Property:  2120 Euclid

In support of Strategic Priority #3 to recruit and retain highly effective and diverse team members, the District would like to have the ability to place teacher residents with District mentor teachers while they complete the Marshall Teacher Residency Program. This placement will create a pipeline for single subject credentialed teachers for Cesar Chavez Ravenswood Middle School.

The Marshall Teacher Residency promotes the identification, training, development, and support of high quality single subject credentialed teachers for schools.

Approve the MOU Between Summit Preparatory Charter School and Ravenswood City School District.

As a partner school, if we host a teacher resident in the 2021-22 cohort we will pay a fee of $14,000 for each resident. This fee represents the costs that are incurred by the Marshall Teacher Residency for the recruitment, selection, training and support of Residents.

The District shall pay Teach For America an annual fee for each Teacher employed under this Agreement to defray expenses Teach For America incurred in recruiting, selecting, providing Pre-Service Training and continuing professional development services to the Teachers employed.

The District shall pay Teach For America an annual amount of $5,000 for each year in which such Teacher is employed, up to two years per teacher.  

We propose to renew the contract of our Strategic Pandemic Recovery Consultant, Ann Waterman Roy, at the same hourly rate and average weekly hours. The new term will start in January and end by October 31, 2022. The contract will be month-to-month, and can be terminated at any time. The scope of work in the contract has been updated to match the scope of the COVID recovery grant that we recently received to support this ongoing work.

InfuseCS is a research study led by a team from WestEd and North Carolina State University (“NCSU”). The project is funded by the National Science Foundation (awards #1921503 and #1921495). The goal of InfuseCS is to develop and study the effectiveness of a learning environment that teaches upper elementary students about science through problem-based learning and maker-based digital storytelling.

Participating teachers will be asked to implement the InfuseCS platform, an online learning platform developed and maintained by NCSU, in the classroom. The learning environment is intended to be used as either a replacement unit or supplemental unit in classrooms. 

This program will be used in the art classroom to infuse Science, problem based learning and maker-based digital story telling in art in to art instruction.  

Description of Service:

1. Sessions to review the pilot process for each trimester

2. Monthly lab days to go over and practice the labs for each grade level

3. Ongoing weekly coaching on Monday from 4 - 5 to support the teachers with any questions

4. Monthly NGSS-specific virtual and recorded workshops on lesson planning through a social justice lens. 

At the 10/14/21 Board meeting the Board established a reserve policy for the district of 17% of expenditures. This resolution creates a special fund that will hold reserves in excess of 17%. We will update this with a specific amount during the First Interim process, but are using $9m as a placeholder figure for now.  

This has no fiscal impact on the district; it merely moves money between funds to create greater transparency and simplicity in our budget. 

The attached report details out our expenditure by fund, funding source, object description, and vendor. 

2020 saw a record number of cyber attacks on school districts. These attacks can reveal personal information for students, families, and staff; disable school internet or curriculum systems; or result in our data or systems being held hostage. As a result of this, our cybersecurity costs have been rising at double digit rates for the past few years and are forecast to continue increasing. SMCSIG recommended that we partner with KnowBe4 to conduct fishing phishing scams of district staff - and then accompany that with quality PD. This accompanies investments in our overall security systems (e.g. firewalls) by strengthening our "human factor."

This is a three year contract that costs $14 per employee per year - $12k total. 

The LCAP Federal Addendum is meant to supplement the LCAP to ensure that eligible LEAs have the opportunity to meet the Local Educational Agency (LEA) Plan provisions of the ESSA. 

The LCAP Federal Addendum describes the actions to be taken by the LEA in order to meet the objectives of each ESSA fund.

RTA and the District have tentatively agreed to an evaluation system that shall:

• Provide meaningful feedback that support all unit members to improve throughout their career.
• Identify, meet, and match unit members where they are performing.
• Increase unit member self-reflection on their practice to drive next steps.

RTA and the District have tentatively agreed to a compensation system that shall:

• Be flexible and fluid, reflecting the growth of unit members throughout the year;
• Support the retention of high performers; and
• Support increased recruitment for all positions, especially those hardest to fill.

We need excellent certificated staff for our students and that means we need to be able to retain excellent certificated staff, attract excellent certificated staff, and develop certificated staff to become excellent. We need a compensation system that pays RTA unit members as the professionals that they are throughout their career.

To develop the tentative agreement, RTA and the District engaged in interest-based bargaining, a process that enables traditional negotiators to become joint problem-solvers. It assumes that mutual gain is possible, that solutions which satisfy mutual interests are more durable, and that the parties should help each other achieve a positive result.

There is no financial impact to the District's general fund. The $1.3 million cost will be offset by the corresponding Ravenswood Education Foundation grant.

Pursuant to AB1200, the San Mateo County Office of Education has reviewed the Public Disclosure of Collective Bargaining Agreement outlining the Tentative Agreement (TA) between the District and RTA against the latest available SACS data, the 2021-22 Adopted Budget, and concurs with the District’s assessment that it can meet the projected costs. 

Through Assembly Bill 130 the State created an Educator Effectiveness Block Grants. Ravenswood has, through that program, automatically been awarded $606,365.00. These funds can be expended during the 2021-22 school year or during any point before the end of the 2025-2026 school year.

One of the two conditions for these funds is that on or before December 30^th, 2021, the district must develop and adopt a plan delineating the expenditure of funds. The plan shall be presented in a public meeting of the governing board of the school district before its adoption in a subsequent public meeting.

The attached document represents the plan for spending these funds over the next several years, by incorporating this amount into the District's 2022-23 budgeting process. 

Ravenswood City School District’s voters approved Measure H on June 7, 2016, authorizing the issuance of up to $26 million in General Obligation Bonds to support the District’s efforts to provide warm, safe and dry learning environments. Pursuant to the requirements of Prop 39, expenditures of proceeds from Measure “H” are required to be reviewed by a Citizens’ Oversight Committee for each fiscal year in which such expenditures occur.

This report represents the committee's report for Measure H for the Fiscal Year Ending 2019. 

The district has been informally exploring creating a community hub at the site of Bay Road. The idea would be to develop the space to potentially include:

• A new district office(including a board room, office space, training areas, storage, fleet yard, etc.)
• A new library for the school and the community
• Sport areas(e.g. a gym or tennis courts)
• Staff housing
• A health clinic and/or other services used by members of our community (e.g. WIC) that align with the mission of district

We would like to build this at the lowest possible cost for the district and would like to formally explore possible partnerships to use this space. While we are asking for board approval to explore options for this site, this purely authorizes district staff to explore uses but would not obligate the district to enter into any agreements without board approval.