School Board Meeting - February 2, 2022

001all right all right all right welcome to the Wednesday February 2nd 2022 board meeting welcome everyone we're gonna start off with the Pledge of Allegiance so please rise thank you roll call please director van here director Howell here director Garcia here director Bradford here director Alvarez thank you very much and now we're gonna recess to a special board meeting an executive session for approximately 90 minutes to evaluate the qualifications of an applicant for public employment is there a motion so moved is there a second a second all right all those in favor I perfect we will now be gone for 90 minutes yep thank you thank you so when we're up here you can stand next to me okay and then then we'll just swap like I'll come over unless you're gonna know okay I'll

002do it for her since I have to know I'm not no so you yeah so you're gonna yes right there I'll do that for her yes all right all right all right we should start getting the ball rolling thank you everyone we are now returning back from executive session I'm gonna move to agenda item 1.4 is there a call for any changes or additions to the regular board meeting agenda dr. Van president Garcia thank you I would I would like to make a motion to move agenda item what believe eight point three up to eight point one eight point five oh eight point five yes trying to open up my computer here to eight point one is there a do we have to second okay can I get a second for this please I'll second

003that thank you all those in favor please say aye aye aye all those opposed extensions motion passes thank you all right well thank you everybody for welcome us back we are gonna move on to agenda item 2.1 proclamations you're up okay good evening everybody thank you president Garcia and board members we have two proclamations this evening the first for national school counseling week and then for career and technical education month before I read them do we have any of our wonderful school counselors here tonight I don't think we do so is it is Jennifer here you're gonna accept okay and for career and technical education is it there's chance and Juan okay excellent thank you so we'll start with a national school counseling week proclamation so whereas school counselors are employed in our schools to

004help students reach their full potential and whereas school counselors are actively committed to helping students explore their abilities strengths interests and talents as these traits relate to career awareness and development and whereas school counselors help parents or guardians focus on ways to further the educational personal and social social growth of their children and whereas school counselors work with teachers and other educators to help students explore their potential and set realistic goals for themselves and whereas school counselors seek to identify and utilize community resources that can enhance and complement comprehensive school counseling programs and help students become productive members of society and whereas comprehensive developmental school counseling programs are considered an integral part of the educational process that enables all students to achieve success in school now therefore I Susan Enfield superintendent of Highline public schools

005to hereby proclaim that February 7 through 11th 2022 is national school counseling we can Highline and I urge citizens to join me in honoring and recognizing the dedication and hard work of all school counselors so a big shout out to our amazing counselors across the district who are needed have always been needed but are needed more than ever in these current times we are grateful for what you do to support our students and next our proclamation for career and technical education month whereas the month of February has been designated career and technical education month by the Association for career and technical education and whereas profound economic and technological advances necessitate a capable educated workforce with career-ready skills thereby placing new and additional responsibilities on our educational system and whereas career and technical education connects Americans

006with potential careers and is the backbone of a strong well-educated workforce which fosters productivity in business and industry and contributes to American leadership in the international marketplace and fill the growing skills gap and whereas career and technical education offers individuals lifelong opportunities to learn new skills which provide them with career choices and potential satisfaction and whereas the ever increasing cooperative efforts of career and technical educators business and industry stimulate the growth and vitality of our local economy and that of the entire nation by preparing graduates for career fields forecast to experience the largest demand in the next decade now therefore I Susan Enfield superintendent of Highline public schools to hereby proclaim February is career and technical education month in Highline and I call upon all Highline citizens to become familiar with the services and benefits

007offered by the career and technical education programs in our district and so if I could have Jennifer and Juan and chance come up and take these and we'll do a photo with the board and next up we are really really fortunate to have Pacific middle school doing a school presentation right welcome welcome good evening president Garcia members of the board and superintendent Enfield thank you for having us here tonight my name is Vanessa banner this is my eighth year in Highline school district this is my fifth year at Pacific middle school where I'm honored to lead such an amazing community of students and a wonderful staff Pacific is an avid school for those of you who aren't aware of avid avid stands for advancement via individual determination our avid elective classes support students who are

008in the academic middle who may identify in a group that has been historically disenfranchised or maybe low-income or a student who is first-generation college-going avid is one of our Pacific strategies embedded in our culture through our avid elective classes our avid excel classes and in building wide strategies to help support equity and eradicate systemic racism I'd like to introduce miss house she is one of our awesome teachers at Pacific she teaches seventh grade PE and is our eighth grade avid elective teacher she will be highlighting and introducing our superstar student who I am so excited to have with us here this evening thank you good evening everybody my name is Claudia house and I'm super proud to announce our superstar student who when miss banner asked me to you know come up with somebody who

009could represent not only Pacific but specifically the avid program I immediately thought of Anna and she's here with her mom Martha so welcome both of you and we have a slide about Anna I think yeah because Anna is a very outgoing student she is very supportive of all her friends her classmates she's an awesome team player and since avid stands for advancement via individual individual determination I had to put up there that Anna is determined she wasn't that determined when she started in middle school but she has come a long long way I'm super proud of her this is the second year I teach her in the avid program she's also member of the soccer team at Pacific she's gonna be a member of the volleyball team she's very involved in school and her career

010goal is a veterinarian and I'm super proud of you superstar student Anna come on up my experience at Pacific was like really good like but in the beginning it was rocky um but I think at Pacific if you really want to have a good like time there you have to build a bond with the teachers like you have to try for you for yourself like advocate for yourself for me like it took me a while to build bonds with my teacher but it was like really worth it because then it was like much easier for me to ask for help and like get things that I need like I needed to get help with and um I think what really helped me the most was joining avid too because then I was able to like

011talk like speak up for myself even more and know what like I have to do and like get myself organized all the way um I think like I've it like really helps you like persevere through ways and like help you get more organized and more prepared for high school and then college and like open up your pathways for college too and like with miss house like she'll like really help you get more determined and things like that and without her like I probably wouldn't be where I am now because she like really motivated me to be where I am now and I think that's what I would really is all about like to help you out and prepare yourself even more so Anna congratulations we have a certificate for you but before we do that

012the board members may have questions for you so hold on stay right up there if anyone has questions well congratulations Anna so in regards to avid what would you say to a student that is coming into pacific how would you have them join you to be part of avid I would tell them like what benefits there is of avid and like what things though like be able to do such as the trips which like help you open up your mind more about colleges and how like it'll help you through life like give you like life lessons and stuff like that so like I mean if most students really care about the future they'll like really want to join avid and like I have like good experience there so I could really like try to convince

013them to join that is awesome great job congratulations I have a question if so I see that your career goal is to be a veterinarian what kind of experiences would you want Highland schools to give you over the next four years five years here at Highline so that we can make sure you get that experience so you end up becoming a veterinarian when you graduate I don't know really like I know I have to take a lot of like science classes biology classes to become a veterinarian so something around giving me like science classes to learn about the anatomy about animals and things like that awesome and just one more because I love asking this one it's kind of fire in the sky but if we gave you a magic wand to do anything to

014make your experience here at Highline better what would you use the magic wand for I guess like make the teachers more approaching like like some of them look kind of scary but like they're really nice awesome thank you thank you thank you we are so Highline proud of you so thank you so much oh I just want to say and I congratulations and being that you're so determined you're gonna get to where you want to be so congratulations keep up the good work thank you I think I just had one congratulations to you Anna and to your mom I think that's here as well and thank you thank you for being part of Pacific community as well as Highline community I am thinking about as you prepared a transition to high school what are some

015of the avid qualities that you are going to take with you as you enter into high school even if the teachers look scary which they don't well of course the note-taking because that like really helps me for my test and stuff like that and my determination and my motivation of course because without that I wouldn't really be able to make it throughout high school absolutely thank you so much I just wanted to add congratulations and I'm so proud of you I I feel like you really embody everything that avid proclaims and that Highline aspires to be so congratulations and I'm just a little bummed that I'm not teaching at Mount Rainier and I get to have you in class I had your sister I think anyway thank you so much and congratulations thank you so

016Anna I'm gonna read your certificate and then we'd like to have you come up and take a photo with the board and your mom is welcome to join as well or take photos herself totally up to her but this is what your certificate reads in recognition for going above and beyond in your studies and serving as a role model within your school and our community we honor you as a Highline Public Schools student superstar and you should know that there is only we have over 17,000 students in Highline Public Schools and we have one student superstar this month and it's you so you should be very very proud and I also want to acknowledge the incredible female role models that you have in Miss House and Miss Banner and Miss Dunbar and Miss Martin who

017are supporting you in this journey so my thanks to you all as well for helping her let's give her a big round of applause okay top that principal banner I don't know if I can follow Anna Anna is a perfect example of what the growth mindset is at Pacific and what we strive to be so it was amazing to have her here today the heart of our work at Pacific is to know every student by name strength and need and ensure they graduate prepared for the future they choose and Anna is a perfect example of how we work at Pacific over the past five years our student demographics have so significantly shifted and we're becoming more diverse each year our English language learners have nearly doubled over the time and students with disabilities have also

018increased also shifting significantly is the increase in our free and reduced student population our current staffing demographics are predominantly white however our past five years we've been intentional with our hiring practices and we were becoming more diverse as a representation of our student body 66 percent of our teachers have been at Pacific's for six years or longer and 22 percent of those teachers are nationally board certified so that is a highlight and so we provided supplemental material for you to view it's the Viking Way and our shared beliefs at Pacific and we put them in front of at your tables so in 2018 and 2018-19 Pacific students and staff created the Viking Way I think that's really important to know that it was really truly student driven the Viking Way represents our mission our vision

019and ultimately what we strive for what we strive for every day at Pacific Middle School so I'd just like to read it and share with you what it is the Viking Way we respect diversity show compassion and support and encourage each other we have an adventurous spirit so we try new things and we have a growth mindset we demonstrate our character with integrity we strive every day to do our best work and to be our best selves we are Vikings we make a difference this is the Viking Way the Viking Way guides us in all aspects of our work with students and staff I'd like to transition to my amazing team is Dunbar our instructional coach at Pacific and Miss Martin our assistant principal will follow good evening in 2019 our student ELA scores were

020above the district average in seventh and eighth grades and above the district and state averages in eighth grade and this was the trend in scores in the years prior to the pandemic these results aligned to the intentional standards-based instruction and standards-based grading the Pacific teachers have been refining for the last several years at Pacific language arts and history teams collaborate to teach and assess reading and writing skills in both classes using the same rubrics and common format for argument writing along with weekly reflection and goal setting and reassessment all of which offer students layered opportunities for learning and feedback on these critical literacy skills in both classes Pacific Pacific math scores while above the district level in spring of 2019 have been stagnant for math in the fall of 2019 along with the district adopted

021curriculum we also started with a robust schedule of coaching cycles through district math coaches in both general ed classes and our co-taught classes and then in the spring of 2020 the pandemic forced schools into remote learning and that work was interrupted this year there have been some staffing changes and the PLC work around backward planning and complex instruction continues to be a critical factor in supporting students to grow these critical math skills in the science assessment the W cast our students usually score above the district average and our science team is highly collaborative and focuses their lessons on engagement and daily formative assessment that is standards-aligned for our iReady scores last school year the iReady benchmark data shows that the percentage of our students performing three or more grade levels below in reading went from

02244% to 34% and in math 44% of our multilingual learners met or exceeded their typical growth like all schools we are always working toward 100% daily attendance rate but we are currently in line with the district average of 89% daily attendance the item I want to highlight about our attendance data that is behind the scenes work is that we do have an attendance team that meets weekly to support the work and we discuss students who are experiencing multiple barriers to attending school these meetings are always data driven and they are solutions oriented so our success Dean runs data on a weekly basis and we develop plans to support these students these plans of support will look like something for example it could just be meeting with a student it could be calling the family and

023simply making those kinds of connections it could be setting up a check-in check-out system for a student or even just providing them a bus pass we have a point person that we assign for each and every student who's experiencing attendance barriers and the data that student is going to show up on our data report on a weekly basis if they have had three full-day absences and the new students are added each week and some students do get removed from our agenda if we've seen significant improvement so we're always monitoring that on a weekly basis we also spend time each week discussing each student as an individual talking about their strengths and needs and then making sure that we're diligent about reaching out to families and documenting any interventions and supports that we're trying and monitoring

024those as well I have the pleasure of leading this team made up of our counselors and success Dean and then the highlights around that are going to be that we have no tardy parties on a monthly basis to honor students who have zero tardies for designated time period and then we also have monthly attendance challenges to celebrate students who have improved attendance over the course of the last month for behavior data so over the past five years we have seen a shift in some of our discipline data at Pacific over time I think that I want to honor and respect something that we've done is over time we have been able to build up and improve our re-engagement also known as our ISS program to support and keep students engaged with their academics as well

025as provide the behavior supports necessary when students are re-engaging for example one of the highlights of the program is that mediations and restorative meetings are embedded into the program when there has been a conflict either between a student to student or yes between the student there's a student to student conflict that happened prior to them arriving in the re-engagement program we acknowledge that there are still some disproportionate behavioral referral rates at Pacific but we also know that we are working toward improvements in these areas so for example in comparing the 1920 school year to the current school year we have seen the disproportionate rates begin to close for students who receive special education services and we have nearly completely closed the disproportionality rate for referrals for our Latino students lastly we have also reduced the

026rate at which students have repeat incidences and so that has been reduced by five percent I know that's not a big number but we want to celebrate small wins and so that has reduced five percent over the last the 1920 in the current school year so everything we do is rooted in our foundation equity instruction relationships and support our school-wide strategies are essential to equity and student growth work at Pacific so I just like to highlight some of our school-wide strategies that we use and standards-based instruction ensures that all students are being taught the grade level standards because we believe that every student can be successful with the right supports in place standards-based grading ensures that students are being assessed on the grade level standards and rubrics are provided so students understand what they need

027to know and be able to do in order to meet standard standard-based gracing and sorry standard-based grading fosters a growth mindset and supports goal-setting and reassessment opportunities for students to be successful professional learning communities provide the space for teachers to do the backwards planning from the standards where they collaborate on common assessments and rubrics develop intentionally daily lesson plans with learning targets that provide a trajectory for students to be able to meet the standard avid provides best practices for all students like organizational skills using a planner note-taking and higher level questioning inclusion is aligned to our belief that all students can succeed all students are in general education classes where we provide intentional supports like co-teaching para support and intentional differentiation and scaffolding depending on the individual student needs ignite is a strategy that I

028think it is important for two reasons first our seventh and eighth graders mentor our incoming sixth graders and teach advisory lessons to them that focus on how to transition to middle school successfully academically and socially as well as learning about the Viking way it is also important because it provides a platform for so many other students to be in a leadership role and we're talking about 60 to 70 students that have an opportunity to be leaders and mentors there's six six aspects here that I want to highlight about our school culture so as was mentioned the Viking way is the part of all that we do it support students and staff with a grown mindset and the perspective that aligns the SPI and SPG practices and it really supports our work with equity as do

029our shared beliefs which are on the backside of that supplemental material that was provided to you in line with the district mission and vision Pacific is committed to becoming an anti-racist school staff have engaged in professional development around this work over the last two years and we have members on the IRI advisory committee working to learn and support that work as well the first belief statement for specific is listed on that supplemental material and it discusses relationships being the heart of the work which actually Anna spoke to earlier and so we have restorative practices that are natural outcome of that belief and the restorative practices are utilized in student to student conflict we have involved families in these meetings when appropriate and so we'll have family to family mediation and we also use these practices

030when there is a need to mediate between staff and students and so that's something that we're we're really proud of that Pacific we do have an MTSS model that we follow and the highlights of this model are the STS protocol which is students to support protocol formerly known as students of concern the teaching practices that create predictability for all of our students with both behavior for example our consequence ladder and then also academics which would be our standards and our rubrics that are transparent for all students and families and then we also have our collaborative tier two and tier three teams like our attendance team and our care team which is our tier three which supports students who have exited the STS protocol celebrating students is something that fits into our daily practices both inside

031and outside of the classroom so some examples of this would be when teachers utilize student exemplars in their classroom to guide their teaching students also earn live school points as part of our school economy and as a staff we select students monthly who who are exemplifying the Viking way and those students are nominated for student of the month lastly and I think the most impactful is that we have been implementing the house model at Pacific for four years now groups of students share the same four core teachers and this allows teachers to collaborate around content cross curricular items and most importantly meeting around student needs and strengths to guide our work both academically and behaviorally okay so here I want to highlight Pacific's work on standards-based grading and standards-based instruction which both miss banner miss

032Martin have touched on as well a few years back Pacific teachers worked collaboratively to develop building-wide standards-based instruction and standards-based grading agreements for all teachers in all subject areas to guide instruction the result was transparent and equitable grading practices that put students in control of their learning at the beginning of new learning standards-based rubrics are unpacked by students at the start so they know what they need to know and be able to do to reach mastery in that standard portfolio reflections guide students to use those rubrics to analyze their own formative and summative assessments and feedback from their teacher so that they can set goals for their next assignment in the standard if they don't reach standard the first time students reflect and reassess until they meet mastery their teachers meet and grade-level professional learning

033communities to analyze student data and make adjustments to their instruction to meet the needs of their student a Pacific recently became a one-to-one school and our students and teachers have responded by taking advantage of digital tools that allow for simple and reliable formative assessment and student engagement and choice Pacific teachers use backward planning and standards-based instruction to design experiences that adapt to the needs of students on their progression toward mastery digital tools like Pear Deck collect formative assessment that is used to determine individualized instruction in the classroom and during remote learning as needed I ready provides additional individualized instruction to meet students where they are when they aren't able to access in person instruction the portfolio reflection practices at Pacific empower students to set goals and choose learning opportunities and materials that align to the

034needs they identify for themselves and teachers provide individualized feedback in an interactive cycle using digital tools like Google classroom rubrics Desmos Pear Deck screencast if I submit quizzes and so many more prior to the 2019-2020 school year Pacific only offered one section of eighth grade Spanish that was year-long since the 1920 school year when we implemented world language for all sixth graders as a year-long course our world language program has grown in response to student interests we currently have one full seventh grade year-long Spanish class and one full eighth grade year-long Spanish class those seventh graders will leave Pacific with two full years of Spanish and the opportunity to earn high school credit through a proficiency based exam prior to the 1920 school year Pacific also did not have a heritage program now heritage students

035at all levels can grow their Spanish skills and earn high school credit getting them closer to earning the state seal of biliteracy as for high school graduation standards based instruction and standards based grading provide the platforms that ensures that we are preparing our students with the grade level skills they need to know and be able to do to help them be prepared for high school we provide opportunity for our students to earn high school Spanish language credit through place and stamp tests in December in January we host school of choice information sessions in order to provide our eighth graders with options for high school and to ensure they are clear about the application process and deadlines in spring we work with Mount Rainier we partner with them and their high school counselors visit our eighth

036grade students to complete their course request to ensure that they are ready for day one in high school in also in spring Mount Rainier high school hosts our eighth graders so that they can learn all about Mount Rainier and what they can expect as high school students and that concludes our presentation thank you thank you thank you I'm going to open it up for some questions director how sure thank you so much what a comprehensive presentation I really appreciate the way that you address the whole student I love all the talk about standard space grading and starting with rubrics and backwards planning I heard a lot about MTSS-B and a little bit about MTSS-A in terms of like tier one supports and it sounds like AVID is one of your major tier two what are

037some of your tier two tier three interventions or supports for students who maybe aren't being served with an IEP or EL support class how are you targeting those students who especially now having returned from remote might have some larger gaps in their learning yeah so good question thank you I think that a major part of our work in our culture Pacific is the work that we do in our professional learning communities where teams and departments and grade level teams are working in collaboration and looking at student work analysis and analyzing that formative and summative assessments and then working together to develop those interventions for individual students based on their needs that's a big critical piece of our work another one is our STS teams where teachers who have who are seeing having concerns whether it's

038academic or behavior could could recommend a student for this team but we have protocols in place that require them to collect data and provide that data and information so that we know that they have been trying multiple different things in order to support the student as well as parent communication and so on I think those are two of our major systems that we have in place to support students thank you thank you director director Alvarez just thank you so much and I love your shared beliefs I think centering around compassionate relationships but delivering intentional effective instruction being the foundation so I just love having this so thank you again for all that you do thank you director Alvarez and I would say thank you as well I am so glad to see the last slide

039I'm really interested in that transition as we know that that's where so many of our students can really need a lot of support and so I would I think I would just continue to encourage you all to continue to improve upon that transition what that looks like I'm thinking about the student of the month Anna and you know to say that their goal is to be a veterinarian and how do we really make certain that that we're doing all that we can to help them get there and so so yeah just I would just say continue to really keep that a main focus I am reminded of so much so many email and public testimony that we heard earlier this year about the design and engineering program and then I'm I know that we received

040something from educator Sandy Gattie I think that's Gattie thank you so I think there was some some some really big highlight that happened with a recent competition and so just wanting to hear kind of what's what's evolved since the that class had to look different and what are we thinking going forward yeah thanks for that question director Bradford so one thing that has happened is that Sandy Gattie has implemented after dark club and so that's where her students that have performed in that competition they meet with her after school she has another competition coming up in spring for students so that's where that work is going as for where we're going in the future regarding our CTE programs and other elective classes we are currently right now in the master schedule process and looking at

041our student numbers and our FTE as well as gathering choice from our students and then doing their their class class choices and therefore that that will guide us but also you know the FTE and master schedule processes so we all have we have everything in plan out and set up for dates in order to get that feedback from students because that really does drive a lot of the decisions that we make besides FTE and monetary stuff thank you so much principal banner and team thank you thank you guys so much I had a couple questions I'm going to try to lump them up but it really I just have some curiosities around the implementation around standards based grading and I'm really curious what were some like highs what were some things that you wish you

042would have had some better support resources to have implemented it to better anyway that but also I'm curious around how has the implementation around the new curriculum that we've been sharing how has that incorporated with standard speakers grading yeah so good question president Garcia as for standards based grading when I transitioned into Pacific five years ago I had a couple of teams that I had met with prior to me actually coming in and taking over that had shared with me that they were ready to do this work and I have as a teacher as a principal as assistant principal and then as a principal at Tech High School have had a lot of experience implementing it and I think that me as a teacher was kind of really what helped me really understand the needs

043as you roll out something as big and as important as standards based grading but I think that it's the philosophy and the belief that all students can succeed that's the hardest standards based grading and providing them opportunity that you are taking away other things that have traditionally been assessed like attendance and behavior and things like that and you're really focusing on the skills of the student and how to improve those skills for those students so teachers are ready and after year one I had a couple departments that were really strong and then year two my staff saw the results in the data of the language arts team and they were all on board so I really had a smooth transition and easy way over there as implementing standards based grading and it has to do

044a lot with our shared beliefs what was your next question sorry it was specific around the curriculum that we've had math and social studies LA how is that kind of translated to the SB standards based grading so nothing changes when it comes the curriculum is a tool and the standards are the standards and so we're teaching the skills of the standards of the grade level standards for students to be successful and the curriculum is simply a tool of how we get them to demonstrate their mastery and one last question sorry it was really around one of the data points that you shared was that specific to our Latino population we saw less referrals for behavior can you just share what were some some of the strategies or what what worked so I think it's been

045over the course of the last five years where we've been able to really see that transition and I think there's a couple of things that go into that I actually think that our work around our beliefs is what drove a lot of that that work because we were able to get on the same page about what do we really believe as a staff what is our philosophy as a whole group of adults in this building and what do we really believe and how do we want to save or serve our students and so it's going from kind of working on the inside out right so we got to work on ourselves before we can really work on our actions we got to work internally and how does that show up and so I think that

046that's been the natural outcome of that but also we have been really transparent about looking at data as a staff and so when you start looking at your data five years ago and you show what's happening and what's happening in our school and to our students with referrals etc and you start having to have those tough conversations we weren't we didn't shy away from those we didn't you know we had open conversations about what does this data look like and how is it impacting our school so I would say those two things are definitely they were the cracks and in helping us move forward and creating a culture of the growth mindset allowing staff and adults to trust and know that we do make mistakes as adults and we're there to hold them accountable but

047we're also there to learn from each other and to just improve so you know if we know better we have to do better thank you well I just want to thank all of you for the great work that you're doing and it is true President Garcia that Pacific has really been at the forefront of the standards based grading work and so we're grateful for your leadership there so thank you for everything that you do to deliver on our promise to know every student by name strength the need keep up the great work and let us know how we can continue to support you thanks everybody thank you yes so now we have we have a treat we are going to hear from our record-breaking award-winning nationally recognized raised back aviation solar green energy team followed

048by our students from Highline High School to talk about the solar project that they've taken the lead on so I'm going I see that we've got some of the the adults from raised back as well principal Tipton's here mr. McCombs here but is there somebody who's going to take the lead do what the students going to come up to the mic okay you're on and by the way if you don't follow them in the competition on Twitter you should I'm I'm a definite groupie and have been following them all along so welcome and we're really glad you're here thank you thanks again my name is Alexis Lee I'm team captain of the raised back aviation high school green energy solar car team thank you for having us here tonight we're so excited to give you

049a little update about what we do some of our achievements and what we're looking forward to here in the coming years before we get started I'm going to turn it over to some of my team leaders to introduce themselves and then we'll get started hi my name is Lily Andrews I'm a freshman on the team this year and I track the team's expenses how's it going everybody I'm highland I'm a junior on the team this year been on the team for three years and I work on mostly mechanical and design I'm Lucian Freemesser I've been on the team for three years and I'm also a junior and I work on all aspects of the car hi my name is Maya Pena I'm a senior I've been on the team for three years and I am

050the team's fundraising and outreach lead already just before we jump into the actual specifics about what we've been up to and the competition I just wanted to make sure everyone in the room knew what exactly the raised back aviation high school green energy team is we're a team that's dedicated towards teaching students how to work in industry design build and drive a racing solar car our end goal of course is to race at the national high school solar car challenge and we spend the entire year designing and building a car just for that purpose this year we're back in the school building the car for the 2022 solar car challenge being a member on the raised back aviation high school solar car team teaches students a wide range of skills that they wouldn't otherwise be

051able to learn within the traditional walls of a classroom students gain workshop experience they're able to learn how to safely and properly use a wide variety of shop tools and machines a few of the schools are a few of the skills that students learn on the team include welding soldering and how to use digital software to design unique parts for the solar car team the team also teaches students how to work together with the team and provides a safe space for students to step outside their comfort zone and take on leadership positions these are skills which many students take and apply on their post high school endeavors shown on this slide are three of our team members from the class of 2021 Nigel Barnett was our former mechanical lead he's now at MIT and Clother

052was our former telemetry lead and she's now at the US Air Force Academy and Joseph Wazebo was our former systems lead and he's now at the University of Southern California these are some of our initial alumni from the class of 2019 Mateo Pena who was a co- captain and is currently attending the University of California Berkeley and interning at Tesla George Seidl was the other co-captain and he's now working at it as a technician at Mercedes Benz and Anna Horner is now studying biology at the University of Washington and she flies planes and here's pretty in her free time so our team is divided into five sub teams that all students participate in to gain a breadth of knowledge and experience the first of these teams is the structural and mechanical team this team is

053in charge of designing building and assembling all of the mechanical components of our car and in this team they get shop experience and they also get to learn skills like welding there's also the outreach and fundraising sub team who reach out to personal and corporate connections for potential sponsorships and also reach out to outreach events in the community right now this year we've raised around $76,000 because we've had a very successful fundraising run and are expecting around 11,000 plus in incoming expenses our electrical team design solders and assembles all the electrical components of the car and right now a project that we are working on is soldering our solar array so we can have more efficient panels there's also the programming and strategy sub team who create a data acquisition system and design a racing

054strategy for the 2022 solar car challenge as well as do the telemetry for our car and lastly we have the logistics sub team we track and monitor team progress as well as plan the logistics for our trip to Texas so our cars so far we've been able to build two fantastic solar cars and we hope to build more in the future but our first car was kind of our pioneer car we didn't really know what to expect going into the challenge so we kind of just got our hands dirty and started building this car was had one main body and then an outrigger and was a three-wheel design and then we put the solar array on top of the car for the next year the 2021 solar car challenge we decided to focus on aerodynamics

055and design the car before we actually started building this time we went for a catamaran style car with four wheels and two pods and then brought the solar panels down to the driver's level in the future we're looking towards the world teams for inspiration who have transitioned back to a single body design with three wheels and so we're looking to build that in the coming year awesome so I'm gonna move into progress that we've had in the last couple of years since the last time that we were here in 2019 we've made a lot of progress in 2020 as you all know and around March most of school was shut down including our solar car program and so we brought our entire shop and moved it to our lead mentor dr. Lane Samay's garage and

056we all started working remotely we all took home home projects where we worked on things such as programs electrical systems or we could work independently and be COVID safe after about five or six months when COVID regulations became a little more lenient we started actually working in person a little bit of course taking in mind with COVID measures washing our hands every hour make sure we're wearing masks staying distant we got some physical progress done on the car so as you can see up there this was around summer 2020 where we were able to actually summer 2021 on the right there with the car almost finished just before the race we all prepared packed up the car and shipped it off to Texas so if you're not familiar with the solar car challenge the solar

057car challenge is a high school competition comprised of teams from around the nation and around the globe so you may know that we were the 2019 national champions our rookie year so we had high expectations coming into the season to perform and defend our title the race is separated into two different parts so first we have to go through scrutineering which is the qualifying stage so we have to prove to these judges that our car is safe to drive and can accommodate all of our drivers we finished in less than a day and so that allowed us two extra days to fully prepare our car to race then the race day comes so there's four days of racing and those days are intense we're up at 5 a.m. at the track no later than 530

058and we're literally running around trying to make sure everything is absolutely perfect before we launch then we're out on pit lane for nine hours in the Texas heat and anytime our car has any problems we're there to fix it so right after the race is done for that day we have our panels up and we're charging to make sure that we get all the energy that we can get for that day we stay after make our repairs change our home our car was performing very well much better than we were expecting so we made it through race day one two and three but we were still in second place we came together as a team to strategize and we're just like hey we're just gonna follow the strategy that we put together originally we're gonna

059run our own race and if that result is a win then that's great if not we're gonna do this safely and the best way we know possible so we continued on we found out our biggest competitors this entire time actually ran their battery way too low making it unsafe to continue so we actually moved into first place by race day four and it was a little more relaxing at that point but it was great to have everyone drive everyone get the experience we came out on day four and we had completed 673 laps 984 miles over the course of four days we broke a new record for the most laps completed in one day and that made us the 2021 national solar car champions so the moment that car came off the track we were

060jumping up and down screaming yelling we were it's it's the best feeling to have all this hard work years of work months of work pay off so the pride that we had in the team that I think we all grew individually just from this entire experience it's so amazing so awesome so now moving into the 2021 2022 season we had to focus on building the new car and so if you guys don't know the high school solar car challenge offset so last year we raced at a track at the Texas Motor Speedway this year we're going to be racing from Texas to Colorado now this race is going to be a road race which means that we're driving with other cars in the road we're taking traffic we're taking to account elevation temperature wind anything

061out there that normal car takes on so that means that our car has to be changed the 2020 car that we designed was for a track race which means that most of it was built to continue at a constant speed stay on a track smooth surface and just be as efficient as possible this new car that we have to develop has to be able to take on all those challenges that I listed earlier so as you can see on the screen we have to make a bunch of system improvements such as design and custom solar panels revamping the telemetry system reorganizing the electrical wiring designing cross-country strategies and reworking mechanical parts on top of all that we decided this year that we're also going to start the 2022 2023 vehicle the problem that we've run

062into in previous years is that it is really hard to pack a car's build an entire year into just about 12 months between when we come back from Texas and when we have to race the next year we've built two cars in the last two years and so we found it very difficult and so we're hoping this year that we'll start now and that'll give us a head start going into the 2023 season so 2023 and beyond Highland briefly mentioned what we're planning but we got a lot of things that we're hoping to achieve including moving on to a new solar car challenge instead of doing the high school solar car challenge in 2023 we're hoping to do American solar car challenge which is a collegiate level race where teams like MIT University of Michigan

063and Stanford compete we're also trying to redesign our car focusing even more on aerodynamics where we think a single body design will reduce our aerodynamic drag by about 50% here we're also build a carbon fiber shell to make that aerodynamic shell and we're also trying to reduce weight weight is a huge factor when you're going up hills and just driving along as normal and one of the things that worked really well in the past was suspension but we recognize that it was extremely heavy accounting for over a hundred pounds of our weight so this year we're trying to redo our suspension redesign it completely make it a lot lighter but keep the same strength and functionality we also want to continue with team sustainability as seniors graduate and move on they keep that knowledge and

064we need to make sure that they pass that down to new team members we also want to keep our outreach relations we have lots of sponsors and we need to make sure those relations stay moving also we're continuing relations we're gonna start with relation to a cedarhurst major new kids are inspired to work with green energy so they can be future scientists and engineers working with green energy which is what's gonna come in the future we hope to stay in touch with all of you all if you're interested in donating to our team as I've mentioned we fundraise all of the own money for our projects so you can donate at the link on the slide also if you're interested in keeping up with our progress we have a team blog at we also have

065our Instagram Twitter and YouTube account full of videos photos and progress updates which you should follow at RHS green energy thank you guys for listening to our presentation do we have any questions one quick question start I'm sure the board members have questions what remind me what month the competition is it's in July it's in July okay so you it really is worth following right following on the solar called car challenge because they update the results every day and when I say I'm a groupie like I was like checking in every day to see your progress and I was super excited when you got to first place too so just want to say how inspiring I feel like I'm standing still rather than doing anything when I hear how hard you all are working so

066thank you for sharing this but most importantly we're incredibly proud of what you're doing we're even prouder that you're mentoring the next generation of of solar of the solar to the green energy team so I'm just incredibly proud and with that I'll just we're so so impressed but we'll open it up for questions so to say standing still it's not even I I think what really I keep just looking like I could even contain myself just how incredibly proud like I'm close my eyes and I'm hearing all these scientists these these just amazing it's not even high school students it's high school and beyond so I think what I love also is sharing that knowledge that's going to keep going what an amazing thing to really systemize where you're not just taking your knowledge but

067you're sharing it and that you're sharing it even with our younger scholars so thank you for that because that you know like it's not even paying it forward it's like it's it's just growing growing growing their passion so I can't even say enough thank you thank you so much for all that you're doing you're amazing all I can say is wow so so amazing one of the the best things that I love to see is our kids our students being able to speak eloquently and being very passionate about what what they like I know that with raised back we have tons of mentors and supporters from the community as well as internally do you have mentors here tonight that you would like to do shout out or are there any other mentors or or businesses

068that have been supporting this this dream yeah so today we actually have dr. Simei here with us as well as mr. McComb dr. Simei is our main mentor I really don't think we could even have a car without him we worked almost all throughout covid in his garage and then we came back to school he probably spends more hours at the school than most teachers do he gets here at 7 in the morning leaves at 7 at night and really without him we wouldn't be much but I'm you also asked about outside funding we fundraise all of our own money students we have outreach programs we send out emails and we also go out to find corporate sponsors as well building a solar car is definitely not cheap so we emphasize that quite heavily and

069earlier I think we talked about fundraising as well I can probably pass it over if we want to hear more about it but yeah we work with sponsors like Sun power who has donated a lot of our materials for building our solar panels so we get mentorship from them on how to we're building our solar panels completely from scratch this year rather than ordering them from abroad so we get knowledge and experience from them as well as companies like Solvay who sponsor us both financially and with mentorship we also have our mentor Teva dial who's not here today but he was on Stanford solar car challenge and he's helped us a couple times this year with just giving us information from his personal experience to help us continue furthering what we know all right thank

070you so much and thank you to the mentors and the support staff or for kids appreciate that my question is do you have a documentarian following you around because your story is so compelling I can totally envision this on Netflix like for real document what you're doing find a director and sell this story because I'm not kidding like I everything you said and and the way you present your story it's just it's incredibly compelling so if you haven't sold your pitched yet please do Catherine Catherine is nodding director house I think she might be able to help connect you with someone also if we're driving from Texas to Colorado everyone has to be a licensed driver correct okay just checking it's the mom and me checking all right I am incredibly impressed by this your

071presentation your story everything is wonderful I even looked up telemetry so that I can learn a little bit and I hope that some of you think about continuing not only with science and engineering but also with sustainability and vehicles and all this I mean Tesla's recalled a bunch of things because some issues so they could certainly use your brain power so anyway just congratulations and I'm you have a new groupie I just wanted to say thank you all so much I don't quite know how to get on the Twitter so I can't be a groupie that way but there's there's just so much every time I I'm so fortunate to be able to hear from students because it's such a learning opportunity for me and there were so many things that you all said not

072only just the energy that I could feel from this the passion of what you're doing but the systems and continuous improvement skills that you all are leaning into the way that you talked about getting back together and collaborating once you saw what position you were in and deciding let's run let keep with the strategy that we came in with but to stop and really to ask those questions and to to make that decision together and then realize that you all made a right decision is just really is just incredible and so I just want to say thank you thank you for the gift of this book and again just like so many others said thank you for really mentoring using the mentoring skills that you all are receiving and then mentoring those that are coming

073behind you echo everything everybody said you've blown us away so thank you thank you thank you quickly if you guys might be able to are willing to share could you share what's your long-term like goal if it's school career maybe just go around and share a little bit so we get to know you a little bit better um yeah I don't know I think aerospace engineering is definitely like what I'm looking to do long term but school yeah definitely college but I have no idea where anything like I don't think any of us do but aerospace engineering for sure and then also green energy so I am came from like more the arts world I used to do competitive dance so I want to go into film directing and I want to use the technical

074skills that I'm learning at this school to try to implement that in the future and I'd want to go to college into LA I would say that this school already being a freshman has helped me a lot with my academics over the weekend I got accepted into Brown University's pre college summer program so I'm gonna be going to Rhode Island this summer for two weeks and yeah thank you but it's exciting and I feel like this clubs really helped me with that I know for me personally as a senior I just finished all my college applications and so I'm starting to hear back from colleges I'll hear back from most of them this spring but for pretty much all the colleges where I applied directly to a program I'm really interested in environmental engineering and

075environmental studies and so I think the knowledge that I gained from being on the solar car team is gonna help me a lot in that in that field and what are your top two choices for college you have a choice I was really excited about Cal Poly when I visited Cal Poly which is also my hometown and then I applied to a couple schools in Boston which I'm excited about and my like really out there school was for Yale so see so I came to raise back as a total plane nerd I really I want to go to space when I grew up I want to be an astronaut I'm working towards my private pilot's license so I'm really excited about that I came to raise back and I found this club and I was

076super inspiring the story and what they've accomplished and I'm like I want to be a part of that so I joined the team and I knew absolutely nothing I didn't know the difference between a flathead screwdriver a Phillips screwdriver I've learned it all so this has really opened the doors to engineering and really seeing that it is a possibility even as a girl who didn't have a background in STEM so I am really excited to see where this goes oh man well halfway through junior year now so you know the reality of college applications are starting to dawn on me it's scary yet exciting seeing all the seniors just finish up with college apps so I don't know exactly if I'm looking forward to it or terrified of it so we'll see how that goes

077long-term goals I personally want to be aerospace engineer even you know if I could had the chance to go to space someday but yeah aerospace engineering is definitely my goal just thank you thank you so much you know that you have clearly won us all over and you have a group of people who are there to support you a hundred percent in reaching those goals thank you yeah to say we're impressed as an understatement and I will be making a donation to support the work and I also I think the board may have noticed in the books that they sent to us that they dedicated this to the late James raise back and I I know that he would be beaming with pride at the work that you are doing so thank you for continuing

078his legacy and love for this work in what you are doing we are very very proud of you thank you and now you may go home if you like you don't have to stay but you are welcome to stay for the rest of the meeting so thank you and and thank you so much to our mentors to our teachers to our principal appreciate you all being here and and as they say but wait there's more I would like to invite I think Rosie are you going to introduce our students or are they just going to come up and introduce we have our wonderful brilliant High Line High School environmental club students who are going to talk about the solar panel project that they have taken the lead on and that I know the board is

079supportive of and will be acting on later this evening hi everyone I'm Jordan Powers I'm a current junior at High Line High School and the current environmental president firstly I'd like to say a huge thank you to everyone who supported us through this exciting process I joined the environmental club at High Line High School in 2020 when the club was completely remote this first off was a completely different experience because prior I was not as involved in the school as I am now I think just the community of my fellow past officers has been amazing when I first was introduced to the club they were just so openly inviting to everyone these upperclassmen now college students who stand in this room before us really helped me discover a passion of mine even through a screen

080they're optimist and ambitious personalities help drive our club to truly engage and dive in environmental issues while building a strong community within each other when the solar panel project was introduced to me by Nya Kim Ruth and Selena I was so excited to be a part of this along the way I've learned about the importance of community seen exceptional teamwork and understood to always persevere as the current president I see the same spark in everyone currently in our club and know our solar panel project will spark that in countless more students at High Line and in our district I hope this project project inspires other students to realize your dreams can become a reality and that your voice matters thank you hi everyone my name is Nya Cook and I'm a part of the student

081leaders team of the HHS solar panel installation project and we're here on behalf of the team to thank you all the school board members for considering the funding of HHS solar panels installation project as you all may have known we started the project during the pandemic last year when it was full of uncertainties and we want to say thank you to all the school board members for considering this project and supporting the students voices while planning the school year during a pandemic it must have been really hard and we would also like to thank all the community members community organizations and teachers who have always been there to support us through this project and every amount of donations and words of encouragement have motivated each of the team members tremendously thank you I am Kim

082Nguyen I'm also part of the High Line high school floor panel installation and I believe that the solar panel installation at High Line high school is not only an achievement for High Line high school but also an achievement for sorry not only an achievement for High Line high school falls apart our district our community and the South Puget Sound area as a whole we are hopeful to see more improvements and more students voices in our school district regarding sustainability climate change and other environmental issues we also have a special thanks to Scott Logan Ellie then Nishina and Rosie Edis eats from the High Line school district for always being there and enthusiastically helping us achieve our goals in the project also we will have a public press release event this Saturday February 5th at 10

083a.m. and if you're interested please reach out to Rosie or checks to say no appearance Facebook page for the zoom link we look forward to seeing you this Saturday thank you so I know the board members are going to want to offer some congratulations as well but we're just so proud of you and you're right you've you were definitely leading the way in the region not just in your school in the district and so we're incredibly impressed I'm going to ask that and I also want to thank Ellie and Scott and especially Rosie who I think this really became a passion project for her so Rosie thank you and Rosie if you could make sure that Sharon gets the zoom link that we can include in the Friday packet for the board so that they

084can tune in on Saturday but we're just so incredibly proud of you and you're leaving a lasting legacy on your school and with that I'll turn it over to the board Joe or director van sorry Wow Wow again I look back a little bit over a year ago in January we got an email saying that you know what this is what we would like to do I had the great opportunity to sit in front of six amazing ladies that were passionate and had a lot of work already done behind the scenes and they presented to me and I was just blown away I was so excited to go back to the board that very next week and and kind of tell you know told them what what the game plan was and then you guys

085presented to the board I believe that following month so I am so proud of you and to for those students that are not here that that have graduated but they are still part of it this is it I mean you guys are carrying on the legacy in addition to that is building the will within the community you guys have built the trust and have reached out to every nook and cranny and gathered the support so in addition to this project just that relationship that you've built so very proud so congratulations director Alvarez just that while it's the same like thank you so much for continuing with that and just for being here tonight thank you for your presentation director Bradford I will also add my thank you for just again serving beyond yourselves right like

086you all may not see this but to really be future forward in your in your thoughts and your leadership and so I just want to say thank you dr. howe yeah same thank you so much for your leadership and the inspiration that you've given not only probably to peers at your school but to the community to us the system as a whole it really helps us imagine what is possible and this is why we need to listen to student voices and empower student voices because you really it's really amazing what you're doing and just a side note these are the kinds of things that as we think about like credit offering credits like this and and the solar car like students should be able to earn credits and things like that for for doing this

087amazing work that's above and beyond application of what you're learning in the classroom in the real world thank you I'll just echo the same thing thank you thank you thank you and I would love to hear if you have any short-term long-term goals that you want to share with us just to see how else we could support you guys so as I said prior this is my junior year and you know those college applications are coming up right now I know what for our teacher advisor I work directly with mr. sport and he is our chemistry sophomore teacher and I had him last year actually and he's just been amazing like he's been such an inspiration to me and even in the previous years I I've really fallen in love with science I do a

088PSSC program right now so I'm looking into biology for sure possibly biomed and I'm really excited for that and I'm currently a first year at UW Seattle studying environmental studies so in the future I'm hoping that I can work in either King County or at a nonprofit organization that focus around environmental issues and sustainability so that's my long-term goal my short-term goals would to see this project through make sure it's completed and on our school and for long term I don't really have a plan just yet I'm also a first year my major doesn't really relate to environmental awareness or issues but I do plan to stay within the environmental field just not as a career again thank you thank you and so you are welcome to stay for the meeting and especially if you

089want to stay for the item that the board says but you are also free to go and and we can fill you in later but we just want to be mindful of your time and you may have homework or other things to do but you are welcome to stay but welcome leave we're so proud of you thank you for being here tonight we can't wait to see the results of all of this all right we've made it to schedule communication so agenda item 3.1 is there Kelsey Bidwell here to speak dear valued members of the board and dr. Enfield my name is Kelsey Bidwell and I am currently teaching second grade remotely out of Hazel Valley I'm a national board certified teacher and I have a master's degree in teaching multilingual learners well I am

090grateful that Highline has offered our families a remote learning option I am here today as an advocate for the members of our remote community who are currently not receiving the equitable experience they deserve unfortunately our students needs have and continue to be put on the backburner because of our remote learning community being understaffed and without a designated leader in a highly regarded study on leadership Warren Venice and Bert Nannis argued that leadership is what gives an organization its vision and its ability to translate that vision into a reality without this transaction between leaders and followers there is no organizational heartbeat remote learning is missing its heartbeat I've been told that the responsibility to oversee remote learning is shared amongst all elementary building principals and a central office employee this means that my Hazel Valley principals

091are designated as the principals for my 24 remote students from 13 different schools across the district however I find this illogical and unsustainable as our in-person administrators are currently doing the extremely challenging work of keeping their schools open while supporting students and families amidst a global pandemic why are we piling the extra duty of being responsible for remote students from all over the district students that they have likely never met and have no relationship with this is a there is a better way to support our students and that is to hire a remote principal there are 600 plus elementary students enrolled in remote learning for reference my home school Hazel Valley has 466 students and is supported by a principal and assistant principal a counselor I said psychologist a social worker two full-time office managers

092and many more these critical roles are not only unfilled in our remote community but do not yet exist I'm deeply deeply concerned as to why our remote community is not being adequately staffed when we are serving a greater population of students than a majority of elementary schools in our district our remote families unknowingly forfeited many of the supports their students would be receiving if they were in person for example our students in the dual language program are now receiving only 90 minutes a week of instruction in Spanish compared to 600 minutes of Spanish instruction per week for in-person students this means that remote students are receiving 85% less Spanish instruction than their in-person peers when I spoke to families about this concern they shared that they were unaware of this drastic instructional difference when selecting

093the remote learning option this is another inequity that could be resolved by hiring a remote leader and providing an adequate staff to support our remote learners those of us who are trying to make this remote school as equitable as possible continue to feel overwhelmed overworked and undervalued for example the current office manager of our remote program is only allotted two hours per day to work on attendance family communication and enrollment for a remote community of 600 plus students we are grateful that the district recently decided to add two hours to the remote office manager position but based on shared experiences in the remote community I feel it is evident that this is not enough in an effort to find solutions to our challenges my second grade remote team asked the current office manager to share

094her firsthand perspective in her response she stated my concern is that the person taking over his office assistant needs to know that there is a lot of work and following up that needs to be done in addition she shared that in her personal opinion and I quote elementary remote should run like a full-time school with admin and office personnel supporting teachers and quote our remote community deserves to have at least one full-time remote office manager just like our in-person schools have I ask you to please not only hear the concerns from those of us in the remote learning world but respond thank you all right next up we have Janae Williams good evening this is not my first time speaking here however the last time I didn't have a chance to properly introduce myself my

095name is Janae Williams and I currently teach second grade remotely out of Parkside Elementary School I've worked at this school since 2013 and I have always had a passion for what I do and the population of certain students I serve I am national board certified a high line capacity builder and also currently a master's student and educating non native English students at Seattle U all in an effort to better support my community of learners first of all I hope that the board members felt celebrated last month I for one appreciate all you've done and continue to do for our district I specifically appreciate a faeza taking the time to meet with me on several occasions and for visiting my classroom for a small taste of the busy online world I live in I also wanted

096to thank the members of the board for listening to remote learnings previous asks and for helping us to find answers to some of them while we have seen minimal amounts of progress in some areas I'm asking you to listen and act once again tonight student needs are impressed unprecedented teaching responsibilities are overwhelming the old ways of doing things are not are just not working as a long-term consequences of the pandemic continue to mount the impact is undeniable it is time for to shift from being reactive to proactive the remote teachers received correspondence from a central office staff member on Monday that clarified the design and supports for the remote that for the elementary remote model the email reinforced that there is not an elementary remote school the rather classrooms engaging in remote learning that are

097part of existing schools this disjointed act of home schools while encouraging communication and collaboration across remote teachers point people and office staff is simply not working it is not only not working but it is not even in compliance while speaking with OSPI today after wanting further clarity on the remote model Highland has chosen to obtain I learned that our online school program approval has yet to be sought or granted for this learning opportunity this lack of transparency regarding compliance is not only confusing it's very concerning we are sailing on a ship alone in the middle of the sea without a captain to lead us and without the crew of our home schools we are miss fits and do not fit in anywhere fully we do not have the airtime or support from anyone and our

098needs and concerns on behalf of our most students and families are simply not being met the district is passing us off on our home schools signifying they are providing us with adequate supports and that our home school should be offering remote teachers and students all of the supports they need but there is no follow-through in lots of miscommunication and a lot of that is not my responsibility occurring I have a wonderful principal and office staff who are trying to support me to the best of their ability but I am one teacher in a sea of a school operating during a pandemic the increased workload the district has applied on our administrators and office staff in the situation is a monstrosity how can they hope to give anything the time or attention it needs when they

099have no time or capacity to do so the table has been set for failure and each day with each pass of the buck students are falling through the crack due to the lack of transparency about who's doing what and honestly a lack of resources and time and too much on any one person's plate this is not okay the district needs to communicate clear expectations to administrators and office managers administrators must seek to build appropriate clear simple concrete support for remote teachers and students there needs to be a unified front from the professionals in and out of the remote classrooms what can we do we all must commit to actions and values that demonstrate a culture of respect and above all equity the bottom line is that teachers are not getting the support needed to provide

100our remote students from across the district with the same thank you next we have and I believe they already presented but not nahoo bird okay all right next up we have James Payne okay good evening school board I'm James Payne with two boys at North Hill Elementary I watch with great interest the machinations on hiring a new superintendent and in particular how this august board intends to split the baby to accommodate your identity politics among all of your potential hiring criteria not the least of which should be how this person improves the scores of our children I suspect based on your past policies and pronouncements that it will be their race which is the deciding factor for you so how will you do this considering the diverse demographics of Highline well according to your specious

101rationale that teachers and I assume superintendents must physically look like the children in your classrooms to get the most equitable outcomes of course you should probably have your candidates submit their 23 and me genetic results to HR to scientifically get the best most intersectional superintendent because you will need a male female person of every conceivable sexuality who is 39.7 percent Hispanic 15.2 percent black 14.9 percent Asian 3.5 percent Pacific Islander and 0.07 American Indian and at 18.5 percent you can't choose another oppressive white person because your IRI and ethnic studies as your ethnic studies suggest they are inherently racist and generally bad people unworthy of your consideration I do marvel at the mental gymnastics you need to split the baby so intersectionally it really must be quite stressful but your hiring decision is just a

102microcosm of the problems associated with your race and identity paradigm writ large first you're telling children that they should base a person's character or capabilities on skin color or ethnicity which is precisely what racism is second your praxis of critical race theory called instruction on race and identity and your forthcoming ethnic studies curriculum will do the exact opposite of what you claim because they focus on immutable characteristics and suggest that all white kids are privileged and everyone else is oppressed these so-called anti-racist policies create anxiety manipulate confuse and terrify children but most importantly the law Highline is violating the US Constitution and title six of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and equal protection clause under the 14th amendment because a district racially discriminates unlawfully if it has caused encourage accepted tolerated or failed to correct

103a racially hostile environment which is exactly what you people are doing while the First Amendment prevents the government from restricting protected speech it also prevents compelled speech so posters trainings exercises or assignments which force students employees or superintendent candidates to admit accept affirm or support controversial concepts like white privilege racial culpability identity or status constitute compelled speech your attorney should reference SCOTUS case State Board of Education versus Barnett which specifically states quote public education if faithful to an idea of secular instruction and political neutrality will not be partisan or an enemy of any class creed party or faction unquote indeed compelling students teachers or candidates to mouth support for repugnant CRT positions not only assaults individual dignity it undermines the search for truth in our democratic system good luck with your decision kids are counting

104on your wisdom all right up next we have agenda item 4.1 superintendent update I will keep it very brief because I know that we've had a lot this evening um first I just need to say I've never been happier to welcome the month of February than I am this week January was a year condensed into a month just want to acknowledge the incredible work that staff across the system did to make sure that we could keep our schools staffed in the midst of all of the challenges it's been an extraordinary lift and then just before I call Sandy up just want to remind folks that the Highline Schools Foundation gold star award nominations are out so if you want to nominate a staff member do so and the the gold star bash will be on

105March 24th at 6 and the gold star breakfast will be April 14th at 730 a.m. so both signature events in support of the foundation and the great work they do in a great way to celebrate our wonderful Highline team and with that Sandy I will ask you to come up and make your comments brief so that we thank Sandy and I also will just say that want to acknowledge that Sandy and and the team have really been great partners for us in figuring out how we respond to the challenges of the last month and I think that we've turned a corner so thank you well thank you we are doing our best and hopefully our best is good enough I learned that from Barbara Edwards I do want to just piggyback on the comments that

106we heard from remote teachers and they are not in isolation it is the model that we pick based on the size of the number of parents that indicated remote in spring has morphed into something that is the size of a school so I think we are only halfway through the year as of last Friday so if we could get additional resources I appreciate we've added office staff but looking for administration and really specifically pulling our remote teachers together to hear what would work best for them another theme that builds off on that is our staff's mental health I think there are you know broader issues deeper issues that are occurring this year in conjunction parallel with our students that I know we're working hard at we're coming trying to work on some innovative approaches but

107people are really stretched thin right now so if we can kind of pivot to that as we're moving out of this current curve and start to get back to some of the work that we were doing in the fall to attempt to deal with that I will not be surprised if additional remote teachers come at subsequent board meetings as well as focus on our staff's mental health I know I'm my goal as I shared in a meeting with Dina Russo today was you know today tomorrow is better than today right today is better than yesterday so if we could just be thinking one step at a time how we could make people's experiences better day by day when contract time comes out we really are hoping that we'll have a high rate of return to

108Highline despite a lot of the challenges that we're hearing around the country if not locally so thank you very much and thank you for working so late tonight there's a lot of celebrations and there is still some heartbreak out there we have agenda item 5.1 superintendent search update I will also be very brief given the timing this evening so I wanted to give a quick interview update as we enter the next few weeks the semi-finalist interviews on or on February 9th and February 10th those are the confidential interviews where the names will not of the candidates will not be released however we are planning for three finalists so the second round of interviews we are planning for each finalist to spend a day at Highline so on February 14th February 15th and February 17th they

109will tour schools meet with stakeholder groups as well as participate in a virtual town hall and so I would encourage everyone watching to watch that town hall it's from 6 15 to 7 p.m. on the evening of each of those days the 14th 15th and 17th there will be a online feedback form on the Highline Public Schools website where individuals watching the town hall can submit their thoughts around around what they saw in the town hall and the finalist I did want to note that to ensure that the finalists will be asked a broad range of questions the questions for that town hall will are pre-selected and we'll be using some of the questions submitted to the January 2022 thought exchange so thank you to everyone who submitted their their feedback and ideas around questions

110for that and I will then just pause and ask for any questions I think we're good thank you thank you thank you for keeping this ship going Oh Joe director van well all right next up we have 5.2 legislative reports I'll make this quick as well on Sunday we had our legislative conference with WASDA WASBO and WASA we had a lot of representatives there that we were able to share all of our legislative priorities I'll make this quick and I'll just share there was a really cool keynote speaker shankar then dot I might be butchering his name but he does hidden brain on NPR and there was a really cool report explaining k-12 funds and I'm gonna share those slides with y'all take a look and it's just it was really interesting and I appreciated

111the opportunity to represent us at the legislative conference and that is my legislative report I'll open it up to agenda item 5.3 director reports I'll go with director Bradford thank you I don't have anything thank you dr. Alvarez I don't have anything thank you dr. Van I have nothing thank you dr. Howe super fast I spent half a day at Marvista elementary my neighborhood school and there is a very active petition to bring back strawberry milk that I believe will be submitted to dr. Enfield very soon from principal heater so want to let you know students are very passionate about that and also I just wanted to acknowledge black history month thank you um I also make it quick I heard two things my niece is selling the girl scout cookie so if anyone's interested

112I'm just gonna throw it out there they will go delicious with strawberry milk um shameless plug but I also wanted to share she did do some advocacy with me last week her in the cascade PTA is asking for some help around road safety stuff so I'm gonna connect them with Scott or anyone else but they want to improve the intersection between 16th and whatever street cascades on but you know the one that evergreens on that corner they're going hard on the paint and they're gonna be asking in the county and the city of Burien and us to figure out how to make that a safer intersection so heads up and that is all I got to report which brings us to our consent agenda is there a motion to approve our consent agenda I move

113that we approve our consent agenda is there a second a second all those in favor please say aye aye all right our consent agenda has been approved we are now in agenda item or action items so reminder we moved 8.5 to 8.1 so right now is there a motion for the approval of Highline High School Environmental Club solar project I would like to make I move that our I move that we approve the expenditure up to 424,000 capital bond funds to for the installation of a hundred kilowatt solar panel on the rooftop of the new Highland High School building and I'll second can point of order I guess an amendment to what you said because it's supposed to be four hundred and twenty four thousand nine hundred and seventy five dollars so I want to

114make sure we get that right so can I amend to that amount yes most definitely thank you thanks for a clarification and I'll still second thank you all right um are there any questions comments I just I'll echo what was said again thank you Scott Rosie and for spearheading this it was tremendous work and I'm so excited for what we're gonna be voting on in a sec all right if there's anything else roll call please director Alvarez director Bradford yay director Howell yay director van yay director Garcia yay this motion passes five to none all right we'll go to back to 8.2 which is really 8.1 is there a motion for the PSSC approval to purchase technology equipment and as a reminder there is recommended language I move that the Highland School Board approve the

115purchase of technology related equipment in the amount of two hundred seventy two thousand eight hundred twenty one dollars and nineteen cents I'll second that thank you any questions comments confessions concerns all right roll call please director Bradford yay director Howell yay director van yay director Alvarez yay director Garcia yeah this motion passes five to none thank you we are now on agenda item 8.2 or yeah 8.3 this is the revision to board policy 2409 credit for competency and proficiency policy 2413 CT equivalency credit and policy 2414 mastery based learning is there a motion I move that the Highland School Board approve the revisions to policy 2409 2413 and 2414 thank you I'll second that director Alvarez second any other questions I don't have any all right roll call please director Alvarez yay director Bradford yay

116director Howell yay director van director Garcia yay this motion passes five to none we are now on agenda item 8.4 revision of policy 54 11 vacation is there a motion I move that the Highland School Board approved revised policy 5 4 1 1 vacation thank you second I second all right questions all right roll call please director van yay director Alvarez yay director Bradford yay director Howell yay director Garcia yeah this motion passes five to none all right agenda item 8.5 contract with American logistics company LLC for 2021 2022 motion please I move that we approve the contract with American logistics company LLC for 2021 22 for the amount of oh is it in there I don't see it 300,000 for 300,000 for a second thank you um questions I do have a quick comment

117Scott if we can in regards to our class if we can have the contract that is on here updated to the 22 date that would be great 2022 yeah and I did put in a request to have that added I'm sorry it's not included in with your packet today but it will be updated appreciate that thank you all right if there's no other questions roll call please director Bradford yay director van yay director Alvarez yay director Howell yay director Garcia yeah this motion passes five to none thank you we are now on back on track we are back on agenda item 8.6 Highline school district approval to award micro k-12 contract for security video replacement phase one is there a motion I moved that the Highline school board approved the award of contract for installations

118security video replacement phase one which allows the superintendent upon receipt of all submittal requirements to sign the construction contract with micro 12 micro k-12 in the amount of eight hundred and eighty two thousand thirty six dollars and eight cents plus Washington sales tax of eighty nine thousand eighty five dollars for total value of nine hundred and seventy one thousand one hundred twenty one dollars and seventy two cents is there a second I second thank you any questions thanks for not making me repeat all right roll call please director van yeah director Alvarez yay director Bradford yay director Howell yay director Garcia yeah this motion passes five to none thank you and we are now on an agenda item 9.1 purchase of district-wide Promethean boards for classrooms is there a motion please these are all interactive

119oh you right you right sorry so we've now entered entered introduction items so is there anybody from technology side that want us to give us an update on this though the update on this is we're really excited to have the opportunity to have Promethean panels in each of our classrooms we are looking at having mobile electric carts so that it can be moved around the classroom much easier for classroom setup purchase of these would also include a two-year on-site support for professional development that would partner with TL&L to make sure that there's instruction embedded in with the panels on use for instruction so that they aren't just a glorified screen in the classroom so they'll actually get training on it and how to use it and embed it in an instruction any questions if you

120want to stay up I think you're also up for the next information item the T-Mobile agreement for students and staff hot spots yes yes this one we found you know with this never-ending possibility of having to go remote at the drop of a hat we needed to ensure we had hot spots this also allows for use for staff because we need to ensure that they have if we need to go to remote on the drop of a dime we have internet capacity available for all of our students and staff thank you any questions last information item is Highline Memorial Stadium track resurface project approval to contract with beyond field turf for resurfacing the track at Highline Memorial Stadium Scott you have any updates you want to share with us and if you don't it's totally

121fine this won't take more than 30 minutes I just wanted to share something that makes sure that everyone's aware Rosie was mentioned earlier in the work she helped with the solar panels and the grant applications you'll see a grant here for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars we were awarded that was also a grant application that Rosie wrote for the district she is amazing when it comes to finding money that helps support the different projects that bring direct value to our students so I just want to make sure that everybody's aware of the amazing work that Rosie does for us I don't have anything additional to add to the actual track conversation thank you thank you thank you any other questions I will also for the record say Rosie is pretty freaking amazing so thank

122you for everything you do um all right any agenda items folks would like to move into our our consent agenda all right we'll do a full group is there a motion to adjourn a motion that we adjourn I move that we adjourn perfect second a second all right all those in favor please say aye