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Remarks by CUHSD Superintendent Robert Bravo at November 9, 2016, quarterly management meeting.

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so now the main event okay so what is the what is the purpose of this meeting the purposes I wanted to give you or trying where we need to be within the and to get some input from you all and I have had enough  experience in my life to know sometimes I don't explain myself as well as I think I do a lot of people will say you'll talk very much do you I'm one of those people on the exam time people say you're a person of few words so and I think I told you this when we first had our first all management in August so if I don't if I don't say enough for you to feel like you I need you to say can you say more about that  and not feel bad about it expected you might do that  okay so first  where are we now so when I came into the district one of my early experiences was was learning of that it was hard to what are physician wife  our former CEO was doing and the letter basically said whatever you do in the negotiation with just the dongle above 2% at the same time alarm for me to get because I think the  work a small number of P the budgets and where our money was kept in exactly how I was being allocated  so when I return to different folks for advice or a lot of people said I don't know not I don't I really don't know how much you spend on extra wires and so one of the things very early do we need to do  more people  involved in knowing what the pin was in the budget some people who knew a lot about you know he knows that but he pretty well then you but he's also been giving a lot of the time  but I think I when it came to our general fund I think that was not so I think one of the earlier  we had to do was just start building ever build the knowledge of so we can are you going to do  flipper best using our assets did is a lot like vignette our first your teeth it honestly I think we are still in the truly  no the first interim report goes to the board on December 8th  so I can say absolutely by meaning I'm going to know how I feel like we're doing in the longer term and what the future looks like that could say yes  I could recommend you the board yes we can take 6% just too  cover symbol that raises for other units I felt that confident to do that but I still felt like an even today so feel like a little bit like two-person airplanes in fog  going to the mountains are we go and I want to say yes to lots of things so that has really been the short-term priority is really just understanding what's what's the ground what are the reefs do even  in this endeavor of trying to educate the students and be the schools that you would come to expect to see in a place like Silicon Valley and haven't been away from the valley for a while I'm coming back and walking through the school's walking through the classes you have in your eBay tell me more but it doesn't feel very cute so how do we close that yeah how do we make the school feel like what we expect in our head the age places of innovation so that's really been a short-term priority is Shore up that fence where we are physically learn and see if I can start to determine what are the things that are stopping us from being the school's you would imagine we might living in a place to be a hotbed of innovation and at the same time  don't mess up so badly that we don't pass did that would have been fun that would not have been fun mountain pass some sort of in the short-term things on my mind  and when I have met with the principles for example to talk with him about their the revaluations for the most part I don't think I gave when you guys go you know your uncle's and I just took them I said I trust you enough right now that I go to accept these clothes for what they are right now because I don't feel like I know the ground to tell you weather I'm going to go with it  so now that being said I am starting to have a sense though how far it how fast I think we could get it a disc supposed to do that when you remember this one from last make this right  in the county this is the class of 2015 and this is one of those things that I think I surprise me it's not what I when I thought about my own sort of conception of what Campbell was like in my head and throwing up anything like fun 8 out of 11 and this is what it in for Hispanics wow that your social economic so kind of the same story we would seem to be a district under-performing its potential  if I don't don't tell anybody I said it probably almost even say she thank goodness cry because that's really the only guys in the rear view mirror everybody else in now I didn't talk about this too much in August but I had seen this and it was on my mind and time this is David from the healthy kids survey in the healthy kids survey there are some questions about health drug use that kind of thing but there are also some questions about and those fell under three different kind of heading there were some questions to ask kids and then there was another sets at saying do these adults great ways in which you hidden engaging Endeavor of some so then kids react to basic so on the first one hearing a dog questions that responded finally agree  then you have a big group of the middle who kind of agree and then 14% they were no there's not even one person on campus that I really think cares about you highest paid patient those who me questions like there's some one of my teachers or someone who I work in like an adult on campus I can be a success  could you give me Karen but have lost vacations right  honey I love you you're as dumb as a doorknob this is different high expectations mean you're going to be somebody  so here 39 this actually better here almost 40% of the kids says yes you somebody a good  52% Lottery you had those two together just 9% in the low that's not so bad but this last one how about meaningful party those are I sometimes have choice in the kinds of activities I do in school  or I believe that I'm engaged in meaningful work School  and here's word to me it just totally flip the other way  now you have only 12% that's the lowest one in your low goes up to thirty five percent  you still have the meat but we have a with this tells me though is that while I would like all these to be better this idea I think there's something to be said part is the so  we probably don't have all the engagement going on NSA walkthrough classes I've seen some classes where I feel like I got through some other classroom or I was like this would be hard to sit through day after day right so  based on this date it is time for you to have Nativity who made from the day add where do you in 5 years are too far away do I look at it and thought about what I came up with for overall next week in Hispanic but do it turn off more people who pick the right class  you can't do the there's some dishonesty baked into that that's not what I'm trying to do I don't have any interest in setting kids up and then have that come down when they drop out in the first semester yes I think part of the way to get there night I did here at the table someone pointing out is true then see how the kids are they dated that was the ninth graders  so if we survey  but of course we would have the same number anymore so  what are the barriers to getting to do what we talked about what some of you your time you're you're you're sort of already some of you of like will do we need to make our high school graduation date responsibility of our team here to work at the board  and how him build some consensus around a policy solution right Mary talked a little bit about ratios a guy adviser alarm for 1 number of guy Asian that's another thing then it's kind of top of my mind so there are some there's some parts of a solution responsibilities of my and district is team to work with the board around getting Solutions there  there will be those part of the solutions though they're going to clearly arrest and something has to happen at the Saga level 7 District office really ever do  the part of the you all do we can make those relationship from far away we can't monitor so it's going to be a shared responsibility look in your head so  when is the Corona Light from an author named David Allen David Allen is a guy who wrote a book called getting things done and everything what is cold that I when you know what y how are we going to do that well through the elk antler velvet what I really want to put the focus on a strong needs assessment so I think I think trying to bring more of that kind the picture of how much and then have a hold the phone what are and then we are going to bring group in here to do a professional before you guys got the man make it on it's not instructional group that specializes in teaching management so this is going to do this please like how many times do you the somebody and it didn't get done obviously we're not going all be in the room the same time you got to stagger it right because we can all just abandon the campus we're going to have different shift to go through this  the teacher contract we already have some working groups working around My Hope and gold again I'll know more change the dialogue around the current contract is really move right now not right there still just as far out in front of hey we're going to 73 you that we need you to do something for us half what are some parts so this is sort of short-term  things happening between now and and January but thinking about it ultimately result of the the outcasts plan  you see how much success we might have around moving up in so that's kind of the job I think I'm asking you to come along with me on in the next few months his helping us start taking the dialogue there about what's it going to take to get to this this end point

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