001I'll wait till >> now. Call to order the May 5th, 2026 regular school board meeting of the Tampa School District board of directors. All board members are present and accounted for, as are our two students representatives. Today, we are offering two opportunities for the public to speak. Comments specific to the consent agenda will be allowed prior to the vote on those items. Citizens who have submitted a request to speak either here in person or online during the public comment section of the agenda will be called upon to make their comments at that time, which is near the end of the meeting. Please stand with me for the pledge. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with
002liberty and justice for all. >> All right, you have the agenda before you for the May 5th uh regular school board meeting. Are there any changes to set agenda? No. Seeing none, is there a motion to approve the agenda as written? >> Uh is moved by director Olson, seconded by Director King. All those in favor uh of saying all those in favor of approving the agenda for May 5th say I. >> I opposed. That passes unanimously. Next up, we have the meetings for the April 21st, 2026 regular school board meeting. Are there any changes or corrections to those minutes? Seeing none, is there a motion to approve the minutes from the April 21st, 2026 regular school board meeting? >> So moved. >> Second. >> It is moved by Director King, seconded by Director Murray. All
003in favor of approving the minutes from the April 21st regular school board meeting, say I. >> I. Opposed. That passes unanimously. Take it away, Superintendent Over. >> Thank you, Director Evans. Uh, the first item is the donations. We have seven donations going to be read in by Alexa and Patrick. >> The Sanita School District has received the following donations. $241.99 from Cali Dorland in support of the art program at Otali Elementary School. $611.70 from the Serome Elementary PT airport to cover the transportation cost for the Safome Elementary School field trip to the Imagin Museum. >> $717.75 from the Twin City Elementary PTA to cover the transportation costs for the Twin City Elementary School field trips to the North County Fire Station and Sylvanas Cultural Center. $299.19 from the Stanwood Commando Area Foundation to purchase novel
004study sets and chapter books for second grade readers at Salony Elementary School. >> $8148 from the San Kino Area Foundation to purchase character development program materials to support classroom behavior at Fort Susan Middle School. $1,998.76 from San Community Area Foundation to purchase gross motor kits to support special education in Stanwood Community Elementary Schools. >> A donation of band instruments and equipment from the Stanwood band booster club in support of the Stanwood High School band valued at 42,6642. >> Those are significant donations particularly from the the band boosters. So, thank you uh thank you to all donors, our PTAs, PTO's uh staff you see several times on there and individual uh parent and community members. So, thank you once again for that. The next item on the agenda is our uh Stanwood High School data update
005by Principal Mike Washington. This is the second update from Stanwood High School uh that will be given this year uh reflecting on the moves made and the data to support those moves as well. And the CT director Ross Short to join. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Can you hear me? >> Yep. >> All right. Yeah. Thank you for having us here today. We always excited to talk about what's going on at Stanwood High School and you know the big things that the show. So, so, so looking at this as future readyated graduates, ironically, one month from today is graduation, right? And all the work that we do leads up to this fantastic day for graduation. So, we're really excited about that. Okay. So looking at our AP goals, three of our goals we
006focusing on, we can call it the 90% plan. We have we're working on yearly math and also MTSS, which is for nth grade. But MTSS, MTSS is for the 12th grade graders that are on track for graduation. And we'll talk a little bit more about each of those. Hey, looking at, you know, some of the staff actions here, I really want to point out some of the things that we're doing. We're doing some structured intervention period blocks from 210 to 240. One thing that has really helped improve graduation rates. We feel our counselors and administrators meeting directly with seniors who are off track creating completion plans and we continue to check in with them monthly, sometimes twice a month, and now we're with them weekly. Another policy that you all implemented this this year or
007we all implemented is the no cell phone bell to bell. That's been great. You know, the kids are being very engaged with that. Um, you know, teachers are seeing more engagement within the classrooms and instruction is being better and also grades are improving as well. Another thing I want to highlight too is I'm sure that everyone knows Miss Lorine Ricardi. So she's at Stanwood High School on Wednesdays and Fridays during third and fourth period working with our um our seniors who are off track. And so that's been, you know, something that is going on and doing well. So again, these right here are current 9th grade grades and also senior grades that are currently at 87%. Earlier I said that we're looking at 90%. We still have some work to get to 90% by the
008end of the year because if you look, it shows math is at 87 and ELA is at 84%. But right now, I'm happy to say that we have 12th graders that are at least at 90% that are on track to graduation. So that's a lot of work that has been done and we'll continue to talk about that in a minute. So looking at our ninth grade success, we have a ninth grade success team that's led by Miss Cory Gudgeon, Mr. Hoffman and also Miss Gamble, they do a great job with this. As you see, back in February, we had about 60 students that had that was failing tour classes. And so, Miss Gudgeon, Mr. Hoffman, and Miss Gamble, they meet with all of these kids. They come up with plans and then continue to do
009check-ins. So, now tomorrow, they're going to do it again. And at the present moment, that 60 from February has gone down to 48. So they're doing a great job there helping lead the staff in the area. We also do what is called eat and completes. With eating completes they're done monthly and each any student within the Stanwood High School can come and receive some support in any coursework that they have. As you see we've had over 180 student so far attend it completes. On math nights math nights they do the same thing. So it's like 230 students that that come to math night for extra support. Okay, Mr. Short. So again, this right here, these right here are kind of focusing on our seniors. If you see um when we started this work in October,
010we had 46 seniors who were off track for graduation. Right right now, that number that shows eight as of today, I think that number is around six. So there's still a lot of work that's being done and continuing to be done in that area. It also as you see it shows at the beginning there was like we were like 42 credits deficient. Those credits have been made up right and we still have a few more to go. We also did a journey to graduation intervention day which was a half day for students but you see eight of those students stayed the entire day and we served them pizza during the day to get credit you know to help um retrieve some credits and also we also did it again on April 20th with a school
011day where all seniors who were off track were able to be pulled from their courses or their classes and go and work with Miss Loren Ricardi and also Miss Linda Gerson was also helping to help students recover some credits that day. So, that was a success as well. So, some of the instructional action items that I just want to point out a few um we give a variety of testing options for students. Modified assignments that we do a lot of within Stanwood High School. And something that we really focus on a lot this year is 100% contact home. That's two-way communication. We're communicating with families and families communicating with us to try to figure out ways to better support their child or their student. Some of the community engagement pieces that I want to point
012out too is this year we conducted at least three student panels to receive student information for student boards to help make Stanford High School a better place for them. As you see, we have a lot of students who participate in athletics. We have 646 students right now that are participating. But there are two things I really want to uh focus on here is student athlete, right? Student first. So if we look at the bottom, we had 11 teams received the distinguished award and the GP that's a GPA of 3.0 to 3.5. And also we had nine teams receive the outstanding award 3.5 to 4.0. So those are some of the accomplishments that we really want to highlight because as a student but also the athletes as well. Another thing too that is really important to
013us and also I think it's also one of the board's goals is inclusion. As you see right now we have 212 students in special ed. 118 of them are in genet setting 50% of the time. So some of the supports and things that we do is we focus on UDL learning which is universal design for learning. This year we did a a book study on university design for learning um to help reach students at their level to increase the access points as well. As you all already know too, um Stanland High School is a demonstration site where we invite um University of Washington as well as anyone within Washington State if they want to come into Stanley High School and see what we and I say we our staff does for inclusionary practices. We've had
014six of those so far and we have one scheduled for this Thursday as well, but we have um um they'll come in to visit. So, another thing too, we have I think we have a really good culture here at Stanwood High School um with teachers building relationships with students. Right now, we have about 85% of students have had zero behavior incidents and also 90% have attended school, 90% or more. So, that tells us right there that we have teachers that do a really good job of building those relationships and Stanwood High School is where kids and students they want to be. Again, some of the things that you'll consume continue to see this year um into the future is credit retrieval, which you know, we do a lot of that. Student voice is real real
015important. We're going to continue to do that carry on into next year to get more student voice and kind of continue to help build Stanwood High School and also UDL. That is something that we really going to continue to focus on as well so that there's more students that are in special ed part or within gened classrooms and also just typical students who struggle they could help them meet those access points as well. Okay, that is all the information that I have at this time data that I have. Are there any questions? I'm interested in the ninth grade he completes. Um, sounds like the pizza motivation probably be very effective. I was wondering for those who attend roughly how many if you want to average it is probably it depends on the time of the
016year. There has been as many as 30 31 at one point but as little as maybe eight because it just depends on the time of the year as well. And of those about what percentage are doing pretty well but want to do better and how many are struggling and how do they self- select or are they told to go? >> I think it's both teachers definitely identify those who need it and and it's also advertised as well. Now as far as a percentage that are um I don't have a percentage of who has done better from those but that's something that we can definitely look at. I want to say that um of all the AAPs, I appreciate that at Z High School, you actually have metrics. So when you come before us, you can
017tell us exactly how you're doing in in light of those metrics. So I appreciate that. Well, thank you. >> And then looking at your instructional action items, it everything on that that slide reflects your approach to UDL, which is which I appreciate because sometimes we say we're doing UDL, >> but you can't see it in the classroom. Here we see it. Thank you. >> So I see we we you took the the graduation rate from the 87 87.3 to the 90%. Obviously as you get into probably those last numbers there's there's more challenges. So what would you say are those challenges to to push that number even even higher? >> I would think some of the challenges just to think off the top of my head is students not necessarily coming to school, right? Those
018are some of the challenge. We also have some challenges where students just don't have the skills to do the work. And so with those we try to figure out some other type of ways, some other type of supports to help those students. So a lot of it is probably like engagement. >> Do you think are those skill sets that are coming up through our school system and coming into the high school environment? Um so there's some coordination to be done between the high school level training. >> It honestly it's probably a combination of both. I do know that we have this year built a we call it a math a stay with school district math department leadership team to try to help calibrate real schools to high school um for students during that transition. So
019that is something that we definitely are working on and something that we know that we are going to need to get better in to help support those students. >> I'd like to add just uh momentarily about thinking about it as a district-wide approach to having students reach graduation, reach reach the achievement of their diploma in a not when but if or that model. So we've added um several layers to that. not only the work that Stwood High School's been doing, the the direct interventions that they've been applying for the students that may have been off track, also open more sections of remote, which are a better fit for some students at some points in life uh over at Lincoln uh this year and middle of last year added graduation alliance which is um just another
020pathway for students who may have been disengaged or need an alternate pathway to uh to graduation. So, um broadening the the approach of not um when but if but we do like the the when part being at on time which is what the schools work very hard on. >> Yeah. I think I think to put my question in context I wasn't trying to be critical of um us all together. I just want to find ways is how how do we squeeze that number smaller and smaller, but it's also a much tougher number obviously probably to squeeze. >> I appreciate it. Thanks. >> Thank you. >> Sure. >> Um I don't necessarily. It's kind of a question. It's more of a question for uh Superintendent Covenell in regards to I saw where we were wanting to
021have a the first day for sixth graders. So, is that part of the intervention plan as well is attacking our mathematics and our ELA for even earlier on to make sure that as they're coming through the district and finally making it to the high school that they're better prepared. >> Right. all all part of the uh comprehensive plan and to director Russell's point that transitions those transitions that are critical. Um the sixth grade being one of those uh transitions that that you approved uh last uh last month, the last meeting and is before OSPI now for the application. Just a critical way to transition from fifth grade to sixth grade and from um we we'll continue to do 8th grade to 9th grade to make sure that students have um the best foot forward when
022they make those transitions. as well as like principal Washington mentioned the the secondary math leadership team to make sure those transitions between courses and schools are supporting one another. Thank you. >> Just to clarify so I can maybe speak to Director King's question a little bit. Uh my kids sometimes go to math night um one because they want the free pizza and they get to hang out with their friends. They don't usually actually need help with math but it's like a place where they can hang out and be with their friends and eat pizza. I don't know you guys do the same, but sometimes like if I'm busy and they know that there's free dinner uh somewhere at school, then then they don't have to make it themselves at home. They'll they'll go to a
023eating computer on math night. So, just protect their friends. Uh my question is on your last slide, it says we continue to expect to see this year and it indicates a move to a statewide high school and beyond plan school links. That indicates that we're moving away from what we currently use and doing something different. Could you maybe explain what we were using, what we're going to change to, and sort of why the changes there? >> Um, so I have to use this. So, um, the state legislature three about three years ago passed and mandated that all districts move to a a statewide platform for high school and beyond. Um the goal is part of the goal is to make it um for equitable access across the state, but they're finding some districts had um
024they were still using Google Docs and and and very minimum and others were buying the most expensive platform out there and and so making sure all students had that the equable access across the state was one of the goals. The other goal is that transferability. So if a student say um starts in Snomish and then transfers here partway through their high school career the work that they've done their high school beyond plan would transfer with them. So that that was kind of the genesis of this. Um we have been using uh last several years youth science for our high school beyond platform. uh we elected this year to jump in as the w the pilot cohort but the first uh the general cohorts to jump onto the platform. Uh it's had some growing issues but
025we've we've navigated that fairly well. Um so everybody students grades 7 through 11 are using school links this year and and have had some pretty good success with that. Um, we kept our seniors on youth science just because we didn't want them to have to start over and things. So, uh, so that was kind of where we're at and we're a little bit ahead of the curve and, uh, we've seen some good things with that. Um, some of the data we're able to pull with from that is is critical and some ties there. So, and there's broader um, pieces that we can use with that platform. >> Is that a significant change for our students? Is it substantially different or >> um yes I mean it's substantially different significant change I don't know that I
026necessarily go that far. Um there's some plus and minuses with both platforms. I I think what we found is this is a little more um kid-friendly in their the use of it and in things there's some management pieces that have been better for our kids. So doing that make things better at aspect of it. So >> I did get to see it when um we did the tour at the high school. Some of the students were working in their high school beyond plans while we were there visiting. So some were seniors and they were working in the old platforms. We got to see both platforms in action and it seemed like the kids were pretty receptive um to that work. So I not to put you on the spot Alexa, but like did you feel
027like you had enough support and training and kind of how all the things when you swapped over? >> Yeah, honestly I don't think it's like super different in my opinion. I was on your science like a lot, but um I like that both platforms just like allow you to like explore colleges and then there's like tests and stuff you can take. You can also see like your GPA currently on school links. I don't know if it's like the same for everyone, but I like I can see mine. >> No, that's working. So that's good. >> Okay. Okay. >> Yeah. Great. >> Okay. Thank you. Oh, also I would just like to uh give a shout out to Principal Washington on his exceptional leader in education award. So good job there. You loved. So congratulations. >>
028Um uh Snomish County NAACP I believe. >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> So >> I will say this. I will just say this. I am not who I am without Ross and his staff who I work with. So they are just as much awarded this award. So thank you. >> Thank you. >> Great report. Thanks to both of you. Appreciate it. >> Next up on the superintendent report is the March financial report by Ruth Floyd. >> Good afternoon. All right. Uh we are more than halfway through the fiscal year with the March report. Uh enrollment annual average FTE was 4,642. That's about 22 below budget and about three below last month's annual average. Our uh state aortionment revenues were paid at 9%. A total of 57.5% for the year. and the and we've spent to for
02954.7%. So running a bit behind uh where we might expect uh based on the revenues that we've received from uh from OSPI. Payroll costs are lower than this time last year as a percent of budget. And as mentioned last time, a non salary MSOC had been running uh lower, but is now slightly over at this time last year and that was due to some timing of some uh expenditures, excuse me, including running start. Uh the manager's report reflects uh 9% or so remaining uh after expenditures and incumbrances and our March general fund balance was approximately $5.6 million uh which was an anticipated decline uh following falling just below 6%. And then our object summary salary and benefits are in line with expectations for this time of year. uh general fund budget status report. Uh similarly
030uh to what we already discussed 5.6% $5.6 million fund balance. Our capital projects has not changed month much from the prior month. Uh debt service fund has increased for early tax collections. ASB uh revenues and expenditures reflect spring fundraisers and some spending associated with those and transportation vehicle fund is a little changed from last month. Our budget capacity reflects adjustments for March at the bottom of that sheet. And then uh the food service budget variance was uh revised for an additional month. Other than all a cart participation is higher than last year. However, costs are also up. So uh those uh that uh net gain loss um for the year is kind of inching up as expected as a as a new month comes along. And that's all I have for you. Thank you. Any
031questions? Okay, thanks Ruth. The last item on the superintendent's report is a recognition and it's a recognition for teacher appreciation week which is this week May 4th through 8th. And so I have a proclamation I'd like to read and it's uh posted on the agenda as well. So the proclamation proclamation reads, "Whereas the student excuse me, the success of our children and communities is significantly influenced by the exemplary teachers throughout the Stanway Commino school district. And whereas the knowledge, support, and skills our teachers provide students will positively impact generations for years to come. And whereas the Stam Camino teachers challenge students to achieve academic success and teachers lay a foundation for success in developing students creative thinking, collaboration, and communication skills. And whereas the Stamino School District's teachers dedicate themselves to ensuring their students academic,
032social, and emotional well-being. And whereas the stand communal teachers encourage students to achieve their goals while recognizing every student has unique strengths and needs. Now therefore, be it resolved that the board of directors and superintendent of the Stamino School District number 401 do hereby recognize May 4th through 8th, 2026 as teacher appreciation week. And we invite students, staff, and families to stand with community school district to join in this special observance. We have 322 teachers in the San Kino School District that uh we would observe this week in teacher appreciation week and just want to uh say it out loud once again as we are throughout the district. This week as you go into staff rooms and hallways, you you see it right away. Um just thank you for the work that you do. With
033that, that ends the superintendent report. >> Thank you very much, Superintendent Ovenel. And uh I would like to also add on behalf of the board, thank you to all of our our staff and our teachers. Uh we honestly wouldn't be here without you. So thank you very much for all of your hard work every day showing up for our students. Um we will now move on to the consent agenda. Anyone in attendance may speak to items on the consent agenda and only those items in the consent agenda at this time. Uh are there any school board members that wish to pull items from the consent agenda for discussion? No. Seeing none, are there people in attendance who would like to speak to any of the items on the consent agenda uh 1 through nine? Seeing
034none, is there a motion to approve consent agenda items 1 through 1 through nine? >> Second. >> Uh it has been moved by uh Director King and seconded by Director Murray. All those in favor of approving consent agenda items 1 through nine say I. >> I opposed. That passes unanimously. Next up we have public comment. Uh we have one public comment today. Just uh as a matter of information, citizens wishing to address the board are asked to submit online requests using the public comment link or emailing Stacy Hoffman 2 hours before the meeting start time. Those attending the meeting in person request forms are on the back of the room uh for submission before the meeting start time. Citizens who wish to provide documents to the board members will hand them to the recording secretary
035for distribution after the meeting. The board president, that's me, will call upon individuals who have requested to speak during the public comment section of the agenda. You will state your name for the record and you are allowed three minutes to speak. As a matter of order, because this is the board's business meeting, the board is providing an opportunity for the public to comment, but the board does not create discussion on those comments within the meeting as they are not part of the agenda. Comments will be followed up on after the meeting if that is appropriate. When it is your turn to comment, please state your name. Uh for the record, you have three minutes to speak. We have a timer. Hopefully, it is working today. Um the yellow light means you have one minute left.
036Red light means that your time is up. Our first commenter is Al Triber. >> Thank you, board directors, superintendent overnight. My name is Al Shriber and I'm a resident of the school district. On March 17th, during your meeting at 58 minutes on your YouTube recording, you moved on to the consent agenda where Director King pulled item number four from the consent agenda and Miranda asked the audience for comments on items 1 through 3 and 5 through 7. It was then moved by Director King, seconded by Director Russell to approve items 1 through 3 and 5 through 7, which passed. Item number four was presented by Evan Caldwell. At 1 hour and four minutes in your recording, you ask for a motion to approve item four without allowing public comment. Is moved by Director King and
037seconded by Director Olsen and voted to approve without allowing public comment on item number four before the vote was taken. You then moved into open public comment, but you had already voted on item number four. Again, on April 21st, he did the same thing again to prevent public comment on consent agenda item number three, which I was prepared to comment on. I had to squeeze my comment on item number three into my open public comment, but you had already voted on item number three, and I'll address that later after you post the video on the April 21st meeting. I would recommend you get from WASDA, the Washington State School Directors Association, a free copy of their parliamentary procedures. And that guide introduces board members to the basics of parliamentary procedures found in Robert's rules. It
038also addresses topics that school board will most commonly encounter during their meetings like public comment. And if you don't want to wait for it in the mail, I can give you the website here where you can download it right now. And I would also refer you to your own board policy 5100 key functions of the board. and to quote your policy, quote, "Public input is most effective when received in a timely manner prior to scheduled action." End quote. It has always been the board policy to allow public comment before taking final action, like a vote. So, I would ask you to please provide an opportunity for the public to comment before the board takes final actions on these items. Thank you. >> Thank you. Uh next up we have a topic scheduled for schoolboard discussion.
039We have nothing on there. Uh so we will move to student representative reports on school business. Who is going first? >> Thank you. Um course is pretty short but this week we started SBA testing for English and yesterday according to our test coordinator Mr. B the we have reported the best turnout in 10 years and our two previous advisory period a group of students including myself have had the opportunity to work with Doug from the community resource center to create an interactive mural for the URL event which will take place in the stand high school parking on May 16th. Last week, an elective survey was administered to students during advisory. Participants rated their interest and potential options for electives on a scale of 1 to five. The results will help our school determine which electives
040may have the most participation next year and thus which ones to offer. We will have our interview with an accreditation panel on Tuesday where we will show the video put together by a leadership team in which students are interviewed about why they choose to attend high school. Our spring social, a free event for all LHS students under SHS casts, will be held on May 22nd. Seniors have begun preparations for graduation, taking steps such as finalizing needed credits and submitting information for our ceremony towards the big day on June 9th. Overall, everyone is in very good spirits as the end of the year approaches. That's all I have to say. >> Thank you. >> Okay. As for High School, we have an ASB talent show, which is not just for ASB. is just hosted by us
041and it is at 6:30 tonight. And then we have prom coming up this Friday and it is also testing for APs throughout this entire week. Um, state testing was last week and the week before that and I just want to say that the two-hour class periods were kind of rough but we did it. And then ASB is working on our end of the year assembly which will happen before the seniors leave. And then we're working on our field day. And we have an elementary camp coming up which is where we'll get to like spend time with the students. And we have been like writing to the students cuz the elementary school kids have test. So we've been like writing to them and writing back and it's just really cute. I got one today and it
042was like I was so happy. Um, we had our ASB had our budget meeting and it was our old executive board and our new executive board coming in where we talked about um the funds that we gave to clubs and just like set up that whole thing. But I would like to say I wish it was a little bit more like in detail. Like I guess like it's not really explained that well and kind of just Miss Ammonson knows more about it, but I wish it was just like more well taught, but I don't know if that's something that could be set up for the school. Yeah, I would absolutely provide that feedback to Miss Anderson and ask for some additional information. For sure. Thank you. And then as for school environment, um ASV has
043debated on putting up like humorous posters about sleeping and stuff. Just um Levi came and like shared that with us and I thought it was kind of like a good idea just to kind of make it like funny but also like be encouraging in a way. And then um I think students have stayed very well like engaged even with the same testing going on in the long class periods and ASB is working on like creating events that our students want to go to cuz participation kind of gets low at the end of the year because everyone's like like school's about to end. So we've just been working on making sure our events are something that students want to go to and like a way for us to make it fun for them. And then spring
044sports are about to end too. Tennis is in their playoffs today which they will be in like um tomorrow and Friday. Track went to districts and then softball and baseball are finishing up as well and same golf. And then for the middle school, they have started testing this week and they'll be testing like more this month. And that's all. >> Thank you. >> All right. Uh next up we have board director reports on business conducted. We'll start down at the end with director Russell. I really don't have anything to report this round. >> Awesome. Director Olsson, >> I had the pleasure of um substituting for you um at the auditor's exit meeting and um so want to compliment not just our business office staff because I also know that down the line people who know
045what the controls are and follow them as established by by Ruth. Uh basically the bottom line is that um a stellar review um no no issues at all. Um and so the the auditing board was very happy and very um complimentary to to our staff and they actually look forward to working with our team. So good job. Thank you, Re. Um, I got to uh visit Twin City um elementary and hang out with all of the different age brackets, which was a lot of fun. And I didn't know you could pl you could practice math facts with um with card, you know, playing cards, which was a lot of fun. So, um, yeah, it was great to see all the different levels of, um, and how our teachers are engaging with each of those levels.
046And the engagement itself was amazing. I mean, the kids were very much, you know, wanting to participate. And even though students that um were struggling a little bit cuz they were reading out loud in front of everyone felt encouraged and they didn't feel like you could tell that even though they were struggling to to make it through those those words. um they felt supported and comfortable making those mistakes in front of all their peers versus um you know feeling like they were being judged. So it was it was really nice to see all of that. Um I also got to um go to the NAACP gala and was surprised to see that um Mr. Washington won the award and so I got to um receive that on his behalf and bring it back to school
047to share with them. So um just really excited that we were able to um have that level of leadership in our high school. So >> thank you Director King. >> Well got to do a few things this time. Uh, one part of my board function I really enjoy is the awards to u particularly staff and teachers. And so I was that's why on the 22nd to be part of presenting one of those to a teacher and my opinion individuals like that teacher and other teachers and staff members are more important to the school system than I am. And then a second next day, academic advisory committee team going to Twin City Elementary School to visit the kindergarten and up classrooms. I was extremely impressed with that. I saw every of the classes in different grade
048levels was functioning extremely well. Even though I asked questions the staff, there are kids in each of those classes who might be struggling behavior. I didn't see any of that. So, it's being functioning very very well there. And um and then the kids were interested and engaged and one and also with the invasion of like seven big people to the classroom, it didn't affect them apparently. I guess they've been prepared well and and also um one of the sessions they were just sitting there doing a test totally focused somehow. Then um also a lot of exalt echo when Charles said about how he was so impressive or Mike that the the audit team for the state talked so much about this particular physical office especially Ruth being so high performance and so we'll be starting
049to see it And uh and then the last thing I went to a soccer game which we won against Mary's old credential three to one even though the other one team was playing pretty well. Well, >> thank you very much. Um I had the opportunity to go to the WIAA region one meeting yesterday. It was interesting. and they talks through the 35 um like proposed amendments to WIAA. 22 of those passed. Um so it was kind of like what does that how do we sort of go that what is the communication plan for those? Um for anybody that doesn't see um there was a a press release from D WIAA on April 20th um that sort of highlighted uh what didn't didn't pass or was supported or opposed and sort of what that looks like.
050So, um, there was a lot of, uh, how do we take this information back to our to our respective organizations and and what does that look like moving forward? Um, which I thought was very interesting. Um, the, uh, thank you for covering for me for the audit survey. I double booked myself. I have three calendars that I looked at and apparently I only looked at two instead of three and I booked myself to help out track me at the same time. So, I appreciate that. Um, for everybody, uh, we do have that. It will be available on the state auditors page if you're looking for any additional information on our audit. Those are always out there and available for public record for everybody. A couple of highlights would remind people that we have a combined
051CFAC uh capital facilities and seedback uh budget advisory committee meeting and that is uh May 13th. Uh this Thursday we have a special education meeting um at Twin City Elementary. Um, there is a band concert coming up very soon here and um, as Alexa pointed out, all of our teams are getting ready to gear up for districts. I do love hearing that we're hosting things here. I think we're hosting girls tennis. Yes. >> Uh, here. Yeah. Right. Right now, maybe in tomorrow. So, I really love to see that, you know, all of our beautiful new uh facilities are being used uh for all of these great um and actually that was one of the things they talked about was how do they how do they get new schools like that to to participate in advice
052um hosting those those things. So, uh those are all of the things that I have. Anything you would like to add, superintendent over? >> Great. Um yes, I would agree. We're very fortunate and thankful to the community still for the not only the athletic facilities that we have. We have people come from out of districts and say I I went to college at a place that didn't have this type of facilities and so we we're still appreciative of that. Um 5 years later um thanks for the reminder about CFAC back Wednesday and also AAC on Thursday. um you know band concerts, there's something every night if you >> there is yes >> you can't see your board in Stanwood right now if you're uh if you're interested in what's happening in the schools I just
053want to um highlight what was brought up earlier around um the VA uh Patrick and Alexa have been part of the student superintendent leadership team on and off throughout the year and that's um once once again like principal Washington talked about an avenue for student voice and they that group targeted BA you might think well why would we target something like that. It should be, you know, it shouldn't even be here and and but it's a real problem that that they've identified and so we're tackling that. Couple of solutions that have been identified by the students is what Alexa talked about in a campaign next year, this year, maybe next year for sure around um just we don't want it here, right? And then the second part of that is how do we how do
054we help if you have um an addiction or something that needs to be addressed? What supports do we have? So, we're working on early grant features. um the grant support to be able to provide um some cognitive behavioral health um therapy uh for students that that need that. So um just another shout out to the students once again for bringing that forward being part of the solution and raising that within your student voice. So that's a great thanks. >> Thank you very much. Uh with no further business, I will go ahead and adjourn our meeting. Thank you.