bunch of great co-workers I also wanted to not steal anybody's thunder but we have a retirement of Steve Braga over at Marshall 15 years of service so a warm congratulations to him nice segue we had our pre-retirement seminar over at Magnolia this past weekend we had almost 300 approximately
275 people something to look forward to I think on all spectrums how much further we have to work and a lot of valuable information on what to look forward on the next phase of our career or life and with that that concludes my comments next we have community liaisons art bennett gina hill's city council member good evening madam president
board members mr. Joseph staff and audience you know I was so impressed with the kids from Glen meet think about the perspective on this I would venture to say that most of the people the majority of the people in this room weren't even around and weren't alive when Glen Mead went into started about 50 years ago the city of Chino Hills was
not even a thought at the time we are now 26 years old personal note my wife and I were married just shortly before they opened that's a long time fifty years ago the in September of this year I went to Vietnam so a lot of things have happened in 50 years it's a long long time especially you kids in the
audience enjoy your times now because it's a it's a long long long road you know it pains me to have to bring up a couple things tonight but I think that the general public probably knows about this already we had two misfortunate things that happened in chino hills' schools this week we know probably from the press that a young man at Oakridge
12 years of age made some threats made a video and the reason I'm bringing it up is because in case there is any misinformation or Mis there thought that things were not handled quickly and thoroughly I want to leave that concern anybody's part this happened sometime on Thursday afternoon within three hours this young man was actually arrested
there was a press release that went out on Friday afternoon it was misfortune timing because the chief of police press release and the one that was coming out of the department in San Bernardino there was a slight difference in it and of course when the press shows up at a school it creates a major pin so I know that there was a meeting of
some of the parents on Monday morning mr. Joseph was there I think a couple of board members are put chief of police it happens to be a school that my kids went to it's in my district district 3 and I was advised to stay out of it because the reality is this was an issue that's between the police and the in the school
district and I want to tell you I've had numerous conversations with the Chief of Police there was a hearing on Tuesday for this individual he has been released he is a house arrest and what will be happening next will be a decision of the the school district so but I want you to know that our Chief of Police and our
Police Department and the school district worked hand in glove on this and handled it quickly handled it succinctly and handle it totally correctly unfortunately a couple days later someone who was a former student that I yell had decided to do something similar was making some threats about some actions he was going to take at the school again soon as it was found they
arrested him that individual is out on bail but they have got everything that they've really believed there is no additional threat in response to this and to help out with the issues of safety that we were just talking about with El Cap there has been additional besides the school resource officers there's been additional under undercover and uniformed personnel at the schools
you know since that time and they will be there at least through tomorrow and maybe into next week but I think it's important for the public to know that as a city council member I can tell you that we are very very proud of our Police Department and and our school district staff and administration for handling these these threats in our
community very quickly correctly and very satisfactorily now another thing a side issue for people that and I'm kind of gonna go out a little bit and Greg stop me if I get too too far front but the measure G issue that the 208 million dollar bond issue I want people to understand there's a big chunk of that
going to school safety so this district is acutely aware of the importance to the parents of the students since the teachers of school safety and a lot of money is going to be spent developing technology and sale you know fail-safe methods to make sure that tragedies that there's one that happened in Florida do not happen in this school district but
again it's been touched upon that a lot of this is a societal thing right now social media you know you can you can love it or hate it but the reality is that there's a lot of bad stuff that's going on out there and as parents you better wake up and take the responsibility of being aware of what
your kids are doing you have to be responsible as a parent and the kids will learn that if you're watching them and keeping tabs on what they're doing that they're less likely to get involved with things that they shouldn't be doing there's a lot of bad choices to be made and social media it's great in some respects but the fact that it is so
rampant with all of the different social media platforms it's incumbent upon us as parents school administrators police to to really monitor that so enough of that downer stuff I did want to mention we have a couple things coming up this in city of Chino Hills between now and the next board meeting on this Saturday there's going to be what we call a
pop-up City Hall this is going to be at the Loews at Crossroads Park smaller marketplace this is the Costco Center okay the Lowe's is there what we're gonna do is we're we're permitting or even if it rains a little bit we're gonna have pop-up Easy Ups and our mayor and our city manager is going to be there and I
believe we'll also have someone from the police department there answer you just general questions that you want to have about city government and what goes on so if you're interested and you have specific questions you live in the area and you want to come to that with we would welcome you to come to that on March 8th we are going to have the Chino
Valley Chamber of Commerce is going to have a lunch a salute to Public Safety it's going to be loose around country club and if you contact the channel Valley Chamber of Commerce you can get tickets for that again salute to Public Safety now more than ever we need to really really praise those people that protect us on a daily
basis the police and fire a city of Chino has a fantastic Police Department chief Comstock is a wonderful lady who was worked her way up through the ranks and heads a very good department Darren Goodman who is our chief our captain of the Sheriff's Department and our chief runs a great department in Chino Hills we're very very fortunate chief the fire
department this is fantastic it's a unique situation because it's cooked it covers not only Chino and Chino Hills but Montclair and some of the areas in Ontario so we've got great Public Safety people out there taking care of us on a daily basis so get out and show your support if you can and one additional thing that is coming up and I apologize
I don't have the date you guys probably can tell me we're going to have the the necessary program every 15 minutes and it's going to be a tie yellow this year at least in the city of Chino Hills you know exactly what day that is I'm not sure if it's before your next board meeting or not but what this is this
this is they staged basically mocked up traffic accidents we do this every year this time of the year to encourage especially juniors and seniors are going to be going to proms to show them the damages of drinking and driving or drinking under in being under the influence and it's a very realistic and sobering exercise that we will have in
front of a yellow high school very shortly it will be in a morning one day and the next day the prick the people that that supposedly Passover or you know fatalities in that don't go home to their homes at night they actually stay someplace else and they have a memorial service for them the next day it's a
very very gut wrenching thing that wakes up our youth to tell them look this is what happens you'd make some bad decisions you know bad things happen to good kids and not only it might not be you causing the damage but you might be the recipient of it because of somebody else's bad action so crazy things but you know I want
everybody that's listening to this to know this school board and this school district I would put them up against any private school that's out there as far as caring for their kids and giving a good education because we hire nothing but the best teachers we have dedicated people they as evidenced by the fact that how many of them spend twenty
thirty years here and sometimes longer so you know keep up the good work you're doing a great great job and keep let's let's hope that we don't have any more incidents to have to deal with soon but at least one thing we do know that with all the active shooter drills and everything else that we've been going
through we know that we're prepared for the worst and let's just pray that it doesn't happen to us because it's and pray for those families in in Florida because it's just nonsense and it shouldn't be happening so so god bless have a great rest of the week thank you thank you I don't see Mike Krieger and no one from supervisor hagman's office
so we are now at comments from the audience on items not on the agenda Pat are there any requests to speak on non-agenda items speakers will be called in the order the request was received please listen for your name and be prepared to approach the podium any comments on agenda items will be accepted during consideration of that
item once the board has commenced deliberations on the issue speaker cards will not be accepted the board is very interested in your comments but please bear in mind that the board typically does not respond to comments during this time on the agenda as it is reserved specifically for public comments individual members may respond during board comments at the end mrs. Blair we
please explain the light system proceed sir no I saw your hand oh no yes did did you want to submit a form okay Donny can you guide him this gentleman would like a speaker form speakers you have three minutes in which to make your comments please begin your comments at the green light the yellow light indicates you have
thirty seconds in which to complete your comments the red light indicates your time is over and before you begin your comments please adjust the microphone as necessary so that you can be clearly heard and audience members please refrain from making comments while speakers are at the podium speakers please remember that in accordance with board bylaw 93 twenty-three bylaws of
the board meeting conduct limit remarks to three minutes total and please limit remarks to new points the board would like to remind you that board policy thirteen twelve point one contains the procedure for anyone who wishes to file a complaint against a district employee the first speaker is Sebastien cog Netta followed by Mike Cargill good evening madam president members of the board
superintendent Joseph and cabinet as well as members of the community my name is sebastian cog Mehta I'm the founding CEO for Allegiant steam Academy and I'm here as an expression of gratitude thank you for the support in endorsing our charter and for the ongoing support superintendent Joseph dr. Enfield and staff express to you how much the MoU
with the timelines and have served as guidance and support they've been instrumental in getting allegiance this ambitious goal to open for the fall so has appreciate that gesture and the ongoing support we're receiving I feel it's important to share a little bit about myself as a founding CEO of allegiance and what drew me to this opportunity I'm an advocate of school of public
education a fierce advocate of that first and foremost I'm also a strong believer in school choice school choice can be a pretty powerful thing we think about what it takes to for a family to make a decision when they have options around schools choice can lead to investment and engagement in communities from the community and we we lead leads
us to a result of not buy-in which is nice but true ownership that's a really special thing to see in schools the important thing about school choice that resonated with me is I'm a fierce advocate for families that aren't always given school choice and until there's a better way I believe charters can be an option for for many families that may
have been prevented from choice without without us as an option it's important for me to share that in these early stages of my tenure I've spent a lot of time listening and really listening to the members of this community to better understand it I'm well aware of the history and some of the divisive nacinda community regarding charters I
understand that I'm sensitive to it and it's shaping my vision for allegiance I was fortunate enough to meet with the superintendent and deputy superintendent dr. Anfield last week and I shared a little bit about my ambitious goals to really forge a partnership together I don't believe in charters being an island onto themselves nobody has served in that setting we have an opportunity
to be what charters were supposed to be an innovative sort of on the cutting edge research and development side of public education which hopefully leads to some good lessons for all of us and I'm a little selfish too I hope to to take advantage of all the great practices in this school district as well and I think that's going to happen
if we can come together and reach a collaborative peace which I've already seen in place through the guidance that we're getting from from the district staff so I thank you for this opportunity I look forward to many more years working together and I'm open to all feedback and opportunities to collaborate further than would have already been established today thank you
so much mic Cargile I thank you very much for allowing me to address you I am a parent I have two kids at Ayala high school I'm gonna read because I only have three minutes so I recently talked to some cute some security guards of some of the Chino Valley schools I was shocked to find that they've been purposely
prohibited from providing basic defensive measures for our kids they aren't even allowed to have anything in the way of firearms knives or even protective vest not only on campuses but in their cars and when I press them on this they all agreed that in the event of an active shooter incident they would all run away they would run away because
the district has taken away any means of protecting themselves let alone the kids the kids will be on their own to me this is not acceptable in fact I believe it to be borderline criminal negligence in the event that something heck like this does occur because we've had so many warnings from other schools in other parts of the country I'm sure you're all
aware you were just told about the would-be copycat shooter that was arrested this week threatening to shoot up il he was a former student god forbid something like that actually happens as a prior military service member my greatest concern at this point is not the copycat kid it's the terrorists it's the one who realizes the incredible vulnerability our public schools now
pose because we've told them we don't protect these places we armed security guards at concerts at sporting events we armed them at places like courthouses and airports but we refuse to arm the places that house our greatest treasures our kids and this is unacceptable god forbid one day instead of the headline at parkland 17 kids shot five heavily
armed gunmen enter the building and no kids leave that is a very very feasible possibility and I do not want this to ever happen second point my kids at Ayala I talked to the other kids I in English you're an English teacher English is atrocious they can barely read and write and I ask him what are you doing in
school and this is AP and honors English and they go we're making music videos this is part of our curriculum instead of reading and writing I'm a writer I deal with writers all the time these kids have no ability I'm not saying all the kids but my gosh it's horrible last point the dovetailing on my first point
I'm told that next week the teachers there are teachers and students are going to lead a protest and they're gonna walk out and they're gonna protest against gun violence or something like that mind you these are the same teachers who assign hours and hours of homework to these kids because they can't get the work done in a normal
class period but somehow they're gonna have the time to lead a walkout of something that they think they're gonna be relevant on I think they should spend their time in the classroom teaching the kids to read and write thank you very much real parent my name is Jen McCutcheon mr. nadda known you for several years I'm the mr. Cruz for a few years
problem we have a DJ Marshall is I've been volunteer for the last seven years I'm the logger volunteering as I was released we'll leave it at that the first issue I had was with the office gals my granddaughter just a few years ago called me she forgot her trumpet and so I brought her trumpet up and I said with you please
she gets it by a certain time at 3:15 when school was out it was still sitting where I was where I placed it and I said is there a reason why she knows she never got it and said oh well like who cares and I'm sorry that is the wrong attitude that's number one now and I told mr. Cruz this on the phone
number two was I have a friend that wanted to volunteer he was retiring this was a few years ago to with my next-door neighbor and I said just go up to the school and talk to Gladys or one of them and they should hook you up with a teacher she came back to me the next day she said see didn't you want to talk to
me they were very rude to her and this is a problem I've had with both Gladys and her sidekick and and this is boy doll so I volunteered for seven years in her she not once has said thank you smile to me she's a very negative vice-principal and the last issue was mrs. Hester we knew it was principal last year asked
me to come into the office and talk to her and she says we've had a problem with Gladys and the other gal said they want you out of the school I said okay is there a reason and she said no and then I proceeded to tell her the first two stories that happened because at that time I had done nothing wrong
since then I just I did something it was an accident and the parents threatened to sue the district and mr. Cruz and mr. Joseph said they don't want me there so I don't I think that was him oh very poorly the principal called me into the office when I was coming to I said been there for seven are starting my eighth year and
she said we don't believe it we don't want you here not thank you for what you've done for the last seven years and then mrs. void shipped in on a thank you we are now at changes and deletions pad are there any changes or deletions the following changes are on the agenda item 3 c2 CI is page 32 request for proposal
for the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act youth programs for 2018 through 2021 is yello sheeted to clarify the fiscal impact item 3e one human resources page 49 certificated classified personnel items is yellow shaded and under resignation delete the name Ernesto Perez thank you we are now at tonight's only action item that item 2a 1 2018 California School Boards
Association delegate assembly election recommend the Board of Education vote for no more than 7 candidates to the California School Boards Association delegate assembly sub region 16 B are there any speakers no speakers may I have a motion to nominate up to 7 so moved second I I would like to given that I've worked with all these individuals I would like
to nominate the individuals who are incumbents Cristina Cameron Otero Barbara Drew and it should be Barbara do Barbara what do de W Karen Pepe's aunt Barbara Schneider Jane Smith mark centner and Donna West all these individuals are so dedicated to to the school system and so I would like to see them continue because of their dedication motion from well actually
right so for their discussion if anyone has any questions to me since I know them or any other candidates that people would like that toward hearing none then all in favor aye all opposed the motion passes with a vote of 5-0 that concludes this action item we are now at consent pad are there any speakers on consent
items and no speakers on consent items board members do you have any polls mrs. Ross Scott none mr. Cruz mrs. Hernandez Blair no pools mr. na I have no booze and I have none for the remainder well for all of the consent items then may I have a motion so moved moved by mr. nas seconded by mrs. Blair all in favor aye
opposed I meant motion passes with a vote of five Oh we are now at information items are there any questions or comments hearing none we are now a board member and superintendent Communications this is a Rusco and I will make mine brief let's start with the retirements and so we have and as typical it seems like we
have several individuals with several years of service so we have Christine Iverson elementary teacher at Walnut Elementary Yolanda Linares 21 years of 20 years 21 years of service Elementary teacher at walnut gala need 34 years of service at Ayala high school she's a counselor she's such I had the opportunity to meet her and when we were looking at link learning what a
wonderful person so gala Mead Fred Altenburg 14 years of service digital video and yearbook teacher at Don Lugo and even though Danny mentioned his name on mentioned it again Steve Braga 15 years of service custodian one at Marshall to all of you I wish you a wonderful retirement thank you for your service to our district and just want to
indicate that I did go to the Glen Mead anniversaries so nice so neat to see so many individuals who had come back just for the anniversary so it was really nice attended a great event and then I went to the festival of the arts and as usual our students are producing some wonderful artwork and I mean they
there's clearly some professionals in those in that artwork it's it's just incredible and art thank you for the information on the salute to Public Safety because you are absolutely correct we are a community who is very fortunate to have some great partnerships and so with that I will conclude my comments thank you Thank You mr. Cruz yeah thank you or
a terrific job I just wanted to say the gentleman that spoke about the gun issue and that is you know Sacramento they Bart cast that our school districts are gun-free and so in other really doesn't help because 90% of our shooters happen in gun-free zones so the cowards go and attack those places so a lot of this has
a lot to do with our legislators and I think it's very obscene that they tell us that our schools where you stated which is very true that's where our treasure is located it's it's crazy it's really crazy and we know is not the guns we know that the culture has changed we glorified the music that that pushes
violence the games you know our kids have it really hard and and the media how they're pushing it I asked myself I'm gonna cite step okay but I asked myself of the millions of abortions that have kurd why don't they do that for them as well but you know it's guns not our kids and and it's very upsetting
because I'm not a dumb person I see these things so I feel for you you know I I would love our veterans you know teachers veteran police officers as teachers that they have concealed weapons because I know what teachers do they're going to hug our kids and get it shot in the back because that's what teachers do there's a relationship it's
student in teacher and we know that teacher is administration that's what they do but you don't shooters go right in and they know that they're safe no guns so I hope things change and how things change we get these people out out of the legislature and put people they have common sense that just makes sense right I mean all of us know so I have to
apologize you're right it's embarrassing because common sense tells us what what we should do thank you Oh oh yeah I attended the science fair I just want to share some experiments that some of these kids did you know you have caffeine mixed with soil plant grow faster than other things best minerals for plant growth is calcium phosphorus and potassium coke
stain the teeth come paired to coffee which disinfectant kills the most germs target up-and-up why peas compared to Clorox white bees and Lysa why peas how do different types of music affect heart and blood pressure Indian music and and Mozart comes down the heart and blood pressure seats at our microwave there grow faster than the control group which brand of microwave
popcorn pops the most its data brothers and then you got jolly time and pop secret and then the artwork it's pretty amazing with what the kids have done but you know we have to thank for Ingram of his talented ways of doing things putting the work and these pamphlets but yeah some of this work that I want to
say the aerolites was today for crossover ceremony Evan Chang Logan Cromwell Caleb Kim Aiden Gonzalez Koresh hapara Aiden Meyer : while Queen our Jordan Nabby are Jack Perry drew Stadler Cam Ranh sang and Jackson Van Voorhis they'll receive their aerolites of crossover and if I was going to say something I would say that you know being responsible is it's
the most joyful thing there is and and I hope these children you know what the things they've done that they have great joy and their responsibility as they get older thank you Thank You mrs. Blair no comments mr. naught yes I have attended Glenn meets 53 your anniversa T and as I have mentioned um I was just blown away where
we all come together celebrating the success of the school but it was about the children and chose some children became an adult believe it or not but this is our community yes we have concerns over Florida and and every elsewhere but we do need to defend our students we need to defend our community we need to defend our weak so we do need to have
continue to have these conversations I have spoken with our Police Department personnel and our security personnel and we need to just brainstorm together and we will protect our kids they're our future I have mentioned as before it used to be just the drugs that were harmful to our students but now we had started with Isis and domestic terrorists and and
people with mental conditions so we do have to come together I'd like to thank Big Al he's our security person at Chino Hills High School he's back he's a bionic man because he's had his hip replaced but as good as ever and matter of fact many students had really missed him when he was out so this is what you you can
see that we have such a great relationship with our staffs and our students I'd like to thank John Miller where he's out there in Chino high school doing all the breaks out there not only just speaking up trash on the ground but really engaging students many of them were his former students at junior high so he's making great
connections at lunchtime had few kids that were I don't know just sticking out and I said let's go and see what they were doing so I walked with them and talked to them they say yes we have a great principle and it makes us really happy to be in school so kids react as animals do so it
is our our duty to care and love them and see how they grow I'd like to thank yes gala she's been a counselor and I allow high school but another position she had was a she was a visiting teacher for kids who were ill sometimes and many times terminally ill and she would laugh with them she would cry with them and
she had left a great legacy here George Lopez the kid spoke from Glenn meet his mom just told me that she he'll be in hospital for a whole week so we need to keep him in our hearts and make sure that he would fight this tumor and it's evil but when we come together she said the mother said he son reacts
much better with all the treatments so it is important that we give hope in anyone everyone in any situations thank you yes councilman Bennett had mentioned about the every 15 minutes program I happen to be at I Allah last week speaking to the students and mrs. yarrow boy the principal and they were going back and forth because of the fact that
they had lost a student a few weeks ago due to a drunk driver and the kids were questioning whether they should have every 15 minutes or not out of sensitivity to the family but they've decided to do it and actually it's March 22nd and 23rd Thank You mr. Rodriguez for letting me know okay back there that they've decided on
the dates so I wanted to thank you mr. Bennett for mentioning it would you like to golf and help students with their college costs you're in luck the 9th annual hit the greens for scholarships golf tournament is set for Friday March 9th at Villano Country Club in Chino Hills proceeds from the event will fund college scholarships for CBUs
D's class of 2018 for details see the announcements on the district's website social media gangs drug trends and other topics like I'm sure it'll be safety that can affect our youth will be discussed at the spring parent information forum to be held 6:30 to 8:00 Wednesday March 14th in the Chino High multi-purpose room a light dinner free child care and Spanish translation
will be provided and that concludes my conference thank you I want to thank all district personnel who were quickly responsive to the concerns at our local schools when they were threatened it is comforting to me as a community member and a matter of pride as a board member to be able to attend those parent meetings and see how many of our staff
are there providing answers for parents providing support for our school employees and I'm very grateful I'm grateful to my fellow board members it's when we go there to those meetings it's nice to know that we are there to support our constituents as well as to be available to them for our areas available to them as well I would like
to ask that the district think about convening the principals who've been affected by these threats and helping to design some kind of list of you know priorities or actions that could be taken by each site so that you know you don't forget to do something or you know exactly who to call when you're in a crisis mode I
have told I know all my my colleagues as a young principal I had a fire on my campus and I did a completely stupid thing trying to remain calm walked right by the fire box rock walked right by my secretary and pulled out a phonebook trying to stay calm and there were so many other things I could have done I'm
as many times as we had rehearsed what to do you never rehearse phoning 911 and so I do think that for unusual events maybe to pull them together and talk about their experience and what worked for them and where their needs were could help us formulate a plan and secondly mrs. Blair when when you're asking about continuation schools or CV
la when you talk about a small school you know I think sometimes people are thinking it's fewer kids but one of the things that I think we forget about is it's also more adults per child on that campus so more ability to connect with those kids typically the campus is also smaller and so it's easier to supervise
those kids because there aren't as many places for them to be and and lastly because the teachers don't have as many students they do are able to make more connections and I think that making those connections is key I often say as a former continuation school principal there hasn't been a continuation school that's had a school shooting yet that's
a pretty remarkable thing to be able to say and I think it's because of all of those items I hope that as we are pursuing programs to look at to help connect our students with our schools that we start with identifying the programs we already have in place that help connect students with our schools because we have some
pretty wonderful programs already in place and I think it's important that we grow those programs or and supplement those programs rather than start anew with a fresh program so that concludes my comments and I adjourn the regular meeting of the board of education at 833