001all right there we go good afternoon everyone how you doing thanks for joining us today really appreciate it we're going to go ahead and get this afternoon's meeting started thanks so much for joining us I'm calling this meeting to order and if you're so inclined and able um please welcome us and join us with the pledge I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America thank you everyone on behalf of the board I'd like to welcome all members of the audience to this afternoon's meeting this meeting is a working session of the school 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
002people participating in this meeting recording secretary Peggy King superintendent Mr Michael Tully board members Sandy Hayes Han Tran Dr Jacqueline mordi and Elizabeth soac I am Amy cast and I currently serve as president of the board an agenda for this meeting is available online at boards.com and copies are also located on the table in the back of the boardroom there will be an opportunity for um 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 um follow the link on our website and go to the district's YouTube channel so the YouTube stream includes close captioning for both regular board meetings and study sessions visit nsd.org and under our district click Schoolboard then board meeting materials
003and videos if you're here to address the board on agenda items please sign in using the signin sheet that's on the table at the back and then take a number that corresponds with the line you signed in on so the first order of business is the land acknowledgement director Hayes I got out of it last time we we take this time to acknowledge that the norshore school district occupies the unseeded co- Salish lands that have been here since time immemorial we honor the ways of knowing and the 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
004Hayes the next item on the agenda is the approval of the agenda would any board members like to make changes to the agenda okay seeing none is there a motion to approve it so moved second okay it's been moved and seconded to approve the agenda last call for discussion okay seeing none we'll call for the vote and the agenda is approved thank you next item on the agenda is the superintendent report Mr Tully thank you president Cass over the past month I've continue to be busy attending participating in numerous meetings and school visits some examples include UD uh on Tuesday February 11th I provided a state of our schools presentation at the NorthShore School District's Community Partners meeting that was held here in the boardroom I facilitated the superintendent student Advisory board meeting on Wednesday
005February 12th on February 19th I attended the pugin sound Educational Services District regional superintendence meeting I attended the racial and educational Justice Department's Community panel discussion that was held here in the boardroom on Tuesday February 25th and on February 26th I attended the Cascadia College 25th Year celebration I visited the Career and Technical education program open house at boo High School on February 27th and on Monday March 3rd I participated in a joint meeting along with the school board members the kemore city council where I presented a state of schools presentation I conducted formal School visits over this past month at COK Elementary and Timber Crest Middle School on Thursday February 17th I'm sorry Thursday February 13th as well as a secondary school uh secondary Academy of success um on Thursday the 6th and as
006you know I have continued to conduct School level strategic Action Plan reviews with school principls and several of their thought Partners so over the last few weeks I've conducted strategic Action Plan reviews at Ruby Bridges Fernwood Arrowhead and Sunrise Elementary Schools Northshore and Canyon Park Middle Schools as well as North Creek and ingelore high schools this concludes my report for this evening thank you superintendent Telly any questions from the board for superintendant no all right so we'll keep going the next item on the agenda is Association and public comment the NorthShore School District Board of Directors has set aside a period 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
007present their comments in a way that is civil and respectful this means that whether we're School directors District staff students members of the community or some other guest we must all follow the same standard of Civility during Schoolboard 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 a board meeting to only those items that have been captured in a previously published agenda what that means for us today is that any public comment regarding items included on the agenda will be taken into consideration by the board when the topic is addressed during the agenda any topics brought up during public comment that are not included in the agenda
008cannot 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 or questions a district employee or a board member can follow up on any comments that relate to District business please note that the board silence during public comment is neutral by Design it's neither a signal of agreement nor disagreement with speaker remarks and also please note that comment should not make reference to any employee or representative representative of the district by name or by identifiable reference if you're 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
009for your words we caution all speakers that it is possible that your statements could violate the rights of others under various laws including laws protecting privacy and laws prohibiting defamation if you're unsure of the legal effect of your remarks you should seek 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 and so we start with Association leaders good evening school board members superintendent tly and to all the staff and community members here in person or watching from home my name is Lauren Dandridge and I am the certificated vice president of the norshore Education Association one month ago nsea leader stood before you with the support of over 12200 of northshore's Educators in opposition to the district's plan to
010eliminate all dean of students positions as well as additional Staffing cuts to our secondary schools today I am here to reiterate that opposition and continue to implore you to seek alternative sources of savings that do not involve eliminating jobs that directly serve our students every day I first would like to remind you of the sacrifices that the educators of norshore have already made to help the district resolve the current budget wos last school year we agreed to reopen a contract that had been signed less than a month prior with the sole purpose of looking for cost-saving measures our members agreed to a new contract that directly impacted our compensation and workloads including decreasing stien rates for iing after school clubs and activities pausing the much needed paid grading day at the end of the school
011year eliminating additional paid work days for employees such as counselors Librarians and activities coordinators and eliminating the additional stien for holding a doctorate degree we are now being told that those sacrifices were not enough and that we must now say goodbye to our deans of students and expect secondary class sizes to increase yet again I am here to propose an alternative source of savings that we have not yet seen publicly addressed over the last 2 years of budget cutting conversations administrative salaries using the salary data that is publicly available from ospi I come to you with the following options first if central office administrators all of whom already earn over $150,000 per year and most of whom earn over $200,000 per year forgo an inflationary increase added into their salaries for the 2526 school year
012the district will save over $270,000 this covers the salary and benefits for 2 and a half of our 11 Dean positions if the district eliminated the stien these employees earned for holding an advanced degree a bonus that teachers and other Educators who directly serve students have already given up the savings is over $160,000 which is more than enough to cover the salary and benefits of an additional dean of students position finally if the district were willing to cut salaries to these highest paid positions by just 5% in addition to withholding the inflationary increase for next year and eliminating the degree stiens the saving am savings amounts to nearly $975,000 which is the cost of eight of our 11 Dean positions I am not here to say that these employees do not work hard or that
013their jobs are not essential for the district to function nor am I excusing the state's systemic underfunding of our Public School System we all know that additional funding from Olympia continues to be essential to resolve northshore's budget deficit what I asking you to do is to really think deeply about what your priorities are in setting the budget for next year there are reasonable options that do not require Northshore to eliminate positions that directly work with our students who need the most support to be successful in the classroom you have a choice here and I hope that you will make the right one thank you for your time thank you vice president andrid Colleen Ponto Cascadia College Board trustee thank you so much to those who joined us on February 26th for to celebrate cascadia's 25th
014anniversary we are happy to be at this place in our growth and service to this community enrollment continues to grow even into Spring quarter with the number of students we serve each year reaching the 6,000 person Mark for the first time in our history in just this inter quarter we have over 500 students from the district attending via running start North Creek High School tops the list with 160 students this month we reviewed Mission metrics and Cascadia continues to be on track with being the top Community College in the state for getting students especially historically underrepresented into Universities at this point we are evaluating new immigration enforcement procedures as well as the Department of Education memo targeting college and university Dei efforts we are happy to collaborate or talk more about our efforts when Dr
015Marie meets with you this quarter and we want to wish superintendent Tully a lovely retirement and also we are here to serve in any capacity needed as you search for your next superintendent thank you thank you Colleen any other Association leaders good evening my name is Tara Dron I am CVP of advocacy with the NorthShore Council PTSA along with yes I'm Holly muncho other CVP of advocacy uh we wanted to say thank you to everyone who participated in our spring e reunification drill in partnership with the district um and joined our various PTA leader meetups um and a huge probably I can't say thank you enough to everybody who joined us in Olympia for Focus day last month um uh to advocate for more school funding here's hoping it maybe makes a difference going forward
016um uh special thank you to everyone who also volunteered to be a Northshore leader for next school year uh we will be electing our new uh PTA board at our next general me membership meeting which is Monday the 17th at 7:00 p.m. on Zoom um you can find out how to sign up on our website um and all local P who might be listening you can still get entered into the drawing for donuts if you send a copy of your standard of of affiliation to us kind of time left um so we've also been having a lot of Coalition meetings advocacy Coalition meetings and they've become powerful spaces for listening and learning um and tackling some real challenges facing our community um and at some of these meetings we've been hearing some other issues that
017go beyond educ education funding such as food insecurity student attendance Rising anxiety and the overall well-being of kids and families so these issues are um continuing to show up um probably more than ever and we're committed to working together to find solutions to those so we're going to continue our Coalition meetings so we have tomorrow should I pass it on to you sure yeah we've got it tomorrow so yeah so tomorrow we'll be talking about that uh tomorrow Tuesday um the 11th at uh 800m also online information on Zoom there and so we'll continue that conversation as well as continuing the school funding thing so uh we're looking to plan another uh trip down to Olympia as part of that so uh anybody who would like to participate in that please reach out to us
018uh advocacy at Northshore Council PTSA or join that Coalition meeting you can find more information on our website thank you um real quick follow-up question do you have a date for the next meeting have you has there one one Beyond tomorrow night well for to Olympia thank you okay okay thank you not yet okay thanks thank you Holly and Tera appreciate it okay wonderful thank you and the works so thank you any other Association leaders thank you Carrie um all right great so now we're g to move on to the general public comment section of the meeting you'll see behind here on the screen there'll be a timer for 3 minutes we ask you li liit your comments to 3 minutes so everyone has an opportunity to speak I'm going to call you up by
019number and then just come up and introduce yourself for the record and we appreciate your participation today so speaker number one hi I'm Ryan Adams I teach math at Leota and am the department head I'm one of uh one of the 17 out of 17 math departments that oppos the elimination of math 8 and uh it was recently expressed that one of the reasons uh we wanted to eliminate math 8 was because there's a significant number of students in math8 across the district that are Hispanic or minority or students from the margins and that we're not giving them access to a higher level thinking or challenging material which was news to me and offensive to me the saying that what I'm doing in math 8 doesn't have higher level thinking or have challenging material um
020and that students will Blossom with higher level thinking and challenging material and this year I'm teaching three sections of math 8 and two sections of Al one and I can tell you that almost through February the standards in math 8 and alge one this year have had to be nearly identical because there's been so many students that have been over qualified over estimated like uh the way that we've qualified for alun in the past we have students in there that have never solved a two-step equation that have never mastered slope intercept so that we spend so much time at the beginning of the year teaching wholesale what should already be known before you get there that my math 8 class and alge one were nearly identical for a few months so that my alge one
021class took a slope intercept quiz in December my math 8 Class took a slope intercept quiz in January so they're only like a month off because we had the wholesale teach math 8 standards to our alge one students now the math 8 students that took that slope intercept quiz more than half of them were a c minus and Below but in math 8 we have that extra time to spend more time on slope intercept allow those retakes where Al one we now have to go go go to get to the rest of Alan standards now we're going to put all those kids in Alan a year early and alen has to go go go They're not going to have that extra time to retake and relook at it and find that success find that confidence
022and we're going to end up with a lot of students next year that need to hire private tutors to keep up and those families I don't think are going to want to pay for private tutors and vote for the bond and Levy I think they're going to see this as a monetary issue as well as an education issue I hope that we reconsider the elimination of math 8 along with every other math department in the district thank you thank you Ryan speaker number two hi I'm Bethany valent I teach fourth grade at Canyon Creek um I'm here to talk about the Deans again um I wholeheartedly agree with our Union and um I'm here to say a couple other things about that um one is that uh I hope you take their ideas about sa
023saving money and then use them and if we can't save everyone I'm hoping that we do some kind of equity based like needs um delineation for who gets a Dean because um our element yes our elementary school is the size of all the middle schools so it feels very unmanageable to have over 700 kids next year I think we have eight something now um without a Dean that freaks me out um for safety reasons and for um restorative justice reasons so my Dean and I and all of us in our school are trying to do resor of Justice things um without like a district whole group plan for it and uh our Dean is a huge part of that and being able to pull students when teachers have to be with the rest of their
024classes um it'll just drive up all the teacher time that is needed outside the classroom and away from instruction to do um like conflict resolution and kinds of things so um I feel like it's really yeah it's freaking me out to lose Deans and I hope you reconsider thank you Bethany speaker number three good evening my name is Aaron Moody I'm a math teacher and the department chair at Bothel High School my department was one of the 17 out of 17 math departments that sat with superintendent T and other District administrators to oppose the elimination of math8 and offered to work together to find other Solutions but we are ignored I'm going to take a more broad stroked approach to what Ryan was talking about we want to know how it's being communicated to fifth
025graders and their families that their decision regarding math in sixth grade sets the path for the next seven years of middle school and high school do parents know that the high school gbaa matters in certain earn grades will close doors to some colleges and universities do parents know for some colleges and universities it is expected that a student sits in a math class for all four years of high school regardless of their starting Math course do parents know that the district accepts a d as an indicator of success and move students on to the next course when they are not ready do parents and students know they can repeat a course if they so choose to I have had repeated conversations on incoming nth grade night with parents and students about having them having met
026all of the math requirements in middle school so they don't have to take math in high school and then when I ask them what their plans for are for After High School they say well I want to go to udub and I have to form them inform them that they will likely have to take college and high school pre-cal AP Calculus calculus 3 and AP stats and then sometimes they respond with well but I don't really like math and then I'm worried about my GPA to which I have to tell an eighth grader to do their research about something that is four years away and that udub may no longer be an option we are Math teachers we expect data and evidence we would like the district in the board to provide justification for this
027decision and the data to back it up we want to see data for spefic spefic graduations years when did they start Algebra 1 what was their math progression afterwards and their corresponding earn grades we want to know how many of the students who took Algebra 1 in sixth or seventh grade stayed the course through AP Calculus and Beyond we want to know why all three years of the State High School graduation requirements in Mathematics Algebra 1 geometry and Algebra 2 are being pushed and taught in middle school and yet we aren't asking students to take preap English 9 biology extensions or AP World History I wonder if the parents in this District realize that you do not engage or consult Math teachers in these decisions Math teachers are the experts with their multiple degrees national
028board certifications and their abundance of experience in the classroom with an average of 150 students each year it is frankly insulting I hope parents start to realize it now and speak up because the district is not listening to us while our students are paying the price thank you thank you Ain speaker number [Applause] four hello School Board my name is Talia rich and I'm a proud Hispanic NSD parent Community member NSD teacher and NSA Executive Board member through the unfortunate circumstances of school closures and displacements in recent years I've gotten to teach 3rd fourth 5ifth 6th 7th and eighth grades I have had the pleasure of teaching at Cottage Lake Elementary coky Elementary Bear Creek Elementary Canyon Creek Elementary and now Timber Crest Middle School in each of these buildings the people the literal boots
029on the ground if you will are the staff who make the most daily impact on our students so you can imagine the utter shock we building staff experienced when we heard that the proposed Cuts this year were those literal people who see talk to help and teach students every day we've had many changes in our district leadership in recent years each new leader brings brings new initiatives Focus Etc which yes have great value but what makes norshore what it is is the student facing staff no matter what initiative Focus or hashtag we use our buildings have Dependable support systems created and nurtured by the people who work in our schools to ensure students in norshore feel seen heard and supported I beg you to direct District leadership to locate other sources to balance the budget
030like for example the three shared by our NS vice president today during Association comments to avoid pulling yet again more resources from our students do not take more away from an already overloaded system that is barely staying above water we need all of our building staff thank you thank you Talia speaker number [Applause] five hello sorry hello um my name is Athena and I am an SD mom of two a teaching artist and also a member of the NorthShore Visual Arts Partners the ask that I bring to you today is to establish an executable plan to bring norshore School District compliant with state law regarding Visual Arts education make the plan progress transparent to the public include a reestablishment of an art education coordinator to support the program and NS art teachers and have certified
031art teachers in all of our elementary schools I'm asking this because art is the equal to human expression art has a significant impact in social emotional learning it's a language that can cross barriers and help us see each other in new ways it Fosters community and friendship and understanding it's critical for inclusion and diversity art is an amazing skill for sharing and learning about other cultures and ways of life to further prepare our children for sharing this world and seeing all the ways that people can come together the process of learning and study of art is all its forms is essential for all learning processes in our youngest Learners it creates the foundation for developing critical thinking skills and leveraging the power of inspiration to find Creative Solutions that haven't been considered yet which is
032something we need now more than ever those skills build into other subjects as our children start to specialize and an art education career track should be just as robust and Equitable as all other subjects relying on the Valiant efforts of volunteers to provide Visual Arts education is not Equitable and adds to the larger subtle or not so subtle social construct that art is not valuable in this world but the fact is that it's critical for how we see each other as humans and have a shared experience to have empathy and understanding for one another there are opportunities beyond having a art education program that benefit the district Public Works project collaborative art events and more that can be supported by grants and ticketed or Gallery representation they can be a source of art funding similar
033to sports or Performing Arts if we provide all of our students with complete and Equitable access to Art education our district and students success will only improve Leonard Da Vinci said to develop a complete mind study the science of art study the art of science develop your sensus especially learn how to see realize that everything connects to everything else thank you very much for your time and consideration thank you AO speaker number six hello my name is Lindsey Moffett and I'm the department head at Woodenville high school so I'm here to support my fellow math colleagues as well as share the perspective from a high school teacher Northshore school district is great at providing opportunities for students to achieve their potential there are a variety of different options for students to accelerate their learning explore
034new skills and ideas and grow as an individual however these opportunities need to go in both directions we're all here to do the best that we possibly can for students so when students are not quite ready to move on to the next level of math we also need to support that and build in those opportunities for them at the high school level we're we starting to see the impact of students being pushed through mathematics when they are not completely ready for it students who start 9th grade in Algebra 1 feel like they're behind they feel inferior to their peers and they generally dislike math they have gotten the message from the district that they're not in the right place and speaking from someone who has taught Algebra 1 for 17 years I spend a great
035deal of time just trying to rebuild students self-esteem find small successes for them with them and make math enjoyable for them students who start n9th grade at higher levels are generally in the in the right place but this year more than most there are exceptions we're not accounting for the learning loss that is that has occurred with covid and the single and double Jumpers in our geometry and Algebra 2 trig classes are the ones that are struggling the most by condensing Middle School mathematics they have lost out on critical thinking skills and crucial math content that are building blocks for success in future math classes the common core standards were thoughtfully developed by mathematics teachers and we are ignoring their expertise and creating a competitive atmosphere among students we're telling them that it is not
036okay to learn at their own pace it is not okay to struggle and it is not okay to be different than their peers we are creating a generation of students who have math anxiety we're creating a generation of students who are doing math just for the sake of doing it and not for the innate curiosity or interest in the subject many of our students at Woodenville drop off of the honors track after algebra to trig because it gets too hard for them and they're not interested in pursuing math related Majors so what are we pushing them so fast for please reconsider offering math Aid at our middle schools the long-term impact of every student doing the same thing isn't positive thank you thank you that concludes the public comment portion of today's meeting thank you
037so much for joining us we're going to continue on with the meeting I I know you all are very hardworking Educators so we can give you a sec to step out I appreciate your attendance today thank you okay and we'll continue on with the agenda the next up on the agenda is the approval of the consent agenda is there a motion to approve so moved second all right it's been moved and seconded any comments or questions on the consent agenda all right seeing none we will call for the vote and the conent consent agenda passes thank you this is a day for speaking apparently for me thank you so much so we will move on to the action items the first action item is the award of the RFP um for the 2025 super superintendent
038search consultant I will introduce this one um this action item is the opportunity for the board to discuss and vote in a public meeting to award the contract for a superintendent search firm a week ago the board met and interviewed three finalists um the point summary um from the RFP is captured in um board docs here if people want to see how the board scored the various proposals and after the interviews a week ago the board decided to move ahead with Ray and Associates so that's what we have here today happy to support any other questions or conversations from the board around this process I have a quick question and the um we had included the the proposed contract uh with Ry in our Friday brief yes um one question I have I think it's
039covered in the contract but it wasn't in that list of items we we shall do this this this and the other thing um but with respect to having access to just information about all of the applicants as opposed to just the top um candidates that they would present to us um if that makes sense I mean if we we get a list from them and we think well okay a couple of these are okay but we'd kind of like to see others if there are other applicants do we have access to that I believe it's further down embedded um with respect to our access to their their documents and that was a question that was posed during the interview ah so we we did verify because that is something well because you were you were
040listening remotely very valiantly I must add so um yeah that is not um a item listed out in the contract correct but it was an item we verified in the interview important step indeed okay so and and just for um communication and General around this process um after today our fabulous Communications Department is going to be launching some resources on the district website around the search um also to perhaps in uh years past when we've had this search process we've had a ongoing um discussion item for the board around the superintendent search process so we have an opportunity to talk about about it at every board meeting maybe we'll throw that on and get that going as well um and then the board has a uh meeting with the search firm on Thursday to also
041start talking about process steps as well so any other thoughts or if not we can entertain em motion around um going forward with rayan Associates awarding the contract I propose that we award the search contract for superintendent of Northshore to Ray and Associates I second all right it's been moved and seconded and we'll go ahead and call for the vote thank you and the item passes thank you so the next action item is a project acceptance do you mind introducing this one superintendent tly absolutely president Cass um there was one project over a million dollars completed during this reporting period this project involved the installation of instructional presentation systems in multiple sites across of the district uh we recommend that the school board approve this project as complete thank you superintendent tell is there a
042motion to approve I move we approve this project second okay any discussion or questions all right yeah pretty straightforward great great technology thanks thanks for vo and just a reminder that this comes out of our technology Levy yes not the general fund budgets just to be clear thank you for that director Hayes and of course we want to thank our voters for continuing to support the technology Bevy indeed okay seeing no further discussion I'm going to call for the vote and that motion passes thank you so and the next item the next and last item is the approval for the Omnia purchasing to contract with landscape structures for cokan um do you mind introducing this one superintendent Telly yes thanks thank you president Cass so with this uh school board approval of this action item
043Northshore School District would utilize omn group purchasing procurement to contract with lands Cape Structures Incorporated to complete the construction of a new inclusive playground at cokan elementary school this project is to be completed during the summer um the summer of 2025 so we do recommend to the school board approval of this purchase quote for the purchasing uh to contract with landscape structures for playground equipment and structures at cokan elementary school thank you superintendent Telly is there a motion to approve so move second all right any questions or discussion I think this was a point of uh clarification during one of our 2 by tws you you absolutely confirmed it was an inclusive playground I know you just said inclusive but yes okay it is thanks thank you I'm excited for it I love an inclusive
044playground and it looks really exciting I want to go climb on it when it's done so end of summer I'm going to be over there poking around well you know inspection is probably part of a school board member's duties I have some some Volunteers in my house a little yeah focus group any other questions or discussion just a reminder this comes out of our bond funding and again thank you to our community for helping us out that what an impact these inclusive playgrounds are having eh it's pretty wonderful all right all right any other questions or discussion all right see none we'll call for the vote the item passes thank you next on the agenda is the monitoring report for superintendent parameter policy number 10 on technology superintendent Tully thank you president Cass so this
045report contains information on how we develop and provide comprehensive forward-thinking datadriven instructional technology plan as well as how we provide a comprehensive program evaluation system for the instructional technology plan and its outcomes it also contains information about how we provide a comprehensive uh and robust managerial technology system and how we provide Equitable access to technological curriculum and devices across the district additionally this report includes information on how the district provides a safe and secure Computing environment for our students and staff so I would like to thank all of of the staff members who assisted in compiling the information contained in this report particularly our executive director of Technology Alan MMA so I hereby present the monitoring report for parameter 10 in accordance with the monitoring schedule set forth in board policy I certified that the
046information contained in the report is true as of today Monday March 10th 2025 so I know that each of you have had an opportunity to reviewed and study this report and so we are happy to answer any questions you may have thank you superintendent Telly any questions or discussion from the board I saw some screenshots of what looked like a powerbi like dashboard and really appreciated that um visual but a very comprehensive report I like the fact that it's very much rooted in data driven information okay um I think one of my favorite so um thank you uh for all the work and most of my ments are things that didn't get included that I know is being done this is a challenging one because technology means both the technology that we use as a
047system as well as technology instruction for our students so it can get kind of conflated and um but there is amazing work I I know that our district has taken the lead on AI and how that interacts with instruction and so I'm really grateful for them um being uh at the for Forefront of that work it is been I really appreciate that um also it was not mentioned but I have seen the gamechanging of the uh Voice to Text translation that our students have access to when you have over a hundred different languages spoken it can be very hard for uh teacher to cover all of those in a classroom and so having devices that translate in real time what the teacher is saying into many many different languages is phenomenal so um I'm just
048shotting that out because I know there was so much to share about the great work but that didn't get mentioned and that really is making a difference for kids they are able to be part of the classroom that way um and then of course I love digital literacy I think we see more than ever how important that is and I appreciate again I know this is work that's been done for a long time and I'm so grateful that we are keeping that at the Forefront of our work thank you um in regards to digital literacy I will say that um we have a young digital literate at our house who already understands that she is not to uh get on anything where they ask her name or where she needs to give out personal information
049so it's really good to see that she's already learning about what's like a a a legit place to be and a not legit place to be and how to sort of Safeguard her information which is a really important thing to learn when you're eight um but also you know to become so able to navigate in a like around a device and like understanding how to use internet and all of the pieces that go together with being able to use a device and how that promotes Literacy for kids who don't like to read chapter books is really powerful um so it's I always like to see things like this which help inform and help support kids in other ways that's not just Technologies because the overlap is really fun to see as well um so it's
050a very thorough report and I'm seeing the results of all of this work in our house which is exciting thank you sometimes I think that progress in my house on that F front would be really useful but I'm a little beyond that I think um I Echo everything that's been said and thank you uh superintendent tly and executive director MMA and all of our Tech staff but really all of our staff and all of our teachers and all of our students and families um if nothing else I'm this report I think calls out um very well the interconnectedness of everything that through our you know digital access and the tools that are employed um I'm just so impressed by the complexity and all of those coordination efforts between all different aspects of of keeping this
051machine of a school district running on on all levels um you know and supporting our staff and students learning um and I'm you know I'm reading through this and I'm thinking Bo I wish we could send some of these things to Olympia you know make a few suggestions or other places you know um the other thing that struck me with respect to the technology plan um I it just made me really proud it just speaks volumes about the approach of Northshore and the reason that Northshore has been a a flagship and a and a leader in this area and as a school district because of the approach and because of the willingness and ability to utilize this kind of Technology you know for our students and for public education so again thank you very very
052lovely detailed report yeah and I guess I don't have too much to add you know it is hearing everyone's Reflections and and through the report as well it is um lovely to me to think about the evolution over since we started the tech Levy actually um and and really or the significance of the tech Levy in 2018 when we were able to go to one to one and um how it became less of a um just a a department and more integrated with the entire Schoolhouse you know just instead of just active whiteboards right it became so much more and I'm really excited to see how that will keep evolving in terms of you know embracing how AI can help as well as educating kids on on understanding it correctly and safely as well as
053um even just the the fact that instructional materials are going to subscriptions and what benefit that can yield for us as opposed to having to Reby all the textbooks all the things it's just it's um I'm appreciative of the work for sure so basically ditto with a little bit more so um any other thoughts or no so appreciative of the work so proud so um per our policy the board has the options of responding to the monitoring report by um voting whether or not to find the superintendent in compliance with parameter P10 um whether to find the superintendent making adequate progress towards compliance of the policy or whether to find the um superintendent not in compliance with the policy so unless there's other discussion I'd entertain a motion around those three options I move that
054we indicate that the superintendent is in compliance with the policy P10 second all right moved and seconded any other thoughts all right see none I'll call for the vote we're just going to take a minute to fill out our reports thank you for all right as we're pulling those together I'm going to go ahead and keep us moving on the agenda um the next item is a policy review for that policy superintendent parameter 10 technology any thoughts or discussion on the actual policy itself all right great we keep going then information items first one District budget status report for January 25 any introduction superintendent so a copy of the January 2025 budget status reports are provided for the board's review of course these reports include information on enrollment as well as the budget status information
055on general fund Capital fund um project funds Debt Service ASB and transportation vehicle fund y thanks superintendent telling any questions [Music] discussion no moving along all right we will keep going the next in information item is the capital projects fund allocation report for January 2025 and of course this um report provides additional information to the monthly budget status report the previous item um and this the fund balance allocation report shows Capital um individual capital projects by Major funding source within the capital projects fund of course that includes the 2018 2022 Capital Bond technology Levy impact fees State match and unreserved funds thank you any questions or discussion on this one certainly lots of work being done all right great next information item is the capital project status report report right of course this report um
056provides reflects the current status of the 8 2022 capital projects Bond uh growth funds I'm sorry growth projects sorry any questions or discussion on the projects moving forward I know I'm appreciative of the timelines it's nice to see some of them be able to see here before we know it yes okay great we're going to keep going um information item number four which is a signed agreement for Ruby Bridges Elementary superintendent Tully thank you president Cass so this is a routine construction document for Ruby Bridges Elementary School site um this was of course signed during this reporting period so this is a statutory warranty deed for the 49th Drive Southeast Road easement was signed under the guidelines of administrative procedures with the S homish County Public Works releasing the county a portion of the property
057identified for Road easement um a line drawing is attached for you review thank you superintendent telling any questions comments great I know Road easements y right up there with utility easements which is number five to sign utility easement for East Ridge Elementary so recently the administration did sign the attached utility easement for Eastridge Elementary School authorization to sign this easement was actually approved by the school board at the February 10th 2025 board meeting this trans this he been uh this is a transfer allows for the Woodenville water district to assume responsibility for maintenance and repair of the water supply pipes and valves uh so this type of agreement is considered routine an assigned easement and a diagram of the easement area is attached for your review there we go any questions comments no all right
058well let's keep going board reports and communication any new business items um so I have one and it's um really I didn't know where to stick it in it was really um something I was going to bring up during the consent agenda okay last meeting but we had no power or heat so I it was not necessary at the time but one of the things we approved was a new policy around cell phone usage and in it it talked about that during an emergency students are not to be on their phones which I do not disagree with but I'm not sure that parents are aware and I want to make sure that we are communicating to parents that that's what will be happening happening in an emergency because I think now currently the expectation is
059if I'm aware there's an emergency I will be able to reach my student child um and so one I want to make sure that we are communicating that loudly um and often so that parents understand and I think we need to practice what that would look like before it happens a totally agree in fact the policy is one step the next step is to to produce the detail procedure as associated with that policy so we do have um Shelby Reynolds and Eric McDow are continuing to facilitate that um task force to develop that once that's in place then our Communications Department um have already uh begun to Think Through the extensive communication that we will need to be um completing between now and the end of the school year in preparation for implementation next year
060thank you all right any other new business items yes just a couple um first I wanted to point out um some legislator Town Halls that are happening and uh director Tran had provided us kindly a list of I think pretty much all of them that are happening in the next couple of weeks um I I in particular um got the the invitation to representative donah um town Town Hall which is occurring 22nd I believe and then the first LD which is most of Northshore District they're actually having a telephone Town Hall but it overlaps with our board meetings um on the 24th um yeah um but I will let director TR talk about the other ones uh the other um new business item is the potential for um us coordinating with the PTSA for a
061another um advoc trip to Olympia tentatively for March 20th um we have reached out to our legislators at least those delegations that uh cover Northshore we've got two takers so far uh I would expect to get some more but um then I'll be coordinating with uh um Holly to make sure that we are U on the same page for or uh meeting times and so forth so in support of that as it's going to be before the next board meeting in terms of identifying um objectives of the meeting or you know having board input into it uh is there a way that it would be helpful to support that effort for our ledge reps yes um getting some input and um honestly the things have been happening so rapidly in in Olympia and part of
062the reasons for going late March is that the first blush of the uh not contract budget negotiations will be uh out on the 18th so we will know a whole lot more then about what is left to advocate for and uh perhaps how we can go about it um you know funding how much can we push for funding for whatever is left still on the table um but I thought I wanting to first coordinate with our PTSA and then reach out to the board members with respect to you know if we if there are particular things that we might want to push for at that particular um Gathering um and so we'll gather input that way um the other thing to keep in mind um I would like to have another one another trip to
063Olympia in April um before everything closes down and siny die comes along um again we won't know where we'll be at at that point but One Last Shot you know to take um to advocate for our students I thought and you know we'll I'll reach out with people to try to identify a date that we could do it and there was something else that I don't recall off the top so I'll leave it there for now okay I I'll just follow up with that um the I had originally said that I was going to attend the 1 the 44th and the 48th Town Halls um I just looking at the schedule again and just for opma and coordination reasons so Peggy can put it up on the website if needed um it turns out I
064can only make it to the 48th so thank you for the reminder we do have a meeting um that conflicts with the first ld's town hall um the I think also expanding outside of our district and I'm going to lean towards the folks here who have a lot more experience than I do um and going after folks not going after sorry I don't mean it that way um meeting with folks who are in Ways and Means who are responsible f for the fiscal aspects of of policies that may be um under consideration might be part of the strategy what are what are the thoughts around that feel dive in anyone um I think uh depends on how much time we have I think I know our time is better spent focused on the nine that
065represent us I have seen that um there is a lack of urgency to meet with someone that is not a constituent or represents their constituents um so it and so but maybe there's ways to partner with school boards or um PTA members or people that live in the district of the ways and means and Appropriations members and have and come alongside them okay great I appreciate that um and then I assume it's the same answer for folks who are head of dep um education chairs and all of that okay right um in that case maybe one of the ways we can meet with them or at Le sneak in there not talk over their constituents is um attending the 30th and the 37th LD Town Halls if possible because those have education chairs like rip
066and all that something to for the board to consider yeah I think as you as you said it doesn't hurt to be there and to hear and to add to the numbers and show support for for our other um Schoolboard colleagues um but yes director Hayes is right I I think that in terms of asking questions and providing information they're going to want to hear from their their constituents that makes complete sense and we definitely don't want to take time away from their constituents with their reps great any other new business all right let's move on to board member reports then and we'll have director SOA kick us off it's been last month was a year um um at the end of February after our very eventful board meeting that that got interrupted by some
067storming uh we uh I attended the rej Forum on February 2 th and on the 27th I joined superintendent Tully at the um CTE open house at Bothel high school and um we had a meeting where we uh interviewed superintendent search firms which was we've successfully picked someone so yay and then also that same day on March 3rd we uh attended the joint Kenmore city council meeting at Kenmore City Hall and I think that's it thank you director mccardy okay buckle up um on February 11th they attended the state of our schools with our local Partners uh on the 12th I had lunch with uh superintendent tly and president cast and our nsea partners on also on the 12th I attended the superintendent student advisory committee meeting and again always so impressed with our our
068students and how engaged they are um been attending the regular in session webinars including um the one I didn't get to tell you about last time which uh uh featured Senator Wellman who is the chair of Education um wouldn't say a whole lot about that on February 17th I attended the PTA Focus day in Olympia where our students were again in the lead and again did us so very proud um I managed to meet with uh uh several of our legislative delegation as well as a brief presentation by superintendent re doall very brief presentation February 25th they attended the RJ Forum um February 26th um initi was involved in reference check calling uh for the um potential uh superintendent search firms that we were uh interviewing um and then I also met with uh DRS
069Dunham and Foster uh to discuss the next goal 2 presentation and then also attended the Cascadia 25th anniversary celebration um as well as the superintendent search meetings shall I do my legislative short here as well okay I'll try to go really fast um um after the bill cut offs over the last month I um I won't say that that all of our bills of Interest have been dropping like flies but they've certainly had the fly swatter aggressively applied to them our current best hopes for relief from chronic underfunding um are the Senate mck and uh special education bills uh simple majority is also still alive as far as I know in the Senate as is the joint resolution which would be required to initiate a constitutional change uh to that requirement for super um majority
070um I just wanted to take a note that um Peggy has been putting the in session um Friday brief from wda into our Friday brief here and I would highly encourage you to read it because you get a lot more from it than I can possibly give you in a short um report um but just a few things uh the school transportation funding bills have died um the house bills addressing special education funding died um the um let's say I've already talked about that representative Berg's MSO bill in the house was passed through Appropriations but it was effectively gutted uh in the process it went from providing the needed $200 per student increase in msac to $5 per student increase but it did pass and so there's time left for negotiations and hopefully something other
071than $5 uh per student um so we will find out where our legislator priorities lie um oh the other thing about ins session from this past Friday the Edmund School District um came out with this amazing tool for the the benefit of their um families and Community but it basically goes through the budget and is sort of an exercise for people to plug in and see you know what all the different line items for the budget are and go through the exercise of seeing if they could come up with cuts other than what have been um made or proposed um I'm giving I'm butchering the description of it but I highly recommend that you take a look at uh the presentation that was provided from in session last week it's it's really um I thought
072it would be a great a great tool to try that's it thank you director Tran um all right so it sounds pretty similar to the rest of you Tuesday February 25th I attended the rej panel on celebrating Universal human rights women's history um black history and Arab American heritage month I am looking forward to the next panel which is May 20th um celebrating Jewish American Heritage Asian American Native Hawaii and Pacific Islander Heritage and pride on Tuesday February 26 I attended the Cascadia um celebration of their 25 years in um the community and being in existence it was wonderful to hear from all the community members and be able to um hear the stories from students and staff members who have been involved and in advocating to keep this Community College available that makes it
073uh Ed more accessible for folks um Sunday March 2nd um I did uh so this is kind of an interesting thing and it's a theme that's popping up um I I have a small child that takes coding lessons from a gentleman that wears a turban and he got curious about what that turban means and so um I took him over to the sick Temple I have some friends over there who who run the place in Bothel and um got a whole lot of education on sism and so this this is kind of part of the the idea not districtwide but just saying you know going on these types of field trips is something that a lot of places like synagogues temples mosques they're really most of them are welcoming and I encourage our um community
074and staff members to think around taking field trips out there um oh I totally speaking of field trips I did go on a field trip that made me miss some other district meeting but it was a third grade field trip out to the Seattle Aquarium I can't remember what the date was on that one um that was amazing it the new aquarium is um just gorgeous so definitely recommend going out there when you get an opportunity um great for Little Learners uh Monday March 3rd I participated in the superintendent search firm um and then the following day which we appreciated Tuesday March 4th had a meeting with Dr Chestnut who's going to be point for the search firm um for superintendent um lovely gentleman from Woodenville um I think we're going to be in good
075hands so um happy to go with with Ray and Associates um Friday March 7th we met with President cast and myself oh sorry that previous meeting with Dr Chestnut was with um president cast myself and yeah Dr Chestnut obviously um Friday March 7th of also another meeting with President Cass superintendent Murray uh of Cascadia College to just discuss how we can um work together especially on running start um and find some ways to to um allow the students to hit the ground running and also meet um student quota here so uh norshore can stay afloat um Sunday March 9th I um attended on invitation again this is the theme of going on field trips um attended a uh an ifar Interfaith ifar so this is when um the mosque certain mosques open up and they
076invite folks in to break fast with them this one was with the Muslim Association of Puget Sound and it was beautiful and got to bring the two little ones to it as well so they could understand um all sorts of different cultures thank you and director Hayes thank you much much repeating um also attended the state of our schools with our Community Partners as well as um focus day and um got to meet with I think we got them all um so that was great all nine of our legislators I have on my calendar that I testified for something but I can't remember what it was so I did do some testifying for something education related um and then um I also attended the RJ Community panel on the 25th um in the Cascadia 25th
077celebration they are doing some amazing amazing work uh I was just doing some back of the napkin math if we kept half of the 500 students in our district if we found a way you what is it that's taking you to Cascadia and kept them there we wouldn't be letting go any Deans just saying so if we could figure out um how to entice just half of them to stay in our high schools that would be hugely helpful um um I attended the robotics competition at Glacier Peak this Saturday with um both Woodenville and Bothel were in attendance um and as I left Saturday Woodenville was in first I haven't received the update of how they did but um they were they had it all figured out it was quite fun I have no idea
078how the scoring system works it made zero sense to me at the end of the match that I watched the other team had more points and then I'm sitting there amongst W they're like we won and I'm like nope that's not how winning works if you have fewer points and they're like no no no they still have to add this and this and okay whatever I used to play card games with my kids that's how that worked then too um attended the joint city council meeting with Kenmore thank to all of them for their uh participation and willingness to work with us uh I have continued my meetings with board members around the state as well as attending uh District or local PTA meetings and then somehow I got looped into the pet sound ESD
079superintendent search so I attended a focus group for that don't ask me I they did not want me there I'm sure afterwards I will not be invited back um and then um I'll just uh point out uh yes we are um that we are pleased that uh representative Berg's MSO Bill did pass because all of the school funding bills are necessary to implement the budget and so while the numbers aren't great right now there's a lot of fussing around with numbers that happens in the last few days so it's still alive it can go up and down depending on which one passes so historically have they increased uh there is all sorts of shenanigans that happens in budget years in the last three days and and some of it you wait you go wait nobody
080was asking for that what is that but they yeah they could it could be um it it is not going to what I'm saying is it's not necessarily locked in at the $5 per student for MX it can be a grand bargain agreement between the special special ed Bill and on Senate side and what Senate anyway they'll there's much to much to come and so the good news is it did pass because there's still lots of busing around with that um and then I will just update the simple majority bill on bond has a also bargain to it that it would re removing of impact fees um we are one of the top 10 districts in receiving impact fees in the state so there there is a consequence to it um both president cast and
081myself have weighed in on if we're okay with that and we have said yes um there are some districts that cannot pass bonds that receive impact fees and that would be detrimental to them so again so much more fun to come thank you and then again also also so I also was at the state of the schools um with Community Partners on February 12th um also enjoyed on February 26th the Cascadia 25th celebration um also on March 3rd had the double header of the superintendent search firm interviews and the Kenmore city council meeting I always appreciate their partnership um also um met with director Tran and Dr Chestnut on the 4th of March um as well as the meeting on the 7th with do president Murray Dr Murray from Cascadia so there we go there's
082the alsos so um I think that covers everything just one point on clarification on the running start I I think the way that I stated it might have been it could have been misleading and we're not trying to hold students back back and hold them in high school when they have the potential to go faster um it's more about what can we offer in high school that will allow them to remain in high school but also continue at the the speed of you know their personal Educational Learning right and yes it is it is a question of serving students right as best as we can right with the added benefit of perhaps keeping them in our system longer right yeah yeah well put thank you director Tran all right and we're set all right so
083on that note we are going to