Payments to Vendors, January 2020.

The Board of Trustees approves the payments to vendors for January 2020.

Brought before you are school site safety plans for 2020-2021. There are minor changes from the plans that were brought to you in October of 2019. These changes are reflected in the section for board policies since some of the board policies that were updated this school year.

School safety plans are to be brought to the Board for approval by March 1st of every school year. 

The school safety plans were made following school board policy and San Mateo County's Big Five protocols. The plans were reviewed with staff and SSC/ELAC at each site.

It is recommended that the School Board approve the school safety plans for the 2020-2021 school year.

There is no financial impact to the district.

Under the direction of the Director of Curriculum & Instruction, the Math Coach will build teachers’ capacity, with a specific focus on new teachers, to ensure diverse learners meet the demands of adopted Common Core State Standards and effective classroom implementation of adopted curriculum. Support Site Administrators and the Site Instructional Leadership Teams to plan and implement a quality professional learning plan, through the four professional learning levers:  Professional development; Teacher observation and feedback; Teacher team (PLC) inquiry and collaboration; and Classroom-based coaching cycles and mentoring. 

The District needs a Math Coach to lead instructional priorities and teacher coaching.

Approve the Job Description for Teacher on Special Assignment - Math Coach (K-5).

No fiscal impact.

This contract with the Literacy and Language Collaborative is for the staff of Ravenswood City School District to receive staff development in the 2020-2021 school year from two experienced and expert staff developers trained by the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, including:

• K-5 Summer Institute on Balanced Literacy Practices for General Education and Special Education Teachers
• Summer PD for Dual Immersion teachers specific to application of practices in a bilingual setting
• Summer PD for Literacy Coaches around support of Balanced Literacy practices and standards-aligned curriculum as literacy leaders at their school sites
• On-site professional development at each elementary school throughout the school year to provide ongoing modeling, feedback, training for teachers and coaches that is adaptive to school, teacher, and student needs

This professional development from Lucia Rocha-Nestler and Jennifer Russo, experienced staff developers trained at the Teachers College Reading & Writing Project is an incredible opportunity to provide targeted training to our teachers around Tier 1 and Tier 2 Balanced Literacy practices.  Balanced Literacy is composed of many interconnected practices, including Reading Workshop, Writing Workshop, Interactive Read Aloud, Shared Reading, Interactive Writing, and Guided Reading, among others.  Teachers must understand deeply the needs of their students, align resources, and provide strategic differentiation to accelerate student learning.  To support our district's growth and development in these practices, we will offer summer and school year professional development that includes workshops, as well as in-class support through modeling, coaching and feedback, and collaborative planning.  The on-site professional development will also support our leaders to build and reflect on school-wide systems that support high quality instruction and continuous improvement.  Many of the professional development elements offered will be new structures we have not had the opportunity to experience in previous years, which will be instrumental in lifting the level of our instruction and increasing student learning outcomes.

It is recommended that the board approve the contract with the Literacy and Language Collaborative

Total cost for 10 days of Summer Professional Development and 60 days of School Year Professional Development = $210,000.  Funding provided by Title II Funds for Professional Development and Ravenswood Education Foundation.

Title IV Part A is a federal program from the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and administered by the CDE to increase capacity to provide all students with access to a well-rounded education, improve conditions for student learning, and improve use of technology to improve the academic achievement and digital literacy of all students.  LEAs must submit an addendum to the LCAP to indicate how the federal funds will be used.  Title IV Part A is being added to the initial submission of the LCAP Federal Addendum because we are eligible for funding.

It is required that the LCAP Federal Addendum be approved by the local governing board.

It is recommended that the board approve the LCAP Federal Addendum for Title IV Part A.

With an approved Title IV Part A Federal Addendum, the district can receive Title IV funds.

Unmodified Agenda Attachments added.

Ravenswood City School District (RCSD) has launched work with Attuned Partners to update the district’s Strategic Plan and identify investments to support the priorities that emerge from that planning effort. At the same time RCSD faces declining school enrollment, school consolidation, and the need to address teacher compensation which lags surrounding districts’ compensation by $10-30k annually over the course of a teacher’s career.  In work over the past several months, ERS has partnered with RCSD to develop options for an updated compensation system that can help make teacher pay more competitive and identified ways to strengthen the use of limited resources to enhance the overall teacher value proposition and support stronger instruction.   

To accelerate progress along its path forward, RCSD will need a robust funding strategy.  That strategy must include meaningful resource shifts and tradeoffs that meet budget constraints.  It also must include catalytic investments from local philanthropies to jump start the district’s work and provide the runway needed for the district to make the adjustments needed to assume full financial ownership of its improvement strategy.  This is an exciting opportunity for RCSD and local funders to be exemplars - locally, statewide, and nationally – to show how private funding can help launch district improvement efforts and provide the financial support districts need as they make the system-wide changes that permit sustained long-term efforts.

There is no fiscal impact. 

Per Board direction on February 13, 2020, to increase parents and Pacific Islander members to the 7-11 Advisory Committee. Interim Superintendent Sudaria identified Ms. Lileiti Grew, RMS Parent and Pacific Islander Representative to serve on the 7-11 Advisory Committee.

Education Code section 17389 states that an advisory committee must consist of not less than seven (7) and not more than eleven (11) members, and must be represented by each of the following: (a) the ethnic, age group, and socioeconomic composition of the district; (b) the business community, such as store owners, managers, or supervisors; (c) landowners or renters, with preference to be given to representatives of neighborhood associations; (d) teachers; (e) administrators; (f) parents of students; and (g) persons with expertise in environmental impact, legal contracts, building codes, and land use planning, including, but not limited to knowledge of the zoning and other land use restriction of the cities or cities and counties in which surplus space and real property is located.

Ms. Sudaria recommends that the Board approve the addition of Ms. Lileiti Grew, RMS Parent, to the 7-11 Advisory Committee under criteria (f).  She attended the first Committee Meeting on February 20, 2020. 

List of the current Members of the 7-11 Advisory Committee:

The recommendation is to approve Lileiti Grew to the 7-11 Advisory Committee. 

The Ravenswood City Elementary School District (RCSD) is inviting proposals from qualified vendors to submit a proposal to assist with upgrading and modernizing existing data center at the District Office and adding a secondary data center at the Ravenswood Middle School. Vendors will submit pricing on items to be furnished by the interested party in accordance with all conditions and specifications.

The Phase 3-4 Backup Data Center and Primary Data Center Upgrade Project is part of Bond Measure H and S funded projects that were passed in 2018-19 for modernizing the school district.

To be funded by Bond Measures H and S, the Phase 3-4 Backup Data Center and Primary Data Center Upgrade Project were preliminarily approved by the board in November 2018 for modernizing the school district.

    Phase 1: Phone System Upgrade - District phone system upgrade.

    Phase 2: RMS IT Infrastructure Upgrades – Ravenswood Middle School IT infrastructure modernization and consolidation of multiple school sites into one site. 

    Phase 3: Backup Data Center – creation of backup data center for servers and connectivity to keep IT systems running during outages.

    Phase 4: Primary Data Center Upgrades - modernize and upgrade district servers and services.

    Phase 5: School and District Office IT Infrastructure Upgrades - IT infrastructure upgrades for all remaining schools. 

The Phase 3 and Phase 4 projects have been divided into multiple RFP’s but are all part of the same project. They have been divided into the following components:

1. Physical Plant and Electrical – #RCSD-P3Elec
2. IT Infrastructure - #RCSD-P3IT
3. Provider and ISP - #RCSD-P3ISP

It is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve the Issuance of the three attached Requests for Proposals for IT Infrastructure Upgrade Phases 3 & 4.

The estimated cost of the projects is $1.1 million in goods and services to be provided by the winning proposers, and will be paid for with Measure H & S Bond funds.

The CA State Board of Education has released the template and requirements for the 2020-2023 Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) writing process.  We will share updates around the multi-faceted purposes of the LCAP, including comprehensive strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, and accountability & compliance.