Page 12 September 24, 2015 EL SEGUNDO HERALD School Board from front page care, such as parents who worked full- timeplus schedules. With this proposed expansion of care, we hope to pick-up families in the community who already see us as a great program, love the teaching staff and parent network, and can now have a bit more time of quality care for their children.” Said Grijalva: “We want to continue to meet the need of the family dynamics in the community, and offer support to the families of young children.” Next up to the presentation podium was Marisa Janicek. She detailed the District’s participation in the fairly new CAASPP testing program. The District had field- tested the program in 2013- 14, with no results given. They then tested again in the 2014-2015 school year, and plan on testing again this spring, with students in grades 3-8, and grade 11 being tested. She called it “one measure of how our students are performing throughout the year.” Mentioning that the new testing format is “more rigorous than the old multiple-choice exams that we have been accustomed to with the former standardized tests,” she noted that the students are now testing on a computer, and have to explain “how they solve problems, think critically, and write analytically.” Calling it a “major shift for our students and teachers,” she said the results so far have been “above average,” but cannot be compared to the previous testing results, likening it to comparing “apples and oranges.” She said that this year the administrators and instructors are looking at baseline data and “breaking down and analyzing the results to look at our strengths and areas of focus by schools, grades, and classes.” She said that by analyzing the data, “we can inform our teaching and build interventions and accelerations for individual students.” But as important as these new tests are, she noted that, ultimately, the tests are just “one way to assess the progress of students, like a report card or grades on class assignments.” “As an academic check-up,” she concluded, “these tests are simply one tool to gauge what students know.” In an email received prior to the meeting, ESUSD Superintendent Melissa Moore wrote that “the CAASPP results provide the District with a baseline metric for this new accountability system. We welcome the new, more rigorous system as an opportunity to analyze the data and inform our instructional program. The faculty at each school has embraced the California State Standards. This new system allows for an opportunity to grow and improve Nancy Cobb from page 3 Like Us on Facebook Follow Us on Twitter @heraldpub as a learning organization. We will be watching to see how we grow as a school district, school site, within groups of students, and as individuals over time. We will also be looking to other measures of success that we will also consider as part of our system of continuous improvement.” Student representative to the Board Lexi Griffin next gave her report, which was followed by the Board tackling Tuesday evening’s consent agenda. There were ten items on the consent agenda, including the approval of an April assembly at Richmond Street School; an agreement with Straight Up Communications; and two agreements with school District consultants. The annual Colonial Day assembly will take place at Richmond Street in the afternoon of April 22nd. Always popular with the students, the assembly will last about two hours, and allow the students an interactive, educational experience as they sample Franklin’s Colonial Day Museum on Wheels. Straight Up Communications will be providing the District with professional services as it relates to public relations and communications. The District hopes to “enhance ESUSD’s brand and increase parent and community engagement through communication and promotion of the programs and achievements of the ESUSD and students served by the District.” A consultant agreement with Network Solutions was approved. Network Solutions will provide their expertise in the implementation of the planned upgrade to the District’s network infrastructure. A consultant agreement with A Higher Level was also approved, with the District tasking the company to “provide services to assist in auditing and making recommendations to our existing recipes in the District’s Food Services program.” There were only three items on the action item portion of the agenda during the 100-minute meeting, with the Board taking action on new Eaglet Care fees for the 2015-16 school year. Fees will range from $35 for a one-day, 1.5 hour stay, to $500 per month for a daily stay of 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Superintendent Moore then highlighted the informational calendar, noting PTA events, the Richmond Street Fall Festival that will take place on October 9, and the Great Shakeout and High School College night that are calendared for October 15. Board member reports followed, with Moore then giving her Superintendent’s report. The next regularly scheduled Board meeting is on the docket for Tuesday evening, October 13. • I had an opportunity to meet Senator Barbara Boxer when we worked so diligently to keep the Los Angeles Air Force Base open. Boxer became interested in Technology Transfer from the El Segundo-based aerospace industry and that led to her better understanding of the need for the base to remain open. While cleaning out old Chamber files of El Segundo Business and Professional Women, I came across records of their community leadership program; subsequently, Kathy Hagler and I founded Leadership El Segundo, which Joe Harding revived this past year. “I also worked on various Chamber committees to update Downtown El Segundo and install the Heritage Walk, the tiles along Main Street dedicated to so many families and individuals. I returned to teaching in 1998. Even though owning my business was a successful detour while raising my family and was instrumental in my Chamber involvement, I missed teaching. Being involved with Leadership El Segundo and ‘teaching’ those participants made me realize that,” Cobb recalled. Her years as a teacher taught her many things as well. She taught 9th, 10th, and 11th graders at El Segundo High School, beginning in 1998 until her 2010 retirement from teaching. “As a teacher, it is so important to be flexible. The inevitable changes that are just a part of the education system affect everyone, but especially the classroom teacher. It is necessary for a teacher to change the teaching delivery method with every new standard. My passion about education is my reason for choosing to run for a spot on the Board of Trustees of the El Segundo Unified School District this November,” Cobb said. “In my classroom I kept the lectures short and involved the students in their learning. I encouraged their creativity. I taught from the Socratic viewpoint. If they could express their ideas and defend their interpretations after analyzing the material, I knew they were learning. As the teacher, I may not have agreed with the student, but if they could express what they learned, coming up with a conclusion that was feasible, then I knew indeed they learned from my teaching.” Cobb learned that teachers must be prepared for the constant changes in education and the standards that are always evolving. Since retiring, she started the Teacher Externship Program, along with former Vice Superintendent Janice Hickey, with support from the Ed! Foundation. “All my years in business and working on the BRACs issues taught me that one must always be prepared for turns in the road. We focused on showing teachers what skill sets their students would need in the workplace, so that they could emphasize these in their own classrooms. With the 21st century, teaching has changed. Imagine the adaptation a teacher must make when some instruction and homework are online. The delivery method must be changed, drastically, in the modern classroom. “In a way the introduction of the Externship Program is right in line with the way that technology is now part of academia. My business experience and the Leadership El Segundo program gave me great insight into how large corporations are run, how city government works, the way that retailers and entrepreneurs meld into the landscape of a city, etc. Our city is unique with all the companies that are located in El Segundo. Finding companies to cooperate in Leadership El Segundo and now the Teacher Externship Program has allowed us to bring innovation to the teaching experience. Businesses, teachers, administrators, students, and parents need to work together to have a successful school district,” she further stated. Nancy Cobb understands the need for the well-rounded education of the students. Students need to learn within the standards set forth. All aspects of learning are important and the schools are a basic fabric of the life of the community. A comprehensive school experience is vital for the student to be a contributing adult in the future. It is equally important to learn math and science as well as music and art. “The El Segundo Education Foundation has made it possible to retain the arts in our school district. We must continue to maintain a comprehensive high school experience for the students that includes the arts, sports, and other enriching activities. Rotary sponsors competitions for speech, music, art, and dance. The embedding of the arts in our curriculum has produced no less than second place winners from our District in the entire Southern California District 5280 in the years of competing. College professors are judges and so our entrants are gaining great exposure to colleges around the country.” As a classroom teacher, a business entrepreneur, a leader in her volunteer opportunities with Rotary Club and the Chamber of Commerce, a unique perspective on education, and a passion for teaching and learning, Nancy Cobb appears to be a well-rounded individual with a positive objectivity on the future of education in the 21st century in El Segundo’s schools. • “A comprehensive school experience is vital for the student to be a contributing adult in the future. It is equally important to learn math and science as well as music and art.” PUBLIC NOTICES PUBLISH YOUR PUBLIC NOTICES HERE ABANDONMENTS: $125.00 ABC NOTICES: $125.00 DBA (Fictitious Business Name): $75.00 NAME CHANGE: $125.00 Other type of notice? Contact us and we can give you a price. 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