##VIDEO ID:bR8G7tJMjw4## This  January, 23rd 2025 regular  meeting of the Fairfax County  School board will now come to  order. Please stand for the  Pledge of Allegiance, followed  by a moment of silence and a  performance of the national  anthem by the West  Springfield, High School  students and the direction of  Dustin Brant.  >> see  ♪ >> was so.  ♪ >> Us the.  >> broad  ♪ >> the  >> scary guy.  ♪ ♪ ♪ >> Us  >> little.  ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> In accordance with changes  to the Code of Virginia.  Section 2, DASH, 3, 7, 0, 8,  3, b Sizemore. Heizer is  notified. The chair and clerk  of the board that she's using  remote participation as she's  caregiving for an individual a  disability. The U.S. she will  be counted as in person for  the purposes of quorum tonight  and does not need to be voted  in by the board. Sizemore  Heizer. Could you check your  audio and video? Thank you.  Welcome. Can you hear me? Yes,  great. Thank you. Thank you.  I'd also like to have our  student Representative missile  want. Will you test your video  and microphone?  >> Yes. Can you hear me OK?  Yes. Thank you very much. You  would like to review a copy of  the meeting agenda. Please see  the back of the auditorium to  obtain copies of any items or  supporting materials.  >> Being presented tonight,  please reference to QR code on  the agenda or visit FCPS DOT  Edu slash board docs.  Tonight's meeting is being  broadcast on channel 99 and  live streamed on YouTube and  our website FCPS Edu Slash  live stream. Agenda item. 2.0  3 volunteer and mentor  Appreciation Week.  Proclamation. I call him a  Saint. John coming for a  proclamation. March Air.  >> Whereas School Volunteer  week is nationally observed  during the 3rd full week of  April to encourage parents and  citizens to volunteer in their  neighborhoods. Schools. And  whereas Fairfax County Public  Schools has the good fortune  to have many persons willing  to volunteer their time and  services in our schools and at  school-sponsored activities.  And whereas every school  whether through formal or  informal partnerships counts  among its volunteers, those  who give generosity.  Generously of their time to  improve the academic, cultural  and athletic environment of  the school, especially through  tutoring and mentoring  programs and programs that  sustain parent involvement in  school activities. Where asked  National mentoring Month is an  annual campaign to recognize  mentors for the exceptional  support. And guidance. They  provide our students and to  focus attention on the need  for mentors as well as how  each of us can work together  to increase the number of  mentors to ensure positive  outcomes for our students.  Whereas Fairfax County Public  Schools honors volunteer  mentors and staff who supports  students by showing up for  them every day and  demonstrating their commitment  to helping them thrive.  Whereas by sharing their own  stories and offering guidance  and advice, mentors instill a  sense infinite possibility in  the hearts and minds of their  mentees demonstrating that  with hard work and passion,  nothing is beyond their  potential. Whether simply  offering a compassionate year  are actively teaching and  inspiring curiosity mentors  can play pivotal roles in  young people's lives. Now,  therefore, be it really be it  resolved that the Fairfax  County school board here by  proclaims January 13 through  17 2025 as volunteer and  Mentor Appreciation Week in  Fairfax County, Public Schools  and honors are committed.  School volunteers and mentors.  Therefore. Be it further  resolved that the Fairfax  County School board encourages  all students and employees to  recognize and applaud the  contributions and services  volunteers provide to our  school communities. And  therefore, be it finally  resolve that the Fairfax  County School board honors all  those who continuously strive  to provide young people with  the resources and support they  need and deserve. And we we  commit to building a society  in which all mentors and  mentees can thrive. In mutual  learning relationships. Thank  you. Miss ancient cutting is  their second second Dr.  Anderson. All those in favor  of the proclamation as read.  This mayor and mystic's it Mr.  Mcelvain Dr, Anderson, Mr.  McDaniel this Anderson, Mr.  Moon, This Lady.  >> John coming. Sizemore  Heizer and myself. That is  unanimous for board members at  the table with Mr. Dunn away  from the dais. Agenda item 2,  the motion passes.  Congratulations. Agenda item.  2.0 4 has been postponed until  February 6 for our regular  meeting agenda item. 2.0 5,  the 2020 for 2025. Exemplar  awards. I call on Dr Reid for  a recognition of our 2024. 25  exemplar word schools.  >> Thank you, Chairman. First  tonight, we are honored to  recognize schools that have  received special recognition  from the Virginia Board of  Education, Exemplary  Performance School Awards  recognize schools that exceed  board established requirements  or show continuous improvement  on academic and school.  Quality indicators to achieve  the 24. 25 exemplar  performance, highest  achievement award. The school  must earn a state  accreditation raining of  accredited and meet the  following criteria the school  meets the state benchmarks for  reading, which is at least 75%  mathematics, at least 70% and  science, at least 70% based on  the current year pass rate,  not including growth measures  are multilingual, progress for  each student group in the  for  school. In addition for  schools with 3 or more student  groups are no more than 10  percentage points between the  lowest performing group and  all other students in the  school. The school meets a  statement to mark for chronic  absenteeism rate. 15% or  lower. And for schools with  the graduating class, the  school meets estate benchmark  for graduation and completion  index, at least 88% and a  dropout rate of 6% or lower.  There are 3 Fairfax County  schools that are in the Board  of Education, highest  achievement award. And these  are Sangster Elementary  School, Allison Genk of its  principal. Thomas Jefferson  High School for Science and  technology. Michael McKay  principle. And C G Woodson  high school. Kevin, great. A  principal. Congratulations on  earning this award and to earn  the exemplar award for  continuous improvement of  school. Must earn a state  accreditation rating of  accredited or accredited with  conditions and meet at least  one of the following criteria.  The school demonstrates an  increase in the combined rate  for math, reading and science  for each of the past 3 years  with a total increase across  the 3 years of 10 points or  more. The school demonstrates  an increase in the combined  rate for 2 or more student  groups in reading and math for  each of the past 3 years with  the total increase across the  3 years of 10 points or more.  And the school demonstrates an  increase in the graduation and  completion index. The G C I  for each of the past 3 years  with a total increase across  the 3 years of 4% or more. And  school demonstrates a decrease  in the dropout rate for each  of the past 3 years with the  total reduction across 3  years, a 15% or more of the  first years dropout rate. And  it sounds like a story Astore  from, however, Fairfax County  schools receiving this award  for continuous improvement.  Our Fairfax County Adult High  School, Michelle Morgan  principle. He center and Smith  principal. And West Potomac  High school. Jessica Stotts  principle. See the Wolverines  are in the Congratulations on  earning this award.  >> Thank you. Dr Reid, we'd  like to welcome the West  Potomac High School community  recipient of the 2024. 25  exemplar ward for continuous  improvement to please join the  board for a photo at the front  of the dais.  >> I would like to welcome key  Senate community recipient of  the 2024. 25 exemplar award  for continuous improvement. To  please join the board for a  photo at the front of the  diocese.  I would like to  welcome the Fairfax County  Adult High School community  recipient of the 2024. 25  exemplar Ward for continuous  improvement to please join the  board for a photo at the front  of the Dias.  I would like to  welcome the CG Woodson High  School community recipient of  the 2024. 25 Exemplar award  for highest achievement to  please join the board for a  photo at the front of the  diocese.  I would like to  welcome the Thomas Jefferson  High School for Science  Technology community recipient  of the 2024. 25 Exemplar Award  for highest achievement to  please join the board for a  photo at the front of the  diocese.  I would like to  welcome the Sangster  Elementary School community  recipient of the 2024. 25  Exemplar award for highest  achievement to please join the  board for a photo at the front  of the diocese.  I would like  to welcome all those here in  support of the volunteer  Mentor Week proclamation to  please join the board for a  photo at the front of the  diocese.  Mister Chair. That's  the conclusion.  >> Agenda item. 3.0 one  community participation. The  next order of business is  community participation. We  welcome all community members  who are here and those who  signed up to speak this  evening. Additional  information about signing up  to provide comments at school  board, regular business  meetings and public hearings  can be found on the school  board's website Fcps Edu Slash  school board. During the  Senate process. Community  members acknowledge they were  informed of the school board's  expectations for proper  decorum when providing  comments, these expectations  are also available online. And  with the agenda and meeting  materials at the back of the  room. We ask audience members  to be respectful of one.  Another shouting out first  will not be tolerated. Please  hold your applause until the  conclusion of a speaker's  remarks. Audience members may  not join speakers at the  podium and should remain at  their seats, including one  recording video or taking  photos. We are grateful to  those who've come to speak to  us today and thank you for  your cooperation. School board  members will be listening but  not responding. Madam Clerk,  please call the first speaker.  >> Michaela Danner. I am a 6th  grader Pines paying Elementary  School and the Girl Scout. And  I'm learning about effective  advocacy. I start middle  school next year. I am here to  talk about healthy school.  Start times your delay on this  important decision directly  impacts me. I wonder if each  of you really knows and  understands the know  decades-old research on  healthy school start times  because I can't help but think  that if you really understood  we even be in this  conversation. My friends and I  the student's you represent.  know that starting middle and  high school at 08:30AM, as  recommended by the American  Academy of Pediatrics. We know  that doing so. As a tivoli  impacts so many of the  outcomes they say you care  about, for example, increased  attendance and engagement in  school, decrease depression  and decrease suicidal thinking  better academic performance,  even less car crashes. Please  reconsider pairing this  decision with your  conversation about school  boundaries, you find viable  options. Available to you  right now. Honor your original  timeline. Make a decision for  the upcoming school year. It  is not too late. Fcps is  schedules as late as may, but  it is urgent. We know that if  you decide by March, it is  best for a smooth and nation  implementation. Discuss the  options that have been  provided choose and choose the  most viable one for fcps and  implement for fall 2025. Luke  Loewe ready. Good evening, FCS  members. My name is likely  ready.  >> And I'm here tonight as a  representative for my  community where his product  for Decca COVID can stop too.  My Anthony Burton and  outgoing, we're sitting over  there and throughout our time  in those going high school, we  have noticed that vaping has  become a significant problem,  not just in our schools, but  many schools around SPs on the  surface may not seem like a  huge problem. However,  countless students are  affected by this horrible  activity, whether it be the  health of the students.  Vaping, whether peers around  It has come to the point where  streets are unable or scared  to even use Russians. That  school as a result of the  space be taking over for the  survey ping. Were they  feeling? Well, that new stops  here originally started the  project. school we quickly  realized our teens spire  change and school communities  everywhere. This led us to set  a goal of transforming the  school project. It's a  legitimate use organization.  That works towards reducing  the amount of vaping incurring  in schools and minimizing  vaping among teenagers. We  hope that we can continue  working on this organization,  inspiring change even after a  decade competition of in  February. So are we speaking  to tonight? Our purpose is to  raise awareness about the  harmful effects of vaping. We  know is that you are piloting  a program of using detectors  and few school. And you would  like a mission to fundraise  those same touches for other  schools, including mask and  where does not possible? We  would like to contact the at  the Forestry Commission to  fundraise and some of the  funds. The Section FC vs speed  up the pilot program in saint  sectors to more schools before  this is very important because  vaping in schools has  skyrocketed over the last few  years and thousands of  children are hospitalized  every year due to volume  another farm full vaping  diseases. We think that with  your help in the vape  detectors installed this could  cut down vaping across the  school district and help solve  this crisis. We hope this has  helped change your  perspective. If you'd like to  contact you can kind of set  the pink stops here at Com or  visit our Web site, everything  stops here, Dot org. We would  love to be certified. Start  fundraising soon as possible.  Thank you so much for your  time. Hi ashes. That.  >> Hello, I'm highest and I'm  a sophomore Justice. High  school. Can we hold the  speakers time? Please manly  return to your seat. Please  restored of speakers times to  the shooting. Begin again.  Thank you by.  >> I want to talk about the  fact that middle school should  start their days too early,  should not start there. Just  to system. Fair for students  have to raise early as  05:30AM. many of these kids  face demanding schedules that  require them. To juggle  homework. Expect. Homework  circular activities and family  responsibilities was often  make make it difficult for  them to get better. That  reasonable timing. This lack  of sleep can lead to  exhaustion and decreased  focused during the school day,  ultimately affecting their  ability to learn and grow.  With good sleep. Students are  more likely to participate  actively in discussions,  retain information better and  contribute positively to their  learning environment.  Additionally and perhaps it  can the better relationship  with peers, family members as  well as in haste overall  well-being. Therefore, we mess  we must act urgent and not  delay until boundary work is  completed. Our students  deserve better. Thank you.  Anja least juice. Lillian  saga. Thank you for the  opportunity to speak. We all  know the health benefits of  changing middle school start  times tonight. I want to  stress the urgency of acting  now we need to be proactive,  not reactive. We are waiting.  Are we waiting for the media  attention or the petition with  over 700 signatures to force  our hand?  >> We need to do what is right  for our kids. Not what is  necessarily easier for the  adults. Inconvenience can be  managed harm is irreversible.  I ask our school board, you to  support this change without  delay. Why wait for external  pressure to make  scientifically proven changes.  Reports presented to the F CPS  family strategy. Meetings  highlighted significant  concerns in middle school  showing a trend of declining  student interest in academics  coupled with the rise in  mental health issues. Dr.  Anderson, thank you for  highlighting that region to  including Glasgow has an extra  year of middle school. This  means 3500 students and regent  who will benefit from this  change starting in fall 2025?  when we know better. We must  do better. As a parent of a  middle schooler. I understand  how crucial this change is.  For our family. It impacts  every student, every family in  our community. We need this  change now. Not at some  undefined point in the future.  It's still possible to  implement for this year as the  F CPS Web page indicates was  our goal. If our top priority  will always focus on doing  what is best for our students.  This cannot be delayed. I urge  you to discuss the options. We  find them make healthy middle  school start times. We cannot  fail. Our middle schoolers  during their most vulnerable  years. Let's address the  declining interest in  academics and raising mental  health issues head on actions  speak louder than words. Let's  show our kids that together.  All things are possible.  >> Kathleen and Brown. Good  evening. I'm Kathleen and  frown.  >> Well, my son, Peter College  or graduated from justice last  spring.  >> I remain committed to  volunteer at the Ptsa Resource  Pantry for Maisie and students  and of served the past year  and a half on the community  working group safety of our  students is paramount they  travel to and from Justice  High School. The 2 biggest  problems are one lack of  adequate parking and to the  lack of safe routes just to  and from school. We estimate  that there are nearly 500  students using the sidewalks  and roads from just the one  side of school from Kyle. More  distant Knollwood Drive  neighborhoods yet there are no  high visibility crosswalks  curb cuts sidewalks and  inadequate number of stop  signs to ensure our students  safety safe routes to school  and the Office of Safety and  Security. And are working  group members collaborated on  a report to identify  mitigation strategies. And  that's an addendum to the  Working group's report. The  school board must instruct  your staff to work with vdot  and FC DOT and the community  to develop solutions to these  problems and not e****  barriers and excuses for why  it can't be done. Your staff's  resistance. 2 developing  solutions have been detailed  in our working group report.  These proposed solutions are  at minimal cost and virtually  no cost fcps the simplest  solution to the inadequate  parking problem is for Vdot  and FC DOT to restrict parking  on the cafeteria side of Peace  Valley Lane for students and  staff in a similar way that  they restrict parking on the  opposite side of Peace Valley  Lane for the residents of race  Ravenwood Park. Are working  groups. Rough estimate is is  this would provide a box  approximately 50 parking  spaces for school use during  school hours. Thank you for  the hard work you do providing  valued leadership. Thank you,  ma'am.  >> Robert Redmi junior.  Victorious need. Victorious  need. Matthew Levy.  >> school I'm here tonight,  too. Talk to you about a  request of the Justice High  School working group and on  and desire to get more parking  around the school. We've  meeting over the last 3 school  years and we've made a modest  request for more parking near  the school via the  acquisition, northbound Peace  Valley Lane. It's currently  I'm leave. County are asking  to use those spots and to  restrict them for students and  teachers during the school  day. We met with. With the  community members and they are  on board with this plan. It  should be a minimal cost and  would be of great service,  too. All of us. Teachers,  students, etcetera, course,  the plan really only against  meet our needs to, you know,  when I start teaching a  justice 20 years ago, we had  1500 kids. We have like 2200  now. And we just put up a new  addition which parking so it's  been a bit of a struggle for  some teachers and the morale  in the building. So any extra  parking would be super  beneficial for the vibes.  Justice High School. Thank you  very much for your time.  >> Vanessa Hull. For say,  gruesome and sleep and  parking. But I'll talk about  something else. My daughter  was physically ill on Tuesday  after she witnessed Nazis  salute on the inaugural stage  and executive orders designed  to create chaos and Harmon up  and the rule of law. We're in  an unprecedented time or  violent criminals are pardoned  kind. This is out of fashion  and the Constitution is  undermined with the swipe of a  presidential pen for science  in truth or rewritten by  ideologues and ice is  unleashed on schools,  hospitals and places of  worship, which is terrifying.  Our entire community, civil  rights and public education  are under attack.  Nevertheless, all of us, we  must do the work educator and  former congressman Katie  Porter. So as not to let the  chaos and fear distract us  instead, we must stay focused  on the real people who are  harmed by these policies and  all work together to mitigate  that harm. Stand up to  bullying being up standard.  Not a bystander work  cooperatively as possible but  never compromise on values or  civil rights. Speak truth to  power. Fcps must continue to  offer safe, meaningful  educational space for  students. Staff families by  prioritizing kindness and  patience, offering mental  health support and maintaining  the trust policy to protect  immigrant students and  regulation 26. 0, 3, which  protects transgender students.  We need to be loud about this.  You are the first line of  defense for staff. So please  protect them and provide  resources, support and pay  that they need to do their  best by students no matter  what happens at the federal  level.  >> You were elected to do the  work here and you are  empowered by the Virginia  Constitution. To support,  protect and educate our  children. Regardless of race,  religion, gender, immigration,  status, gender identity. Our  world is being turned upside  down, which is why we almost  do the work to ensure safety  equity, excellence and  opportunity in Fcps and  beyond. Thank you very much.  Camilla. Now.  >> Good evening, everyone. My  name is Kim I am the parent of  for children to whom graduated  during COVID and I have a  senior and a junior, all of  whom came through the Justice  High School Pyramid,  Elementary, middle and high  school. I am said pricing. We  to myself here tonight to  speak to you about fairness.  We teach our kids about the  concept fairness in order to  approach fairness, we have to  have justice in order to have  justice. We must have a  quality in order to have a  quality. We have to have  parity, justice high school  does not have parity with its  peer high schools in an  inexcusable number of  measurable men double areas in  order for parity to exist.  Fcps and the school board must  provide the individual school  with what they need to be on a  level playing field. I am here  to ask for one such individual  need to provide parity. We  have an incredibly dangerous  traffic walking and parking  situation at our school, which  is has the smallest footprint  of any school in Fcps and and  this problem is being shuffled  down the road. Once again, we  historically and currently do  not receive the same support  as other high schools in Fcps  which our students truly feel  and express so I am a member  and I was appointed to the  Justice High school community.  Working Group has commissioned  by the Board of Supervisors  and the school board in order  for Fcps to comply with their  legal requirement for this  group to exist in order for  our renovation to have been  approved. We came up with a  plan which we have presented  to our sponsors and that  includes a very simple  solution to allow us to take  over ownership of one side of  the road by our high school to  ad and then that 40 or 50  parking spaces to alleviate a  major traffic and safety  concern, which is both  supported by the neighborhood  and the school system and can  easily accomplished in the  current Cip. Thank you. Chair  fresh. That's our last public  speaker. Thank you. Madam  Clerk.  >> 4.0 one student  Representative matters icon  was someone who is joining us  virtually tonight. Missing  want.  >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. Why  regret that? I cannot be in  person tonight as feeling  under the weather. I want to  wish everyone a happy new  year. And first, I'd like to  express my appreciation to our  custodial facilities,  transportation bus drivers and  ground crews who have been  works, who have worked to keep  students safe during this cold  and snowy weather with over  45,000 bus stops, walkways and  sidewalks that require  attention. Their work is  critical in creating a safe  environment for learning and a  safe place that students can  come to learn at the beginning  of January, I had the  opportunity to present student  remarks on school safety at  the Fairfax County preparing  for the General Assembly here  in Fcps. We've implemented  several security measures such  as school resource officers.  The anonymous safety tip line  in the face. Construction  vestibules at school entrances  the best bills at the front of  each of the schools have been  well received by students from  the construction at Chantilly  High School. The improvements  here at Luther Jackson making  sure that we protect students  from those entering and  exiting the building during  school hours, building on our  discussions from our December  meeting. I as well as the  students of the  Superintendent's Advisory  Council are excited to see  that the fiscal year 2024  mid-year budget review  includes an adjustment of  additional financial resources  to enhance school safety  measures, specifically  installing additional security  cameras. detectors, panic  alert systems and expanding  the safety screening pilot  program as proactive measures.  However, as I shared at the  pre-hearing, we must also  acknowledge the growing  conc related to online  threats and the rise of school  shootings across the nation  within which impacts student  safety and mental health. It  didn't such as the recent  tragedy at the school in  Nashville, Tennessee have made  it clear that gun violence in  schools is an epidemic over  the past years. Several of CPS  schools, including but not  limited to rocky run middle  school, Katherine Johnson,  Middle school, Thomas  Jefferson High School,  Glasgow, Middle school Lake  Braddock, Secondary School and  Luther Jackson. Middle School  have experienced false threats  that were made on social  media, which are a lot later  spread through school  buildings. Well, thankfully,  no one has been harmed these  online threats coupled with  the rise of school shootings  that we're seeing across the  nation right now have created  a climate of fear and anxiety  within our communities. In a  discussion with a high school  student from Falls Church and  another from Woodson. They  both agreed that incidents  like these at their schools,  even threats made had an  impact on how safe they felt  while they were learning. I  want to share personal  experience from this past. May  a Thomas Jefferson High  School, a threat written on a  restroom door was then spread  wrap me on social media, which  caused several anxiety  throughout the school  community and where more than  half of the student body did  not show up to school the next  day, despite the extra  security staff that we had on  hand and support from our  current principal at the time  it shook our school community.  I walked into a nearly empty  classroom during first period  where only 10 students were  present. Similar incidents  have occurred at these other  high school in middle schools  where some of the threats  reference weapons or violence,  which again leave a lasting  impact on our sense of  security in our school  communities as Dr Reid has  mentioned in several community  announcements this fall. Our  schools are committed to  ensuring safety and media  education for students and  families to know how to deal  with these threats when they  arise. However, when we find  ourselves in the same  siion again, it leaves us  ndering how do we prevent  these events from occurring  again? And how do we address  the lingering impact of these  incidents even after the  immediate threat has passed?  light of the recent events  that have happened in  Nashville and the concerning  prevalence of gun violence  nationwide. It is essential  for fcps to prioritize the  next phase of the safety  screening pilot program. This  program should incorporate  strategies that address the  root causes of false alarm and  threats, including the  expansion of digital  monitoring tools and proactive  education for students and  families about the  consequences of spreading such  threats and how to deal with  them when they arise. I'd also  like to recognize the  incredible work of student  organizations like March for  our Lives at what's in and  done with guns at Thomas  Jefferson High School which  focus on gun violence  prevention and mental health  awareness. As I urged our  state legislators, I encourage  all of us to think about how  we can better address the  false alarms that create this  unnecessary panic in our  schools. What steps can we  take to mitigate the panic?  How can we ensure consistent  long-term safety of our  schools and how do we empower  students, families and  teachers with the tools and  the resources that they need  to feel secure. This issue  cannot rise and fall with the  news cycle or when the next  big thing occurs. It requires  ongoing attention and action.  I hope that these questions  are considered as part of our  safety and security screening  pilot program. And that will  continue to explore how to  better safeguard our schools,  students and our staff. Thank  you. Thank you. Miss someone.  >> Agenda item. 5.0. 0, 1,  action certification of closed  meeting compliance in order to  comply with Section 2 DOT 2,  Dash, 3, 7, 1, 2, d of the  code of Virginia. It is  necessary for the board to  certify that since the Fairfax  County School board convene a  closed meeting on January 23rd  2025 to the best of each  member's knowledge. Only  public business matters  lawfully exempted from open  meeting requirements and only  such business matters as were  identified in the motion  convening the closed meeting  were heard discussed or  considered by the board during  the closed meeting. Do I have  a motion Mr. Mcelvain do I  have a second? Mr. Moon, all  those in favor. This mayor and  Mystics it Mr. McElveen Dr,  Anderson, Mr. McDaniel this  Anderson, Mr. Moon Mislaid  same time, cutting Sizemore  Heizer and myself as unanimous  for board members at the table  with Mister Dunn away from the  dais. Agenda item. 5.0 2  action confirmation of action  taken in closed. There were no  actions taken in closed  meeting tonight. Agenda item,  5.0 3. Action item, new  Intergovernmental Contract  Award James Madison University  teacher Pipeline bachelor's  pathway icon, Mr. Mckelvie in  for a motion. I moved to the  school One approve the  intergovernmental contract  with James Madison University  for teacher Pipeline  Bachelor's pathway.  >> And to authorize division  superintendent. But the  director of the Office of  Procurement Services to  execute deliver and administer  the contract on behalf of the  school board. Is there a  second second, Mr. Moon, Mr.  McLean, we'd like to Speak  Your motion just very briefly.  So as folks will see in the  agenda item, you through, this  will provide preparation  programs and courses of study  leading to toward BA degrees  and teacher licensure to fcps  staff who participate in the  grow your own program. I don't  think it's a surprise to  anyone that Fcps needs  qualified, licensed teachers  to fill critical needs in  special education in  elementary education, in  particular. And that need in  Fcps is further underscored by  the dog who also identified  pre okay to 6 elementary  education in K 12 special  education as the top 2  critical shortage endorsement  areas in the state. With that,  I encourage my colleagues  Thank you, Mr. McLean, Mr.  Moon, we'd like to speak your  second.  >> No, thank Russian. And I  was the one who asked to be  pulled out from the consent  agenda because I think this  important program. Good  teachers and good morning  explanation from outstanding  to putting content and one of  things I in a 2 was that  programs, if I'm not mistaken.  All the Ono brewer in the CBN  is older as you can. A patient  program decision Sulphur Bush  who may not have. Patterson's  agrees. So providing stipend.  >> So this program in general  is a program that enables its  a tuition share program that  enables some of our. staff who  are not currently teachers  preps. Indicators or  instructional assistance too.  >> Go to school with a  >> assist from us in these  high as Mr. Mechling said high  need areas, special education  and special education. Early  childhood spaces and jam you  uniquely has this program. So  we're very excited, too, be  able to support upskilling  with our employees who have a  high interest in this area.  >> So he's the expectation for  employees. So employees taking  advantage of this opportunity  and be able to do it for or 2.  They have to be. Well to you,  which used to always a way.  >> I would say that this  program we currently have 12  staff members participating.  And I think let me just look,  you're a quick. There are 2  and it's a 2 and a half your  program. I'm over 6 semesters  summer fall spring and summer  fall spring. I'm just trying  its use. One time Ali Grant  funds supported the title,  too. I don't know that it's  completely virtual. It's not  like the I teach program,  which is our program. But I  think some of it is possibly  virtual. And some is I've been  up to get back.  >> So I got to me I didn't it  sends you a question. You  know, the last which I should  have gone. No, that's You  know, are some of the  questions that I had on my  mind, you know, to shoot a  scene from the discipline to  not just employees, but  general public because We  committing about half a  million dollars for You know,  5 2 years in tumbled contract.  Not only just telling police,  but I think. The committee  member County was supposed to  know that we putting these  strengthen AAA in a teacher,  frank for in a special  education.  >> Yes, or night it really was  intended for us to take  ent staff members who are  instructional assistants are.  Para for pair  paraprofessionals who worked  special education classrooms  for years here Fairfax County,  enable them enable them to  successfully transition into a  teaching role with tuition  support and their passion for  children education, I think is  really led them to this. And  it is extra work. But we share  the finance burden with them.  And then we celebrate some  amazing teachers. So I think  we're working very hard. I  appreciate you, Mr. McElveen  wanting to highlight this its  an important program.  commission.  >> Thank you, Mr. Modi, our  Anderson. Thank you. And I'm  also very glad that this was  pulled to be highlighted  because I think it's an  opportunity to raise awareness  that it does exist so we can  kind of advertise it in this  conversation. But I did have a  couple of quick points. There  are 3 areas in which those  candidates can receive a  licensure. It's elementary  education, Pre-K and special  education.  >> Yes, not just limited to  the special education  component.  >>ause you mentioned that  there are people who  working for years. It could be  in any of those areas. Could  that be coupled in any way  with our students who  participate in teach for  tomorrow, bringing them into  our ranks and coupling this  program because we have space  for 195. And I think you said  we have 12 currently. It's so  tough to wondering.  >> know it essentially it is.  It has been historically  teachers who have been or  excuse me, instructional  assistants are professionals  who been in the classroom  working for several years, at  least and generally are  teachers for tomorrow's our  high school students who have  not yet transition into that I  think we could contemplate a  program that might match.  Teaching for tomorrow  students, this would be a  different program. I was just  thinking if that would be a  possibility, too. for those  who graduating, it's nice to  know that this is a  possibility face common  working now systems perhaps as  instructional assistants and  have this be something that is  waiting for them. Again, it's  just the wondering because I  know we have to be pretty.  Creative in terms of growing  teachers. I'm just shocked  that elementary education is  one of the shortage areas. You  know, I remember years ago  that was a glut. And it was,  you know, math and it was  science. It's always been  special education. So I'm very  glad to be able to support  this. And I hope that.  >> This little commercial get  some more folks to apply for  it. Thank you, Dr. Anderson.  This I just want to point out  the not the number of very  creative ways that the  superintendent and her staff  have.  >> Use to produce more  teachers and fill teacher  shortages, including the up on  program, which I believe is  already launched, wanting this  month that will cure  applicable candidates from  internally. We've got great  beginnings program. That  brings snap from abroad and  then this initiative. So this  is how we help fill teacher  vacancies. But there is a  national teacher shortage. So  when you know, families wonder  what I have a substitute I  don't I have the teacher. We  are doing the best we can, but  it is a very dire situation  and we need more teachers. so  thank you. Thank you, Mr.  others. We will vote.  >> For the motion on the  screen, all those in favor  this mayor and Mystics, Mr.  Mcelvain Dr, Anderson, Mr.  McDaniel mess, Anderson, Mr.  Moon misleading to say John,  cutting Sizemore Heizer and  myself. That is unanimous for  board members that with Mister  Dunn away from the dais, the  motion passes. Agenda item.  6.0 one performance review  technology. Eel, 12 monitor  report. Each year. The school  board assesses the  superintendent in part on the  basis of the school divisions,  reasonable progress toward  achieving the 2023 2030,  strategic plan's goals. here  to a set of 13 executive  limitations found on pages 14  through 31 of the board's  strategic governance manual.  The superintendent provides  annual monitor reports to the  board for each executive  limitation the board than  votes on whether the provided  report is in compliance  corrective action is needed.  Icon. Dr Reid for monitoring  report on executive  limitation. 12 Technology Dre.  >> Thank you, Chairman Fresh.  So it's my pleasure this  evening to present executive  limitation 12. And Mr. Fresh  mentioned, ths an exciting  executive limitation and one  of the operational guardrails  around which the division  achieves its strategic goals.  So we're excited this evening  to talk about it. Technology  and I want to again that  report that at the time of  this report to the best of my  knowledge, information and  belief of gathering  information and evidence that  I believe supports compliance  with the board's executive  limitation associated with  this topic. And I'd like to  share some of the highlights  this evening. So I'm not sure.  Is okay? Can we go ahead and  move to slide 3, please. So  there are 8 areas of executive  limitation, 12 and 1, 3, 4,  can be seen here for those  following along at home. The  full report monitoring report  is attached to the board  agenda this evening. And I  will be just highlighting  certain sections of the  report. I want to share that  items 5 through 8 are here.  And these are just really  exciting topics and  foundational to everything we  do in the school division. So  I'll be excited to make  commentary on a number of  these this evening. First of  item number one, with regard  to this executive limitation  talks about innovation, future  focusing comprehensive and  efficient approach and  providing accessible and  equitable technology resources  to support student, learning  and activities. So I just want  to give an update on our fcps  on program which ensures that  all fcps students have one to  one access to age appropriate  division, purchase devices  since 2021, our Department of  Information Technology as  skilled student of ice ability  availability to ensure every  student has access to a device  that is less than 5 years old.  And that is significant. Not  every school division is able  to ensure that and that makes  a it cleared and be able to  have future-focused devices  that are able to manage  software that our students are  using encouraged in real time.  The 2 people in this slide  shows current investments in  the student devices across all  grade levels. The total number  of manage devices are  currently 195,000, 941. So  there's a lot of excitement  and a lot of technology going  on a daily basis in our  county. Continuing on with  item number one, just want to  remind our community and staff  that we are committed to using  the latest technology. This  includes updating laptops,  servers and wireless points.  Every student we believe  deserves access to the tools  they need to be successful.  We're supporting a wide range  of instructional applications  and tools that also supported  divers learning style and sets  of needs, including supporting  Basil Resources assessment  tools, databases, and quite  honestly, I think our data  usage and data planning has  like multiplied exponentially  in the last couple years as we  work to achieve our goals of  our ambitious school strategic  plan. Item number addresses  the experience to make sure we  have. The fastest smooth this  most experienced her, the most  efficient experience for  families who've invested in  building new tools here. We  support now digital parent  engagement in an online  registration system. Those are  new and we've expanded those  to include online verification  update and impact aid forms  for school year. 24 25 the  parent digital concert system  is available for families  which hadn't previously been  available to families. And  this allows consent to  additional resources quickly  from phones or computers.  School staff can also  efficiently manage track and  act on these digital can sense  rather than paper consent  forms and the system support  multiple translations to  insure accessibility for  families. And, you know, I  want to just make sure that I  pause because sometimes I feel  like we just sort read through  some of the slides. But that  one small project is a huge  access opportunity for our  students and families.  Tonight, just a big shout out  to our team. Each of these  improvements really mean  something in that experience  for students and families.  like to also move on to share  that our multi tiered systems  of support were integrated  into our student information  system for all schools this  year. This served over 37,000  students with over 13,000  plans that were created. Our  Department of Instructional  technology continues to  reinvest in new technology and  systems. Modernization such as  robotic process, automation  and loco development  platforms. And I don't think I  can answer questions of those  Giuseppe, someone to look to  you on those topics. But I can  say that the integration of  those plans with their student  information system makes those  plans accessible for students,  families and our staff in ways  that they weren't previously.  So a lot of excitement about  that. On item. Number 3, as  part of our commitment to  modernizing this aging  technology infrastructure. We  continue to upgrade our  wireless systems. It's quite  interesting cell the lack of  cell phone usage during  classes creates a really  interesting Wi-Fi bounce at  the end of the school day,  which it's very interesting  look at the heat map now on  the wireless system. This  project began in 2023 and  expects to be completed by Fy  2027 as we want to do this  project within budget and by  the end of Fy 2025, the  estimated mix will be 58%. A  new wireless modern access  points and only 42%, all the  access by far the majority of  our access points will be new  and modern. And the design  goal is to ensure 100% strong  Wi-Fi coverage and all  instructional areas as we  continue to support increasing  bandwidth demand. So you can  see an example of Bailey's  elementary school with their  27 access points and what  needs to happen for full  coverage. So lots of  infrastructure work going on.  I'm moving on also want to  mention that Fcps manages a  large and complex  infrastructure with  approximately 300,000 des  connecting during peak usage.  That's 300,000 devices. Our it  team, our operations team  works with a goal to operate  the network 99.9 9% up time  during instructional hours. So  we're always on access to  Internet. The DEA, it staff  also schedules, maintenance  train off peak hours, which is  much appreciated to minimize  service disruptions. This  means late evenings, weekends  and so forth requiring it  staff to flex their time as  well. I also want to share  that we do partner with our  county partners to operate a  shared fiber network, which  connects our buildings to the  Internet. These fiber  connections while highly  reliable are susceptible to  damage with the constant  construction activity in our  area. Sometimes wires are the  fiber is cut and it abruptly  shut down all Internet access  and must be repaired by boots  on the ground. So this fiscal  years since July. 24, we've  had 6 documented cases of 5 or  cuts which have affected  conductivity building during  instructional hours. So we  continue to work on minimizing  5 or cut events. So moving to  number 4, which is providing  for a safe and secure  computing environment. We have  now implemented Lightspeed  classroom Management which  allows our teachers to focus  all student attention away  from their devices to the  front of the room or to a  specific instructional  website. As of December 2024.  As recent as last month,  Lightspeed Classroom  Management has been integrated  into 185 of 199 fcps schools  and centers. Teacher feedback  shows that light speed  classroom positively impacts  the classroom, learning  environment. Our it Department  again, utilizes advanced  intrusion prevention alert  detection and industry-leading  endpoint detection tools to  protect the security of our  technology. We're looking at  establishing appropriate  boundaries and ethical  guidelines for the use of  artificial intelligence in  education operational  settings. And I'm really proud  of our team. They've chosen  across departmental approach,  which means that we're not  having the AI conversation and  one silo department because we  I actually permeates across  the entire school division as  AI capabilities are added to  our existing tools, they're  validated by review teams  before being enabled for staff  use. Currently we have  available to us with AI such  as Google. Gemini AI and Zoom  AI 2 point. Oh for fcps staff.  You'll hear a little more  about this is kind of a  spoiler alert in our Academic  matters. Presentation this  evening, we try to match those  to match Ariel's. Number 6 in  terms of the training provided  tools, inaccessibility  resources that support  instructional needs and  inclusion for all learners.  Our instructional software  review process. Now includes  criteria from the IS T Teacher  Ready Evaluation Tool to help  select high quality tools for  teaching and learning. And  that's the International  Society for Technology in  education. And these teams  have been training with  school-based technology  specialists to implement  universal design for learning  for the past 3 years. So we  really want to make sure that  any software is accessible by  all students and the  curriculum developed and  adopted by instructional  services checked for  accessibility before being  published for staff and  students as well as copyright  training. Inaccessibility is  included in summer curriculum  development projects. So  number the and ensuring staff  and students are provided with  training and support to  effectively ethically and  safely use technology tools. I  want to share that during  school year. 23 24 15 fcps  schools are in common sense  recognition. So interesting  title, Mister Sethi, but we do  15 schools earned this for  providing digital citizenship.  Professional development to  staff and teaching digital  citizenship lessons to  students and expanding family  awareness of digital  citizenship. Department of  Structural Technology  Upskilling Academy Foster's  continuous learning for it.  Staff of over 500 21 employees  enrolled in 676 courses in  2023. And at 762 courses in  2024. So there's a lot of  continuous learning which we  think is very important for  our staff. The fcps.  Instructional technology  career Academy for students  offers up to 1000 fcps high  school students access to  entry level industry  certificates. Currently we  have 838 student learners  participating in 1051 courses.  This program is driven purely  by student demand to learn in  real time demand skills, no  credit associated with the  program. Just the opportunity  to learn more, which this is  that the purest form of  motivation. So item number 8,  the ability to deliver  transparent information for  families about the purpose and  frequency of technology used  in the classroom in the  division. Again, Lightspeed  parent portal number. I talked  earlier that teachers are able  to use it. Parents also are  able to monitor and control  their children's Internet  activity on fcps devices.  We're seeing a steady increase  in the parents sign-ups for  the stool. And if you're a  parent watching tonight, we  encourage you to sign up and  check in with your student.  I'm sure they'll help you with  that And if they won't, or not  sure how please check in with  their teacher and I'm sure  they'll be able to help you.  The fcps digital ecosystem  Library provides information  to parents about instructional  digital resources, including  privacy policies and terms of  use. And finally fcps requires  parental consent for the use  online instructional tools  which is now supported online  by the parent digital consent  system. Mr. Chairman, this  concludes the presentation for  executive limitation. 12  technology. I'm happy to take  any questions.  >> Thank you, Dr Reid. We will  open the floor for questions,  Mr. McDaniel. I want to talk  about cyber security.  Newspaper article. That talked  about a power school data  breach. My understanding is I  didn't actually impact Is that  >> accurate? That's correct.  We have a contract with power  school for certain of their  products, but we did not have  a contract or did we use the  product that experience the  power, data breach?  >> So none of our data was  actually breached. That was my  understanding. I just wanted  make sure that was, in fact,  the case again, the same why  cyber security and kind of  curious as we specially as  we're going to be talking  about budget later. mean, how  do we determine staffing  levels for cybersecurity? it's  kind of nebulous.  >> So one of the things we've  chosen to do and we did this,  I think 2 years ago is we  benchmark around divisions  similar to our size and or  pretty much really our size  and our technology use  patterns. And as we benchmark,  both organizational structure  for cybersecurity, also  staffing resources and tools.  So our primary plan is  benchmarking with other  divisions. Is that?  >> I would assume that's  probably based on the number  of devices and or technology  products. Number of users,  those types of benchmarks. But  yes, sir, And is beginning to  get the budget. Do you think  that there's opportunity to  potentially centralize it  services west side of the  county or the school systems  to look at cost savings and  more efficient service  delivery, whether it's cyber  security or other. It  products.  >> So there's always a  possibility to streamline  operations and perhaps  integrate operations. We do  partner with our county  partners on certain cyber  investigations at times. I do  think that there we can we  continue to work on finding  efficiencies as we look at  budget dollars for sure.  >> Thank you, Mr. McDaniel Dr  Anderson. Thank you. As a  frequent user of light speed,  I'm quite as well. The  questions that I I come up  with when I do review it with  my own personal children on a  weekly basis, it only seems to  capture information for that  current week. You couldn't go  back. Can you explain why that  is? Is that a user error or is  that the limitation of the  system? But I was thinking.  >> Of a river that flows  downhill, rarely flows back.  But not sure that's helpful. I  don't know how much storage  system that the light speed  system has been a minute.  >> Ask Mr. Sethi because it  there may be a cause in some  of our video systems as a  limited time because there's a  cost to storage, but Mr.  Sethi.  >> Good at good evening. I do  believe the system should  capture. We have data on the  back and far all of the logs  which go back a little longer  just one beak. But on the  pending portal side, you're  just seeing the opportunity to  go back one week.  >> all that I can see as a  parent. I continue check in  with the with the staff on  this and get back to you. I'm  sorry I can check in with the  staff and get back to you on  the process for that.  >> Yes, thank you. Because I  think it's really a great tool  because it also allows for  parents to do what teachers  able to do, which is maybe  read off the arm. The Internet  peas. But I think it's limited  by how many people are using  it and evaluating the number  of parents who have the  parent, the U.S. I S accounts  which is predicated free to be  able to unite light speed.  What is the range of that? I  know in these documents you  have that. I thought you had a  you have a broken down by  school level. You know, 88, I  think they're all in the 80's,  but we have some schools that  are on the lower end. We have  some schools that are in the  upper end. Can you speak a  little bit to the range? So  access to parent view?  >> If there is a range when we  did run those numbers and I  think and you are correct that  the light speed portal.  >> You have to have access to  access the Lightspeed program  and actually in our parent  panel meetings. And parents  really been interested knowing  what sites are children are  visiting, right? Because it  really, I think generates a  conversation. But either Dr,  Presidio, Mr. Sethi do have a  sense on why perhaps disparate  distribution of access to pair  of you.  >> So I'm the range in terms  of the parents who have access  to benefit, which is that size  system. We see some of it from  40% all the way up to 90's.  And you might see the  distinction there. It's lower  on the elementary side and  much higher engagement on the  secondary side. And that could  be just naturally help parents  engage with the technology,  but also schools who help  communicate that to one  another again, bringing  veterans and to have them sign  up because a lot of access  hinges on that sign up. And  our goal is to get every 100%  and that sort of an ongoing  engagement with the schools.  We're going to get the  community to have the parents  come and sign up, wants to  sign up. Then they can manage  that kind of based on their  own.  >> I definitely agree. It is  definitely lower with the  elementary schools, but we  have some high schools that  are in the low 50's as well.  And I just want to make sure  we have a little bit of push  there. Just so parents are  available. They know the tools  that are available. I want to  move a little bit to the AI  work can you speak to any of  the tools that teachers can  potentially be using right now  to reduce their workload?  >> So I did mention a couple  tools that are available. But  in terms of actually reducing  the workload. I think there's  a Google tool in a zoom tool  that we have given teachers  access to and it might be  helpful, Mr. Set the if you  could maybe give an example of  what each of those tools might  be able to do. So workload  pattern. So thank you.  >> Yes, a couple of things. I  think as we go to option, you  would see a typical pattern  often on the crawl walk around  approach where staffing with  these tools. They learn how to  use and then you have change  how you. Do your day-to-day  activities, right guard up to  maybe set up. Kind of I'm  gonna go into it. Mourdock  dock and write up what I want  to up. But having that tune in  to get into the same live from  lit a fuse, the village of a  knife like foam. You can  quickly go to the chat bot.  It's a help me write something  and it can give you a starting  point to go from there. This  requires board a different of  thinking about how you  approach your day-to-day life  and a new practice. And you  seem that approach kind  slowly, if going to the system  but going to be provided with  And I access to staff and  primarily because we want fact  those tools hour before we put  them in front of staff where  they can engage with it and we  want to privacy to be  absolutely because the  security aspect of to be tight  and make it simple way. It's  already plugged into the tools  they use and our databases.  This to me, I to Liz is pretty  interesting. It's used a lot  in the central offices you're  having a meeting, it's rough  taking notes. You can just  switch it on and we'll take  all the North's for you at the  end of the meeting, it sends  you an e-mail that has the  transcript and you can go back  and do it and you can use it  really a powerful. And we have  had some ideas with teachers  with teachers able kind of use  that cool in that classroom  session and then that done,  they connect to transcribe,  does not to be able to shed it  out with students as a  document in Schoology on as a  act. So lots of opportunities  and lots of great ideas. Our  county coming through the  system and we hope to continue  to expand.  >> There's definitely a lot of  opportunity and it's really  exciting. But one of the  things that always causes me  some concerning you've heard  this before in some other  areas is when we provide  guidance rather than  expectations. I know there's a  lot of concern on part of  staff regarding how students  can use AI. And I know there's  concern about academic  dishonesty and in the  documents I see that we have  guidance.  >> Those tend to be more  optional. Then expectation  that it is going to be the law  of the land. If you could  speak to that a little bit  because I do worry about.  Application and maybe  acceptance of student use of  AI products that are being  made available in classrooms  across fcps.  >> So I do know that the AI on  slide 12, we did sort of try  to quantify, for example, the  zoom tool and over 3,500.  Meeting summaries have been  undertaken. But in terms of  the directives versus  >> guidance, I think as we're  rolling it out, there are a  number of projects we're going  to highlight. One of those the  Lighthouse School project,  which is again, new, were I  think what we often want to do  and I don't know if the term  beta test is still current,  but we often want to try. I  love tester pilot, certain new  tools and smaller spaces  before they move larger. So  some of the guidance enables  the opportunity to do that.  And then once those become  tools that we believe should  be taken to scale, that would  be when the guidance shifts to  directives. did you have a  particular tool in mind that  you noted on that? But think  the pattern should be we used  we talked a little bit about  Pilate, Pilate scale or pilot  pilot prove scale right? Are  you pilots something in pilot  a little bit larger. A little  bit different. Then you take a  proof of concept and try it  and then even larger, more  challenging space. And then  you bring it to scale. And  when it comes to scale is when  it would move to being a  directive is really kind of  are work plan and that topic  area. And I would assume that  when you get to that point,  then you will develop  regulations which will require  that we have some clearer.  >> What policies on AI because  we have it. Anything  substantial have at this  point? Yes, ma'am. That's For  2 here. Or there. So that's  just something of that want to  put out here for us to  consider what that could look  like should be driving those  regulations. I want to say I  want to give a big talking  points. It is something that  personal children's and my  schools that use all the time.  And it's really quick and it's  really easy. That's been I  think, a fabulous tool. And  I'm glad to see that it's been  growing. One of the questions  that I had and this is kind of  going back to light speed. If  parents are the are observing  that their students are in our  have accessed sites that they  shouldn't be accessing. Where  is it written in terms of what  should they do? Who should  they be contacting? Is it the  classroom teacher? Is it the  technology person at the  school? Because I received  that question quite a bit from  parents who are engaging in  the light speed review of  their kids. Digital  footprints. And it's always to  contact students teacher  directly because that's the  ecosystem which in with the  student is operating.  >> I think that we've had some  concerns that have been  escalated by the teacher,  perhaps to building level  administrative staff for spent  within the school. And then  there are times when some  circumstances are escalated up  to the IT Department. But I  would always start with the  classroom teacher first. Maybe  that's something we could add  on that page where lightspeed  information is held on the  website. because that question  comes up quite a bit. This  chart. That's my time. So I'll  come back to like you, Dr.  Anderson will go back.  >> Thank you. I pored over  this report. As you know,  Doctor Reed, I'm very  passionate about how we put in  particular use schoology and  all the communications routes,  especially during this time of  year when our students are  selecting their courses, half  of the school division is  selecting have for their  courses or all of their  courses. so I want to really  exciting growth things. And  thank you for in this report,  including what we asked for,  which is to really show that  growth and the benchmarking.  There's some outstanding of  standing exciting things  happening. So on all of the  SBA Fcps on program data. When  I think CBS on that was like  but for COVID, the previous  board members who are deciding  should every student have a  device and then COVID hit and  here we are. But knowing how  many devices we have, how we  upgrade, how receiving costs  by using things like  Chromebooks making online  registration systems and  things easier for families to  navigate some integration of  keep business leads like the  and multi tiered system of  support. Cost savings moving  to the cloud. And teachers  reporting that the late speed  classroom management system is  having a positive impact like  these are really great things  that I hope that you will  share and we can show the  community that we are  investing in technology that's  really making a difference for  students and economize what  we're doing. Also, some really  impressive operations, things  to share. 17,000 wireless  access points. 99% network  availability from last school  year to date key  infrastructure updates. But on  that point, I will pivot to  something I know we all love,  which is accuse in terms of  like making a list of things  to get to. So I thought in the  report that there are updates  to certain areas andtain  technology. Well, I wondered,  how are we keeping track of  what needs to be updated and  when who got great, you know,  at that point. So I don't know  if you know, Mr. Got them has  a Q A lot Umansky in chief of  facilities. But I certainly  would love to see some of  that. So we can get a sense of  where everything is just like  we're doing in our facilities.  Concerns and things on  elevated are there's a number  of software applications for  teaching and learning like a  lot like hundreds. And there's  apparently more in the queue.  And I would just like us to be  clear on like, what are we  using for optimal use for  instruction and learning?  Because we don't need 500  options. We need a few that  worked really well. Limited  choices. Not really. It's very  you can really stymie have  people's choices. What are the  goals of some of the tools  used like the performance  matters? Provided 3,000 unique  assessments, 3,000. A goal. Is  that a good place to be? Do we  want more to be one less what  a P so apparently in some  construction projects are  fibers are being cut. Are they  the scene companies that keep  accidentally cutting our fires  and causing our business  operations to lax like that's  something I know I'm going But  really like this report. So,  you know, and being sure in  the reports of the data is  meaningful, I don't need to  know exactly how many  materials are in school you,  but I'd like to know. Is the  interactions with Schoology is  it being affected is doing  what it was designed to do. I  to go back and I have  certainly thank you. Mr. Moon.  Thank March a couple prong.  >> Questions. Related to  cybersecurity. First. We do  understand 2 kids. students,  school ruse. And think that we  have I want to ask safe. So  there's the and the for some  other nice a chance be able to  use for. To help the students  improved and company that you  waand what should be an icy  operational efficiency. How do  penance toast to on this  saying that the NSA city  against each other? Sometimes  when you focus on something  that could. Lose our site on  the other side.  >> So I think the balance  between flexibility and tools  and security is one that's in  front of us every day, right  on almost every topic in the  school division. But in  technology, I think you have  to look at the cost benefit  analysis we want to make sure  that are at risk appetite is  reasonable but acceptable. And  so we want to make sure we  choose tools that are vetted,  that the agreements are  procurement department does an  amazing job of negotiating  contracts with software and  all the apps that this Marin  was discussing or the tools  are HR management tool or  tools that are used in the  classroom to make sure that  they have the protections that  we would ct in Fairfax  County, Public schools. But it  is a is a balance. I think  that we review at re up every  contract on every product.  >> So when you when you do  that, when you balance those I  you the one who's making a  final decision to see. What  something. Israel. You sent  risk appetite.  >> Well, I think that we  instructional technology  department in partnership with  our cyber security Department  assess that risk.  >> And more often than not  determine. Rather, we're going  to move forward with  instructional services who  usually bring the product  ideas. I would say that when  there's a disagreement about  it, then it certainly does  land on my desk and we want to  make sure that whatever that  product is that it does have.  Sometimes we might ask  external person to take a look  at it. We may look at  industries patterns across  other divisions, but it I you  know, we have some our some of  our it staff here this evening  and they work very hard to do  that. So at the end of the  day, I trust their judgment.  we, I think, have a very  strong process in the school  division to make those  evaluations.  >> livable. risk appetite  could change.  >> Well, it does. And I think  Mr. Burton talks about the  sometimes 8 we, you know, the  level of risk appetite  negotiating a contract for  chicken nuggets, for example,  versus risk tolerance and  choosing a software that's  going include student  information is going to look  different. Like I have.  Probably a lower threshold  worry around ordering chicken  nuggets. And I do about I'm  gonna have a much higher  heightened sense of security  need when something involve  student data. And that's where  sometimes it's by type of  product that I think we want  to make sure we have. I mean,  you know, that other. I have  less of appetfor risk when  it comes to our student or  staff data.  >> Okay. Thank Not to eat it  on other. You know, second  prong question that I have  these. We are using technology  utilizing will And we  investing a lot resources to  do that. For bottom line  purposes. Helping our students  improve in the next that you  want. Second again, I think  it's something that I  mentioned already opting  operational efficiency. And  year. Your executive  elimination 12. But just to do  with. cannot see. Nazim too. I  give a take a beach. I'm  looking some quantify upper.  >> Whoa. How much  >> efficiency know that you  can't put a figure. Well, he's  worth investing in a certain  amount of money realize, you  know, certain amount of we  fish. And so whether you can  ever quantify that, whether  you can hunt to find couldn't  equal Camilla. She gold and a  And I was trying to find  weather. What are you had  presented getting the nasty  and city part? I mean, I can  see that I don't see that the  seer and looking at. AI tools,  8 items and they're going to  does not specify for you  report to us in that regard.  Is that something that should be looked into war?  Well, we should just assume  the knowledge use with just  become efficient. just  continue investing. 1, 1,  money.  >> I think I think these are  really good questions, right?  Your time and a return on  investment. And I will say  that digitizing. I think one  way we're looking at measuring  efficiency is digitizing some  of these forms and we're not  sending paper out and paper.  Paper of getting sent from a  school or a department to the  central office and back. I  think it saves a lot of time.  I don't know that we've  quantified that amount of time  that we've saved. Budo  know that the more we're able  to digitize and create online  digital approval trees for  different topic areas, we're  going to save staff time that  could otherwise be re purpose.  talk to You know, I would like  to see least one exam you can  give us in the future.  >> So that one I want to win.  I have a conversation how  investing resources to come  out and see. I can't have  that. usually yes, sir. Thank  you. Thank you, Mr. Moon.  Thank you. Thank you for This  is. Technology is moving fast.  I think we're doing a good job  to keep up. I just had a  couple questions. One on slide  11. It references the fact in  terms of lights be classroom,  integrated into 185 of our  109. I schools whats with the  other 14.  >> So we are probably still  working to finish out that or  what do you have a updated  late breaking It's between  training so switching on the  tool doesn't take much effort  is the ability for the staff  to use it.  >> They have to go through  training. They have to how to  use it. It has to be set up  for them. So that aspect we  give schools the choice. Only  because every school has a  different things going on  right within day-to-day  activities. So they have a  little bit of flexibility.  Imagine, especially with the  success this year. The few  schools that are left. We'll  certainly be signing up and  getting the time to train up  on that, too. Okay. Thank you.  >> If other any other comment  I had was in relation to a I  it seems to me that mostly  what's referenced in the  report and it's sort AI  guidance for staff. I'm not  really seeing AI guidance for  students and their diciglie  difference. I just know my  colleague asked some questions  about both so I it's an area  interest for me. I think at  some point understand it's now  on teachers to sort of have  the parameters I use for their  students their individual  classes versus having a  school-wide policy. Is that  something we're going to look  at? Eventually?  >> I think there's going to be  a I'll talk a little about  that with Lighthouse School  project and academic matters.  But do want to make any  comment on that. And we have a  committee that that Super Mr.  Set the jointly supporting  again, right touch by across  departmental approach and talk  a little bit about. I think  you.  >> Some of your earlier  comments talked about, you  know, the readiness of staff  to be able to use tools. And  we're still the kind of the  initial stages of  >> I for comfortability with  the AI tools just in general.  So really where we're at right  now as we have guidance for  students that they are not  allowed to use AI in their  course work. I think news that  obviously in their personal  life and could even use it to  support studying many students  to use AI to Creating study  guides are different types of  things that are going to help  them academically. But they're  not permitted to use it as  part of their course work  unless it's approved by their  teacher. And we have that in  the U.S. are in our we have  that in our acceptable use  policy and then we have  additional guidance to support  teachers with best practices  for using AI to students going  to use it in a particular  assignment. But again, we're  still the initial stages of  trying to figure out how we  want to integrate the use of  some of this, these  technologies ithe into the  classroom environment.  >> And then biggest question  for me is in relation to a I  be a reference of lighthouse  schools in the training of  staff. So what is the plan to  build capacity? Teachers  around AI, especially in light  of all that's on their plates  for benchmarking to  instructional planning to, you  know, IP meetings, 2  collaborative team meetings,  et cetera, goals. I mean,  these things Trump Tech  teaching in schools. So what  is the plan for teachers to be  trained on this because it's  moving so quickly and it's so  important.  >> Yeah, I can send you  started think the approach we  have taken as a talking about  crawl, walk on is that ability  to gifts, staff the support  when they needed NBC. The  organic demand for some of the  staff which going to put some  time towards it. it's an  interesting paradigm because  the more you use it, the more  time you could potentially  save on the other past that  you have to do. Once you get  that fly, we going. We see  adoption going up pretty  rapidly. And we see those  sparks it was a things Hope  says we don't want to bring  everyone in and say, hey,  everybody's going to stick to  hours of training. So you know  what to do with it is that we  get some champions in each  building, but that is county  conversations happening with  being peaches, who are  champion. The idea that no  water use it and you'll see in  the lighthouse how we're kind  of approaching this. Those  teachers can and that staff  can then help the other staff  see value in it. The the other  thing, which is is important  in this as kind of done this,  this is not training that you  can give genetically. It is  not genetic training. You want  to spend some time helping  teachers say. Heres a  potential way off, doing less  and planning and to do that.  Here's a problem it and prompt  a sort of the Martin  programming language I it's an  English. So it doesn't take a  whole lot of technical  knowledge, but you learn how  to speak to the machine and  that's language. And then you  can work much faster and it  could produce much. But I but  I think providing those  problems seems to be a good  starting. This was someone who  hasn't been in the system,  doesn't want to get in there  to say, hey, this is you can  break it. It's just a matter  of being able to engage with  it and use that tool having  the newest be available. So  there's no friction. And on  our get to that, too. And then  giving some ideas of how  engage with that, too. You  feel those 2 things are being.  Adoption and understanding  which would then increase with  time. Okay. So there's really  no. Did no planned it. It sort  of just like it's catching  fire.  >> Right. Like I hear you. I  have a couple concerns. One is  this one of model, right? So  you know, it. Spitz do  fantastic work. But there's  one per school. And so if  you're Chantilly, that's 2900  students. And you have spent  versus a high school could be  of much different size, you  know, maybe that but fire  spreads faster, but all those  faculty. But I just think that  there needs to be a specific  plan and maybe it's  instructional services, right?  Like a I asked person in  mathematics, maybe I can  provide. I love it. Happening  some training on how to use AI  in your lesson development in  your design of of assessments,  whatever I just want to make  sure it's coming. There's  there's several opportunities  and eventually I think because  we have some people who won't  ever adopt with technology. I  think they're eventually has  to be a point where you have  to you have to step into this  space in order to be effective  in your work. So that's just  my concerns we have to make  time for because you're right.  Once people dip their toe in  this water and they start to  see how it can help, a time  saver. It's fantastic. But if  I'm you know, just doing my  thing and I'm responding to my  dealing grind is a teacher and  no one around me is sort of  planting those seeds that I'm  not. I'm not going to be  aware. Thank you. Miss Lady  missing time coming.  >> Dr it. I wanted to ask you  if you could provide an  example of like in terms of  the data bites in school pump  polls that aims to provide  actionable insights to  relevant division, leadership  and school. Administrative  teams of you could give us  some examples of how that's  working to support our  students and You know, the  outcomes of students and  supporters that.  >> Yes, ma'am, I as I shared  with the board before every  Monday morning at 6.30, senior  leadership myself. I get a day  to buy what we called a debate  that has tiles of what I  consider high profile data  points that I'm tracking in  the division and that senior  leadership are tracking also  every Monday morning. Every  school principal in the  division gets a school polls,  which is a day to bite of  tiles of data that each  principal gets at 6.30 Monday  morning on tiles that they  with our chief of schools, Dr  Ponce. Doctor King Presidio  have worked on to make sure  that those actionable data in  real time. I will share  attendance is one of those  were tracking attendance  rates. I'm tracking filled and  unfilled teacher positions  across the division by regions  School. We're tracking him is  a shun records were tracking  graduation rates and plans.  We're tracking elsewhere,  registrations and algebra  achievements across grading  periods. I know the school  specifically. Our high  schools, middle and elementary  have some differences. I know  our high schools are we're  transitioning. The state has  gone from requiring CCC are I  as part of an accreditation to  now it's the 3 framework. So  we have to shift it. But we  want to make sure tracking  data in real time. So if we  see patterns, we can intervene  in real time and not wait like  till the end of the year to  attendance or looked for here  there. Whatever. So I probably  rate every tile. There are  other tiles discipline,  disproportionality and so  forth. But those go out and  they're a combined effort of  in a departmental data teams  bring those reports together  to enable those to be at our  desk. Adding another one we're  tracking as professional  development. Are people  completing the required  professional development and  in time and by region by  school in department. So just  making sure we're checking  into engine air success. We  want to make sure a division  that sends reminders supports  and resources to make sure you  know, everyone's able to show  up. Is there best professional  self when they come to work  every day.  >> Also, was looking at the  school, jean numbers from  August 2024, to December 2024,  which shows the active parents  and parents sessions. And I  don't know if you all know  what percentage of households  this represents. Are you able  to track that?  >> I will defer Mr. Said,  know, we've been trying to  capture data. That's quantify  a bull on a lot of these data  points. Do have a percentage.  the same parent over and over  again or is it what are the  discrete households? I think  it's the question. Is that  correct?  >> The pen and count would be  unique. So those would be the  total number of parents who  are signed up. So if you're  looking at a student body, I  think top of my head, it was a  28,000 numbers that that's the  percentage of parents who have  access or who have chosen to  set up access schoology the  engagement on when they come  in and check the system. We  can go and bulldozed records.  What PC died now is just  overall engagement by all  That's sort of what the data  is part of the box. So  >> what I'm trying to get it  is that can also see what  regions or what specific steps  You know, some schools are  populations 2 weeks so we can  see who's accessing it, who  isn't and where we have to do  work.  >> Yes, we can do it books.  The suspended log on and I  think we have some of the data  and also Schoology vacancy  which regions watch what level  of schools says it. Mostly you  will see Schoology secondary  schools. elementary schools  and that we can we can sit in  that that finer details of  engagement.  >> Because I mean, what I'm  going to go to and this is  just something that has that  comes up to me a lot. And I'm  other board members have heard  this is that there's a lot of  different, you know,  components like theirs. You  know, Schoology talking  points. Are we disseminating  that information? In a  readable accessible way to  everyone in saying this is  what this specifically does.  This is specifically does.  This is what specifically  does.  >> Because I think there's a  lot of confusion and there's  confusion from highly educated  native born parents that are  like, I'm so confused they  have 2 or 3 kids, one in  elementary, one in high  school. One, you know, the  school does it this way. The  school does at this one  getting all this information.  I don't know which way to go I  mean, do we have like 2 kids  out there for our parents to  understand it and then and do  we have it translated or do we  are? Are we providing that? I  mean, I think I agree with  everything that everyone  saying here. Technology is  great if you know how to use  it. Yeah, we certainly don't  want to leave.  >> We don't believe anyone.  >> Behind in terms of access,  right access needs to  engagement. Engagement leads  to outcomes, be.  >> We recognize that and our  goal is to continue to  increase the access and  engagement. So we look at the  communications team, big send  out the pain the principal.  Talking points which we  provide information to say  principles that certain time  of the year. So at the  beginning of the dissent, lot  more information homes, saying  these other tools that you can  sign up. We also have argued  autumn as a public website. So  the pain and engagement tools  are all on one page. So they  didn't convey quickly see  what's on what's available,  what they can get into we can  certainly go back engage on  how much more mission. I think  another good idea which having  hit in this conversation, this  possibly cutting cooled, Pius,  not principled dashboards to  give them a sense how many of  your pants engaging I because  that engagement is probably  going to start and stay best  when the principals the  schools families. And this is  It's a great idea. I think  we're going to look on this  this year to make sure we can  get schoology engagement and  maybe this engagement and up  and split Highland. The School  Post dashboard so they can get  time to do how many parents  coming into the system.  >> Finally, I mean, I'm going  to touch on the AI as well.  This comes up from a situation  that occurred in my district  where there a situation where  a teacher gave out assignment  and didn't help. A student  says she was she was going to  use the free version of  Grandma Grammarly to check  Clipper plagiarism and anyway,  whatever happened, she planned  students. The students didn't  know about it. And apparently  the parents complained in  there really wasn't plagiarism  involved. And I don't know the  exact details, but that brings  up some of the questions that  have been brought up like in  terms of, you know, how are  our teachers being taught to  use these tools, how they  communicated to students going  to integrity for students help  they can use it and went and I  know this is all moving  quickly.  >> So I do know that we are  working on units to make sure  that we remind students about  good digital citizenship. But  I think there are times our  students are moving at a  quicker speed with some of  tools. Then we are. As adults.  But I know Mr. Sethi, probably  I know that's one of the  things that  >> the AI initiative is with  teachers is as we're able to  bring them on board, sort of  what tools. That we will be  working with at some point.  And then the digital  citizenship work.  >> Yeah, a couple of things.  And I welcome Mister  represented Trump The place  was inside is is has been a  complicated conversation. Lot  of to start. School districts  have tried to find a magical  tool which can student walk  and the truly the false  positive and those tools is  just so high that we do not  recommend to our staff to be  able rely on one cool thing.  Their best judgment is knowing  this student and how to  perform. And if if you see  changes to Medicaid, isn't  that our port? And that's  certainly a conversation that  can have. But we we have not  authorized to plagiarism  checking tool so teachers use  them mostly doing it on their  own because the speed up site  allowed to do guidance is not  to go in that that action in  terms the student engagement.  I know we updated the SR and I  to talk about some of these  issues and parts of the  acceptable use policy that is  shared with the students stay.  They must acknowledge that  scene and to see it. So  there's guidance embedded in  in those documents which party  capture a lot of these what  you can and can't do and what  you shouldn't do. Thank you.  Miss on coming mystic's it.  >> Thank you, Doctor. E for  the presentation. wanted to  ask about the the page talks  about. Common sense to  commission the certificate  given to 15 high school  schools. I don't know. High  schools out of these. How many  of our high schools and how  many are middle school are day  only going? Are you guys doing  only to those secondary  schools are its primary  schools as well.  >> so, yeah, great sticks at  nigh. We probably should have  had a listing of the schools.  But do we have a rundown team  are these are primarily a  secondary or elementary  schools?  >> I don't think we have the  rundown right now, but we  could get that for One thing  to point out about that is  that the comments and  certification has, I think a  five-year window of time. And  then the school has to  recertify. So these are just  the number of schools that did  it this year. But schools have  been working on common sense  recognition for a number of  years. And we have many more  schools that have earned the  recognition and what we  represented here, although  potentially school, that  recognition might have  expired. So it kind of is a  moving target a little bit,  but we can break it down by  level. I do know a lot of  elementary schools that worked  on this really hard in the  past week and at the breakdown  level.  >> And the reason I ask is and  I don't know the could what  does all entails and that but  cyberbullying. online  harassment stalking, which are  happening on this the for  many, many years now. and  sometime it's just too late  for them to wear on teeth.  Feeling bullied already. So if  he can start teaching them  early on. And because  technology's now on their  fingertips. their 5th graders,  a 6th graders so do you know  if that is part of the  program?  >> It is. again, obviously, I  mean, the curriculum looks  different in different grade  levels developmentally, but at  the elementary level, there's  a there's a lot to introduce  students to the concept of  using technology responsibly,  even starting think about your  own digital footprint that  you're creating when you're  using technology and certainly  not using technology in  inappropriate ways, including  cyber bullying.  >> My second question is about  the smart cloud approach.  Software software service. I  wanted to know it's a great  way Obviously moving into the  cloud servers from physical  servers. And you also  mentioned here, Dre that this  strategy avoids typical large  capital expenses and for aging  serve are so what kind off  savings BC by moving to this  option. Option.  >> So in the stages of the  work and what is happening in  the education market. If you  see. Majority of the event is  an outstanding soft as a  solace and that biggest ships  notion off you have put on the  seller on your on the new at  sea in product that purchase  from article to a continuing  on. Not at so as and and be at  Sierra product. But the new  service is going to be soft as  a service, which means there's  not going to be a lot of solo  for print and that saves the  the capital cost So words have  to be replaced every x years 5  years of 7 is depending on how  you can push them. And that is  a huge capital cost. When you  kind of do paceman cycles when  they move into the vendors  move them into the plowed.  Those caught Capri cause go  away. Obviously because what  off an official cost of  running those systems in  house. We still have  infrastructure or better yet?  I think certain things. But on  most everything that we are  investing in at this point is  hosted as soft as us over us  and he's not going require us  install a lot of  infrastructure and house.  >> Yeah, right. And that's  where industries and like I  said, I would like to see some  numbers actually, though, you  know, just the person days  wise that over a period of 5  years are something like  that's going to be the saving  the brink CBS because the  budget is getting tighter, we  need to show doing really good  job for life. Saving long  term. Our funds. And Joe, I  think just ask one more  question is about I am. I  would say that the Google  Gemini, I use that actually  for my work. That is a very  great tool that you are using  here and if CPS and if this  could help our teachers to  take some of the admin burden  off them, maybe just like more  support for them to, you  lesson plan, anything like  that? I think that's a great  tool to use my last question  was actually about do we use  of virtual reality in any of  our classroom instructions? I  believe we do. And I believe  we've been piloting some of  that as part of our Lighthouse  Project. But all Mr. Sethi.  >> Respond. But I do believe  we are in certain content  areas.  >> We engaged on a tool which  is available to the math  department. And there's  certainly a lot excitement on  cool side. Hardware that comes  along with 2 scale that you  have to put. As the head said,  somebody had market is also  read Facebook companies, the  one which had the most  available said than Apple came  into it. But those are really  expensive. So we're watching  that market of all of its  still early stages in that But  it is certainly new and very  interesting way to engage  students. Not every student  the scene and act testing  every student can gauge is  with You know, some of that  motion sickness and all those  other aspects that that day  and especially the younger  kids, don't want to use it  again. Good kids. stages, some  testing going on with the  vendors, understanding other  tools, what we had the mud and  conference. But they were able  to provide those 2 sets to  engage with lots of excitement  around it. I think it's going  show up in the next couple of  years and I know district.  >> Yeah, that excites me. Tony  said last question. But one  tiny thing we have girl our  teachers program. We have lot  of PD and everything I want to  see how we can girl on  software developers sort of in  our school system. So if this  for smaller projects and  talked about Slate remember  about our maintenance, you  know, program, which is kind  of outdated. And we talked  about how we can use a  students too. And I guess idea  an excellent, you know,  department to address that.  >> Yes, ma'am will work on our  software developer academies.  I think our students are  definitely ready. So thank 6.  It.  >> I'll take a turn. First, I  want to say the very first  motion I made on this board  February of 2020 was to bring  light speed to our parents,  which is a bit of symmetry  with the same parents are  advocating over middle school  start times. Many of them  share the same concerns about  the use of technology by their  kiddos. And so on 2.1, I'd  really love to see the number  of parents using lightspeed  explode. I think 10,000 is  great given where it started,  which was 0 but we have a lot  of parents who don't even know  it exists. So I think we've  got a little bit more work to  do there. Secondarily, on the  middle school start times  question just for the public  so that they're aware the  board has asked for a report  back from the superintendent  on our options, which will be  getting in February. And then  the board will be deciding how  to proceed on the question of  middle school. Start times.  Want to talk about numbers. So  my parents are among the 1.3  billion people who use iPhones  in this country. And in 2023,  they began using the address  book technology on their  iPhone. That is probably the  only piece of their iPhone  that they use. They don't  download apps. They don't  listen to music. They might  take photos, although it might  just be their face rather than  what they're intending to take  and so while 51 million user  sessions of Schoology is a  great factoid what I would I  think more like to know is  what are the optimal uses by  families of Schoology? What  are the optimal uses of  schoology by staff? How are  the devices being used to  accomplish those things.  Obviously the optimal uses are  things that drive student  achievement, student success  right? And then the  desegregation actually mean  something because even if we  just disaggregate, 51 million  number doesn't tell us  anything about the tool. And  so I know that there are some  great tools in there. You  know, we have colleagues who  use the tool regularly.  Everybody should have the  opportunity to help their  students succeed using these  tools. So I'd love to see some  more intentionality behind  that may have been talking to  some colleagues about how we  might might get there. The  other thing I would note first  I want to Martha 70 because we  have come so far in just a few  hears and this is just this  section of the eels. But if  you go back and look at the  eels that we do throughout the  year, every one of them is  seeded with new technology  that has come to fruition.  Thanks to the superintendent  and your leadership and your  team as well. So thank you  very much for being here and  thank you for all of your  incredibly diligent, hard  work. It has not gone  unnoticed and you're very much  appreciated to that end  information. Technology  security. This is a perfect  opportunity to talk about J  LarkWhat we spend on that  front is used efficiently and  effectively. But we need more  resources desperately. So I  hope our friends in the  General Assembly are listening  tonight and that they will  make progress on Jay locks  that we have additional  funding to fund this and other  critical infrastructure needs.  So we will take some go backs.  Martin for his first term.  Thank you. I want echo what  the chair said.  >> I'll have some other  comments, the robustness, the  strength, that's really a  world-class it system. I feel  that very strongly that being  set school algae. I haven't  met a single teacher, parent  student who likes quality. I  really feel very strongly  based on all my conversations  that that's a horse that needs  to be taken out back and shot.  I sorry to be blunt. really  need a comprehensive  reassessment of school. A G if  we have 27,000 parents and  183,000 students. That's not  frequency of use. If we have  dealt I come from a background  in federal government where  you build 12, it systems each  join one thing rather than  having like one-stop shop that  really all the functionalities  are you? So we really need to  look. It's cloudy with frank  eyes because I was there when  I was first introduced and it  was hated from the beginning  and it's hated now now made  parts of the county that if  not hated, but my district  definitely it's quality. So I  hope that there can be an  assessment of whether that's  the right platform for Before  we start. Trying to get  everyone to get on schoology.  Maybe there's a reason people  aren't using it. Right. Maybe  it's not one click, easy like  Amazon to buy a product. Maybe  it's 15 steps to do a  particular action. The  information is just not  accessible. So I would  appreciate Dr it. If you'd be  willing to take a look at it  through that lens, not  committing necessarily just  because we have it. But should  we have it? Is that the right  platform to move forward? Yes,  I think. For this L there's a  great article in The Wall  Street Journal recently  talking about, you know,  there's so much technology.  And, you know, the pandemic  catapulted us, you know, years  forward and technology use.  And at this point, I think  it's not just a matter of  keeping up right? I'm not  interested in keeping up. I'm  interested in. Should we keep  up so not just how can we move  faster? But should we move  faster with technology because  there are studies. Lot of data  coming out showing that  students learn better from  taking notes by hand rather  than typing on a computer. And  and, you know, learning, you  know, listening less effective  than teaching someone else  taking out some rising, right?  There's a mental processing.  And I'm embarrassed honestly  by handwriting, the signatures  of a lot of students. I see a  nice cool. It looks like what  you know, kids learn when they  first learn to write, you  know, people don't can't read  cursive anymore, which is a  problem. Can't read letters  from their grandmother,  grandfather. And and they can  take notes because they don't  know how to write properly.  And a lot of kids don't learn  how to type. We don't seem to  teach typing so for going full  bore into Chromebooks in the  future. Why are we teaching  piping? Weren't we teaching  him ready? These are methods  that work. We seem to be  things Top 3 minutes. How they  can go back. All right. So on.  >> Thank you. I just want to  start with thank you. Dr Reid,  thank you. Mr. Safety and the  team. There's been so many  improvements the last year.  And I just like to name a  couple that have change the  way students approach it. One  is the parent digital consent  forms. Now it's easy to like  send home to your parents get  digitally signed and you can  come in the next day and use  it with that turning any  papers. And so thank you for  that. Also, the absence  reporting insists, especially  for parents who have kids who  go to different schools or  maybe a middle school and high  school having it all  streamlined Parents can go  into system report absences  makes it so easier than like  doing one form and doing  another form. So thank you for  that as well as keeping says,  open until the last day of the  quarter, especially with 2nd  quarter coming to and students  really appreciate being able  to see their grades until the  last day and having that clear  transparency one thing that I  did want to talk about was the  fcps Chromebooks that students  have available. They're not  always effective, especially  for students who may be  incurring classes are our  classes where they have to  download software for that  specific class for example, in  like in APCs Cause when you  have to download like Javar  Python or whatever that  platform is that you're using.  Sometimes it's not available  on the Chromebook for students  to be able to download or it's  just not possible to download  it on a Chromebook. I know  that Gentile, TJ and what's in  students have the option to  switch out their Chromebooks  for other laptops or they may  be able to that low that  softer. But I was wondering if  that was the case across all  schools are what the numbers  are, where the debate on the  divisions between secondary  students using Chromebooks for  says other laptops.  >> Thank you as someone the  race. Good questions, right?  Because some of those soft  words are essential for  success in certain courses,  some Mr. Sethi, I think they  should be available at all  schools to change out. You  want to share our practice  there.  >> Yes, so the fact is that we  we set up for this is for  classes with the teacher deems  it necessary for the student  to have different device. It  of Windows device they can. So  to me and they quickly Quest  pad and the students can go  swap that Chromebooks out  through the windows device.  It's just not just to keep to  those 3 schools safe any and  the misunderstanding that we  had to up with the happy to do  so. opportunity for all and  even in the middle school  level, the other hole has all  these technologies of law is  that the idea installing  software on your computer? It  becomes a. He's started action  simply because of  cybersecurity. Another this  that come in many install new  computers. You you can bring  in. Issues which you do not  want. And looking through the  browser is becoming the  uniform before choice for most  Martin technologies just  Anadarko Club, especially from  the state. Takes a long time  to change. And so they might  dictate because it was 6 years  ago. It was the only practice  that was available. But you  must use a certain kind of  device and a certain kind of  soft bed. But I'm hopeful and  we will certainly be making  those recommendations to get  the move towards that this  black phones where students  can very quickly engaged and  do the activities without  having to Lyonne special sock  that when it comes to for the  shop and other tools like  that. We also provide high-end  labs in schools in least in  high schools where they can go  in and do the on those high  and let those high windows  computers because that that  kind of look generally cannot  happen on student windows  devices. They're very little  power devices to be candid.  >> Yeah, yeah. I completely  understand that. And I do. I  do know students who choose to  use like like a virtual  interface or whatever it may  be to use those platforms. And  I do understand the risk of  like not being able to  download software on your  computer just because of  whatever the safety risk may  be. But just what I've heard  from students is that  sometimes it is easier to just  from that pot from instead of  trying to run it through a  virtual interface, especially  when you have your assignment  open or you have other TOPS  open for instructions. So just  a thought for the future.  Thank you, miss want.  >> Thank you. Miss One will do  go back Doctor Anderson. Thank  you. If you could speak a  little insist the to the  change.  >> timeline regarding changing  updating the devices that  students receive. It says in  the document that we've gone  from 4 years to 5 years.  >> Yeah. So we started this  year with Peach. A lot of  replacement traditionally had  been missing teacher laptops  every 4 years. And we feel as  a technology is evolving.  lights on the browser to do.  Most of the activity doesn't  need to do have much more  complex. New CPU. As you know,  there was that there's a time  when into the woods, a new a  new chip every pushing to keep  updating your laptops. Those  are not the case. Is any more  so. And also in the light of  the conversations are just  having budget efficiency our  total footprint are devices is  not substantially high. If you  keep replacing that every 4  years, we certainly encourage  much larger costs and our goal  to stabilize those costs. This  to spread it out a little bit.  And we committed to providing  support for the devices for  the flow. Five-a Lightfoot  those devices. And if if one  is damaged, cannot repaired  with a figure out a way to  kind of them up spend a lot  students at all is how to ice  in the hands. Now, that's very  much. Appreciate it. Thank  you.  >> Because I know a few years  ago, one of the concerns that  I had that I raise was about  the e waste.  >> Can you give us a sense to  how much we we generate?  >> Couple of things. I think  the team which is right here  and they spend a considerable  amount of time before  something is registered. He  said part to get all the parts  and pieces because that can be  used to debate on the left.  Does we just elective righted  it? It goes to a CDs,  different views before  something is is giving up as  waste. We also talk in this  report and we had previously  mentioned that every employee  connected initiative that Dr  Beat asked us to move towards  maybe a taking or laptops  before rushing them,  installing like late Chrome OS  and then repurposing them to  get devices to staff who to  does not get devices. I think  there's a number in last year  we had done about. 2000,  something and this year we  added another 1800 devices  into that cost me trying to  optimize with 40,000 staff. We  believe technology is now get  too many things and giving  them access to technology is  an imperative and also an  opportunity that we feel  strongly about.  >> I just want to talk about  Schoology a little bit parent  view as a very frequent user.  I definitely help your numbers  and those areas. I have to  say, I don't hate it, but I  also do not love it. It is  very cumbersome. There has to  be an easy way to make it a  little bit more user-friendly.  And I think Santa coming  really hit the nail on the  head. You have some parents  who are very tech savvy and it  still it has multiple clicks  to get to where you need. also  in order to get a full picture  of your child's progress, you  have to go to G and then go to  parent. You you can't just do  one or the other because they  don't have all the same  information. I think there  they could talk with each  other a little bit more  seamlessly in order for it to  be a real one stop shop. So I  don't know what the  possibilities here, our  Mississippi, but I'd love to  hear your thoughts. That's  when the opportunities I think  we've told by the vendors  supply some of these tools  that they can actually provide  a portal which combines like,  says data.  >> And school is your data  because parents are to getting  in interview performance out  court pending homework and  those are options that we can  engage on. And we're taking  all of the school to feedback  to heart rate. We engage with  the wind. It was supplies as  the software pretty frequently  at pretty high levels. We  would certainly make sure can  sons and figured out a  strategy of bringing them in  and engaging deeply on on the  product to say how that  improvements they can make the  product. We had lots customer  theirs. The other  opportunities that they can  provide to us. So it becomes  much easier for families to  use. And also for our  students. Yeah, thank you,  Matt.  >> And also having a more  consistent approach from  schools because once you're in  secondary schools, it's really  challenging to figure out what  the 7 doing differently and  schoology and having to keep  up with that. So that's also a  point. I know you're huge  proponent of having.  Textbooks, something in the  kid's hands that they're  taking home. How is that  impacting our investments and  digital textbooks.  >> I don't know that we have  a. Big investment in digital  textbooks at this time. That's  up or I think most of the  vendors have and what we tried  to take advantage of is the  hard copy resource as a  classroom resource.  >> With the digital  components, the Camorra  personalize the learning  experience to students based  on their level of need. And  that's really I think where  the market is most with most  of the publishers right now.  So it's really kind of a  hybrid with hard copy and  digital resources combined  together is typically have the  publishers are marketing  materials.  >> And I think that's probably  true for the literacy  materials for map. Students do  not have a math textbook. all  digital. That's correct.  That's correct. But we're in  the process of initiating map  adoption right now. The time  that I think a new business  tonight is for board members  to appoint their committee  members. And we're looking at.  >> Hybrid environment again  for map as we go through the  space with option process.  >> Dr Anderson, actually. It's  going use it. It's my  expectation that we have a  text for mathematics moving  forward. I think all text  currently have some resources  that support online, but we  definitely need attacks and  written materials that go home  with students for family  support for homework. So I  think right now we have pacing  guides online and a lot of  online activities. But I'm not  aware, particularly the in  elementary online math  textbook. I don't believe that  currently exists, but I think  their online materials. But I  don't know that that's a  textbook because I see a lot  of variant materials. School  to school in class to class  and mathematics. Right now  that is there. A publisher  published online maf textbook  that we use right now? Yeah. I  mean, that's what we adopted  in the last cycle 7 years ago.  So again.  >> Under Dr Reid's leadership,  we're definitely looking  increasing the investment in  hard copy resources.  >> Thank you, Dr Reid, Mr.  >> Yeah, I appreciate the  topics my colleagues have  brought up, including about  textbooks and writing  intentional teaching of  technology. I'll try be  succinct in this a little clip  here. But I want to underscore  that we just need to have  consistent use of technology  platforms and practice for  students for their benefit and  for our teachers. So they are  not looking at a million  different apps to make  something work. I also want to  continue to advocate for  consistent and intentional  required professional  development. You know, our  teachers getting professional  development on schoology when  they are hired or at the start  of the school year to see  upgrades. Do they know how to  teach students how to use  schoology. It's not only  limited to schoology. I really  love to see some consistent  business rules for electronic  communications is the notify  in the report. It said it was  used for certain types of more  operational things. But I've  gotten you as a parent you  notifies about, hey, check  your email. just sent it or  don't forget to, you know,  pick your kid up what that's  going operational or other  things. But, you know, it's  not clear when are these  avenues used for the messages  and again, just more  information about this master  learning management system. I  also think it would be helpful  to have budgeted costs  numbers. So and I know gonna  see your budget soon. But you  know, is where the investments  being made. Are they working?  Should the even more globally?  The executive limitation  reports include cross walks  with the budget and costs like  what's our run rate on all  these things. And then I just  again think we need more  training or usage that is  required. There's too much and  hear about it. Things are  offered or staff may do it or  webinars were held. Okay. Even  if you know people showed up,  what did they do with that  information? Was that a  useful, you know, the use of  our resources? So I also want  to put a plug in for that  Upskilling Academy. I mean,  that sounds greet an online  education offering, but only  838 students and 5 to 21  employees are using that so  time. What's the goal there?  Thank you, Mr. Thank you. I  appreciate comments. But also  do from a teacher's  perspective, I feel like Talk  about Schoology. Here's the  reality. It's very similar. My  question, what's the plan for  training? Because the  situation is that early  adopters and stuff lures love  it. those who only did that.  What they had to do to check  the box. They're not  maximizing it. And what what  consumers with parents are  seeing is the discrepancy.  >> Which is the multiple  clicks and a lack of  understanding. It's a  fantastic communication tool.  Has the ability increase,  accessibility of materials and  assignments. First that  students with disabilities and  multi language learners and  allows for you enhancements to  meet more learns where they  are increases ability for  students to access learning  and time place, pace and  pathway. And best use in areas  take teacher engagement to  learn how to facilitate them  in the digital space. There  are a lot of benefits, but,  you additionally teachers can  assign modified assignments to  students with disabilities.  Multi language learners. That  rule the same time as the rest  of the class alone and working  appropriate level  simultaneously as the rest of  the class without everyone  seeing their differences and  how the instruction practices  are different. So the problem  is similar to my question  about AI and that is that the  capacity gap between those who  know how to use it and those  who don't. Early adopters.  They're running with  technology. So there has to be  a point where we spend this  money and we have a Maserati.  It seems like. But we have  people who are driving like a  pinto. so my question again is  what's the plan for training  so that our instructional  staff can maximize this  because when used  appropriately, it's fantastic  for differentiation. And also  as a communication tool for  parents.  >> So it sounds like we need  to plan for training. So I  will work with staff to  develop. A plan for training.  >> Thank you. Doctor. M are  done. Is there a plan to teach  students typing?  >> Dr. Presidio. Do we have  instructional plan forward?  Teaching typing?  >> We don't do that  universally know. So I mean.  >> I think the answer is no,  Not this time. Why if we  provide everything with a  laptop, why wouldn't we teach  them  >> there is research that  would say that students just  even using hunting and pecking  methodology can type almost as  fast as people technical  typing training. So there's  that aside. I think a lot of  this just comes in the suspect  in this latest comments about  training. A lot of this is  just time and the school day  to do these things. Where  would we put that into the  curriculum where we're  struggling now to cover all  the things that we have in the  elementary curriculum. And at  the secondary level, we're  going to teach that class. And  that's obviously a class that  students are going to be able  to take and elective of their  choice. So it's tradeoffs and  balances. Maybe we've had that  wrong in the past. But that's  just kind of how we've gotten  this point right now.  >> Can I ask for a plan?  Because if we're going to  teach them how to use quality,  they can't. learned very well  if they don't even know how to  type.  >> I will certainly commit to  at least bringing back some  research on that. Like how  many divisions are still  teaching typing and maybe some  research on the benefits of  that. Would that be helpful  for we set off on that  journey?  >> I do remember also be  possible to bring back  research teaching cursive  handwriting. You know,  learning online summer courses  such as finance have looked at  the personal finance. It's a  great curriculum. We pay good  but it's taught in the summer,  taking online by by students.  And there's rampant cheating.  So they're not really learning  the content. Has there been  any assessment of actually  looking at teaching something  like that person rather than  online and the effectiveness  of using technology resources  actually achieving the  educational goals.  >> So I'm not aware of rampant  cheating would be disappointed  if that were true. If you if  you Google questions they're  all on because flash card  websites. I know that often  students are taking that  course of the summer online to  make room in their schedule  for other courses right?  Perhaps the arts are another  world language. So. Have we  ever talk that corson person  Dr. Presidio said, of course  we think we offered during the  school day, but you can choose  online for the summer. So is  your question. I think do we  have our offer in person  during the summer versus  online during the summers at  the well.  >> I'd like to see assessment  of whether be continued to be  offered online, given the fact  that all the answers are  available on flash card  websites and are we actually  of chaining get like why offer  the class online at all? If  kids aren't going to win the  content?  >> If the answers are online,  whether they be in person or  virtual, would they still have  access to? The answers are is  different type of on must be  asynchronous online then is  that Mr. Murdoch to Presidio,  you could might have to have  to hear the question again. I  was taking notes on the other  next steps of research this.  >> This would be the online  personal finance course during  the Every you know, the reason  we have that is when the state  passed requirement.  >> It was another course that  students needed to complete,  which again, is limiting their  choice of ala building for  electives.  >> So we came up with  actually, I think a dozen  different ways that students  could fulfill that  requirement. And one of the  ways is to do it online  through the online campus and  many students take advantage  of that. And then that frees  up room in their schedule to  take different class of  interest after per city of the  question was, do we have are  all for it in person during  the summer because of  >> a concern around the  possibility of rampant  cheating in the online? Well,  again, I apologize for not  hearing the correct question.  We have a pretty limited  course offerings during the  summer summer extended  learning program is really  focused on credit recovery.  Salive not offer that class  in-person during the summer.  >> We've really focused on  those courses that students  need repeat for budgetary  reasons.  >> Could there be an  assessment of whether there is  rampant cheating? And we have  evidence of that just Googling  online. I mean, I've done it.  So I know there is. But yo know, whether that should  continue to be offered online,  given the availability of all  the answers.  >> Yes, sir. I think we'll do  deep dive into the possibility  of rampant cheating in  personal finance. Thank you,  Mr. Thank you, Mr. Dunn.  >> And upon Sizemore Heizer  for a motion.  >> Thank you. I move that the  school board finds the  superintendent is in  compliance. Executive  limitation number 12  technology for them with the  school board approved the  monitor report based on a  super tenants, re-launch of  patient executive limitation.  12 technology has outlined in  the strategic governments  mono. Is there a second?  >> Thank you. Miss Lady Ms  Sizemore Heizer. Would you  like to speak your motion?  >> Yes. Thank you. I love to  speak to this motion. I'm  well. There's always room for  improvement the technology.  Because technology is changing  so rapidly. There's always  more that we can do and more.  But we can come up to and  actually very impressed with  what we've done and this is a  little foreshadowing of my  remarks later on. But this is  I think, an example, all the  work we do on technology of  both the promise of technology  as well as the realities of  schools. Today, public  education is being asked to do  more, maintaining an entire IT  infrastructure. And I think  we're doing pretty well that  we've ever have before. And  this is an example. That's  also the promise on in terms  of the data dashboard that  you've created and the ability  to have the information that  you mentioned. ER read every  morning at 6.30, the principal  to really built for in real  time in everyday adopt that  needs of their students and  the teachers and staff. I  think even that the use of AI  has a lot of promises, a lot  potential for harm as well as  we need to be careful as it  right there. But there's a lot  of potential. I like some of  the work that you're doing  around and just the not use  technology to make people's  lives easier, whether it's  online registration to impact  aid making says available. All  of these things innovating MTS  ES and this is to make it  easier for schools to provide  support is huge. So I'm happy  so it is a time to be a couple  comments about with him  tonight. Colleagues speak. I  do think that if going to  prepare our students for the  future, we can't shy away from  teaching them responsible use  of technology and teaching  them how to use technology. I  think one of my own.  Colleagues mentioned earlier  software during class. I think  that's greater. Take not. I  think it Ga that having we  have T J. We're really focused  on technology policy, college  E and innovative technology  into society. I think it's  such an important thing that  we need to look at. Not just  give kids the tax bills, but  sort responsible use of  technology.  >> I did want mention around  personal finance. I. I think  if we're going to look at grab  the cheating Inman, costly  project. Look at just in  general, all of our classes. I  know for a lot of students  having personal finance  available online has helped  them too. She was standard a  coma to be able to have. First  instabilities. have 4 to 6  years use time to get what  they need is help students  build access, electives, but  they want it takes. So I think  we may be how one of broader  conversation around online  classes, but I'd hate to sort  focus on one. I know my 2 kids  want to get in the summer  online and want to get in  person school year and they  both had good experiences with  it. So I think it's broader  conversation about what we  offer online I do think I  appreciate the Wi-Fi, but  we're doing. I do think we  really need to look at how are  teaching teachers students  from the possibilities of  technology and the responsible  use of technologies. But in  the meantime, I think you  demonstrated it on innovations  and improvements you've done  in our use of technology. So  I'm happy to this. Thank  Assessment Heizer.  >> lady, would you like to  speak your second? No, thanks.  Thank you. Alright, the motion  is on the screen. All those in  favor. This mayor and Mystics  it Mr. Mckelvie Dr, Anderson,  Mr. McDaniel this Anderson,  Mister Dunne, Mister Moon,  misleading, missing John  cutting Sizemore Heizer  myself. That is unanimous. We  will take our moment after we  do the policy review. So we  will go ahead and pick the  next item up. Agenda item. 7.0  1. Pass your view technology  all 12. The next order of  business is the policy review  for El 12 annually. The board  will review each executive  limitation at the time of the  monitoring report is provided  to determine if revisions are  needed. Board members may  offer amendments to executive  limitations that any regular  meeting provided they send  Final Amendment language to  the board and clerk at least  48 hours in advance of the  meeting at which it is to be  considered. At this time. No  amendments have been submitted  in advance of the meeting. But  board members may provide  comments El 12 technology  policy before we vote on  maintaining the current  language for the year ahead. I  call on Miss Sizemore Heizer  for a motion.  >> I move that the school  board maintains executive  limitation. 12 technology is  currently detailed in the  strategic governments Is there  a second second?  >> Thank you. Miss Sizemore  Heizer. Would you like to  speak your motion?  >> Now I think this is a  pretty comprehensive. I'm  good. you.  >> Thank you. Miss Lady would  like to speak your second now.  Yes, colleagues, I will be  working with Ms, Anderson to  develop some language for an  amendment on this policy at  our next meeting. And it's  been Jen tonight as a item  item. I look forward to  receiving your input and  support. Thank you. Thank you.  Miss Marion.  >> Seeing no others with the  language on the screen of the  motion. We will take a vote.  All those in favor this mayor  and sticks it Mr. McElveen Dr  Anderson MS Anderson, Mr.  Dunne, Mister Moon,  misleading, missing John  cutting Sizemore Heizer myself  that as unanimous for board  members present, we will take  a 10 minute recess. 5 minute  recess. I know it's going to  take us 10 minutes, but we're  going take a 5 minute recess.  ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> Board members, please  return to your seats.  ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Board members, please return  to your seats.  Agenda item.  8.0 one academic matters icon  Dr Reid for academic Matters.  >> Thank you, Chairman. Fresh  and this evening we are  bringing the light into the  board setting.  >> With the discussion about  our Lighthouse Schools  initiative is part of our  economic matters. This project  is a multi-year partnership  with his team, which is the  International Society for  Technology in Education and  represents a strong step  forward towards supporting our  strategic plan. Goal 5 leading  for tomorrow's innovation. And  I want to start by sharing  that this project provides  coaching professional  development and builds a  community of practice to  support real-time, real-world  learning experiences that are  authentic, relevant, inclusive  and aligned with essential  skills of future learning and  schools are piloting teacher  AI tools this year and the  schools were selected to pilot  advanced AI tools are learning  validating and aligning future  teaching practices. We're a A  is available. honestly where  it when a eyes available  ubiquitously as a purposeful  way to empower educators,  enhance equity and prepare  students for a rapidly  changing world. I think Mr.  Sethi said a number of our  team are here from our  Lighthouse Schools program. So  thank you for being here this  evening. Appreciate that. This  is exciting work. I want to  share that. We have a year one  year 2 and central Office  cohort this program began in  January of 2024. with an open  application process for all  secondary schools to be part  of the cohort and the year,  Juan Cole, Ford had 6  secondary schools, secondary,  meaning middle and high  schools in an alternative  school. The year to innovation  cohort expanded to include  elementary and central office  with a total of 8 schools and  2 teams joining the program.  The program to sign is really  a combination between.  >> Ist a CD. And for those  keeping track of the acronym  sets the Association for  Curriculum Development.  >> Super vision curriculum  development.  >> provides a sustainable  community of practice and  professional development  aligned to.  >> technology, international  technology standards  throughout the year. Coaching  is provided on the concept of  design. Sprint supporting  innovative school goals.  School teams use a  human-centered approach which  is one that's designed to  reflect on their work and  create use cases to share  their printing. And staff are  also supported with webinars  online courses and access to  membership in resources.  Additionally, these light, how  schools have exclusive access  to pilot approved AI tools  like AI Gemini or Google's  Gemini advanced. Wanted to  share this evening. Just short  slide on data. And yes, you  can see we do have 17 teams  across the division that are  supporting over 1800 educators  close to 2000. And as you also  look at their 840 hours of  shared conversations between  the coaching staff from Misty  and instructional technology  Lighthouse team leads and the  school teams there are  significant number of hours  over 12,000 for professional  development with school  champions and leaders  self-paced PD for teachers the  number of teachers. Almost  18,000 educators that have is  portal membership. Want to  share a couple examples of the  innovative projects that have  been underway. These 4 of our  sites and you can see  obviously on the screen  examples, Lemon Road  elementary school currently is  redesigning communication  channels, 2 sure, inclusivity  and equity for all families  with ideas like shadowing  families to better understand  their experiences and aligning  with strategic plan pillar to  Senator Ridge Elementary  School is leading efforts to  prepare students for their  future with career and college  college readiness portfolios.  They're process isn't ideas  are really more aligned with  school. 5 of our strategic  plan and Cooper Middle School  has been using AI tools to  refine and expand across  curricular project that  creates historical figures  into superheroes. It's an  interesting project off to  learn a little more about  that. More. Some more  spotlights. We have hundreds  Woods Elementary focusing on  designing their steam lab and  empowering student ambassadors  to help lead work McLean High  eyes being leveraged by  teachers for data analysis  helping to create newsletters  and streamlining operational  work supporting instructional  staff. And as we had in our  previous conversation, these  are opportunities to beta  Tester pilot strategies that  again, pilot pilot proven  scale. And as these we work  out the bugs with these  projects were able to bring a  proof of concept and  potentially bring them to  scale across the division at  Bryan High School staff are  using support for students  unable to attend school by  using need more technology to  set of high-definition hybrid  classrooms again, maintaining  student academic consistency  and engagement. So the lessons  we've learned from Light House  schools are not confined to  those selected schools. And I  want to make sure that there's  an understanding that. All  schools will benefit from the  work that these early adopters  have chosen to do. This  initiative is laying the  groundwork for broader  district-wide. Adoption of AI  tools and practices and  wanting to make sure that what  we do implement across the  entire division is purposeful,  equitable. And scalable.  Throughout our partnership, a  playbook is being developed to  guide innovation and  technology integration in  schools. And this spring, the  White House schools will begin  a series of learning walks to  see each other's innovation in  action as they collaborate to  improve shared outcomes. Now  I'd like to share a video of  our year. One Lighthouse  Schools, McLean, High School,  Bryan High School in Madison,  High School. So let's go ahead  and roll video, please.  >> the Lighthouse Program gave  us an opportunity to really  come out you know, COVID and  all that. And when we're kind  of  >> just at a loss to where we  were in education and felt  like it just felt like we're  stuck in this place. And when  were we ever going to find  improvement where we're going  to find that we're gonna find  creativity again. And so when  that project came about when  they started explaining what  it was about, it it seemed to  me like a good opportunity for  us start looking at ways  improving education, about  improving things for students,  for teachers and for  community.  >> So one day I came out, we  saw was going to have a big  implication education, a lot  of different industries. And  on. Education is one big use  case. But we want to see how  we can focus in a little more  on what that looks like. So  because of our partnership  with Google, we were able to  source their AI tool, Gemini  so that all teachers in fcps,  all staff CBS have access to  Gemini. still within our  digital ecosystem, still  within Google workspace and  still covered by our data  protections. Now our Our  Lighthouse Schools have an  additional layer of Gemini  access. They have Gemini  advanced, which is another  level of this tool that works  inside of your Google Drive.  >> So when I am working with  Gemini, a lot of times  initially, I will use it to  there are other ideas for how  to present some sort of last.  And so, for instance, I was  doing  >> how plants with our capital  program. science is not my  forte are there for I wanted  to see what chairman I was  just a lesson planning,  different activities and the  like I had a loose idea, my  head of what I wanted. But I  want to think outside the box  and I wanted to approach and  maybe a little bit  differently.  >> I am now is to certify So  going through the modules,  it's like we think we know  about technology, but I don't  know if I would know how to  teach. And I don't know if I  would know how to have strong  conversation with somebody  about it until I got the  knowledge the vocabulary and  an understanding of what it  can do in the classroom.  >> Sabina super grateful to be  a lighthouse school. This is  an opportunity for bright,  have access to technology  resources we can leverage  those against the needs of our  students find we have students  that come from 11 different  pair Ms. They come with a  myriad of needs and being able  to. Have these conversations  about how to use technology to  reach our school improvement  goals to improve student  achievement student engagement  is probably the most critical  at Bryant.  >> In these tools have helped  us reduce the amount of time  on task. To evaluate and look  at all the different  components of feedback. As we  look at. We designing a  mission statement or what is  that next thing that I need to  be considering to move Madison  forward. White House has given  us the tools, the space and  the time to be able to do  those things.  >> Madison DeLay have school.  I'm able to get support from  my colleagues on a different  level and then also  collaborate with people across  the county. And it just opens  more doors it's not just  isolated. Like I said to my  one subject.  >> So when I started, I jumped  into the ways that I can help  them make struck more fun and  like engaging for students.  And then it started kind of  morphing into how I can give  us his better feedback and how  I can use. Gemini with my  drive. 2. Almost like as  partner with like reflect how  my group breaks my lessons and  my assessment kind go  together. So those are kind of  the 3 big things I've you to  function and feedback.  >> What does it mean to be a  lighthouse school? What it  means is we given permission  to innovate, were given  permission to try new things  to push the envelope and you  can't do that unless you have  good solid instructional  vision.  >> You have to have technology  support and you have to have  the willingness, the mindset  of your teachers to try new  things. You have to make an  environment that's safe for  them. Light house pools gives  us permission to do those  things.  ♪ >> So just want to close this  topping out reminding folks  that this is a key initiative  to help prepare staff to  support our students for a  future. Really, that has yet  to be imagined.  >> And we're proud to lead the  in providing every student and  educator these benefits and  opportunities.  >> And as we look ahead, it's  really important to think  about how we're creating these  dynamic learning experiences  and that culture of innovation  that several of our principles  talked about. We're not gonna  be able to make those next  moves without folks trying  something new and feeling  creating that safe space for  them to try new things. So  very excited about this  project and happy to answer  any questions the board might  have about it.  >> Thank you. Dr Reid. Dr  Anderson.  >> Thank you. This is very  exciting work. It's just nice  to see.  >> How a engage.  >> The students are and how  excited the educators are  about the possibilities my one  question that I have is how  are we quantifying the impact  of all of this work on student  outcomes? Because we have to  have the through line too.  >> Whether it be quantitative  data or question of a graduate  skills. How is this being  incorporated or being thought  about since we still with a  small cohort?  >> Right. So relatively new  program. Obviously. And the  intent is to provide tools and  training to educators to  enhance.  >> The  >> teaching and learning  experience for children, right  as we move forward in this. so  trying to capture return on  investment data right now on  that. I think we'll have to  contemplate what that will  look like. You know, how do  you measure? Engagement? I  think probably the variety of  ways. How do we measure  excitement I think want to  find innovation almost makes  it. It is interesting concept.  Why? I think I would have to  think about that, Mr. Sethi,  do you have sort of thoughts?  I know I've talked to the team  because and part of the proof  or pilot pilot prove scale  before we go to bring anything  to scale, we have to  understand its impact. Right?  And you run that cost benefit  analysis. But it's just that  the talks early thoughts on  that because we are early  days.  >> These outages much of the  engagement is what schools. I  think this is installing the  practices which can help them  support and engage with those  students. So the quantitative  data, it's going to be lagging  indicated and it's likely  going to show up in a few. I  would say years. Let's only in  17 buildings. And we're trying  to sort of organically grow  this instead of kind of  mandating it across the  division because it's it's  it's a it's a need which  requires commitment of time  and resources from every  school. victimize time is is.  commodity country in the big  leagues. Sure. Thank you  >> it's definitely something  for us to wrap our minds  around because one of things  you said in your response to  me was we want to enhance the  learning environment. We have  to be able to describe what  that is. Yes, ma'am. And if  we're not able to articulate,  what does it look like when  you arrived? We will never  know. How much growth is  necessary, but just kind of  has another side. One of the  things that I get concerned  about their a lot of wonderful  things that are going on it  typically is that. left to  self-select to participate.  And it just seems to be that  it's the same schools that are  participating in some of these  activities. And again, just  added a little this is just me  just running my head. What I  have asked about and what  we've had where it's been a  self selection. I just wonder  if there's a better way to do  that because we end up  clustering. Some innovation  and only a few places.  >> Now, a fair point. And I  think because it's an add-on  or an extra and we're not  ready to bring it to scale.  We're not ready to require it.  So I think the question is,  where do we engineer  excitement or engineer? and I  think it's a question we  wrestle with in a variety of  Fair point.  >> Thank you, Dr. Anderson,  seeing whether move on in the  agenda. The next item on the  agenda. And thank you, by the  way, to everybody from the  team who is here. The next  item on the agenda is agenda  item. 8.0 2 strategic plan.  Update. Dr Reid.  >> Thank you. Chairman  pressure. Members of the board  this Want to talk a little bit  about. Our strategic plan.  Food and nutrition services  topics around goal, too. And  as you know, our strategic  plan has a variety of goals  school, too, is our safe,  supported included and  empowered goal. And I'll wait  till we bring it up. This  evening. One of the this  particular the measure we're  going to utilize this evening  that we're going to take a  look at is a positive school  climate inclusion in a sense  of belonging. And this  evening, I will be  highlighting how our fcps food  and nutrition services have  been. Championing student  voice through offering new  student driven menu options.  And I think we sometimes look  at student voice and more  traditional ways. But I think  it's important to amplify  these practices across other  division operations and the  program goals here are listed  and it's really something I  think that we know that  healthy food fuels learning.  And this program helps ensure  that every student as well  nourished and ready to  succeed. So we're very excited  about that, Melissa, here  tonight. There she Alissa de  Angelo's, our director of  Food, Nutrition Services in  case I need to phone a friend.  Melissa is here. So I do want  to say that the menu driven  options that this office  actively seek student feedback  throughout the year. We also  have food show and focus  groups on February  TWENTY-SEVENTH will be hosting  and at the area will be  hosting the future of Fcps  student food show. We're over  200 students from all grade  levels. We'll sample and  provide feedback on various  breakfast and lunch recipes  based on feedback from last  year's food event over 20 new  scratch made menu items were  added to the fall cycle menu,  including Korean barbecue  chicken. Drumstick chicken  masala and us all up. So  they're a lot of menu options  that are the result of this  work in our students are  enjoying healthy food in the  scratch. Cooking. It's really  a commitment we've been making  to healthier non processed  foods. Throughout the school  year the office of Food  Nutrition hold student, focus  groups as well. And these  focus groups gives students  the opportunity opportunity to  try dishes that are upcoming  and share their honest  feedback with our chef and our  dietician. The student surveys  are used to gather valuable  insights and ensure that our  meals are delicious and  student improved. The cycle  menus happened at least twice  a year. So this time I'd like  to show some highlights of our  students sharing their keen  feedback on new menu options.  Madam Clerk, if you would,  please play the video.  >> ensures and services really  been trying to make sure that  we're putting students a  center every single one its  one. We do it through an  increasing student engagement  and increasing student voice.  >> One of our strategies is  doing show that ost every  single year now, and it's a  way for us to win by a variety  ferent diverse student  populations, whether it's  elementary school, middle  school high school, making  sure that they're sending out  at least 20 different, many  concepts and in giving us  immediately that for that as  well.  >> we like better the one you  just a sad or the one  >> Our focus groups, a smaller  focus groups where we bring in  a few students that we go out  to a school and have the  students and well, you  different menu options.  >> But it's detail the backup  as many options and what they  might see future. We really  want to make sure that every  single menu option that we  launched on our on our menus  is student tested and student  groups.  >> So number one is going to  be a chicken Philly, which is  on the sub roll. It should be  up. Tap on your plate.  >> I tied 2 can really I think  it would be better if there  were any peppers because the  pampered, I too much you've  been I thought it was just  perfect and I gave in was.  >> I'm not going to tell you  what the spices I'm just going  to say. It's a South Eastern  spiced shaken by the  >> It's good, but it's really  salty. It's like taken them  sauce on not a big fan of  like.  >> This is our special sauce  that we're gonna start serving  for your chicken nuggets,  chicken. Let's check in. Put  on your hamburgers if your  pizza. And it's called Fairfax  Sauce.  >> The Bearcats Israeli.  >> And that by some. I I think  you see the I like what I  think.  >> rate SAWS. Yeah, I'm gonna  this help me make it. That  have every night and day for  like  >> I saw  >> Wow. here. That's county  public schools. Contrition  services is really focusing on  just celebrating soon Poice  and making sure that every  single decision we make is  through the lens of is this  best for students. this what  our students, one?  >> Students need to before  they just eat it and like it  or not. So do still have to  make food choices. I mean,  divorce is important we take a  sample of students on  >> different Paxton, the So  whatever most likely to turn  that the other  >> We know that food is fuel  go to school for students to  really succeed in their  academics. But it's also more  than fuel its traditions. It's  family. It's part of our  comfort. And as part of  celebrations and we want to  make sure fun providing food  to our can represent at all.  >> yes.  >> And our students actually  are quite well informed about  their palates.  >> And what they really value  and the pieces that.  >> I am so proud of all our  food, nutrition services,  staff, the excitement that  they have been serving  healthier food. The scratch  cut food versus the highly  processed foods. There's just  a different level of energy  really proud of all of our  staff or kitchen staff and our  central Office dietician  Listen, Sean. Really turning.  What said Jain, enormous  operation completely turning  the dial to some seriously  healthy food. So very proud of  the team. So thank you, Mr.  Precip reshape the opportunity  to update.  >> Thank you, Doctor. Eat  several of us up here are  wondering when Fairfax Office  is going to be for sale to the  general public.  >> So I know there's a secret  ingredient that enough Alyssa  can give it up. are you ready  to disclose? Fairfax saw  secret ingredient? didn't ask  for the secret ingredient. I  asked what it be available for  Secret. I am some play like  Yeah. All Thank  >> Thank Mr. Mckelvie. Thank  you, Doctor Reed, thanks,  Melissa. And thanks shine it  in absentia as well as our new  chef. Glad to see he has a  screen. And obviously as you  said, all of our after Nest,  after all the work they put  into this, I would just say  very briefly that seeing  something like this a decade  ago was unheard of. And and  the progress we've made in  that time is is truly  incredible. Just as you you  know, at that time we were  essentially just meeting bare  minimum federal guidelines.  And now we've just elevated.  So great. And I one thing that  you didn't mention is that the  standards that we've set for  our food, and I think that's  something that should be  shared with the board as well.  if you want to speak to that.  >> So we have a group 6  registered dietitians on  staff. So we're very proud of  the number of dietitians that  we have. And about year ago,  we got together and we said,  what are the standards that  we're doing internally, right?  We have our federal standards  that are federally mandated.  Then we have state standards  that we have those local  standard. We really want our  local standards to reflect the  quality of food that we wanted  to be providing to students.  And so we've made a commitment  to work on ensuring that our  future to not have such  additives like high fructose  corn syrup.  >> no.  >> Additional like fillers  when it comes to our proteins  rights. You're not going to  find sway fillers in our in  our chicken. You're not going  to find sway fillers in our in  our taco beef and then also  removing all Ms jeans are  really trying to our food  items as clean label as  possible, which then again  elevates the quality of it,  but then also helps increase.  Also for those students who  may have food allergies,  there's less pillars in their  right. And then it's also are  able to go ahead and meet  their needs and the better  knees.  >> Thank you so much. And  that's just one small slice of  the work that you've done. So  congratulations again. Thanks.  Thank you, Mr. McLean, Martin.  Congratulations. Food safety.  >> And providing delicious  food that's healthy.  Nutritious is so important.  Made any efforts to partner  with organizations like World  Central Kitchen, which does  work around the world and has  really pioneered how to  deliver. You know, very tasty,  you know, almost restaurant  quality food at incredibly low  prices.  >> But this time with World  Central Kitchen exactly know.  But that's also why we have a  new chef on board, right to be  able to bring in that industry  experience from the outside.  So then that way we can go  ahead and continue to work on  not only bringing to voice at  the table, but then elevate  our food home week that we do  have that student feedback.  And so it's definitely  something to consider for us  to continue. Continue to look  at our partnerships.  >> What existing partnerships  do you have right now with  outside organizations that  might be in this field?  >> currently right now, what  we do. Work with real food for  kids on a regular basis. We  also do have partnerships, the  capital area, Bank, various of  Fairfax County Health  Department. As well. So for  like the few council and and  then we also regularly engage  with Virginia Department of  Education. And then we are  also a member of the Urban  School Food Alliance, which  then represents high number of  the largest school districts  in the country. And then  that's when we're also able to  learn from them. Their  practices were able to  definitely do some knowledge  sharing and able to look at  our process is alongside with  them and just to continue to  be more efficient. And and to  be able to just elevate our  practices.  >> In addition to getting rid  fillers and things like that.  Do track it all the use of  artificial dyes such as red  I-40. That was just banned by  the FDA.  >> Yes, so we actually do not  have any additional like dies  or artificial colors on are  serving lines to students. So  that was something that did  not impact the feed. That's  directly on our service line.  >> And we entirely banned or  limited the use of high  fructose corn syrup? Yes, we  have at this point. That's  fantastic. And when was that  achieved?  >> That was achieved. Probably  about a year ago, we looked at  the feet that we had. We  didn't have many. We did have  some that were affected. And  then we went ahead and we were  able to get rid of them. We  put move new food out to bid  and then through a procurement  process raible to go ahead and  pick your items that were high  fructose corn syrup, free.  >> And did you replace it with  Cane Sugar? Did you find other  sweeteners or did you just  adopt new types of food that  might be like spicy or have  other flavors.  >> So I would say probably  more the latter than the  former. So like, for instance,  our barbecue sauce right to  detect by high fructose corn  syrup. We're able to go ahead  eliminate that. And it was  replaced with alternative, you  know, natural sugar. I because  act one might have to get back  to you. But then what we also  have done is and diversifying  our flavors, those products as  well. They all have been  coming high fructose corn  syrup. It is standard that we  provide to our vendors. So  then again, when we put a bit  and we go through the  procurement process, we are  very adamant about do not come  and item. You know, that is  going to contain these  particular. Additives that we  do not want to be certain to  our students.  >> And to what extent we local  farms or local DC region  rather than, you know, just  and farmin other  countries.  >> We're really proud of the  increase of local food  products and produce that  we've been able to also  provide to our students. So  last year we were keeping  track and we were able to We  had about I want to say 17% of  our produce was local. We are  now actually pram. Also  tracking our local food  products and along with our  our produce. So like, for  instance, we have courtship  they come from. I believe  which is a plant in Manassas,  right? So we know that that's  just right down the way our  fresh fruit and vegetable  program. We have 10 schools  that receive that grant in. So  we're able to go ahead and  bring a lot of local produce.  And that's where students get  exposed to fresh fruits and  vegetables to 3 times per  week. And so we've been able  to really also increase those  partnerships. We also work  with food hub called for P and  they are able to go ahead and  help us procure those local  food products.  >> You provide an update on  the scratch kitchens. Are  those in all schools now?  >> So are scratch me. Foods  they have been increasing. So  we do not have kitchens that  are outfitted to meals  completely scratch. We just  have not been outfitted in  that manner for quite some  time. But what we are doing is  looking at scratch, be meal.  So what what the criminal we  do have currently and what  we're able to go ahead and do  so again. That's where chef  Tim Jones comes into play to  be able to bring in that  experience because we're not  going to have like an open  skillet, for instance. And so  he's able to go ahead and help  us evaluate this recipe that  we want to go ahead  incorporate and how can we  have that work with the  equipment that we do have?  >> I thought there was some  effort underway to transition  kitchens, too. Pratchett  kitchens from what exists  right now.  >> That's correct. We're  looking at Central Kitchen's,  creating scratch cooking  options at Central Kitchen's  that were then able to  packaged food and deliver from  Central Kitchen's 2 schools  that they're able to reheat  are warm. And we also talked  about renovations, providing  kitchens that would look  different as part of our its  specs for new building  renovations. But I think our  plan was really looking at.  Some of the work that and chef  and was doing in Colorado  actually. And really think  about how to retro a central  kitchen's. We had what, 8? 8  Central Kitchen's in the  school division. Prepare food  that then hubs to schools. And  if we can, I think we have a  cycle of those to move into  more scratch cooking with  really large kettles. We have  to have space for those items,  but that certainly we worked  on a plan to provide the  remodeling.  >> Or the Central Kitchen's  located. You school buildings  >> No there in our high  schools. So Herndon, High  School Marshal Hayfield South  County, Mount Vernon,  Westfield Chantilly. They get  perhaps I think I did. Thank  you.  >> Thank you, Mr. Dunn  Mystic's it.  >> Thank you. Doctor. E for  the presentation. I have just  raises for at this point to to  say that 10 ago like Mike Lee  said, and I was in the  cafeteria my son, I'm a  vegetarian. I can find  anything to eat. everything  was either. We based our it  was something I would not eat  as an adult. So I was  struggling to go for those  lunches and all seeing those  options and salad bar and all  united beans. I think I can  eat in pretty much every  single effort. Do you offer  schools so that changes that  speaks volume off the what I  did have one ask you. How many  meals do we serve in the year?  We did provide that data and  its. Do you have an off the  top of your head, Melissa?  f course come on.  >> At about 20 million meals  per year to include our  breakfast lunch and then our  special programs.  >> And people are day how  money?  >> So right now we are  averaging oh, my gosh, that  he's going to kill me. So  we're about up to 35,000  breakfasts. And 75 to 85,000  lunches to pending.  >> And that's done by very  cohesive team working together  our students are fed to. And  there are a lot of students  depend on these meals because  those I the only healthy meals  for them for the day. And so  at any all the work you've  done, I think it is  appreciative of that. And I  just wanted to be the next  that you're holding the cause.  I could taste the food  >> thank Your invites are  coming. Thank you.  >> Thank you. Miss ticks at  this Marin. Well, decorate,  I'm delighted to be mentioned.  Renegade cafeteria Lady Chef  Cooper, who I actually met at  her office in Boulder in 2013  after she came to of CPS with  real food for kids. So that's  got sometime before. Then real  food for kids was really the  impetus to get this. We're  going. I'm just so delighted  to see where it's been. The  lack of the ultra processed  foods is so great. I just read  an article about how  ultra-processed foods could  actually be one of the next  things that we really have,  even if it's healthy stuff  like soy protein or the step  in your protein bar, that  that's really it's at all  process stuff. And so glad  that there's no die. I wonder  if just for a moment, you  could speak a little bit about  the costs and how that's going  with covering and funding our  meals. I mean, in light of  trying to provide as many  meals as we can to those in  need. But also like this is a  revenue-generating office. And  so has that. How's that going?  >> do you feel comfortable  talking a little bit about the  cost piece? Sure. We can talk  about the CP schools and now.  Really so we do have 47 CP  schools this year. And so  those schools require students  are able to come in and get  meals at no cost, right? So  breakfast and lunch and that  is where we see our highest  participation as well.  >> And that is also where we  are. We do know that there's a  greater need. And so we're  happy to be able to do that  and to be able to put in those  additional avenues to increase  participation, for instance,  like our breakfast, increased  participation is really thanks  to the breakfast kiosks we've  been able to install in those  schools. And so when we're  looking at the cost, right, we  look at the type of foods that  we're bringing in. What is it  that we do local as possible  and then the cost around that?  I mean, it's something that  we're always analyzing we're  looking at. We're monitoring  on a weekly monthly basis. so  regards to the cost, per se  with something that we just  continue to look at and  knowing that there are a  number of bills that, for  instance, the state, we've got  a possibility of having  breakfast for all possibly  coming up. We'll see how that  could possibly in our favor  and be able to just increase  our revenue. But it is  something that is something  that look at when we're  weighing and what is it that  able to bring again, we're not  going to be able to bring in  you know, just these products  that are going to be just  higher costs. So we are we do  taken into account, but we're  still very proud to ensure  that again, those internal  standards that we've created  are being met every single  time. Yeah, I think you I know  going to our quarterly budget  reports that you present Dre.  That's, you know, something  where in the past we've asked  about that. So just knowing  are in the red or the  BlackBerry.  >> Making money and I loved in  the video of the students were  using this portion of a  graduate skills to communicate  about their food rate, have  those interpersonal skills and  teach like what we should be  doing when we which is to eat  slowly and perhaps the  communal about it. So I as  much as we can incorporate  them into learning is just  fabulous. So thank you. Thank  you. Miss Mayor and Dr  Anderson.  >> Thank you. And I was very  excited to be able to  participate in that tasing  last year. The kids were so  excited and like the chicken  wings over here, in Wings were  doing that at all. Schools.  >> So there's been a lot of  enthusiasm around it. To the  point to now our high school  students are particularly  sensitive to the fact that  they don't have enough. I  wonder is do we differentiate  servings based on novels or do  we provide the same? Out of  food at elementary than we do  at high schools because it  seems to still be a want at  the upper grades for larger  serving. Interesting. So  listen.  >> So Dana, federal standards  to require asked to provide  more servings our high school.  So we do build writes, our  elementary schools have a they  have to entree options. Right?  And we're always providing a  vegetarian option. And then we  also have our power packs. And  then our middle school were  adding on again to that menu.  And then our high schools have  the most robust menu. So we're  always building on to what we  have in our elementary  schools. And yes, by federal  standards, we do have to  provide more calories and and  our requirements are More more  servings for high school  students.  >> Can you quantify that a  little bit? Yeah. So it's  really where you see it in our  fruit and vegetables.  >> And and then also in our  grain options. I could get  that to you more specifically.  We could go ahead and follow  up with you and give you the  exact sure that would be  helpful because first slice of  pizza slice of pizza slice of  pizza and unnecessary getting  more the upper great.  >> But that's definitely been  a concern. And of course,  there look out case. So having  that information would be  helpful, will provide them an  upcoming Friday letter likely  in a week.  >> Thank you, Dr, Anderson.  Eaton County. So I would just  like to take an opportunity to  highlight the work that our  cafeteria workers there in  early. They're getting the  meals prepared. They're  serving the meals. And  particularly of where I come  from, working in middle  schools. They're helping kids  open mailboxes. They really do  a lot for children and when we  talk about this on the global  level, also want to always  highlight the people that are  actually in the schools and  doing the work and thank them  for that. And I also want to  highlight the program that you  have for after-school snack.  Our students when any after  school programming is  involved, what is served as a  very new, Trish, U.S., which  is really considered like a  light supper. And I've seen  kids, you know, it's provided  to the kids that are in the  program, but I've seen kids  safe some of that to take it  to their siblings and it makes  a difference. And I just want  to thank you for your work.  Anderson. So my children are.  4 of those meals often during  the day.  >> they often go back purchase  2 meals at the time. So what I  would wonder even my 10  year-old is very interested in  making sure that there's  enough. And he often talks  about the fact that more. So I  I echo particularly my older  one that is playing sports 6  days a week and is starving  all the time. And so what I  what I was wondering is do  they do we have any ability to  allow them to buy a second  entre without having to buy  the full second meal? Because  I often worry about the waste  that may come with taking, you  know, things that they're not  going to use. And so I. Well,  well, I working on making sure  that are bringing food when  appropriate from home to  supplement. I'm just wondering  whether or not there's a way  for them to just buy the on  tree. Yeah, I can personally  relate to that. I have a son  who eats and I saw this story  often keeps practice at home.  breakfast at school. He eats  lunch at school and he goes  back for a second on track.  >> So yes, just to go and  purchase. The entree is the  possibility AL a carte option  protest the entree. That's  wonderful to know that.  However, I would like to plug  in that for students who are  still hungry, they do have the  option to go back to our salad  bar and again, unlimited  fruits and vegetables. A  second time at no cost.  Wonderful. Thank you so much.  >> Thank you. Miss Anderson  will take a turn. I really do  want to commend everything  that's happening in our  nutrition programs. A few  years ago, Secretary Vilsack  came from the Department of  Agriculture to Turin see some  of the early work that was  being done in this effort. And  we've come so far since even  that and I thought then we've  come so far on top of that, I  do want to again stress that I  think there's an opportunity  here for maybe the deck of  clubs at schools to be selling  this fair back sauce to make  money. We're going to look  into this. I don't even taste  it, but we're going to look at  him even taste it. And now,  but I'm sure it's delicious  and look delicious.  >> So looking forward to that  conversation because I think  it's a golden opportunity. And  maybe we can even have a kid's  name. It. All right. Thank you  very much.  >> Thank you, Chairman First.  Thank you, Melissa. Also  making and EMU it. Who is our  chief operation officer that  oversees food departments. So  definitely propst everybody,  Mr. Moon came in at the On  your part.  >> All Just one quick  question. About the full show.  >> out  >> of over different menu  concepts. Have we got to able  to its menu concepts for an  hour. And shooting the  cafeteria.  >> Absolutely. Yeah. Those  menu concepts. The top 10 were  really looked at in adopting.  We added them into our fall  and they're also being added  to our spring cycle many So  again, like the Chatham, us  all of that to Sala, we have a  taco unveiling this spring. We  was on your roll up in bailing  also this spring. So that's  directly from the results from  the few Chelle.  >> Korean barbecue did not  make them next.  >> I BBQ. You know, guess it  did it did? Yes. All right.  Thank you. Thank you. Yeah.  >> Thank you, Mr. Road and now  we are officially moving on.  All right, Jenna item, 8.0 3  financial year 2026. Proposed  budget icon Dr Reid for a  presentation of her 2026.  financial year proposed  budget.  >> Thank you, chairman for And  I want to begin this As you  know, the budget really is our  backbone and provides the  resources for us too. Engage  in. All of the work that we've  described this evening and all  of the work that we describe  over time. thank you. I want  to start by thanking our  budget team. First, our board  budget chair, Mister Cao  McDaniel and our Budget Vice  Chairman Strachan Sizemore  Heizer and just the guidance  that they've provided  throughout this process has  been. Just remarkable and very  helpful. And also our chief  finance officer, Lee Burton,  Matthew Norton and Alice  Whittington, just big props to  our finance department. I  think the best in the country.  So this evening, I'm going to  work really hard to try to do.  present this budget in a way  that tells our story here in  Fairfax County. our story is  one. That's a story of  incredible achievement and a  reminder that these budget  dollars represent more than  charts and data they represent  the hopes and dreams of the  children in this community and  the hopes and dreams of the  many, many families who moved  to this community because of  our Fairfax County Public  schools. So as we walk through  the budget presentation this  evening. I want to by  acknowledging our current  situation that we're facing a  tremendous funding gap. That  is not of our creation or of  our counties creation.  Honestly. Team Miss mayor and  our border elected board are  elected Board of Supervisors  have worked tirelessly to  share the information which  I'll share a little later  about RJ Lark funding and the  lack funding in terms of  meeting this gap from our.  governor's budget that was  recently presented. And I know  that are commonwealth  lawmakers, those lawmakers  from this area continue to  work hard to provide funds  from the General Assembly. And  we just want to acknowledge  that there is a tremendous gap  between what we believe is  necessary and what we're  actually receiving. And this  is, I think exacerbated by the  changing needs and goals of  our public school system and  our children. The world is  changing technology industry,  the workplace. And so to what  we present and prepare  children for needs to change  and adjust and these changes  require resources 2 have the  success we're used to having  requires resources to support  the high expectations. We hold  here in Fairfax County. I also  want to acknowledge that many  of our citizens in Fairfax  County do not currently have  children in school and to  those citizens. I really want  to speak to how important  public schools, rather we have  children currently in school  or not. as the recent grand  parent myself, I know that  there are many grandparents in  this county who have a next  generation that will be coming  through our schools and our  counting on the high quality  in the tradition of excellence  that we have maintained here  sustain those high-quality  instructional opportunities  require our support across the  board. Whether we have  children's classes currently  or not. And in recognizing.  And a bit of the tax fatigue  that is out there because I  mean, let's face it. Things  are more expensive today than  they were a year ago than they  were 5 years ago. 10 years  ago. And those cost  escalations do create a budget  impact even just to maintain  the level of some port that we  have needed much less increase  the level of support as we  work to increase academic  standards and provide those  activities for young people  that are so important.  Finally, just want to make  sure that we understand that  we're in a real competition  for talent right now in this  country. And as we think about  outstanding educators in every  role in the school division,  we want the very best for our  young people here in Fairfax  County. And there's a cost to  that. And for us to be able to  compete with not just our  regional colleagues, but our  colleagues around the country.  It's critical that we maintain  salaries that are competitive  because as you'll see in some  subsequent slides, those also  provide the bedrock of what we  consider respect for the  profession and the hard work  that occurs. So I want to make  sure that I thread those seems  this evening and make sure  that in the coming days and  weeks that we continue to come  back to those key themes. One  of the things I want to also  remind our community is that  these charts and the data I'm  going to talk about this  evening, representative of  real children and real  families and real hopes and  dreams. And as we look at the  investment we're thinking  about making here and what I  am providing in this  needs-based budget, we're  making huge gains in our  academic work and we're  maintaining. Excellence in  terms of high expectations,  which again will require hi  support. I want to remind our  community and our board that  this year we have 10% more  students that were named his  national merit. Commended  scholars and year-over-year  last year SAT scores were 77  almost 80 points higher than  the state average and continue  to outperform the global  averages. Even as we have more  than 80% of our students  taking the SAT. Well, the  state has only around 50% of  students taking the SAT. So  we've provided access  opportunity and continue to  maintain higher achievement  that our state and global  peers also want to make sure  that our families and  communities know that 75% of  our high school students  complete at least one college  equivalent course during their  career. With us and our  graduation rate at 94.6% far  exceeds the state average in  really proud data point for a  division of our size. And  finally, I wanted to make sure  that I dialed into one of our  students who, as you know, was  named time Kid of the year  recently. And you're going to  hear little from him and is  one of our students who's  represented by this budget and  budgets before us. Hammond  story was he was born in  Ethiopia and came to Fairfax  County as a preschool student.  We spoke no English and his  family. His mother is now a  teacher for us. And he's been  honored, as you know, for  inventing a soap which treat  skin cancer now will tell you.  Hey, man, just also was  recently honored at quite a  star-studded event in Atlanta  this past weekend and spends  many of his weekends at Johns  Hopkins doing cancer research  and payment is one of  thousands of students in our  county who is doing incredible  work day after day inspired by  incredible educators in the  school division. And I  continue as I know you do to  be very proud of the work we  do here and the many, many  young people who are launched  from this out and change the  world. Also want to share that  one of the things that's  really important, as we think  about resources and why our  budget is going to be a slight  increase over last year. Is we  want to increase our academic  expectations. And as we look  one example and mathematics,  we continue to outperform.  Outperform the Commonwealth  and math science and reading  with improvements in math and  science. But even more  important, we're close to 10%  more students year-over-year  of our 8th graders that or at  least announce where one or  higher and almost 7% increase  in our 5th graders. Taking  advanced math at this point,  this continues to be a high  focus area for us. We  recognize nationally  mathematics is a challenge and  we know that math accounts for  84% of our career choices now  for children. It's critical  that we invest and increasing  and upping requirements in  this critical content area.  have to maintain high  expectations and high support  for all of our students. And  as we think about mathematics,  the credentialing of more  staff to enable this to  happen, the clarity around  resources that you heard this  evening. We're going to  require resources at's a  necessary body of work. I want  to share that our student  needs are changing. While our  enrollment increases are  flattening are leveling. In  other words, we're projecting  a 2% increase in enrollment.  increase, for example, in some  of our student groups who do  require extra supports  continue to increase. And so  as we have a higher need to  for certain specialized  supports, for example, some of  our students and special  programs require smaller class  sizes require teachers at  times to have more planning  needs require multiple  assessment and perhaps  supports that require more  funding and more resources. We  have career coaches, social  workers, therapists at times.  And these are critical  resource needs for our  students without which our  students are not going to be  able to achieve the high  expectations that we have here  in Fairfax County. As I move  forward and think about the  importance of our high  expectations and those systems  and structures that support  them. I want to contemplate  our class size comparison and  I think it's important to note  that with the funding that we  have been provided, Fairfax  County Public Schools ranks  5th of 8 schools in our area.  When you look at students per  classroom across all grade  levels and individually for  elementary, middle and high.  You can see that we do rank,  you know, 3rd, 6th and 4th.  But this does say that, wow,  our class sizes are a  reasonable size were middle of  the pack. That's with our  current resource allocation.  It's critical to keep up with  those resources to maintain  these class sizes to support  that well rounded education  for all of our students. I  want to remind our community  about this data point which  we're particularly proud of.  As you know, I think I've  often talked about our hearts  beating strongest when we're  in schools. That's where the  action happens. And I can say  proudly that most of our  funding is directly allocated  to instruction with 92.5% of  our employees designated as  school-based. And this is the  highest among all of our way  be participants in the  Washington, D.C., area. So we  focus. Over 90% of  expenditures on school-based  employees. Conversely, I want  to share that our ratio of  central management staff is  1.1% compared to 2 to 4%.  That's surrounding  jurisdictions. In other words,  our administrative staffing is  lean. It's well below our  surrounding divisions. And  that's because we've worked  very hard to be fiscally  responsible as a school  division and make sure that we  direct the bulk of our funds  over 90% to our schools and  classrooms and those that  directly support our schools  and classrooms. We believe  that is the school division.  Most of our budget should be  spent as close to the  classroom as possible. One  data point we haven't talked  as much about over time is  actually the amount of money  that we would say, the actual  funding that Fcps puts per  pupil bass and compare that to  our surrounding divisions. And  I would say at this point that  based on budget numbers we  provide about $20,940 per  pupil, which actually puts us  number 5 of all the way the  districts. So if we as an  example, if we use the same  classroom or the cost per  pupil funding that Arlington  county schools had. We would  have an additional 769.5  million dollars annually in  our budget. If we were going  to fund. at that rate that  would enable us to hire 6,000  additional teachers to  significantly reduce class  sizes. Well, we're not likely  to have that kind of funding.  But what we can say is that  given the funding we do have  we rank 5 out of 8? But it  definitely. Is funding that we  would certainly want to. We  have our expectations for  achievement to be higher than  5 of 8. And therefore, we're  going to need to resource our  work and a higher than 5 out  of 8 level. Let's take ak  our teacher salaries and why  that's important. And I'm  good, actually, if we could go  back to the slide before Madam  Clerk. I presented this to  educators this afternoon as a  dry run, kind of a practice  run. And one of the things our  educators that I shared this  with in a practice run said  this is not to read. If you go  to the board this evening and  publicly talk about this, it  makes it sound like no matter  what we're going to be able to  get to you to get high results  year after year with perhaps  less than adequate funding.  And it's honestly not  sustainable. And because here  in Fairfax, people work longer  harder. I think care deeply.  We also have to recognize that  we need to adequately resource  our programs and our staff so  that we're not burning out are  educators and that this is a  sustainable workload as we  work to maintain these  expectations. I want to make  sure that I say that because I  did commit to saying that this  afternoon. So let's go to  salaries, please. I want it.  We're going to take a look at  3 levels of salaries last  year. We looked the master's  level and we were asked to  make sure we looked at  beginning teachers and  teachers the end of are more  experienced I just a little  bit of water, too. So 4  beginning teacher salaries.  Currently, we rank 5th of 8  with teachers starting salary  in the Masters Lane. And after  the compensation increases  included in the budget. I'm  presenting this evening. We  would likely rank first in  starting teacher salary. This  is important because we're all  competing for a diminishing  talent pool and we want to  make sure that is our students  come out of University teacher  colleges and so forth that we  are a school sion that  recognizes the importance of  the preparation that are  educators have undergone and  that we are able to provide  that top salary for beginning  teachers. We know that the  quality of the educators in  classrooms and schools is  directly connected to the  quality of the educational  experience. That's why this is  so important. Let's take a  look at the midpoint of our  teacher salaries. And data is  less positive. Obviously, we  currently ranks 7th of 8 at  the Mister at the midpoint for  the Masters Lane. And even  with the compensation  increases I'm proposing this  evening that were part of our  historic collective bargaining  agreement. We likely rank 5th  and teacher salaries at the  midpoint even following the  application of those salary  increases. And let's look at  the maximum teacher salaries.  currently ranks 7th of 8 at  the maximum lane for the  Masters lane at the maximum  for the Masters Lane. And we  expect to remain the same. 7  out of 8, even with a increase  in salary based on the  collective bargaining  agreement. And a lot of this  is largely due to a lesser  number of steps on our salary  schedule. And we and we top  out at 25 and many of our  surrounding jurisdictions have  30 or more steps. So we are  going to be a bit challenge  that this lane as well, even  with the 7% salary increase  possibility. So let's talk a  little bit about striving for  smart savings. It's so  important that we talk about  the work we've done to try to  trim our budget and trim our  initiatives to be calm leading  that still work towards  maintaining the support for  our high expectations. One of  the things that we really had  to reckon with says as we  think about trimming our  budget and making sure that  we've provided some type of  cost cutting and clear  direction around. Be more.  Trying to be more efficient  and look at reductions to  afford some of the collective  bargaining agreement dollars  as well as our continuing  initiatives. We realize 93% of  our positions are school-based  and that makes it very  difficult to make cuts without  impacting the student  experience. I will say  year-over-year, we have cut  51.3 million, which is 1.4% of  our budget because we no  longer receiving Esther  dollars and those dollars. We  either sunset initiatives or  sunset programs. And those  post-pandemic needs are still  persisting. So we have  collapse programs. We've also  said that there are no new  initiatives. We're only  funding those that we have  currently have in motion. And  that's really important for  our community to understand.  We want to be and then tend to  be and believe we are.  Fiscally responsible and good  stewards of the money that our  taxpayers work so hard to  provide to us so are need for  high-quality instructional  resources continue and we are  going to hope to continue to  see future savings in training  and professional development  based on the fact that if we  maintain workspaces class  sizes and salaries, we will  retain our educators. And when  we retain our educators, it  costs less for new  professional development  repeatedly. New training and  in general provides a better  educational experience. And  I'm proud to say that with our  board's commitment year over  year, for the first time in 4  years, our year to year  teacher retention rate  exceeded 90% last year. And it  the division retained almost  400 more teachers in 2024 than  we had in 2023. So that is a  significant number of staff.  But did not need to be  retrained but are excited to  continue the work here in  Fairfax County. So that type  of efficiency is so critical  to our mission driven work.  And we also continue our  Baldrige Efficiency Review.  We're taking each department  and running through lines to  see how we can tighten and  tighten, which is part of how  we were able to arrive at are  51.3 million dollar budget  caught year over year and  again, our continued  commitment to not begin new  initiatives at a time where we  recognize we have to fund our  priorities. I want to remind  our community and board that  are proposed budget are  needs-based budget that I'm  presenting this evening aligns  with our strategic plan. Those  are 5 goals and our 4 pillars.  And we are a very large  division. The 9th largest in  the country with over 180,000  students. This framework, the  strategic framework allows all  of our schools, our  departments in our offices to  move in the same direction.  And with that alignment will  continue to see funding  efficiencies and efficiencies  and how we use and spend our  time. So I want to share at  this point, our budget  priorities to meet the  changing needs of our students  to meet the changing needs in  ourkplace. We have budget  priorities that must provide  competitive compensation for  all of our employees in  Fairfax County. The changing  needs often require different  resources which have a gear up  time and these changing needs  will continue probably at an  exponential flywheel movement.  We need to continue empowering  our educators to provide  differentiated services and  the multi-year initiatives.  The board is committed to must  be seen to there logical  impact in and. I will share  that. The budget summary I'm  presenting this evening  provides in fy 26 school  operating fund budget totaling  4 billion dollars, which is a  net increase of 297.1 million  or 7.9% over fy. 25 budget.  The county transfer request is  actually an increase of 268.3  million or a 10.4, which is a  slight decrease from last  year's requested percentage,  which was 10.5%. I will also  say that we've worked between  the fiscal forecast numbers of  275 million to get it down to  268.3 million. And this would  be the county transfer request  for the needs-based budget  that I'm proposing this  evening. We are looking  actually stay there for just a  minute. The state revenue  could we go back to thank you.  The state revenue we look like  we are expecting 23.2 million.  The federal revenue expected  to climb by 1 million, which  is and Perkins dollars. And  this the key. Factor here with  our beginning balance. So that  request for our county  transfer is 268.0. 3. I will  make a all right. We'll share  that Ed. The Board of  Supervisor request again as  10.4% increase, which is a  slight decrease. Most of the  way be participants. Budgets  have yet to be released.  However, we do know that  Loudoun and Montgomery County  and Maryland have released and  they requesting local transfer  increases of 9 point 7% and  13.4% respectively. So we feel  like the 10.4 percent increase  is well within a reasonable  expectation. And meets our  needs space budget request. So  next slide, please. As we look  at the compensation  adjustments I want to be very  clear about why competitive  compensation matters. And I  want to share just a bit one  of our educators who happens  to be the 2024 Washington Post  Teacher of the year Laura who  is a 4th grade teacher, Colin  Powell Elementary School and  she received award because of  her excellence and inspiring  learning encouraging  individual growth and  demonstrating subject matter.  Expertise by fostering  collaboration and leading by  example. Teachers like Laura  and many, many, many others,  thousands and thousands of our  educators. The committed to  the mission driven work we're  doing here in Fairfax County,  Public Schools and we were  able to negotiate under. In  the last calendar year  collective bargaining  agreement which is historic.  Here are first in Fairfax  County, which would provide a  7% compensation increase also  transportation and food  service, salary enhancements  and health rate changes. This  is going to be for the change  from Fy 2025 budget is 240.0.  8 million. They're also  retirement rate changes in the  Bay saving some turnover  again, 213.7 million would be  the specific amount of money  here related Providing  competitive compensation. And  this again is based on the  collective bargaining  agreement, which really I'm  proud of the team for and ago  shading. I also want to just  point out that this 7%  increase for employees is very  much so in line with our  surrounding divisions. For  example, Loudoun County  recently is asking for a 6.5  increase, 6.5% in salaries in  Prince William County is  asking for 7%. So we're right  in the ball park. If we want  to simply maintain competitive  salaries within our region. As  we think about meeting our  communities shifting and  changing needs. It's not just  our young people that changing  our community is changing. We  know our schools are the  center of our community. We  know that companies settle in  spaces where schools are  effective because workforce  development is a critical  bridge to the economic drivers  here in Fairfax County. Want  to remind us that the funding  of 23.6 million represents the  recurring costs of baseline or  of adjustments for quarterly  fund review. Another baseline  adjustments such as substitute  teacher incentives. And you  can read through the topics on  the slide. Further, we have  20 million, which includes  207.9 positions. 2 impact  these student need adjustments  that are driven primarily by  increases in special program  services as well routine funds  to support summer school.  Major maintenance, contractual  services and existing lease.  And so on. Now, let's take a  look at our multi-year  initiatives. So as you can  see, we have inclusive  preschool. And again, these  are very similar. These are  programs that were on the deck  last year for budget. There  are a continuation of funding.  We've made commitments and we  need to see those through and  these commitments. For a total  of 4 Million. this is a the fy  26 proposed budget, for  example, represents the  third-year multi-year  implementation to establish a  dedicated family liaison with  benefits and an additional 50  school sites this year. In  addition to the topics  addressed and these budget has  budgeted positions. are  established through a position  conversion of existing hourly  positions and therefore won't  require addition additional  funding. So they're not  represented here. But I know  those are a commitment that  our board has made want to  make sure that I know that  that's something that we're  doing. We know learning  happens best in community and  there's never been a more  important time for family  liaisons and their work. Then  a time such as this. So let's  look at our targeted  investments to this time. We  do want to make sure that our  community understands that we  have been listening and we  want to make sure that we're  able to devote funds to safety  and security. They're  different topics listed as  well as the differentiated  learning credentials. We have  a high need for micro  credentialing and support  around universal design for  learning multilingual Lerner  initiatives. And as I  mentioned earlier, if we're  going to continue to make the  progress we need to make  mathematics, we're going to  have to have more teachers,  algebra credentialed than we  currently have. And that's  going to require resources. We  cannot put a stake in the  ground around increasing  academic expectations and not  support the professional  development and resources  necessary to continue to  increase academic  expectations. It's not good  enough to just continue what  we've always done. We have to  put a stake in the ground and  say that mathematics again is  going to be impacting 84% of  career choices. We have to  increase our expectations in  that content areas specially  which will require resources.  So I wanted to share some of  the funding needs not  explicitly addressed in this  budget. We do want to we do  have to continue or middle  school sports that we are  looking to try to do an  expansion and we'll have to  see where that's going to be  possible. We have also and  this particular budget not  addressed additional funding  to accelerate addressing the  maintenance backlog, which  continues to increase it 8% a  year. And I will say that some  of my concerns around the  budgeting process is that in  addressing some of this  maintenance backlog, I don't  want to take money from our  classrooms and therefore, it  is so critical. And again, the  Sneads space budget concept  that we. Effectively and  efficiently address what we  need to meet our educational  outcomes, even as we still  have our maintenance backlog  that's rising. We're not  planning to lower class sizes.  We haven't yet looked at  middle school. Start times or  electric buses and jet goal.  So those are things yet to be  contemplated. as we think  about future budgets. So let's  take a look at the revenue  overview. And again, this is  sort of where all the  different buckets of money  come to us. We have state  federal, other and the county  transfer request. the other  thinking about that represents  an increase due to projected  increase related to tuition at  Thomas Jefferson. But the  county transfer request as I  repeated or as I mentioned  earlier, set at 268 0.3  million. And that will create  a total revenue increase of  297.1. The next slide is a  historical slide of the county  transfer history. And we went  back to 2016 where it looked  like really when we think  about the percentage of  revenue of the county. And we  talked a little about this  last year where there was a 5  year historical trend of about  52.7%. And that 52.7% down to  51.5% represents a 64 million  dollar gap last year. So we're  hopeful that we'll be able to  bridge that gap this year be  able to fully fund our  transfer from the county. And  we appreciate the support and  the focus on public education  that our county partners share  with us appreciate certainly  their efforts and we'll look  forward to continuing to  collaborate with them. I have  spoken to our county executive  and I know that it's important  that we collaborate with our  county partners as we develop  our budget moving forward. I  do want to call out J Lark.  And just I know this is a  slide. that we have talked a  lot about. But I just want to  remind our community that  Virginia school divisions do  receive less funding per  student. Then the 50 state  average and also our regional  average. And again, this is an  opportunity to take a look at  Maryland, West Virginia,  Kentucky Virginia, which  again, we sit at 14% below the  national average for funding  per pupil. Again, we don't  have expectations that are  below the national average  because our students are  performing above the global  average. So it's not  sustainable. However, without  adequate resources. So we  believe this need space budget  will provide those in round  numbers for the community. If  Che Lark was fully funded or  our schools were fully funded.  That would be about $3100 per  student or a total of 568.7  million. So what you see on  the screen is? General  Assembly's work right now and  there are several key areas  that they're looking at the  elimination or incremental  raising of the support camp.  Exploring enhanced support for  special education, focused on  the proposed percentage at on  the special education based on  student level of need. And  additionally, the subcommittee  highlighted the importance of  addressing data and  infrastructure needs to  provide better cost data for  the recommendations. However,  at this time, we don't have  any concrete legislative  reforms that have been adopted  and we continue to on the  outcome of those Janmark  deliberations. I want to that.  Thriving schools, equal and  economic prosperity. We know  that the schools are the  center of a community and we  know that investing in  excellence for our schools,  invest and excellence for a  county. And I encourage each  of you to think about what  kind of a community would you  like us to be in 5 years, 10  years, 20 years. What will  history look back and say  about this group? These  decision makers in terms of  what we did to prepare our  young people for the next  decade and decades ahead, our  community support helps anchor  Fcps is our region. Our  region's education destination  for students, families and  staff, high-quality schools  bring new residents that are  workforce development. New  businesses, increased  opportunities for student  upward mobility, education. An  excellent education is often  been talked about is the first  Iran upward mobility, increase  property values and reduce  social costs. So we are  grateful and continue to be  grateful to our partnership  with our Board of Supervisors  with whom we know we have a  shared interest in the  excellence of our schools and  we appreciate our state  leaders and elected leaders  who share a belief in public  education and look forward to  their continued financial  support of our community's  most important asset. Our  children. So here's a way to  stay involved. Attend school  board meetings. We're going to  continue to have we have a  work session of coming this  evening. The board will not  asking questions. This is my  presentation, but we'll be  having a work session and many  other conversations about the  budget. So please take a  moment to learn about the  critical needs of this great  school system and why we must  continue to support our  educators. Our support staff  and our students. Today is  just the beginning of the  conversation. And so we'll  have many opportunities for  board discussion. These states  above are listed as a point of  reference and we do have a  work session to discuss.  Student needs and compensation  in more detail on February  4th, I know you're going to  have many questions that that  work session. And as always  the community and obviously  the board and Board of  Supervisors are able to submit  budget questions. The our  normal process. Thank you for  your time and attention. This  is the most important work  happening in our country at  this time. It is critical work  and it is work that's  transformative. There's never  been a more important time to  invest in public public  education. Because together,  all things are possible. So  I'd like to finish the budget  proposal with a word from our  students at the end of the  day. That's why we're here.  That's why we're doing the  budget. And that's why we need  to continue contemplating the  critical nature and the  transformative difference that  our educators here in this  county make each and every  day. So madam Clerk. We'll  give him in the last word.  >> Now we're doing so many  different types of labs and  science and biochemistry.  There's always been this kind  of choose your own adventure.  But at the same time, be  innovative, be creative in  just give a great final  product. And that those  experiences what kind of shape  my curiosity today. So he  checked out the Fairfax all my  teachers. I've been here since  kindergarten. It's just been a  wonderful  >> So Mr. Chairman, that is my  superintendent proposed budget  this evening.  >> Thank you very much. I  would like to turn it over to  our board's budget team  starting with our budget  chair, Mr. McDaniel. Thank  you. thank you, the  superintendent and Alice Lee.  Matthew, for all your work. a  lot of stuff that goes behind  the scenes to this.  >> As a reminder to my  colleagues are budget work  session is going to be  February 4th in a couple of  weeks and we will have lots of  time to ask lots of detailed  questions we've all had enough  time to really dig into this.  So thank you for this first  blush presentation tonight.  The budget for this school  system is fundamentally built  upon shared values. And it's  it's a statement of what we  value and how we plan to turn  those into reality. We fund  the things we believe in year  after year. And in this  community, we believe in  things like taking care of our  most vulnerable running the  school buses on time. We  believe that on a 90 degree  day, the air-conditioner  should actually work. We  believe in serving students  are quality meals. We believe  in having the latest  technological products in the  classroom. We believe in  paying teachers a fair wage,  treating them with respect,  supporting them in treatment  as the professionals, they  are. And we believe that the  best teachers deserve the best  administrative support behind  the scenes. Now, if the  community over the next few  months. Decides that the  expenditures are proposing are  too much. Then they can tell  us that. And I'm looking  forward to having that  conversation. I welcome ideas  for savings were efficiencies  for better ways to do  business. Because  fundamentally, we need to be  looking at that all the time.  I fight, I'm pulling together  a community advisory committee  to help me look at the budget  and the comp of ideas of how  we can potentially do things  better. So we're going to be  having that conversation of  the next few months. But I  think I know this community  pretty well. And I think I  know what this community  values and I don't think that  we're going to tolerate. And  think the public would  tolerate. Cuts to ours budget  that will result in cuts to  service delivery. I don think they'll tolerate cuts to  mental health services that  our kids have come to rely  upon. And I don't think  they'll tolerate us allowing  kids to go hungry or even  feeding them cheap junk food  as we work so hard to correct  over the years. And I don't  think they'll tolerate things  like higher class sizes. And  at the end of the day, budgets  have real impacts on real  people. Day in and day out in  our buildings. I believe in  this community. And I know how  much we value the services  that we've come to expect.  From our school system in  Fairfax County is a place that  we can all be proud of. And  while these are challenging  times and I appreciate the  recognition of the challenging  fiscal environment that we are  in, it's time to meet the  moment and looking forward to  the community conversation  over the coming months around  this budget. And quite  frankly, I'm looking forward  to telling the story of  Fairfax County because that's  why we're here. We know how  great our community is. We  know how great our schools  are. And I know that. We're  going to be telling that  story. Because fundamentally.  That's our job. So thank you  for the budget proposal and  thank you for your work. Thank  you, Mr. McDaniel, Sizemore  Heizer our budget, vice chair.  >> Thank you. I want to start  by thanking Mr. McGinn  Yorkers, leadership of the  Budget Committee chair and  especially superintendent read  chief financial officer of  burden and our staff for their  leadership and hard work.  There was a lot that went into  this budget. A lot of  thoughtful conversations as my  colleague mentioned, that this  budget is is much more than a  bunch of numbers. It's a  policy document at the end of  the day reflects our system in  our community's values and  priory. How we choose to  allocate limited resources.  Simply put choose to spend.  Our money is an indicator of  what we believe important. And  I'm proud of this budget  focuses on fiscal  responsibility while continue  to deliver on the promise of  an excellent education for  every student who walks in our  doors and projects  compensation for our frontline  workers or teachers and staff  so they can provide that a  clear indication. I believe  our community expects an  excellent education for  students. I believe that our  committee expects our students  to be fed well supported with  their mental health needs.  Even a clear indication that  sets success on their path. So  I'm grateful for our county  and county partners for their  strong continued support of  our schools. Our schools not  just educate our students, but  there are the heartbeat our  communities. Over 500,000  events happened in our  schools. Our schools are truly  a community resource. And most  importantly, our public  schools educate our future  leaders, creators,  entrepreneurs, voters and  innovators. So I'm proud this  budget focuses on maintaining  track record. The fcps haston  providing the best public  education in this country.  We're known for that best  public education. proud that  this budget continues that we  cannot allow our system  backslide and to do that, we  must be good stewards of our  resources and make sure we  have resources to educate our  students. Couple data points.  I want to lift up. I'm proud  that 92% of our staff for  school-based serving our  students high-interest  diction. Meanwhile, we have  the lowest ratio, central  administration staff, the  second lowest ratio,  school-based administrative  staff to teaching staff and a  pair purple spending. out of  the region? We are working  hard to be fiscally  responsible. And austere. But  we want to not currently what  we do. We want to meet  changing student needs and  continue to meet our high. You  know, the expectations this  budget simply allows us to  maintain our current status.  We acknowledge our taxpayers  are tired. We acknowledge we  did. But there are demands for  our taxpayers funding. And  while we have no authority to  levy taxes, raise revenue.  We're so grateful for county  partners and their commitment  to our schools. We're  committed to work with county  and state partners to address  funding gaps. But also I want  to recognize that these good  schools benefit everyone, not  just those with students in  their homes. Much like the  public safety professionals  whose roles of expanded as our  society has changed in recent  decades. The roles of teacher  and staff. It's more complex  than ever before our education  professionals are expected to  be social worker, security  personnel, communications and  technology experts. As we  heard earlier and much more.  To do that requires resources.  And I'm proud. But most of all  this budget. Our ties is. Most  valuable resource on the front  line. Our teachers and staff.  Thank you. put we have to just  completely we risk losing  them. Thank you to our  community. 14. supporting our  schools. I think I my time was  up by politics. Can be a time.  Alright qualities, thank you.  Miss Sizemore Heizer.  >> As a reminder to  colleagues, we have a work  session coming up. So there is  no obligation to dive in. hour  of questions than answers at  this point. But we will go  ahead and dive in with board  member comments questions Mr.  Dunn.  >> Dre, could you address the  potential impact of the  elimination of federal funding  if the Department of Education  is abolished, especially on  title one and special  education programs.  >> I think if we go back to  Mis burden has said on the tip  of her tongue, I have to go  back to the revenue slide. And  the percentage are the. bird.  And you have that right off  the top your head. We go back  to the revenue here. We have.  The revenue changed less than  1 Million. I know we had was  about 6.  >> Yeah. I mean, most of only  idea in Kyle Perkins support  the operating fund as far as  federal funding goes, the  other federal funding is in  the grants fund. So it's  really only those 2 revenues  chains. And we're expecting  the idea to go down a million,  which is what we're seeing  here. The last that we talked  to others about, you know,  what might happen at the  federal level. It was believed  and I don't know if this will  actually come true. Is that?  Funds of the federal  government would then be  shifted to the states to  manage. Not that the  Department of it would be  completely eliminated in all  the funding would be  eliminated as well. But of  course, thanks the question,  does the state have the  capacity to handle large  influx of money in pushing  that out to divisions?  >> How much money to use  received from the federal  government every year.  >> For the job of the school  operating fund its 51 Million.  If you add in nutrition  services, which of course gets  federal reimbursement grants  and self-supporting prints  title want out to those kinds  of things. It's 168 million in  total.  >> And again, what would be  the impact on our special  education program if we lost  the federal funding?  >> Based on the information  that I got from a a S a. is  not expected to be reduced.  >> I heard someone say that if  our but our proposed budget  increase is not granted  something kids will not get  the healthy food that was  discussed tonight is that a  serious risk that will  actually happen if we don't  get this budget increase.  >> If we don't receive the  budget increase will have some  difficult conversations and  decisions to make.  >> One of those will be adding  back in soy fillers and red  dye 40.  >> That I do want to speculate  this evening about whether or  not we would add soy fillers  and right died back in. I  would hope we're not going to  come to that. So don't want to  speculate on that this  evening, but I suppose it  certainly. You know, a  conversation that could be  had, but I don't believe  that's where we're headed.  Okay. Thank you.  >> Thank you, Mr. Dunn, Mr.  Mode. I think this is we have  a work coming up, filling it  full with. I'm just Just to  mention a couple things. The  first double the appreciate  the work. Don't buy budget  children. Vice chair the  presentation by the  superintendent. One thing that  was uttered and little  disappointing loss that. And  leading get. The ATR Hunt who  are? Make a few minutes  before. The meeting started. I  mean, we were by the time it  shouldn't even with them that  we are. We were the crew  session. So you're eating each  to really people to take a  look at. You know, children by  shooter who able to provide it  fall for the marks and the  presented the budget. What a  dumb pass. dark? So that I  farm. I'm most ashamed  disappointed. Who flee from  the next no one happen again.  And that's my quest. I can  speak to that, You like  tonight is not a work session.  >> Tonight is presentation of  the budget by the  Superintendent budget team and  part of that budget team is  our budget chair and vice  chair. So we do not have a  history of putting up this  particular budget document.  Well, in advance of the  meeting, it the historically  at least in last years and  Thank you, Mr. Wei.  >> Thank Sean than I am. Let's  get practice. You know, Pre  2019 board. We always have war  on defense. What he What he  has to be present. In public.  And he said that. Some of the  questions that putting up at  the work session would  include. Home on summer  funding gap would be lost I've  yesterday because federal  government is not going  continue funding for war. And  on the question, yeas. With we  act continuing. And, you pro  planned this. because I am  trying to anticipate questions  from Funders funding  authorities. What do we get  taken? The told our programs  and each of them with things  that we have the same not to  do, regionally teen certain  saving etc. So up could show  the loss at the works that I  would appreciate you very  much. Yes, sir. And we're so  you know, you're looking at T  center. comparison I think you  mentioned about. 25 million  dollar the ER. he's being  always is. 25 25 steps an  honor instructions the steps.  You know, obviously that point  when you talk about Masters,  the point I was could 12  years. And all could up 15  years. What I am interpreting  correctly and then may make  some difference is in the Oman  up what older traditions,  paper since 20 pay. Yes, it  will have an answer ready for  you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr.  Moon Dr Anderson. Yes, thank  you. And none of my.  >> Thoughts here are for you  to answer right now. It's  really just preparation for  next time. I would definitely  like to see some greater  detail, regarding the targeted  investments. It's kind of a  big block with many different  initiatives would like to get  a sense of the disaggregated.  Allocation of each of those  initiatives. I would also like  to have some sort of update in  terms of where we are with the  ball judge work because I know  that's been the long term  conversation. And lastly, you  talked quite a bit about  53 million dollars. That's  been we absorbed or sunset if  we can. If you could, please  provide some details in terms  of. How would these we  absorbed and what was cut? to  specifically, if you could  provide those details for the  4th. I would appreciate it.  Yes, ma'am. Thank you, Dr.  Anderson, missing time coming.  Thank you for the presentation  of this budget. I'm ask a  question. I just want to.  >> In a rate that this is not  needs-based budget. This is a  basic.  >> Meads based budget. I mean,  we are at. The lowest level of  what our needs are is not.  It's not any fluff. And I  think that. We can't lose. The  importance of that. We all  know that. Best investment,  any community can make. In the  future success of that  community is to invest in the  education of their children.  And I seriously hope that. Our  funding partners can hear  that. And that we can come up  with a difference because all  of our children. Deserve more  than just. Thank you. Miss a  front coming. This The success  of our public school system is  not solely the responsibility  of the school division. Our  funding comes from the Fairfax  County Board of Supervisors  who manage the Fairfax County  government.  >> It's time to work  differently between our public  schools and the county  government. We need the county  to step up to do a new way of  doing business. We have put  the bargaining instituted by  the state. This is a new way  of working in a critical way  to retain our employees and  the county and school division  should be partners actively  working together to maximize  our outcomes. We have  sustainability goals, joint  environmental goals. You know,  I see are 2 entities working  in silos on this, partnering  on the provision of services  Anaconda mising on joint cost  is a no-brainer. I see room  for improvement. We have  pedestrian safety needs. And  as recently as last week, we  heard a proposal for are  educators and principals to be  taking assessments of speed  zones and crosswalks. We must  remain mission critical.  Traffic safety is not our  mission. And our facilities.  Well, facility funding is not  included in this operational  budget maintenance costs could  have been but needed to be  amended based on limited  funding. The bulk of the  maintenance of our 8.7 billion  dollars in public facility  assets falls to the school  division and yet in addition  to instruction of 180,180 1000  students during the school  year, our schools for the  location of 500,000 community  hosted events has arranged to  the school divisions,  communities program and the  proposed budget was just  talking about maintenance, not  even improvements, which, of  course, is in the Capital  Improvement Program, which  tells its companion story of  funding. Well. When our  children's and what our  children and our schools, they  are still constituents.  Fairfax County, the  responsibility to store them  into adulthood is not the sole  responsibility of the school  division I've seen are  superintendent be unimaginably  creative in ways. Just  tonight, we talked about ways  to recruit teachers. We need  to do to work differently and  work with the county Board of  Supervisors and our  superintendent and our county  executive, the to work in  different ways together. Thank  you, Mister Mayor and Mystics  it. Thank you. Doctor E for  the budget presentation. I've  been on the say and I my  colleagues have shared most  tough. It is. He added the  cusp alpha, you know, losing a  great public education in the  country. It's a and Travis  County is doing a great job  and sustaining that we go, I  should say, leader in this,  however, if we do not meet the  needs of Educators, the cost  of living is very high and  living in the working in the  counting commuting. The villa  lose our educator. Lot of them  are waiting for this budget to  put go through. If this is  fully funded, we've had not  only retain not each other,  like tracked more teachers,  people get to the excellence  and do better and better. But  right now at that stage that  he could lose and are not  losing team view, not Fairfax  and not lose. So I would  appreciate everybody in the  stakeholders to support this  and make this is a full, fully  funded budget. Thank you.  Thank you. Miss sticks. It  agenda item 9 consent agenda,  hard-up and rules of  parliamentary procedure.  Robert's rules provide for  consent agenda listing several  items for approval by the  board by single motion.  >> Many items listed have gone  through board review and  documentation has been  provided to all board members  and the public in advance  items may be removed from the  consent agenda at the request  of any board member prior to  the meeting, the consent  agenda is about to be on the  screen. And when it gets  there. Here comes. Is there  any objection to approving the  consent agenda? Hearing and  seeing no objection. The  consent agenda is approved.  Agenda item 10 new business.  The following our new business  items, agenda items. There  will not be a vote on these  items this evening. But action  is scheduled for a future  meeting. Agenda item. 11  Superintendent matters that  Colin Dr Reid.  >> I will be extraordinarily  brief, which is to say. Happy  New Year. And I appreciate  everyone's patience and grace  to our weather decisions and  that I'm proud to announce  that it's going to be 50  degrees next week.  >> So I want to go a full week  without discussing whether but  I do appreciate the  community's efforts, patience  and Grace. So thank you very  much. Let's have a great rest  of our winner week  week.  >> Thank you. Dr Reid. I do 12  board committee reports a  connoisseur McElveen the audit  committee.  >> 9 continue kind of  committee continues to review  its annual audit report.  >> Icon, Mr. Done for a report  from to be comprehensive  Planning and Development  Committee. We had a very  productive CDC meeting out of  that. We referred the recent  public private partnership  report, too. The facility's  playing advisory committee for  them to review and provide  their analysis. Both of the  report provided by facilities  and the staff response. In  addition, we voted on 2  motions to request the chair  and vice chair of the schedule  work sessions. The first work  session would cover new  construction management  approaches, including design  building construction  management at risk. And the  second work session would  focus on public private  partnership since week spaces  through the combination of  these efforts really building  on the great work that's been  done in recent months by and  skin her team in the  facilities department. And we  will chart a new direction for  fcps to accelerate the  construction of school  buildings, school renovations  and do so at lower cost faster  time frames. Thank you. Thank  you, Mr. Dunn icon this Lady  for report on the Governance  Committee.  >> Governance continues to  work on policies. We are  currently trying to work  together with superintendent's  office, too, develop a plan of  attack because the backlog of  policies we have not reviewed  in previous years due to  things taking president like  the boundary policy granting  policy. But we're hard work  and hopefully we'll be  bringing policies to the board  to approve sooner than later.  >> Thank you very Jenna. Item  13 board matters. Without  objection, we will skip board  matters this evening. Seeing  no objections. Agenda item 14.  11:25PM. We are adjourned.