001mind please feel free to stand to join us in the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. On behalf of the entire board, I welcome all members of the audience to this evening's meeting. This meeting is a working session of the board to conduct the business of the district. The agenda for today's meeting has been published and the agenda items to be discussed and/or voted on have been studied by the board members. I'd like to introduce the people participating in this meeting. Recording secretary Peggy King, Superintendent Mr. Michael Tully, board members Sandy Hayes, Han TR, Jacqueline McGordy, and Elizabeth Sotac. I am Amy Cast and I currently serve as president
002of the board. An agenda for this meeting is available online at boarddoccks.com and copies are also located on the table at the back of the boardroom. There will be an opportunity for public comment to be shared during the association and public comment portion of the meeting. Community members who are interested in viewing the meeting with closed captions are encouraged to follow the link on our website to the district's YouTube channel. The YouTube stream includes includes closed captioning for both regular board meetings and study sessions like the one we just had. So visit nsd.org and under our district, click school board, then board meeting materials and videos. If you're here to address the board on agenda items, please sign in using the sign-in sheet on the table at the back of the room. And please also
003take a number that corresponds with the line where you signed in. The first order of business is the land acknowledgement. Director Tran, we take this time to acknowledge that the Northshore School District occupies the unseated coalish lands that have been here since time in memorial. We honor the ways of knowing and ways of being of indigenous peoples and tribal nations who are still here and thriving in our district community. We also acknowledge that this is a working land acknowledgement that will continue to evolve as our partnership with local indigenous peoples and tribal leaders expands. Thank you, Director Tran. Next on the agenda is the approval of the agenda. Um would any board members like to make changes to the agenda as written? No. All right, seeing none, is there a motion to approve? So moved.
004Is there a second? Second. All right, the agenda has been moved and approved. Last chance for comments. Seeing none, we'll call for the vote. and the agenda passes. Thanks so much. Next item on the agenda is the superintendence report. Superintendent Tully. Thank you, President Cast. Uh since the last school board meeting, I've of of course continue to be busy attending and participating in numerous meetings and school visits. I just want to some examples would include of course on Tuesday May 13th I attended the school board visit to Woodmore Elementary School and on Thursday May 15th I participated in the state of our schools or actually provided a state of our schools presentation to the snow king or snowomish king county retirees association. They had a meeting up in Edmonds on Friday May 16th. I attended
005the pugans ESD regional superintendence meeting. I attended the board school board retreat last week, Monday, May 19th. And on the morning of Tuesday, May 20th, I attended the scholarship foundation of Northshore event. And then that evening of of the 20th, I attended the CP and Dorothy Johnson humanitarian awards program where I had the pleasure of helping to recognize two students from each of our schools for their humanitarian spirit. And then last week, Wednesday, uh May 21st, I facilitated the superintendent student advisory board's final meeting of this school year and enjoyed some um refreshment at the end. Thank you. That um concludes my report for this evening. Thank you, Superintendent Tully. The next item on the agenda is Northshore Spotlights. This is an opportunity for the board to highlight great work happening in our community by
006our students for our students. Um and it's just a a quick option for us to be able to bring forth some great news. So today um the board would like just to bring some attention to the great work done by the scholarship foundation of Northshore. The um as Superintendent Tully mentioned last week there was a celebration of the scholarships awarded to our students this year. Um students from six of our high schools received scholarships. Um 106 scholarships in total. Um $529,000 $529,250 were awarded. Um and the foundation just continues to grow every year. There were 10 new partners this year, which is really great news. And this work has been going on for 41 years. Just a testimony to the incredible um community support our students and schools receive. And we happen to have here
007two representatives from the scholarship foundation. We have Beey Davis who's a past school board member for Northshore and Melissa Aras who is a Woodenville High alumni. Right. Yeah. So please if you want to come and say hello really appreciate everything the foundation does for our students and and keeps our community connected. You may have to turn it on BZ. There we go. Go. Thank you. Thank you for having us. Um, working for the scholarship foundation definitely is a re a reward in itself, but I just can't I mentioned this at um our foundation breakfast, but being partners with the school district um we had over gosh a third more kids um apply this year and um that is all due to the schools helping us out by getting the word out, counselors doing an amazing
008job working with the kids. I mean, they're very savvy via I mean, obviously the um computer and the award spring program, but there's always lots of questions that they turn to the counselors for and um we have always appreciated the support and Peggy King who helps me tremendously. A lot of people like to interview and Peggy's just great on the spot helping me secure rooms and set up um interviews. So, thank you school district. It is a partnership. um it benefits our kids and we certainly appreciate it. I just wanted to echo Bezy's thanks. We are a mly crew of volunteers and different from the schools foundation which provides direct support in your schools to your teachers for the work that we do. We really focus on that post-secary education and support kids on whatever
009journey they choose to take whether it be trade school, uh community college, university that they choose to attend. And so we're so happy to be part of this community. I am an alum of Windville High School. I actually went to Hollywood Hill Elementary, Leota Junior High and Windville High School and then my kids. I didn't make it very far. Also are graduates of the Northshore School District and it's just been such a pleasure to stay connected in this way and we appreciate all of you. Yeah. Thank you so much to you both. Really appreciate. Yes. Thank you again. So that is Northshore Spotlight. So, we're going to go ahead and continue on with our agenda. Um, next item up is association and public comments. The Northshore School District Board of Directors to set aside a
010time of up to 60 minutes to receive updates and comments from district association leaders and community members. As referenced in multiple policies adopted by the board, we expect all parties addressing the board to present their comments in a way that is civil and respectful. This means that whether we're school directors, staff, students, members of the community, or some other guest, we must all follow the same standard of civility during school board meetings. Please speak directly to the board and address matters related to district operations, policies, procedures, and agenda items under consideration by the board. Washington state law requires that the board limit its business and discussion at the board meeting to only those items that have been captured in the previously published agenda. What that means for us today is that any public comment regarding
011items that are included in the published agenda will be taken into consideration by the board when the topic is addressed during that portion of the agenda. or any topics brought up during public comment that are not included in the published agenda cannot by law be discussed at this meeting and so will not be addressed or receive a response during the meeting. In either case, depending on the nature of your topic, a district employee or a board member might follow up on any comment that relate to district business. Please note that the board's silence during public comment is neutral by design. It's neither a signal of agreement nor disagreement with the speaker's remarks. Also, please note that comments should not make reference to any employee or representative of the district by name or by identifiable reference.
012If you are interested in making comments or complaints regarding an individual, you may use the complaint process available through the office of the superintendent. Finally, please remember that your words have impact and you, not the school district, are responsible for your words. We caution all speakers that it's possible that your statements could violate the rights of others under various laws, including laws protecting privacy and laws prohibiting defamation. If you are unsure of the legal effect of your remarks, you should seek legal indep independent legal advice. In any case, we ask that you help us model for our students what a respectful and inclusive community looks and sounds like. So, first off, usually we offer the opportunity for associations to make a comment, but I don't seem to see any association members in the room. So,
013then we'll move on to public comment. We need a little pulley. I know, right? I know, right? Or the vacuum tube system. Um so uh we again we have a um a time of up to 60 minutes but and we just ask that you limit your comments to three. We'll have a timer up behind us if you need any reminding but we'll go ahead and um we will do speaker number one invite you up if you can please come and introduce yourself for the record um and provide your comments. Thank you. Oh yeah you Peggy will distribute it for you. Thank you. Hello. Uh I am Matthew Harper. Uh you guys may remember me. I was here about a month ago talking to you about the LRE adjustment. Uh in that time, um this is
014the the $1.7 million that that we are uh cutting out based off of how much a kid is served in special educ a special education student is served in general education. We're cutting about 1.7 million out of GenEd staffing based off of uh those students not being in GED full-time. Um so since I've talked to you, we've been working with uh people at the district. We've spoken to the deputy superintendent or regional superintendent, the head of special ed outlining um what we see as the effects uh uh at Kenmore. Um in the memo that uh you guys will see that has uh my um work showing uh how the the district calculation doesn't match our actual service that we provide and with the staffing that the LRE adjustment is providing uh it understaffs us. Um
015I believe those facts are are shared facts between us and the district at the meetings. Uh the conclusions in the memo are my own. Uh but I do believe they follow directly from those facts. If we have this adjustment that is staffing us at less than the service that we're providing, it's going to reduce the service that that we provide to uh special education students in general ed. We just won't be able to fit them in the same number of gened classes. Now, that trend is going to continue in that these kids will be served less. They'll be forced into lower uh LRE categories, which would then give us less FTE. uh it seems hard to see this not creating some kind of uh spiral. I think unless this is addressed uh addressed in in
016the future, it is likely that our inclusionary model will be set back. Um yeah, you so in the memo I go through and do a handful of calculations trying to outline how this adjustment works and I do my best to um show how it's breaking apart the general ed population and the special ed population at the end of it. I advocate that the special ed population in gened should have a higher staffing factor. Uh if we intend to have them in classes that have proportionately lower staff uh class size, we require more teachers to do that. Um, so that I I adjusted the staffing factor. I was using 1.2 over 33 for the general one because we're at 33 kids a class. Uh, for the special education gened, I put in I think it was
017like 30, but it's just some arbitrarily lower number. I don't know what the appropriate one is, but if you move that number down enough, you get right back to where we were when we were just counting them as a full student and not doing this adjustment. So, with a minor amount of play, all of the savings goes away. and some of it needs to come back if we want to continue to have inclusion at the level that we have had or increase it. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Speaker number two. Hello, my name is Jeannie Fleiff. I teach English avid drama at KMS. I'm also a Northshore parent. Um, thank you for your service. I am here again addressing the same issue as my colleague Matt. I know it's a difficult time
018to be a schoolboard member. No one envys the choices that you make in these difficult times. I'm here to speak against the change to the LRE funding formula for 2526. We understand that budget deficit is real. We're not naive. It's large. It's concerning and the state is honest because of it due because of lack of reserves. We get it. As a board, you created guiding principles. We trust you're trying to make good choices and align to those. Unfortunately, we believe the decision in this staffing formula actually violates your second principle in unintended ways. You didn't mean to, but it does. Principle 2 states, "Minimize the impact of students both in the classroom and their educational experiences. Eliminating eliminating 1.7 million in the general fund is not a minor budget adjustment with little impact. It actually
019means fewer class sections for the same number of students at a school. In my school, we're losing five class sections, but we're serving the same number of students. That means five periods of the day, 33 extra students need to be distributed across the existing classes for that period. And because the school schedule's complex, that leads to wildly disproportionate classes anywhere from 20 to 37. And there's no way to balance that. The disproportionate L model does not minimize impact as you wished. Instead, it unintentionally creates a negative impact for every student at KMS every day. The state awards general education funding for each student in NSD regardless of their IEP designation. Historically, this has allowed schools to create class sections to serve those who need it most. For example, co-e and less accelerated math classes for
020those who struggle. This is equitable and it's just. As a board, you considered this option a year ago and you rejected it. I urge you to urge you to reject it again and make cuts that are further from the classroom. It's above my pay grade to tell you where to make those cuts. I know you have people to advise you on that. You actually just got real budget numbers from the state as well. And I know things need to go in reserves, but I implore you to keep your minds open. Please adhere to your guiding principles. And number two, and keep these cuts as far away from the classroom as possible. I've I hope that you've heard that this does not minimize negative impact. Instead, it creates maximum negative impact for all students in Northshore.
021Thank you for listening. You speaker number three. Hi, my name is Heather Wystrom and I am the intermediate sensory teacher at Lockwood Elementary. Um, our school district is also in need of a sensory program at the middle school and high school level. I understand that this has been considered before and rejected and I urge you to consider it again. Um, as I am trying to place students in their middle school programs, I am seeing disappointed parents and myself disappointed as well as I find that many of my students fall between FSA and mid-level proficiencies over and over again. And I understand that there is also a desire to have these students included more and in their least restrictive environments as much as possible. And I agree with that. However, by taking away this program once
022they reach the middle school level, it doesn't make these students or their behaviors or their academic needs go away. They still exist. And so by taking the program away, what's happening is either students are being underserved or the district is actually paying more because once these students get to middle school and they're in a mid-level program, they're getting one-on- ones that they did not have at the elementary level. they had general classroom paras or teachers are working overtime to make sure that these students are served or all of these things are happening which is most frequently what I see. Um, so as uh Kenmore colleague said, I understand that there is a lot going on right now with our budget and our least restrictive environments. And also, I hope that you understand why I'm asking
023and see the need for a sensory program beyond elementary so that our students and our educators have both consistent plans and support systems to make sure we're doing the best we can for our students. Thank you. Thank you, Heather. That concludes the public comment um section of our meeting tonight. Thank you so much for coming. We appreciate the input and you taking the time to um to come speak to us in person. Um hope you have a great rest of your evening. Take care. Um and we will continue on with the agenda. So next on the agenda is the adoption of the consent agenda. Is there a motion to approve? So moved. Second. Any questions or discussion? No. All right. We had a couple meetings. Okay. But seeing no questions or discussion, I'm going to
024go ahead and call for the vote. And um the consent agenda passes. Thank you. Next up, we have three action items. The first one is resolution number 899 delegating authority to Kingo conference. Do you have an introduction, superintendent? Yes, I do. So, uh thank you, President Cass. So, this resolution delegates the school board's authority to the Kingo conference pursuant to state regulations. This allows for the management and fiscal supervision of the end of the year playoff events for high schools in that are in our district participating in the Kingho League. This of course includes the collection of revenue from these events, payments to the officials working the events and the subsequent distribution of the remaining proceeds to the members of the Kingo conference. So we recommend to this that the school board approved resolution 899
025um delegating authority to the Kinghole conference. Thank you Superintendent Tully. Is there a motion to approve? So moved. Second. It's been moved and seconded. Any questions or discussion? We see this one annually. Very glad there's someone to help organize an athletic conference. All right. No questions or discussion. We'll call for the vote and that item passes. Thank you. Next item on the agenda is an action item WIAA school board resolution number 900 and membership renewal agreement. Superintendent Tully. Thank you, President Cass. As you know by action of the 1976 legislature each school uh district board of directors may delegate control supervision and regulation of any extracurricular activity to the Washington intercolactic activities association WIAA and compensates such an entity for services provided. So the WIAA school board resolution delegates to WIAA the authority to control,
026supervise and regulate inter school activities consistent with the rules of that organization. So we do recommend to the school board that you approve the WIAA resolution number 900 and the membership renewal for the 2526 school year. Thank you, Superintendent Tully. Is there a motion to approve? So moved. Is there a second? Second. It's been moved and seconded. Any questions, discussion? I have a question and I apologize. I should have done this earlier, but um it lists the schools in WA membership and it um has our four comprehensive high schools or six middle schools. It does not include innovation lab. And I know we tend to think that WAA is just sports, but it does more than that. that it does cultural, social, and recreational activities as well. And it is possible we may have some
027innovation lab students participating like in a HOSA competition or a DECA competition someday. And so I was just curious why the decision was to leave them off. Uh I'm not aware of um Innovation Lab High School having participated in a WIAA as part of their school organization itself. Yes, we do have Innovation Lab High School students participating at their home school and those type of activities. But you are correct. It there may come a time that that does happen. Um I have no problem going and seeing if we can go ahead and add or edit um that school for that matter SAS as well. Um just just to well Northshore learning options um they also have that opportunity. So uh we can take a look at that for sure. Yeah. I just I can envision
028a club being formed that they participate in one of those activities. Debate. Debate. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Thank Thank you for that. My question is around what kind I see that there's a late fee of $100, but what is our fee that we pay? Is it per schools? Is it per district? I don't have that information with me here, but I definitely can um obtain that. Make sure the board receives that later time. Yeah, cuz um I think they do great work, but I'm just interested in this time of financial excitement. Yes. And by all means, if this is going to be late by adding those schools, this can be a thought for next year. Yeah. Okay. So, what I'm hearing because we made a um a motion so far around this resolution. Um what I'm
029hearing is that we can still go forward with this resolution and then if it needs to come back in another form, we can approve it or if it is altered for next year, we approve it as at that later time. We don't need to table this. No. Okay. Just want to make sure I'm I'm following that correctly. Or amended. I don't think we could amend it actually. Okay, thank you. Just making sure I'm following correctly. Any other questions or discussion? Okay, thank you for that. We'll follow up on our choice our students at our choice schools and see make sure that's covered under this resolution. But otherwise, we will call for the vote. Yeah, to be clear, the resolution as is is fine for approval. I'm just No. Okay. Yeah. Just wanted to make sure
030I was following along. Thank you. Mhm. And that resolution passes. Thank you. Um, next item, our third and final action item is resolution number 901, reduced education program, educational program for 2025 20226. Superintendent Tully. Thank you, President Cass. Uh, Northshore's preschool enrollment has declined for the 2526 school year. This has resulted in less classrooms and a need to displace three Ready Starts preschool teachers. um these are ESP2 um staff because there are no vacant ESP2 positions to place these members in and in accordance with the Northshore Education Association Educational Support Professionals contract. They have been notified that they will be part of an additional reduction in force. We recommend to the school board that you approve resolution 901 reduced educational program for the 2526 school year. Thank you, Superintendent Tully. Um again, per parliamentary procedure,
031is there a motion to approve? So moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Thank you. Any questions or discussions on this resolution? Well, I know I have already received the answers, but I do feel like we need to have an open conversation about um our preschool enrollment declining. My surmising is people are not having babies and our houses are too expensive for people with preschoolers. Is there something else out there that we should be aware of or are those kind of the two big reasons why we think it's declining? that those are the two main reasons that we believe the the decline is happening and we also of course see that happening within our elementary schools particularly at K kindergarten first and second grade at this point and I would think that this is a harbinger of
032future kindergarten potentially yes enrollment yes so unless the area has an influx of affordable housing for people with very young children and babies um or houses get way cheaper. It's sort of slash people have more babies, but that's probably not necessarily on the plate. But um we're going to kind of continue to see this trend because it seems to be sort of a fall a continuing trend in all of the surrounding areas as well. Good point. Thank you. All right. Yeah, unfortunate, but it's we have to reflect enrollment. Fortunately, heartbreaking, but that's how it is. Any other anything else? All right, we will call for the vote. And that resolution is passed. Thank you. Um, next item on the agenda is a performance review, the monitoring report for a goal for innovative, creative, critical thinkers.
033Uh, Superintendent Tully. Thank you, President Cass. Um this is the fifth and final district strategic plan goal monitoring report for this school year. As you know board members participated in the study session earlier today where the goal for monitoring report was presented and discussed. I would like to thank the chief academic officer Dr. Oadia Dunham and our director of research at evaluation Dr. Dr. Craig Foster as well as our school board liaison, Director Hayes, for facilitating the compiling of the contents of this monitoring report. I would also like to thank the executive director of teaching and learning, Dr. AMD Butler, the executive director of high schools, Heather Miller, and our assistant director for instructional technology, Shelby Reynolds, for assisting in presenting the goal forum information and answering questions. So formally I hereby present the monitor
034report for the strategic plan goal 4 in accordance with the monitoring schedule set forth in board policy and I certified that the information contained in the report is true as of today Tuesday May 27th 2025. We are happy to answer any additional questions you may have. Thank you Superintendent Ty. Any thoughts, questions, reflections from the board? We did we did have a great discussion just a couple hours ago, but it's helpful to bring some thoughts back here. Well, I was just going to start with exactly that statement. What a fabulous discussion we had. And I I think everyone would agree that we at least at least those of us on the board would have been happy to spend a few more hours going through some of the details and uh nuance of of the the
035goal. Um I wanted to uh particularly I mean the the presentation was was wonderful. So thank you all for for that and um I don't see Dr. Foster over there but I always appreciate his more detailed in-depth report beyond the the the slideshow and presentation. Um, I really appreciated um toward the end of that that report the assessment on the um I guess not the goal but the approach and the questions that were in uh I not I ready panorama. Thank you. Um but just you know very thoughtful discussion of of potential weaknesses, potential areas of improvement of the approach to collecting the information and the data that that goes into the assessment of of goal 4. um and you know potential ways for for improving on that as well as uh you know it's
036always great to see the the number of of activities that are aimed at improving uh the experience of our of our students depending on which which particular parameter we're looking at. So thank you. Thank you Director McGordy. I agree. We had a very robust conversation a couple hours ago and goal four is one of my favorites. It's innovative, creative, critical thinkers. And a lot of times we box innovation and creativity or specifically innovation into technology. And we know it's much broader than that. It's also about social uh societal issues and how we solve them and coming about it from a lens of empathy which I think a lot of the ethnic studies framework that's been developed um really supports and that different measures of intellect right when it comes to not just the the reading
037and the writing it's also you know social intellect and how we relate to one another especially people who aren't like us. So goal four I think is um it's interesting to measure and that's part of the discussion that we had a couple hours ago and I'm very I'm looking forward to understanding more about how we can make sure that the measurements that we take are individualized per the student. um because that's going to help us with keeping track of whether we're improving or not and where we're not improving we can make adjustments. Thank you, Director Tran. Um, for those that don't know, this was a key goal written in 2017 with um some passion on my part uh as well as several other board members. Um, and and I mention that because this is not
038a standard goal. If you look at other school districts goals, this is unusual and that means we don't have a template to follow. The other ones are pretty standard high success beyond high school early learning there. There's so much that is typical that it's you can kind of do some copy and pasting, but this one we've had to go on our own. Um, and I just I feel like every year we get closer to the intent of the goal. And so I I just want to thank everyone's work because I know this is a hard one to wrap our heads around as to what we're measuring and what we're looking for. And this um 8 years in was probably the best yet in terms of a presentation in wrestling with what does it mean? Um
039so I just want to acknowledge and thank everyone for that. Um it is uh so I'm just going to plant a seed because I'm looking at the calendar realizing we're just two years away from the next refresh of our strategic goals. um and that there isn't much in our measurements around the creative component of goal four and so to be thinking as we get into that work and how maybe we're going to be doing a refresh and we won't be in the middle of a pandemic hopefully so we can have a more intense conversation but just um to be thinking as in the near future. Thank you director. Are you suggesting we think creatively about it? Um actually uh in talking about this now I just um your comment earlier Director Hayes about our eighth
040graders who aren't um their reading comprehension isn't at grade level and thinking about ways that we can utilize um artificial intelligence and different forms of accessing information to help assess that because I think too like director trans said how we assess kids um matters but also if there are other ways to for kids to show competence um we might be surprised with some of the things that we're that our kids are capable of or are possible for them. And it's to me this is such an exciting goal because it's taking a look at how are we utilizing technology to further kids ability to do those complex thinking tasks and to analyze things and to look at things from different perspectives and to understand that people have different perspectives. Um, and so, yeah, I think there's
041there's room for us to be creative and, um, I think our system is is getting better at being creative in finding ways for kids to be able to demonstrate things they know in less traditional ways. Yes. Thank you, Vice President Sotac. So, um, I again, yes. And um as as it come works its way down to me, you know, I I found myself really being appreciative. I we are pushing the boundary with this goal, which we have to do. It's, you know, um for those of us who know a bunch of young adults out in the workforce right now, AI is is there and it's disrupting employment already. And so, um we are having to innovate our educational system. At the same time, the whole world is and there's not a path and but I'm
042so grateful that we are working with this and and um the thing I'm really grateful is we have to do that innovation while still maintaining all the legacy systems like we still have to do smarter balance testing because it's the law and we still right like of course there's all the graduation requirements that have been left on the books for whatever and most I'd say the far majority of them are great but we have to do innovation on top of all that work and it's a lot for people to plan and then implement. Um, but it really is the mission to support our kiddos as as they go out into this new world. So, I just I'm just really grateful that we have people who are so passionate that they're willing to do that parallel
043work because it is hard. It is really hard. Um, but it's it's the the right thing the right thing to do. So, um I'm trying to think if I had any other, you know, it's I think that also too it's easy because again this is a whole new world. Um it's easy to get stuck in a little of um chicken and egg situation. What's the tool and what's the outcome? And so, but I think that's just we just have to try to muddle our way through, right? because AI is a tool and yet pe people have to learn how to use it well in the workforce so that they're additive and they you know they get hired and so um again much appreciation. This is um it's really a pleasure and an honor sometimes to
044be at the table and be able to have these conversations with everyone. It's just it's great. I'm glad we're wrestling with these things. So any other thoughts or discussion per our policy how this works the um the board has an option um to either find based off of information provided find the superintendent has reasonably interpreted the provisions of the relevant goal policy and the district is making reasonable progress towards achieving the desired results called for in that policy. or um based off the information provided the board might find the superintendent failed to provide evidence of reasonable progress. Or lastly, an option is the based off the information provided that the um information is insufficient for the board to decide whether reasonable progress has been made. So at this point, we'll open it up for a
045motion by a board member. Uh, I move that based on the information provided, the board finds that the superintendent has reasonably interpreted the provisions of the relevant goal policy, in this case, goal 4, and the district is making reasonable progress towards achieving the desired results called for in the relevant policy. I second that. All right, it's been moved and seconded. Any further discussion? Okay, seeing none, we will call for the vote. And the board at this time will take a minute to write our reflections down on our um report response document. All right, it looks like we're done collecting our responses, so I'm going to keep us going. Next up is board reports and communications with new business um items. Anyone have any new business items? I have one at the request of Peggy. Um,
046since we have several graduation ceremonies and sometimes schedules get a little bogged down, if you're not able to make any of the ceremonies, please let her know um because it helps with logistics just to know that. And again, we will dress for the weather. We will in gowns. Yes. All right. Any other new business topics? All right. Well, let's do board member reports then. Vice President Sotac, you're up first. Goody. Okay. [Music] Um All right. Here we go. On May 13th, I got to visit Woodmore Elementary with the rest of the board for the board visit. And um I am a huge lover of all preschool programs and so I got to have a really good time hanging out in the preschool. I also it was like this whirlwind of classrooms. We went to like
047every classroom in a wing and I got to see PE, I got to see reading lessons and it was a beautiful example of MTSS at work. Uh, kids were all doing different things according to what they needed to do for that time. Some kids were getting small group instruction. Other kids were reading independently. Some kids were working on their different um other different activities. Uh so, and it was in kindergarten, which always just blows my mind that they know. I mean, I own a kindergartener. Um and I'm surprised that he gets through the day every day. Uh but it was a beautiful example of how kids' needs are being met in a variety of ways and just the thoughtfulness in how the school is being organized to have everyone's needs met and to make sure
048that everyone is being included um and is an active participant in the classrooms is really exciting to see. Um and then all the superintendent stuff because somebody made choices um and uh which had it it's a good outcome but still it was lots of meetings. Um so we got to participate in the finalist interviews and all of the various different kinds of interviewing that we got to see and participate in. Um, and then the CP and Dorothy Johnson awards on the 20th of May, which are fantastic and we should have them like three times a year. I don't even know. They're so great. We should have assemblies at all the schools for them. Um, and then our robust discussion at the study session. Thank you, Director McGordy. Yes, thank you. Um, so since we last
049met, I also attended the Woodmore Elementary School visit on May 13th and I concur with everything Director Sotek um, mentioned and just it's always just so lovely to go out in the pods, if you will, and we had a at the last minute sort of an impromptu uh, sitting in on a a music class that just breaks your heart. Um I also attended the varied and sunundry superintendent search meeting so the week of May 13th. Um I also attended the board retreat on May 19th and the Northshore scholarship foundation breakfast and CP and Dorothy Johnson humanitarian awards ceremony on May 20th. Um both of which are just such a source of huge pride um in our students um pride and inspiration. um for our collective future. I think when I when you have a chance
050to see who our young people are and what they're becoming, it just really really brings out the the reason for all the work. Thank you. That's me. Thank you, Director Tran. All right. Monday, May 12th, attended a study session on the budget. Tuesday, May 13th. Also joined uh fellow school board directors on the Woodmore Elementary visit. I want to thank um principal Nancy Johnson for the presentation and uh Tony Smith making the cookies. Uh Elizabeth Cono also for the presentation and Telina and Susan for their help out. And uh my takeaway from that is keep making the chicken schwmer because the students loved it and that's the feedback we got. Um also May 13th um like my fellow super uh sorry not super school board members um attended the super superintendent finalist interview also the
051community forum in the evening Wednesday May 14th um the executive session Monday May 19th board retreat uh Tuesday May 24th also the Northshore scholarship foundation I unfortunately missed out on the CP and Dorothy Johnson awards had a track meet that evening I needed to attend. And then Wednesday, May 21st, uh I attended the last of the school year, superintendent student advisory board where we covered so many topics. I was super impressed by the students once again. Thank you, Director Hayes. Thank you. Um also attended the Woodmore visit and want to thank Principal Johnson, Assistant Principal Kano, um and Susan Hadrias and Tina for all of their um great presentations. It was it's such a special school and obviously means a lot to me personally and um lovely to see the great work that's happening. Also
052gave me a new line. Um one of the students in our group said and speaking of s'mores which we were not speaking of but now is a line of and speaking of s'mores. Um was and then we had a very robust conversation of best ingredients and best way to make s'mores. So, um, and then I attended the Northshore Schools Foundation, uh, meeting, and I just want to share this because this is so cool. Um, on June 7th, um, capital projects and the foundation are working with our core plus construction CTE program at both high. We have 15 schools that do not have a separate place for emergency supplies in our district. you know, the big blue building um containers. And so they are working um with four of our construction partners, Abbott, Cornerstone, GLY, and
053Lee Cretcher Lewis to work with the students to build four sheds. Oh, that's great. Um and so that's taking place. They're um pre-building the walls and then on June 7th starting at 9:00 a.m. the volunteers from those four construction partners are going to help them assemble the sheds and then the foundation wanted to let me know they are feeding them all as well. So um just a shout out to the great um work um by our students and our community partners and it's just a it's a great example of everybody coming together to do what exactly we were talking about just a few hours ago. Right. So, um I wanted to share that because that was very cool. Um continued my meetings with board members from around the state and country. Uh nothing nobody's got
054money and everybody's wondering what's happening next. So, nothing new to report there. Um attended the CP and Dorothy Johnson award ceremony as always a highlight of the year. Recognizing um the humanity in our students is a great great opportunity. I went right from there over to the library at Inglemore um for the learning in the age of AI presentation. It was the second one that Shelby Reynolds has done. She had one at Sky View and then was doing it at Inglemore. Um it's a fantastic presentation and really helps um parents and students understand what it looks like in our schools, what they need to be thinking of both at home and in school. Um and so hopeful and maybe some thoughtful ways that we can expand that presentation. I think it would um be something
055that every parent maybe um provided in Spanish for Spanish speaking families. Anyway, just lots of ideas of how to expand that. Speaking of attended um the last of the spoken English classes have wrapped up. There was great um I think probably 70 80 people that attended every single week. They kept coming back. It did not see a big drop off. Um just delightful to watch them learn some basic phrases of what to say when you go to the doctor. Um how to call and let the school know if your kid isn't going to be at school that day, what to ask questions during conferences. There was just lots of great opportunity and people really enjoyed it and um gained weight. And then you get to explain the stupidity of English. So that's always fun. It
056is. Yes. Don't just don't worry. There's no rule why we spell the word that way. Just memorize. Um attended uh the wall of honor um selection meeting for who is going to be on the wall of honor this August. So, we will be um uh looking forward to the announcement of those uh results of the votes. Um and um make sure you put it on our calendar. It's a special event in August. That's always some crazy the hottest day of the year. I don't know how they manage that, but there it is. Um so, we'll get that date. And then, uh attended the Northshore Scholarship Foundation breakfast. Again, it's a fun time of year. There's so much um great recognition. and it makes you hopeful. And then layered on top of all that is a
057superintendent search. Sprinkled sprinkled. Sprinkled. Um thank you. And then for me a lot of the same. Um May 13th I also treasured the visit to Winmore Elementary. A lot of again a lot of yes and um and precious time, great learning, great teaching um and energetic students. Um and also May 13th we had interviews and town hall and a couple days of superintendent search activities. Uh May 19th also at the board retreat. Uh May 20th also at the scholarship foundation celebration breakfast as well as um the CP Johnson humanitarian awards. Um I have to say just again another touching thing that I found with the scholarship foundation. They are trying um to purposely include the choice high schools which was lovely. They're very um very supportive long-term um relationship with SAS and there was a
058um innovation lab student who received an award and it's it's just lovely to see them continue to wrap their arms around our kids. Uh May 21st also was able to get to the student advisory board where superintendent Tully got a slice of special cake and um the the students had he did he had his own little slice of uh carrot cake I shared with others actually he did he it was very polite and the students actually organized and um had a frame where they signed um a sign a little a little token of their appreciation for superintendent Tully and the fact I it just is amazing to me you can have this table full of teenagers and people are talking and explaining what they want input on and they're sitting there very quietly and I'm
059like oh my they're like their brain is elsewhere. Oh no. And then when it's time to speak they dive in. They have all these ideas and it's just it's such a lovely such a lovely group of kids. Um it's been a treasure that board and then I'll just wanted to let the board know May 23rd Dr. Irish was here. I met with him for an hour to start ramping up um some logistical things for him. He's obviously he's going to be back next week and um yeah, more overlap. We have just a couple months of overlap here. So um just wanted to let the board know that that meeting happened. So um other than that, anything else for the good of the order? I'm going to call this meeting adjourned. Thank you.