Principal Jessica Leahy shared that Oceanside Site had a month full of events! One of the biggest highlights included Red Ribbon Week. During this week, there were themed dress up days and lessons focused around healthy lifestyles and making healthy choices. The week ended with Literature day where students and staff dressed up as a literature character. Community members lined the back parking lot and hosted a Trunk or Treat. Oceanside also hosted a Dia De Los Metros movie night event where around 350 people attended!

Taylor Ellis shared about the first set of CAASPP score data. Taylor shared an overview of what metrics were discussed, each site principal shared about their site's performance, and lastly solutions and action steps for each site were discussed. Dennis Allotey, Principal on Assignment, and Chantel Van Pool, OC Grand Principal, shared that our students are outperforming other students in the district in Math and ELA. Board Member John Ing suggested benchmarking beyond our district, but also looking at county and state benchmarking. Oceanside Principal Jessica Leahy shared the percentage of socioeconomically disadvantaged group of scholars has grown from about 40% to about 70% and that our students are outperforming the district. South Bay's Principal, Allison Vann, reported on the site's student performance and what actions are being taken to improve those scores. Board member Charles Friedrichs suggested that there be some kind of academic competition via zoom among the schools sites to encourage our scholars to push the pace. 

Gilanie Thomas shared on the four sessions our academic team presented at the California Assessment Conference in Sacremento. Session one was titled "Backwards Plan like a Boss" and focused on focused on effectively using ELPAC Interim resources to drive integrated and designated ELD instruction. Session two was titled "Creating a Data Culture with your Staff" and focused on the challenge of creating a positive school data culture through the examination of common barriers that stand in the way. Session three was titled "Making Student Data Students' Data" and focused on discussing the benefits of allowing students to work with their own data. The final session was titled "Less Gotcha, More I Got You" where the the academic team shared their experiences and resources around using data to drive teacher
coaching. 

Dennise Allotey shared about the conferences that she has been attending in regards to the Homeless Innovative Grant we have received. Conferences include Center for Cities + Schools & CDE Learning Exchange at UC Berkeley School of Education, the 2023 CSDC Conference in Anaheim, and 2023 CAASFEP Conference in Sacramento. 

Jason Watts shared that he, Kristen Crowe, Andrew Crowe, and Victor Carcamo were at the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth Conference in New Orleans where they were given the opportunity to see what other agencies, schools, and districts are doing that aligns with that Scholarship Prep is doing.

John Ing asked to clarify this contract. John asked if this contract was already in place. Andrew Crowe confirmed that this would be a retroactive action. Due to sever security issues, an immediate change in security was needed. John's second question was to clarify the bill rate. The bill rate listed did not match the final calculations. Sarah Schoenfeld-Nakamoto  said that there will be a follow up with this contract to verify the bill rate. John's final question regarded if we go through a bidding process when looking for a vendor. Sarah Schoenfeld-Nakamoto stated that we do a three bid process for anything over $50,000, but this does not reach that threshold. 

Board entered closed session at 3:03 pm.