There was no flag salute as a flag was not present in the classroom. 

There were no corrections or additions to the agenda. 

There were no presentations from the Public. 

Exective Director's Report Excerpt:
"The schools have experienced higher challenges this year than in years past. Students are in greater need of social-emotional supports today than previously. The lack of models of civility and bullying in leadership, communicated in the daily news that our families regularly source has created a highly stressed everyday living environment. Survival is the core to the thinking of our students. “Ms. King-Berg, We don’t always want to be, or act tough or be bad, but we have to be that in order to get from school to home without getting beat up. You have to be tough to survive our streets. If not, weak people don’t survive. We don’t want to be this way. We come to school everyday and we try to start over but bad habits are hard to break.”-A YPICS student.
Teachers reported through several mini surveys provided throughout the school year during YPICS-wide PDs that they felt that needed more support with PBIS strategies in the classroom. The increases in adverse behavior incidents made it challenging to remain focused and intentional to instruction periodically. They also reported that they need more consistent and regular feedback on teaching throughout the year. And they want to engage in additional instructional rounds during the 2019-2020 school year.
As a result of reviewing all available data formative, summative, and surveys to date, YPICS is awaiting the Youth Truth Survey results and analysis, YPICS will focus on the following areas for the 2019-2020 school year:

• Consistent Classroom Management Strategies in all classrooms to create emotionally safe spaces for ALL students (Relay GSE Instructional Leadership PD)
• Support rigorous, thinking-rich classes (Relay GSE Instructional Leadership PD)
• Weekly observation and feedback to teachers (Relay GSE Instructional Leadership PD)
• Focus on Data, Data, Data
• Joy

Goals:

• Decrease Chronic Absenteeism to below 5% (students out of school don’t grow academically)

• Decrease suspensions and expulsions below 3 %
• Become the fasting growing middle and high schools in increasing student academic achievement in ELA and Math (including ELs and students with IEPs) by 5%+.

System Changes to support the above:

• Changed bell schedules to ensure in-school intervention with teachers for both Math and ELA
• Adopted new YPICS (grades 5th-12th) Benchmark Assessment-iReady, which will replace NWEA Maps to better support teachers with the data analysis and guidance on what the students are ready to learn next.
• Middle School Math Adoption of Ready Math with Curriculum Associates
• Clarified and redefined the composition (members), scope of work, and direct data outcomes for the YPICS’ Instructional Teams, School Climate and Culture Teams, and Parent & Community Teams.
• Ensure a viable rigorous curriculum is available for all subject areas (middle schools subjects other than math-Achievement First, and the high school will continue to use UC doorways approved UCI curriculum aligned to the CTE pathways). Middle Schools Math Adoption is Ready Math.

We will continue to provide social-emotional support to our students through the following counseling services:

• Luminarias Counseling Services
• Part-Time Social Worker
• PUC MFT Counseling Services

The above 2019-2020 YPICS Plan includes both first and second order changes.  8 Members (Executive Director, Executive Administrators, Directors of Instruction, Special Education Director) of the YPICS Instructional will be attending the first Relay Instructional Leadership PD in Los Angeles July 14-19, 2019. 

We will submit the Bert Corona Charter High School Renewal Petition in July as planned and are on track to do so. We will provide you with updates throughout the summer."
 

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