So, that would control that device. So, is that the home computer phone? No. But students use these Chromebooks all hours of the day, right? So, I think that would be a huge plus. I don't want to call it a win, but plus for our parents to be able to control at least that device. Um, so that's the goal next year is to roll that out. Managing that. It's just those little things, right? Two households, both guard, one locks, one doesn't. What? And then we get pulled into the middle of it. Now, it's not a reason to run from it, but that's re reality. I don't know how we're going to manage that other than it's going to have to go back to the school which then is another thing on top, right? So, we have to talk about those pieces and figure that out. But absolutely, I want to get that out next year.
So I'm going to loop that back around to our teachers. I know I started with Kids Congress. That's the difference each of you make in those kids' lives. So thank you for that. the value is inestimable and you your value is inestimable as well. Thank you, Mr. Man, and I agree. All right, that brings us to our next item, which is 5A, our student outcomes focused governance. In the fall of 2023, Kraton School District adopted a student outcomes focused governance SOFG framework to ensure a focus on improving student outcomes. A student outcomes focused governance framework. What is this you may say? It is based off of six researched informed competencies which include vision and goals, monitoring and accountability, unity and trust, guardrails, communication and cal collaboration and continuous improvement. Um we have our goals and our guardrails up on our websites and we have them displayed on our board as well.
Okay. Yeah. Thank you. You're welcome. Any other questions from the board? All right. Thank you very much. Well done, gentlemen. Thank you for the hard work. It's very important. All right. Uh, that will bring us to adjournment of our work study and we'll move right into our brief board business meeting. Does anybody need to take a break or anything before we move on? Okay. Then I'll call the brief board business meeting to order and ask Miss Wilson to do roll call. Mr. Chad Thompson here. Miss Shaina Murray here. Dr. Blake Robersonson here. Miss Jill Humphre here. Mr. Jesse Rainard here. Mr. President, all board members are present. You have a quorum. Thank you, Miss Wilson. Uh, agenda item number five. Uh, consent agenda. Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda as outlined on our agenda this evening? So moved. Thank you, Miss Humphre.
And today we're actually not going to have a progress monitoring report, but we're going to actually discuss what's called a theory of action. And basically what a theory of action is um a set of high-level strategies to which all school system inputs and and outputs must be aligned. Unlike guardrails or goals, the theories of action do not have interim guard rails. And we I hope the board had an opportunity to go over the theory of action um recommendations. We did do a study session I would like to say about a month ago. Has it been that long already? It's a little longer. I think it was back in March. Okay. In March. So in March we had a study session with our coach um from student outcomes focused governance Dr. Raml. And we really sat down and really created this action of theory that is based on um systemic autonomy.
Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Dr. Robersonson. All those in favor of approving the consent agenda as outlined on our agenda tonight, please do so by saying I. I.
We'll go over um what that means and we'll have a chance to ask any questions or get any clarifying points out of it. But I think it's very important that we do have a theory of action because it sets basically the standard for the district on how we're aligning our goals and our guard rails. And if these actionable items I would say um are consistent in our district, then eventually we get to our end goal of the student outcomes and improving them. So Mr. man if you have anything to add on um I will turn it over to you. Yeah, I appreciate that. Um when when we finished our study session in March, the work product that we had were we had kind of broken up into two groups and developed two prototype theories of action like we'd gone through several iterations on that on that Saturday.
Any opposed? And that passes. Thank you. And 6.01, which has been brought to our attention. Um, I think we should just skip that. What do you think? Well, I really I really got to go. Yeah. Uh so please stick around uh after the board meeting so we can make sure that that's signed or else I think we'll get in trouble. Yeah. Uh and that's it for tonight. Um we'll go ahead and adjourn our brief. We we have to vote on 61. We have We have to vote. Yeah, we have to. I thought we were just told we had to. All right. Let's see how this goes. All right. Uh, is there a motion uh to approve the fiscal year 2025 budget revision number three? So moved. Thank you, Mr. Briner. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Miss Humphre.
Um but at the end what one of the things we noticed was the two work products were highly overlapping. Um there was a lot of actual literal verbatim exactly the same language between the two. And so what you have in front of you today represents the final merging of those two. It just basically brought anything that wasn't represented in both to be represented in the final version of of that theory of action. So, um, it is my belief that it captures everything that we talked about that day and that the board felt was a priority and it also captures the feedback of the administrative team that was with us helping to support this work. You know, because they're the ones that ultimately need to help put those inputs together that are going to move us towards our interim outputs and our and eventually our outcomes.
Uh, is there any discussion? Well, I just think um I really appreciate what a great job and how transparent we are because of our fine uh budget people that are keeping us on track. So, thank you. All right. Thank you. Anything else? All right. And we'll call for a vote. All those in favor of approving the fiscal year 2025 budget revision number three, say I. I. I.
Yeah. And all of the work through our goals, our guardrails, and even this theory of action is really rooted also based off of the feedback that we did in the initial work when we're doing all our surveys and going out to the schools and presenting. So, this is never really done without community input and student voice. I'd love to see how we're, you know, before we used to have a strategic plan with no actual smart goals. And I love to see how now our smart goals and a lot of the things that we're doing in the district has that student in um input and voice and you can kind of see when we're working on it. Also, the theory of action has usually is made up of three if statements that describe the non-negotiable highlevel strategies that are believed to be critical to accomplishing the goals while honoring the guardrails.
Any opposed? Thank you very much. And now we will move on to our adjournment. Um is there a motion to uh adjourn our meeting this evening? So moved. Thank you, Dr. Robson. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Miss Murray. All those in favor of unless there's some discussion about adjournment that it's not a discussible item, actually. Well, actually, I would like to uh All those in favor of adjournment say I. I.
And this is basically why we have this theory of action. Um, should we put it up? Yeah, we should put it up, but I'm not sure who trying to put it up. Oh, okay. Um, while we're getting it up, board members, you've had the opportunity to have this for a couple weeks.
Do we have any questions, any comments, any wonderings about the action of theory? And I also know that we have the study session, so you guys um pretty much know, but this is what was created by the superintendent and the team based off of all of our work. And it kind of aligns both of the things that both teams had wanted on there.
Any questions or comments? I liked seeing this because that's one thing that I had kind of um I guess witnessed and heard about that some things being kind of implemented a certain way at one school but then not at another whether it's in regards to like discipline or student conduct or or you know professional development stuff like it's cool to um to have it kind of like uniform to have some things that the district is making sure um all of our schools are doing a certain way, but then also allowing for that leeway for each school to be able to do, you know, some other maybe not as high level or critical things. I don't know if that's the right word. Um but, you know, to still be able to do things their own way to kind of develop like their own culture in a sense.
and also seeing on there um that we're prioritizing the community outreach team um and also um you know that that it's specified here engaging the community and having that and families and to uh yeah that was it. Yeah. And I would I the way that I kind of saw this um interplaying with the stuff that we've kind of already done. I kind of see this like a district resolution, right? It's a set of statements that we're saying this is what we hold as high standards in our district. Um we need to ensure that our schools are being prioritized, that they have content, coaching models. That was one thing that we recurrently heard for years and years that teachers were not being supported and if they did have a coach, it was very sure they show up and there was no real feedback, right? Or whatever the case was.
So with all the new strategies and everything we've been doing, this sets a really clear message as a district. Also, when we're not here, right, we're not going to have Mr. Man for years and years where we don't, at least I don't plan on being here forever. Um, I would like to, you know, go back to my babies and my two dogs at some point. So um this really sets the statement for I always talk about seven generations the next leaders that will be leading and how our district and community this is all you know ongoing conversations that we had with communities and what really we really true um hold important. I also love the community outreach aspect and I love that it says if students needs are prioritized over adult convenience and I know this gets a lot of people because they're like what do you mean adult convenience?
It can be the smallest things ever even as a community member being at your neighborhood association and then public school gets brought up. What are we doing and not staying comfortable in our own zone to actually advocate for our students or our teachers in those settings. So, this goes broader and that's what I think I think of when I think of adult convenience is what am I doing in my role or in whatever space I am to actually advocate for our kids or teachers? because sometimes, you know, you don't want to ruffle some feathers or you think it's not appropriate and even sometimes not saying anything could be um as simple as um an easy solution or something. So, I love that the adult convenience part on here is and it's my favorite when we get to the end, right? It's saying if all these things are happening and we include HR in here, too, because we want to make sure our human resource department is actually working for our our staff.
Um it basically says that the district office and school leaders based on areas of responsibility and student outcomes will basically be operating eventually in their own autonomy and all this will be a sentiment or obviously will lead to our outcomes and moving the needle for our students. So I think this is a great start. Um I don't know if we have any edits but I love it as is. I'm open to any other suggestions or comments you may have. Do you guys feel um comfortable enough moving forward and adopting the theory of action or would you guys like to have a second round so you guys can look it over? But I think with the study session that we had, I know Miss Gibson McClean's not here, but she was very a lot of the stuff that's in here is some of the stuff that she was saying at her study session as well.
So, can we maybe get um some information like is this going to be posted online or how does this work? Um you know, are we passing that out to everybody? I how how or where are we making this known and and ensuring that this is how we're operating? Does that I mean to to an extent it's an internal operations document but that doesn't mean it shouldn't have full transparency. So it will definitely be added to the SOFG section on our web page so that way it is it is out there. Um I know you know we have sort of our temporary solution in this room for having our um goals and guard rails but now with the theory of action I believe we have all of the components. So one of the things that we'd like to do is make sure that you know we develop a more permanent way of having that information captured in this room.