Board of Education — February 13, 2024

We would like to start the meeting at six o'clock. I'd like to take a roll call. We have Melissa and Michelle and myself present. At this time I'd like to ask Alina to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

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.

Is there a motion to approve the minutes of the January 9th 2024 board meeting of education? Move. Second. Thank you. Discussion? All those in favor say aye.

Aye. Aye.

Opposed? Chair votes aye and so ordered. Moving on to public participation. This section of the agenda is meant for any member of the public to address the board on anything that falls under the jurisdiction of the Board of Education. Before we begin public participation, I would like to acknowledge that the board received an email from Ashley Penderson regarding Lincoln's birthday, which will be included in the published minutes of the meeting. Uh, community input. This is the time that any member of the public may address the board on anything that falls under the jurisdiction of the Board of Education, provided the person submits a completed registration card to address the board, form to the clerk of the board or his or her designee prior, uh, prior to the time the chairperson calls the item for the board's consideration. This is not meant to be a debating period. Complaints and problems relating to policy matters will be referred to the superintendent. The person wishing to address the board shall, when recognized by chairperson of the board, step up to the podium microphone and announce his or her name. The chairperson shall, in the interest of facilitating the business of the board, limit the amount of time which a member of the public may use in addressing the board to three minutes. Unless the chairperson or the majority of the board determines that a different limit is appropriate. So first up, Mr. Blatchley.

Good evening, board members, Superintendent Cabral, cabinet. My name is Paul Bletchley. I live in trustee area five and I'm a concerned high school parent. So if you had a classroom at Redlands East Valley High School and you had 30 desks in the classroom and you had 35 students assigned to that class, so that five students had to stand for the entire class period every day. You would say that that's not a good situation, right? Be similar to not having enough textbooks and those kinds of things. So I made a Williams complaint. And my complaint, I don't know if you're aware of this, but you have science classrooms at Redlands East Valley High School that are set up for both classroom instruction and labs. So the labs are around the edge of the classroom. So you have a certain number of desks, but you have more students than you have desks. So some of the students in the class have to sit on a stool for the class period rather than at a desk. And the stools are meant for lab time, not for class time. The desks are meant for lecture time. So I put in a Williams complaint on that. And basically, the principal came back and said, hey, look, we checked the desks. They're all in working order. We checked the stools. The stools are appropriate for lab time. And this doesn't really fall under the jurisdiction of a Williams complaint. So I asked whether or not, what's the complaint that I make if I have this situation. So I'm waiting to hear back on that. Hopefully, I'll hear back. But this got me thinking about complaints generally. You know, I've been coming to these meetings for quite a long time and I was here back when there were students coming up every meeting talking about the systemic racism in the district. And I wonder where we're at on all of that. Now it's like three years later since the board acknowledged that the district was systemically racist and that they were going to do something about it. So I'm curious, number one, as to what kind of complaints the district had around systemic racism other than what people were saying at the board meetings. And then what are the level of complaints now? So we had 1,000 complaints before. Now we've only got 100. So we're doing a great job at handling systemic racism within the district. The other thing is that what this also shows me, and this is the warning that I would give to parents when they're bringing their kids into the district, without litigation, this district is unlikely to move on much And so if you find yourself in an elementary school principal's office and they're talking to you about your student and saying a student's having trouble paying attention and they really ought to be putting them on ADHD medication, look for another alternative. Go someplace else. There are other alternatives. This district is not going to, it's not meant for your child. Your child needs to find someplace else to go. Thank you.

Joshua Hall?

I'd like to speak on the growing link between transgenderism, mental illness, and mass shootings. For the past 40 years, we have not had a gun crisis. We have had a mental health crisis that has led to mass shootings that double or triple every year because of the unregulated use of antidepressants. The transgender movement has made that worse. Puberty blockers and cross hormone therapy is making an already bad situation with the antidepressants 10 times worse. We have at least five shooters that I know of. The Nashville shooter last year was trans. The Aberdeen, Maryland shooter who shot up a Walgreens was trans. The Colorado Springs nightclub shooter who shot up an LGBTQ plus nightclub was listed as alt-right, but he was non-binary. And the latest shooting was carried out by an illegal immigrant from Ecuador, Genovese Montero. She shot Joel Osteen's church because he's pro-Israel and she wants to free Gaza, but she's also trans. So, we need to stop promoting transgenderism. The puberty blockers and the hormone therapy drugs are bad for children's bodies on top of all the physiological issues like, you know, they mess up the muscle and bone growth. They affect the DNA. They're also affecting kids' minds. If we do not stop the transgender movement ideology, we're going to have more mass shootings.

Eleanor Borowski.

I am discussing the safety that's necessary in our community.

I'm sorry, so that everybody can hear you. You want to move the mic closer? There you go.

I am going to discuss an issue of safety in our community that the schools have to be a part of. I did see the police chief and discussed this with her. And I think it's necessary that as a community within the scope of Redlands City Council, Redlands business area, work together to help me with this issue that I see is very alarming. I worked with the idea that if you see something, say something. And 2018 was the Las Vegas shooting. Following that, I happened to go into a toy store on State Street, and I saw a whole wall full of guns. Now, these weren't just little cap guns. These were AK-15s and AR-47s made to look like real military-style guns. I raised the issue with the owner of the store, and I was laughed at. So be it. I then wrote an opinion piece to put in the Redlands facts, and Miss Ivert Iyer did not print it or have it as a copy for the Redlands facts. She didn't notify me it wasn't going to be printed. And then she said, when I asked her again, she said she sent it off to the son. The son did not print this opinion piece either. So, I did that and it didn't work. So I'm asking the community of Redlands involved in our schools, since school shootings have not decreased, in fact, they have increased substantially. We all know that. And if I may suggest that everyone in the school district and in our community really watch the Attorney General's talk that he gave on the results of the Envaldo school shooting. and also listen to the parents who lost their children and as well as the suffering that the teachers are going through following that horrific event. So my issue is to move this forward, have the school board, have the police department move this forward for some method that we can take out these alarming replicas of these uh military style guns on the board also in the toy store are several several several several knives We have had students being Hit with these knives.

I'm sorry, miss. Eleanor. I need to call the next person up

You may but I hope to see some resolution And the school district the police department and other business associations Work together so that we can get these kinds of devices in our in our community Thank you Next we have lawrence.

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Good evening, my name is Lawrence Hebron, I live in area three of the Redland School District. I'm not sure if the topic of my comments fall within the guidelines given by the school board for this portion of the agenda, but since I am responding exclusively to comments made during the January 9th meeting, and since no complaint was lodged by any board member at that time, well, it would be hypocritical to deny me the opportunity to address these comments from that meeting. A gentleman arose to, quote, alert the community that Redlands Public Schools are under attack, end quote. He then identified Dr. Dale Broom as the assailant. Why? Because Dr. Broom allegedly wants to, quote, promote the diversion of public money to private schools and to defund public schools, end quote. This gentleman pointed to Dr. Broom's support for a school choice initiative as evidence for these claims. I have known Dr. Broom for nearly ten years. He is a man of great integrity who is deeply concerned about our children's education. And I take great offense at these unjust charges. Let's take a brief look at two of them. Let's be clear that supporting school choice does not make you an enemy of the public schools. It makes you a friend of the children and their parents. The intent of school choice is not to favor nor disfavor any school, public, private, or home, but rather to give parents options should they find a particular type of school fails to provide the best education possible for their children. And who could possibly oppose that? Second. Regarding the claim that school choice would, quote, promote the diversion of public money to private schools, end quote, this is not public money. It is our money that we entrust to public agencies to do the right thing for our kids. And when those public agencies fail to do this, we should be empowered to take back our money and invest it someplace where our kids can be better served. This is the second time in the last few months that Dr. Broom has been attacked when his motives and actions are nothing less than honorable. Perhaps we should be spending as much attention investigating the motives and background of his attackers as they aren't spending on Dr. Broom. And as for the threat some of you may perceive in school choice, well, no one is going to be interested in school choice if the public schools just do their job. Thank you for your consideration.

Thank you. Tricia Keeling.

Hello, my name is Tricia Keeling. I live in area four and I have two children in this district. I'd like to thank the board for implementing new procedures for community input. It's an election year, and as we saw in 2022, elections can cause a lot of chaos and disruption. My children's education is very important to me, as well as to many other parents in this district, and I appreciate being able to attend my children's own school board meetings without it being political theater, because that's not what we're doing here. That's not what this time is for. Second, I'd like to state for the record that it is extremely concerning to have to listen to the type of bigotry that was said just before me. These meetings are public, but the people in this community have the right to attend their public meetings without having to listen to hate. Community input is a time for the public to address the board on issues under the jurisdiction of the Board of Education. What we heard tonight was not that. It has nothing to do with my child's education and frankly it is harmful language towards children to hear. Trans people are not dangerous and to even insinuate such is extremely harmful to our community as a whole. Additionally, somehow we just heard a speech about school choice. This is another way to push Hebron's political agenda, which I thought we were trying to avoid here. School choice is another way of speaking of school vouchers. It does take money away from public education, puts them into private schools, makes some people rich. And who gets hurt? People that can't afford to go to private schools, because as soon as Let's say it costs $10,000 to put a child there. Now everyone wants their child there. They up their price. They exclude people. And they exclude children with special needs. I have a child with special needs. I know that a private school wouldn't have fit him and provided him the therapy and the tools that he needed like he did in public school. So I'm a huge, huge advocate for public schools for every child. And anything that tries to take away from that is hurting our community. and is not beneficial for our district as a whole. Thank you.

Arisa Owen Turner.

Hi. I hope everyone had a good weekend. I spent my weekend reading an 153-page document the LCAP. I also read through the whole agenda packet for this meeting, which was 500 and something pages. It was quite a bit. It's a lot to take in. I actually read the LCAP for the second time because I wanted to go back through it and make sure I was truly seeing what I was seeing. So let me first of all just say I'm a parent. I have a special needs student. I'm a huge advocate for public education. I truly believe that this is integral to our society. And as, like Tricia, a parent of a special needs student, I need public education. Private institutions are not going to take care of my son's needs and support him in the way that he needs so that he succeeds in life. I also want to say that I want to thank this district for continuing to focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion. That was repeated over and over and over in the LCAP. Over and over. These are the goals, right? So it's really upsetting to me when I see that the FACE program is continually being reduced. The FACE program. 63% of our school gets free lunch. That is low income. That's what LCFF, LCAP funds, we're supposed to be putting emphasis on that. The face outreach people, they go out to the community. They go to these people's homes and find out, what do you need? They go there. They try not to shame them. They want to talk to them and just find out, what kind of support do you need to be able to get your children to school? address those needs, that's when we can truly fight chronic absenteeism. And chronic absenteeism seems to be a huge problem right now, right? It contributes to all kinds of other percentage scores that do not reflect well on this district. So I'll give you a couple of them. Highest suspension rates. I think all of you know what I want to say, right? We're supposed to be putting energy into what is it called, how reconstructive, rehabilitative, non-punitive types of punishments. But yet the suspension rates have gone up. The only group that they went down for was foster youth, which is actually surprising, looking at the statistics for everything having to do with foster youth. So how are we failing? I don't understand, because every goal in the LCAP is supposed to be working towards helping these students that need more support. Thank you.

Thank you. Next we have a student trustee report. Tonight we have Alina from Citrus Valley High School, home of the Black and Gold. Would you like to give us your report?

Thank you, Ms. Aurora. So I'll start off with RHS. RHS has had a tremendous couple of weeks. They have many amazing events upcoming as well. Tomorrow they have their blood drive along with their BSU having a guest speaker over. The SAT is coming up for juniors on March 6th. The RHS basketball team played Rev two weeks ago. They lost but still were champions in the face of RHS. RHS's boys baseball team is starting their season and has played three games so far. They also have Oklahoma, the musical, being performed by their theater in March and April. RHS chamber singers were invited to sing at the California All-State Music Education Conference. They spent three days in Sacramento representing RHS and doing an amazing job performing. The RHS band and orchestra program also has a festival coming up in mid-March. And lastly, there is a rally this Friday put on by the RHS ASB. Next, for Redlands East Valley, the Rev boys soccer team will play their quarterfinal championship round against Palmdale tonight. To help introduce their new CRY ROP aviation class, today Redlands East Valley hosted a career in aviation panel to hear from pilots, airline management, and flight instructors. Earlier this month, two members of the REV choir traveled to Sacramento to perform in the California All-State Honors Choir. Congrats on a fantastic performance to Aiden Gonzalez and Elias Martinez. Next week, REV Performing Arts will present their spring musical, James and the Giant Peach. This production represents the culmination of months of hard work from members of all aspects of the REV Performing Arts programs. And it will take place on March 8th, 9th, and 10th. Next, for Orange Wood High School, Orange Wood students participated in a blood drive in January. The turnout was great, and the goal point for donations was met. Orange Wood will be partnering up with Lifestream again in April to collect more blood donations. Just today, Orange Wood held a school-wide community service field trip. OHS students also recently attended the regional Rubathon, and earned third place in their division. Rubathon. Sorry. The OHS engineering team is also getting ready for the BattleBot competition in May. The OHS Black Student Union has also had many activities for Black History Month, such as games, trivia, and even free hot chocolate. There will also be a huge celebration of Read Across America. Next for eAcademy, there will be a student versus staff dodgeball game on February 29th. There will also be an event held for the seniors, which is senior laser tag on March 2nd. There will be a knowledge fair held on April 15th, and finally prom on April 25th. Lastly, for Citrus Valley High. Recently, there was an academic decathlon competition, and in it, two students placed high scores, one of which is Joshua Tamba, placing second in literature, and the other being Alicia McDonough, placing second in mathematics. Our CV theater also held a production of the play O Bologna last week. It was a production filled with satire and comedy and was well received by CV students. As for sports, our girls and boys wrestling team will be entering the CBL finals this Saturday. And our CV bands and orchestras have a pre-festival coming up at the end of February in which we will receive a clinic and feedback from judges. Thank you.

Great job. Thank you. Association reports. Redlands Teachers Association, Susan?

Good evening school board trustees, superintendent Cabral, cabinet, staff, and community. Our TA is very excited to have come to a contract agreement with RUSD for the school year and for the next. The agreement came from many sessions with our negotiating teams working together to share the best possible contract for certificated employees so that RUSD can continue to provide quality education for the Redlands, Loma Linda, Highland, and Mentone communities. We want to thank the RUSD negotiating team led by Dr. Sabine Robertson Phillips, as well as the RTA team chaired by Shannon Rooney and the rest of her committee, Steven Caperton, James Verhoeven, Jennifer Brant, Noah Rosen, and Samantha Ordaz. We're very proud of the agreement that we were able to reach together. Our TA would also like to show our appreciation for all of the school counselors. Last week was National School Counseling Week. I personally got to spend the afternoon with the counselors at RHS and got a glimpse at all the amazing work they do between academic and social-emotional support, as well as being resources for students and families. Unfortunately, there's not enough time tonight for me to tell you all that they do. But I do want to ask, if you haven't thanked a counselor lately, please do so. Next weekend, RTA and RUSD will be sending 14 new educators to the CTA New Educator Conference. Next month, we'll be sending another 15 educators to the CTA Good Teaching Conference. These events give educators a chance to hear best practices and hone their skills. And we want to thank the educators for giving up their weekends to immerse themselves in these conferences. It really shows their dedication. And finally, we want to hope that you all have a lovely Valentine's Day tomorrow with your loved ones. And as part of Black History Month, we'd like to honor Frederick Douglass's birthday tomorrow as well. And since we're on that bent, I'd also like to point out that February 15th is Susan B. Anthony Day. And of course, we need to celebrate our presidents on February 19th. We have much to be proud of this month. And don't forget to get ready for Read Across America Day at the beginning of March. Thank you all.

Thank you Do we have Redlands Administrative Personnel Association, Rebecca?

Good evening. How are you?

Good, good.

So good evening president, trustees, cabinet, and guests. I'm so excited. I can't stop smiling right now. I'm actually a few minutes late coming in because I was over at Redlands East Valley High School supporting the men's soccer team in the CIF quarterfinals. And I'm proud to say there's only a few minutes left in the game and we are up one to zero. So that's really exciting. So as a former soccer player, it gets me like fired up. Anyhow, there is so much to celebrate, and we haven't been here for a while to kind of share all of the incredible things that are happening. So I wanted to point out a couple of them. So I believe you had mentioned, RHS, their choir is going to state right now, which is phenomenal. E Academy. has shared that there's been an increase in student engagement with school activities, which is always wonderful to hear. Because the difference for somebody being at a site versus students who are not there every day, the connection is always the hardest to make. And so the principal had shared that they are just overjoyed with having people coming and the families getting involved as well. A couple other things going on incredible throughout the district are PBIS implementation. Right now, all of our school sites are working on our TFI, which is our tiered fidelity inventory, to work on earning some awards for the hard work and implementation happening at sites. Restorative practices and inclusion are alive and well and going well. Citrus Valley right now is super proud of their staff and they have had a lot of teachers stepping up to help with clubs and fill staffing positions, so that's really exciting to see as well. And then something that I've never had the privilege of being involved in, but our adult ed has completed their accreditation for WASC and now they're just at that final review stage. So that's exciting. Like Susan had mentioned, we just finished National School Counseling Week, so I'd love to give a shout out to all of our school counselors and to our entire mental health and RCSS team as we are true partners to support our students each and every day and we appreciate them. We are starting LPAC testing now, which is our English Language Proficiency Testing. That is happening starting last week. We do have Read Across America, and I encourage you guys to look for the emails from all of us principals to try to get you to come on over to our school sites to read. We do have about three weeks left in this last trimester, so teachers are working really hard with the students to kind of get those grades up wherever there's gaps and really communicate with families as well. State testing is coming up in the end of April through May. Of course, Valentine's Day tomorrow. Another group that I would like to shout out in this room are all of our school resource officers. This coming Thursday is School Resource Officer Appreciation Day. So thank you for all that you guys do to help keep our students safe each and every day on campus. You are definitely valued and appreciated. And that's all we got for right now, so thank you guys so much. Have a great evening and we look forward to seeing you on our sites.

So moving on to board committee reports. Does anyone have anything they'd like to report?

Redlands Compact, the dinner mixer, is this Thursday evening at the Orton Center. You are scheduled to go, correct? The Compact Club is co-sponsoring an essay contest with the Rochford Foundation. It will be for fifth grade students, and the theme is, why you think living in America is great. So information will be sent out to fifth grade teachers in the district. Mock interviews for Rev Avid students will be on February 23rd. Club members at RHS were given information for volunteering at Angel's Closet and Mansion Memories. And as I mentioned, every single month, we are in search of a dedicated staff member who would like to be the advisor for the compact club at CVHS and REV. And I just heard Dr. Costa say that the CV teachers are stepping up to fill in roles. So I'm going to have to try and find one from there. I also have a report from REP. Rep was presented a check for $500 from the Redlands Community Foundation. And there to present the check to the president was Cindy Andrews, a board member of the foundation. Cindy Andrews, if some of you recall, she was the deputy superintendent of human resources before Sabine. And she retired in 2007. So it was really good to see her. AAA Academy Spring Camp will be at McKinley and applications are being accepted now. And please put on your calendars the Wizards basketball game set for April 19th at REV.

And that's all. Thank you. On to Board of Comments. Melissa?

Um, I actually don't really have anything except, um, during the, uh, Christmas parade, I had made a new friend on the float and his birthday is actually coming up and I promised that I was going to shout him out. Um, so Ronan, uh, happy birthday. He's turning 15 and I know, um, he was really excited about that. So I wanted to make sure that I didn't forget, um, because it was a wonderful night and he made it that much better. So that's it for me.

Since our last meeting in January, I've been able to stop in at a few schools to see different things that our PTAs, our teachers, and staff are doing for our students. I went to Franklin's Friday morning assembly, which is always a lot of fun, very energetic. They recognize students in every grade level. It's very upbeat, and just to go and listen to the music and listen to the cheering that the kids do is really fun. I went into the state preschool there at Franklin. My grandson is in that class also. And I got to help with the centers on the day that they had inclusion with the special needs preschoolers. And I want to thank Mrs. Witherspoon for all that she does and for the rest of the team, what they do for the youngest of our students. It was really special to see all the kids interacting with each other. If you've never had a chance to see the inclusion at work. It's pretty cool. I also went to game night at eAcademy and that was really fun. Families played ping pong and cornhole and connect four. They made crafts and had pizza and they also played Just Dance. One student was top in Just Dance. He was really good. That was fun. I visited Kingsbury's taping of the Good News Bears show. It was my turn to be in the hot seat. And I always love how the students make me feel comfortable because I always mess up when they interview me and we have to take many takes. Anyway, so Becky Shields and Yvette Jorgensen do an amazing job preparing and teaching the students about video production. I had the pleasure of going to Victoria yesterday with Juan to see students in the kindergarten and second grade class interact with Congressman Pete Aguilar. He was there to collect Valentine's cards that the students made to distribute them to seniors in the area. And when the congressman asked the kindergartners what they think his job was, one of the students said, to keep America good and to keep us safe. So I thought that was pretty intelligent coming from a five-year-old. This afternoon, I went to Highland Grove for the After School Arts Club, where over 100 students made Valentine's cards for family members and friends. It was really fun. Very chaotic, but their PTA is amazing. Ashley, their PTA president, It was well run. Um, and I've only been able to attend a few soccer games for the middle schools, um, including today, I went to Clement, um, and watched them play Beatty. They're very fun to watch. Um, today's games, the boys beat, uh, Clement beat Beatty four to zero, and the girls, Beatty won three to one. Sixth grade, Beatty also won two to zero. So, um, I look forward to seeing a few more games on Tuesdays and Thursdays. And their final games are gonna be in March at our high school field, so that should be fun. And the last superintendent's awards at CV, once again, such a pleasure. Our students are truly outstanding. Another event is coming up in February 20th. our first day of the district. What a great event that was. Uh, many community partners in attendance. It was very informative. Thank you, Juan, and Ken, Sabine, and Jason for highlighting some of the great things that happened across this district. And Carrie-Ann, thank you for all you did to make this night a success. It could not have happened without you. And I also wanna thank Christine, um, and Karen, and Rebecca for always being there and having your team at different events to capture all the little moments in RUSD history. So thank you very much. And I'm looking forward to Read Across America coming up. So thank you.

Thank you. Alina?

I don't have much, but the one thing that I can think of is that Citrus Valley's theater and orchestra are actually teaming up together to run an adaptation of The Addams Family, which has been really popular lately. So the Pitt Orchestra, which are musicians that are collaborating with theater, have been actively rehearsing for Adams Family multiple times a week. And we have the theater working hard, creating a set, and rehearsing their lines. So that's what we've got going on at CV. Around March.

Thank you for sharing. I just have a few comments.

In regards to having 30 seats and stools for our students in a science lab class, many times we forget as, if you're not in education, people don't understand that sometimes students, you know, want to stand and we want to accommodate them so then we have stools for them. Sometimes they would rather sit on the floor. You might see a student that, you know, just wants to, sit on the ground and the teachers allow them to to sit on the ground. The important thing is is ensuring that we have seats available for all of our students and I know that in that specific class since Mr. Blatchley mentioned that there are enough seats for our students and we just need to keep in mind the need of our students and their preference. Some of them would probably rather sit on a stool because they want to see over everybody and others would, you know, rather stay in their regular seats. Then there was also mention about suspensions. And I think it's important to discuss and talk about suspensions because the state has come down on us on school districts in the state of California with more rigorous education codes that we need to follow that they no longer allow us to suspend students for defiance. But there are other reasons why schools are able to suspend students, especially if they harm another student or if they bring weapons on campus or if they are selling drugs or using drugs on campus. So most of the suspensions that you see are due to those ed code violations that we firmly have to suspend for. But rarely do you see the assistant principals or principal suspending students for a defiance issue. We're using a lot of restorative practices. But suspension is like our only, our last big item that we can utilize to address a student's behavior. As a principal, we're constantly looking at different means of correction. You know, instead of suspending, we'll assign a student to Saturday school, give them detention. But if that fails, then, you know, we go towards the suspension after we've tried our best to correct a student's behavior. So it's not an easy fix when it comes to reducing the suspension rates when we do not have the necessary funding to create other means of correction. There's just not a lot of resources that we have, although At Redlands Unified, I think we have done an extraordinary job of making sure that our students get counseled, that we have restorative practices in place, that we have other means of correction, but the number one job Of a principal at a school site is to ensure student safety at all times number one job of a principal The the one way a Principal can lose their job immediately as if the school site is not safe so if it means that our data shows that we're suspending more in order to keep the rest of the students safe, then, you know, so be it. And so that's pretty much it on the suspension part. And then I want to give a shout out to our counselors this week. For Counselors Week, Many times, we don't understand everything that a counselor does because a counselor does not only counsel our students, they make schedule changes, they visit classrooms, they visit students, sometimes they visit them at homes, you know, depending on the situation. They create school-wide events and they help with those events. they attend many of the school functions and they also take on the weight of Having of listening to our students and their needs and I just want to thank all of the counselors that we have at At the elementary middle school and high school level Continue doing an outstanding job. We appreciate all the hard work that you do and meeting the needs of our students and those are all the comments I have So next, Mr. Cabral Juan.

Thank you. Yes, do have a couple of comments I want to make sure I'm making. But first, Dr. Acosta, I don't know if you're still here, but the score is tied now. It's 1-1. We're in overtime. So let's hope our gentleman can pull it off. Board, I'd like to point out on your tables you have actually a list of celebrations that our school sites are doing to honor Black History Month. That's for you to be able to review and if you want to participate. So a lot of great things going on to be able to recognize many of the great heroes in black history. I want to thank cry rock for being here tonight. I know we're gonna see a presentation a little bit later Thanks for your patience. We we look forward to seeing your presentation also from our nutrition services. I Got to see the little vehicle today Love it. I wanted to actually have it outside so we can give snacks out at the board meeting And then our support services director malatesta will be coming up next also Thank you to everybody who participated in the state of the district event. It was our inaugural event It went well, it was great to celebrate the great things that we're doing here in the district I do want to comment a little bit about safety because it is paramount that we have safe schools and it was good to hear comments about getting our police involved in how we can coordinate and collaborate to make our schools as safe as possible. I'd like to share a couple of meetings that I've had in the last month, specifically with the police department and the fire department to talk about training that we can offer our staff so that we can be as ready as possible. That includes the sheriff station in Loma Linda and of course chief Tolbert And her team and then we also met with chief Sessler With the fire department to talk about the training that we can give to our staff a little bit more complicated But we want to also look at training for our students and so we are Our director or I'm sorry our manager our safety manager Eric Torres I don't think I think he was taking care of a situation that we had and But he has been with us. We have a consultant named rod torres who is our former safety manager We are working closely with law enforcement and local Agencies so that we can make sure that we're up to date on safety for our schools and we're very happy to have that collaboration So be looking for information regarding that. One thing that we need help in is social media. We have an uptick of kids who are using social media as a way to threaten each other. they're threatening each other and why social media because it's really easy to do and It goes out to whoever you needed to go out to it makes you look really big But when it comes down to it They're not there. We're talking about our kids and so some of that is just educating our students and so we actually have some forums that we've set up and San Bernardino County Sheriff is actually running a forum for us on April I don't want to say the wrong date on April 10th. Thank you any on April 10th. I believe it starts at 5 p.m 6 p.m at Cope middle school and the entire Forum will be about social media and how to help now the school's what we are doing and we're doing our very best to do this, but we call on all of the instagrams and the x's uh formerly known i wish they would just keep twitter because they have to say the whole thing formerly known as twitter they will not delete accounts for us at our request and we've requested time and time again for them to delete those accounts that we are we know are being done by students by minors, but they refuse to do that for their own reasons. And so I think if we can collaborate with parents and we can have forums where we can all become educated on how to best use social media and how to educate our students so that they're not using that forum to be able to communicate with each other in a negative way, I think it can go a long way to try to help stop some of the kids from thinking it's so easy to share negative thoughts on social media in any forum. So I invite everybody to participate in that April 10th 6 p.m at Cope middle school And just thank you everybody. Let's have a great rest of and i'm a fan of President's day, so enjoy the three-day weekend.

Thank you Thank you Juan next we're going to move on to presentations tonight we're going to start with an update from Rachel director of behavioral and mental health services

Well, good evening board president, board members, superintendent, cabinet, and members of the audience. I'm honored to be here tonight to provide an update on the work being done district-wide by our school counselors, our student leadership champions, and the RCSS team. Not everyone joining us tonight might know what our CSS stands for, but our department is called Redlands Coordinated Supports and Services. We work collaboratively with student services and special services as a one-stop shop for access to expertise in behavioral and social emotional learning supports. The easiest way to find us is on the district website under department pages and to click on behavioral and mental health services. I would like to introduce a couple lead members of our team. As you said, my name is Rachel Malatesta. I serve as the director of behavioral and mental health services. Also in our office is our coordinator BCBA, Marissa Butcher, who oversees our district behavior team. We also have three program leads, John Juniper, who works with our site PBIS coaches and student leadership advisors. Michelle Dupuy, who oversees our K-12 counseling work, and Adam Sipes, our licensed mental health provider, who supervises our associate mental health clinician team. I would love to start with talking about school-based counselors. As many people mentioned, last week was National School Counseling Week. We definitely want to thank our school sites and the district communications team for highlighting all the amazing work done by our school counselors and our academic case carriers. We recognize that our counselors play a vital role in supporting the development of all students and we've been very fortunate to partner with Hatching Results for the last several years in aligning our work that all school counselors do to the MTSS model that's outlined in our LCAP. We're proud to share with you this evening our first ever RUSD counseling handbook. It's linked in our presentation tonight. And this handbook really serves as the foundation for our district-wide ASCA-aligned school counseling program. And I'd like to give a shout-out to our counseling leadership team, who truly leads the work in all of our cohorts and committees and was instrumental in the development of the counseling handbook. Also linked in this presentation is our published mid-year school counseling program reports. This is really great reading. Over the past year, the RUSD counseling program has made a great deal of progress in developing and implementing strong franchised support plans across our school sites and focusing on school-wide attendance supports. The academic case carrier program operates within our comprehensive school counseling program. And the ACCs, along with our elementary counselors, serve our foster and homeless youth. Our district is home to two short-term residential placement facilities, as well as one transitional shelter. And I'm going to share some. Data here. You can see both active and inactive caseloads. That's this year's numbers. So this team serves a really highly mobile population. But we are really happy to share, and someone already mentioned, that on the 22-23 California school dashboard, our foster youth student group did exit differentiated assistance in both suspension and attendance. So kudos to those school counselors and ACCs. So let's transition to talking a little bit about the climate and culture work that our department has the opportunity to do. All of our work revolves around a multi-tiered system of support, and our office supports this work in social-emotional learning, mental health, PBIS or behavior, and restorative practices. And all four of those frameworks come together to create a truly comprehensive support system to boost student success. We're going to hop in with social emotional learning and just give you a little overview. At the tier one level, our work is centered around three areas. The first focus is truly on student connectedness, right? The RCSS team collaborates with our secondary student leadership advisors to equip our student leaders to be more inclusive while they're creating school events and activities. Through the use of Five Star, sites can see who's attending different events and work to refine or create new events to help more kids feel connected to school. And I'm going to share some Five Star data with you in just a moment. The RCSS team also supports the weekly classroom delivery of SEL strategies and lessons by our classroom teachers who are using Second Step and Character Strong curriculum. So I did promise some five star data. So here we have some of that. Five star really enables our schools to track student involvement in activities and events. Helps to identify also who is not involved on our campuses so that we can focus on getting them connected to school. And truly the biggest aid in this work at the high school level has been the LCAP funding support to pay all of our students' activities and ASB fees. This monetary support allows all students to attend all events that normally have had a charge, so things like athletic games, theater productions, other on-campus activities now are low cost and oftentimes free. At the middle school level, they've been working really hard to move this work forward and create activities and things on campus. I will say the biggest barrier for this work at middle school is that all of the ASB events are supported through student fundraisers, since our LCAP student activities fees are only covered at the high school level. But they're really making progress. Five Star gives us lots of outcome data, but of course we're also interested in perception data, what are students thinking. And so we've continued this year to work with Kelvin Education to conduct district-wide student surveys for students in grades four through 12. I have just a few of the results from our most recent January Kelvin Pulse. So these results come to us monthly to help us inform school-based and district-wide initiatives that kind of support the overall wellness of our community. And then we share this data with our school site staff as well as with our student leaders. which I did mention, we do work with our ASB, our link crew, our web, and with the LCAP student advisory. I want to thank Mr. O'Neill. I know he's not here tonight, but he came to our initial kickoff along with Superintendent Cabral and Dr. Wagner. where we met with all of our LCAP student advisory team members here in the boardroom in January. It was a full house in here from juniors and seniors from across our four high school campuses that are really eager to learn more about how the LCAP drives the work that's being done on their school campuses and also for them to give us feedback on their priorities for the 24-25 LCAP plan. So climate and culture work on our campuses would be incomplete without strong PBIS systems. This year we did see nine bronze, nine silver, two gold, and three platinum statewide recognition recipients. And as Dr. Costa mentioned, we're gearing up for this year's site visits and recognition cycle. When we do come out to school sites, we support with their site-specific tiered systems, and we make sure that admin and PBIS site coaches feel equipped to lead the work on their own campus, right? The use of that PBIS framework allows our sites to personalize the work for their campus and their students, which is why if you go to Citrus, you're going to see students acting with class. If you go to Clement, you're going to see students following the Viking Way. because each school takes their unique culture and creates campus-wide expectations and acknowledgement systems that meets their needs. We do sometimes have students that still need additional behavioral interventions after site strategies are used, but the RCSS behavior team does come out at that point to support school sites with consultation and direct student services. As of February 1st, we've supported 88 students across our 25 sites. We can't step away from the PBIS without talking a little bit about restorative practices. Guided restorative practice conversations with staff is what really helps our students return back to campus or to the classroom and work on repairing the harm that has been caused due to maybe some poor behavioral choices. Our whole team is certified trainers in restorative practices and we've provided 14 trainings since 2018. And this year we're really heavily focused on supporting admin and counselors to help boost implementation. And we do want to give a shout out to Lagonia and Orange Wood High School for their two sites with the most consistent use of restorative practices on their campus. Last but certainly not least is our mental health team. We now have a full-time licensed supervisor and a team of eight associate clinicians. This school year we've already received 532 requests for assistance from our school sites. Our goal as a team is to reach out to students and families within 24 to 48 hours so that we can immediately assess need and begin service if it's needed. The mental health team also provides crisis response when site-specific incidents occur on our campuses. Just wrapping up our time, I do want to share with you the state and federal government recognizes the important role that school districts provide in getting students access to mental health. And they are currently pushing out an expansion of Medi-Cal billing opportunities for districts. Redlands was selected as one of only 47 districts across the state to participate in the cohort one work that is rolling out. And we're very excited to be a part of that, especially in light of current budget implications. Finally, just wanting to say thank you to some of our community partners. We partner with various community agencies to ensure our staff and students are able to access training and supports, and we want to thank them for their time and expertise. And finally, I just want to thank you for the opportunity to provide an update for you and our greater Redlands community on the supports being provided district-wide. The RCSS team is honored to be able to serve our students, staff, and families in this important work, and we want to thank you.

Thank you, Rachel. Any questions? Go ahead, Melissa.

Hi. Um, I just had a question. Um, I've always kind of wondered when we're doing five-star with students, do we include the students? And I mean, I- I can understand why maybe not, but do we include the students who are playing those sports or maybe even the kids that are in ASB, like they're scanning students, but does anybody ever like the football team or the soccer team or the basketball team? Um, they're technically at those events as well and I would think it would help, I mean, their own numbers. Um, if- are- are they being scanned in at the same time?

They are tracked a little bit differently. So students that attend an event get credit or points for attending the event. Students that belong to activities like clubs or sports, visual performing arts groups, also get points for joining that club or that team. So they don't have to scan in at every event because we want them to focus on winning the games because we want to win the games. They get points for being on the team and generally it'll be like one lump sum of points That would maybe equate to the whole number of games. They attended.

Awesome.

Thank you. We don't leave them out Thank you.

Appreciate it. Uh-huh My question is also about the five star On the two slides that was the five star student slides in the middle school and high school especially the middle school You have it looks like if I'm reading them right you have two schools that very little participation and Two schools with quite a bit. Have you figured out? Why at those schools?

So really, we kind of have three that are on that upward trend for Beatty, Cope, and more. Clement Middle School has had some turnover in ASB advisors over the last several years, and they are our only middle school that does not currently offer web. And when was this data? Yesterday.

Oh, OK. Because it seems like there's so much participation at that school in different things now. I don't know, maybe just hasn't showed up yet.

Capturing it is an opportunity for us to be able to better define how we can support students.

Yeah.

OK, thanks.

I have a few questions. So I know you talked about the three tiers of support, but can you break it down a little bit more for the audience so that they understand exactly what each tier is and what it means?

Yeah, absolutely. When we're talking about tier one services, really in anything, whether it's counseling, mental health, social emotional learning, we're talking about base programs that meet the needs of 80 to 90% of our students, right? So when we're looking at PBIS, for example, that we're We're teaching kids what our expectations are on campus. The majority of kids understand through our classroom lessons or maybe our assemblies. And then occasionally we do. We have students that are in that tier two or tier three category. So we're looking at 10% to 15% of our student body that maybe need reteaching opportunities or another opportunity to hear it maybe in a different way. And so when we're tearing those levels supports everybody gets tier one and then some students get tier two and a few students Even tier three our supports increase depending on their level of need Thank you, and then the The SEL programs that we're using at the elementary level are

What's the, is it the same SEL curriculum across all of the elementary schools? And what's the name of it?

So we have, since we were on distance learning, we've picked up Second Step for our kinder through fifth grade. And we have maintained implementation with Second Step. since that time. Our elementary teachers have really done an outstanding job with implementation. There's a weekly lesson they teach and our site admin has really helped carve out time, protected time each week for them to be able to teach that one lesson and it's definitely making a difference in our behaviors that we're seeing on campus and allowing us to focus our tier two and tier three after our tier one has been delivered.

Thank you. And just so the audience knows, we do the SEL lessons also as a way to help us reduce our suspension rates.

Of course. All of that work, PBIS, social-emotional learning, our restorative practices. As well as our mental health team, all of that work is to help increase attendance, decrease discipline incidents. And we know kids will occasionally make bad choices, but we want them to learn from those mistakes and not be in that situation again. So all of those things help support making sure that we learn from some of our poor choices.

Thank you, Rachel, excellent job. Alrighty, so next we have Alyssa Cummings, Child Nutrition Director, here to give us an update on CNS medley station.

Hello. Good evening, board president, board members, Superintendent Cabral, cabinet, and community members. My name is Alyssa Cummings, and I am your director of Child Nutrition Services. And I also have our operations and compliance manager with us tonight, Jennifer Petty, and our nutrition specialist, Josie Perez. And we're collectively here to introduce the Child Nutrition Services Department's rebranding. Now, this is something that has taken us a little bit over a year to complete because we really wanted it to capture the essence of our department by digging into the heart and souls of who we are and the services that we want to provide to our students. And this rebranding project was fully funded by a grant from No Kid Hungry. We appreciate the opportunity that they've provided to us and they see the vision of what a rebrand would do for a department's participation. No Kid Hungry is a national campaign run by Share Our Strength. They're a non-profit working to solve problems of hunger and poverty in the United States and around the world. We work with No Kid Hungry at any and all opportunities we have. They've provided financial and support resources to our department to help us grow our feeding programs. And in the last seven years, we've partnered with them to launch the development of our breakfast carts at our middle schools and high schools and roll out breakfast break at all of our school site locations. And this long-term partnership with them has immensely increased our breakfast participation. So we have a lot of love and a lot of thank yous for No Kid Hungry.

We worked with a Sacramento based marketing firm called Honey Marketing focused on food and agriculture industry. Megan Phillips and her team were amazing to collaborate with via virtually. And we want to thank them for their thoughtful collaboration on this project. Our goal of rebranding was to create a jumping off point for communicating with parents, guardians, staff, and community. In the brand development of our department, we started with surveys. We involved internal and external stakeholders. We got a whopping response from parents, over 2,000 responses. We also reached out to our district staff, CNF staff and leadership, also vendor and community partners. We also used our students. They were greatly involved in focus groups in the naming process for CNS.

Through the information that we received from our internal and external stakeholder surveys, we were able to develop our brand promise. So together, we ensure that every student who walks through our doors has access to nutritious meals and a space that fuels their academic progress and physical and emotional well-being. This shows a snapshot of our department, where we currently stand, and then our visions moving forward. Right now, we're redefining our food system and we're streamlining our menus. We are working towards increasing locally sourced food and expanding our freshly made menu offerings. We're also looking to provide more culturally rich menu options. And we really want to involve the students in menu development and increase our parent and community engagement. Investments made in our central kitchen help us to increase the availability of in-season foods. So this equipment helps us to prepare food in large quantities and portions and they are sent out to the school sites every day throughout the district. It increases our ability to work with local farmers to package and distribute local fresh produce as well.

And with that, I now introduce Medley Station. It has a visual identification that really elevates our department. And it's something that effectively communicates our our services and values to our target audiences. And we went with a very timeless looking logo because, as you know, not a lot of child nutrition services departments go through a formal rebrand such as this. And so we do want it to last for many, many years to come. We also kept some attributes from our Redlands Unified School District logo, so we kept the same color scheme, and then we also have those three oranges up at top there that we see also reflective in our traditional logo. And when you think of Medley Station, Medley really focuses on a blend in diversity and culture and flavor. station evokes a sense of place where we create or my department creates that warm welcoming environment for all of our students. And with the logo, we also have a tagline, Vital Fuel for Success. And this is something that we're extremely passionate about and something that we hold near and dear to our hearts. Because as many studies continually come out, you cannot teach a hungry child. And a hungry child just doesn't have the attention span to learn in the classroom. We truly want to provide every opportunity for success, and so VitalFuel for success is our tagline. And this year, we started, we dove into the social media realm, and we created an Instagram. And as of tomorrow, our Instagram handle will change to medleystation underscore r-u-s-d. And we will create a post to provide all that up-to-date information and everything current to all of those that do follow us. And if you don't follow us, please do so. It's an opportunity for us to share all the special events that we take part in at all the campuses across the district. We also do taste tests at different school sites. We do recipe development. We'll show off new menus, menu items, up and coming menus, and also share some team professional development and staff trainings that we do throughout the department. And as you see there, there are two variations of the Medley Station logo on the screen. And for phase one, we really wanted to focus on packaging. And so we have stickers made. And those stickers will be placed on all of our freshly prepared products coming out of our central kitchen so that everyone can decipher from our branding and branding from other sources. And we are truly so excited to have the opportunity to rebrand. And we're looking forward to continuing to make a positive impact on our students each and every day. So thank you.

Thank you, Lisa, Jennifer, and Josie. Do we have any questions?

I don't have anything, but I wanted to thank you guys for all your hard work. Not just with this, but you guys do an amazing job. And I know I and a lot of parents really appreciate the time you guys spend feeding our students. So thank you.

Thank you very much. Thank you.

Also don't have any questions, but I want to thank you all so much I love the sticker idea because I know we've had conversations about what the students think where they think that food came from And now they'll know it was packaged right here. So that's right. That's right.

That's the goal.

That's the goal. Thank you.

So great job Great job. I just have one question because you said you have a recipe development Can you name a couple of new items at the elementary maybe one item for the elementary one for the middle one for the high school?

OK, so right now we're working on carnitas fries. That's a really big one. We're working on a new spaghetti and meatball recipe for the elementaries. And that was because of Jim O'Neill. Mr. Jim O'Neill, he told me that that was his favorite item back in elementary school. So we're just kind of working on that recipe. And we're also working on a new Greek wrap. So that would be for our secondary schools as well.

Wow, what does a Greek rep have?

Goodness, come on, nutrition specialist in the house? Go ahead.

Well, it's still in the development phase, but I'm looking at feta cheese with chicken with Greek seasoning and pepperoncinis and olives with romaine lettuce. So that's the base and then the balsamic vinaigrette.

Wow.

Just come on over to CNS. We'll feed you. Okay.

I was hoping to see a picture of the mobile unit, but there's no picture.

I know we were keeping that as a surprise because we're actually going out.

I ruined the surprise.

Me and Jen, we're going out to every single school site in the next three days. So wish us luck. We have 24 sites to visit, but we will get there in three days and we will be driving the car.

Excellent. Sorry to ruin the surprise, but wait till you see it. It's pretty awesome. Awesome job. Awesome job. Thank you.

We'll post it on social media tomorrow. Thank you so much.

Thank you. Last but not certainly least, we have Cryrop here to give us an update on the criminal justice and emergency responder program. Mr. Rain.

OK, well, good evening, President Vara, Superintendent Cabral, trustees, and esteemed guests. We're proud to be here today representing the Colton-Ruthen's Yucaipa Regional Occupational Program. For over 50 years now, we've been providing high quality career technical education to the Ruthen's community. And part of our focus this year has been to tell our story. And so with that, when I'm in the community, oftentimes I hear, boy, we should have automotive in our classes. We should have vocational courses still. We should have construction courses. Well, we're here today to share that those courses, they are embedded into our programs. They're thriving. And February is CTE month. And there's no better way for us to tell our story than to have one of our excellent programs. And so I'd like to introduce Mr. Hirschberger. And he has a few of his students here today to share some of their program.

Board members, thank you for allowing me the opportunity to come in and present to you guys. I have two of my students here. They're going to say who they are and what year they are in the program. Go ahead.

I'm Gavin, and I'm in EMR2.

Good evening. I'm Arianna Mose, and I'm in EMR1.

All right, we have Mr. Bartler who teaches our criminal justice classes. Unfortunately, he had a family emergency that came up, so he wasn't able to be here tonight. So I'll try to fill in for his part. I've been the emergency medical responder slash medical instructor at Citrus Valley for about the last 14 years. from year two that they were open ever since. Both programs are articulated, which means that students who take our classes at Citrus Valley do get some college credits with the local community colleges. So that's very important for our students to be able to do that. Here's a picture of the criminal justice, some of the things that they have done so far this year. Two of the outside pictures with the grass, they were doing plaster castings of footprints to do comparisons for their cases that they work on. And then we also have on the far right up there, the students are working on evidence, collection, mark identifying and so forth. On the picture up there on the left is they're planting a tracking device on a vehicle so that they'd be able to track where the vehicle went and so forth. The one next to it, they actually got to go on a tour at the courthouse, I believe down in San Bernardino. Then we have working on another crime scene. The patient or the person who's wrapped up in the tarpon there is one of my resident patients that they borrowed for the activity. And then they had a canine dog come and present to the students, but they kept them on the other side of the fence. I'm not quite sure why they did that. A lot of times the dogs are inside. I do have a video. We'll see if it plays. I know the volume on this one's a little bit low.

Hello, my name is Alexandra and I'm currently a senior at Citrus Valley High School. So my school offers the CTA pathway of criminal justice, which I have been a part of for two years. My teacher, Mr. Bartler, has really inspired me to dig a little deeper into this subject. His first class has taught me the different, the basic methods of the criminal justice system. and then study branches. And his second class right now is teaching me all the different types of ways to solve a crime and the forensic side of things. His class inspired me so much my junior year that I decided to pursue a degree in Criminology for college. I've currently been accepted into Cal State San Marcos and Cal Poly Pomona to continue pursuing this degree. One thing for sure is that I really want to pursue a degree in the criminal justice field. And I feel like his class has really prepared me career-wise, whether it's to different ways to help solve the crime or helping me make a resume for a future job, whether or not it's in the field. Thank you.

It was spectacular, so beautiful.

I thought I was going to heaven. It was electric. That's not mine.

There's two more, but a little bit farther down.

Thank you.

All right, now for emergency medical responder. The pictures up here, this was my COVID project. So we now have an emergency medical lab. In the lab, the students learn how to take care of patients like in an emergency room setting. And also out in the field, we have an ambulance simulator there. The EMR-1 students, the two Corner pictures are them doing assessment on our resident patients. And the two pictures in the center are the students learning how to make hospital beds with the triangle corners, also known as military corners. Now, I don't get too technical and flip quarters to make sure it bounds properly, but. I always make sure I do this before our back-to-school night so I can let the parents know that when you tell your students to clean the room and make the bed, and when they say, no, I don't know how, there's the proof so they know how to do it. These pictures here, we have students working with spinal mobilization for a person who might be inside of a vehicle or on the ground. The students that are being tested on these skills are being tested at the EMT level instead of the EMR level so that when they go to Crafton Hills, they know exactly what's expected of them. And many of my students go through, pass the EMT program, and then they come back and they help to evaluate my current students. We have a student on the left being evaluated by me with one of those cycle motor skills. They learn how to do various types of carries of patients. And then again we have working airway management and spinal mobilization on the right there. This picture here, the students, all of my EMR2 students were American Heart Association CPR trained. I had 49 out of my students get CPR certified. An additional four were already certified through the cryrops CNA program that they have at the main campus. We did a public service tour to Crofton Hills and here's a couple of pictures of what the students were doing and practicing during the tour.

Hello and good morning. My name is Sabrina Bruni. I'm a Citrus Valley High School alumni class of 2015, and I was the first ever EMR course that Citrus Valley hosted. I'm currently a supervisor at Prevent Medical Solutions, so I apologize for the excessive noise on shift. I had recently graduated paramedic school about two weeks ago. I'm waiting acceptance into the fire academy at Crafton Hills College as well. And I won the clinical award as well as a heart saver award. And I wouldn't have done it without Robert Harshberger taking me under his wing and showing me everything I needed to know in EMR cry rock.

Okay, then there's one more video after this one.

Hello, my name is Jonathan Casaneda. I'm currently a probationary firefighter paramedic with the city of Colton Fire. I grew up always wanting to be a first responder and in doing so I made sure that I attended certain classes when I was in high school. I graduated Citrus Valley class of 2017 and my senior year I was actually able to attend Mr. Harshberger's emergency medical responder class. This is a great class. It gave me exposure to the emergency medical field and allowed me to obtain a basic certificate where I could be titled as an emergency medical responder and it allowed me to be a better candidate in terms of presenting myself to the future when I was looking for jobs. So having my EMR certification that I obtained through Citrus Valley allowed me to get my first job as a lifeguard because it showed that I had a higher level of training already than just basic first aid and that landed me that job. From there, I attended EMT school at Crafton Hills College and as well as paramedic school at Crafton Hills College. And all this kind of stood back down to being in Mr. Harshburner's class, being exposed to the ROP and being able to attend.

That was just baby dropping the bottle there. I thought I edited that out. All right, now through a strong workforce project grant that CRIROP has just been awarded, some of the things we're looking at for our public service programs. Up on the top left, that is a simulator for police, ambulance, and fire, so we can have up to those three different programs. and the students will be able to practice, see what it's like to actually be driving one of those emergency vehicles, you know, watching out for various dangers and so forth. Over on the right, that little red square thing there is a simulated vehicle so we can practice extricating our patients out of that. We can actually turn it on its side or even upside down. The law enforcement students can practice, you know, stops and, you know, searches and so forth. We're going to be updating our striker ambulance gurneys from what we currently have. The bottom left, makeshift courtroom that will be put up to make a courtroom. And on the bottom there, we are getting three simulated mannequins that the students will be able to take blood pressure, get the pulse, get respiratory rate, listen to the heart, listen to the lungs. I'll be able to have a program running And as the students are taking care of the patient, what they do will be able to help the patient either get better or get worse. So the students will be able to see that real time. And it'll add just the next level to an already excellent program. And that's my presentation. Thank you.

Could I get Gavin to come up and say a few things? But before you start, how tall are you?

I am 6'8".

Whoa. You took my height. Go ahead, go ahead, Gavin.

So you just want me to talk about the program? Yeah, talk about the program. So this program, it's really neat. You learn CPR, employability skills, teamwork especially is a pretty big component that's being learned, mastered in that class. And I will say EMR2 is definitely moving faster than EMR1. So it's nice to see us developing different skills if that's how to take care of a patient with a burn or some kind of laceration. So it's nice to have those skills start to pile up. And I feel like if I do go, you know, into a medical field or emergency medical responder field, that this class is going to definitely help me a lot.

All right, great job. Thank you. Mariana?

It's Ariana. Ariana? Yes.

I thought I heard an N when you said it. Ariana, go ahead.

I actually prepared a brief speech just to give you guys a little bit of an insider on my experience in EMR1. Mr. Harshbarger's emergency medical response class helped me prepare for being a future psychiatrist in many ways. In his class I have learned key fundamentals such as proper note-taking, medical terminology, various techniques to remember terminology, and life-saving information. It's a pleasure to be in his class as he has amazing teaching skills. He knows how to connect with all students no matter age, race. I know I can ask Mr. Harshberger a million and one questions and he will answer each and every single one of them thoroughly. There's never a dull moment with the amazing energy he consistently brings to his class every day. With taking Mr. Harshberger's class, I can say that I'm a thousand times more confident and prepared to start my future career in the medical field. Thank you, Mr. Harshberger, because not only has he prepared me, but it's amazing to see how hard he works for his students to provide us with different technology all the time. Mr. Harshberger really loves what he does, and he shows us that every day. Thank you to Mr. Harshberger, and thank you all for your time.

I just have one more thing to add. A few months ago, one of my EMR2 students was coming to school when she witnessed a accident right down here on, what is the street that goes over the bridge? What's that? Alabama. Vehicle pulled over to make a left-hand turn and got rear-ended by another vehicle. She put her car in park, put on the emergency flashers, checked the person in the first vehicle while calling 911, checking the person in the second vehicle who sustained some head injuries and was bleeding, stayed with that patient, talking to the patient, controlling the bleeding until fire department arrived. Once the fire department arrived, They looked at her and they're like, are you a high school student? She said yes. Well, where did you learn how to do this? Mr. Harshberger's EMR class at Citrus Valley.

Can you email the superintendent, the young lady's name so that we can honor her for her bravery? Thank you. Outstanding job. Board members, do you have any questions?

I actually want to thank you, Mr. Hirschberger. Your dedication to your students and to the program to cryop to RUSD is evident. But I appreciate those videos of your former students because not only does it show us that your program is working, but that You know, when our students are in high school and we expect them to know what they want to do with their lives, it's a really intimidating thing. And I cannot thank you enough for giving these students the confidence to not only find a passion, but to pursue it. You are not only giving them, you know, a glimpse into a possible career, you're setting them up with a foundation for a career and their life I mean your student there has had his family you can hear his baby in the background and it was very nice to see because you can tell he has a passion for what he does and you know that that affects other aspects of your life and There are not enough words I can have for you right now to show how much I appreciate that but you're doing an amazing job So thank you for that

Thank you. They are some of the former students who come in and evaluate my current students. So the current students get to see the full cycle of life. And well, they were just here a few years ago, and now they're actually out there working. And I can do this now.

I also just want to thank you all. Thank all the CRIROP teachers who work with our students every day. My only wish is that we had every program in every school because some of our kids are missing out on criminal justice. Some of our kids are missing out on Art Academy. So different things that we have, I just wish they were in every school, but good job for everything that you're doing. Thank you.

Mr. Hershberger awesome job. You can tell the students the students love you and it speaks volume when the student specifically speaks about their teacher and their passion and On behalf of the board. Thank you very much for what you do to encourage and engage our students on a daily basis Thank you So next. Oh, do you have any?

I just wanted to say thank you. That was awesome. Love the story. Great job students. Excellent work. Appreciate your time.

Thank you and you're welcome.

Thank you.

Soccer 1. What was the score? 3-2.

Alex, our student trustee would like to have said something. Yes.

Sorry, I'd also like to add a comment. Definitely one of the benefits I've seen of these cry ROP classes, specifically to talk about EMR, is that Citrus Valley has a hosted club which is basically about just like a club about the medical field and we've been able to use the technology that the EMR classes use for our club so It's very beneficial to have these cry ROP classes at school because they can also lead into club activities as well and educate even more students who aren't taking the class. Thank you.

Great job, Alina. Thank you. Really quick, Reb Soccer won. They play Friday. Two double over times, had to go to penalty kicks. We won three to two. On to semis.

on the new field on the new field excellent okay we'll now continue with the superintendent's recommendation let's begin with business services consent item i know there's some changes uh jason Thank you, President Vara.

We are going to remove from page seven, business services action items, item E, resolution 22. So we're removing that item for your approval tonight.

All righty, thank you. Okay, so is there a motion to approve items 15A, consent items B through M? Second. Second. Thank you. Discussion? Student preferential vote. So you say aye or nay or abstain. Aye. Those in favor say aye.

Aye. Aye.

Opposed? Chair votes aye and so ordered. Alrighty. Moving on to business services action items. Our first item is to approve the board meeting dates for next year. Approve 2024-2025 Board of Education meetings. Is there a motion?

I'll move.

Second. Okay, thank you. Discussion? Student preferential vote.

Aye.

All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Chair votes aye and so ordered. Okay, we need to cast up to six votes for the California School Boards Association, CSBA 2024 Delegate Assembly. Sub region 16B, delegate board members as a whole may vote for up to. The total number of vacancies, which is six in region 16B. So the delegates will serve two year terms beginning April 1st, 2024 through March 31st, 2026. The following are the individuals listed on the official 2024 Delegate Assembly Ballot for sub region 16B. Heather Allgood, What is that? Buchanan? Buchanan. Buchanan, sorry. Tom Courtney, Barbara Dew, Cindy Gardner, Clayton Moore, Scott Wyatt. Do you have any?

I would like to see Heather Allgood, Cindy Gardner, and Scott Wyatt. Those are my three picks.

Actually, I'm gonna usually defer to Jim for these things just because he's a little more familiar with everyone So I actually have no preference I'm gonna add Amanda Clayton and Barbara do so that'll give us a six and So it'll be Heather Allgood, Amanda Buchanan, Barbara Dew, Cindy Gartner, Clayton Moore, Scott Wyatt. Okay, is there a motion to approve the names of the- I'll second. Let me finish up a little bit though. for the california school boards association csba 2024 delegate assembly sub region 16b is there a motion move okay thank you discussion all those in favor student preferential vote aye all those in favor say aye

Aye. Aye.

Opposed? None. Chair votes aye and so ordered. So adopt resolution number 18-2023-2024, transfers of apportionments. Is there a motion? Appropriations. Appropriations, thank you. Is there a motion?

I move. Second.

Okay, so we got a first and a second. Thank you, student preferential vote. Aye.

All those in favor say. Discussion. Aye.

Go ahead.

It just- You don't have a discussion?

No. Okay, all right. Do you have a discussion? No, I didn't say. Okay, no, okay. All right, all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye. Opposed? Chair votes aye and so ordered. Okay, adopt resolution number 2023-2024, authorization to designate authority to transact banking services for secondary schools associated student body accounts. Is there a motion?

Move.

Second. Thank you, discussion? Okay, student preferential vote.

Aye.

All those in favor say aye. Aye. Chair votes aye and so ordered. Adopt resolution number 22, 2023, 2024 authorizing the Redlands.

We take that one out.

That one we pulled, that's correct. All right.

Okay, moving on to consent items under educational services. Is there a motion to approve items 17A, consent items B through I?

I'll move.

Okay. Thank you. Discussion? No. Okay.

Student preferential vote.

Aye.

Okay. All those in favor say aye.

Aye. Aye.

Chair votes aye and so ordered. Okay, moving on, action items under educational services. Adopt resolution number 23, 2023, 2024, National School Counseling Week, February 5th, 2024 through February 9th, 2024. Is there a motion?

Move. Second.

Thank you. Discussion? Student preferential vote.

Aye.

Okay, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Chair votes aye and so ordered. Next we'll take items 18B through K together. Is there a motion to approve 18B through K?

I'll move.

Discussion? Student preferential vote.

Aye.

All those in favor say aye. Aye. We get an aye from you, Melissa? Aye. Okay. Chair votes aye and so ordered. Okay, moving on to human resources consent items. Is there a motion to approve items 19A, consent items B through AT? I'll move.

Second.

Okay, discussion? Okay, student preferential vote.

Aye.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye. Chair votes aye and so ordered. Next we have, under human resources, action items, we have several items. Key. Here we go, certificated ratify, approve, collect bargaining agreement addendum between the Redlands Unified School District and Redlands Teachers Association CTA NEA effective July 1st, 2023 through June 30th, 2025. And public disclosure of proposed collective bargaining agreement in accordance with AB 1200. Copy of this agreement, addendum is available to review at the district office, business services division. Is there a motion?

Move. Second.

A thank you discussion.

We finally came to an agreement.

Yes, great job negotiating. Great job teachers as well. Um, student preferential vote? Aye. All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Okay, chair votes aye and so ordered. Okay, so the revision includes a 6% total increase to salary as follows, 2% retroactive salary increase effective July 1st, 2023, and 2% retroactive salary increase effective January 1st, 2024, and 2% salary increase effective July 1st, 2024. So classified ratified collective bargaining agreement addendum between the Redlands Unified School District and Redlands Education Support Professionals Association, CTANEA, effective July 1st, 2023 through June 30th, 2025, and public disclosure of proposed collective bargaining agreement in accordance with AB 1200. So a copy of the agreement addendum is available for review at the district business office services division. Is there a motion?

Move. Second.

Discussion? No. Okay. Student preferential vote. All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Chair votes aye and so ordered. So revisions include a 6% total increase to salary as follows. 3.5 retroactive salary increase effective July 1st, 2023. 2.5 salary increase effective July 1st, 2024. And an increase of 215 per eligible member to health and welfare. Management ratifying approved revisions to the management team salary schedule including certificated managers, classified managers and executive cabinet members for the 2023-2024 school year effective July 1, 2023. Revisions of this management team salary schedule include a 6% total compensation package which consists of 2% retroactive salary increase effective July 1st, 2023, 2% retroactive salary increase effective January 2024, 1.5% salary increase effective July 1st, 2024, and a 0.5% increase, 815 per manager to health and welfare. Is there a motion?

Move. I'll second.

Discussion? No. Okay. Student preferential vote.

Aye.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Okay, chair votes aye and so ordered. Okay, approve increase for board member compensation. Education code section 35120 and board law 9250 allow the board to increase its compensation by 5% per year. The recommendation is to increase board member compensation by 5% as allowed by law effective July 1st, 2023. Is there a motion?

I'll move. Second.

Thank you. Discussion?

I have discussion. Okay, go ahead. So just like the last two times that we did this, I'm still not for doing an increase. So if this does pass, just the amount that would increase this year, I will be donating it to something in our school district like I've done the last two years. Just so you know that.

Okay, great. Thank you. Okay, student preferential vote. All those in favor say aye aye All those opposed opposed Okay, so chair votes aye and so we're gonna have to put it on the next agenda item because it does not pass We don't have a majority majority is three Okay, so classified adoption resolution number 21, 2023, 2024 pertaining to layoffs and or reduction of classified positions of the preschool program. Let me see.

Do you want to make a motion before you read that or are you going to read it?

Is there a motion?

I'll make a motion.

Second.

I'll second.

Thank you, discussion? Okay, student preferential vote.

Aye.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Okay, chair votes aye and so ordered. Okay, all right. Okay, approved student attendance calendar for the 2025-2026 school year. Second and final reading. Is there a motion?

I'll move.

Thank you discussion.

Um, can we discuss about the lincoln's birthday that that email came in about Because that'll affect that calendar I believe that this what we have in front of us has something that's already been established through the committee that meets and so any um Preferences or suggestions we would have to make that through Dr. Sabine and then maybe take it to the committee and see if as a whole they would want to make any changes to that day

that this is a second and final reading. Would we be able to just, I don't know if you're willing to Michelle, maybe make that a discussion for the 2026-27 calendar because I just feel like this is a lot of work to be putting back on their plate. It is a final reading.

Yeah, it certainly would uh impact Um, it doesn't have to be taken on if it can be suggested But if they feel like we're already this far ahead, then they may you know, say we'll bring it up at the next time as you're saying

I just want to remind the board that the student attendance calendar is a negotiated calendar. So any changes or revisions to it has to go through the negotiations process, which is a joint calendar committee. So I agree, if we're going to bring this back, then we can certainly look at that. But it will have to be for

to calendars out Thank you Case student preferential vote.

I have a question actually.

Yes, go ahead.

Okay, so for the 2025 through 26 school year Are the block days going to be the ones that go to 319 or the shorter ones do we have any information on that?

I believe those are set by school sites, aren't they? Daily schedules? Is that what you're asking? Block schedule. Yeah, the block schedule.

Do you have anything on that?

Now the block schedules that happen are done amongst the school sites themselves, so the calendar committee wouldn't impact what the school sites do in their block schedules. So it would be something that you would talk about maybe in the school site council or in the school's leadership team or have discussion with the principal who would talk to the school leadership team about the block schedules that they might do and when they do those.

Okay, so does that mean that like block schedule hours, also like rally schedule hours, are those determined independently by each school?

Correct.

Okay, thank you. Question, though.

Would you prefer?

Personally, I would prefer the shorter block days. I can't speak for the rest of the population, but that's what I think.

Alrighty. Noted. Okay, where was I? Oh, the student calendar. So is there a motion? So a student preferential vote?

Aye. We gotta make a motion first.

You already did. Okay. Yeah. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Okay, chair votes aye and so ordered. We have no discussion items this evening so we'll go ahead. Not yet, so I need to, okay. So in regard to public employee discipline dismissal release part of the agenda. I would like to report the following. During closed session, the board unanimously took action to accept the resignation of certificated employee 2023-24-03, effective March 1st, 2024. and to approve the settlement release agreement in connection there with Ayala, Quintero, O'Neill, Rendler, and Barr voting aye. Holahan, Patty was absent. Okay, so we have no discussion items this evening, so we'll go ahead and adjourn the meeting at, what time is it, 754. Thank you.