Board of Education — November 4, 2025

Regular open session meeting of the Redlands Unified School District Board of Education for November 4th, 2025 at 6.06. I'm going to do roll call. Board Member Ayala-Contero? Present. Vice President Hollihan? Present. Clerk Wilson is absent and Board Member Olsen? Here. And I am here. Tonight, we have three students from Mentone's AVID program, German Marquez, Amara Abeta, Noah Abeta, and they will be up 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, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

So for tonight's Empowering Positive Moments, our student highlight, we will have a Mentone AVID program here to talk about the great things they do at Mentone.

...at Mentone Elementary, and I'm very excited to share with Superintendent Cabral, Cabinet, and our school board and our community about the Mentone AVID program. We're lucky to have two teachers that are here to speak on behalf of our program, as well as two student speakers that are here to share. So our first one is Kristen Mariani.

She just got Teacher of the Year, so congratulate her. Yay! Yay!

Hello and good evening. My name is Kristen Mariani and I'm a TK teacher at Mentone Elementary. I want to share some of the amazing things we do at Mentone for AVID and grades TK through two. We believe you're never too young to start working on the skills that help promote lifelong learning and higher education. All of our classrooms at Mentone display college walls to promote higher learning and around campus we have wicker posters and career paths to encourage students to think about the future. In TK, students are introduced to Avid and Wicker. We focus on organization using cubbies, book bins, supply boxes, and folders to help organize materials for each student. Students are responsible for all of their materials and are taught to clean up after themselves and put toys and work tools back into their proper place. Students in TK are taught about three column notes to organize pictures, words, and simple sentences, which introduce them to beginning reading skills.

And I have props. That's our three column notes.

We also use a defining map to manipulate objects and differentiate between sounds. We also use writing pyramids to help introduce how to organize our writing. In kindergarten, classes continue their organizational skills, which include assigning students particular jobs in class, displaying their avid goals, posting the classroom schedule, and showing the daily and weekly objectives. Students are expected to organize their personal materials and take-home folders with homework and then return them daily. Thinking maps are used to model how to organize thoughts and information from texts that are read in class. Student work is displayed to promote pride and excellence in their writing. In first grade, students learn to avidize their desks using a posted example of how their materials should be arranged while using a storage desk. which is new because in kindergarten and TK, they only have tables. Students are expected to keep track of their assignments and notes in a folder that is sent home and returned daily. Thinking maps and two-column notes are used frequently, and students start to become more independent with these organizational methods. Additionally, sentence frames are used to help promote writing and summarizing text. Students have AVID goals posted and meet with the teacher to create and reflect on their progress. Second grade students have the same organizational expectations of the earlier years with calendar writing added to make them aware of upcoming events at school. Accelerated reader becomes a larger focus as reading skills improve and a wider variety of thinking maps are used to reflect on text passages as well as two and three column notes. Sentence frames at this level are more complex, and writing becomes longer with more structure. For comprehension, students use race, which requires students to R, restate the question, A, answer the question, C, cite the source, and E, explain their reasoning. Students in second grade make their own avid goals based on their individual needs and reflect on them at the end of every trimester. So I will now turn it over to Pachara Ang.

Thank you, Kristen.

Thank you for the opportunity to highlight our wonderful AVID program at Mentone Elementary. I'm very proud to represent our school and our staff in our program here tonight. Like I said, like my colleague just introduced, my name is Pachara Ong, and I teach third grade at Mentone Elementary. Today I'm here to talk about one of the many things that we have created here for our AVID program at Mentone. But this is something that we are very proud of because all of our staff collaborated to create something that has been very useful for our staff, our students, and our families. So today I'm going to talk about our AVID planner. And I do have multiple copies here for our students. board members and our superintendent so if you could thank you so that kind of gives you an idea of what we have in here the staff has collaborated to create a customized so customized i mean every single page in this planner was created by our staff members so we collaborated we worked together to create something that was very that was going to be helpful resources that were going to be useful for our staff our students and our families on the the first page if you open it up you will see that there are trimester one our ar goals and avid goals we really strongly encourage our students we have all our students and our staff set personalized AVID goals. So that way they are tracking their goals and making it so that they can progress, really encourage them to have the responsibility for their goals. And then at the end of the trimester, we go back and reflect on those goals. So the staff members meet with administrators to reflect on those goals. And then students meet with their teachers to reflect on their goals. So that gives them a sense of responsibility and being able to track their progress. We also have, starting on page 7... We have school information. So that gives resources for families for them to be able to keep informed and providing them tools such as homework assistance, any type of support that could help families to encourage them to be more connected with the school community. Our next... Our next tab here is for the assignment goals, and that is when we're looking at students, we want students to be able to track what are they learning, what are they learning in class, so that way we can have that connection with the parents, with families, so that when parents are looking at The planner, they are seeing what the kids are learning, some reminders about school information, and then also tracking their behavior. How are the kids doing? How is your child behaving at school? If there is information as far as like a check if the parent needs to be contacted through ParentSquare. And also we ask that the parents are signing the agenda so that they're keeping accountable for their student's learning also. And then we have all these resources, particularly for AVID. And one of the things that we are proud that we have developed, that we really want to strengthen the vertical articulation at our school. So that means that we want to make sure that our students are learning specific strategies that we can carry on throughout all the grade levels, all the way from TK all the way to fifth grade. And so something that we have developed at our school are annotation symbols, and they are using the same symbols consistently throughout all the grade levels from TK all the way to fifth grade. So that way, that consistency, and they're able to have a cohesive learning experience. So the planner is something that we are working on developing for the lower grades also. This is something that has been used within our upper grades and it has been a very useful tool, especially for really emphasizing our AVID strategies and really connecting the families with our students here. And also, it has helped to really transition smoothly into the middle school. Because as we know, when students transition into middle school, they are using these planners to be able to really practice those strategies. And so we are really encouraging our students to practice those strategies so that they can be ready for middle school and be ready for college and career readiness, which is the avid goal for, well, the avid mission for our goals. Okay. And that's it. And then Dr. O'Day, if you want to introduce one of our student speakers. Thank you very much. Thank you.

And then we have two students, one student from fourth grade and one student from fifth grade that are going to briefly just share their experience as a student in AVID. So our fourth grade student is Martha Hermanson.

My name is Martha Hermanson, and I would like to share the speech that I wrote. AVID helps me be more organized and helps me accomplish goals that I make. When I set a goal, such as my... My AR goal, AVID helps me work toward it. For example, I can write in my exact AVID goal and know exactly what I'm working toward, like trying to add more punctuation to an essay that I write or trying to move up further in my reading level. AVID helps me organize my thoughts too. Organizing my binder and my desk help me do that. When I use AVID to help me learn, my thoughts are organized. I can accomplish one goal at a time and then set new ones. AVID helps me to think clearer and more organized so I can understand what I am learning better. When I organize my goals, my thoughts, and my school environment, it is easier to use AVID to advance and learn through my grades more quickly and understandably. I can advance in my reading and classwork with independence on my own. I can also advance in collaboration with group or classwork. AVID provides advancement, organization, and many different ways for classes to learn equally and willingly.

Thank you.

And our fifth grade student is Haley Mendeville.

Good evening. My name is Haley Mandeville, and I'm a fifth grader at Mentone Elementary School. I'd like to speak to you today about the importance of the AVID program in our schools. When I was younger, I had trouble with writing. I had trouble with notes, organizing my thoughts, and even staying on topic. My teachers would tell me that I needed extra help with writing. Then I was introduced to AVID. AVID helped me with notes, putting my thoughts into words, staying on topic, and more. I improved a lot from AVID, and AVID has a big impact on my life. I went from struggling with putting sentences together to receiving an honorable mention award for the essay I wrote last year for the AVID write-off competition. Students in my school or even around the world should use AVID because it would help them the same way it helped me. AVID can help students get better grades and they can use AVID even when they go to college. AVID can teach students new things and help students get a job when they are older. Students can struggle with notes and focusing on the topic they're supposed to focus on. AVID helps with that. AVID can help with organizing your thoughts, too. Organizing your thoughts is like taking notes, but taking notes on what you are thinking. Organizing your thoughts while using AVID principles is for writing opinions, narratives, and informative writing. People, like teachers, can ask you to write an opinion paper on a certain topic. Organizing your thoughts can help write a better opinion paper on whatever that topic is. Now, if you don't use AVID and don't organize your thoughts, you wouldn't have a well-written opinion paper and people wouldn't know what your opinion was in the first place. If you organize your thoughts, you would have a clearly stated opinion and people would understand what you believe and even support your opinion. In my honest opinion, I believe AVID can have a big impact on people's life, and AVID is really important to adults and students. I am grateful to attend an AVID school as I believe that AVID is setting me up for a successful future.

Thank you.

Thank you for hearing about Menton Elementary and our AVID program.

Give me a picture.

Can we come up for a picture?

We have all students and staff come up for a picture with the board.

You can sit down there, Martha.

oh watch out with the power One, two, three. Thank you.

Love the shirts. Those are some sharp, mint-tone, cold shirts.

OK. We have a motion to approve the minutes of the October 14, 2025 Board of Education meeting. I move. Second. Thank you, Melissa. Thank you, Patty. Any discussion?

Call for the vote. Board Member Ayala Quintero. Aye. Board Member Olson.

Aye.

Vice President Holohan. Aye. President Rendler. Aye. Motion carried with four ayes and one absent.

All right. Thank you. Do you have a motion to approve tonight's agenda with flexibility? So moved. Do I have a second?

Second.

Thank you, Patty. Thank you, Candy. Any discussion? I will call for the vote.

Board Member Ayala-Quintero? Aye. Board Member Olsen?

Aye.

President Rendler? Aye. Vice President Hollihan? Aye. Motion carried. Four ayes and one absent.

Moving on. In closed session, with a vote of four yeses and one person absent, the board took action to accept the resignation of classified employee 2025-26-06, effective January 1, 2026, and to approve the separation agreement in connection therewith. All right. It's now time for presentations. Jean Joy and Jamie Quartz, are you ready to present the 2025 CAASPP Summary and College Course Credit Report?

Thank you. Good evening, President Rendler, members of the board, cabinet. Staff and community, I have the privilege of sharing the information from our CASP from 2024-2025. CASP is our California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress. And these are the results from our spring administration in 2020. subjects such as English language arts, math, science, and English language proficiency. So this is an annual report of the data that was just publicly released a few weeks ago. I'm going to take my glasses on. Okay, for English language arts, you can see as a district, we have an increase of about 2.3%. The goal is to see the categories of standard not met and nearly met to move up and increase in the standard met and standard exceeded area. And for our district last year, we did make growth in our standard exceeded area. Here's a longitudinal picture of our ELA performance from the past three years. Although it looks stagnant, it actually is a small increase every year, dipping last year and then back up this year. So 50.61% of our students are standard met or nearly met in English language arts, which covers grades third through eighth grade and 11th grade. In comparison to the state of California and the county of San Bernardino, Redlands Unified School District is outperforming both significantly with 50.61%. When we look at each of the grade levels tested, we do see some growth, a couple dips. These are not cohorts, but grade by grade. So in blue is the 2024 third graders, and in red are the 2025 third graders. and we can compare the met or exceeded proficiency rate for each of the grade levels. And in yellow, you'll see whether there was a gain in percentage or a loss in percentage for each grade level. We disaggregate cohort data, so third graders moving into fourth grade, fourth into fifth, and so on, at the district level and through each school looking at cohort data. For our student groups, these are, on duplicated count, are vulnerable student groups, English learners, students with disabilities, homeless, fostered youth, and socioeconomic disadvantaged youth. And you can compare from the 2024 blue bars to 2025, and then the yellow being the difference, We see great gains this past year with our fostered youth, which has been a real targeted area that we've been looking at our fostered youth and monitoring over the past two years. So that was a huge celebration for us. Moving on to math, we also saw an increase of 0.4%. And again, we see the standard exceeded section improving and gaining more students in that percentage in that group. We're at 37.54% overall proficiency in math. Longitudinally, we again are on the upward swing, moving every level a little bit every year to that 37.54% this past spring. Again, looking at our county and state comparisons, Redlands Unified School District is outperforming our county significantly in math and still edging forward and past our state average in math. Here is a comparison by grade from each year, the blue being 2024 and the red being 2025, yellow being the difference by grade. We do recognize that there is a dip in our proficiency levels in middle school, and there are a lot of things we are doing to help support that. One is training in our new 2023 math frameworks, as well as targeted intervention support that's being implemented at our middle schools for the first time this year at all four middle schools. So we expect to see significant gains moving forward in math. And for our vulnerable populations, again, we see some pretty much similar scores across, and then in this case for math, our homeless population, population did show an increase from last year. We have quite a few celebrations, and I'm really excited to share, and our principals are in the house, so that's great, too. For English language arts at the elementary level, here are our double-digit increases, starting with Victoria with fourth grade, Mentone fourth grade, Mission third grade, Crafton third grade, Lagonia third grade, Highland Grove fourth grade, Smiley third grade, and Franklin third grade all made double-digit growth, and we're really proud of them all for that. Thank you. And in math, equally double-digit celebrations for Victoria's fourth grade, Mentone's fourth grade, Mission's third grade, Crafton's third grade, Kimberly's fourth grade, McKinley's fifth grade, Lagonia's third and fourth grade, and eAcademy's fourth grade. Congratulations to those elementary students. We also have ELA celebrations at the secondary level for showing significant gains in proficiency at E-Academy 9th grade, Moore's 8th grade, and 6th grade, and COPE 6th grade. Congratulations for that. And rounding out our... math celebrations at secondary, eAcademy's 8th grade, wow, Moore's 8th grade, eAcademy's 11th grade, Rev's 11th grade, Beatty's 6th grade, Beatty's 8th grade, and Orangewood High School 11th grade, all showing significant growth in meeting or exceeding standards. Congratulations. Moving on to our California science test, which we test students in the state 5th and 8th grade and in our district 12th grade. So again, an increase of 0.8%, and we are moving up that standard exceeded area. We're at 33.7%. This is going to be a new category on the California dashboard. The standards for science test has just been around for a few years. So we are excited to have a starting point here. And we showed growth in this first comparison year. And you can see longitudinally we are really making growth in our science as well. Students are making growth. And comparing to the county, again, Redlands Unified School District is outperforming the county and the state in science for 5th, 8th, and 12th graders. So our ELPAC is our English Language Proficiency Assessment in California, and those are measured on a scale of beginning development, somewhat developed, moderately developed, and well-developed. Level four means that a student could be ready to be reclassified as an English proficient student. And this year we did have a slight decrease compared to last year. We have 18.42% of our students that are scoring as well-developed in English proficiency. And English proficiency measures listening, speaking, reading, and writing. And our students also take the CASP assessments in ELA math and science, if it's their grade level. That's a lot of assessing. So we are proud of the results. Although we did dip just a little bit from last year, we are still higher than the year before and continue support in English language development, professional development, And targeted interventions to help support our language learners is being implemented. Again, Redlands Unified School District is really outperforming the level four well-developed English learners from our county and our state. Next week, on November 13th, the California Dashboard for 2025 will be released publicly. Here's a snip of the 2024 dashboard. But next week, you'll be able to not just see the district's overall growth in all the areas I just shared, plus you'll see chronic absenteeism. suspension rate. And then for high school, you'll also have the opportunity to look at our district and individual schools at graduation rate in the high school and college and career readiness. To help explain a little bit more about the college career readiness, we're going to hand it over to Jamie Quartz.

Okay, thank you, Jane. I think it was really fitting that our Mentone AVID group shared about their program. And what we learned from Mentone is that in kindergarten, they have college walls, is what I heard. And also we heard from a fifth grader about how the skills that she's gaining is going to help her in college. So what we want to explain to the board and the community is that not only do students in the school district graduate with a high school diploma, they also graduate with college course credit. So that's really incredible. College course credit comes in the form of three ways in our school district. Number one, they take an actual course from Crafton Hills College. That's dual enrollment. Number two, they take AP courses. And number three, they take classes in ROP. And those are also articulated with the college. So what does this look like? In AP... Last year we had 1,441 students take at least one AP exam. We calculated that at over 20% of the students in our high schools take at least one AP exam. That's 25 less than the previous year, but that's pretty negligible because that number rises and flows. But that's a tremendous amount of students who took at least one exam. 81% of our students passed that test with a three or four. So that's how you get a college course credit in AP is if you pass with a three or four. So 81% of the students who took a test passed with a three or four. That's 6% higher than the previous year, which was 4% higher than the year before that. which is completely astronomical for comparisons. So I want to give you some context how Redlands compares to the state of California, or I'm sorry, to the national averages. In English language comp, 85% of our students passed with a 3 or 4 compared to 74% at the national level. That's 11% higher than national averages. English Lit was 17% higher than national averages. 91% of the students who took that test passed in the Redlands Unified School District. In math, you're looking at 9% higher in calculus, Calc AB. BC was a little bit below national averages, but in stats, we were 20% higher than national averages. Continuing on in computer sciences, we were 6% higher in Comp Sci A and 5% higher in Comp Sci Principles. And you're seeing a trend much higher than national averages in these tests. Biology was 14% higher. Chem was negligible, 3% below, and physics was 5% higher. U.S. government was 13% higher, U.S. history 9%, and AP Euro 11%. And the thing that I want to emphasize here is we're increasing the number of students testing. Typically, when districts and schools increase the number of students testing, the pass rate decreases. But not only are we increasing the percentage of students taking tests, we're also increasing the percentage of students passing the tests. Econ was, or for micro, it was 15% higher and macro was 7% higher. Just to take a look at how it looks by site, CVHS had a 74% pass rate. That was 7% higher than the previous year. REV was at a 76% pass rate, 8% higher than the previous year. And RHS was an 89% pass rate, which is 5% higher than the previous years. Don't get used to this because this is just unheard of. I'm just the bearer of great news today. So congratulations, principals at the high schools. Okay, dual enrollment. This is another thing that we offer at Redlands Unified, and this is the students who are taking a course at Crafton Hills during the regular school day. So the benefit of this is they get credit toward high school graduation and college course credit. Here are some of the course offerings that we offer. Art, ASL, History, Math, Astronomy, Public Speaking, Counseling, History, and so forth. These are great opportunities for our students. Last year, 666 students received dual enrollment credit, which means credit toward high school graduation and college course credit. That's huge. That's 50 more students than the previous year. Cryop, that's our ROP classes. Those courses, when you take one of those, they're also articulated with a college, Valley College, RCC, Crafton Hills College, and so forth. So that's done through Cryop. During the school day, they get... credit toward graduation, they get college course credit, and as an extra bonus, it's connected to a CTE pathway. So these are things that our students are getting right now in our schools. Some of the courses that they get to take is criminal investigation, EMR, sports medicine, gaming theory and design. Yes, that's an actual pathway. You can get a scholarship in college for that and a career that makes a lot of money. Culinary arts, mental health, auto, ASL, and these are all connected to industry demands, connected to what jobs are out there in this region in the industry. So we had 549 students complete an entire pathway. That's two classes that gives them some sort of certification, pre-apprenticeship, or something when they complete that pathway. That's 144 more students than the previous year. And that's no easy task. That's a lot of hard work by our high schools. So that's 144 more students than the previous year. And we continue to grow. We continue to grow in these areas. So in summary, this all contributes to our superintendent's goal of all students graduate and graduate with a plan. Increased participation equals college and career readiness. And I even heard a teacher say college and career readiness. I was so excited when I heard that. So that all contributes to what our students leave us. So that's our report.

Thank you. Does anybody have any questions?

A comment. Congratulations, teachers, staff, admin, for all your hard work. These are remarkable, amazing numbers, and I couldn't be more proud than all of you. Thank you so much.

Great job. I have a question, Jean. On the one slide that showed the foster youth way up.

For English language arts. Yes.

Do you have anything that was done to why that happened or...

We definitely have our academic case carriers and our high schoolers personnel are really keeping track, targeted track on individual students. It's named by need, making sure that each student is getting exactly what they need and checking in with them regularly on how they're doing both academically and social emotionally at the same time. So that's part of our differentiated assistance plan is to support our foster youth in that way. And we want to replicate that with multiple programs. vulnerable group students.

I'm so impressed. We have amazing teachers. Amazing. Thank you. Anybody else have anything? Okay, now we're moving on to rep grants awarded. Uma, are you here? Hi. She's with the Redlands Educational Partnership Foundation.

Good evening, everyone. Thank you for this opportunity to represent Redlands Educational Partnership today. My name is Uma Harano. I volunteer with Redlands Educational Partnership, and I'm excited to share with you our mission and the various programs that we support. Since our founding in 1987, our mission has been to promote excellence in education, provide enrichment opportunities, and to facilitate an atmosphere of creativity. We also work to bring community support and build a private sector relationship to our schools. We're very proud to be a 100% volunteer organization dedicated to making a positive impact in the educational community. We rely on the generosity of our corporate, community, and individual donations and grants. Two of our signature fundraising events are the Turkey Trot that's coming up in a couple of weeks, and the Harlem Wizards basketball event that happens in spring. We're also very thankful and appreciative of the RUSD staff who support us with voluntary payroll deductions. We offer grants for teachers and for principals, and we also host an evening of appreciation for our teachers, and we also showcase student art in our Arts Alive initiative. So all the funds that we raise go towards these programs that we support. So this year, I am excited to say that we are able to award 114 grants for teachers, each of them $500 each. We are also able to support 11 grants for principals, each of which is $2,500. Each of these grants support innovative educational projects directly in our school district to support our kids. So the total grant amount that we are funding is a little over $85,000. I am very delighted to share all these grant award checks with our grant winners, and I look forward to distributing them to our school principals or their representatives. And of course this is my shameless plug. Your support makes all the difference to us. So please consider donating to REP by clicking on this QR code. And without further ado, I would like to invite first the principals of our high school to accept their awards. So first I have Redlands High School And then I have Citrus Valley. And then we have Redlands East Valley. Then we have Redlands E-Academy. Next I would like to invite our middle school principals or their representatives to accept their grant awards. If they are here, we have more middle school. And we have Beattie Middle School. And then we have, finally, Cope Middle School. And here are all the grant winners for all our amazing elementary school. In no order, I didn't authorize these. So here first we have Bryn Mawr Elementary School. Then we have Mariposa Elementary. We have Lugonia Elementary. Victoria Elementary. We have Smiley Elementary. And we have Mission Elementary. We have Mentone Elementary. Kingsbury Elementary. We have Kimberly Elementary. Then we have Judson Brown Elementary. We have McKinley Next. Highland Grove Elementary. Arroyo Verde. Krafton Elementary. And then lastly, Cram Elementary. Congratulations to all the winners and thank you very much for this opportunity, thanks.

Thank you so much. Umar, can you please send our thank you to the whole rep board and all the volunteers? It's just wonderful what you guys do. And congratulations to all the schools.

Thank you.

We're going to take a picture with all the principals and your checks.

All right, thank you. Exactly, just like the traffic.

Right in the middle. Right in the middle. One, two, three. Thank you.

Okay, we're moving on to association reports. We will now hear from Residence Council PTAs.

Good evening, everyone. How are we today? Great. Awesome. So my name is Iwona Luchkevich Contreras. I'm the president of Reliance Council of PTAs. And I am here today to inform you that California State PTA sent a letter this evening to Congress asking them to release funds for SNAP. Council PTA will be informed of how PTAs, council, and units can help our districts. So I will be in touch with Superintendent Cabral on what council will be able to help with as far as resources. So that's one item. The next item is on September 4th, for the first time ever, Redlands Council PTAs was able to provide training to our amazing principals that just received great awards and recognition. So I look forward to being able to have this opportunity to continue to provide the training about the resources that are available from PTA and rules and regulations and policies. So thank you for allowing us to be able to do that. The last item I have is...

There we go.

So... As of today, we have 4,070 members that are PTA members for Redlands Unified. And they make up several schools, but the top schools are Crafton at 333 members, Cram at 324, Kimberly 271, Arroyo 261, Judson Brown 242, Highland Grove 231. Moore 213, Smiley 207. And for the first time, we have a high school that has over 100 members at 217, and that's Citrus Valley High School. Applause Other schools are in the hundreds as well. And membership, we encourage all community members to become members, everyone here as well. I would also like to extend an invitation to the school board for our next brunch. It's March 19th at 9 a.m. So consider yourselves all invited. Please attend. An email will be coming out as well about that. And the last item is PTA is very involved with legislation and on the state and national level. So we do have a conference that will be coming up February 2nd and 3rd of 2026, and that will be in Sacramento, and we will be represented there as far as Redlands goes. So thank you so much for your time. Greatly appreciate it. Have a great evening.

Thank you very much. Thank you. Now we will hear from Redlands Administrative Personnel Association, Jenny Dyerly. Oh, you moved seats. I looked up and you weren't there.

Thank you, board, for having us tonight. I'm Jenny Dyerly, the RAPA president. I wanted to share a few things. First, I wanted to thank REP for allowing our admin to be part of the grants and for giving so much money back to the schools so we can put them towards programs that our students are involved in. So that's just amazing. Rapa also hosted their first breakfast. We had two speakers at the breakfast and a great turnout. We had over 30 members attend the breakfast. And we were able to collect two bins of Halloween costumes and donations. and donate them to Logonia Elementary School to give out to their students for their fall festival and to wear around the community. So that was amazing. Our members have also been raising or donating canned and boxed food, goods to help supplement our Thanksgiving baskets for families in our community. So that's what we're working on right now. Thank you for all of your support.

Thank you, Jenny. Thank you. Now it's time for public participation for community input for agendized items. Before we begin public comment, I would like to remind all participants of the purpose and expectations for this portion of the meeting. The Board of Education values the perspectives and participation of our community members. Public comment provides an important opportunity for individuals to share their views on district matters. The Board encourages comments, feedback, and input from all voices in the community, including those who may have differing opinions and perspectives. The California Office of the Attorney General asked us to share that in their view, matters pertaining to specific, identifiable students or any group of students should remain private to the extent possible. If you have a complaint about an employee or a student matter, please utilize the appropriate complaint procedure. Contact Dr. Rudy Wilson, Assistant Superintendent of Compliance, who can assist you with filing any such complaint. As a reminder, not all speech is free from consequence. And since this is a board meeting in public, this is the board's meeting in public, where minors may be present, we encourage all participants to conduct themselves in a civilized and nonthreatening manner. Thank you for your cooperation and for contributing to the civil and student-focused discussion. Okay, how many cards do we have? Just one blue one. Okay, so you'll have three minutes. Who is this speaker? Peter Hall. Peter Hall.

Yes, this is for agenda items. You put 15A through D?

Yeah, about the student who was expelled. Okay. What was that about? Because this is the first I've heard about this. And when I tried looking it up, the only thing I found was that some kid in Cope Middle School was expelled for bringing a gun to school. Also, I think that any decisions of expulsion or readmittance for students should be kept to the discretion of the principal. So that's all I have to say, I guess. Thank you.

Okay, we're moving on to board committee reports. Anybody have anything to report?

Choir rep will meet next week since we're a week early this time. Anything, Kendi?

Rep just provided their presentation.

Okay, thank you. Moving on to the superintendent's report. Mr. Cabral, do you have anything to report?

Yes, I just want to comment on the presentation about test scores, which I thought Gene and Jamie did a phenomenal job presenting that. Thank you so much. It speaks to the hard work, and what I want to add is a layer that... We talk about a lot, but really in practice, we need to realize how much work it is. But we are a district that has stipulated judgment that all of our staff participate in, including our teachers that are in the classroom, our paraeducators, our administrators. And that's a layer that doesn't exist in other districts. And to be able to perform at the level that we are, performing speaks volumes of the hard work that everybody is doing for our students and so that is something that should be noted also. Congratulations to all of our staff. We also are not satisfied. It's very clear that we want to continue to grow and we are working very hard. We've been in classrooms. Many of you on the dais have visited schools with me and we've seen for ourselves what our teachers are doing in the classroom along with our classified staff and the leadership at our schools. I think that it's only going to continue to go up. We're not satisfied with being above county or being above the state. We want our kids to be proficient. We want them to perform academically, and we're going to continue to strive to that. And then I do want to point out our grad rates, which... I think is just phenomenal. We have to understand that in 2023, our grad rate was 86%. And now we're reporting 92%. That is over 6% growth in three graduating classes. Yes. That... doesn't happen without the entire team being focused on that and the processes that we've put in place the number is going to continue to rise our goal is to go two percent above all of the metrics that you saw tonight and we think that come may when we test in june when we get the results you're going to see us making those marks so we're pretty excited about that Then I need to talk about Mentone because I've been into Mentone classrooms over the last few years and the AVID program is outstanding. And what really stands out if you get a chance to walk through classrooms is what my favorite thing to do is to actually ask the students, what are you doing today? What are you doing right now? And for them to be able to explain to me exactly what they're working on and how they're progressing is awesome. And the book that they showed. I've seen students after, you know, half the year having filled out much of their notebook. You will be amazed by the work that our students are doing. And Mentone, the teachers that were here, they're just a small example of what exists there. And so very proud of the program at Mentone. And we're an avid district, so it's just the starting point Once you get into AVID at the elementary level, it continues to middle school and through high school. AVID is a big reason why our kids are doing so well and going off to college. So that's all I have for today. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Cabral. Now we have consent items under business services. Mr. Hill, do you have any changes or additions?

No changes or additions tonight.

Do I have a motion to approve all consent items as detailed in AVID? Items 12B to 12L.

So moved.

Second. Thank you, Patty. Any discussion? All right. We will call for the vote.

Board Member Ayala-Quintero? Aye. Board Member Olson? Aye. President Rendler? Aye. Vice President Hollihan?

Aye.

Motion carried with four ayes and one absent vote.

We do not have any business services action items this evening. Moving on to consent items under educational services. Mrs. Buckmiller, do you have any changes or additions?

And tonight, thank you.

Is there a motion to approve all consent items as detailed in items 14B to 14H? So moved. Okay. Thank you, Patty. Thank you, Candy. Any discussion? Any discussion? All right, we'll call for the vote.

Board Member Ayala-Quintero?

Aye, but I will be abstaining from item B.

Board Member Olsen?

Aye.

President Rendler? Aye. Vice President Hollihan? Aye. You said B.

Sorry, I do need to correct that. It's not B, it's C.

I apologize.

In my agenda on diligent, it is labeled as B.

But in Patty's, it shows C. So it's the Redlands High School? It's the RHS one, yes.

Okay. My apologies. Better check that.

It is C. Yeah, C. Okay. Motion carried with four ayes. I didn't vote. Aye.

Oh. Should I recall? Should I call it again?

Okay. Four ayes. Thank you, Patty. And one absent vote and one abstention on item 12C.

14C. Moving on to action items under educational services. Mrs. Buckmiller, do you have any changes or additions?

No changes or additions. Thank you.

Is there a motion to take items 15A and D together? So moved. A second. Thank you, Patty. Thank you, Melissa. Any discussion?

All right. We'll call for the vote. Board Member Ayala-Quintero? Aye. Board Member Olson?

Aye.

President Rendler? Aye. Vice President Hollihan? Aye. Motion carried. Four ayes, one absent.

Oh, I think I actually said that motion wrong. You said it wrong. You did. Yeah. Because it should be A through D together.

Well, I thought that's what you meant. But...

Did everybody understand it? Did everybody understand it as A?

She said A through B, so I thought what she was saying was a statistic.

She said A and D, but I assumed it meant A through D. I can do it over again.

All right. Do we have a motion to take items 15A through 15D all together? I move. Second. Thank you, Candy. Thank you, Patty. Any discussion? I'm going to call for the vote.

Board Member Ayala Quintero?

Aye.

Board Member Olson?

Aye.

President Rendler?

Aye. Vice President Hollihan? Aye. Motion carried, four aye and one absent. Moving on to consent items under human resources. Mrs. Bruick, do you have any changes or additions?

No, I do not. Thank you.

Thank you. You have a motion to approve all consent items as detailed in items 16B to 16U. So moved. So seconded. Any discussion?

All right. We'll call for the vote. Board Member Ayala Quintero? Aye. Board Member Olson? Aye. President Rendler? Aye. Vice President Hollihan? Aye. Motion carried. Four ayes, one absent.

Moving on to action items under human resources. Mrs. Bruick, do you have any changes or additions?

No, I don't. Thank you.

Is there a motion to approve clinical student placement agreement between Redlands Unified School District and San Jose State University, effective October 17, 2025, through October 30, 2030? So moved.

Second.

Patty, thank you. Candy? Any discussion? And call for the vote.

Board Member Ayala-Quintero? Aye. Board Member Olson?

Aye.

President Rendler? Aye. Vice President Hollihan?

Aye.

Motion carried. Four ayes and one absent.

Next, we'll have public participation. Public comments are permitted upon submission of a completed registration card prior to the start of public participation. This is not a forum for debate. Policy concerns will be referred to the superintendent. When called, speakers may proceed to the podium, state their name and trustee area, and speak for the allotted time. The amount of time will be announced by the board president before the first speaker begins and will not exceed three minutes. And the statement that I read earlier for agendized item stands for this public participation also.

Okay.

How many cards do we have? We have five.

Five total. Okay. So we'll do three minutes. Joshua Hall, Erica Grossman, and Dale Broom.

Welcome, Joshua. Oh, thank you. I'm here to speak about the restraining order against Amber Easley and Tricia Keeling that was filed by an unknown woman.

No. This doesn't have any concern from the board. Okay. That's my only public comment. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Joshua. Erica? Welcome, Erica.

Thank you. Last month, I met President Rendler and Superintendent Cabral about serious issues I witnessed in classrooms at an elementary school. The classroom was severely understaffed with multiple students with behavioral challenges. One student climbed shelves, another banged on a glass window, and another threw things. I saw parrots being punched, spat on, and cursed at. I was kicked in the back by a student who had no one-on-one aid while I was protecting another student. Staff had received no training to handle meltdowns, and even if they had, they clearly needed more support. What would you do in an emergency without enough adults? More recently, when I sat in a special education classroom at another elementary school, there were zero base parents, zero, for 13 students with severe behavioral needs. The teacher told me they have no time for education. While I was there, I held one student's hand the entire time while trying to keep others safe from being grabbed or hit. I was bitten and my hair was pulled. The 101 aides stepped in to help, but it was extremely difficult. I heard the recent job fair for special education parents was successful, but do you think those placed in classrooms like those will stay? Do you think they're willing to work for $20.65 an hour in conditions that are unsafe and unsustainable? I've spoken with many staff across different sites. They're frustrated. They see the school board visiting special education classrooms only during fun events like prom or the student-run restaurant. Yes, they know what you are doing. Michelle, you told me you are a supporter of paras and special education. How do you feel knowing that the majority of students, including your own grandchild, receive a great education while others on the same campus receive almost none? How do you feel about paras making $20 an hour supporting students in unsafe conditions just to make ends meet? while you continue spending our tax dollars on burning flags and books that help no one? Can you truly say you're supporting all students when some receive no education and are placed in unsafe environments because of your neglect? I urge the school board to step in and use your power to make a difference so that every student has access to both education and safety. It's too late to act after something happens. You need to break the pattern that has persisted in this district. Thank you, Erica.

Welcome, Dale.

Thank you. Dale Broom from Area 1. I wanted to talk about something that's relevant to our upcoming Thanksgiving celebration, and that is the education of our students about the Pilgrims, Mayflower, and the Plymouth Colony. That is an important integral part of American history that we teach our kids, but there's one aspect of that history that is often left out, and I would like to challenge our teachers to include this in their instruction, and that is their failed experiment in socialism. many of you may remember that the um this the pilgrims were sponsored by a group of london merchants called the merchants adventurers of london and their voyage across the into the new world was paid for by them on the condition that the pilgrims would be required to establish a communal type economic system everyone would work for the common good farming hunting cooking cleaning child care and each member would share equally in the produce if collectivism course socialism hadn't been called that at that point, was going to work, it would have worked among these very devout, moral, and generous people. The Plymouth Colony should have been a collective utopia. But problems quickly arose because of the selfish and sinful nature of all men. More and more of their members began to malinger in their work, pleading maladies and fatigue, and those who worked became frustrated with their slothful neighbors, and rancor and division ensued among the pilgrims. The industrious became resentful of the forced redistribution of wealth, and as a result, the productivity of the colony languished for two years. Fifty percent of the pilgrims died in the first year due to starvation, harsh weather, and disease. William Bradford and his council began to examine the scriptures regarding the economy and came to the conclusion that socialism or collectivism was contrary to God's commands. The redistribution of wealth was a form of stealing. It undermined the institution of marriage and responsibility of parents to provide for their families. It was also contrary to the biblical principles of property rights and sowing and reaping. And it deprived them of their rewards to be able to enjoy the fruits of their labor, which later became enshrined into our Declaration of Independence in what is called an inalienable right, the pursuit of happiness. In the spring of 1623, William Bradford and his council changed their economy to a capitalistic economy system with equality of opportunity for each family to succeed. In the spring of 1623, each family was given an equal plot of land. And they were able to farm and supply their food for their family. And that was where it went. And if they had excess, they could sell that and trade that with their neighbors. But there was no central economic authority. As a result, the Pilgrims had tremendous harvest the next year. By fall of 1623, the colony was exporting products to England. Compassion and voluntary generosity abounded toward the infirmed as well as the less successful. So this is just a lesson I think that's very useful for us to teach our kids that socialism doesn't work. Thank you.

Thank you, Dale.

Next we have Joshua Hall followed by Peter Hall and then Bea.

Welcome, Peter.

I'm going to talk about the threats of lawsuits being lobbied at the school board by the group called Together for Red Ones. Every time we come here, they constantly threaten lawsuits because of school board policies which are trying to implement fairness against all students instead of dividing students into categories. Students should not be divided into categories. They should be just treated as people regardless of their race, their sexual orientation, how they choose to identify as their gender. And in fact, schools should not be encouraging students to openly express things like their sexual orientation or gender identity, especially if it doesn't conform with their physical status as male or female. If you are male, you cannot become a female. If you are female, you cannot become a male. And the government should not be encouraging students to go out and say, well, I was born male, but I identify as female or whatever. So the school board should ignore the lawsuit threats from the group called Together for Red Ones. And Together for Red Ones should change their name to Transgender Red Ones because that's all they're fighting for. Thank you, Peter.

B. Welcome, B.

My child was recently attacked by another student in the classroom. The student who assaulted my child was wielding a chair. It's not the first time another student has hurt my child. It's the fifth time. Four of the other incidents happened in the same classroom. My child is not the only one who is getting hurt like this. During your tenure, the school district has been without a BCBA coordinator for months. There has been a shortage of paraprofessionals. School counselor positions have been cut. A teacher sexually assaulted a student. Several weeks ago, Steve Caperton delivered a report to the board about the increase in student violence and the shortage of staff to deal with these issues adequately. Overworked and overwhelmed by the stress of getting assaulted daily, an entire classroom of paraprofessionals recently quit. A teacher who was part of Together for Redlands told me about a student who was followed into the bathroom and stabbed by another classmate. The student assaulted was in second grade. While all of this was happening, the board spent its precious time and our taxpayer dollars debating how to protect our students from a flag. I filed a complaint with the school district and moved my child out of that classroom. I signed up for SEPTA so that I can connect with other parents who are experiencing similar challenges. Together for Redlands, we'll be speaking with district professionals this month to find out what we can do to support our teachers, our students, and our classrooms because this is what protecting children looks like. I want you to take notice and I want you to consider what you have been doing because ignoring these problems so that you could all spend your energy on how to word book bans and flag bans so vaguely that it doesn't look like you're targeting queer students and erasing the literature of people of color isn't it. Providing a forum for Nazi sympathizers to spew their hatred in this room isn't it. School board candidate Dale Broom writing sexist and homophobic letters about removing gender ideology from our curriculum and introducing rebukes of socialism as a form of government into the curriculum isn't it? Trying to gut programs like building a generation that provides counseling to low-income families isn't it? Proudly declaring that your church has been illegally interfering in political elections on your social media account isn't it? I shouldn't have to say these words. But here we are. What are we even doing here? When did horrors like this become so commonplace that we started treating them as normal? When is the board going to start doing the work to actually protect our kids? Can we even hope at this point that you will?

Thank you, B. Is that all? Okay, thank you. All right, moving on to board comments. Does anyone have anything they would like to share?

I have a couple. Just thank Rep for the grants. Those monies that come in, I know that it's an application process. And if you're wondering why there's some schools that didn't receive them, they might not have applied for them. So that's probably why, in case you're wondering. To Joy and Jamie, great presentation on both of you. Thank you for the update and for the information. I know those numbers are hard sometimes to get them. And we'll keep going up. Thank you. Went to another great superintendent's award, so it's always great to see, especially the younger ones. It was great, so good job, and thank you, Esotris Valley, for hosting. And attended a couple football games for CV and Rev, and congratulations to Rev on making CIF. They are the only school, high school, that will make it, so good luck to them on Friday. And then tomorrow I'm attending Bone Mayors. It's an organization that supports Children's Fund for the underserved and underrepresented and foster. So I'll be attending that event tomorrow. And then just I'm glad that we had the Rutherlands PTA coming up talking about for SNAP and what we're going to do because I did receive a call from someone. And I was going to ask you, Mr. Superintendent, what are CNS or what are we going to be able to do to help with the lack of SNAP?

Yes, please. Thanks. We did connect. I had Ms. Bookmiller in Ed Services and Alyssa and our face, our director, Alyssa. Then our face team. Make sure that we had resources available to school sites, meaning that there are folks in the county that will support our families, and making sure they have that information is what we focused on. And that was a collective effort between Ed Services, CNS, and our FACE team.

Okay, thank you. I want to thank our superintendent and our day pack for our parent power seminar. It was fantastic. I have Dr. Akua's book. And it had a lot of helpful tips in it. I mean, it was really nice to see the community come together. There was families from all walks of life there who just really wanted to learn skills on how to help their children succeed, and it was a wonderful event. I haven't gotten through the book yet, but great tips, so I want to thank our superintendent for hosting that. I also went to our Noche Cultural at RHS, and I had a very fantastic time. It was a great night with some great music, great food. I did get to screen print. I've never screen printed anything before, But I got to screen print my own tote bag and t-shirt. It was a lot harder. In my head, I've always told myself it was so much easier to do. It was not easy. You see videos of it. It's not that easy. It takes some strength. So those who do it, more power to you. So I want to thank the advisor, Mrs. Villagrana, and the president of Mecha, Xavier. Great kid. Fantastic. It was a wonderful event, and I really hope next year you guys, if you didn't go, you should go. It was really a whole, like... Really a vibe, really. I mean, even our superintendent got up and started dancing a little bit. I think there's photographic evidence of it somewhere. He didn't want anybody to know that, but I'm telling everybody. There was no video. We tried. No, but there are photos. And I want to congratulate Mentone for this beautiful agenda. I've been flipping through this thing. This is fantastic. There... SL, alphabet in there. There's charts on... There's multiplication table. There's money. I mean, it lays it all out. And I mean, these are things... And I know we teach these things, but sometimes there are kids that struggle with it. Even, you know, at home, you're throwing... It's not real money, right, if it's cash. But they still need to learn how to use it. And having something that they can privately go back to and reference is a wonderful thing. There is a lot of time, effort, and love put into this. And I just, this is fantastic. So thank you for doing this for your students. This really needs to get around. And yeah, that is it for me. So I just want to thank everyone. And have a wonderful Thanksgiving. And Eve.

Yes. Okay. I will keep it pretty short. I am super excited about our math curriculum process and the headway that we're making, the thoughtfulness that's involved with that. I appreciate Patty very much and Joy and Jean. I'm sorry. Jean and Jamie. Thank you. And you guys are doing a fantastic job leading that. And I really appreciated the statistics that you showed us and having a good, well-rounded discussion regarding it. And I'm confident that you will come up with the best plan moving forward. Really wanted to give my shout-out to the high school math teachers because it was very apparent that they have been doing some heavy lifting. And I am incredibly grateful to them. They've done a fantastic job. And all the teachers are doing great, but particularly they have shined, and it's evident through the data that you showed us that they have done a fantastic job. So thank you for that. I wanted to move on to something a little bit less positive. Something that's been on my heart lately is that California law, as we all know, allows for biological boys to be in our girls' spaces. And not all parents are okay with that. Not all grandparents are okay with that. Not all girls are okay with that. And I just want to provide some education to the community and the families that just because we have to abide by the law does not mean that we cannot protect our girls also. So this is something I'm very passionate about. I will die on the hill of protecting our girls' privacy. There are many options that we can do to also protect our girls. They are not two mutually exclusive concepts. We can get through it by protecting multiple people's privacy. All of the privacies can be protected. We just have to think outside the box. We have to get a little bit creative. We're not in it to hurt anybody's feelings or make anyone feel sad or out of place. And I went down to look at the layout of one of our locker rooms, and immediately there was like four solutions that came to mind. So... It should not be, the burden should not be on a student, a girl, or their families to have to file a complaint and say that they're uncomfortable. I strongly feel that the adults in the room should be taking care of this proactively. They should be reaching out. I wonder if the superintendent can possibly come up with some type of way to proactively reach out to the families affected and ask those parents, are you okay with the situation? Some I'm sure are, and some I'm sure are not. And I think that we could come up with some very good solutions, especially to get us through this year. The Supreme Court is deciding a case on this that will wrap up around June. So once and for all, all of these Title IX arguments, we have the state. conflicting with the federal government and all this argument back and forth. This will all be solved, put to rest. Regardless of which way it goes, there will be some type of decision coming by the end of the school year. So that's some type of relief for how the district can move forward. But in the meantime, there are solutions that can work, and they're not very costly. Some don't cost any money at all. Right out the gate, there's several changing spaces that are extremely private with long curtains. Girls can use those. And... Although the burden shouldn't be on the families to report these things, it will help tremendously if the families and the parents who don't wish for their daughter to have to change in front of a biological boy, if they file a Title IX complaint, our hand is bound by law to address that and protect that child's privacy. Because if it's a boundary violation, feeling uncomfortable in a space where their privacy or their... their female body parts may be exposed. That is a serious issue, and we will address it. We have to address it by law. So I am... hopeful that people who are uncomfortable will come forward and address it, and I am also hopeful that our superintendent can maybe talk with me, talk with the teachers, come up with some type of maybe a proactive plan to anonymously survey the classes affected. I'm not sure, but think about some way to maybe proactively protect the girls because I really don't like that the burden is on the girls. A lot of them don't feel comfortable coming forward, and I know that for a fact. So that is my word tonight, and I will always stand for the girls and all of the students. I'm not here to make anyone feel bad. I just really want everybody to know that we will work. I am sure that the entire board wants each student to feel comfortable. We may disagree on some things, but I think that each student is very valued, and we all can agree on that, I'm pretty sure. So that's it for tonight.

I forgot one thing. Congratulations to CV girls golf team. They won CIF championship. So congratulations to our girls.

I as well. Sorry, I did forget something. I would like to request on the next agenda with the passing of AB 1390. That is a increase to board pay. I would like to have that on the next agenda, please.

Okay, good evening, and thank you all for being here. I hope you, if you are 18 or older, I hope you got out and voted, either by mail or in person. If our students see their parents and family members vote, they are more likely to vote when they become of age. Since our last board meeting, our schools have been very busy places. Supporting our middle school softball teams and high school volleyball and football teams has been very enjoyable the last month. I'm sorry that RHS girls volleyball did not make it past round one of playoffs, but they played their hearts out. I enjoyed watching you all play, and I look forward to next season. Congratulations to Red football. We'll see you Friday night at 7 o'clock. I'm looking forward to watching more softball in the coming weeks. I want to thank all our coaches across the district for how you mentor and guide our students through the sports that they play. The last superintendent's awards was wonderful. Congratulations to all our student awardees and our staff awardees. I love the new award given to one fortunate student each award night, a new pair of Jordan 1s. Thank you to Superintendent Cabral for this new addition. Our first winner... Our first winner of the shoes was Reza. He was the winner of September. And Victoria won in October. I'm excited for the next awards program in a few weeks. Thank you to Principal Minerva Castorena for walking with us around Mission to see all the fabulous things happening at their school. Go Mustangs! My husband and I attended the Fall Festival at Mentone. It was a great event with amazing community support. There was great food, treats, and fun games for everyone to enjoy. Thank you to Principal Molly O'Day and Vice Principal Todd Flowers for the invitation. I, too, went to the Daypack Power Seminar with Dr. Akua. Very, very interesting talk. I talked with a lot of parents about different issues that they're facing. A lot of what he said, I could see all our students benefiting from some of the things. He had some really good ideas. Last week was a great walk around Orangewood High School. Thank you to Principal Norris for taking time out of her busy day to show us the many things on the campus. One highlight for me was the welding with Mr. Stewart. And then the senior seminar class with Mr. Murgia. That is a great class. I wish every school did that one. The seniors learn about resumes. They learn about... They do all kinds of things that kids before they graduate kind of need to know. And he's been teaching them a lot of different things. They build a portfolio with different work that they've done. Really neat class. I loved how the staff at that school really cares about each student at Orangewood. And they help lead them to becoming successful adults. The resource fair at RHS was very well attended, and as I walked around talking to people in some of the booths, I was happy to hear that many families and students came and got information on a variety of community offerings that they had. A special thanks to CNS for always being there for our students. I really appreciate you, and I love your little trailer. I thoroughly enjoyed the visit to Terrier Grounds Coffee, Studio 24, and the Flower Shop on the RHS campus. The CSBA president, Betty Lusk, was also there to validate the Golden Bell Award, and it was very deserving. Thank you to Natalie Kling, Sarah Ostash, and Samantha Waringa. I'm in awe of how you work with the student adult learners. Thank you for the lunch at Studio 24 also. It never disappoints. I want to also rethink the rep board for all that they do for Redlands Unified. Without them, a lot of things couldn't happen in our classrooms. And I want to wish everyone a great, happy Thanksgiving. And we will see you in December. Do we have a meeting at the end of November? Nope, December. See you in December. That's all. Thank you. Nope, superintendent comments. Mr. Cabral.

What time is it? I want to be here another 20 minutes.

20 more minutes.

I have some thank yous, but I was going to say Citrus Valley girls golf. I thought I was going to say it first, but girls golf. I don't know if it's their first championship, but division five championships happened today. Actually, it's actually just happened this afternoon. So congratulations to our girls golf team, Citrus Valley. Thank you to Rep. $85,000. That was one of the most expensive pictures we've taken with the board. Thank you so much for all the help. $2,500 for a principal. I know there's a lot of good things that they can do with that money and for our teachers directly in the classroom. And then ADK sponsored our new teacher event. Thank you for the book that they gave. And also, more information is going to come out, but they're sponsoring an essay contest. for our fifth grade students and offering a chance for teachers to gain some money for the amount of students. I think it's like 15 students per class and then they can get a scholarship. So be looking out for information on that. We'd like to support ADK. And then really quickly with paras, I do want to say kudos to HR. We tasked them with trying to get paras hired ASAP, and they came up with a system that a recruitment started, and then three weeks later we had 70 paras in the classroom. That's unheard of. And we do hear our parents and we hear some of our comments tonight. Yes, we are short of paras and there are not enough adults in all of our classrooms. But I also want to point out that we have been in classrooms where there are 11 adults and 10 students. we as a board have walked into classrooms where we've seen some things that, yes, we need some improvement. So there are pockets on our schools where we don't have enough adults, and we are working towards fixing that. But we also have areas where we do have a lot of adults. And so we're talking about how can we sort of fix it so that we have enough everywhere. But HR getting 70 paras to start is phenomenal work. We're hoping that they stay with us. We hope that they were motivated to come sign up and they saw how fast we got them started. So we hope they stay with us. That should help with the problem. We're not closing our eyes to some of the incidents that have happened that have been discussed here at the podium. We are doing our best to get our folks trained up, and we're doing our best to not just react but to take action about any of the incidents that have taken place because we have had some incidences which isn't unlike other years here. Just want the board to know that we are on it. Other than that, enjoy your Thanksgiving break. We will not see everybody until December 9th. What else can I say? I just want to keep talking so that we can be here.

Get to 8 o'clock. Oh, dear. Okay, that's a good way to shut me up.

Yes, congratulations, Dodger fans.

Thank you.

Okay.

Anything else? All right, this meeting is adjourned at 741.