Location: IRC

Date: August 13, 2024

Time: 5:00-7:00 p.m.

Attendance

22

Agenda Items

1. Welcome and goal for the night.
2. Explain Guide to Solving Problems on the website.
3. Introduce guest speakers. Speakers discuss discipline practices and procedures.
4. Questions for speakers.
5. School scenarios for groups – read, discuss and report out.

Other Notes

Good discussion about secondary schools’ discipline practices and procedures. Group asked specific questions to the speakers. Police also provided answers to certain situations.

After the speakers, the group acted as school administrators by reacting to different scenarios. They had to discuss and report out what should be done with each scenario.

Location: IRC

Date: November 12, 2024

Time: 5:00-7:00 p.m.

Attendance

15

Agenda Items

1. Welcome.
2. Show video regarding school threats by Superintendent, Frank Narducci and Officer, Steve Dieu.
3. Introduce student guest speakers.
4. Questions for speakers from moderator and advisory group members.

Other Notes

Students provided good insight into safety concerns and issues at their schools. Three high school and two junior high students participated. The five students were articulate and sincere in their statements. Students had concerns and praises for their schools.

• A few of the concerns:

  After the speakers, the group acted as school administrators by reacting to different scenarios. They had to discuss and report out what should be done with each scenario.

• Praises:

  The students have a trusted adult on campus they can talk to about personal issues. Students feel safe on campus. Students appreciate having an SRO on campus. Students are aware of school rules and consequences. Students know how to report suspicious behavior on campus.

• Next Meeting:

  February 11, 2025. Chandler Police Department will present on the role of the police in the schools and in the community.

Location: IRC Conference Room 104

Date: September 13, 2024

Time: 10:00-11:30 a.m.

Attendance

7

Agenda Items

1. Welcome & Introduction/Dr. Adama Sallu
2. Superintendent Welcome/Frank Narducci
3. 2024-2025 Equity Focus Area/Dr. Adama Sallu
4. 2024-2025 CUSD Parent of Color – Focus Area
5. Review of CUSD Journey to Excellence – Strategic Goals/Dr. Adama Sallu

Action Items

1. Hire more Staff of Color so that our students can see themselves (mirrors)
2. Parents would like to be invited to the table and be a part of decision-making process.
3. Study Session: Parents of color would like to see achievement, and discipline data shared during the Governing Board Study session by the end of the 2024-2025 school year.
4. Culture Competency training for all Front Office Staff Members verses other School Districts/Don’t feel welcome – some schools do not have a welcoming environment for school visitors.

Other Notes

• Superintendent Narducci talked about the Upcoming school board elections, Overrides & Bonds.
• African American advisory member shared - connecting with the students of color so they feel like they belong, and their concerns do matter in CUSD.
• Hispanic advisory member shared - ACT is a requirement for all CUSD 9th & 11th graders.
• Continue CUSD Parents of Color Advisory Board meetings.
• Native American advisory member - shared the need for CUSD administrator to effectively communicate, collaborate with parent groups before decision that will impact them are finalized.
• Superintendent Narducci shared community programs (East Valley Dream Center, AZCEND & The Hive in partnership with AZCEND at San Marcos).
• Superintendent Narducci shared CUSD is providing technological devices for translation for the students & parents.
• Superintendent Narducci shared about the use of Parent Square in CUSD that allows for the translation of any language spoken within CUSD.
• Native American advisory member shared the need to have more than one Native American district liaison - one person is currently serving 1500 students.

Location: Instructional Resource Center

Date: November 8, 2024

Time: 10:00-11:30 a.m.

Attendance

8

Agenda Items

1. Welcome, introduction & reviewed 1st Quarter Minutes
2. Dialogue with the new Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources (HR)
3. Reviewed the PD results that were held for the administrators and site-based equity team during 2nd quarter

Action Items

1. Hiring a diverse staff and faculty that looks like the students
2. In-house teacher pre- programs -Hire our own students who live in the community with the likelihood of diversifying the faculty and staff
3. Change Black Out Days to Restricted Days
4. Proposed Exit interviews with HR to see why faculty and staff of color are leaving

Other Notes

• Pathways to Success Learning Modules
• Invite the Executive Director of Curriculum to the third quarter meeting

Location: Instructional Resource Center

Date: September 19, 2024

Time: 4:30-6:00 p.m.

Attendance

12 advisory board members participated

3 high school students (ACP, Basha and Chandler High School) joined the advisory this school year

2 teachers ( elementary and secondary school)

3 district administrators

2 parents

2 community members

Agenda Items

1. Superintendent – Welcome and Overview
2. Introduction
3. Review of CUSD Strategic Pan- Journey to Excellence
4. 2023-2024 Discipline Data
5. 2024-2025 Equity Focus Area
6. Pluses and Delta

Action Items

1. Change Meeting from Quarterly to bi-monthly
2. Change meeting from abstract concepts to granular concepts- more human stories
3. Less agenda items – singular and targeted -action and measurable agenda items
4. More time for conversation and debriefing

Location: IRC Classroom #2

Date: December 5, 2024

Time: 4:30-6:00 p.m.

Attendance

13 people were in attendance

Agenda Items

1. Land Acknowledgement – facilitated by Dr. Adama Sallu
2. Welcome & Introduction – facilitated by Mr. Robert Rice
3. CUSD Strategic Plan – facilitated Dr. Jessica Edgar/li>
4. Brief Overview of the 2024-2025 districtwide equity professional learning focus areas Leveraging Relationship, Relevance and Responsiveness to Enhance Student Learning through Universal Design for Learning (UDL) – facilitated by Ms. Leslie Cordova
5. Review of evaluation from the districtwide equity professional learning with the elementary/secondary administrators and teachers – facilitated by Dr. Adama Sallu

Action Items

1. CUSD goal is to make sure all students have full access to learning by using the UDL learning framework
2. Teachers/students need to know their identity before they will feel comfortable with engaging with you or others
3. Unpacking learning activities around bias (complementarity, contact, confident & consciousness bias)

Other Notes

What does UDL look like in 3-5 years for CUSD?

Location: CUSD Board Room

Date: September 17, 2024

Time: 7:00-8:30 a.m.

Attendance

52

Agenda Items

1. Targeted Concerns – Frank Narducci, Superintendent, Tomm Dunn, Exec. Director Capital Projects and Operations (30 Minutes)
• Planning Time
• Transportation – Driver Shortage
• Air Conditioning in classrooms
2. Bond Fact Sheet – Tom Dunn, Exec. Director Capital Projects and Operations (20 Minutes)
3. Board Metrics, J2E KPIs – Dr. Jennfier Fletcher, Executive Director of Accountability, Assessment, and Research (20 Minutes

Location: CUSD Board Room

Date: December 3, 2024

Time: 7:00-8:30 a.m.

Attendance

44

Agenda Items

1. Targeted Concerns – Frank Narducci
• Bond
• Planning Day
• Transportation
• Rightsizing
2. Non-Profits Support
• Chandler Education Foundation – Jennifer Hewitt, Director
• Chandler CARE Center – Katie Kahle, Manager
• Chandler School Boosters – Dana Stears, Director

Location: CUSD Boardroom

Date: October 14, 2024

Time: 1:15-2:15 p.m.

Attendance

30

Agenda Items

1. Welcome – Frank Narducci, Superintendent
2. Artificial Intelligence – Colleen Flannery, Chief Technology Officer & Shaun Creigton, Director of Technology
3. Journey to Excellence (J2E) – Frank Narducci, Superintendent
4. Board Metrics – Dr. Jennifer Fletcher, Executive Director of Accountability, Assessment and Research
5. Bond Facts – Lana Berry, Chief Financial Officer

Location: CUSD Boardroom

Date: December 16, 2024

Time: 1:15-2:15 p.m.

Attendance

26

Agenda Items

1. Superintendent Narducci
• Welcome
• Updates
2. Non-Profits Support
• Chandler Education Foundation – Easter Weiss
• Chandler CARE Center – Katie Kahle

Location: Instructional Resource Center

Date: December 13, 2024

Time: 3:00-4:30 p.m.

Attendance

10

Agenda Items

1. Welcome/Introductions
2. Goals of Committee
3. Presentation of Q2 Achievements
4. Discussion and feedback on Q2 Achievements
5. AYS Data-Safety and ACES

Other Notes

Committee provided feedback on Q2 achievements-Majority of group discussed that Counseling and Social Services is providing a wide range of opportunities to engage the community with opportunities to learn and grow in the area of counseling, mental health, and social services.

Polly Knapp discussed that it was vital that we were providing education on the dangers of fentanyl and Adrianna Erickson provided a resource and connection to the Community Liaison for Maricopa County Sherriff’s office who are working with the Latino population on the issue of fentanyl.

In relation to our CBI Next Step Diversion Program, Steph Reeves discussed that it would be helpful to have an elementary diversion program for students and social media as many students are having consequences related to behaviors in school that start on social media.

Yasmin Barker discussed that Chandler Fire would like to participate in the Community Connection Event to pass out Narcan to participants.

Violeta Flores discussed the importance of the Bullying 301 course that was offered to teachers and staff.

Jessica Westmiller provided information on the importance of gathering feedback from participants at the conclusions of our community events. She expressed that having feedback will disclose the importance of what participants took away from the event

Kelly Geisler provided 25 Christmas Bags for Val Gyory and the FIT programs.