##VIDEO ID:eKSPqHnH-bI## August 22nd calling the Mee to order at 10:00 a.m. and at this moment if we can have the roll call of um Miss P I don't think we have Quorum yet we're trying to see if we have Quorum give this one second um Miss H um Mrs H's call is on oh yes that's I was asking for the roll call so that would determine but no problem report you can do it that way too yeah H yes you can do it that way too by okay hi good morning uh adopted family Jessica Pagan watch a moment [Music] that's best foot forward Debbie Elman what I believe Debbie just signed on sorry I couldn't get off mute okay gotcha a best foot forward Christina Keel Black Chamber of Commerce Cassandra Oliver card at FAU Jack Scott CED FAU Sabrina de gois Coalition for black student achievement Dr Deborah Robinson she late 45 minutes late Coalition for black student achievement Jacqueline Callaway Compass Amanda conned present good morning everyone thank you Compass Rex Barnes connect to Greatness Dr Cassandra Corbin thus presid online thank you connect to Greatness Andre thus present online District ESC advisory committee Kimberly Spire o District ESC advisory committee Michelle Bey Here Comes Michelle District DSC advisory committee Michelle Bey presid online division of blind Services Caesar vgo Pres Economic Council of Palm Beach County Craig McKenzie El Soul Jupiter Suzanne witbeck Florida Hispanic American Chamber of Commerce Juan pagon Florida Hispanic American Chamber of Commerce Evelyn Vargas for the children Reggie durandis Gold Coast Down syndrome Sue Davis Killian present Guatemala Maya Center Mariana Blanco present online Hispanic chamber of commerce of Palm Beach County Maria Antonia Hispanic education Coalition of Palm Beach County Hector Pedra NAACP dedri straw Palm Beach County Council of ptas Charmaine postal good morning pres online okay and Palm Beach County Council pta's Marcus Brown Al Beach County Human Rights Council Emmy Kenny presid Tri City education committee Eddie rhs pres you gotta turn it on there Mr rhs President okay and Tri City education committee Mary Evans Urban League of Palm Beach County Terrence Reed Terence Reed pres all right volunteer Association of America wh line Pierre president online good morning morning and volunteer Association of America carlen Paul oops classroom Teachers Association Gordon loffer present online thank you and classroom or Palm Beach County School administrators Association is vacant when okay hold on all right I've got 11 I need one more or let Miss see Susan suan y Suzanne just came in L SC by two Kimberly Spyro just came in okay Elso Jupiter Suzanne Whitbeck hi yes I'm here thank you and District ESC advisory committee Kimberly Spire o yes I am present online thank you did I miss anybody else s Cassandra Oliver present online but chamber thank you and Chamber of Commerce got okay we we we have a quorum now and it looks like we have Mr Scott Jack Scott you uh and Cassandra [Music] Oliver okay we have a quorum okay thank you um need to make a correction on the glaz the alter we can the speakers that are speaking Jonathan or someone thank you um if we can just monitor the chats and just everyone that is not supposed to be talking committee can good morning if we can mute staff if we Suzanne Whitbeck can you please mute or Susan can you mute her thank you um good morning everyone um to those who just joined us if you can uh mute your phone if you notice that your or mute your devices excuse me um at this time if you're not speaking thank you so first I want to say good morning welcome back to everyone who is back and I also wanted to say and take a Chapter out of AAC La uh this past Monday's call and say you know we want to see your smiling faces of course we know that it's convenient to be online um however staff have to be in the room so if you can and if we may even maybe think about in the future meetings um certainly with the chair Mr Pagan if we can have the ability to discuss maybe a rotation where we're online and one month and we're in person another month but I think that it would be you know just to keep our effective the effectiveness of the meetings going and the flow of the meetings going if we can um try to all be at the locations with our staff who are doing amazing work with us so I dig there and we can discuss that later on but at this time we are going to move forward on the agenda to the approval of the June minutes proceeding with election of officers so for the approval of June minutes um I will go ahead and take a motion and then immediately after the elections of officers I am going to ask staff to step in and proceed with the election of officers at this out the approval of June Ms that's on the floor if we can mute uh debb uh good morning this is Reggie that was a move to and then our second with best foot forward who was that I'm sorry Reg okay we heard the motion made by Reginal um to move to pass the June I'm sorry a motion for the June minutes to be approved is there a second the floor Deb Debbie best foot forward second it thank you all right we can mute because it's very hard to hear can we mute Reginal she is we're good now there's there's a motion on the floor to for the June minutes motion by rinal second by best Ford uh Debbie from bester Ford um any discussion on the motion hearing none all in favor of the minutes June minutes be passed I motion carries all right great and of officers okay thank you Vice chair postal and I'm going to go ahead and uh start that uh this is Mr Oswell again happy New Year everybody welcome back to our first meeting of the new school year this does call for um at our first meeting the election of our chair and vice chair positions so what we're going to do is to open up um the Slate that anybody can nominate either themselves or they can nominate um someone else for the chair position we'll keep uh the nominations open for period time to there are N More nominations that will call for a a vote um once that position that will open it up for the position of Vice chair keep that open till there are no more nominations and then call for a vote so um at this time I am going to open up nominations for the position of chair for the district diversity and Equity committee so and if you uh would like to make a nomination for yourself or someone else please unmute and go ahead and give us at this time or raise your hand and I'll call on you I have one in the room here Mr rhs uh would it be appropriate if we would uh request uh to use to keep our same president uh if she would do the courtes going over again so our our current chair right now um from last year was is Mr Pagan so he's not here to accept the nomination at this time um so I'm not sure um okay if he would so anybody do we have any idea if he's interested in continuing or not that would be a staff question because um we can't talk to each other due so but I will I I if if there is a need for a chair I will step up to be that chair and we can take um because we would like to move the meeting forward I will step up and nominate myself to be the chair I I will gladly nominate you dear um that as well if if I can just send that and do that if it's okay to have Miss post so Mr Rose just nominated Miss postal uh for the position of chair oh wait we got nominations are not closed right now sorry so uh Kim you had your hand raised did you have another nomin I did to also U make the same nomination okay let me drop it now okay Debbie you have you're unmuted did you want us I I was ready for the vote sorry I was a little premature there okay okay nominations are still open for the position of chair um don't all step up at once you know it's very exciting position right now I'm G to just give it a couple more seconds and then currently on the Slate we have Miss postal um as the only nomination give another few seconds if there are no more nominations um we won't need a vote well we would need to vote uh more ceremonial will they that uh I'm going to close nominations so at this time we have one on uh person nominated for position of chair that's Miss postel so uh all those in favor I I I I I okay uh it passes um so congratulations Miss postal now uh this time I'm going to open up nominations for uh Vice chair good morning this is Cassandra Oliver I'd like to nominate myself for vice chair for Black Chamber thank you Cassandra so no vote yet so okay so Cassandra Oliver thank you so Cassandra has nominated herself for the vice chair position any other nominations we seen a lot of Hearts if case you can't see them so people are liking that so all right I'm going to close nominations for vice chair at this time all in favor forand Oliver for vice chair for the district diversity and Equity committee hi um two people have raised their hand I think they're raising their hand to vote sorry that's okay is that correct Suzanne and um Reggie yes okay yes okay congratulations to Cassandra Oliver so thank you both to our new chair and vice chair we appreciate you stepping up and then the rest of the committee does as well so at this time I will turn it over to our new chair I know she got stuck in some traffic so if you need some assistance let us know but I'll turn it back over to you at this time thank you all and congratulations Cassandra um and thank you good at this time we'll move along with the agenda the next item on the agenda is the public comment and also before the public comment or any public commentor speak I will ask for the record if anyone in the room who had not announced themselves during roll call to announce themselves for the record online sure hi Jessica Pagan with adopted family thank you I got you Jessica graduate for the children thank you and Jack Scott with Florida Atlantic University court but I think you got me on the uh first but I came in a little late yes I did thank you all right great uh and any staff that's in the room as well I know I I know Dr I mean Mr Oswald so I introduce myself uh go ahead what yes oh Janina Simmons manager of equity and access Susan hi Susan holsclaw I Keith's Administrative Assistant Pete Stewart health education specialist in teaching and learning all right and then we have two members and also the room that's everybody M proo perfect thank you uh we can proceed with public comments if there are any in the room or online Mr R well I just realized my phone was muted this entire time so you couldn't hear me but board member Ferguson I'm pres as well I got here about eight minutes ago sorry for being l no problem thank you Mr Ferguson we're glad to have you here apprciate man uh we have no one in the room for comments and I don't no let me look at the there's anybody outside DC on the list here I think everybody else is Committee Member so I think we're good on that perfect at this time we'll move on to the ddec agenda um where we now focus on presentations to this body Dr No Keith Oswald I I want to give you this title so much so I maybe you're going back to school your doctorate Mr osal I'll let you go ahead and take this area where you introduce the presenters and um move this area forward sure okay okay so we so again um these agency presentations we started last year they have been I think based on the feedback very informative to everyone to understand all the agencies that are represented on the district diverse Equity committee because not only is this about making sure that we support the school district and feedback around Equity issues but also for you to network and understand um the richness of what exists in our community and all the work that is being done to solve the complex problems of our community and so first on Deck today we have Sue Davis kilan I've known for many many years um with the go Coast Down syndrome organization so um I am going to turn over to to sue do we have a presentation over yeah we do have it is it up here already Jonathan you have it received you never received it yeah I sent it about a week ago you have it give us one second if you sent up to me I'll do it from my my computer soon do you do is tar at the top then sh SL here okay so yeah and then wait hasn't come through yet should not yet can youed can you Google Chat it to me F L look for things on you I can email it to you or does that way she just yeah that's I think that's what she did I'm just trying to you tried to there all it just came through good ah all right good this sh it's not going to work as on my computer it will it will you got some magic I got to do wind it's should I do window or turn the screen SE PowerPoint spinning okay that's pretty cool s l g here we go s all right here we go sorry about that I'll youu all righty can you all hear me good all right so uh we are the Gold Coast Down syndrome organization and our mission is to enhance the lives of children and adults with Down Syndrome through education advocacy and family support so we were founded 44 years ago um our founder was this fabulous woman who was as as was usual at the time was told to you know when she had the baby down him was told to uh just leave the baby there until everybody died um because that was kind of standard 44 years ago uh she did not do that and she's been a a leader um she founded our organization and we've always been a leader in advocating for inclusion for students with Down syndrome and for civil rights so we work to uh have our our clients included in education housing work health care and social life so uh inclusion has really been our big driving force uh inclusion and education we uh Gold Coast downam organization was the organization that uh kind of forced the district many years ago Kicking and Screaming to pass an inclusion plan although now they fully embrace it which is awesome um so that was approved by the school board in 2006 and then they did it tweaked it and updated in 2010 um and basically what the inclusion plan did is it mandated that every school be what we called inclusion ready um and the main thing that had to happen for that to happen was that the master schedule was redone so that Services were Avail available in the general education classroom that then allowed IEP teams to choose that as an option so um our Key Programs we have our what's called best start for our birth to three and one thing I want to say is we basically we serve uh cradle to grave actually before cradle we uh we have parents who come to us when they're diagnosed prenatally so um our best Start program includes music therapy zoom beini and let me tell you you have never seen anything so cute as toddlers doing a toddler version of Zumba U Mentor moms where we hook up um either new moms or moms into the area with more experienced moms we do a kissy for early steps and for the transition to um from early steps to prek and we have social events and since a picture speaks a thousand words and they're so darn cute I had to have some of the some of our pictures her music therapy our Mentor moms these are the experienced Moms music therapy zini more music therapy okay so then our our next program is our family education program uh which serves ages 3 through 20 and we've been doing this about 12 years and it's a school year program once a month program where families come in um and the kids are with teachers and the parents are with uh with me basically um and in the prek in early Elementary we focus on research-based reading methods for teaching reading to students with Down syndrome and on behavior modification in middle school we start F we still focus on some behaviors and we start looking at those dreaded puberty issues and how to build Independence and then our high school group focuses on all those uh issues of transition to adulthood like Guardianship and Special Needs Trust and all that wonderful stuff so some of our pictures from that that's our high school group our prek group more prek you'll see a lot more pictures of the little ones because let's face it they're a lot cuter one of my favorite teens Alex um probably one of our biggest programs and what has allowed us to really grow so much over the last years is that we provide for our members free educational advocacy we work collaboratively with the school district um again 20 years ago that was not necessarily the case but but it is now and as far as we know we're the only organization that provides Our member with an advocate who will go to IEP meetings uh review draft IEPs you know basically every dealing with the school the part of our collaboration with the district is um we've been doing this every year since 2008 it's an all day teacher training for teachers who currently have a student with Down syndrome and uh basically we provide the training the district does a portion of it related to curriculum resources and the district pays for Subs so um and over the years we've trade uh trained over 700 teachers peras slps and administrators can't do it and then oops we have Adult Enrichment classes and these are uh the we do not have a day program these are meant to be dropin classes that people can do um to work around their their work or other schedule uh we have theater Zumba painting uh book club which meets at Panera cooking and golf so we have this is our art show uh this young lady won second place at an old school Square art show it's adult book club and that is my daughter by the way just had to point that out um our St Patrick's Day party our adult theater class which is which is just fabulous in in spite of the fact that they all sing and let's just use the term sing Loosely and and I can say that because my daughter is by far the worst of them everybody closes office doors when she's when she quote [Laughter] sings um that's again that's our adult book club we used to meet at the mall now we're at Panera we have a cooking class there's my daughter again and then we have uh We've really uh increased our social events over the last few years we realized we had spent a lot of time on advocacy and education and all that and doing um some surveys we realized the social events is what our members were missing so we try to do them around the whole County since we serve the whole County um you know and every people live from Jupiter to bua and actually we even have some members in Broward and Martin County um some of our events are for specific ages and some are for the whole family Barrel love monkeys mini golf uh this we have a monthly mom's night out and you can see there there's a a young woman who's pregnant because like I said people come to us prenatally Savannah bananas that was a lot of fun Splash Park movie day I don't know if any of you have seen peanut butter Falcon if you have not it's on Netflix and you have to watch it it's a great movie it is starring Zach godsen the young man on the left there um it has shy buff and Dakota Fanning it's a really it's great movie great movie yeah it's on Netflix so it's really good and Zach go to our schools yes he went to the school the middle school and high school the Arts I will say back then his mom had to do a lawsuit to get him into the High School of the Arts but uh and he also was the first person manate Elementary School was he at Manatee I couldn't remember yeah and um which was one of our early inclusion schools yes because I was assistant principal back then yes yes you were and um he uh he actually just finished another movie that should be coming out next year I don't yet know the name of it so oh and he was the first person with Down Syndrome to present an award at the Oscars last year uh we have a a partnership with Drive Shack and we do classes there for our teens and tweens we always celebrate World Down syndrome day oh holiday pajama party got do that therapy dogs usually come about once a year which is really fun and here's our our oh no no I okay so our walk is coming up uh this is our main fundraiser for the it's really our only fundraiser for the year we we write grants and stuff but this is our only fundraiser for the public uh the school district has a team the ESC department has a team every year and um the QR code theirs if you're interested it's a great day if you have kids especially it's it's awesome there's it's $25 to get in and that includes breakfast and all the entertainment the bounce houses the pony rides everything so oh it's at John Prince Park yeah it's a great great we have about 2 200 people and yet still has that that kind of little family feel to it there's some pictures from that and there's our contact information and also if you run into anybody um not only with Down Syndrome but with um a you know other intellectual disabilities we although we specialize in Down syndrome we do have members who have other disabilities because um you know there's a lot of people out there with just an unknown intellectual disability but uh you know pretty much 95% of the issues are the same no matter what your disability so we do we are open and welcome to everybody okay any any questions said we here yeah so at this time sorry at this time I turned back over to you at this time we're going to go ahead and and um open it up to questions a great presentation before we take questions I do want to say that yeah a lot of leg work over 30 years I mean that I can recall I was assistant principal manate when um and manate Elementary School opened as a full inclusion School based on a lot of the work that you know I think Sue and others that really could out trout Blazers back then and working in that full inclusion school as an assistant principal I got I think they in 1997 um some of you may not have been born but yes um it was U pretty incredible with you know number of students we had there that had Down syndrome um Zach godan who was in the movie he had I think just left but I came in there like right after um because we had like 2,000 kids at an elementary school so I was a second assistant principal so it just great work so yeah man was great that's where my daughter went and um you know it was it was great and yeah the uh I I do have to say that when I compare pal Beach County where pal Beach county is on inclusion um with our students especially our students with downs and significant disabilities there's really no other County in Florida that comes anywhere close um we have a lot of people from Broward coming to us because broward's kind of where we were 15 20 years ago so you know I really have to give a lot of credit to Palm Beach County District uh for doing that and it was the the inclusion plan was was um basically my baby for five years and I'm glad when I started I didn't know it would take me five years to get it done because I may not have started but um yeah we you know it's it's it's we've come really a long way in 20 years yeah I think Jack Scott have his hand raised I I did um I to if you could talk just a little bit more about your kind of stance on inclusion but I think you kind of just covered it in the last minute and a half so um sure do you have anything specific or just in general um we still have a a a major school that is not inclusive at all and we have um you know Center Schools do you take a position on any of that well in an Ideal World we wouldn't need a Center School right in an Ideal World we wouldn't need ESC classes but but we don't live in an Ideal World and there are um there are needs you know when you look at like say Royal Palm school are you know it's pretty there's what about 140 something like that students there which is a really small number out of whatever we are at now 180,000 students um but they do have some very you know a lot of them have very specific needs that can be met there um but there also I've known of other people with Down Syndrome that are there that should never have been there um and so you know I think we're always striving to improve but the main thing when you know when we did the inclusion plan the main thing we wanted people to know is that we're adding options not taking away options and there are parents that don't want their kids included um I do my best to show them the benefits of inclusion but there are certainly advantages sometimes to some are all the time in an ESC classroom and you know one thing I make very clear to parents if they want their child included is that it's more work you know it's it's you're going to get more phone calls you're going to have more homework it's not as easy as having your child in an ESC classroom and there's no parent that just says oh I want the easy way out but there are parents that are working two jobs or don't speak English and things like that so you know you have to deal with the reality thank you very much thank you thank you any other questions for Sue and go close down syndrum all right great presentation um and great work appreciate that and then now we're going to let me I almost h up on you all hold on a sec yeah on computer uh now we're going to go ahead and um next on the agenda we have uh tric City education Mr Eddie roads I think Mr Eddie RH you're going to speak to us about Tri City and education thank you um so happy that you guys would be interested in uh TRC education I apologize for not having a PowerPoint but with school just starting uh we couldn't get into the schools and get the information like we needed to but I do have some handouts if any I want a copy of it uh the tri education committee was organized in 2008 as a sub component committee for the glaze coalition uh in the glaze area we have three cities that we come together and we organize and we decided to to bond as one unit rather when we come to the coast and we have some ass or we have some issues uh rather than come to the coast but come with their issue Bel come with their issue South Bay come with their issue we we we came together and organized one group that we call the Tri City glaze uh Coalition and out of that uh this is how we organize committees such as the education committee the uh the religious committee the economic committee and Committees of that sort so the tri education committee is one of the only one that's still kicking uh from 2008 that that's that's still in functioning uh our mission is to enhance the local education system of The Glades while developing an equality education the opportunities for all students and residents in the glazes area information related to education issues concerned students achievement and disparities in academic programs are shared as a resource our support system the tric education committee is committed to improving the quality of education and life of glaze residents in the glaze area it is committ committtee desire to provide an impactive opportunity for for to embrace and Empower Learners to succeed in every field of endeav in this world uh our stakeholders are our students uh our parents uh religious affili Affiliated organizations our businesses our fraternities royalties uh Community Based organization and our citizens uh program an initiative our first initiative after we got organized in 2008 uh we lobbied and we advocated for three schools uh to be built in the glaze area cuz the school that were there were dilapidated uh outdated uh technology was kind of atrocious so we lobbied for three schools and uh we came we organized uh the community uh we bought students over to the school board meetings uh we bought uh the committee came to the school board meetings the starting in 2009 uh excuse me also we we we bought at one time we bought a group of CI senior citizen to the school board meeting which was the most enjoyable meeting that I ever attend with the senior citizen there call it was quite elated and afterwards we took them to Golden career so they could eat and it was it was quite an event for us and and from that uh what this uh the successful it was successful the lobbying was successful because in 2013 our first school was built new school go of Elementary was built in 20133 students moved in and in 2015 glaz View and rosemal Elementary School was built and it's students moved in so the the the lobbying was successful that's one thing that we are proud of call have three new schools those schools have stated our Arts uh uh technology uh the the the smart boards just everything that you would want in a school those schools have the facilities those uh uh entities and the kids kids are so elated about it uh our next initiative was uh in the glaz area in 2017 2018 a a MCO was atrocious and and this was something that that we felt that we had to do something about as a unit so in collaboration with the with the uh area superintendent uh and the uh area staff we decided to organize a math contest and what we did we went into each school and we took the longer name was the FCAT we took the skills and and and from the FCAT we took those skills and we had 10 questions that we would give and we put in each School each Elementary School had to participate in this contest and and and it and it it kind of went slow at first because you know kids don't really like math but after they realized it was a contest and they was competing uh uh it it kind of flourished for us and so what we decided to do to give a little incentive to the to the students we decided that we would go by class from third grade to sixth grade will participate in this contest each class every month that when the best highest grade for that particular class we would go into school and we would give them a a ice cream party or a pizza party and that really brought brought the students on board and everybody wanted to be a part everybody wanted to have that pizza party because it really was an incentive for the kids and really uh it took off and uh I don't know if you noticed in the last four or five years uh Belgrade have had no uh F schools uh no D schools they've done good in math and hope to elevate that in order to evaluate we had done another thing that we did uh initiative that we did uh Thea VI Ro to have a uh Festival every year it's called the aparat festival so what we decided to do then was to challenge the schools and to have a little competition so each school had to take the top person in that school from the grade level like this third grade level fourth grade level fifth grade level sixth grade level you will bring your best student to the tournament and we organized this tournament at first we had it in the in the uh uh Recreation Center the first year and the kids were s down at the computer with all the third graders will compete then the fourth grader will compete then the fifth graders and sixth grader will compete and we will come up with one winner for the glaze area per grade level like you had the top third grader the top fourth grader top fifth grader top sixth grader and what we did was in conjunction with the sugar Mills and the businesses we bought prizes and they they bought laptops and they bought iPads they bought uh the B uh earphones you know the big expensive set that I can't afford uh they bought that and the kids had a choice if they won they could pick either one of those gifts as a gift for their and the family they was elated by it to and they got a chance to show off their skills the second year after this it it was such a big hit that we could that the uh Recreation Sy was too small so uh they we went and rented a big 20 foot screen so we could put those schools up and the kids working on the computer you could you could projected on the screen that was a big hit that was and the weather thank God the weather played good for us so it it worked out it was successful for us and and here again the kids that won they got the same choice of the you know the iPad the uh the uh laptop or the uh the B earphone set and and this this one thing that we proud of because I hope will bring our mask goes up and really right now we we're kind of leveling off we're not not having too much trouble at our mask far as our test are concerned uh the next initiative that we had uh we um at the end of the year we have a Awards banquet award ceremony I should say and what we do we borrow one of the school borrow one of the schools Auditorium po High School auditorium a Glade Central Auditorium all the kids will make a five on the test we bring them in and we give them Medallion and we give them a certificate every kid that make a five and we bring them in we recognize the parents we recognize the principal we recognize the student and and it's just a big festivity that those kids come in and we have very nice Medallion and very expensive and the certificate is good and those kids we a medallion the school and when kids see the kids with don't my D on this a kind of incen to them to want to take a part in partake and and um do do well and mass which is something that was a big hit for us now at the auditorium at the awards program we give our gifts again what we do we have a drawing this is order to get the parents to come we have a drawing uh we have a luggage sets we have microwaves we have TVs uh we have computers um the sugar Mills in the business in Bel one thing about education they really buy into it when you want to get gift for things like that and it's a big drawing for us in the first year we had about maybe let say a couple hundred people the second year we had 400 plus matter of fact auditory was full it and and and it was a big thing for us because you'll be surprised when those kids come up on that stage and get that medallion and and and then get that certificate and we had we had the certificate frame you know so it' be very nice and would be eye catching for for the kids and it was it was a big headit for us um our collaboration Partners in the glazes area the glaze region superintendent uh the U board members of Mara Andrews she's a part of our collaboration Team all each miror is a part of this team what we did was each miror and had three kids I mean two people from his community in order to to make up the committee um the people the the persons who from belade we had M Steve Wilson Mary Evans and myself is from the belade from poker we had air Keith Bal uh Al bigs which was a commissioner um kha mvin and Patricia Wallace which is a pastor in that in that area we have four from pooki because I me three from pook and the mayor because there's a city called canel Point uh which is near pook and we kind of took them under their wings which so we gave them four people rather than three people so this is why you see the OD number for po s had m Joe C Shirley Walker which was the commissioner and bet Bernard so those people made up the tri education committee uh we we don't have a website per se uh we don't have Instagram and think of that nature uh really we didn't see a major need for it but this that's that's something we're going to look into uh other irrelevant thing that I think should know uh is that um quarterly the superintendent and his staff come out to meet with the tric education committee uh superintendent uh Burke uh superintendent tyrany the chief of staff Jamie Watts the uh the chief the deputy chief of staff is is Mr tyranny I'm sorry and Jamie watts is the chief of staff uh they will meet with us quarterly to discuss and analyze introduce strategies that will enhance the enrichment of the quality of education for our students in the glaze area also if any principal have any issues that they need or they have some any issues that they School individually that they not getting the the the the uh action that they feel that they should get they come to the city the Tri City education committee they a presentation and then during that time is when we can sit down with the superintendent and let them know what the ass is from these schools and the need for these schools such as we had one school last year were they had the increase enrollment of students and they needed a counselor but the school board wouldn't give them a counsel because at at the beginning the FTE was wasn't large enough to obtain a counselor so they way the whole year just about a whole year not having one so that first quarterly meeting we got a chance to you know get the superintendent ear and let the uh instruction director know that we needed a counselor that school was to die in need of a counselor and and that we made that happen which was an asset we think was a great thing and meeting with them we can collaborate and we considered ourselves the laser on between laser on between the community and the school board and that's that's what our efforts are and we try to make sure that we do what we can to enhance the glaze area make sure they know the glaze area there there's a myth in the glaze you know all bronze and no rigns because uh we have such Powerhouse athletic team but when you hear glaze C and football and basketball uh they are kind of dominant so if you were here now you would notice that the academics in the glaze area have really increased we have a schools we have B schools and and and this has changed matter of fact glaz Central last year they had academics the academics was 2.8 plus everybody on the team had 2.8 plus which is great yeah and this is one night that we're trying to change that myth and make sure that our kids sure that our kids can excel in in the education academic side also anybody have any questions I have handouts if anybody want one I'll pass them to anyone online have question Jack Scott yes I do uh thank you um I just want to make a pitch for Kim thomass and at at go uh her efforts to help the kids with autism especially get swimming lessons now there were several tragic deaths of of kids with autism young kids and it's just a a shame but she was really a a tremendous spark blood for putting that uh helping to make sure kids had access to swimming lessons and I know the district uh cooperated on that to allow for transportation and made special Arrangements but uh it was some really commendable stuff by her and and her team out there and I um I'm I'm sure you're aware of it and I just wanted to help yeah I'm I'm aw I'm on a site committee I'm on a site committee uh this effort was put forth for the City Rec the County Recreation Department and the city they made this happen and uh those kids uh they furnished a transportation for those kids to go to the pool and and get those lessons which is an asset because water is All Around The Glades area so that's it's a needed it's a needed thing and what we're doing now we're trying to get more kids and this is not the tri I'm not going to take the Thunder for the tric education committee cuz we we and I had too much input in that but that's one thing that we really going to work on to see if we can get more kids involved in that swimming and learning house swim because it's it's a big need for the glaze area absolutely sir and one other uh comment and suggestion uh uh the old Gove uh I know I was out there a month and a half ago and it was it was still there but it looked so uh decrepit uh it it it'd be great if the county the county still owns it if they if they don't own it somebody should just you tear it down and and clean that area up and it's not your fault but as a advocacy effort with the with the school school district okay that's a little bit above my pig grade but what's happening is I know what's happening is this right now the city is looking into having it demolished because the school boards are going to turn that over to the city and they going to have some homes or some apartments out there and then the process to get money to have that demolished that's one thing on the docket now that we're looking into thank you fantastic anyone else anyone have any questions any other questions for Mr rhods I just have some comments I think the advocacy that you and tri cities have done over the years has just been tremendous we've seen the um on top of what he said with no drf schools some of uh the highest graduation graduation rates ever year-over-year I think over the last probably five 10 years um through that advocacy the scholarships that have come in as well for students your work with Tak stock and children and others to really make sure kids have the resources to go to post secondary has also uh played out extremely well dual enrollment so thank you for your work for uh what you do in the Glades thank you I'll make sure miss AIS know definitely great work thank you and any other no other questions for Mr Rose I'm going to um go to our third presentation we have uh we have a comment let me see up from Dr Robinson great work Mr rhs in the chat box um and we do have some handouts we will work to send that out also to the entire committee Mr RH as well as well as the other presentation and next we have uh Dr car Diaz will doing a cameo to the we haven't seen him in a while here but uh I think he's a familiar face to you all with the Hispanic education Coalition Dr Diaz I think you're going to have your own presentation great uh you're muted with Dr Diaz can you hear me now yes we can okay well yeah I have I have the points that you'd like me to cover so I'm just going to go down and uh tick them off um the Hispanic education Coalition was founded about 15 years ago and we are a nonprofit nonpolitical organization and uh we also have zero paid staff everyone including myself is a volunteer so every dime that we raise it goes to students um 15 years ago ago when we started uh one of the I forget which but a top administrator said to one of my colleagues the reason you Hispanics don't get any attention is you don't know how to squeak well I think in the subsequent 15 years we have learned to squeak and we have put that criticism to rest um as far as core values and principles um for those of you that don't know me I Know Jack Scott knows me and uh a number of others Dr Robinson know me um I'm a professor ameritus of Multicultural and Global education at FAU so my background is that of an academic and the notion of equity uh was Central to my academic work so the values of of HEC I'll say that for in abbreviation is the advancement of equity not only for the Hispanic Community but it has also been my experience that if Hispanics are short are getting the short end of the stick they're generally not the only ones so I'm very mindful although we have the the word Hispanic in our title not to be seen by others as a focused only on Hispanic kids or Hispanic achievements organization because I'm a big believer you know if uh if we all do well Hispanics will do well in addition um as far as our purpose um Hispanics are 38% of the district's student population 38% of the parents and they are the largest single constituency of the district um I believe whites are somewhere around 33% African-Americans around 28% and then there's a scattering of small percentage of the other groups so looking at it from that perspective and the fact that District generates its money on FTE the Hispanic Community brings in more money to the district than any other um the question that is are we getting a proportional degree of service the answer historically has been no and we are making progress but we still have a waste to go um in terms of uh the stakeholders again the Hispanic Community is the primary stakeholder you know I've gone on Spanish language radio on various occasions to talk about the organization and try to reach as many people as possible I've served on the U boundary committee that we had recently for high schools in central Palm Beach County um perfectly honest that was a very difficult experience for me um in terms of Key Programs and initiatives we have two major uh thrusts in in in the Coalition one is we raise money for uh college scholarships and or other postsecondary training um every dollar we raise goes to kids uh historic we have had a luncheon uh typically at the Palm Beach Hilton and we would raise money that way but Co put an end to that uh we had to come up with another idea so last December we had a bicycle um run out of Dr hin Garcia High School uh we were expecting maybe 80 Riders we got 223 and uh we cleared about $30,000 from that um we half of that went to uh college scholarships we gave seven $2500 scholarships I just dispersed the last one um and we have $115,000 uh on hold as soon as uh Dr hin Garcia High School establishes its foundation I will I will write a check to that Foundation for that amount so that that Foundation has something to work with um so that's the the student benefit fundraising side the other side is being a watchdog in the district to make sure that Equity actually happens um I've been doing that for a lot of years and one of the interesting uh aspects of that work is that you have to try to fight for equity and discuss matters um in an environment where ostensibly there are no political considerations you know only the interest of kids of course we know that's not the real world and um you know how do you address political overtones when nobody really wants to address them um so I've I've had to navigate that uh over the years and um you know when when any Community gets the short end of the stick you know I I like to say that in palmes County historically we've had the Golden Rule he who has the gold makes the rules that was true 50 years ago when the district desegregated and boa rone was supposed to participate in that process until the good folks in boa rais hell with his board and we and they managed to knock out half of the Des ation plan so African American students came from Del to bokeh but there were no bokeh students going to delr to my knowledge and I could stand corrected there are only two cities in this District where students do not go outside the city to go to high school and they're boaron and Wellington I'll leave it to you to see what those cities have in common anyway uh moving on in terms of collaborations um by the way we are having another laa December the 1st uh departing from Hing Garcia high school at 7 AM superintendent Burke wrode last year and he's already registered to ride again so I want to thank Mike for that uh again the proceeds from that will go to scholarships um collaborations and Partnerships we have I guess informal collaborations I see that Dr Robinson is on the call uh she gave me a call a few months ago and she was going to speak to the board on behalf of the Coalition uh for black student achievement uh and her concern was that uh the teaching of uh African-American history was being sanitized and I fully concurred with her and uh I went to the board meeting and spoke to the board uh to support uh uh that perspective um we also work with other Hispanic organizations but we are the only Hispanic organization in Palm Beach County focused solely on education um finally um I served on the academic Affairs committee for three years and because of my background as an academic I have a tendency maybe it's genetic to look at macro issues and I pressed very hard and it took me four months to get this data but finally I got it and I asked the district the following questions um what is the percentage of Highly qualified teachers in Title One schools versus non-title one schools secondly what is the percentage of first second and third year teachers in Title One schools and non-title one schools and not surprisingly uh in Title One schools you had about 30 31% highly qualified teachers in non-title one schools the figure was slightly over 60% when we look at first second and third year teachers the ratio was the reverse uh in Title One schools we were around 60% first second and third year teachers and non-title one schools it was in the low 30s given my background in researching Equity um it takes a while for a teacher to become a highly competent teacher you don't do it in your first second or third year so given the dispersement of teachers in the district a student in a title one school has half the chance of being taught by highly quality ified teacher and twice the chance of being taught by first second and third year teacher if there's a bigger Equity issue than that I'd like somebody to tell me I understand that the solution to what I've just laid out is huge but on the other hand the consequence of that is huge and for those who listening to me who might think well you know but it might have the same it has the same consequence on all kids no it doesn't because when children who are from low-income households or children who are behind academically are exposed to let's say below average teachers it has twice the deleterious effect so that's some data that I uh generated from the academic Affairs committee this committee concerns itself with diversity and Equity so I thought it would be something that you all of you should know and finally to conclude and take your questions uh the organization website is Hispanic education Coalition pbc.org so just our name pbc.org and uh you'll see everything you need to see about us there any questions thank you Dr Diaz open it up for questions from the floor I have a question um Suzanne F the data that you just gave um about the teachers and in the title one versus the other schools is that recent is that from when it was as as of about a year ago a year ago wow and what was the response to that response from whom from the committee I mean was was it the committee was the committee was quite alarmed uh on the other hand if we redo the data today I don't think it will be appre different no right but I do know from my work uh as a multicultural specialist that the single most important variable that Society controls that correlates with student learning is not you know the number of books in the library or who the principal is it's the quality of the teacher yeah it makes sense I think Dr Scott would uh verify that so this is not just Carlos Dias talking but there's a whole body of research that supports what I'm saying thank you caros I more of a comment our card data we we were able to look at that and see that we were underrepresented in both uh black uh children uh and families and uh Hispanic and um we responded to that in a number of ways but one is by making sure we have a very capable um Spanish speaking and Spanish uh language and a culturally highly responsive person to be there for those families then on a full-time basis and that's made a huge difference and we're just adding another part-time person to uh uh help with that as well but we've seen our numbers go up and our participation in uh specialized groups uh having uh competent staff who have the cultural and language uh capability uh makes a huge difference and you know that I'm not telling you anything don't know but we see it and U uh I I'm glad to think I've been influenced by your your work at FAU so thank you for continuing the the effort I see Dr Robinson has her hand I'll come right to you um just want to make quick comment another thing I for neglected to mention is we also um I guess Lobby is not a bad word to use for the representation of Hispanics in leadership roles if you look at the three major groups of the district uh Hispanics are the only ones that are grossly underrepresented in leadership so you know I've said to the superintendent you know we're not going to weigh in on any individual uh job opening because you know that's that's for the district to decide but we can weigh in on the overall pattern and uh and it is and he's pledged that he would improve the percentage of Hispanics in leadership and that is slowly uh moving upward but slowly and uh we're going to keep pressing because as the old saying goes if you're not if you're not at the table you're you're on the menu Dr Robinson hey Dr Diaz so good to see you again um we have work to do right so um let me see if I could cut it short so you're absolutely correct and there was some um negotiations that that impacted the data that you outlined I say it that way right so I know how we um we've had ad hoc committees I don't know if anybody is interested in going down this specific rabbit hole but many of the barriers to getting the best teachers however you define so that's that's a whole another intellectual conversation right how do you how because it's not necessarily people who have certifications even know that's sometimes viewed as a proxy but whatever anyway but the whole issue of getting the best teachers with the students who me them most many of those barriers are embedded in the CTA contract and so I don't know this has been on my to-do list for two yeah it's been on my to-do list um and I just haven't made it there so I don't know if there's um people who would want to look at that as an equity exercise um as ad hoc committee through DDC but I just put it out there because I know where some of the barriers are the institutional barriers right I am I am intimately aware of how complex this issue is that there may be some contra issues but overall it's a political issue we have a shortage of teachers we have an even more dire shortage of qualified teachers when that happens people with influence find ways to get their kids before the most qualified teachers but Dr D you can look at it at school at the school level right I mean I know we could talk about this like forever but I I just want to say while it's a individual issue in terms of parents who have agency and voice advocating for their children there's also a big system issue right here it happens at both levels you know parents with political Capital find ways to get the teacher they want for their kid Parents Without political Capital gets get what the counselor assigns to you and then at the macro level uh if you look at where new teachers are hired into a significant number of brand new teachers are hired into our most challenging classroom situations in my view without necessarily uh adequate support that's right and another level statistic that maybe this one is better if if it is I'll stand corrected um but we lose about half of our teachers every five years so in terms of professional development it's like painting the Golden Gate Bridge by the time you get to one end you got to start painting at the other end so how do you get a faculty of I don't know 10,000 plus teachers uh up to Snuff in dealing with a highly diverse student population when the when it becomes a revolving door uh so there are things we need to do to maintain not just recruit but retention but once we have teachers retained uh what are they being exposed to in terms of professional development so that they can do a better job of teaching the kids that are in front of them most of our teachers do not res many of them do not resemble the kids in front of them and it's a lot easier to teach a sixth grader that is just like you when you were in the sixth grade so those are it's a complex topic I'm aware of it but I just thought I would raise it because I can't think of anything more Central to equity thank you Dr Diaz and um we have uh one question here in the room well actually um my name is Colleen Paul I I'm very concerned when we talking about teachers because as a retired school teacher and seeing what's going on in hearing this conversation and being a Haitian American immigrant a lot of our immigrant children are being placed in schools simply by their age group in their academic level or not that academic level so the teacher now found themselves unable to teach the regular kids and the kids with those problem are getting to be more difficult in the classroom so I really would like to know what are we doing in a public school system to highlight this problem because it's a very big problem in the Haitian American Community thank you thank you Miss Paul and we also miss Paul and Dr Robinson came in after so on the record reflect and we have them in attendance um because we have a number of items to get to as well on the agenda obviously this is a huge conversation Dr Diaz and I have many conversations over the probably last couple decades about this issue and challenge um I just want to we will definitely not solve that um this afternoon or this morning so I'm going to keep this moving along and and want to thank um all the presenters today for great information great conversations and again your responsibility as a member to make sure that you're sharing this information with others and network to utilize the resources that exist within each of the all of the committee members and the agencies and organizations that they represent so next right before we get started um I will ask Susan if you have a presentation and if you didn't have a presentation today um Mr uh Dr Diaz and Mr rhods if you can send maybe a one pager or something or even this what you shared with us Mr rhs but Dr Diaz um a page or something for the agencies that are represented here today so that they can take it back uh the information back to their respective um agencies and their bodies to share the information that was introduced here um Miss Blanco we do recognize your hands and being respectful of the time as well um immediately after we recognize Miss Blanco we're going to proceed with our update from the chief of equity and wellness um Mr Keith Oswald and then following immediately he would introduce our speaker for today for the data to action academic performance presentation so miss Blanco thank you yes I'll be brief um I just uh wanted to um suggest having a followup with the information that Dr Diaz gave us so it doesn't die after his presentation if there's sorry my baby's in the background but if there's a suggestion about how this could committee could could help or could be Aus or our organizations our individual organizations how we could help um with the data that that Dr D has just presented I I um you know I think it would be very important for us not to keep this information and just let it kind of end here thank you I agree do I hear a motion or is there's something that can be discussed at new business unless there is a motion on the floor before our next presentation make a motion to create an ad hoc committee to address the issues of in terms of disparity regarding teacher quality and their assignments second I've heard a motion um to create an ad hoc committee did y'all capture that at at hoc committee um addressing disparities um with teacher and there was a lot that I did not quality teacher quality y' can tweet that if you want yeah and I have a second on the floor thank you who's the a second from carlen [Music] Paul there was discussion before this motion was on the floor um but I do see a hand so I am going to entertain that question Mr Caesar that that's very important that to this committee to see the professional uh this uh it's very complex topic it's good to be discussed in this meeting some way absolutely any further discussions seeing none all in favor that's her um she must motion carries um we're going to proceed with the presentation at this time during the new business portion after the presentation we can discuss um uh further details regarding that adop committee Miss thank you and again happy New Year everybody welcome back glad to see a good turnout today for our first meeting back just a couple things so that we can jump into presentation to unpack uh hopefully if you haven't heard um the school district is a rated um once again so we're extremely happy to have the a rating back as a school district means a lot for our community um and so to unpack that a little bit more Dr Paul hin will be sharing some information shortly um and uh only I want to share is there there's been a uh couple of house bills one house bill I want you make sure where House Bill 1473 has to do with school safety we've had a new school safety bill um every year since 20 2018 this year was no different it speaks a lot to making sure that doors are locked and gates are locked at schools um but in addition it does speak to educating students about how to um use the fortify Florida app to report any um see something say something any type of issues that they see um in addition requires all students within uh the first five days of school to know where the safe space in the event of an emergency on a school campus to be taught that um another related uh legislation and rulemaking on threat management requires all students be trained on threats and current concerning behaviors and again how to report those should that come up so we did provide all of our students here in Palm Beach County um those requirements the first week of school um moving on I do want to let you know that um um a lot going on with ction season in case you haven't heard elections are up and running we do have um a couple runoffs for school board coming up uh and in addition coming up in November will the school board um has put on the uh uh for a vote for the continuation of the half penny sales tax that will support a lot of the cap capital projects um so we'll send out more information so in case you have any questions or receive questions about that that does support um a lot of the uh capital projects that some of which were spoken to by Mr Rose and the some of the the rebuilds that we've SE were're seeing at Pine grve and go uh uh some of our other schools uh W King Garcia high school a lot of these dollars have supported a number of those initiatives um and we're hoping to continue that also some a lot of things that you don't see the Deferred maintenance that occurs on our school campuses from Air Conditioning to roofs to hardening of our schools around school safety so you will see that as well on the uh agend uh on the uh ballot and um some of the other items I'll bring back later time just because we're running short on time um so um I'll conclude with um moving over to our new business that's all right Madam chair to so that we can talk uh about a little bit more details around uh that a rating and go deeper in some data which is really important I think at this time of the year so Dr hin I am going to turn it over to you well good morning everybody um and thank you for having me um you know Mr Oswell or yeah Mr Oswell asked for uh me to come in and speak to some of our our data from last year um as it pertains to the individual subgroup uh performance uh we have an actual release coming out of the research and assessment office it's in the approval process so we'll see when that actually makes it through uh but that that release is coming as well that kind of details some of this data in a little bit more uh depth and then my final slide is actually Prov provides a link to the publicly facing um reporting document where if you want to go in and look at different combinations of subgroup data specific schools um you know it's a tool we have publicly available to really slice and dice the data in just about any way that the public wants to see it um so before I get into the actual data uh as you may know the state switched from the FSA to the fast assessment between the 22 and 23 school year um what might not be is clear in kind of some of the information coming out of Tallahassee on that front is you know they also after the 23 school year rescaled the assessment created a new scale going forward that is now the fast scale and that's what we're looking at here is the you know the FY 23 data which last December we found out what that meant on the fast scale um and then the FY 24 data which is also on the fast scale so it's an Apples to Apples comparison of 23 to 24 um you know the the big the big takeaway from the 23 is the same thing we saw when we switched from FCAT to FSA the same thing we saw when we switched from FCAT 1 to FCAT 2 the first year of a new assessment there's there there's typically some getting your feet under you um on the new content so you know what we've seen from 23 to 24 is some pretty promising increases across subgroups some Gap closure obviously we're not where we want to be at the end of the day but the movement The Continuous improvement process um you know we are we are we are heartened to see what we saw between 23 and 24 um so as you can see overall in language arts reading from grades 3 to 10 you know we're up four and a half points from 23 to 24 Looking Down by subgroup similar numbers for for black white and a little bit higher for for Hispanic up to 5.2 um you know elll population in this definition elll is the students who are actively receiving Esau Services plus those students in the two-year followup um so the ly and the LF uh the S swd students are basically students receiving ESC services with the exception of gifted so one of the things folks who are have been in this for a while maybe take a step away come back um used to be the didn't include speech students in their swd data they do now so it's literally all disability statuses um and gifted is excluded as you know uh for the exceptional student Ed and then free and reduced also seeing so again pretty happy with the growth between 23 and 24 um we're hoping to see similar similar patterns going forward into next year um under the new standards U moving over into math uh again similar thing similar f ings um some cases a little bit lower but still moving in the right direction uh one of the interesting things in the new math assessment process you know the state's giving this assessment three times a year you know progress monitoring window one two and three the third window is the accountability the end of year the this is what we're going to report and you know set expectations based on and one and two are more instructional purposes but they're still using that end ofe expectation at all three points in time so in math if you look within year you're seeing Statewide just tremendous amounts of growth but that shouldn't surprise anyone I'm you know a student in September probably doesn't know enough algebra to know everything they know for algebra if they're just taking algebra for the first time so that that's one of the in interesting idiosyncrasies of the way the state is reporting during the year um so one of the things when you're looking at some of the other data we put out through the year I'm sure they'll be asked to come back and talk through the year pm1 2 and 3 you'll see some of that stuff so like for example um when the PM dat you know we're currently just about to get into the First Progress monitoring window um and particularly in math you're going to see much lower scores than we saw at the end of year last year again for the reason I explained you know the states applying a May expectation to a student who has received three weeks of that content um so you know that's one of and again we can talk to that when when when that data comes out but again overall relatively uh you know we're happy with Ela and math um in performance and we're we're expecting and hoping to see uh continued growth and continued uh Gap closure maybe some accelerated Gap closure um coming into into the subsequent years and where okay moving on to to The Sciences um you know science is not assessed in as many grade levels as the other as Ela and math so we've just got 58 in biology um again some growth these aren't new assessments so you wouldn't necessarily expect that okay we've got it figured out um idea so this is just again continuing kind of a long-term trend of incremental growth in in the Sciences um that we've seen uh again in some of the areas uh some Gap closure particularly for Hispanics in fifth grade um frl students and elll students in fifth grade uh so you know again we'd like to be you know we'd like to see better uh Gap closure and more growth but this is what we did see between 23 and 24 uh black students for biology a pretty substantial jump uh seven points um six points for elll 7even points for S swd uh and again that's in that biology and of course assessment that students take in high school they finish biology and I'll just run through this and then we can cop back hop back for questions if anything comes up uh finally Civics and his US History uh Civics is typically given in seventh grade occasionally the eighth graders are taking it depends on the instructional structure at the school and then US history is primarily 11th grade um again not new assessments these are these are the old um state standards they didn't create fast or best versions of these assessments um so we may get that in the next couple of years but not not not so far um so again Civics relatively stable a little bit up um you can see LL and S swd were pretty flat uh US History um a little bit brighter picture in terms of you know black um excuse me black and elll you know over six point increases in in student scoring level three and above in those cases um so again moving in the right direction uh would we like to be moving faster and accelerating underrepresented groups better of course and then finally um you know on the research and evaluation website on the district website uh we have several powerbi um and Reporting tools that are available where you can you can basically look at these data in just about any way you want um on the page where this uh this actual powerbi sits there's another powerbi that looks at the actual pm1 pm2 and pm3 so you can kind of see how things are progressing with in the year this one particularly is year over-year um you know again the caveat that we did switch from FSA to fast uh from 22 to 23 so just when you're looking at that comparison on what happened between 22 and 23 take that grain of salt to to show that uh and with that Mr oswal I'll turn it back over to you for questions for the group okay uh we are going to open that up so you can see some of the this was some of the end of the year results we can also send out the um links to these parb so that you can also uh utilize those to dig in deeper on some of the results links in the lower left on this the the Link's actually on the deck in the lower left oh so the link is in this uh presentation we will send this out as well so uh we have a hand here with Mr rhs yes I I was questioning uh I noticed the assessments are being changed toward the end of the year um and I noticed affected a lot of our schools as far as their grades um some schools thought they had did better than they did when assessment the new assessment came out uh it caused those grades to go down at least a whole point to some schools so uh just wondering why is they come out so late with that so for the school grades um in F so we we actually saw a pretty good Rebound in school grades from 23 to 24 but there was a large dip in 23 because this calculation of school grades in 23 did not include any of the growth that we've been used to because of that transition between tests so the learning gains piece which a lot of our schools heav you know rely heavily on um and to show the progress they're actually making with their students as opposed to how their students are necessarily doing when they get them um so that wasn't part of the 23 school grade so yes we saw several of our schools where that does heavily impact the grade when that's taken away um the majority of those schools bounced right back up to where we typically see them when they when we added gains back in in 24 we saw a couple of schools with like two whole letter grade jumps um some of the schools that have been historic A's and B's that had fallen below that coming back up to so you know when you go Apples to Apples comparisons from where we were before the transition in test to where we are now um comparable to up I would say you know it's just 23 transition years are always kind of hard to understand and then in terms you know even internally because you know we don't really know what the test means we don't know how the state's going to interpret the test until they tell us and two-year point on the 23 grade didn't come out until December January is last year um and again that's because they hadn't set the standards set the expectations and had the state board approval to do so so the state board approval for 23 grades happened in late October of 23 where we're used to getting grades in July so yes 100% and the and the the cut off or what the grades how the percentage of points just happened the day of release I believe so so the FY 23 grades that's another caveat to the 23 grades that's different than anything we've had before ever because of the way the legislative mandate was basically the state was dictated or the doe was dictated to have the same proportionate number of A's B's C's D's and Fs Statewide in 23 that they did in 22 so you know if there were you know 20% A's in 22 there were going to be roughly speaking 20% A's in 23 um and they were they basically they set that threshold the actual Point threshold once they calculated the grades because that's the only time they knew the percentages um and what that did to our schools that compounded the lack of learning gains was you know I'm a school that is equally weighted in my performance between growth and proficiency my relative position is not going to move when you take away growth if I'm a school that weighs heavily on growth and you take that away my relative position compared to other schools Statewide is going to slide so yes that thank you Mr oswal that did compound the fund in 23 then the transition to 24 again you know we're and if we want to come back and talk grades we can specifically like yeah I think yeah I think coming back talking about grades as well as the support for schools can can do that we rated DED just how that breakdown came out and I think there's been a lot of new membership that may not understand the the grading complexity of grading school grade which is always a forever changing Target certainly uh the one thing for 24 that did get changed and obviously we didn't find out until the day they released grades where they were going to land is they did land on elementary schools have one set of thresholds they're expected to get to so for example 62% of the points is an a for an elementary school secondary schools ele Middle High nomination and the district overall they're using 64 as the threshold U one of the justifications behind that is you know historically speaking some of those secondary components traditionally have higher performance graduation rate high school acceleration Middle School acceleration um the the the social studies tests those are only in the secondary level and they do typically have higher performances than the reading and math and lower level science course so that was the justification behind the the slight difference um but yeah Mr oswal we can come back and talk school grades yeah um see more than 20 minutes for that one okay see we have a h Dr Robinson yes thank you um hi Mr hton so I have several comments um and if for change their praise how about this so um I just want to thank you and the district and whoever flipped the switch to have all those power bi on the website because you know the Coalition for black student achievement has been spending a lot of time um playing with those powerbi to see what we see and you know and we will be doing the um we still plan to do the district or report card on the district in terms of How It's educating black children but I think we're wait till after graduation rates come out I also want to thank you for all the information in the student information system because it was remarkable how I would look at all this data as a board member but now I look at it as a grandmother it's like a whole different world and um a much different meaning but I think it's um it's fabulous and so um and then I also want to thank um Mr Burke and the district for saying that middle schools and high schools should allow students to take their laptops home because you know we we focus because you have all the data online now the Coalition can focus more on obstacles and solutions than just what's how our children doing we could you know we can see that more easily but we know that the um the access and I know as a grandmother from working with my grandchildren how important it is for them to be able to access their Google Classroom um after school and there's still some barriers that need to be addressed um in terms of that but that letting the laptops go home it is a big big step I want to um throw out um also a plug for the conservatory school so the conservatory school last year did a uh training for parents and grandparents on how to survive middle school which I thought was absolutely fabulous and I think it should be replicated I'm putting this out here now for the members on this committee so you can turn to to the schools that you work with and see if they do a similar thing and actually when I find the date that Conservatory will do it again I'll share that so I've already asked some other schools to have their um like APS go see this presentation live and in person so that they can replicate it because I just thought it was fabulous in terms of helping us well-meaning parents and grandparents um find out what's going on with our particular children and support So after saying all that my last question um and I think this is or my only question for Mr hin is um so the test this year the FSA and I I can't find the right word I want to call it interactive and I know that that's not right computer adaptive what's there we go adaptive what was what's the significance of that do you can you provide us any information with the why and what the impact was so so the the fast assessment going back to 23 um so for uh reading and math it's computer adaptive so it's all gone on computer it's gone online um and basically what a computer adaptive test does is based on how the child answers a question or in a reading test how they answer all of the questions in a specific passage identify where the child goes next in the test so it's not a static form not all students see the same items so if Dr Robinson takes a math item gets it right she'll get a slightly harder item she gets that one right she gets a slightly harder item she gets that one wrong it comes back so it comes back down a little bit then she gets it right it goes back up um whereas another student who gets you know more and more wrong at the front end you know it kind of lowers and lowers and lowers because it the the point of adaptive testing the the value add to it is you know to really pinpoint a student's understanding and knowledge on a static assessment form requires a very long assessment you know if you're going to really know what I know about XYZ you're going to have to give me like a 100 item test whereas an Adaptive test can make those judgments a little bit faster because it might not necessarily give you you know if you answer a question on C or on um sorry I'm if you answer a question on area right it might not need to ask you a question about circumference you know the you know there there are certain things about circumference you have to understand to be able to get area right so that that's the that's the value ad of of an Adaptive assessment um obviously only available computer-based because you know paper tests adaptive paper tests take a lot of pap paper um but uh so that's that's that's the point of it that's the purpose of it um is to try to kind of narrow that in a little bit faster and um you know with the whole goal of less testing faster testing Matt Matt ask a followup of course um because I just don't have enough knowledge to be able to um answer this when I'm asked so because of that there's been some concern for example that if the child didn't get the first couple questions right that then I'm I'm going to call it expectations are lowered on the test so to speak right then um so there's some concern that a child could appear to do well on questions that are less than the expectation for that grade and and get a falsely elevated score on the test and I don't know if I'm explaining this you you are and and it's understand there's a couple of guard rails on the state assessment that aren't on aren't necessarily always on computer adaptive tests one of those guard rails is it does not go outside of grade level band so if I'm taking the third grade fast I can get all of the items wrong I'm still getting third grade content exclusively I get all the items right I'm not going on to fourth grade content one of yeah they put that guardrail in you know like on a an I ready or a test like that or that that guard rail is not there but for the state assessment because they're using it for accountability because they're using it to say does Paul know third grade level content those guard rails are in place so it won't adapt outside of the grade band um and and again in how they score it that difficulty of the items is incorporated into the scoring so if I if I get all of the items wrong and the last item right it's all going to take all of that together together to come up to my final score it's not just going to tell me I got X points out of you know 90% it's just not scored that way thank you also Dr Miller is going to be jealous I was here for the Kudos and he wasn't thank you any other questions for Dr hins we will definitely have him back um to unpack additional information obviously when it comes to what we do it is about educating kids and looking at that data in many different ways as well as school grades really important that you all understand that at a deep level and that turn it back over to mam chair thank you thank you to all of our pres uh presenters including Dr Hutson including um Gold Coast Down syndrome Down syndrome organization Tri City education and Hispanic education Coalition of Palm Beach County don't let the presentations and the information from those presentations stay in this room or on the call make sure that you're sharing them with your respective organizations as well um because that is how true impact works so the next item on the agenda with under new business um which we started earlier and I will rev it was the motion for the ad hoc committee um the motion did pass and I just wanted or carry and I wanted to just open the floor now for those who want to serve on that ad hoc committee um this is no different from there's currently an edoc committee that is present underneath this main committee which currently is overseen by Miss Kimberly Sparrow so I don't we can create another ad hoc or we can ask that this particular ad hoc committee oversee this work and um at this time I'm just going to open up for suggestions and invitation to who to those who would like to participate Dr Robinson thank you um but I have a question didn't the previous ad hoc committee Sunset oh I apologize yes they did they did okay okay so it seems this so this is a whole new comme I will be happy to participate thank you Dr Robinson I will uh I will participate S Davis Kian and if you're interested you could just come off mute and share your name what's D was that Jack Scott happy to participate and myself Colleen Paul I will participate Paul and I think we had a message who was the first one Dr Robinson Sue Davis me SEC s s Davis Killin Jack Scott Caren Paul Dr cortis yes I uh put a a message in the chat that I would be interested um as well I did that earlier though yes thank you us just check in the chat making sure we didn't miss anyone else minut okay uh chair Madam chair po as well on the committee anyone else that would like to participate at this time we're going to just stop with those names at any moment or any time that you would like to um join the at hoc committee it is open just like these regular open main District committee meetings they are open for um a chair too we do chair now f with didn't I think they get Des for it whitling player can you also add me please thank you yes yes just just for the record everyone that we will need a just in the subcommittee we would need a majority of the subcommittee members so we need to make a motion that these members are part of the subcommittee because then those will be the official ones that will have to be there right at least uh 50% plus one six seven eight yes so they just ask the question there is a question in the chest uh will they meet will the committee meet before this meeting monthly that's one of the things that would need to be discussed that is traditionally what would happen but um we typically we met before this yeah sometime so do you not want to yeah yeah meeting before this was easier okay so for for the support for the staff and for others I I'm I'm getting mixed mixed communication in the room so typically that is usually what happen it's not always the case but that is a um preferred meet and date that um I'll move that to do before would there's a motion to have the meeting before please survey the committee but however um what we will do is I'll say this we will go ahead and make a motion for the members that are currently here and at the next meeting next month unless we have everyone with their calendar up and they can state that they are not available for right before this meeting what we will do is we'll say that the next meeting September they meet in you know before this meeting and at that time they will elect their um chair and they will also elect their uh Mee and date unless there's an objection on the floor I'll agree with that seven so so we have seven members right is that correct one two three four you also have a hand rais with Dr Theus Dr teris yes um I'm gonna go back just for a second um I think I heard that the previous ad hoc committee was sunset it and I just want to confirm that uh I want to confirm if that's the if that's the case or I thought we had sent something to the board and we were waiting on um some feedback or some next steps so it went to the board the information went to the board the board didn't not take they heard it they did not take any action they uh there was a discussion to No One voted not to support that but there wasn't a motion to to take a formal position but no one um pushed back against any of it and I'm summarizing I have to go back to to to rewatch The one but the information was shared so I see Dr Robertson has her hand raised so I guess I'm my question is so what what next um in terms of that and then the second question is um there was work there that could I think benefit this new ad hoc committee as well so I just want to keep keep in mind that there was a lot of work put into that ad hoc committee that was um I think could be valuable in this next um this next convers in a committee yeah so some of that so absolutely a lot of work went into that and some of that work um we are going to work on implementing and working towards those recommendations um but as far as the board position I'm just telling you they didn't take necessarily a formal action but that does not reud us from making and working with staff the ones that align with the the district work so which is a good number of those align with the if not all of them the district work to continue to operationalize them Dr Robinson yeah thank you so um in in my mind the committee was sunset but I think Dr uh Cassandra brings up an excellent point maybe we should have on the monthly agenda a standing item for update on that work right because it but the ad hoc committee was like in my mind kind of quote done with the recommendations and and brought it to the body at the ddec as a whole who corre embraced it and then took it forward and so now it should just be a standing agenda item and there could be um and and that update could be you know either from staff or from the board member who was advocating and so forth right but not to let it die on the vine I agree and I'm glad you brought that up correct again but the part of that recommendation was about um a recommendation for the board to have the superintendent I don't have it in front of me but to to work towards it again there was no formal action taken on that recommendation however the recommendations themselves again in isolation of the this DDC recommendation um is work that you know that again miss Simmons and I can continue to discuss to work towards it those recommendations to operationalize them I just want to be clear so for the sake of this committee and what's Germaine to this topic we're going to go ahead and out I'm going to move my name and just show up at meeting so we can make sure that we have Quorum all the time um Dr I have Dr Robinson Sue Davis Gillan Scott sorry Jack Scott carlen Pier Dr cud uh Colleen Paul I'm sorry Colleen Paul excuse me Dr uh Cassandra Corin thees and Wan Pierre Whitland Pierre is there anyone else that was interested in and did you get all those names and yourself yeah call Su Davis Dr Robinson Dr cor Corbin thus on Charmaine postal ATT and within you taking yes let keep on I pull  took herself off Emy Kenny Emy I I just had a question um can you attend the ad hoc subcommittee meeting yes not on the list yes okay great and these meetings are subjected to the same Sunshine Law um rules that this regular ddec Mee and that's why I pulled my name off cuz the list was growing and I want to make sure that they have a quum so that they're able to do the work so we need a a motion to approve that list so that yes we're able to have a so if I understand correctly you moved your name but you're still can to 10 minutes correct okay so then we have a motion to move I make a motion to move the list of the names for this adoc committee I second a motion there's a motion and second on the floor with the Committees the at hoc committee members um I'm not going to repeat the names because they've been repeated several times any discussion hearing none all in favor I all oppose motion carries you say that we'll need um four at least four to show up um for a four out of the six for uh Corum thank you um I have one question an additional question would it also be um they can do it via um Zoom or in person it it would the same um the same requirements that are applied to the district diversity Equity committee would be applied to um or the regulations and the rules would be applied to the at hoc committee thank you madam you're welcome it would be lovely if we can meet in person for those of us who do travel in person we would like to see your faces yeah at this time any unfinished business no or announcements one announcements while we are doing this work and elections is right around the corner I know Mr Oswald mention it but I just want to mention again the half penny uh for schools and this is me wearing also my PTA hat because that is who I'm represented here um at the school district I am not representing the school district of Palm Beach County sitting as a chair so I would like to to um just I do have flyers for those that's in the room but um I'm sure that everyone else here will have Flyers so if you're having events that's going on I've heard a couple of events if you have events that's going on and you need flyers to pass out we do need to get the message out that this half penny sales tax um should need to pass I can say that yes for the one half um sent tax on the ballot on November 5th um so I will definitely say that we um share this information with all of our constituents and those that are in our communities um so that we can pass this because we do know that there is a deliberate attack on public education that's my announcements for today we're past time so at this time a motion because we are timed Mo Jour if there no necessary other business no further business Mo motion to adjourn at 1204 p.m. have a lovely day everybody good you thank you so um right before we leave and exit just want to share for those so that there's a message we mentioned that you will meet uh the first meeting of the ad hoc committee will be September the at an hour prior to the DDC meeting 9:00 am 9:00 am and you will receive information from staff thank you have a great day