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TIME NOW, 6:00, I CALL THE MARCH 7TH MEETING OF THE ISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES TO ORDER.
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MADAM SECRETARY, DO WE HAVE A QUORUM? WE DO. THANK YOU.WE WILL NOW MOVE INTO CLOSED SESSION PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTIONS 541.071 AND 551.074.
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AND WE WILL RECONVENE IN OPEN SESSION AT APPROXIMATELY 7:00.SEE YOU IN A BIT. THE TIME IS NOW 7:00 AND WE WILL RECONVENE IN OPEN SESSION.
PLEASE PROCEED IN AN ORDERLY MANNER.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST IN OUR COMMUNITY, OUR KIDS AND OUR SCHOOLS.
LET'S SEE. THE FIRST ITEM WE HAVE ON OUR AGENDA THIS EVENING IS DR.
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ARNETT SUPERINTENDENT REPORT.IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE WE'VE HAD RECOGNITIONS AND WE'RE VERY PLEASED TO WELCOME MRS. CAROL REESE AND HER STUDENTS FROM WESTRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL, AND THEY'RE GOING TO TELL US ALL ABOUT A VERY DISTINCTIVE HONOR THAT THEY RECENTLY RECEIVED.
SO MRS. REESE, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO YOU.
THESE KIDS WERE AMONG THE 60,000 STUDENTS WHO ATTEMPTED TO TACKLE THE TOPIC OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND DESIGN A CITY ABOUT 100 TO 150 YEARS INTO THE FUTURE TO ILLUSTRATE ADAPTATIONS AND MITIGATION STRATEGIES FOR OUR WORLD.
THERE WERE FOUR PARTS TO THIS CHALLENGE.
THEY HAD TO CREATE A PROJECT PLAN.
THEY HAD TO RESEARCH AND WRITE AN ESSAY, BUILD A MODEL WITH MULTIPLE MOVING PARTS, USING THE ENGINEERING DESIGN PROCESS, WRITE AND PRESENT AN ENGAGING AND CREATIVE SKIT TO SHARE ALL OF THEIR INFORMATION WITH MULTIPLE PANELS OF ENGINEERS, JUDGES, AND THEN ANSWER QUESTIONS FROM NOT ONE, NOT TWO, BUT THREE PANELS OF JUDGES IN SUCCESSION.
AND THEY CHALLENGED THEM WITH IN-DEPTH QUESTIONS ABOUT THE TOPIC AND ABOUT THEIR SOLUTIONS.
THEY PLACED FIFTH IN THE WORLD.
WOO HOO! AFTER THEIR PRESENTATION, ONE OF THE JUDGES TOLD ME THAT IN 19 YEARS OF JUDGING AT FUTURE CITY EVENTS, HE HAD NEVER MET A TEAM THAT GOT IT AS MUCH AS THIS TEAM DID.
AND ANOTHER JUDGE, DURING ONE OF THEIR QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSIONS, ASKED THE KIDS, IS THERE ANY QUESTION YOU KIDS CAN'T ANSWER BECAUSE THEY HAD AN ANSWER FOR ALL OF IT? THIS IS THE HARDEST WORKING TEAM I'VE SEEN.
THEY TRULY LEARN THE MATERIAL AND THEY APPLIED WHAT THEY LEARNED IN THE CREATION OF A BEAUTIFUL, IMAGINATIVE, FUNCTIONAL CITY OF THE FUTURE THAT WILL ADDRESS THE FUTURE AND ISSUES OF CLIMATE CHANGE.
THIS TEAM ALSO WON AN AWARD FOR BEST SYSTEMS INTEGRATION, AND THAT JUDGE IS WRITING AN ARTICLE IN AN ENGINEERING PUBLICATION THAT'S DUE OUT IN APRIL, AND HE TOLD ME HE IS FEATURING THIS TEAM AND THEIR WORK IN THAT ARTICLE, WHICH WAS VERY COOL.
SO ARNAV SRINIVASAN COME START STANDING UP.
ARIA GULLAPALLI, NASH COHEN AND ADITYA GULLAPALLI WORKED ON THIS PROJECT BEGINNING LAST FALL AND STAYED WITH IT THROUGH FEBRUARY, DEVOTING MANY, MANY, MANY HOURS OF TIME IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR WORK.
THEIR ENGINEER, MENTOR TARINA PATEL, WAS AMAZING TO WORK WITH AND I AM QUITE CERTAIN THAT THIS WILL NOT BE THE LAST TIME THAT YOU SEE THESE YOUNG MEN AS THEY MOVE ON UP TO WESTLAKE HIGH SCHOOL NEXT YEAR.
AND I WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW THAT THESE KIDS ARE NOT JUST SMART KIDS.
THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY THAT, BUT THEY REALLY, REALLY KNOW HOW TO WORK HARD.
AND I THINK IT WAS REALLY A TRIBUTE TO ALL OF THAT EFFORT THAT WAS BEING HONORED AT FUTURE CITY.
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ANYWAY, YOU CAN HEAR MORE ABOUT THEM.THEY'RE GOING TO EXPLAIN THEIR IDEAS AT OUR TEDX EVENT.
WE HAVE TED AUSTIN COMING UP ON MARCH 25TH.
ANYWAY, APPARENTLY WE ARE CLEARED TO GO AHEAD AND LET THE GUYS GIVE THEIR PRESENTATION.
I THINK THEY ERASED THEIR PROBABLY FROM THEIR MINDS.
BUT LET'S SEE, GENTLEMEN, COME ON FORWARD.
EACH CHILD DID A SEPARATE PART.
BUT THESE ARE OUR THREE PRESENTERS.
YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT. NASH RIGHT HERE, HE'S A HOLOGRAM.
AND SO AT THE EVENT, HE HAD LIGHTS OUTLINING HIS WHOLE SELF AND ALUMINUM FOIL CIRCLES FOR HIS FEET TO REPRESENT A HOLOGRAM, AS HE IS CALLED TO TO SPEAK.
I WILL SAY NO MORE AND LET THEM TAKE IT AWAY.
AND WORSE IN MANY TYPES OF NATURAL DISASTERS SUCH AS STORMS, FLOODS AND FOREST FIRES, WHICH WOULD HAVE RESULTED IN THE IMMENSE LOSS OF LIFE AND DAMAGED INFRASTRUCTURE, AGRICULTURE, ECOSYSTEM AND ECONOMY, WHICH WOULD HAVE HEAVILY IMPACTED THE CITIZENS OF.
WELL, YOU SURE HAVE COME TO THE RIGHT PLACE.
OUR CITY STARTED ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE MANY DECADES AGO.
DESERTS, FORESTS, FRESHWATER LAKES AND RESERVOIRS.
OUR TEMPERATURES RANGE BETWEEN 85 TO 105°F, AND WE HAVE FOREST THAT COVER OVER 650,000 ACRES.
LET ME CALL MAYOR NASH, WHO CAN FURTHER ASSIST YOU.
FAIR ENOUGH. WHAT'S GOING ON? WOW, IT'S A HOLOGRAM.
YEP. MAYOR NASH, THIS IS ARIA.
HE'S A VISITOR FROM A FARAWAY CITY WHO HAS SUFFERED IMMENSELY FROM CLIMATE CHANGE.
LET'S SHOW HIM OUR CITY AND HOW WE COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE.
A FEW OTHER COMPELLING CHARACTERISTICS, CHARACTERISTICS OF OUR CITY INCLUDED ABUNDANCE OF JOB OPPORTUNITIES, EXCELLENT EDUCATION PROGRAMS, THE STATE OF THE ART TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM AND MODERN TECHNOLOGY IMPLEMENTED THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
SPECTACULAR. CAN YOU TELL ME ABOUT YOUR CITY INFRASTRUCTURE AND YOUR CITY SERVICES? OF COURSE, WE INCORPORATE ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY IN ALL ISD INFRASTRUCTURE.
FOR EXAMPLE, OUR COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS HAVE SPECIALIZED ULTRA WHITE PIGMENT BASED OUTDOOR PANELS MOUNTED ON MOVABLE LOUVERS THAT GO FOR LIKE 99% INFRARED LIGHT, ELIMINATING THE NEED FOR AIR CONDITIONING.
LIVING [INAUDIBLE] COMPACTED VERTICAL FARMING THAT FOCUSES ON HYDROPONIC AGRICULTURE, THAT UTILIZES AI BASED SYSTEMS WHICH CONTROL LIGHT AIR, WATER AND NUTRIENTS TO MAXIMIZE FOOD PRODUCTION. THIS ALSO REDUCES OUR ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT, SPEAKING TO BE DELIVERED TO PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM.
LIKEWISE, LIBERTON SURFACE TRANSPORTATION CONSISTS OF SUPERCAPACITOR BASED, ECO FRIENDLY ELECTRIC VEHICLES, ALONG WITH POWERED WALKWAYS FOR PEOPLE WITH LIMITED MOBILITY TO GET AROUND THEM.
ADVANCED MRNA BASED THERAPEUTICS CAN HELP US FIGHT CANCERS PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT TO BE INCURABLE.
INCREDIBLE. NO WONDER CITY IS SO AHEAD OF ITS TIME.
CAN YOU TELL ME ABOUT YOUR CLIMATE ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION SOLUTION? SURE. OUR CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION SOLUTION CONSISTS OF OUR LIBERTON SPECTRAL RADIATOR.
HELP US MANAGE THE RISKS OF HEAT WAVES.
IT DISPERSES BILLIONS OF A RADIATOR MICROBOTS INTO THE STRATOSPHERE, WHICH CAN SELECTIVELY MAKE THEIR SURFACE MORE REFLECTIVE AND CAN BE TRIGGERED TO SWARM TOGETHER TO SELF-ASSEMBLE INTO A VERY LARGE SOLAR REFLECTIVE DISK.
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THERMOSTATIC CONTROLLER.ADDITIONALLY, OUR DESALINATION PLANTS PUMP WATER THROUGHOUT THE DENSE URBAN AREAS OF OUR CITY CLOSE TO THE SURFACE AND LOOP BACK TO OUR URBAN, RADIANT HEAT COLLECTION SYSTEM POWERED BY FUSION THAT CAN DROP TEMPERATURES INSIDE OUR CITY.
OUTSTANDING. THAT IS A ROCK SOLID SOLUTION FOR SURE.
CAN YOU TELL ME ABOUT THE RISKS, TRADE OFFS, AND COMPROMISES MADE IN YOUR CITY? SURE. THE LIBERTON SPECTRAL RADIATOR IS A GIANT HAMMER AND THEREFORE COMES WITH RISKS AND TRADEOFFS.
IT'S TAKEN DECADES OF DESIGN, REDESIGN AND TESTING TO FINE TUNE THE SYSTEM.
VERY INTENSIVE COMPUTING IS CONSTANTLY REQUIRED TO CALCULATE HOW MANY OF THESE MICROBOTS ARE LOCATED IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE AND WHERE THEY ARE IN RELATION TO EACH OTHER FOR PROPER HIGH BEHAVIOR THAT CAN EFFECTIVELY RADIATE THE SUN'S HEAT.
I SEE. IT MUST BE QUITE HARD DESIGNING ALL OF THIS.
WHEN DESIGNING OUR CITY, WE USE THE ENGINEERING DESIGN PROCESS.
THE ENGINEERING DESIGN PROCESS CONSISTS OF IDENTIFYING THE PROBLEM, LEARNING SPECIFICATIONS, BRAINSTORMING SOLUTIONS, DESIGNING IT, BUILDING IT, TESTING, IMPROVING AND REDESIGNING IT, AND THEN FINALLY SHARING IT.
UM, WE HAD TO PUT A LOT OF ITERATIONS INTO IT.
AND ONE OF THE FIRST ITERATIONS WE MAKE WAS HOW TO SHAPE OUR ARTIFICIAL RIVER.
SO WE HAD FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES THAT COULD FOLLOW THE CONTOURS ALONG HILLS AND VALLEYS.
IT SEEMS LIKE YOU AND YOUR TEAM KNOW HOW TO EFFICIENTLY SOLVE PROBLEMS. WE SURE DO. I WORK WITH BRILLIANT ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS.
THAT'S RIGHT. THEY WORK HARD EVERY DAY, ENSURING ALL OUR COMPLEX SYSTEMS SUCH AS INFRASTRUCTURE, INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION, WASTE MANAGEMENT, RECYCLING, FARMING AND UTILITIES ARE RUNNING SMOOTHLY. THEY WORK AROUND THE CLOCK TO MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE AND REDUCE OUR CARBON FOOTPRINT.
THAT'S GREAT. FROM WHAT I CAN TELL, LIBERTON IS A HOLISTICALLY PLANNED CITY THAT CATERS TO THE NEEDS OF ITS CITIZENS WHILE PROMOTING SAFETY AND HEALTH AND ENABLING MORE AMBITIOUS TECHNOLOGIES FOR CREATING A MODEL CITY.
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ALL RIGHT. I HAVE TWO MORE VERY QUICK ITEMS. FROM THE FUTURE TO THE PAST.I WANTED TO THANK TRUSTEE ELLEN BALTHAZAR.
SHE TOOK ME ON AN ADVENTURE YESTERDAY, AND WE WALKED THROUGH THICK UNDERBRUSH AND HEAVY TREES AND LIMBS AND FINALLY FOUND THE EANES MARSHALL CEMETERY.
AND THIS IS WHERE THE NAMESAKE FOR OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT, ROBERT AND HIS WIFE ELIZA, ARE BURIED.
SO, ELLEN, FASCINATING STORIES.
WE DID BLAZE A TRAIL TO GET THERE.
SO AND WITH THAT, WE WANT TO WISH EVERYBODY A HAPPY SPRING BREAK.
AND OFFICES WILL REOPEN ON THE MORNING OF MONDAY, MARCH THE 20TH.
SO HAPPY SPRING BREAK, EVERYONE.
THAT'S MY REPORT. THANK YOU FOR THAT.
ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? JUST TO SEE THAT THIS IS NOT A NORMAL BOARD MEETING, BUT THIS IS A REALLY FUN ONE.
WE WILL MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA.
AND THAT IS A VERY BRIEF DISCUSSION OF THE PRELIMINARY ENROLLMENT PROCESS AND PROJECTIONS.
ALL RIGHT. I'M GLAD I CAN BE PART OF THIS FUN MEETING.
AND I WILL TELL YOU THAT I'M A LITTLE NERVOUS RIGHT NOW FOLLOWING THAT PRESENTATION.
AND I DON'T HAVE A TEAM OF PEOPLE.
SO WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO IS THIS IS ENROLLMENT SEASON.
BUT TO START THIS, LET'S GO OVER TIMELINE BECAUSE THERE ARE SOME ADJUSTMENTS.
THOSE PROCESSES BEGAN YESTERDAY.
AND SO A LOT OF THIS DATA IS REALLY NOT INCLUDING THIS THAT I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU TONIGHT.
BUT THIS IS WHAT WE CALL ENROLLMENT SEASON, AND IT'LL CONTINUE OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS.
THIS MEANS THAT ALL OF OUR NEW AND RETURNING RESIDENT FAMILY STUDENTS ARE IN THIS PROCESS.
SOMETHING NEW IS WE WANTED TO SERVE ALL OF OUR FAMILIES, OUR CURRENT FAMILIES.
WE WANTED TO SERVE THEM IN THIS MARCH TIMELINE.
SO ALL OF OUR EMPLOYEES WITH THEIR NEW STUDENTS, THEY'RE INCLUDING THIS MARCH 6TH.
THIS MEANS THAT THEY HAVE ACCESS TO THAT TRANSFER APPLICATION.
SO THAT WILL BE TURNED IN DURING THIS MARCH 6TH TIMELINE.
BUT AGAIN, THOSE WON'T BE THOSE APPROVALS WON'T GO OUT INTO EARLY JUNE.
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BUT WHAT WE'RE DOING IS GATHERING THAT INFORMATION SO WE CAN KIND OF GET A GOOD SNAPSHOT OF OF WHAT WE EXPECT.AND THEN APRIL 5TH, THAT'S KINDERGARTEN ROUNDUP.
WITH NSO. WE'RE AROUND 82 WITH CIV.
AND THEN FIVE DAYS LATER, ON APRIL 10TH, THAT'S WHEN THAT SPANISH IMMERSION APPLICATION WILL OPEN.
SO SOME OF THAT IS VERY SIMILAR.
WE HAVE TO MAKE SOME ASSUMPTIONS.
SO THOSE ASSUMPTIONS ARE THAT OUR KINDERGARTEN THAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE IN THIS PROJECTION IS ACTUALLY JUST A DUPLICATE OF THIS YEAR'S SNAPSHOT KINDER ENROLLMENT. AND THEN ALL THE OTHER GRADES ARE JUST GOING TO TAKE THE SNAPSHOT DATA FROM OCTOBER 28TH AND ROLL EVERYBODY UP SO YOUR SENIORS ARE ROLLING OUT AND EVERYONE ELSE IS ROLLING UP JUST ONE GRADE LEVEL.
ALL THE DATA REMINDER IS BASED ON SNAPSHOT DATA.
AND A LOT OF TIMES THEY REFER BACK TO THE TA.
THERE'S A BIG DIFFERENCE THERE.
SO FROM THE GET GO, WE'RE WE'RE DOWN, WE'RE GOING TO SEE A REDUCTION IN ENROLLMENT.
BUT NONE OF THE THINGS YOU SEE TODAY ARE INCLUDING NEW STUDENTS, BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW YET.
THEY DON'T INCLUDE NEW TRANSFER STUDENTS.
WE WILL GET NEW STUDENTS THAT MOVE INTO THE COMMUNITY AND WE WILL GET MORE NEW TRANSFERS.
SO THAT'S ONE THING TO CONSIDER HERE.
SO A FAMILIAR CHART ON THE LEFT IS SNAPSHOT, OCTOBER 28TH FOR THIS CURRENT SCHOOL YEAR.
AND THEN COMPARE THAT TO DEMOGRAPHERS, PROJECTION WAS 7638.
SO YOU CAN SEE SHORT ABOUT 168 STUDENTS FROM WHAT THE DEMOGRAPHER PROJECTED.
AGAIN, IT DOESN'T INCLUDE ANY NEW STUDENTS OR ANY TRANSFERS.
SOME HIGHLIGHTS THERE, SOME DIFFERENCES THAT WE MAY IDENTIFY.
THERE'S A FEW CAMPUSES, ONE OF THOSE CAMPUSES, BRIDGE POINT, THE PROJECTION, IF WE ROLLED EVERYTHING UP, IS ACTUALLY MORE OVER 30 MORE STUDENTS THAN THE DEMOGRAPHER PROJECTED. THE REST OF THOSE AT EANES ELEMENTARY IN VALLEY VIEW ARE ACTUALLY 30 MORE UNDER THE DEMOGRAPHERS PROJECTION.
ADDITIONALLY, WITH HILL COUNTRY, YOU CAN SEE VALLEY VIEW AT 258.
SO THAT'S A BIG DROP FROM EVEN THIS THIS CURRENT YEAR THAT WE NEED TO WATCH.
BUT AGAIN, WE TYPICALLY SEE A SURGE AT THE HIGH SCHOOL IN THE JULY TIME FRAME.
WE USUALLY GET A BIG NUMBER OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN THERE.
SO WE'RE NOT OVERLY CONCERNED RIGHT NOW.
WE WANT TO DO IS JUST SHARE THE INFORMATION THAT WE HAVE AS WE MOVE THROUGH THE ENROLLMENT PROCESS.
AS WE ROLL UP. JUST SOME, WE'RE ABLE TO CONSOLIDATE SOME SECTIONS BECAUSE OF THE NUMBERS ACROSS THE GRADE LEVEL AT A COUPLE OF CAMPUSES AS THEY ROLL UP TO A FIFTH GRADE. AND SO WE'RE ABLE TO HAVE SOME LARGER CLASS SIZES.
WHY? BECAUSE THAT'S ONE OF OUR ASSUMPTIONS THAT WE DUPLICATED THOSE THOSE NUMBERS.
IT'S A YEAR OVER YEAR. THIS IS A REDUCTION OF FOUR FTE.
BUT AGAIN, WE'RE SO EARLY ON IN THIS.
WE'LL JUST HAVE TO SEE WHERE ENROLLMENT TAKES US.
I ALSO WANT TO SHARE SOME HISTORIC TRENDS.
THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE WE ANALYZE DATA IN SEVERAL WAYS.
WE KNOW WHAT WE HAVE THIS YEAR AND WE ROLL IT UP.
BUT IF WE LOOK BACKWARDS AT SOME OF THE HISTORICAL TRENDS.
SO WE DID OUR OWN ANALYSIS AND LOOKED AT THE PAST SEVEN YEARS, FOR EXAMPLE.
AND HISTORICALLY, WE HAVE SOME SOME INFORMATION WE WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU.
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SO IF WE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THIS CHART, YOU'LL SEE THE 22-23 CURRENT ENROLLMENTS ACROSS ALL GRADE LEVELS.THOSE ARE THE NUMBERS OUTLINED IN THE RED BOX HERE.
AND EACH GRADE LEVEL IS GOING TO ROLL UP.
WHEN IT ROLLS UP TO FIRST GRADE AND YOU CAN SEE IT CARRIED ACROSS ALL GRADES, ACROSS ALL LEVELS.
SO WE TAKE THAT WE TAKE OUR CURRENT KINDERGARTEN AT 447, WE APPLY THAT 8.4% AND IT'S 485.
AND IF WE DO THAT FOR EVERY SINGLE GRADE LEVEL AND WE CARRY THAT THROUGH BASED ON THOSE HISTORICAL TRENDS OF PERCENT CHANGE, YOU GET TO THAT RIGHT SIDE COLUMN TOTALING 7643. YOU WILL SEE THAT THE DEMOGRAPHERS PROJECTION IS 7638.
IT'S ACTUALLY WITHIN FIVE STUDENTS OF THAT PROJECTION.
NOW, THEY DO IT IN A DIFFERENT WAY.
IT'S SIMILAR, RIGHT? THEY'RE APPLYING ANALYTICS TO IT.
THIS NEXT SLIDE ACTUALLY TAKES THAT SAME TYPE OF APPLICATION, BUT THIS IS A SLIDE STRAIGHT FROM THE SPRING 2022 DEMOGRAPHIC REPORT AND YOU'LL SEE HIGHLIGHTED IN YELLOW IS AT 23-24 YEAR.
AND IF YOU CARRY ALL THOSE GRADE LEVELS UP ONE.
THAT'S HOW THEY GOT THERE. SO THERE'S ANALYTICS BEHIND THIS.
THERE'S SOME SCIENCE BEHIND IT.
WHAT I WANTED TO REPRESENT WITH THESE SLIDES IS WHILE WE MAY BE PROJECTED DOWN IN ENROLLMENT, IT TYPICALLY WE TYPICALLY SEE INCREASES OVER TIME ACROSS THESE GRADE LEVELS YEAR OVER YEAR.
IF YOU LOOK AT, SAY, THIS LAST YEAR'S SENIOR CLASS.
AND YOU COMPARE IT. THEY WERE ABOUT 450 STUDENTS WHEN THEY ENTERED IN KINDERGARTEN, AND THEY GREW OVER TIME ABOUT BETWEEN 40 AND 50% OVER THOSE THOSE 12 GRADES.
SO JUST SOME INFORMATION JUST TO SHARE WITH YOU AS WE AS WE ENTER THE ENROLLMENT SEASON.
ANY QUESTIONS? UH SEEING. NONE.
NOW, TO START WITH, I WANT TO.
I GUESS IT HELPS TO TURN IT AROUND.
I WANTED TO ASK ABOUT THE THE OVERALL CHART, AND I REALIZE THIS IS REALLY PRELIMINARY AND I REALIZE THERE ARE EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES ON EACH CAMPUS.
BUT IN IN LOOKING, FOR EXAMPLE, OUR MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND LOOKING AT THE PROJECTED CLASS SIZES FOR NEXT YEAR WERE THREE ON AVERAGE THREE STUDENTS OFF BETWEEN THE TWO MIDDLE SCHOOLS ACROSS ALL SECTIONS, WHICH IS SEEMING TO GET A LITTLE BIT ON THE LARGE SIDE.
YEP. AND I'M NOT QUITE SURE HOW THE SECTIONS ARE DETERMINED AT THIS POINT.
SO I JUST RAISED THOSE AS QUESTIONS.
PERHAPS IF WE COULD HAVE MORE INSIGHT INTO HOW THOSE DECISIONS ARE BEING MADE AND ARE WE BEING EQUITABLE BETWEEN OUR CAMPUSES? YEAH. AND AND ONE OF THE WAYS THAT WE LOOK AT THAT IS, YOU KNOW, ELEMENTARY LEVEL.
WE HAVE TO COMPARE SPANISH IMMERSION TO TRADITIONAL CLASS SIZES AS WELL AND BALANCE THOSE OUT.
SO YOU'LL SEE THAT THAT'S PART OF OUR STRATEGY AS WE MOVE FORWARD IN THE NEXT UPDATE.
AND WE START JUST LOOKING AT CORE CLASS SIZES, RIGHT.
BUT THERE'S ALSO ELECTIVES THAT GO INTO THESE AVERAGE SECTIONS.
AND SO WHAT WE'LL DO IS AS WE GET THE TOTAL NUMBER OF STUDENTS, WE'LL DO FURTHER ANALYSIS ON THAT TO TO BALANCE THAT, LOOKING AT MASTER SCHEDULE, LOOKING AT HOW MANY PERIODS OF THE DAY THAT THESE STUDENTS ARE INVOLVED IN, HOW THOSE SECTIONS BREAK DOWN.
SO THAT'LL BE PART OF OUR ANALYSIS AND I'LL BRING THAT BACK TO YOU AT A FUTURE DATE.
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ABSOLUTELY. SPEAKING OF LOW, AT SOME POINT, I'M GUESSING THE ADMINISTRATION IS GOING TO ADDRESS THE 258 NUMBER AT VALLEY VIEW.AND IF WE COULD JUST FIND WAYS TO BOLSTER THAT KINDERGARTEN NUMBER, PERHAPS WHEN WE SEE HOW THAT BUILDS AND GROWS OVER TIME, THAT MAY BE A GOOD FOUNDATIONAL NUMBER FOR US TO FOCUS MORE ON AS WE LOOK AT TRANSFERS OR RECRUITMENT.
HAVE WE HAVE WE LOOKED AT ANY OPPORTUNITIES TO PARTNER OR COLLABORATE WITH PRESCHOOLS IN THE AREA OR CLOSE BY? AND CLAUDIA MCWHORTER DOES THAT WITH SOME VERY TARGETED TO LET THOSE PRESCHOOLS KNOW, ESPECIALLY ABOUT KINDERGARTEN ROUNDUP, SO THAT WE'RE TRYING TO CAPTURE AS MANY OF THOSE KIDS AS WE CAN.
OKAY. MY QUESTION WAS ABOUT TRANSFERS ALSO.
AND SO I THINK ELLEN HAS ADDRESSED IT.
I WAS CONCERNED OR I GUESS I QUESTIONED HOW WE LOOKED AT OR HOW WE WERE RECRUITING TRANSFERS FOR THIS KINDERGARTEN CLASS. AND THEN WHEN I LOOKED AT THIS DATA AND I WENT BACK AND I LOOKED AT THE THE NOVEMBER PRESENTATION THAT YOU GAVE ON TRANSFERS, WHAT I SAW WAS IT LOOKED LIKE A TREND IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NUMBERS WHERE THERE WERE ABOUT 50% MORE TRANSFERS.
AND IN THAT SET OF DATA, AS COMPARED TO THE HIGH SCHOOL SET OF DATA AND I'M NOT EXPECTING YOU TO REMEMBER THAT, BUT I JUST WONDERED IF THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT COULD BE LOOKED AT AS WE LOOK AT PROJECTIONS.
AND I THINK YOU JUST DID THAT IN HOW THAT VERY SMALL KINDERGARTEN CLASS GREW INTO A LARGER BODY.
AS YOU MOVE THROUGH THE YEARS.
SO THAT WAS AN INTERESTING POINT.
ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. UH, LET'S SEE.
3139. SORRY, I HAD A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS ABOUT TRANSFER STUDENTS AS WELL.
SORRY. ARE THE SIBLINGS OF CURRENT TRANSFERS GIVEN PRIORITY OR.
SO WHAT WE WANT TO DO IS INCLUDE THEM IN THE INITIAL PROCESS BECAUSE THEN THE PARENT WOULD BE DOING AN SIV FOR THEIR EXISTING TRANSFER AND THEN A NEW TRANSFER, AND THEN THEY'RE HAVING TO KEEP TRACK OF ALL THAT.
WE WANT TO PROCESS IT ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
THEY STILL WILL BE EVALUATED, RIGHT? JUST LIKE A TRADITIONAL TRANSFER WOULD BE.
YOU KNOW, KINDERGARTEN IS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT.
BUT IF THEY'RE COMING IN AT DIFFERENT DIFFERENT GRADES, WE'LL STILL DO THE STANDARD.
BUT ARE THEY EVALUATED BEFORE OTHER NEW TRANSFERS COMING IN? OR AT THE SAME TIME? I WOULD SAY AT THE SAME TIME.
SO WE'LL HAVE THAT ALREADY IN.
Q SO WHEN MAY 1ST STARTS? OKAY, PERFECT. AND THEN OUR STAFF.
STUDENT ARE THE STUDENTS OF STAFF? ARE WE TAKE THEM PRETTY MUCH NO MATTER WHAT, RIGHT.
I'D LOVE TO SEE US GO BACK TO USING CHARTS THAT WE'VE HAD IN THE PAST THAT SHOW THE NUMBER OF TRANSFER STUDENTS PER GRADE LEVEL BROKEN OUT PER CAMPUS.
WE USED TO HAVE THAT IN THIS DATA, AND FOR ME PERSONALLY, I DON'T KNOW HOW EVERYBODY ELSE FEELS.
TRUE TRANSFER IS NOT INCLUSIVE OF STAFF CHILDREN.
THE TRUE OUT OF DISTRICT BECAUSE I DO THINK WE NEED TO BE.
WE NEED TO BE COGNIZANT OF THAT FOR A FEW REASONS.
ONE. WHERE ARE THOSE GAPS THAT WE COULD BE BRINGING IN MORE MONEY, BUT ALSO TO THE EXTENT OF.
YOU KNOW. ARE WE OVER RELYING ON TRANSFERS? AND WE NEED TO WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO FIND THAT BALANCE.
SURE. SURE. SO I CAN BRING THAT BACK.
I CAN BRING THAT BACK. THANK YOU FOR THAT.
SO, UM, I KNOW THAT YOU ALL LOOK AT THE COLLABORATIVE CLASSROOMS ALSO IN OUR SPECIAL EDUCATION NUMBERS, AND I KNOW THAT YOU GUYS HAVE DONE A PHENOMENAL JOB OF MAKING SURE THAT OUR KIDS GET IDENTIFIED FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES.
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THAT HAVE SPANISH IMMERSION ON THAT CAMPUS.AND I'M JUST, YOU KNOW, WANTING TO.
YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOME SOME BIGGER CLASS SIZES THAN THE NON CI SIDE.
UH, THANK YOU. ANYBODY ELSE? UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, JEREMY.
THESE EARLY SNAPSHOTS ARE SUPER, SUPER HELPFUL.
AND THEY AND THEY HELP US SET EXPECTATIONS ACROSS THE COMING MONTHS.
AND WITH THAT IT BRINGS US TO THE OPEN FORUM PORTION OF OUR MEETING.
BUT NOBODY SIGNED UP TO SPEAK TO US THIS EVENING.
SO LET ME REMIND YOU THAT WE HAVE TWO MEETINGS ON THE CALENDAR.
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THE NEXT MEETING IS MARCH 28TH.FOLLOWING THAT, WE WILL MEET ON APRIL 11TH FOR A STUDY SESSION.
THE TIME IS NOW, 735 AND WE ARE ADJOURNED.
OH, BEFORE BEFORE WE CLOSE, LET ME LET ME.
IT IS REALLY, REALLY SPECIAL STUFF.
AND WITH THAT, WE'RE ADJOURNED.
THANK YOU.
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.