President sanchez so were missing miss norton clerk moliga. President sanchez welcome to our staff and our families and our students particularly with us. Staff leaders and everybody and to my colleagues on the board. This is going to be quite a long meeting. Most likely quite emotional at times and im going to just make the case to the quorum that we need to treat each other with respect. Were not going to tolerate folks talking over other people, particularly our student delegates which happened last week, and so, again, we expect a quorum though we are discussing issues, theres a lot of emotion in this. And i may have to make that plea more than once, but, again, welcome, everybody. Section a is general information. And b is our opening items approval of the board minutes for october 6, 2020. And we need a motion and a second. So moved. Second. Thank you. Any corrections . All right. Roll call. Clerk thank you. [roll call] okay thats five ayes. President sanchez thank you. Two is th
Report we would encourage you to take a look at the Teacher Shortage currently there are 65 vacancy par positions 36 are special ed positions including the bilingual and special ed and parents that are specialists with the medical needs of our severely impacted students of at least three of those par positions are vacant along with 16 special ed classrooms 5 by colleges and one nurse while we can find teachers on craigs list we hope you can too we hope to see you in april clapping. commissioner norton. Did you promote me so a couple of questions thank you for the report and also a pleasure to you all im curious about the first of all, i want to appreciate first of all, that you included some best practices in our report there are inxirwa to the district. What our looking for i havent seen that in a cac report to thank you for that and then i was curious about the Technology Resource center particularly is that the marin that does that. It is the marin. So they just have that in a centr
Fiscal if there are set aside times for teachers to get together and plan their curriculum so when they come into a classroom together they know what theyre doing and the children benefit currently, the Elementary School level we have 60 minutes of planning at the time set aside barrel enough time we are asking to set aside time for the teachers to get together to make a meaningful realty for our students we be building that we need teachers with reading certificates in every school in the district we have seen an increase in the literacy specialists in schools people dedicated to help children achieve reading we know that students with disabilities are a majority of the students struggling not only the learning disabled but effects many students with disabled and some not on record the reading certificates are they create specialists in teachers who know how to provide accurate intervention that having could supporter our students with the reading achievement we believe that creating
Barrel enough time we are asking to set aside time for the teachers to get together to make a meaningful realty for our students we be building that we need teachers with reading certificates in every school in the district we have seen an increase in the literacy specialists in schools people dedicated to help children achieve reading we know that students with disabilities are a majority of the students struggling not only the learning disabled but effects many students with disabled and some not on record the reading certificates are they create specialists in teachers who know how to provide accurate intervention that having could supporter our students with the reading achievement we believe that creating districts benchmark and celebrating the celebrations with benchmark is understanding where we are with the students with you p u we know that we have made great process as a district on our standardized assessment with the disabled we achieve more than most districts were asking
Children benefit currently, the Elementary School level we have 60 minutes of planning at the time set aside barrel enough time we are asking to set aside time for the teachers to get together to make a meaningful realty for our students we be building that we need teachers with reading certificates in every school in the district we have seen an increase in the literacy specialists in schools people dedicated to help children achieve reading we know that students with disabilities are a majority of the students struggling not only the learning disabled but effects many students with disabled and some not on record the reading certificates are they create specialists in teachers who know how to provide accurate intervention that having could supporter our students with the reading achievement we believe that creating districts benchmark and celebrating the celebrations with benchmark is understanding where we are with the students with you p u we know that we have made great process as