South San Francisco Unified School District Board - Regular Meeting

foridentific Fore ward meetings. Muchas gracias. I'd like to call to order the South San Francisco Unified School District Board of Trustees agenda meeting for Thursday, February 26, 2026. Um, roll call.

Student Trustee Ruiz. Trusty Lamb here. Trusty Anthony. Vice President Sheay here. President Murray

here. Okay. The pledge of allegiance. Do we have a student? Is it on there? Okay. Um, Aloma Middle School 8th grader, Erica Aoyo. So I want to introduce Erica Aoyo. She is the president of our ASB at Altaloma. And when asking Erica what everyone should know about her, her response was she's an open book. But what I would love to tell everyone is that she is a wonderful part of a community and a leader and she has been in ASB for two years, but she doesn't only lead outside of the classroom, but in the classroom and when she's not at school. She's a strong member of her community outside of her academics and the altoma community. So without anything more, here's Erica Oo for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance. Oh, sorry. Please stand. 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.

Okay. Trusty Lamb, the land acknowledgement statement. We acknowledge that the South San Francisco Unified School District is located on the unseated ancestral homeland of the Ramatouch Aloney peoples who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the Ramatouch community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples.

Thank you. Reporting now from close session since we had none. There is none. Uh review of agenda. Any changes? Okay. PTA council remarks and then it turns screen. Check. Check. Check. Y'all ready? All right. Good evening, President Murray, trustees, Superintendent Moore, members of the cabinet, and members of the community. Um, ladies and gentlemen, and boys and girls, what's up, South City? My Yeah, there we go. Okay. Um, my name is Victoria Canudson and this is my first year as PTA president at Elaloma Middle School and I'm double dipping and I'm vice president at Burberry Bur Elementary. So, shout out to both them cl them schools. Uh, my kids are currently in the seventh grade and in the fourth grade, both in sports and it keeps me way busy. So, shout out to all the parents who took the time to be here tonight to stream on YouTube. I am you, but just on this side of the microphone. Okay. Um, I'd like to share a little bit about the PTA. I'm just going to hold this because it makes me comfortable. Um, we are a small but mighty PTA. We're really proud of our school community, parent volunteers,

and our students. We'd like to thank the excellent teachers and principal Nina Mendes for supporting the students and families at our school. I'd also like to recognize the members of the Aloma community in the audience. I see you. Um, okay. So, our biggest event of the year was the uh Thanksgiving time turkey trot. It's our one and only fundraiser. And as a school PTA, having one fundraiser is like huge. Um but it was it was way big. Um we were able to raise funds to cover all of our events and expenses for the whole year. So, that just sets the tone for the school year. Um, with these donations, we were able to pay for activities and community events that support the portrait of a graduate. Yay. Okay. Like grants to teachers for supplies, end of the year celebrations, um, and all the eighth grade events like dance, field trips to Great America before they close. and their promotion. Um, oh, assemblies, school spirit, drama, um, club, band, and we added a new event to the calendar, which is our first school glow dance. Um, so the kids are pretty excited about that. Oh, and last but not least, uh, the PTA, um, celebrates teacher appreciation. And what do we do? We feed them, right? Okay. Um, we are very proud of the amazing collaboration

between the PTA and school administration to support Aloma students. So, thank you all for listening to my spiel. Um, I really appreciate you being here. Um those on YouTube, don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe. Hey, thank you all. Okay. Um thank you very much. Uh staff association representative remarks. Elizabeth Bale Bales. Um, and Sherry Juicy. I hear that Megan Conry will be giving the report for Sherry Juicy. Thank you. Uh, that's a tough act to follow, Mr. Royal. Uh, good evening. Uh, Dr. more South San Francisco Unified School District Cabinet, uh, President Murray, Trustees, and the South City Community. My name is Megan Connory, and I am on the executive board of the South San Francisco Classroom Teachers Association, and I will be speaking tonight on behalf of our president, Cherry Juicy. Um, as we move into March, I want to start by thanking the board and the district for continuing to keep communication open with South San Francisco Classroom Teachers Association. We appreciate being included in conversations about instruction, hiring, and what's ahead. That said, after reviewing the interim financial report, there are some

concerns we can't ignore. Over the past few years, teachers, the people working with students every day, have been receiving a smaller share of the district's overall budget. In 2021 to 2022, certificated salaries made up 36.31% of total expenditures. In this year's interim report, that number has dropped to 27.84%. That is a significant decline of 8.5%. I understand that budgets shift with enrollment and state funding, but the reality is that the percent going towards educators is decreasing even as the cost of living in the Bay Area continues to rise. That trend is not sustainable if we want to retain strong teachers and support student success. Also, there's a clear example of how funds are being held rather than used in ways that directly impact classrooms. The books and supplies fund currently sits at around $40 million. That's far beyond what's needed for curriculum and materials, even with the recent math adoption and the upcoming ELA adoption. Those are important investments absolutely, but they don't come close to requiring that level of funding. At the same time, we know there are real immediate needs in our classrooms. Since we are not negotiating additional salary increases for the next two years, this creates an opportunity. Instead of letting money that sit, we should we could be using a portion of it right now to reduce class sizes.

Smaller class sizes are one of the most direct ways to improve student learning and create a stronger sense of belonging in our classrooms. It is a practical student centered decision that would make a big difference. Looking ahead, we are also we also need to be thinking about how S San Francisco Unified School District remains competitive. Neighboring districts are already making major investments in compensation and benefits. San Francisco Unified, for example, has committed to fully funding family health benefits starting in 2027 at a cost that's actually comparable to what we have sitting in our books and supplies, $40 million. Other districts are making similar moves. If we don't plan carefully now, we risk falling behind, and that will make it harder to recruit and retain teachers our students deserve. Along those same lines, South San Francisco Classroom Teachers Association is still waiting to begin the health benefits committee that was agreed upon in our last tenative agreement. We are now in March and that work hasn't started. That's something we need to move forward on. At the end of the day, by supporting teachers, you are supporting students. The conditions we create for educators directly impact what happens in the classroom. We want to continue working in partnership with the district to make thoughtful, responsible decisions that now let us that set us up for stronger negotiations and stronger schools in the future. Thank you for your time.

Thank you. Okay. Uh Jolene Madi is not here this evening. Personnel Commission. Mr. Hanan. Our next personnel commission meeting will be held on Monday, March 23rd, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. in the district office boardroom.

Thank you. Um, are there any items from the board? Any announcements? Board calendar or board committee reports? So the committee report for the bylaw committee uh we met Amanda and I we met on Friday February 20th at the district boardroom uh review about more than 20 policies uh for March 2025 packet and January 2026 packet. They will come to our next board the next several board meetings for approval. Amanda want to add

and then the facility uh we also uh Mina and myself and Dr. more. We were in the facility subcommittee meeting and we were uh the meeting was February 19th and uh it was uh updates uh from bond program from Lori and Kevin and the facility project update from Wazi and we also share the the information shared to us uh bond financial information. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, superintendent reports. Dr.

Thank you very much, President Marie. I'd like to begin with an introduction for our incoming spring student trustee, Ruiz. At our last board meeting, our student trustee was unable to attend due to illness, and we are just pleased that she is with us this evening. I'd like to formally introduce spring trustee Isabelle Izzy Ruiz. Uh she is the ASB president at El Camino High School. She has consistently demonstrated leadership, initiative, and a strong commitment to elevating the student voice. Since the fall, she has been providing the board with valuable updates about the student experiences, campus activities, and school events. We are grateful for her willingness to serve in this capacity and look forward to the insight she will continue to share throughout this spring term. Welcome. We're happy to have you. My next item is on the South San Francisco Education Foundation Community Learning Exchange and Partnership. At our last board meeting, Miss Lauren Kitchenen shared an announcement about the SSF Ed Foundation's Community Learning Exchange taking place this Saturday, February 28th, at South San Francisco High School. The foundation is a volunteer-run nonprofit established four years ago. So, I'd like to take just a brief moment to remind our community about this upcoming event. It is a free event designed to support families during key educational transitions with staggered start times to accommodate different grade levels. Sessions will be offered in both English and Spanish. 8:30 a.m. is our kindergarten readiness. Sessions will include a welcome breakfast, a keynote speaker, and workshops on afterchool child care, registration and transfers, literacy development, uh individual individualized education plans and student supports, and a parent teacher Q&A. 9:30 a.m. is middle and high school transitions. programming will feature a keynote presentation from NAMI on teen mental health, followed by workshops on counseling services, secondary student supports and individual education plans, math pathways, concurrent and dual

enrollment, substance use awareness, and parent and student Q&A sessions. The event will also offer college transition support, including cash for college, FAFSA assistance, and Skylane college registration support. So, we wanted to encourage our families and community members to attend this valuable and informative event. And with that, that concludes my report. President Murray, thank you. What was the date on that? February 28th. I didn't write it down. That's I have it somewhere, but I want to make sure it's on my calendar. 228 and everybody else's. Okay. So, student trustee reports. First, welcome Izzy. So, Isabelle Izzy Ruiz, spring student trustee, and ASB president for El Camino High School.

Good evening, board members, cabinet, and community. My name is Isabelle Rise, and I'm currently a senior serving as the ASB president at El Camino High School and the spring student trustee. It's lovely to see you all again, and my apologies for my absence, but I can't wait to share all the fun things from our campus. I'd also love to congratulate my counterpart Jam Lynn in person for the amazing work she did as fall trustee. Last Friday, our band department hosted board game night in our cafeteria to fundra for our lovely music department. Not only did they have fun games, but unlimited dessert. The night was full of laughter, friendly competition, and treats. That isn't all our VPA department has in store. Our drama program has been hard at work preparing for the spring play Clue, which will be shown from March 5th to the 8th. And I invite you all to witness a production full of mystery, clever comedy, and unexpected twists. Bring your families on Thursday and use the promo code Thursday 2 for one to get two tickets for the price of one. Yesterday was our electionalformational meeting where our Colts were invited to learn more about the positions that they could hold for the upcoming 2026 to 2027 school year. It was inspiring to see about 30 students interested in running for our seven ASB and four class office positions. Election Day is March 27th and it's exciting to see many Colts eager to lead and make a difference. The future of El Camino is in great hands. On that note, as we look toward the future, we have many fun events ahead. This f Saturday is Colt Chella where our ch or our campus is transformed into a festival style experience for all to enjoy from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. The cafeteria will host a karaoke room for students ready to showcase their vocals. local lower academic will feature a video game lounge complete with Mario Kart and Fortnite tournaments. Meanwhile, our courtyard will become a dance floor with music from alumni DJs Denzel Escala and Jacob Okmpo. Students will also enjoy food from Silva's Mexican kitchen and snowotion food trucks along with concessions hosted by our class offices including pizzasubi and boba. On top of all of that, we will be raffling off a brand new PS5

generously donated by our college and career tech, Mr. Mark. Every student who purchases a ticket will automatically be entered into the raffle and participants in the gaming contest can increase their chances by adding an additional entry. March 14th is our annual gym crest car show honoring the legacy of our beloved auto shop teacher, Mr. Cresta. From 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., cars from across the bay will join us on campus for a day filled with community, delicious food, and lasting memories. All funds raised will go towards the Grim Jim Crestler Scholarship, which will be awarded to one male and one female graduating senior. And lastly, one of the events everyone is looking forward to is Prom 2026, which will take place on April 11th at the iconic City Hall. Our theme is City of Stars. Inspired by the film Laand, we are transforming this breathtaking venue into a night of elegance, romance, and Hollywood glamour. Students can look forward to a magical evening under the lights. It's truly going to be a night to remember. Tickets are currently $160 and will continue to increase by $10 every two weeks. As for athletics, the winter season has officially come to a close. Both our girls and boys and girls varsity teams defended the hoops trophies after facing our cross town rivals on February 13th. I'm proud to report that both trophies remain at home. And furthermore, both teams advanced into the CCS playoffs. Our boys made it to the second round and unfortunately lost by one point in double OT. And as for our girls, we traveled to Delmare and fought hard in a close four-point loss. Our varsity boys soccer team became league champions with an undefeated record of 19 wins and one tie. Their incredible CCS playoff run came to an end yesterday in the semifinals with a score of two to three. On top of that, many of our Colts reserve received well-deserved recognition from other coaches within the league as they came together to vote on the following awards. Seniors Aiden Fernandez and Chris Gomez and sophomore Jose Hernandez all received first team all league. Senior Andrew Tafoya

received midfielder of the year. Sophomore Danny Figuero earned forward of the year and Manny Seafoya receives freshman of the year. Congratulations to all our winter athletes and a special thank you to our seniors for leading our teams with dedication and embodying Colt pride. Our spring sports have wrapped up their triyouts and are now hard at work preparing for their preseason matches. We wish them the best of luck as they begin their seasons. That concludes my report and unless there's any questions, thank you all for your time.

Thank you. Okay, next is Jamin AOA, fall student trustee and ASP president for South San Francisco High School. Good evening, board, cabinet, and community. My name is Jamie Lenoa, and it's my pleasure to be representing South San Francisco High School. Election season is underway for our future ASB officers. Our candidates filmed their speeches at the beginning of the week. Our students will be voting this week. The ballot opened yesterday during flex and will close tomorrow at 3 p.m. All elected candidates will be announced tomorrow after school. For all those who are interested in joining the class in the commission spa, applications are due March 3rd and interviews will begin right after that. Additionally, in an effort to promote South City ASB to incoming freshmen, the ASB executive officers will be joining the counselors on their visit to the middle schools on March 4th and 5th to encourage eighth grade students to join South City ASB as they pick their classes for the first for their first year in high school. We are very excited to welcome our future class very soon. Prom is around the corner and ticket sales have begun with tickets being $115. Tomorrow is the last day to p to purchase your tickets for the cheapest amount. Next week they will be increasing by $10. Tickets will be sold every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday during lunch outside the cafeteria. We now accept tap. We encourage students to get their tickets as soon as possible. Our winter sports finished up a couple weeks ago. I want to use this time to congratulate our girls basketball team whose season wrapped up last Saturday, but they worked really hard making CCS this year. Also, wrestler Koe Mason Balk

was CCS champion and our first female CCS champion since 2015. I would like to recognize all athletes for completing another season and all seniors for concluding their last season as a high school athlete. With that said, our spring sports have begun. This week, our softball team had their first game and won on Wednesday, defeating University High School 15 to 5. Track, swim, baseball, and our various spring sports have all begun their practices. Good luck to all athletes playing or competing this season. February is financial aid month. Our college and career counselor, Miss Eileene, has been in the library during lunch to help any senior complete their FAFSA or KATA application. South City is so grateful to have many supportive and resourceful individuals on our campus who can help assist us with any college materials. Finally, our senior officers have put together a fe a free admission senior movie night. We encourage every senior to join us tomorrow, February 27th, in our very own big gym from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Spider-Man Homecoming will be played and snacks and drinks will be sold. If there are no if there are no further question, this concludes my report. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Next, public comments for items not on the agenda. Public comment for items not on the agenda should not exceed 30 minutes. Public comments are limited to a maximum of three minutes per individual per board bylaw 9323. In order to accommodate more speakers, the board president may at their discretion limit the individual time per speaker to one or two minutes each if there are more than 10 expected speakers. Public comments are limited to one to three minutes per individual per board bylaw 9323. Name and address cards

are placed in the back of the room to be completed and given to the secretary. The board, excuse me, the board president will call upon individuals in random order who have requested to speak. Each person may only speak once and is required to address the board from the podium. The meeting is recorded and streamed live. Individuals may address the board concerning school business not on the agenda, but public comment cannot be acted upon or discussed at by the board unless placed on the agenda at a subsequent meeting. In accordance with the bylaw the Brown Act, the board may request staff to respond orally at the meeting or in writing at a future time. So I don't have any cards. Is there anybody who wants to speak? I guess not. Thank you. Okay. So moving on information only presentations teaching and learning. Dr. Campbell.

Good evening. At this time, I'd like to welcome Principal Nina Mendes to the podium to provide us with a presentation for Altoma Middle School. I'm so short. Okay. Good evening, President Murray, Trustees, Superintendent Moore, Cabinet, and members of the community. I'm excited to have a voice this year um and present the teaching and learning uh presentation myself. Um let me do I moving on. Can I get do I switch the slides or Okay. User error. It's on. Am I pointing the wrong direction? It's probably user error, but

Oh, there we go. All right. I'll start today with Altaloma's mission because as you'll see throughout our presentation representation of what we're our mission and what we do at Altaloma. Aluma's middle school's mission is to ensure our students grow into lifelong learners who can express their thinking and so social and emotional intelligence. For our overall data, looking at our site, we have approximately 657 students on any given day on the Altaloma campus. 17% of our students are multil- language learners. 17% of our students are students with disabilities and 39% of our students are students with socially economically disadvantaged. This is a snapshot of our attendance data at Alt Taloma. If you look at it, it's attendance data for the last three years. And so you can see um this year we're proud to say that we're hovering around the 95% so just below the excellence on for the school daily attendance. What we've really been working on is our chronic absenteeism. So the all of the ones in yellow demonstrate um between August and January where Altaloma traditionally sat for chronic absenteeism. And we're proud to say that for January this year, uh we decreased our chronic absenteeism by 4%. And as we go through our site goals and our site work, you'll see um the effects of all that work when

we're looking at this chronic absenteeism. This is a snapshot of our CAF scores from the last three years for ELA. I think I Yeah. Yeah. For ELA and for for math. If you're looking at this, you'll see our goal and goal um for 26 20 um for 26 27 CASP scores. Our goals are based off of our 23 24 CAS uh CAST scores. And so originally uh we had created a goal to increase our cast scores um by 7%. But we were able to reach that goal. So we have adjusted our CAS scores goal CASP goal um to reach 10% um for the 2627 school year. In math we saw that we were able to reach uh 35% from 32%. So we also increased our math goal for this year. This is a snapshot of our sense of belonging work at Altaloma. The first thing I want you to look at is uh the image with the dark green and light green. So 90 this is from our sewn to grow uh beginning of the year screener. So, our students take this screener in October. And everything that you see in dark green are our students who scored uh fives or mostly fours on a ranking of

four to five on their sense of belonging. And everything you see in light green are students who selected threes and fours for their sense of belonging on a scale from one to five. Anything you see in red are students that selected ones and twos. So, we were pretty excited to show that from our October screenshot, 95% of our students felt a sense of belonging on the Altaloma campus. If you look over to the right, you'll see another image of our reflections that our students engage in uh twice a month in advisory. And so as you see in the beginning of the year, our students were really giving us descriptive answers when they were reflecting on the school and their experience. And you can see that in January, February that we had much more we had um much more reflective responses from our students which we believe is also an example of the strong sense of belonging and the relationships that our students and teachers are making in and out of the classroom for our site sips goals. As I go through the goals, you'll see that they are directly aligned with the district priorities and goals in in exceptional instruction and engaged student are um just like the district, we focus on a sense of belonging, excellence um for academic discourse and instructional excellence in the high um curriculum for the IM math.

How did we do that? So, I'm going to read my goals. They're rather lengthy, so bear with me, but I'm going to read them directly. So, our first goal is by the spring of 2027, students schoolwide performance in math and ELA will increase by 10% compared to the 22 23 schoolwide scores in both ELA and math. So you saw our scores earlier and what we've increased this year is our MTSS program both academically and behaviorally working with things during the school day as well as before school and after school with our students. All our entire site is working on cycles of inquiry focused on academic discourse. And of course um the math department is focusing on the implementation of that IM curriculum. And then we we have some academic centers after school um with food provided and a little bit of fun for our students. Not all of it is focusing directly on the homework or the work of the day but also fluency in both um math and language arts. And then directly for our stu um for our multil- language learners and our students with IEPs or 504s, we have specific academic groups to support our students are multil- language learners because some of them have a different needs. This is the longest goal. So here we go. By the spring of 2027, all Taloma staff classified and certificated will demonstrate the ability to support our district priority standards and

initiatives for all students and create a safe and positive learning environment for all students as measured by district benchmark tests, CASPs data, the California state dashboard data, attendance data, and other site specific civics survey data. I'll have to shorten those for next year. Um, so what what work did we do for this that these are our attendance team? A lot of the credit for our attendance should go to our attendance office and attendance team who really put an emphasis on our students who were not who are chronically absent or close to becoming chronically absent. Additionally, um, three things that I would like to highlight is our squad program that is, uh, new this year, which is a group of students. It's a class that students take to leave restorative and community circles, uh, with our students. They also look at the district impact data site specific for Aloma and report back ideas that they have to increase the sense of belonging. Uh we also have the zone to grow program which has made a big difference on our campus. We added a wellness room this year um where our students can go throughout the day when they need a little break. In addition to that, we have lunchtime activities and we've added for our lunchtime activities, some of them are just for fun. Some of them are supports for academics and some are for mental health support for students. So on different days of the week, you'll see a lunchtime activity for a different reason.

And our third goal, another really long one. Um, by spring of 2027, all Altaloma staff will demonstrate the ability to deliver accessible, rigorous, and culturally relevant instruction aligned to district priorities by engaging in professional development focused on academic discourse, math, language routines, and curriculum implementation. This will improve student engagement and outcomes related to increased proficiency in California state standards as measured by growth on CASP scores, California dashboard indicators, and student feedback from the site specific survey data. This is a goal that we're really proud of this year. Tomorrow will mark the end of our large color team round in which our site has been divided up into five color teams crosscurricular and each color team meaning every single student every single teacher on our staff was part of a team and engaged in a 30-day action plan for academic discourse. And every teacher was given one full day to observe the other teachers in their color team and identify the glows grows and grows for academic discourse and rigorous instruction on our site and so far I still have one more day tomorrow but so the majority 97% of our student our teachers have participated And all the survey data shows that our teachers loved our color teams and are interested in continuing this. So we will have some iteration of the color team continuing next year. In addition

to like the large focus on the color teams, we also have our departments on their individual work having their own cycles of inquiry uh on academic discourse framework. um we have math innovators and math teachers attending SVMI and then our grade level teams. Then looking um throughout each of these slides I included a lot of pictures to try and just show the school culture. Um, but this is one of my favorite slides every year and that is our Altaloma family to demonstrate that we have 10 staff members who were also students at Altaloma. So once a RAM, always a RAM. I just love to highlight that. Um, and then just for what goes on at our school, like pointing out some of these pictures, like what's happening, you can see our turkey trot that was mentioned earlier as one of our fun fundraisers. Uh, you see ALU, just students engaging in like a passion project uh throughout the day. And then one of our lunchtime activities, we have a K-pop club that loves to dance during lunch. Um that concludes my presentation. Are there any questions?

Thank you. Um Trusty Trusty Anthony, no questions. Love the community that you've built and um glad to see progress. Love that you adjusted your goals in response to uh early early wins.

Thank you. Hi, Principal Mendes. Good to see you again. Um, yeah, it was uh a privilege to visit your school maybe about a month ago or so. Um, and yeah, to see the things that you're talking through in the slides kind of in space, you know, like as we walked through uh the campus. Uh, yeah, I just congratulations, you know, phenomenal growth. I mean, this is yeah, wonderful to see. Um and um yeah, just look all the work that you've been doing for um enhancing, you know, well-being and belonging on campus. I mean, and um as well as uh uh strengthening, I don't know, teacher collaboration. I mean, this is I mean, this is just phenomenal work. Um just really uh yeah, happy to hear um all the things that you've shared. Um I was just curious um since you mentioned about uh chronic absenteeism um if you could speak to a little bit about like what the attendance team does to yeah help outreach to those who are maybe yeah whatever challenges that they may be having.

Sure. Um well the key thing was like remaining in constant contact with families uh when students so making sure that we're not just leaving a message if we can't get a hold of a family member and following up with home visits for students that aren't attending um campus or um also community circles uh with students who do frequently come to school with which is in itself a little difficult because if you're chronically absent and we schedule a circle in advance, it's possible that you may not be there. Um, but scheduling these often enough so that you can build community and that there is attendance in these community circles.

Thank you, Dr. Shay. Thank you. Thank you so much. I I want to thank you and your team uh for this very thoughtful wonderful comprehension comprehensive presentation and I also appreciate the intentional focus on academic discourse and math implementation along with the clear 8 to 10% growth goals in the ELA and math and it is also encouraging to see the attendance gains and the strong emphasis on belonging as student voices. So, thank you so much for your amazing work. Thank you.

And I'd like to thank you. This this was a great report. I mean, everything's going well. My my feeling is that my feeling is that all the work that you're doing on the sense of belonging and um I got to look at some of the things you were doing when I visited your campus. But um you know, it has to make a difference in in culture. I think having um having kids feel that that they belong and making sure that they touch bases that somebody knows who they are at all times. I think then they they're more likely to come to school and your attendance shows that things are getting better and and if they're in school, they're going to do better, right? So, thank you for everything you've done. Um do you have any teachers or staff members here that want to stand up? I do and I have a couple of um certificates and names that I would like to for some of my parents. So um they are here. I have three out of four are in attendance. So Victoria Canudson, she is our PTA president helping out a lot on campus. We also have Lauren Kitchen who supports our, you know, PTA. She supports everything but our band pretty strongly. And then we have a teacher and parent, Alia Valenuela, who has also really given back to our band um and been a big supporter. And we have one more. I w might be

watching so I want to say the name. Mr. Leanne who has done the sound and the visuals for our drama productions. And it's amazing. If you've ever watched one, Thank you everyone. And would you like to have your staff stand up? Principal Mendes, would you like to have your staff stand up so we can so we can applause? Thank you ladies. Okay, next is Dr. Campbell again. Um, Dr. Campbell will present the annual update to the local control and accountability plan. LCAP and the local control funding formula budget overview for parents BOP as required by education code 52062A6. The presentation will include all available mid-year outcome data related to metrics identified in the current LCAP as well as a summary of the midyear implementation data for actions outlined in the current LCAP.

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to update our community. So again, good evening cabinet board of trustees and community and all online viewers. So as was stated, I am here to provide a midyear update on our local control and accountability plan. The flow of our time together is as follows in the agenda. And I want to note that while I'm giving a summary high level in some areas we will not go as granular so that we keep this presentation within the aotted time but I'm happy to provide additional information if needed. So before every pre presentation and getting into the meat of the presentation, it's important to align and ground in our core values, our strategic plan, priorities, which are also our ALCAP goals. And everything we do is aligned with our portrait of a graduate lint. We want our students to learn, impact, navigate, and thrive. Our LCOP, as I've said, is aligned with our strategic plan priorities in an effort to really focus all of our efforts for impact within the three-year plan. Um, so the operational plan funds and measures how we bring our strategic plan to life and each priority ensures um coherence. As you can see, our current L cap is for 2024 up until 2027. And at that time, we'd be revamping and having a an a new LCAP based on new priorities. Not necessarily new priorities, but new metrics based on how we grow. So, what will the mil midyear update provide? So, essentially, it's going to be um information letting us know how

well we're implementing. Did it happen? Did we say did we do what we said we were going to do? Also, in the midyear LCAP updates, we're going to talk about expenditures. Did we essentially spend or encumber the the funds that we expected to in order to support the implementation of the actions? And the last part of it is we'll be we will be communicating any mid-year outcome data L cut metrics that we have available so that we can determine if we are meeting our intended outcomes. Why why do we track midyear? Progress monitoring within anything that we do is important specifically for continuous improvement and moving our system forward to meet our illustrative measures within our strategic plan. Also, in addition to when we think about why do we track midyear, you know, it's really grounding in ensuring that whatever was on our priority list when we wrote the LCAP that we don't stray away from that in that three-year period. We want to stay focused. How this presentation would be outlined for you when we um think about actions and outcomes, it's going to be a stoplight system. So, red would represent that we're off track. Yellow will represent that we're in progress and green will represent us meeting or being on track with the specific uh metrics. And again here I just want to note there's a lot of nuance behind each one of these ratings. Um and so there might be granular elements where we're on track in a certain portion of the measures but because based on the other measures were maybe only in progress

then ultimately for this presentation and you know we would reflect it as in progress. So you know the color coding is going to provide the highlevel balcony view of where we're progressing. Okay, so let's jump in. So we're getting into the status of the actions and outcomes of our goals. So the way I want to orient you to this slide is if you're looking at goal one, exceptional instruction, you will note that the percentage of allocations spent is at 48% and the percentage of implemented actions is at 62%. Um, which is a good place to be at midyear. I do also want to highlight that this these ratings and the percentages is as of December 31st of 2025 at that time. So you can see engaged students where we are and while you're reading the other goal areas I want to take your attention to the LCAP progress monitoring. So there are 32 metrics and as you can see six of those metrics I needed my own glasses for that. Six of those metrics are um in green. 16 of them are improved still on track. Um nine is off track and then we have four of them that we don't have midyear um data available for us to be able to report out on. So again, what I'll name at this time of year in a midyear, you do want to see that fortunately for us, um, over 50% of our metrics are in the yellow or green, which is good to a good place to be at this point of the year. One area that we want to note specifically for our community and for transparency sake is that at the time of the approval of the state budget

um or at the time of the approval of the LCAP budget, the state budget had not been complete. And so for the local control funding formula, we actually received additional money and um our trustee business department has already done an overview to reflect um the increase and have prepared communication for our parents. And so again, the budget in increase reflects the total LCAP funding um as adopted the budget overview for parents and then the additional funds that we received. another transparency um slide here to communicate that we are um on differentiated assistance specifically due to our data for AfricanAmerican/black students specific when it came to chronic absenteeism and suspension date data suspension rate data also we do have one school in comprehensive school improvement and that is Ben High school and that's due to graduation rate. Okay, we're going to go into exceptional instruction. So, some things to highlight. We're providing students with access to standards align instructional materials and we continue to train our highly qualified educators on curriculum and instructional strategies. Um, and as a system, we have a plan to increase the amount of standards lined curriculum that we have in our classes. We're creating policies and defining practices that align with our equity

statement and support the implementation of our strategic plan. And we're providing broad and rigorous courses of studies to cor to to strengthen our opportunities for college and career readiness while continuing to reform grading practices across all levels. More on bright spites, bright spots and opportunities. We're seeing gains in math and science um and growth rates in ELA's as students progress into secondary. We are happy about our implementation and adoption of math curriculum. We continue to improve um and look to improve the implementation of the curriculum. We've taken steps forward to develop um more or to build out more of the instructional vision and the portrait of an educator. We really want those artifacts to clarify the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed in order to support our students towards our portrait of a graduate aim. Um, we're really leaning into providing resources for what meaningful and relevant learning looks like, what learner ownership and agency looks like, inclusive and equitable practices, and using assessment for learning. So now if we goal one but by metrics you can see the use of the color coding system. 1.13 is grayed out because the postsecary plan survey has not been performed as of yet. Am I touching the button? Hold on one second. I'm one slide ahead in my head. Okay, so as you can see 1.4,

you can see that we're at a red and you also see the year three target. So one thing to note and pull out we have a decrease in from 2425 to 2526 midyear of the number of students who are above in their double assessment. You can also see a decrease in usage. while you also see an increase in ISL uses in the middle school. And so I want to give a good amount of time to pause because each slide has information that's hefty. If we move on to the next slide and look at goals 1.5 through 1.9 as I was naming previously um 1.9 is grayed out because we're verifying the data source for AP enrollment. Uh we were not able to match the number from previous year. Um, and I want to name we we do have a dashboard now. Um, in years past when we're gathering some of this information, it's literally it it required pulling from different sources. So, we want to make sure we can acclimate or acquire the numbers used for previous year before we

report out. We want to make sure you're looking at uh like to like information, if that makes sense. We want to celebrate that we're green in our graduation rate and our year through target is to be 80% or above across all student groups. We have a slight increase in college the college and career readiness indicator and we also have an indicator an increase in the um 1.8 8 college and career readiness early assessment indicator ready for college and the last set of metrics within goal one you'll see that 1.13 is grayed out here is where I wanted to state that the postsecondary plan survey has not yet been administered and when it is and we report out we'll have that data. We also want to highlight here that seals of per uh by literacy increased. We want to highlight that CTE pathway completion for students with disabilities increased. And we're still pushing for access um for CTE pathways for students with disabilities. We want to increase that number as well. And we want to increase the 1.14

highly qualified uh percentage of credentialed teachers into goal two engage students. So again we want to highlight actions, bright spots and opportunities. So goal two is about creating a self a safe and healthy inclusive learning environment for all students. ensuring that the supports for before and after school programs are available to assist students in their academic, behavioral and social emotional learning. We want to expand biiteracy recognition programs. Um just honoring the language that our diverse communities come with and we're seeking to show the noticeable reduction in chronic absenteeism during peak months. So these two metrics are grayed out. Both metrics are from the um California healthy kids survey and that is going to be administered in the spring. So we don't have the data to report out on how we're doing in the midyear update on these two metrics. As named previously, if you notice um in that first area 2.3 and slash 1.1.12 um this should be showing you that we have strong alignment. So um we're streamlining our priorities with the areas of the strategic plan and we're making sure that in each area um we're there are targeted efforts um and they speak to multiple areas. And so for this one, engage students is also sealed with by literacy. So you see again that 4.3

increase. Uh we are really looking to do better for English learner progress. School attendance rate is rated as green. You see those increases as well as chronic absenteeism decreasing which is a good thing. For 2.7 and 2.8 suspension rate, you see that there are slight increases, which makes us confident that we're at a yellow. And, you know, there's a focus ensuring that for the remainder of the school year, we're using um all of our tools to prevent um a student needing to be excluded from the learning environment. And we are green on our expulsion rate. We want to maintain that no students need to be expelled. Goal three, purposeful partnerships. And so we want to highlight the work and the importance of cultivating partnerships with families, organizational organizations, and educational institutions to support students navigating their education. Um, so things like Promise Champions, we're piloting that, parent cafes, family resource centers, providing opportunities for dual enrollment through Skyline College, work experiences, internships, and we look forward to being an organization that grows to apprenticeships um as well. Okay, so the two metrics here are attendance to district community engagement meetings and so we are increasing the amount of attendees

as well as um attendance to our resource and wellness centers. Now to gold four goal four empowered educators. Some highlights here. We are funding positions that support district goals and staff development. Um a successful adoption of high quality instructional materials. We have staff on special assignment. We have engaged in instructional coaching pilot um at our title one schools. Teacher leadership teams were funding positions to support a safe, inclusive and welcoming environment. So, liaons, counselors, and para educators. We're implementing the universal prek plan to support our 2K TK students and staff. And we're improving pathways and processes to hire qualified teachers. And so, you can see in 4.2 we've had slight growth, therefore it's yellow. Um and as stated previously, ELPAC achievement is an area for growth of us. For us, we want to increase the number of students um having success and for the 2425 summitive we increase the number of level ones and that is something we're we're we're looking at and we want to work towards improving. We have an illustrative measure uh here also in 4.4 of English learner reclassification. And so based on the 2425 ELPAC scores, we did um increase the number of

students that were reclassified. So we're excited about that. Um and in 4.8 eight. We're at the yellow in progress to orient you again to the crossover um of several of our areas. um the 4.1 when we're looking at CASS um achievement, it also aligns with um exceptional instruction 1.1. So this is data that you've already seen, but it counts in two areas that we wanted to make clear for you. And so every one of these metrics were already addressed in actions and goals one and two, but we're showing you how um the goal for aligns as well. Trying to get use my wait time before I go. All right, goal five, equity centered systems. And so highlights and bright spots here. We want to increase student access to courses, programs, technology, tools, and addition learner learning opportunities to provide intervention support and enrichment. We want to have a multi-year inclusive and iterative annual planning process that's extremely transparent and we're we're excited about that. And of course, we want to continue essential

services and positions that allow our students who are marginalized to be able to have their their needs met so that they can engage with the academic environment. And it's important to note here that equity is at the center of our decision- making. Whether it's um human resources, fiscal resources, we want to strategically look at all of our goals. We want to analyze student data, consider staff allocations, enrollment projections, and any other initiatives or implementations to ensure that students have the opportunity um to access their learning and have success. So, dropout rates, this area is great because we are verifying the methodology used to calculate dropout. Um and so as soon as we align with the metrics used from year 1, we will provide an update. Want to note here that there's room for growth in the participation of all student groups for career and technical education opportunities. And we also want to celebrate the increase of pathway completion. And so we are seeing in our data for career and technical education when students have the opportunity to engage they actually are achieving success. And so the goal is to provide that opportunity to more students.

For long-term English learners, we have slight increase in mathematics, a slight decrease in ELA, and then just ELPAC summitive increase. And so some bright spots there. Uh specific to transportation assist assistance for eligible students. Um we had a decrease in the number of students assess taking access to transportation. And one thing here we can't really mandate um the use of we just need to provide the access. So while it did decrease this, this one doesn't feel as much in our control, but we provide the option. And here are another set of metrics that were already communicated in a previous goal. I think another thing that I want to bring attention to this slide is regardless of the area, all of our goals are focused towards the student outcome. And I think that that's something really important to note. Um, if we're focused on empowered educators, we have educators, you know, to improve the student opportunity and access to learning. And so that's why the metric um and how we measure how well we're doing is um going to be studentf facing which is really important. And these are the last set of metrics.

Okay. So, LCAP reflection and next steps. Um, for this 2526 year, we're building upon the work of the previous year and our data does reflect opportunities for growth and areas of improvement. Um and so we're looking at like staffingheavy actions are tracking at 50% spent which is which is good and it's expected for this time of year. So essentially when we talk about the budget we are doing and spending in a way in which we said we would which is positive. Um I also want to name that we are excited to look forward to the next LCAP. I know we have one more year but when we think about how it was designed we already see and are learning from the experiences of the past right and um as we're improving the annual pro uh annual planning progress or process to ensure that all divisions are like streamlining efforts we want to do a better job with that for the next um LCAP to ensure that there's no redundancies we want to make sure there's no misaligned efforts so that everyone is really targeted specifically looking at um or focuses focusing on the areas that we're looking to improve and we're looking for your engagement. Um so here are the dates of some opportunities to engage with um our LCAP. Um we want your input. So on March 9th there's a community input survey that we're going to launch. On March 12th there's a community input session. it will be ver virtual for our LCAP. Um in April on the 21st we have a DLE presentation which will include LCAP. And then on May 20th we'll have a public

hearing. And with that I want to thank you for your time and open up the floor for questions that I could answer. Thank you. Um um no no questions just um still seeing quite a bit of yellow and red. Would love to see more green. Trust you there.

Thank thank you for walking through this presentation. Yeah, I was um I think something just a general comment in terms of LCAPS. I mean, this is I'm I'm still fairly new to the board. So, um but something I've heard even from like other um education professionals is that for like this was meant to be a document for the public to understand what school districts are using or are doing for um you know their their plans and priorities, but it is such a a dense document to parse through. Um I do yeah I appreciate seeing all the alignment to our priorities. So that does help a bit but um yeah it is just is hard for for like a lay person or you know a simple parent like myself to parse through. But I do appreciate you walking through it. Um hopefully the engagement opportunities we have can like help our public to kind of you know understand where we're at. So thank you

Dr. Shay.

Yes. Thank you so much for this uh transparent midyear update and I really appreciate how clearly this presentation connects to spending implementation and outcomes. And I want to highlight some of the there are several slides I'm very impressed the what what is the midyear updates will provide that give us the what which is really good. Did they happen? Do we anticipate the cost the the the spending and also um are we on track? So those are very good question always keep in our mind and then how you are doing this why do we track midyear and this is so important we we got this LC cap every year and it become it was kind of like a routine just go through the motion but this time I feel like there's something deeper that I was able to grasp and understand a little bit more so this regular monitoring ensures that funds are properly spend on student outcomes and state priorities before mid year before year end. So this is very clear. Um so I don't feel myself is going through the motion. I feel like I can really focus on where the money is and then where we spend on our students and I really appreciate the this page um the status of actions and outcomes. This is really the high level that my opinions board need to really pay attention on this slide. Those five goals five goals is our district goals and how do we align this LCAP goal to our district goals exceptional instruction that we spend 48% of the money allocated. So this is me year. So we are right on target in terms of spending and then we implement I assume the implementation are those 32

matrix align with the exceptional instruction that we implement 60%. So this tell me is we are really good in terms of pro progress. Of course we can be as Amanda mentioned that you know different colors that we want to have more green but we are on the mid the um the mid year. So they are we still have time to uh some of the information will catch up and then engaging students the allocation is we spend 27% and implement 94%. So I think those are important for as a board member to see the big picture and I really appreciate Dr. Moore and the team that last time I mentioned about the big picture. This is what I'm looking for. So we know okay the big picture wise we won't we don't necessarily know all the detail on the how and that's expert all of you. We need to pay attention on this one and then so thank you so much for the great work. Appreciate that.

Thank you. Thank you for all the work it did. This was an amazing report, a lot of data and I appreciate all the work. I I have a couple of questions. Um and I didn't ask them in advance. So if you don't have it, that's fine. You can I can get it. The the main question is we put so much into our career and technical education. Um how come we don't have more students engaging? So what I can say being newer here, there are some initiatives that we're doing um with respect to just how we gain student interests and how we design the master schedule of a school. And so we're going to look closer at that at every school at every secondary school site as well as elementary but as every secondary site to make sure that the way the schedule is built doesn't create a conflict of two courses that a student might need versus what they want to take. So we want to make sure that like students can actually access the things that they'd like to. And sometimes when classes are placed they have to make those choices, right? And so that's one aspect of it. Um we recognize that we do want to do a better job in communicating what is available to students. Um Dr. Moore is leading an initiative of us doing roundts for students and we're learning a lot about you know what they understand is available to them. So that's another area. Um, and as a system, we also recognize that we've been building pathways at the high school level, but we have a clearer and more direct focus to make sure those opportunities start to happen more often in the middle school. Um, because generally for career and technical education, by the time you get to high school, that's not the time to decide what pathway you might want, right? Or trying to figure out what you like and what you don't like. We want to kind of have that happen sooner so that when you

hit high school, you're like ready to go into a pathway. Thank you. And and just the other thing, um so the first community input survey is March 9th. Um how are we letting our community know about it? I don't know all the venues by which, but I would say this is one stage by which we will. But I'm sure we will use our other tools. parents where um in order to make sure we communicate parent groups and um well thank you very much. I appreciate it. Um I appreciate your report. Thank you.

Okay. Well, the next, you know, so you think. Okay. So, why don't we move on to consent agenda? Consent agenda. The following items are submitted for board approval. One motion will authorize action for these items. So, designated. Does anybody want to pull anything? Um, I just wanted to clarify a couple of items. Uh, well, should I just pull Should we pull it? Pull the two things. I just want the questions. Okay. So, um, well, you can ask. Yeah, maybe I'll ask it. I don't think we need to pull it. Sorry.

Okay. So, what is it that you Well, I I know that last time we pulled um item 3A, uh, the purchase order listing from December 2025 because Trusty Richardson had some questions. So, I just wanted to ask for the record that uh Trusty Richardson if she was able to ask have her questions answered. Yes, she was. And then uh there was an item uh 3E um the schoolworks um there's a demographic survey. I guess we're doing an updated demographic survey and just wanted to clarify for the public um when that report will be uh completed.

It traditionally takes about 2 to 3 months. So we anticipate and we can give the board updates but that's typically how long it takes. We have a lot of information gathering before they can actually start implementing their work. Right. Thank you. Okay. Do I have a motion? So moved. Second. Okay. Well, we'll give the the motion to Trusty Anthony and we'll give the second to Trusty Lamb. Trusty Shay. Okay, I wasn't watching. I was listening. Um, all in favor?

I. So, four to nothing. Motion carried. Okay, we're still five minutes away. Um, okay. So, we have an action. Do we want to do the resolutions real quick and then we'll take a break and and then jump back? Oh. or do you want to?

Okay. Um, yeah, we can do the mot the the resolution. Um, so the first resolution number 26-07 for Women's History Month. Staff recommends the adoption of resolution 26-07, honoring Women's History Month. Have a motion. Oh, should I read it into the record or uh or we can wave it? But it'd be nice to read this one. I can't remember how we do. Don't we usually make the motion then the second and then read it and then Okay. Oh, we can. Okay, we have a motion

by Dr. Shay, a second by Trustee Anthony. Um, can you read it? I can read it in uh Okay. So, uh from the the all women board of school board trustees of South San Francisco Unified, I'm pleased to read into the record resolution number 26-07 recognizing March 2026 as Women's History Month. Whereas Women's History Week was first established in 1978 by the Sonoma County Commission on the Status of Women in California and gained national recognition when President Jimmy Carter issued a presidential proclamation in 1980. And whereas in 1987, the United States Congress officially designated the month of March as National Women's History Month to recognize and celebrate the historical and contemporary contributions of women. And whereas the 2026 Women's History Month theme, Leading the Change, Women Shaping a Sustainable Future, as designated by the National Women's History Alliance, expands the understanding of sustainability beyond environmental stewardship to include economic stability, community resilience, leadership, development, and intergenerational equity. And whereas women are leading transformative efforts by advancing green technologies, promoting economic justice, strengthening education systems, and building civic power, thereby designing pathways towards a more equitable and sustainable future for all. And whereas women have played and continue to play a vital role in the economic, so c cultural and social fabric of our nation, contributing significantly to the workforce both within and beyond the home. And whereas women of all racial and ethnic backgrounds have been at the forefront of major social and and justice movements advocating not only for women's rights, including suffrage and equal opportunity, but also for broader causes such as abolition, labor

rights, and the civil rights movement. And whereas throughout history, women have made invaluable contributions as volunteers, philanthropists, and leaders in the development of charitable, cultural, civic, and educational institutions. And whereas the historical contributions of women have often been overlooked or marginalized, underscoring the importance of ensuring their stories are fully and accurately represented in the teaching and understanding of history. And whereas California Education Code section 51204.5 requires that social science instruction include the study of the roles and contributions of both women and men in history. Now therefore, be it resolved that the South San Francisco Unified School District Board of Trustees hereby recognizes March 2026 as Women's History Month and honors the achievements, leadership, and enduring contributions of women past and present. Regularly passed and adopted this 26th day of February, 2026.

Okay. Roll call. Trusty Lamb. Yes. Trusty Anthony. Yes. Vice President Sheay, yes. President Murray, yes. Motion carried with a motion by Trusty Anthony and a second by Dr. Shay. And at this point, it's 8:28, 8:29. And so we need to take a 10-minute break. So we will be back at 8:39. All right.

Okay. Okay, welcome back everybody. We are going to move back to page um page four of the agenda presentation with potential action. The presentation is um is going to be given by Dr. Moore. SSFUSD 2026 to 2027 priorities priorities and initiatives. Superintendent Dr. Moore will present the district's priorities and initiatives for the 2026 2027 school year.

Dr. Thank you very much, President Marie. Uh it is really a privilege for me that I have the opportunity to present our 2627 priorities and initiatives to the board. Our current school year is very much underway, but we have been diligently thinking about and planning for the next school year. So to start, annual planning is really a structured cyclical process that really helps us to helps us to decide what we're going to be focusing on the next year. We recognize we have a five-year strategic plan and our annual plan helps us to really think very thoughtfully and strategically about what we're going to include in our next year's annual priorities. It also includes our goals, our initiatives, staffing levels, budgeting, professional learning, and so on and so forth. If you look to the right of this slide, you'll see that we have our three annual priorities, and I'll be speaking a little bit more about them in future slides. This year, our process included a lot of input from leaders across the district, very similar to the the iterative process that we had last year. We started with district office department teams really discussing the plans which we launched in October which was the beginning of our annual planning process. We then took it to our principles asked them to share feedback with us on this year's priorities and initiatives to give us insight and feedback as to how it was going. They shared that then with cabinet members and district office leaders that occurred in in November. And then our district office leaders took that to their department teams and took the inputs and started to create proposals for us to really think about and react to in terms of what the priorities and initiatives should be for the following year. We then took that back to our principal colleagues, had them review the proposals that we had come up with and we asked for their input and insight really with the lens of what does this mean for your schools? What should we consider before we set priorities? And

then we also worked with our CTA labor partners recently to share draft priorities and initiatives with them. That was actually this month in February. And all of that those inputs were then brought back to cabinet. Cabinet then thought about what we thought we could really do and impact for this next school year. And then they brought recommendations to me. And so we're just excited to share what these recommendations are. So, our annual priorities, as you saw previously, focus this year on belonging and well-being, math, and academic discourse. And what you see on the right is its alignment to our instructional vision, which we refer to as fence posts or pillars, meaningful and relevant learning, learner ownership and agency, inclusive and equitable practices, and assessment for learning. Our priorities this year, as you can see, directly align and are connected to our instructional vision with each of those fence posts. And I'll share a little bit more on this next slide. So, I know that some people might be wondering how these priorities that we just that we are still in for 2526 will carry into next year. As we took a moment to reflect on the work this year, we considered what will it truly take to put our instructional vision into practice. We realized that we needed to evolve our focus in just a few ways. This year, our priorities were anchored in our strategic plan priorities. So, you saw math, for example, was under exceptional instruction. Uh student belonging and well-being, it was under engaged students. That is still true. But we thought this next year we really want to anchor our priorities and our initiatives in our instructional vision. Why? To help us focus our system on our classroom practices and more uh intentionally on student learning and their outcomes. So we are keeping the proposal is that we keep student

belonging and well-being at the forefront. We heard earlier particularly from principal Mendes just how important that is. We know students cannot engage fully if they don't feel connected. they don't feel cared for and we want them to have strong sense a strong sense of belonging. We will be continuing to build the capacity of our staff this next year utilizing some of the same uh inputs and surveys that we used this year California healthy kids. We'll also be continuing with student roundts because it's another data point for us to really get to hear directly from students. Second, uh we really leveraged academic discourse this year as an early lever to increase student engagement and really start to bring our instructional vision to life. In this next year, we will be broadening our math and academic discourse, zooming out a little bit, really focusing more on grade level standards based instruction using high quality instructional materials. Now this shift directly advances our instructional vision as it is a it's aligned to meaningful and relevant learning as well as learner ownership and agency. Um a natural step for us which is why we wanted to do this is we took a step back. We looked at the implementation of illustrative math. It has shown us what can happen when students engage in rigorous standards aligned tasks. discourse becomes more meaningful and thinking really deepens. At the same time, our learning walks showed strong growth in student talk across the district. But we also saw variation and alignment to grade level standards. And so to make a true impact on student learning, we know that discourse must be grounded in rigorous grade level and standardsbased content. Hence why we're zooming out and really leaning in on grade level standards and and really seeking to increase the rigor. Third, we are elevating a focus on assessments and professional learning communities. Again, in alignment with our fence posts, assessment for learning. We have

already have a little bit of practice with this. We've begun implementing common assessments with dibbles as well as illustrative math uh unit assessments this year. Next year, we plan to build on that foundation by introducing a more coherent system of assessments that are aligned to standards and performance for our endofear summitive CASP test. That is why we recognize how important that we don't just give assessments for assessment sake sake. What we do with the data is actually what matters. How we can turn data into information, insight, and then into action. And so that is why we are pairing this with stronger professional learning community structures helping our teachers to collaborate in grade level grade level and content area teams really understanding the standards analyzing student work uh co-planning lessons together observing one another's practice in order to make some instructional shifts as needed. So we don't see these as new priorities but really rather an evolution that helps us to bring our instructional vision more to the forefront. um so that we can stay focused on what good teaching is and looks like across the district. Now, that was the what. So, we think about how how will we invest in a number of these initiatives? And so, I'm not going to read this slide to you, but I did want to call out a few things for belonging and well-being. We fully intend to continue to invest in professional learning for our educators. And that in fact will be a central theme at our professional learning sessions especially in August and across professional learning next year as the foundational element that all staff continues to get professional learning on. We're also going to be looking there if you see under belonging and well-being bringing on clinicians to support students mental health. We recognize that it may be challenging to find um staff in the amount of time that we need and get a new job description and so on so forth. So, we are not

recommending that we uh stop our contract with YSB. We're going to be continuing that because we don't want to disrupt services for our students. And then, of course, we know how important it is to just have a coordination of care for students so that they get the support and the services that they need in a timely manner. for standards and high quality instructional materials. We're going to continue with our implementation of illustrative math in grades three through 12 and we will be launching in grades K2 uh supported again by our partners at Unbound Ed. That has been a really incredible partnership. We will continue to provide professional learning for um implementation of our new science curricula as well. And we will begin the process of adopting a new ELA curriculum in grades K through 12. The goal is to launch the adoption committee in the fall of 2627 with the goal of uh bringing to the board sometime spring 2027 for launch for the 2728 school year and we're thinking of doing that in a staggered way given we have some educators particularly at the elementary level who are taking on a brand new curriculum. And finally, we are looking at how we can invite many of our district leaders, principles, and educators to attend different trainings, but specifically we named here the standards institute, particularly since one of our priorities is going to be on standards, grade level standardsbased instruction. And um we are committed to covering the cost for registration and transportation. For the third one that you see on the right, assessments and PLC, we are going to launch several initiatives to ensure that we are just more informed about how our students are making progress. Um, how we are coming together to analyze data and how we're using that data to directly address and inform what's happening to support students. And so we'll you'll see here different sets of system assessments that we have here that we will be using. And we want to continue to leverage our

dashboards to help us to be able to really see are we having the intended impact. I won't read all of the rest of those to you, but the go the goal for us was to create priorities that are districtwide that touches all of our schools, our staff in support of all of our students. This is another slide that really just paints a picture of how. And the idea here is that we want to move in ways that are equitable. And so you'll see here that we were going to be continuing the wellness counselors at our middle and comprehensive high schools and at our our four title one elementary schools. Um we are starting what we are calling a coherence pilot. We've already launched that where we're providing customized supports specifically for some of our title one schools that are listed here and they will also have instructional coaches on their campuses. And then if you go across also customized support for the same four schools who are in our coherence pilot. If you look down, we recognize that one of the pieces of feedback that we got through the strategic plan process was that uh we don't allocate resources as equitably as some of our community thought we should. So we took a very intent after re having a study last year, we came back and intentionally wanted to provide a title one equity boost, additional per pupil funding for those schools. And then still thinking about um we have at some schools students who have greater needs or need special services and so providing additional funding for those schools based on the number of kiddos that they have with IEPs. There's also some programs that are unique to certain schools that other schools don't have and so really providing additional funding for that. The last piece we heard earlier is about TR promise champions that is really about family partnerships. Um it is a fellowship le for uh families to come together to learn together to lead together to really understand more about literacy and math so that they can be strong

partners and continue to be strong partners and understand the instructional component a little bit more. So the previous slides describe what is on the stage, what directly is impacting our teachers and our students. This this slide really is the tech crew that works behind the scenes. Very important for us with the work that's going to be happening with our equity centered systems and our talent backbone needed to support the work at our schools. I won't read that to you. I will call out we're t we're really excited if you go down to that very first one the third bullet clarify our framework for teaching important for us in alignment with our instructional vision that's going to be a big support as we think about how we align our our evaluation systems also to the instructional aspects that we aspire to have and then if you look on the right hand side again always looking to continue our two-way communication and engagement and really thinking about things that we can continue to learn from and improve from when it comes to our annual planning processes. So, I just wanted to do a quick preview looking ahead to potential priorities for the 27 and 28 school year. Um, all of the work that we're doing, we intend to allow it to build from the previous year, including deepening implementation and just adjusting uh as needed based on what we are learning and what our data is telling us that we need. And so you see here that we can anticipate that our priorities for uh the 2728 school year will be related to highquality instructional materials for English language arts. I've been saying ELA and uh the adoption and implementation of our instructional framework that you see here, our why. So we we believe that our priority initiatives will help us drive toward meaningful change. Our vision for students is that they will have and feel a strong sense of belonging and care at our schools. That they will receive

timely coordinated care and support. That they we will have classrooms and systems that have cultivated and are engaging them in rigorous standards aligned learning every day. And these priorities will enable us to be able to do that for all of our students. For our educators, it is to support them so that they are able to intentionally cultivate belonging and well-being in their classrooms. Support them so that they are able to deliver, plan and deliver rigorous instruction for all of our students. And of course, creating opportunities for them to even strengthen. And I think a lot of our our teachers are collaborating, but really strengthen in a structured way how we collaborate and how we use that data to really drive our instructional decisions so that we can course correct. Uh as we see that the data is telling us if it's working, we continue. If it's not, we pivot. And lastly, we believe our priorities will help us drive towards meaningful change for both site and district leaders. Uh if we can support our leaders into building coherent systems and strong partnerships around belonging and student success, we believe that we can set really clear expectations that are aligned support for quality instruction and that we can lead and really model how important it is to use data and evidence to drive improvement. We believe if we do these things in a systematic, intentional and strategic way, it will lead to toward meaningful change. And with that, I just want to thank you and I am available for any comments or questions that you may have. And this is an action item.

Okay. Does anybody have questions? Trusty Anthony. No questions. Um, I like the alignment. Um, I like the progression from where we're at this year to to building on that and pushing it forward next year. Um, I especially like uh the alignment between the vision for students and the vision for ed educators. Um, I I know our educators collaborate and wish they had more time to collaborate and I hope that that's something that can come out of this too. Thank you, Trustm.

Uh, yeah, thank you for your presentation. Um, I think you address some of the questions I had uh previously in terms of how Yeah. uh priorities that we named this year are really carrying over um into or is being we woven into um these uh uh you know evolved priorities I guess I would say for this coming school year and um I I think my initial reaction looking at um particularly the the priority around standards um was like wow you know we you know we had made a very intentional focus on math this year but then Now we're ex like are we expanding with science and ELA but then I I I also have been following uh the the work that behind the scenes I guess or just on for the past few years or um with the the science leadership teams um or the the teacher cohorts and and the science tosses. So I want to call that uh uh attention to that just to uh thank uh like our teacher leaders who have been uh working on this for u for quite some time now. So I think bringing attention to that work more intentionally is uh is great. Um so um and then same with ELA you know we had talked about in the previous meeting about uh uh sites you know teachers using UFly as uh for um for intervention and um and now we're kind of growing on that in terms of like finally looking at uh adopting a curriculum. So this is really exciting time. Um I just yeah so that was my main thing was just to highlight uh kind of the teacher uh leadership and site leadership on those uh two other areas that have also been a need. Um and then uh I guess I should end with a question in terms of uh yeah now that we're kind of bringing attention to that what um I

guess what's different in terms of like what yeah that those teams have been doing um and what uh bringing that into the the priorities um like what what does that like what will be brought forward or um I don't know I'm not phrasing my question talking science specifically. I I think for science Yeah. I would say for science specifically. Yeah.

So a lot of what they've done this year, they're going to continue to do that, but just go deeper. And so, you know, it takes oftentimes a lot of repetition to really learn and to identify some of the instructional moves that they want to make. And so the team has a well-ritten plan of the ways that they want to go deeper for some of our educators around instruction, the instructional moves that they're going to make, and really bringing science to life in our classrooms. And I have more specifics if you you want me to get into the specifics today or I can send it to you. Sorry. Yeah. Thank you very much Dr. Sh.

Thank you. Thank you so much Dr. Moore. I really appreciate the clarity and coherence of next year's priorities belonging uh well-being standard standards and HQIM and assessment and PLCS. So it's clear the this field this builds logically from the this year's work and stay grounded in the instructional vision and especially value the attention to talent development and equity centered systems and I also thank you for the why the what and the how and I totally agree with uh Anthony mentioned about the uh vision the alignment on the vision between students educators and our site uh site district leaders. This is amazing work. So all three system from inside to out is all aligned

and I also appreciate page seven our brave bold move for our equity work. This is not an easy move. So I really appreciate that you lead us on that equity uh thinking based on our equity statement. Thank you. Thank you very much. really an incredible team effort from many many brains thinking about how we could make this um rigorous enough uh feasible and really stretch us in service of kids. So, thank you for that.

I love everything about this and I think you guys do great work. Thank you. Um I did want to say I love I especially love um the prof professional learning for the teachers because if we invest in our teachers then um you know our students are better for it. Um I also appreciate the additional per pupil funding for our our title one schools and because where we put our resources show what what and who we value. So that I appreciate and just amazing work. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Thank you very much.

Okay. So now um we have an approval or not to make approval of the district's 2026 2027 priorities and initiatives. staff re recommends approval of the district's priorities and initiatives for the 2026 2027 school year. Do I have a motion? So move. Second. Second. Okay. Um all in favor? I I

So we have a motion by Dr. Sh a second by trustee Anthony and a unanimous um passing of the motion. Okay, we did consent agenda. So we have another where we are now is page six of 10. Um item C, resolution number 26-08 for American Red Cross Month. Staff recommends the adoption of the res resolution 26-08 in recognition of American Red Cross Month. Do I have a motion?

So moved. Second. Trusty. Uh I think I'm reading it and I Yeah, I've invited um Trusty Anthony to read the resolution into the record.

Okay, Anthony. Uh resolution 2608 recognizes March 2026 as Red Cross American Red Cross month. Whereas the American Red Cross was founded in 1881 in Washington DC by Clara Barton, a nurse, educator, and humanitarian who served as the organization's first president. And whereas in 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed March as Red Cross Month to recognize the extraordinary humanitarian service provided by Red Cross volunteers, donors, and staff. And whereas the American Red Cross plays a critical role in emergency preparedness, disaster response, and recovery, providing life-saving assistance to individuals and communities impacted by fires, floods, earthquake, earthquakes, and other emergencies like blizzards. And whereas the Red Cross advances public safety through life-saving education, training, and certification programs, including leadership and volunteer opportunities for K12 students that foster civic responsibility and preparedness. And whereas the American Red Cross has a long-standing history of supporting Bayer Bay Area communities, including response efforts during the 1989 LMA priet earthquake, 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion, regional wildfires, and the CO 19 pandemic in partnership with local agencies and organizations. And whereas students of the South San Francisco Unified School District have demonstrated compassion, leadership, and service by participating in blood drives, fundraising, and volunteer efforts in support of Red Cross initiatives. And whereas student organizations such as the El Camino High School Red Cross Club and the South San Francisco High School Red Cross Club exemplify the Red Cross fundamental principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity, and universality through ongoing community service. Now, therefore, it be resolved that the South San Francisco Unified School District Board of Trustees hereby recognizes March 2026 as American Red Cross Month.

honors the dedication of Red Cross volunteers and staff and encourages students, families, and the broader community to support and engage in humanitarian service. Regularly passed and adopted this 26th day of February, 2026. Roll call vote. Trustee Lamb, yes. Trusty Anthony, yes. Vice President Sheay, yes. President Murray,

yes. So, um, motion carried. Um, we had a motion by Trusty Anthony, a second by Trusty Lamb, and it was unanimously passed. Um, next, um, we have the 2026 CSPA Delegate Assembly election. The board will vote to select representatives for the 2026 California School Board Association CSPA Delegate Assembly from Region 5B, Santo County. There are three vacancies to be filled. Not enough nominations were received for a third candidate. However, the board may vote to write in the name of a board member to fill the remaining seat. Um,

when was this open? I don't remember seeing it. That just I'm just curious. February, I think. Really? Okay.

Um, so I would like to ask to have a write in. Uh Mary Beth Alexander is currently a um a delegate. She didn't get her paperwork in on time. She she mistook the the date that it was due. Um she is from Cababrillo uh Unified School District and part of the reason that she was chosen um originally she was appointed and was because she came from a school district with a small school district and we try it when we we're choosing delegates or when we we appoint delegates we look at where they're from. She's a coastside school district as well. And so we we want like different geographical areas and you know different school sizes. So or different district sizes. Um so I would like to um have her add her as a writing candidate.

So that that's Mary Beth Alexander. Mary Beth Alexander. Yes. So, do I have a motion or any discussion? Um, so I move to nominate uh Chelsea Bon, Terry Chavez, and Mary Beth Alexander as a writin um for sub region 5B. Second. Okay. All in favor? I.

Okay. So, we had a first by Trusty Anthony, a second by Dr. Shay and unanimous um a unanimous passage of this of the three um Terry Chavez who was Chelsea Benini and Mary Beth Alexander. Okay, moving on. Approval of increased funding to Child Care Careers LL LLC contract. Staff recommends approval to of an increase in funding for childcare careers LLC for the 2025 to 2026 school year in the amount of $295,000. Any discussion, questions?

Okay. All in favor? I I

Okay, motion carried. So, we had a first by Trusty Lamb, a second by Dr. Shay and a unanimous decision. Um, next is approval of President Murray's travel request. The board will review and discuss President Pat Murray's request to attend Coast to Coast Federal Advocacy Trip in Washington DC April 11th through 15, 2026. Um, so I I would just like to say um the trip is quite expensive, but um I am I've made efforts to um keep it as close to my $2,000 aotment as I could. I'm $45 over, no, $4410 over. And um Dr. Shay has offered to um take from hers and and give me the difference. So I I would like a motion if I could.

So moved. Huh? The uh Yeah, I you're choosing option two. So I move to approve Trusty Murray's travel for option two. Second.

Yeah. And I just wanted to comment before we take a vote like I um I think my big thing is just yeah trying to keep that within our board allowance. Um and um yeah so thank you trusty uh she for u offering to contribute towards that uh difference but um yeah so that's kind of my philosophy on that. I agree trusty Lamb um keeping it within the board allowance. I think it's a fair board allowance and uh Trusty Shay and I will be bringing back revisions to our uh board remuneration policy soon um for consideration but still feel that our our a lotment is is reasonable. So

okay. Um so all in favor

I motion carried. So sorry was it trustee Anthony motion second so the second was by Dr. SH and it was a unanimous okay the um let's see approve then G approval of Trustee Richardson's travel request the board will review and discuss Trusty Mina Richardson's request to attend Coast to Coast federal advocacy trip in Washington DC April 11th through um 1520 26. Is there any

um I mean the the cost of this is clearly in excess of our $2,000 spending limit. I am willing to give some of my spending limit to uh Trusty Richardson uh to bring down the cost. I'm willing to approve this travel if she's willing to pay for some of this out of pocket. Um I I would not be willing to give board approval for uh beyond beyond what can be afforded through our aotments. So, I think I'm I'm still stay consistent in my my comments from last week. Does it benefit kids? Is it within our budget? And if not, is there something else that would be comparable? Um, Trusty Richard or Trusty Murray managed to stay within her allotment. So, that's why my vote changed. Um, on this one, I'm willing to give Trusty Richardson $500 of my aotment um to use for this. That would bring the cost down to 3,200. Um, but I and I I would be willing to approve it, but I wouldn't be willing to approve the district paying the full amount.

I'm echo uh Amanda. So, are you talking about option two, right? Yeah. Option two. Looking at option two as well. Yeah. And I'm willing to contribute whatever I left. So, Trusty Shay's balance. Yeah. The all the balance to Mina.

Yeah. Yeah. And I think similarly um at the previous board meeting um I had uh pledged to contribute 300 for my allowance. I apologize I only have three about 300 left in my allowance but um and uh yeah I'd be curious to hear about well once the bylaw comes through on numeration um and we could have that discussion for you know another for future things. And um I know we all kind of have slightly differing philosophies on, you know, what we can do, but or what we ought to be traveling for, but um I mean, I'm pretty open as long as things are aligned with our uh what we state in our bylaws in terms of purpose. But yeah, I think keeping within our board allowance and um and preferably we wouldn't have to like loan each other things, but um you know, I think we also have that flexibility as long as we are keeping within our um allowance and um demonstrating that fiscal responsibility. So, um, yeah. So, I just wanted to mention again, um, yeah, I'm willing to contribute the 300 and then along with, um, Trusty Anthony, Trusty Shay, whatever that, um, I I I wasn't able to get clarity in terms of what was left in Trusty Richardson's account, but, you know, I think we'll just have to do the math and, um, if we can create the motion, just say like, uh, whatever that toll amount is, um, that will be the limit. And, and if it's a little bit short, that so be it. that we're we're going to contribute what whatever it is within our uh port allowance.

Okay. So,

yes, I can I can make the motion. I moved to approve Trusty Richardson's travel um with the contributions from Trusty Sheay, Trusty Lamb, and myself um with the expectation that the district would not pay the balance. And so if Trusty Richardson it would and that the district would not pay the balance, that trusty Richardson would pay the balance. That's from that's option two. Option two for for option two travel. Is that a sufficient motion? Have I covered the issues? Okay. I second. Okay. All in favor? I I I.

Okay. So, we have a motion by Trusty Anthony, a second by Dr. Sheay, and a unanimous approval for the mo the motion that was made. Excuse me. Okay. Moving on. Teaching and learning. Approval of agreement with SPG Therapy and Education, PC. Staff recommends approval of an agreement with SPG Therapy and Education, PC, to provide temporary speech and language pathology services to implement IEPs and support special education programs through the 2025 2026 school year in the amount not to exceed $55,000. Any discussion? Motion.

So move. Second. All in favor? I. So we have a motion by Dr. Shay, a second by Trustee Anthony, and a unanimous yes. Um approval of agreement with AYA Healthcare Incorporated. Staff recommends approval of the contract with a healthcare incorporated to provide a deaf and heart of hearing DHH instructor to implement IEP services and support special education programs for the 2025 2026 school year in the amount not to exceed $80,000. Any discussion? Motion. So move.

Second. Okay. All in favor? I I

Okay, so we have a motion by Dr. Sha I mean motion carried um a motion by Dr. Sheay second by Trustee Lamb and a unanimous um decision to move this approval of one-year contract extension with McGraill LLC. Staff recommends approval of a one-year contract extension with McGraw Hill LLC for the currently adopted ELA instructional materials wonder grades K to5 and study sync grades 6 to 12 in the amount of $362,65.93. Any discussion? Any questions? Um, and the intention is that this would be the last year that we'd probably extend this contract because we're looking to adopt in the next uh year, right? Correct.

Do I have a motion? Second. All in favor? I

I motion carry. So, it was uh Dr. Sheay and Liz made the motion. Trusty Anthony second and it was a unanimous um carry of the motion. Human resources approval of theou with classified school employees association CSEA chapter 197 for the referral bonus program. Staff recommends approval of theou with csea 197 for the referral bonus program effective February 13, 2026 through August 31st, 2026. Any questions? Motion.

This is 3A. A question. No question. So moved. Second. Okay. All in favor? I I

motion carried. So I have a mo motion by um Trusty Anthony, a second by Dr. Sheay, and a unanimous yes. Um, business services agreement with Joseph Kamiski Construction Corporation for Spruce Elementary School. Staff recommends approval of an agreement with Joseph Kamiski Construction Corporation for exterior concrete wall and stucco repairs at Spruce Elementary School in the amount of $62,425. Any questions? Motion. So move second.

Second. All in favor? I I. Motion carried.

Um Dr. Sheay made the motion. Trusty Anthony made a second and the motion carried unanimously. Um approval of agreement with Millennium Consulting Associates for the Sunshine Gardens Elementary School modernization pro project. Staff recommends approval of an agreement with Millennium Consulting Associates to provide hazardous materials consulting services for the Sunshine Gardens Elementary School modernization pro project in the amount of $18,000 2008 $237. Um any questions? Motion moved. Second.

Okay. All in favor? I. So there was a motion by Dr. I made by Trusty Anthony Trusty Lamb had the motion.

Oh, I'm sorry. Um I there was a motion by Trusty Lamb, a second by Dr. Shay and it was a unanimous approval. Uh resolution number 26-09 award and authorization of lease leaseback agreement with Rodan Builders Incorporated for the Sunshine Gardens Elementary School modernization project. Staff recommends adoption of resolution 26-09 supporting the award of the lease lease back site lease and facilities lease agreements for the Sunshine Gardens Elementary School modernization project and authorizing district staff to enter into the lease lease back agreements with Rodan Builders in an amount not to exceed $64,000 64,000 to $20. Um, any questions? Motion.

A motion with a W. Huh? What's that? Huh? Did someone say something? Oh, did someone say something on Oh. Oh, roll call. No, I was just saying u I want to make a motion with a waving of the reading. Unless you want me to read it, which No, that's okay. Thank you. So, motion by do by Trusty Lamb with waving the reading. Do I have a second? Second. And a second by Dr. Sheay. All in favor? Sorry. Roll call. Trusty Lamb. Yes. Trusty Anthony. Yes. Vice President Sheay. Yes. President Murray. Yes.

Thank you. Motion carried. Approval to amendment number one with Gelfand Partners for Junipacera Elementary School new TK classroom project. Staff recommends approval of amendment number one to the agreement with Kellan Partners Architecture for additional design and construction administration services for the Juniper Sera School new TK classroom project in the amount of $23,200. Any um questions or a motion? Oh, so moved. I second.

Okay. Uh so we have uh a motion by Trusty Lamb, a second by Dr. Shay. All in favor? I. Motion carries unanimously. And now we are at the review of future agenda items and meetings. Can I ask a question? Um when is our 2026 2027 board meeting calendar going to come? I'm curious because I'm trying to plan my summer. It's time. Trusty Anthony, I anticipate to have it at one of the May board meetings. Is there any way we can get it a little

at least July? At least give me July. Okay. Okay. Okay. Summary of board directives. There are none. Good and welfare. Trusty Anthony. Nothing. Have a good week.

Oh, yeah. Well, first I wanted to clarify from earlier in the consent agenda. I I I invert in inadvertently mixed up um a purchase order listing with a warrant register that was pulled in the previous meeting. So, um, and so I just wanted to clarify that, um, and and I was told that that will be brought to, um, a future board meeting. Um, but, um, anyway, as far as good welfare, um, you know, it's been a busy week this week. Uh, I've run into trustee, I mean, President Murray a number of times, um, including the the PTA uh, Founders Day lunchon on Tuesday. Um, I'll let you speak to that since you actually stayed for the entire thing of it, but it was very moving to uh celebrate that um with our other uh PTAs and and leaders. Uh there was also City South San Francisco's youth in government kickoff uh uh with our high school students um being mentored by uh our um uh city uh government officials. Um and uh also attended uh Parkway Heights Middle School's uh career day um and ran into Dr. Camel and her team. Hello. And um it was great to see over 30 speakers sharing their uh career journey uh with our youth. Um I could see after, you know, kind of walking through it. It's my first time uh why this program won a Kent Award last year. Uh uh I was also honored to speak um at the South San Francisco Kanas Club meeting uh on Tuesday and uh I just shared kind of the latest uh things happening around our school district. Um had some good conversation with the members. Um I uh the Kuanas have been great community partners uh with us. Uh they kind of re-engage with us recently and um have been working with some of our school sites I believe with Sunshine Gardens. Um there's some literacy uh uh programs happening in terms of having like a bookshelf uh for books. Um and they're providing uh other resources for our

kids. So uh yeah, love the Kowanas. Um and then just last thing uh happy birthday to Aiden. It's his uh birthday weekend. So thank you Dr. have a great weekend.

Okay. I'll just um I I went to a lot of things. I I want to tell people to join PTA. Um I went to the PTA event. Um they honored Nancy McGee and Dave Pine. Nancy McGee retired as the superintendent of schools in Santo County um just recently. And um how did she get on the was she elected in 2016 or No. Anyway, she's she was been a wonderful superintendent for many years and and very student centered and she's going to be missed. Um, and our our PTAs won a lot of awards because of the numbers and the the number of years that we've participated in PTA. So, let's keep that going. Um, I was also asked to give a speech for um for youth government day um the other day and um one of my favorite things happened to me that since I've been on the board and and I gave my speech and one of the the seniors came up to me and told me she introduced herself to me and she told me that she was inspired by my speech and so I will always remember that. That was like amazing. Um, and probably my one of my favorite things from being on the board. Um, with that, I'll adjourn the meeting. Thank you.